Serious Sam 2 Officially Announced [Archive]

HARLEY

04-24-2005, 09:26 AM

Hey RR...How you been bud? Thanks for the info... :cool:

Was in GameMecca forums chattin with SAL about SS2. He said he is beta testing it, but doesn't expect it to start until late summer. Think I'll hang around Croteam and GM forums and try to get in the test. Would be fun! From what I've read, they have been working alot on MP...they needed a better netcode.

Wish I could get my name back...wont let me join because it's in use...WTF...LOL Take care RichmanRush... ;) :D

HARLEYRIDER

RichmanRush

04-24-2005, 01:28 PM

Good to see ya Harley! Yea, the forums here got redone and some accounts had problems (mine did, took em a while to get it fixed).

I wouldn't mind getting in on the SS2 beta (put in a good word for me on mecca forums hehe). Me and my buddy have been playing co-op of the second encounter the past few nights, but the servers keep crashing on us. We've crashed 3 the past 2 nights LOL. Still fun though.

But as you can probably guess, not much happening on the PK front. Think I'm one of the few, if not the only, beta tester that still posts. Anywho, maybe I"ll make my way over to GM and chat with ya guys over there.

Luigibuddy

04-24-2005, 06:09 PM

First screenshot. (http://www.seriouszone.com/gallery/ss2/serioussam2_ingame?full=1)

HARLEY

04-24-2005, 07:09 PM

Hmmm...Great looking screenie, Thx Luigibuddy....Always loved the bright colors of SS. Glad to see it's the same... :cool:

Dont know if a good word from ME will help you , RR...LOL

Just went back to visit GM myself and there big on SS-SE over there. I'm sure they could help you with any of your crash problems...sounds like PK beta sh*t...LOL

I have also been visiting your Q3 site RichmanRush...been thinkin about playing some Quake and see why you guys were crazy about it. Good to talk to you again bud...maybe i'll install SSSE too... :confused:

fleabay

04-30-2005, 06:35 PM

Lots of new info on seriouszone
http://www.seriouszone.com/serioussam2/

bgaum

05-03-2005, 11:05 AM

fleabay

05-03-2005, 06:35 PM

Most of the content was posted here the other day:

http://www.seriouszone.com/serioussam2/

10 vehicles - nice, but perhaps too ambitious? With all of these additions and improved graphics, will the game be as fast-paced as FE and SE?

Looking forward to seeing it at E3!

That link looks a lot like the one I posted except...
Wait a minute!, that is the link I posted.

If your going to repost links, at least try to hide it and don't do it it the very next post.

bgaum

05-03-2005, 07:08 PM

Man - you guys are quick, you've got all the latest news as soon as it's released - sorry 'bout that...

[ThePact]

05-03-2005, 07:57 PM

nice shots ! sharp colors used on everything ! thats looking nice

will the game be as fast-paced as FE and SE?

good point, after cing the shots, i started to wonder the same thing:)

HARLEY

05-08-2005, 09:58 AM

There new web site, not much content yet... http://photos.yafro.com/pics3/i/20050506/13/c/b/4/cb44225db852279eda2a96c07f8152ef0_full.jpg (http://www.serioussam2.com/seriously.html)

Bjossi

05-08-2005, 05:43 PM

good point, after cing the shots, i started to wonder the same thing:)

If you got decent system to run Serious Sam 2, it´ll be as fast paced I think. :p

CHFlagg

05-11-2005, 10:38 PM

I just picked up a copy of Computer Games Magazine with Serious Sam II on the cover. There is a 7 page story about the game with screenies.

The article starts with "Son of Sam, Shinier than Doom, Funnier than Half-Life, Trippier than Painkiller, and dryer than Far Cry. Croteam's take-no-prisoners grand mal shooter fires a supercharged cannonball straight between your cajones and out the top of your shredded pleasure center." Kelly Wand

Great story, well worth the $5.00 for the magazine.

