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    Serious Sam Now As Shiny As It Is Silly

    Serious Sam Slightly More Serious In HD

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    Image of GuardianOfChaos GuardianOfChaos
    08/17/09

    In reply to Serious Sam Now As Shiny As It Is Silly
    There's nowhere near enough enemies on screen. I'm a bit surprised that people are taking this game so seriously. Nothing in the game was ever meant to be meaningful beyond Tons of Enemies, and Holy Crap More Enemies. It was fun then, and it'll still be fun now.
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    Image of svenhoek svenhoek
    08/17/09

    In reply to Serious Sam Now As Shiny As It Is Silly
    That was too much epic for one video.
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    Image of Poison Poison
    08/17/09

    In reply to Serious Sam Now As Shiny As It Is Silly
    Requiem for a Dream? Seriously? And that's supposed to give me the impression that the game is fresh and innovative?
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    Darkly Dreaming svenhoek promoted this comment Poison was starred Poison was unstarred
    Image of svenhoek svenhoek
    08/17/09

    @Poison: No, just that its epic.
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    Image of darkos87 darkos87
    08/17/09

    In reply to Serious Sam Now As Shiny As It Is Silly
    I wonder the point of rehashing a relatively game into the HD era without any revisions in terms of gameplay/storyline/levels. Sure enough, I have played that game on a resolution of 1024*768 about 4-5 years ago, and I am being presented with the same levels, same weapons, same enemies... etc

    Is there enough of a nostalgia factor to revive a game which I would consider a pretty time waster and nothing more? By today's standard, you could pick up the club or fifty cent:blood in the sand and have a better looking, more enjoyable experience. I'm not even counting juggernauths like halo 3 which can be found for less than 15 pounds in most shops.
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    (Zombie) Komrade Kayce promoted this comment darkos87 was starred darkos87 was unstarred
    Image of Komrade Kayce Komrade Kayce
    08/17/09

    @darkos87:

    1) Not everyone has played this game
    2) Whole new group of people to co-op with, all of whom will 99 percent likely have headsets this time around
    3) Likely a price 20 or under for a pretty large game
    4) And yes, updated graphics
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    Image of darkos87 darkos87
    08/17/09

    @(Zombie) Komrade Kayce: I remain sceptical about it. if you were telling me Half life 1 was coming to nxt gen consoles with updated graphics, i'd be much more willing to part with my money. :)
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    Image of Billkwando Billkwando
    08/17/09

    @darkos87: Meh. The gameplay hasn't aged well.
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    Image of Danj3ris is accepting donations for Movember at http://us.movember.com/mospace/327528 Danj3ris is accepting donations for Movember at http://us.movember.com/mospace/327528
    08/17/09

    @Billkwando bought his tickets for Hyde's US tour: Really? I still fire up Serious Sam every now and then, and besides Doom and Doom 2, it is still one of the only FPS games that provides a real "OMG TOO MANY ENEMEEZ" type of adrenaline rush.
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    Image of Billkwando Billkwando
    08/19/09

    @Danj3ris: Not Serious Sam, I meant Half Life 1. Sorry.
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    Image of drunkentyger drunkentyger
    08/17/09

    In reply to Serious Sam Now As Shiny As It Is Silly
    HEAR YE HEAR YE:
    The greatest movie ever made in the history of the universe will have the following songs in its soundtrack:

    1) this "Requiem for a Dream" song
    2) that ending to "Gladiator" song

    -END OF SOUNDTRACK-
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    Image of idkmbffc idkmbffc
    08/17/09


    @drunkentyger:

    But dude. That was NOT Army Of Darkness' soundtrack.
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    Karlott promoted this comment idkmbffc was starred idkmbffc was unstarred
    Image of Squirminator2k Squirminator2k
    08/17/09

    In reply to Serious Sam Now As Shiny As It Is Silly
    Hm. I liked Serious Sam a lot - The First Encounter is easily one of the best FPS games of the decade - but this doesn't look all that better to me in comparison to how the original looked, save for some pretty damned impressive lighting.

    That being said, I am quite unashamedly a consumer whore and I'll probably end up buying it anyway for the PC and the 360.
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    (Zombie) Komrade Kayce promoted this comment Squirminator2k was starred Squirminator2k was unstarred
    Image of Vecha: One more Month Vecha: One more Month
    08/17/09

    @Squirminator2k:

    You should look at the before and after shots. Or go replay the game.
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    (Zombie) Komrade Kayce promoted this comment Vecha: One more Month was starred Vecha: One more Month was unstarred
    Image of Komrade Kayce Komrade Kayce
    08/17/09


    @Squirminator2k:

    Before
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    08/17/09


    @Squirminator2k:

    After
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    Image of Komrade Kayce Komrade Kayce
    08/17/09

    @Squirminator2k:

    Really? REALLY?
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    Image of Billkwando Billkwando
    08/17/09

    @(Zombie) Komrade Kayce: More trees? Am I warm here?
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    Image of Vecha: One more Month Vecha: One more Month
    08/17/09

    @Billkwando bought his tickets for Hyde's US tour:

    Better textures. Better Sky box.
    Better models. Better lighting.

    No. Still cold.
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    Billkwando bought his tickets for Hyde's US tour promoted this comment Vecha: One more Month was starred Vecha: One more Month was unstarred
    Image of Billkwando Billkwando
    08/17/09

    @Vecha: Tired of America's Solution to Health Care.: My sarcasm detectors, let me show you them.
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    Image of Vecha: One more Month Vecha: One more Month
    08/17/09

    @Billkwando bought his tickets for Hyde's US tour:

    Blasted! I need a new one!
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    Image of Billkwando Billkwando
    08/19/09

    @Vecha: Tired of America's Solution to Health Care.: :D
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    Image of the7k the7k
    08/17/09

    In reply to Serious Sam Now As Shiny As It Is Silly
    I thought, looking at the title, that this was being handled by Shiny.

