Seems like I have to explain the Statue getting destroyed by itself in Highlander boss fight. It's not a bug. There's a touchfield that will destroy the statue if you try to hide behind it during a fight. Croteam was evil. The same can be seen if you try to hide behind big guard towers while waiting for the pyramid to open on The Great Pyramid.
I used to describe TSE as "it's a level pack that includes the game engine so you don't need TFE to play it." In the day the level packs, though generally with fewer than the main game, were still recently common.
211:32 I only saw the first and second encounter HD on Steam, pretty much You could use an emulator for the 360 region locked game disc? 21:17 That's probably the headset, various headsets have different fovs, the Quest is on the narrower end of the scale in terms of fov. There are extra face pads you can grab which, well, make it a lot more comfortable for a start, and increase the fov due to the change in where your eyes are in relation to the optics
Back in the day, I noticed several games that had budget re-released called "Special Edition" that wanted some of the game at a cheaper price point. I remember seeing these types of games sell for anywhere from 9.99 to 19.99 at various stores that sold games.
I really wish I still had my Frogger 2 bigbox, but my mother insisted on getting rid of the packaging for pretty much all our computer games during my childhood, instead opting to keep the disks in some CD-holder book thing.
Just wanna say I really enjoy your videos. I'm not really huge on 90% of gaming UA-cam content, but yours is an exception. Love the presentation, and you don't try too hard like most. That's all I wanted to say lol. Keep up the good work! :D
Dude, at the end of the video you are discussing a post on reddit and that was my question. When I saw this, I was incredibly surprised and laughed for a long time.
15:49 Your assumption could still be accurate but I thought it's worth pointing out that MS used to mandate 'how to play' section for all XBLA games, - no matter how basic or redundant some of them turned out to be. I would guess possibly due to digital games not having traditional manuals which were still a somewhat expected component of a game at the time. In any case it was similar to how the 360 console games mandated achievements and how competitive leaderboards had to be split into at least 2 categories; player and ranked, - with the latter enforcing the trademarked 'trueskill' game matching system. These seem to be few of the more obvious _requirements_ that had to be met to be in order to get published on 360.
Hey, just a bit pedantic, but a note after aprox 20 years playing this game and never noticing up to literally yesterday: You can reload your colts in second encounter with alt on PC. Because you can literally get better weapons from secrets before finding enemies, never noticed, but yeah. You actually can reload those.
Second Encounter, yes. Second Encounter =/= Serious Sam 2 though. Croteam released a huge patch for SS2 recently on Steam so if you own it there, the ability to reload now exists.
@@FrameRater I own the GOG release, but to be fair I am a bit confused with the releases. For me it has always been SS1 starting in Egypt, SS2, starting in Chiapas. But yeah, you are right. Never played the real SS2 or 3
17:40 That's just an artifact from aggressive occlusion culling. The actual scene should be loaded into memory. The game engine shouldn't draw more polygons than necessary.
I feel like ive seen a game like Serious Sam where there was those one eyed montsers in a happy villiage. And they wear clothes. And are friendly, even one putting a bridge down for you. Am i tripping?
What's your opinion on the update Croteam released for Serious Sam 2? It gave the option to dual-wield all weapons barring Serious Bomb, sprint around and even multiply enemy numbers. It's a very different game feel from the normal Serious Sam 2 experience.
I hate the weird physics/collisions some enemies have in the Fusion versions of HD, to the point that I can't play these versions. Kleers and frogs and bulls in FE, and SE has additional problems with at least the kukurbitos and the demon reptiloids. It's mostly stuff like them "hitting" you when they really shouldn't have been able to, sometimes from a greater distance or from a weird angle or without an animation. I haven't tried fusion's version of SS3, but at this point I never have it installed anymore. Also, SS Revolution has a weird aspect ratio and FOV-related glitch that causes models like trees to start vanishing like half the distance to the player that they normally would. I only really notice it in some custom levels and Palenque, but it also makes me never want to play that release, lol.
I feel like the Xbox port is the best in terms of nailing the look and having its own character. I should really hunt down a copy, meantime i believe i still have the SamXbox mod for Fusion installed.
Serious sam revolution was left in early access for ages with the developer working on other things basically (I could see from their social medias etc they publicised). I wrote to Croteam's PR dude on steam to express my displeasure and showed examples. Within a short peroid of time Croteam took over then finished and released the full game. I thought that was damn cool of them to do from one person complaining about it being essentially abandonded at the time.
They probably tested the Palm CD with a CD cloner application to make sure there isn't disc rot or surface condition making the disc unreadable, which would indeed make it "tested", just not tested on the target platform.
What region? I didn't directly specify this in the video, but it's only the North American copy that is rare. The others (UK / Thailand) are almost always available on eBay.
