Mystery project revealed as Serious Sam Forever, being developed by Prophets-of-Sam, an independent international studio. Serious Sam Forever is an ambitious new project powered by Croteam's award-winning Serious Engine 2.
And it also looks like Prophets of Sam are Looking for a few good Developers to help them bring this game out in a timely fashion.
Serious Sam is hard. We all know that. But one thing it's never been considered is complex. You have a gun, you run around, and you shoot waves upon waves of slobbering monstrosities. However, if you call Serious Sam simplistic, Croteam may have something to say to you, like what studio founder Roman Ribaric said to us when we asked why the game's simplicity was so profound.
fan knows there is strategy involved, and has honored the brilliance of the game by playing on higher difficulties. I have beaten the games on Hard and the one I committed to on Serious (original First Encounter from 2001)...It takes mastery of your weapons, mastery of every enemy, mastery of the levels. You have to learn to ration or stock up when you get powerups and ammo, etc... You learn the EXACT things he is quoted on, specifically the handling of enemies and the weapon selection and thinking ahead, the order in which to kill enemies as to have the best chance to survive or take minimal damage. The game is too frantic and deadly to be "mindless" if you are a veteran of the game. You will know what I'm talking about if you're a major fan and have played it for dozens of hours on every difficulty. I've played and beaten all 3 of the first iterations, and am currently enjoying the HD release still from Steam...Great game, always will be, and can't wait for both Second Encounter HD and Serious Sam 3!
However, I DO wish there was an editor included (the Serious Editor from the other iterations) for the HD one. I don't see it anywhere in the HD release, unless there is some way to get it I haven't found yet. I have been going through this new one having a blast, and recalling all the building and designing I did in the editor years back. An editor is incredible with such an outstanding game, and it's one of the easiest and most robust ones out there for FPS games!
this site has fanboys, but, I didn't know I could get disagrees because there are ACTUALLY anti-Croteam/Serious Sam fanboys here??!! Whoah! that's awesome, that someone has the ignorance to come into a Serious Sam story, and disagree with a fan of the game? WHY ARE YOU HERE CLICKING ON IT AND SPENDING TIME IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE GAME!?
Awesome.
Koku Gamer writes: 'Prophets of Sam's new Serious Sam game, Serious Sam Forever, is now open for beta applications and we've got the details.'
Yeah, seems pretty awesome to me. The 100 bots thing sounds (and looks) insane. There's a video of it on youtube somewhere.
"Duke, Freeman, Quake guy, all amateurs. I am the only serious action hero out there." Those some mighty big words.
Including Dawn of War, System Shock 2 and several which you may not have considered. "As such, we've approached this list with that word, fun, in mind. There's a nice variety of games here although some of them might not be what everyone would expect from a LAN party. We've taken into account the systems needed and how easy they are to set up on an amateur network, and how many players you need for them to be enjoyable."
Just so you guys know we welcome feedback. I'm keeping a eye on this post so let me know if you have any comments!
You missed two big ones.
Starcraft/Warcraft? We've had some incredible times with those.
Good choices, but I would put Halo on the list somewhere. That was one of the first major LAN party games, and is the first game that comes to mind when I think of LAN parties. Overall, it's a great list, though, and I will probably try some of these myself soon.
Hah, to be fair I did have Halo on the list, but my editor made me remove it! In his words a console tard game :(. Good to hear you will try some yourself. Had great fun with all the games on the list!
In the bin. I'm sorry but out of all games that deserve to be on this list, generals is not one of them. It's poor gameplay, lags like hell and just is not a very fun game! I don't think anyone here at Resonance-Gaming likes Generals. If anything CnC3 should be on the list.
heh, I played Generals once before selling it on ebay, and even then I feel sorry for the buyer.
In the bin lol
i understand your reasoning about lag however i find the gameplay good and the new patches help but i guess its your opinion
Don't get me wrong, if it worked and did not have the CnC name it would be a good game. But it was one of the first games EA had full control over, and as such I feel they attempted to turn it into a general boring RTS rather than stay true to CnC form.
Looks like they're off to a good start at least.
Do they still make PC exclusives?
I hope this will go multi platform.
More for me Cause I dont play much on my PC... and its a really good pc!
And not remove from dev news.
Dont apporve the story if you dont want to but the publisher is looking for some devs and the link plainly states that.
I played both Sams for the Xbox. Serious Fun. I hope they have online multiplayer & no doubt this will show up on 360.
that anything that has forever in the end of a game takes longer than 10 years to make lol, like DNF