[ThePact]

05-15-2005, 01:25 AM

If you got decent system to run Serious Sam 2, it´ll be as fast paced I think

i think bgaum meant the core gameplay itself, as developed in the game :)
not the game's "system requirements"

i dont know, thats what 'i' was talking about,
but other than that, i think my system can run it pretty smooth,
but i'll have to just wait and c,
serious sams usually r not so demanding to perform well in my experience,
this one might be different tho,

anyone knows if it uses the same engine?

CHFlagg,

what other new titles the magazine previews ?!
any chance u c a name "PainKiller 2" in there ?!:D

RichmanRush

05-15-2005, 02:12 AM

Croteam developed an all new engine (Serious Engine 2). I'm sure it's 'similar' much like all of idsoftware's engines are similar, and Unreal engines are similar.

But the first engine was pretty demanding for it's time, and I'm sure SE2 will be pretty rough as well.

[ThePact]

05-15-2005, 02:16 AM

well i hope it wont be as demanding as DOOM-III, because that sucked !
but UT's r really good and smooth in gameplay,
when SS1 came out,
i remember i had gotten this 16MB ATI and i was having so much fun :P

but since there r large areas invloved in SS games, then its likely to be demanding specially with toomany colors and effects being there in the basic gameplay.
hope they'll make it as convenient as they can :)

CHFlagg

05-15-2005, 04:11 AM

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CHFlagg,

what other new titles the magazine previews ?!
any chance u c a name "PainKiller 2" in there ?!:D

Nothing on Painkiller 2, I keep hoping though.

Computer Games June edition has an article on Hellgate:London called Random Acts of Evil. Pretty decent story.

Bjossi

05-15-2005, 08:34 AM

I don´t think there will be Painkiller 2 in the near future. :(

T'krau

05-15-2005, 02:18 PM

Based on all the noise you guys have made about Serious Sam (1 and 2), I just ordered S/S 1 (w/The Second Encounter bundled in). I've been looking for a new (to me) game, and so...

CHFlagg

05-15-2005, 02:37 PM

Serious Sam Series is just plan fun. Think of yourself as the Wiley Coyote and Acme has supplied your weapons.

If you want a real fun giggle or young kids are watching turn the gore to flowers.

T'krau

05-15-2005, 03:01 PM

I don´t think there will be Painkiller 2 in the near future. :(
Shut up, shut up, SHUT UP!

If you want a real fun giggle or young kids are watching turn the gore to flowers.
My daughter got MAD at me when I tried to detune the gore in PK (she doesn't want to play, but she likes watching over my shoulder ('THAT one - get THAT one!!! Don't use the shotgun, use stakes!!!'). BTW - she's the one who came up with 'the Witchpinner' :D.

Woutsie

05-15-2005, 03:15 PM

Can't wait!! :cool:

CHFlagg

05-15-2005, 03:42 PM

My daughter got MAD at me when I tried to detune the gore in PK (she doesn't want to play, but she likes watching over my shoulder ('THAT one - get THAT one!!! Don't use the shotgun, use stakes!!!'). BTW - she's the one who came up with 'the Witchpinner' :D.

That is why I don't play with my godson's watching. the 12yr old is a born commentator. He has to give a play by play account of everything he watches.

T'krau

05-15-2005, 08:08 PM

She doesn't bother me (usually) - half the time, I can't understand what she's on about, due to weapons fire (anyone else noticed that this game was MADE for sub-woofers? Set really LOUD? :D ).

[ThePact]

05-15-2005, 08:10 PM

T'Krau

if shes not into games or computers,

u can pick some 'point & click' adventure ones for her,
she might like the extreme graphics tho,
and being easy to navigate and everything.

but i guess then u'd need to make a HUGE sacrifice and play PK less than now :D

T'krau

05-15-2005, 08:40 PM

She's been into Neopets BIG time for about a year or so, to the point that, when she's w/me for the weekend, I have to drag her kicking and screaming off my machine so we can do something together (not REALLY, but you get the idea...). Her idea of gaming is her GameBoy.

She's trying to convince me to build a new machine for myself ('Dad, you oughta think about upgrading...') 'cause she thinks that, if this happens, she gets THIS machine.