Funnily enough Zeb89 is a famous ex-youtuber/streamer here in Italy known for his position on serious sam being the absolute pinnacle of gaming. Quite strange seeing him here on this channel!
Interesting. Just how famous is he? Also likes Serious Sam so he must be somewhat of a cool guy just because of that,,, OR at the very least he has taste in gaming instead of simping garbage shooters.
I picked up the hd collection on ps4 last year and I’ve had a blast the only thing that sucks is that it doesn’t have the ps2 one which was the first serious Sam game I ever played
If the VR ports are nauseous for you The Last Hope is more comfortable, but then a spin-off that play differently and I presume you've already gone through it 😅 Happy to see the VR versions included anyway, even if they were clumped up in Fusion, this as to me as a VR fanatic these releases were serious indeed! 😍
I think the classic game is a better introduction to the series. The HD games are a nice sendoff for players who enjoyed the classics but I wouldn't suggest starting there.
You can get Serious Sam Classic on Steam, but they have this weird setup where they're only available as a free bonus if you get Serious Sam HD or the Deluxe Edition of Serious Sam 3, rather than being available on their own, unless that's been changed over the years.
So if the Special Edition demo came with Max Payne, then I guess you could this "Sam & Max"
Bruh.
Bruh.
Bruh.
ba-dum-tiss
And the background in 15:50 is basically a green version of the mp one
the skeletal nightmare horses are pretty cool, but I don't think they'll ever be as iconic as the decapitated shouting suicide detonators
It doesn't get any better than a shirtless beheaded screaming guy sprinting towards you while holding two bombs, it's simply too iconic
Headless and screaming, almost poetic
@@Joostuh lol I never thought about that
Seeing the OG xbox port makes next encounter make so much more sense.
:0 I REMEMBEE YOU.
Oh hey nice seeing you Jarek. Love your vids man
It really does.
It makes me wish they stuck with the "Toon Sam" look. It's a lot more fun and inspired looking than dudebro Sam from 3 onward.
@@ORLY911 but he was dude bro from the OG cover
Seems like I have to explain the Statue getting destroyed by itself in Highlander boss fight. It's not a bug. There's a touchfield that will destroy the statue if you try to hide behind it during a fight. Croteam was evil. The same can be seen if you try to hide behind big guard towers while waiting for the pyramid to open on The Great Pyramid.
the passion this man has for the sam man is downright infectious
Win+Ctrl+Shift+B
resets your graphics drivers. This may have solved the resolution problem. Or not. It's a useful hotkey sometimes.
Is this a win 10 only hotkey?
God your collection makes me drool
I used to describe TSE as "it's a level pack that includes the game engine so you don't need TFE to play it." In the day the level packs, though generally with fewer than the main game, were still recently common.
Glad you're back doing the "Serious" stuff.
It's odd to not hear "Yeah! FrameRater!" At the start...
18:06 Kinda sounds like kamikaze got confused when you used him to bypass himself
"Hey... that illegal!"
211:32 I only saw the first and second encounter HD on Steam, pretty much
You could use an emulator for the 360 region locked game disc?
21:17 That's probably the headset, various headsets have different fovs, the Quest is on the narrower end of the scale in terms of fov. There are extra face pads you can grab which, well, make it a lot more comfortable for a start, and increase the fov due to the change in where your eyes are in relation to the optics
Back in the day, I noticed several games that had budget re-released called "Special Edition" that wanted some of the game at a cheaper price point. I remember seeing these types of games sell for anywhere from 9.99 to 19.99 at various stores that sold games.
This man has big box frogger 2, you just know he's ready for the apocalypse.
I really wish I still had my Frogger 2 bigbox, but my mother insisted on getting rid of the packaging for pretty much all our computer games during my childhood, instead opting to keep the disks in some CD-holder book thing.
Just wanna say I really enjoy your videos. I'm not really huge on 90% of gaming UA-cam content, but yours is an exception. Love the presentation, and you don't try too hard like most. That's all I wanted to say lol. Keep up the good work! :D
There are *seriously* too many re-releases of Sam. But hey, the more ways to experience it the better!
I really missed your videos of serious sam, I'm glad that you make them again.
That ps vita main menu theme song gave me nostalgia.
Dude, at the end of the video you are discussing a post on reddit and that was my question. When I saw this, I was incredibly surprised and laughed for a long time.
Sam still strafes circles around Duke Nukem.
Wonder if the special edition was on CD vs DVD in some weird attempt to cheap out on DVD license
Highly thorough and entertaining as always
I like both the classic and the HD versions, each have subtle changes that benefit either classics or HD
1:53 A Bionicle! Barraki Carapar! One of my favourites!
Man I stared at frogger 2's box and disc case, specifically the side too, a lot as a kid.