    Which had me excited at first, as I loved Earthworm Jim and Wild 9, but then I remembered how far they have fallen with games like Enter the Matrix and The Golden Compass.
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    Image of okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under) okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under)
    08/17/09

    In reply to Serious Sam Now As Shiny As It Is Silly
    Why the hell am I blushing?!! I guess I like what I see :3
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    Image of VileMethoD VileMethoD
    08/17/09

    @okenny : ) ...building bridges (to hide under): That's just the gamer in you looking at sweet, sweet eye-candy.

    It happens to the best of us.
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    Image of Atomsk88 Atomsk88
    08/17/09

    In reply to Serious Sam Now As Shiny As It Is Silly
    Is using Requiem for a Dream suppose to be a joke?

    Not to rag on the trailer, but the song has become played out. At least, in my opinion, it has lost its "epic" quality.
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    DaveKap promoted this comment Atomsk88 was starred Atomsk88 was unstarred
    Image of DaveKap DaveKap
    08/17/09

    @Atomsk88: Yes it's a joke. Made the clip enjoyable to me, anyway.
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    Image of Showmeyomoves! Showmeyomoves!
    08/05/09

    In reply to Serious Sam Slightly More Serious In HD
    So will the franchise be renamed to Hilarious Sam?
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    Image of nrXic nrXic
    08/05/09

    In reply to Serious Sam Slightly More Serious In HD
    8 player Co-Op in Duke Nukem 3D and Marathon XBLA got a bit too crowded for me (still awesome fun). I was hoping this game would support 8 player Co-Op because it would be open enough and have enough baddies to make it the best 8 player Co-Op FPS on 360...but it seems like it's only going to be 4-players Co-Op. That, and there is no split-screen.
    Personally I would have taken these things over the fancier graphics. Though I could be the only one...
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    Image of Magnum1024k Magnum1024k
    08/05/09

    In reply to Serious Sam Slightly More Serious In HD
    Please tell me that were getting the crazy 16 player coop madness in the XBLA version.
    That was my favorite part about Sam on the PC. Hectic amounts of enemies and chaos going all around. Only way to play.
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    Image of I Think We're Property I Think We're Property
    08/05/09

    @Magnum1024k: Oh god, that would be awesome. Voice chat and XBL parties merged with retroQuake/Doom style blasting, and in the form of a relatively cheap XBLA release so its not hard to convince the rest of your friends list to buy it (and download it that minute!). This is perfect.
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    Image of patapon patapon
    08/05/09

    In reply to Serious Sam Slightly More Serious In HD
    I remember playing this game when it first came out and I can say that honestly, HD is only an incremental graphics boost. The game looked amazing when it first launched so this isn't to much OMG SUPERZ UPGRADEZED!!!
    Seriously
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    Image of Komrade Kayce Komrade Kayce
    08/05/09


    @patapon:
    Original
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    08/05/09


    @patapon:
    HD
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    Image of Komrade Kayce Komrade Kayce
    08/05/09

    @patapon:
    [www.lenscrafters.com]
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    Image of patapon patapon
    08/05/09

    @Komrade Kayce - Hero of Soviet Kotaku:
    ...I see no difference. Seriously ;)
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    Image of Runefox Runefox
    08/05/09

    @patapon: See, the idea of HD at the base level is resolution, and we as PC gamers have been playing games at and well beyond 720p since long before there were ever any notion of such a thing (hell, I recall playing Heretic 2 (1998) at 1280x1024/32-bit on a Pentium 2 300MHz running a Voodoo 3 2000 PCI card). This would be why "HD" doesn't really do much by comparison. However, there are some things that come with the HD generation that you won't find in older-gen games. Hell, look at the Source engine when it first started out with CS: S and HL2 and compare that to Left 4 Dead. L4D isn't a terribly detailed game, but it sure does look very pretty, and incorporates many "HD" features.

    Things that are implied by "HD" aside from resolution are things like HDR lighting, volumetric lighting, high-resolution detail textures, high polygon counts with bump mapping and shaders to modify surface reflections and so on when wet / called for, ambient occlusion, soft particles, colour correction, pretty much implicit anti-aliasing/anisotropic filtering, more realistic physics models for both gameplay and particle effects, more on-screen effects, more on-screen entities (vegetation, enemies, etc), better animations, etc. Soon, with DX11, we'll be seeing things like tessellation to further improve and perhaps modify in real time the number of polygons and general shape of a 3D model, along with Compute Shaders to let the graphics card(s) take care of general processing tasks (basically, standardized CUDA).
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    spiderweb1986 promoted this comment Edited by Runefox at 08/05/09 12:50 PM Runefox was starred Runefox was unstarred
    Image of Syril Syril
    08/05/09

    @Komrade Kayce - Hero of Soviet Kotaku: That "original" shot has all the details turned down. The original game very much has foliage and shadows.
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    gold163 Have Explosive promoted this comment Syril was starred Syril was unstarred
    Image of gold163 (° д° ) gold163 (° д° )
    08/05/09

    @Syril: But did it have... high definition foliage and shadows???? Not to mention, the sky looks much better in my opinion.
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    Image of mintycrys is HOT for Bayonetta mintycrys is HOT for Bayonetta
    08/05/09

    In reply to Serious Sam Slightly More Serious In HD
    HD Karnak makes me drool.
    Here's hoping for HD City of the Gods and Serpent Yards if this release sells well.
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    Image of KillerBee KillerBee
    08/05/09

    In reply to Serious Sam Slightly More Serious In HD
    Wow. That actually looks REALLY good. Looking forward to playing it.
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