[ThePact]

05-15-2005, 08:57 PM

its all so funny and cute !

but y would she think of having ur current machine if shes into GB only?

T'krau

05-16-2005, 02:01 AM

']...but y would she think of having ur current machine if shes into GB only?
If I could explain how a 13 year old girl thinks, I'd be a rich man...

CHFlagg

05-16-2005, 03:08 AM

Not just girls, any teenager. $$$

T'krau

05-16-2005, 12:30 PM

She also thinks that I'm gonna hand over my truck to her the moment she turns 16. I keep telling her that she's wearing her hair pulled too tight, but does she listen?

Bjossi

05-16-2005, 03:44 PM

(anyone else noticed that this game was MADE for sub-woofers? Set really LOUD? :D ).

Oh yes I know what you mean! :D

bgaum

05-27-2005, 11:39 AM

I played the game at E3 and it was running very smoothly. Apparently, moderate systems will be able to run it quite well.

T'krau

06-08-2005, 10:47 AM

Based on all the noise you guys have made about Serious Sam (1 and 2), I just ordered S/S 1 (w/The Second Encounter bundled in). I've been looking for a new (to me) game, and so...
Amazon seems to have the game on permanent backorder (ship date shoved back 3 times...) - I cancelled it, and got Thief 3 instead, which is a BLAST!

BloodBuster

06-08-2005, 07:39 PM

That is why I don't play with my godson's watching. the 12yr old is a born commentator. He has to give a play by play account of everything he watches.

Ha! Kids are great arn't they? My 5 year old son has seen me play PK (for about 30 secs), and he can't wait 'till he's older. I freaked - I thought, oh no!, what will he think? will he have nightmares - no! - he wants to use the rocket launcher soooooo bad... He has been playing Star Wars: Battlefront and he does pretty well too. He had tried and tried and tried to beat Geonosis (for those of you that know...), and when he did both of us were leaping up and down, arms in the air, shouting at the top of our voices.

ahem...

fleabay

09-20-2005, 08:44 PM

Demo is out tomorrow (Wednesday.) :)

PeTjA

09-20-2005, 09:00 PM

Good News! I never played SS but i saw some InGamesSzenes from SS2 & it looks good to me.
Hope the Demo works better then B.o.S :)

T'krau

09-21-2005, 01:17 AM

Gotta warm up the modem...

Thanks for the heads-up, fleabay!

kalme

09-21-2005, 05:38 AM

Demo is out tomorrow (Wednesday.) :)
You left out the good part. At 10am EDT.

:D

Killerpain

09-21-2005, 10:20 AM

The Seriously! forums seem to be overloaded at the moment. But the demo seems to be out (http://files.filefront.com/serious_sam_ii_pc_demo/;4160857;;/fileinfo.html
). Better mirrors no doubt await.

Edit: Much linkage:
http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&threadid=60468

kalme

09-21-2005, 10:35 AM

Downloading @ 240kbyte/s at the moment... :)

kalme

09-21-2005, 11:09 AM

Haha, very funny... :)
I don't like the look of that level (I liked the old ancient Egypt design of the first parts more), but from the screenshots and videos one can tell there are others too. The new save system seems a bit confusing... other than that... SAM IS BACK! :D

PeTjA

09-21-2005, 11:20 AM

Load, load, load ... dinG dinG dinG.:cool:

PeTjA

09-21-2005, 05:47 PM

Grafic sux, but Gameplay is pure Fun!:cool:
I like the Parrot with the Bomb!:D

spyware

09-21-2005, 07:46 PM

Graphics suck??
downloading now.

spyware

09-21-2005, 08:36 PM

Jeez I hope the game runs.
Havin mouse trouble (laggy)

Maiden_Canada

09-21-2005, 09:07 PM

I wasn't that impressed, but watched the credits, the other levels look neat.

Frag Maniac

09-21-2005, 10:06 PM

Is Sam actually getting "Serious" yet, or is he still up to his corny one liners?LOL:p

PeTjA

09-22-2005, 08:38 AM

I didnt played the 1. Part of this Game, so i dont know.