Me too, that highly saturated art is alluring.
I just want HD remakes of Frogger (1997) and Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge where Frogger looks exactly like that in both titles.
Best part is, the game's name works in Croatian (without declination) as "Ozbiljan Sam" meaning "I'm serious"
15:49 Your assumption could still be accurate but I thought it's worth pointing out that MS used to mandate 'how to play' section for all XBLA games, - no matter how basic or redundant some of them turned out to be. I would guess possibly due to digital games not having traditional manuals which were still a somewhat expected component of a game at the time. In any case it was similar to how the 360 console games mandated achievements and how competitive leaderboards had to be split into at least 2 categories; player and ranked, - with the latter enforcing the trademarked 'trueskill' game matching system. These seem to be few of the more obvious _requirements_ that had to be met to be in order to get published on 360.
Man the music in the background kept making me think my neighbor was mowing his grass.
This was a great video. Informative, funny, good style. I see it blowing up. Nice work man
Your narration is excellent 👍
We need a video about dynamic skyboxes.
Terepin, I love you!
@@elshamaro4658 And I love you too, random Internet citizen.
14:12 - Hey @FrameRater, I can easily record footage of that serious sam 360 disc if you want.
Yeah please do!
@@FrameRater Alright! I'll record it later today. I can send you the footage or just upload it to my UA-cam Channel and give you the link.
Better for UA-cam, let the whole world see
15:49 That was a rule that every Live arcade game had no matter how simple the game was. It probably had some legal obligations for that.
Looking on your shelf: "Ah my favorite classic game, three adjecent bricks!"
Im a bit late, but im starting to see your serious sam videos, you make them very entertaining!
This game series was 20 % of my childhood.
What about other 20 %?
After how my week has went, I needed some Serious Sam Framerater content
Huh...thought I was the only person in the world that went out of their way to get a big box of frogger 2...
Wait...a Zeb89 reference?! The fuck i missed.
I really appreciate you using ss2 music in this video, there are some bangers
FrameRater? more like SamRater
A serious fan of Serious Sam; always good to know there are more out there.
Hell yea another sam video!!, Hopefully you will review serious sam 2 s new patch
I hope too
Very well put together vid
I can't believe you cried over an enemy with the Word VaporWave
Wait zeb89 is famous outside of Italy? That’s so funny
who is zeb89?
First time watching one of your videos and I’m hooked!! Great writing and subject material 🙌🏼
18:05 ok that was awesome. Didn't know it's possible.
Hey, just a bit pedantic, but a note after aprox 20 years playing this game and never noticing up to literally yesterday: You can reload your colts in second encounter with alt on PC. Because you can literally get better weapons from secrets before finding enemies, never noticed, but yeah. You actually can reload those.
Second Encounter, yes. Second Encounter =/= Serious Sam 2 though.
Croteam released a huge patch for SS2 recently on Steam so if you own it there, the ability to reload now exists.
@@FrameRater I own the GOG release, but to be fair I am a bit confused with the releases. For me it has always been SS1 starting in Egypt, SS2, starting in Chiapas. But yeah, you are right.
Never played the real SS2 or 3
6:30 i don't remember SS2 look this good.
Great vid like always
17:40
That's just an artifact from aggressive occlusion culling. The actual scene should be loaded into memory. The game engine shouldn't draw more polygons than necessary.
I feel like ive seen a game like Serious Sam where there was those one eyed montsers in a happy villiage. And they wear clothes. And are friendly, even one putting a bridge down for you. Am i tripping?
You couldn’t resist making another serious Sam video lmao
Really enjoyable, love this series ❤️, thank you for this really informing video!
What's your opinion on the update Croteam released for Serious Sam 2? It gave the option to dual-wield all weapons barring Serious Bomb, sprint around and even multiply enemy numbers. It's a very different game feel from the normal Serious Sam 2 experience.
I hate the weird physics/collisions some enemies have in the Fusion versions of HD, to the point that I can't play these versions. Kleers and frogs and bulls in FE, and SE has additional problems with at least the kukurbitos and the demon reptiloids. It's mostly stuff like them "hitting" you when they really shouldn't have been able to, sometimes from a greater distance or from a weird angle or without an animation. I haven't tried fusion's version of SS3, but at this point I never have it installed anymore.
Also, SS Revolution has a weird aspect ratio and FOV-related glitch that causes models like trees to start vanishing like half the distance to the player that they normally would. I only really notice it in some custom levels and Palenque, but it also makes me never want to play that release, lol.
Just started playing the serious sam collection on the switch has the first encounter second encounter and the third one it's soo good
I feel like the Xbox port is the best in terms of nailing the look and having its own character. I should really hunt down a copy, meantime i believe i still have the SamXbox mod for Fusion installed.
