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Quick Look: Serious Sam 3: BFE

Alex and Ryan team up to fight the headless-and-yet-somehow-still-screaming horde.

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

Nov. 30 2011

Cast: Ryan, Alex

Posted by: Drew

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Serious Sam 3: BFE

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PENIS

(Proton-Enhanced Nuclear Induction Spectroscopy)

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lolz

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good morning, sam

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Night shift pays off

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Alex? Thé Alex? AWESOME!

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This game BLOWS!

.....coke off a hooker's ass.

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Complaining that the game has story is the most pathetic bullshit critique of a game I have ever heard. I guess it wasn't being ironic enough for Alex, who hasn't been able to like anything in a non-ironic way for many many years it seems.

The game looks fine I think, I might get it at some point.

EDIT: Also Alex should go to a speech coach or someone that can teach him to stop saying "so there's that" and "so that's a thing" or "that happened" over and over and over again.

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Not 4th wall breaking.

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Alex's back from NY? For how long? Will he take part in the GOTY deliberations? I surely hope so.

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Damn Jeff and Brad shoulda done this one

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Also, Alex....not everything is a "thing" - stop spouting year old memes, it makes you look even douchier and more annoying than you already are.

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@Feigr: he liked saints row ironically?

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So much Serious Sam. Perhaps too much Serious Sam. Overload is impending. Or can it?

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Not playing this until there's a mod to remove all the cut-scenes. These are nearly Duke Nukem Forever bad.

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I thougth it meant Battle For Earth?

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Hate to be a hater, but Alex is not really the man for this task. Lacking in enthusiasm and seemingly to cynical to properly showcase this game. Serious Sam is ridiculous. The player of such games should be as equally ridiculous.

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On one hand, more Alex quick looks are a good thing. On the other hand, Serious Sam has never appealed to me in any way

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For as much as he complains about how the game doesn't get right into the monster shooting, he sure does take his dear sweet time actually getting out of the intro area

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How can people play like this! the camera movement is making me sick.

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Edited By abendlaender

Man, this game looks so disappointing...

No humor? "Serious" Story? You have to reload your pistol? I don't know...I really, really don't know

On the bright side: Alex, yay

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The only way to play the Serious Sam games is 2-4 people on SERIOUS difficulty. The only way to play the game.

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So bring in the movie guy to do video games, yeah alright.

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@Abendlaender said:

Man, this game looks so disappointing...

No humor? "Serious" Story? You have to reload your pistol? I don't know...I really, really don't know

On the bright side: Alex, yay

There's plenty of humor. The story is not "serious". You've always had to reload your pistol in Serious Sam.

People acting like they know about shit, it makes me laugh.

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Alex!

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Is it just me who can't hear the ingame voice? I can hear the music, the commentary, the monsters shouting and nothing else.

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@Gliz9 said:

So bring in the movie guy to do video games, yeah alright.

Alex has been doing video games longer than movies, he has strong knowledge in both, son.

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@Feigr said:

Complaining that the game has story is the most pathetic bullshit critique of a game I have ever heard. I guess it wasn't being ironic enough for Alex, who hasn't been able to like anything in a non-ironic way for many many years it seems.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that he was mostly joking about it. You know, as is done at WM. I'd be incredulous too if I came into this game blind and saw Middle East warzones and sledgehammers and Duke-esque hooker jokes.

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Is it just me who can't hear the ingame voice? I can hear the music, the commentary, the monsters shouting and nothing else.

Same.
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@Gliz9: Well he did review games for years before, and I'd assume he continues to play games. Since he's reviewing movies, it's not like his review skills have went away.

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My god Alex is terrible at this game.

And they really should have learned what the name of the game was before doing this video.

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@Dezztroy said:

@Abendlaender said:

Man, this game looks so disappointing...

No humor? "Serious" Story? You have to reload your pistol? I don't know...I really, really don't know

On the bright side: Alex, yay

There's plenty of humor. The story is not "serious". You've always had to reload your pistol in Serious Sam.

People acting like they know about shit, it makes me laugh.

Every review I've read about the game said that there is almost no humor in it and that the story is trying way to hard to be serious.

I was wrong about the pistol, actually the pistol was the only weapon you've ever had to reload in a SS game, so joke on me I guess. Sorry.

But I just don't feel this game and the more I read about it, and the more I see about it I feel less and less convinced that I should buy it

PS:Sorry I sent you a PN, was a misstake

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@teh_destroyer: Well my good sir, then he is a fine man to quick look this game.

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so that happened...

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I just know that so many people will criticise alex for how bad he seemingly is at the game, and get all angry that hes not representing the game well, but I would argue that infact he is representing the game pretty well, that game look toughh as, you have a few shots in the pistol before you have to RELOAD (honestly, reloading in serious sam shouldnt be allowed) and completely expose yourself, alex shouldnt get so caught up about thinking hes bad at the game, he showed it off pretty well tbh, well enough to show me I do not want to buy that game. Job done. Nice one alex :)

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I really dislike alex.

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@Feigr: Stop being so rude, he is providing a quick look into a game - no need to criticize him personally or any of his issues. This is not related to games. You are not forced to watch the video, stop being a douchebag to those who are providing this service to you.

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Alex: " Theres no shooting in the begining of this Samious sam!! Whats the point!!! I KNOW EVERYTHING.. This IS Blasphemy!..

Oh yeah... I suck at shooters.." end of quicklook.

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Not sure if anyone is aware but that thing happened.

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So, there's that.

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Just me or is Alex insanely twitchy with the mouse? almost hurts to watch =/

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I bought the game and i think its pretty good so far, i'm about 5 levels in and the game has really picked up the pace with enemies and weapon types, pretty happy with my purchase.

If you liked the previous Serious Sam games then theres no reason not to try this game, there are much better quick looks / lets plays on youtube :)

Alex Navarro clearly isnt very good at this style of game, even worse than i am and thats saying something :)

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...Alex is really bad in this quicklook, and him calling Undercode's made-for-serious sam music "bad dethklok" is...There are no words...

I do love the fact that Croteam got Undercode back though. Can't wait for the immense boss music.

Edit: He just called the music itself terrible. That's it, Alex's opinion about serious sam games are no longer valid for public use.

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Man I really cannot stand Alex, I was so happy when I heard he was moving. So unfortunate that he's still so involved.

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Alex Navarro... So there's that...

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WHERE IS VINCENT.

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This doesn't seem great which is a shame considering how good the first one was.

Also, Alex you might improve your PC fps play by adjusting your mouse sensitivity. It's way too high for you if you keep moving the cursor past targets you are trying to hit or rather use side steps to aim.

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@Goldenroad said:

I just know that so many people will criticise alex for how bad he seemingly is at the game, and get all angry that hes not representing the game well, but I would argue that infact he is representing the game pretty well, that game look toughh as, you have a few shots in the pistol before you have to RELOAD (honestly, reloading in serious sam shouldnt be allowed) and completely expose yourself, alex shouldnt get so caught up about thinking hes bad at the game, he showed it off pretty well tbh, well enough to show me I do not want to buy that game. Job done. Nice one alex :)

Serious Sam has had reloading weapons since the first game, you know.

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Kudos for not charging me a monthly fee to see HD videos hosted on youtube! I like the look of this game, this is probably how DNF SHOULD have been. I hope that Vsync actually works in the final product, though. I didn't buy a PC to see shit chop like it's some shitty 360 game.

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So what happened? Oh that. Evidently that happened.

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@Gliz9: Alex worked at Gamespot alongwith Jeff, Ryan, Brad & Vinny for a number of years. He is more than qualified when it comes to video games.