But i have a seroius Question:
Did anyone played it MP, and was able to connect to a Server?
My Firewall is open, the Game tryes to connect 2x & then sayed something like: Connection is closed. But when i look in the Serverlist, the same Server is still online (with 2 or more Players).
Whats the Deal?
:confused:

Maiden_Canada

09-22-2005, 09:20 AM

Bah , I'm not gonna buy this game, it's not as good as it looked.

PeTjA

09-22-2005, 09:28 AM

It looks like Direct X 1 or 2 :p And the MP dont work in the Demo, for noone.:(

kalme

09-22-2005, 09:52 AM

I saw a server in the list that had two players on it... wonder how they made that?

PeTjA

09-22-2005, 09:59 AM

If its not a Bot, then its a PlayerCunterBug, like when im crashing from a PK-Server & try to join (after restarting the Game) again & see myself still on the Server.:eek:
Result: CD-Key is in use :mad:
After some Minutes the Server deletes my "Ghost" & i can join again.
I saw in the Giga-Forums that other People cant join to, so imo MP dont work & the 2. Player is a PlayerCunterBug.:cool:

Frag Maniac

09-22-2005, 10:01 PM

Does Sam actuall look like he does on the SS2 website? The old one looked much more FPSish, this guys looks like a cross between Jay Leno and Dirty Harry! http://www.serioussam2.com/sam_home.html
Downloading the demo now, but just out of curiousity. Then again, I didn't think I'd like either of the Max Payne games, and now they're two of my favorites.

Demonwork

09-23-2005, 12:29 AM

Played the demo , this is fun !! :D

Love all the weapons though .

Frag Maniac

09-23-2005, 02:16 AM

Played the demo , this is funWell I just tried to play the demo, and the game runs like an absolute piece of SH!T on my system, which is plenty fast enough for it.

It specs an 1152x864 res, everything maxed, and even 2xx AA and 2x AF on the auto test, but there is more lag than most online gmaes I've played!

It probably is a result of them exaggerating about how extensively they've tested for compatability.

I do have an M-Audio sound card, but they're fairly common now, and it works with all the other games in my 50+ game collection. I disabled EAX just to make sure, as it doesn't hardware support it.

I did just reinstall my MB controler chipset drivers, but since doing so, my Doom 3 expansion actually seems to run smoother now, so I don't think it's my sys.

I even tried lowing all the settings pretty low, but still just as much lag.

The game really plays just as corny as the screenshots look IMO anyway, so it really doesn't bother me. I just hope it will uninstall without leaving crap behind that will screw up my PC.:rolleyes:

Demonwork

09-23-2005, 08:19 AM

The game runs not-so-smooth-yet-smooth in my PC . The game doesn't stutter even though there are lots of enemies in one tiny screen . What suprise me is their quick loading (I nearly dozed off while waiting for FEAR to load) . I still cross my fingers and wait eagerly as demos don't really reflect the full version .

Luigibuddy

10-06-2005, 07:06 PM

I found the weapons to be very unbalanced and the level design was so-so. Hopefully the full game will be better.

Bjossi

10-07-2005, 07:55 PM

The final game will be a piece of **** just like the demo. I can´t imagine that Croteam will use the cool animations, mindblowing graphics and environments in combo with bassy and awesome sound effects/music like the SS1 games had.

SS2 is nothing but a joke that´s not even funny.
The quotes and some of Netricsa´s messages in SS1 were hilarious and I enjoyed them, but adding the humor to the enemies, descriptions for them, and just to everything in the game, killed it for me.

Luigibuddy

10-12-2005, 08:17 PM

The final game will be a piece of **** just like the demo. I can´t imagine that Croteam will use the cool animations, mindblowing graphics and environments in combo with bassy and awesome sound effects/music like the SS1 games had.

Heh, you were right about that. GameSpot gave the game a 6.9 score.
Review (http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/serioussam2/review.html).

Demonwork

10-13-2005, 04:23 AM

Gamespot almost right , but IGN gave a "better" score . After reading both of their reviews......I will still buying it .