I grew up with the xbox version and think it works the best for the parody type game it is. I sorely missed the cytscenes in the steam hd version
10:40 I actually own a Thai copy of Serious Sam HD First Encounter too lmao, bought it in 2013
No "Yeah, FrameRater!" opening? : (
Serious sam revolution was left in early access for ages with the developer working on other things basically (I could see from their social medias etc they publicised). I wrote to Croteam's PR dude on steam to express my displeasure and showed examples. Within a short peroid of time Croteam took over then finished and released the full game. I thought that was damn cool of them to do from one person complaining about it being essentially abandonded at the time.
You should cover Seriously Warped Deathmatch as some point.
They probably tested the Palm CD with a CD cloner application to make sure there isn't disc rot or surface condition making the disc unreadable, which would indeed make it "tested", just not tested on the target platform.
Todd Howard weeps knowing not even he has released the same game as much as this.
Todd Howard after he eventually re-release Skyrim for the 13th time, breaking Croteam's record: *"Who's laughing now?!"*
serious video 10/10 now we need serious sam 2 hd remake deluxe edition
9:56, lol looks like you hurt yourself in that bush xd
9:54
That's Hurt !
I miss physical PC games
I had no idea this released physically in Thailand. Welp, I guess this was the era before Steam fully took over and DVDs were still viable
In Germany we had a Re Release of SS GE and SS2 from Green Pepper.
Croatian audio Karnak demo, when FrameRater???
That Poor Bush!! Lmao
Ooh, I might buy that serious sam 360 since I'm in the PAL region
I don't think enough people noticed that Austin Powers Gold reference lol
I've bought Serious sam tfe (Original) From steam yesterday , and it comes with Serious sam Revolution
Just picked up the OG Xbox version a couple days ago. Honestly that version looks sick!!! Gonna check it out. Great video!!
I have the second encounter disc in my house Haha for PC, it does truly exist
I would love to see if The Second Encounter has even more ports than The First Encounter
I have that HD DVD version. Let me double check.
12:38 perfectly cut scream
Ok, I just checked. I have both the First and Second Encounters HD versions in the DVD cases complete in amazing condition.
What region? I didn't directly specify this in the video, but it's only the North American copy that is rare. The others (UK / Thailand) are almost always available on eBay.
@@FrameRater North American in both. 😀
@@galbyman Can you send me a DM on Twitter or Discord?
@@FrameRater you got it.
@@FrameRater sent.
Funnily enough Zeb89 is a famous ex-youtuber/streamer here in Italy known for his position on serious sam being the absolute pinnacle of gaming. Quite strange seeing him here on this channel!
Interesting. Just how famous is he? Also likes Serious Sam so he must be somewhat of a cool guy just because of that,,,
OR at the very least he has taste in gaming instead of simping garbage shooters.
It is hilarious how you come out of the bush with every game XD
Now i want his collection serious sam in that box :))
I wish Serious Sam Fusion on Switch and PS had Gyro, playing Serious Sam on my Steam Deck has made me used to having it.
In 2001 or 2002 i dont remember i got serious sam hd second encounter bundled with a game magazine lol
23:11 What mod is this?
Also for that mod, should've gone with the TNE's double-barrel reload, fits more.
Karnak 1996
I swear I played a serious Sam game on my cousin’s computer that was overhead but I can’t find anything about it.
I picked up the hd collection on ps4 last year and I’ve had a blast the only thing that sucks is that it doesn’t have the ps2 one which was the first serious Sam game I ever played
Great vid!
Pc , switch, Xbox original, ps3 , xbox 360, xbox one , ps4 , xbox series and ps5 . A lot of releases .
Serious Sam 2 was also released on Original Xbox. I guess it's been released twice.
If the VR ports are nauseous for you The Last Hope is more comfortable, but then a spin-off that play differently and I presume you've already gone through it 😅
Happy to see the VR versions included anyway, even if they were clumped up in Fusion, this as to me as a VR fanatic these releases were serious indeed! 😍
Things are getting serious.
I'm just sitting here hoping for a SS the Third Encounter with the same aesthetics and gameplay as the first two...
For me - a guy who never played any SS game before- what would be better to start: Serious Sam official on Switch, or the fan port?
I think the classic game is a better introduction to the series. The HD games are a nice sendoff for players who enjoyed the classics but I wouldn't suggest starting there.
You can get Serious Sam Classic on Steam, but they have this weird setup where they're only available as a free bonus if you get Serious Sam HD or the Deluxe Edition of Serious Sam 3, rather than being available on their own, unless that's been changed over the years.
"Box o' Sam". Lol
If people think Skyrim has a lot of re-releases, wait till they see the Serious Sam series