Artas1984

10-13-2005, 06:30 AM

SS2 sucks so bad, that i even won't waste my free 5000 MB to download that cartoon.

The first screenshot when i saw it here, that was placed by Luigi, it looked like a 11 year old boy's drawings...
Get over with this pwnes, duke or wolf 3d are better than this.

fleabay

10-13-2005, 12:22 PM

It looks like the full game is much better than the demo.

demo
http://www.gamemecca.net/forums/showthread.php?t=74695
http://www.gamemecca.net/forums/showthread.php?t=74699

game
http://www.gamemecca.net/forums/showthread.php?p=631934

This guy trashes the demo twice and then comes back with a decent review of the game.

Luigibuddy

10-13-2005, 01:04 PM

After reading both of their reviews......I will still buying it .

Yeah, me too.

RichmanRush

10-13-2005, 10:32 PM

The game is fun. I haven't made it to the first boss yet, but it's still got that Sam feel, but it also reminds me of PK (so far). Huge levels, but they are sectioned off into smaller areas. I haven't come across the huge flat maps where you could run for miles, but I still have 95% of the game left to go probably. I also find it a little bit harder than the first/second encounters.

Quirky humor, fun secrets (though I'm missing a ton of em), nice engine and it's pretty scalable (I could run it at 1024, but chose 800x600 to keep a consistent 30+ fps). Currently running it on a xp 2200+, radeon 9800 pro 128M, 512M ram on everything low or off, shaders 1.1, AA/AF max'd. Again, I could play it at 1024, but it would dip down to the 15-20fps if the action or explosions were abundant. Over all though, I think it's worth the $30. I haven't tried it online as I'm waiting to get the "full" experience when I put my new computer together this weekend. And of course, Croteam still takes it shots at the competition in a fun and lighthearted way (one weapon is called the PayneKiller... another DNF joke... I'm sure there are more to be found).

I dig it.

PainKilla

10-14-2005, 12:27 AM

Serious Sam 2 doesn't require a high graphics card, does it? It doesn't have Doom 3's requirements, does it? Cause if it does, I'm not going to get it. I never really considered getting it, and I haven't really looked at it either...

It sounds interesting, but the "cartoony" part that I've heard and seen a bit makes me think otherwise.

Bjossi

10-14-2005, 08:34 AM

It´s more than just cartoony the game is an one big joke, an unfunny one too.

bgaum

10-14-2005, 10:13 AM

Do you have a pic of the "Paynekiller"? ;)

fleabay

10-14-2005, 11:13 AM

It´s more than just cartoony the game is an one big joke, an unfunny one too.

Have you played the game?

I agree the demo sucked out loud.

PainKilla

10-14-2005, 04:57 PM

Eh. I looked at it... IMO, the original Serious Sam looked better. Looks like Serious Sam 2 did a few things: Add shiny skins, new levels, new guns, and repeated a lot of monsters.

RichmanRush

10-14-2005, 08:14 PM

Do you have a pic of the "Paynekiller"? ;)
sorry, I don't have one handy, but if you've played the previous sam games, it's the Cannon ;)

RichmanRush

10-14-2005, 08:25 PM

Well, Serious Sam is supposed to be a big joke. But obviously some people miss out on that :p

As for the video card, PainKilla, here's what the manual says:

Min: Dx8.0/8.1 compliant or low end; Dx9 3D accelerator (nvidia GF3 and 4 series (not MX), GF FX 5200-5700 series, ATI Radeon 8500 through 9200 and x300 series...) 256M ram; 1.5Ghz athlon xp/pentium M or 2Ghz P4

Recommended: Dx9.0 compliant 3D accel.; nv FX 5900 series and GF 6200 & 6600 series, ATI radeon 9500 through 9800 and x600-x700 series) 512M ram; 2.0 athlon xp/2.6 P4

Full: Dx9.0 High end 3D accel.; GF6 6800 and 7800 series, ATI radeon x800 and x850 series) 1G ram; 2Ghz A64 or 3Ghz P4