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Here's How to Make Serious Sam 3: BFE Look Extra Apocalyptic

Or less, if you're against that whole "coughing blood" thing.

Dec. 2 2011

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Serious Sam 3: BFE

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Looks alright.

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Rich Knuckles, I hate you.

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Croteam is the Andy Kaufmann of the video game developer world.

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Vivid is what the game should look like normally.

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I hate every thing about the announcer in this video

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god why does this man have to be so incessantly annoying? better question...why has no one strangled him yet?

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@Fozimuth said:

Vivid is what the game should look like normally.

This is truth.

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Edited By Moody_yeti

Good grief.

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Nvidia might, maybe have a reason to put out a video like this to show people how to work the control panel.

If a game developer feels the need to showcase their graphics options menu for lack of anything more interesting to tout, they've got other things to worry about.

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The way he pronounces "noir" makes me angry. Also, I don't see those presets adding anything, but I guess, good for them for putting them there?

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Oh man... I wish L.A. Noire had more Rocket Launchers.

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That dude was actually pretty funny. I chuckled at the L.A. Noire jab.

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The LA Noir ribbing was actually kind of funny.

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Oh. It's meant to be ironic right?

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You have to give credit to Croteam for making a trailer about the options menu

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@onan said:

Nvidia might, maybe have a reason to put out a video like this to show people how to work the control panel.

If a game developer feels the need to showcase their graphics options menu for lack of anything more interesting to tout, they've got other things to worry about.

So I see you didn't get the joke.
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What the fuck is "Nore?"

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@Fozimuth said:

Vivid is what the game should look like normally.

Yeah I was just about to say that Vivid looks like what the old Sam games looked like palette-wise. Good thing there's the option I suppose.

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Ok.... doesn't make the game better.

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Vivid seems right.

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Hit the tagline, Jeff.

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@theuselessgod said:

@Fozimuth said:

Vivid is what the game should look like normally.

This is truth.

This is as well.

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@drowsap said:

I hate every thing about the announcer in this video

Then why do you love him?
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Edited By Lazyaza

If only more games had options like these, I could make Fear 2; a game that was way too colorful, more desaturated as is far more suiting of its bleak dark tone and stuff like GTA4 which was god damn horrifically brown and needed color desperately so a vivid setting would have done wonders.

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Some dude just talked to me about the brightness and contrast settings in a videogame for almost three minutes.

I lead a strange life.

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Edited By captain_clayman

vivid looks awesome :D

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Edited By Klei

As stupid as this vid can be to some, it actually made my game look 3x times better. I absolutely dreaded the super realist look of Serious Sam 3, but with the vivid colors option, now it actually looks like a Serious Sam game, and I enjoy it much more.
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@zaglis said:

@onan said:

Nvidia might, maybe have a reason to put out a video like this to show people how to work the control panel.

If a game developer feels the need to showcase their graphics options menu for lack of anything more interesting to tout, they've got other things to worry about.

So I see you didn't get the joke.

I guess not. I'm also not spending the $40 they're asking for this game, so hopefully that sense of satisfaction is enough for them.

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Edited By jacksukeru

I wish more games had a vivid option, I'm a sucker for bright and colourful games.

Also it's not "nor" it's "no-are".

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I think it's actually pretty cool that they've included something like this. I'm not sure that it really needed to be a Rich Knuckles trailer, but good on them though for writing jokes about colour correction though =|

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No colours anymore I want them to turn...?

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Jeeze, did they hire Mr. Caffeine to do this?

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Is this guy Croatian?

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@Knigge: I believe he was a man fairly popular years ago, a feller you may call a hip-hopper or a rap man. Either that or it's an old old wooden ship used by the Spanish to colonize America.

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literally the most pointless video god that was a waist of time

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Edited By scottygrayskull

I can't see using anything but vivid for that classic Serious Sam feel, but it's nice of them to include the options.

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Yeah, who hasn't played LA NOR, I mean nor films are so interesting to watch. I'm glad I can give SS3 a nor color scheme

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I thought the video was funny. The jokes were quick enough not to be annoying if they were bad (but most weren't) and the videos main point was still clear. Love Croteam for all the options.

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Croteam has probrably the best PR in the industry by far.

Oh and the game is amazing too :P

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You damn Europeans need to shut up.

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@Lazyaza: Dunno if you have the PC version of GTA4 or not, but on the PC they do come with the option to increase color saturation and such, and actually can make GTA4 look a lot like the previous GTA games in terms of colors.

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Rich Knuckles is right, I did wish LA Noir had more rocket launchers.

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@siblers said:

Rich Knuckles, I hate you.

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Edited By Tordah

I was wondering why the game didn't look quite right. Vivid is definitely more in line with the previous SS games, and thus the way to go.

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I feel like they recruited the guys who did You Don't Know Jack onto their marketing team.

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They should've done black and white with red only.

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Next week he is going to make a video about how you can change the controls, including any key on the keyboard!

In all seriousness though, what was the point of this video and why is it on Giant Bomb? He was not funny. I do not think he could have picked a worse subject to try, and fail, to be funny about. The writing was especially poor. He acknowledged at the beginning of the video that he was saying "options" too much and then goes on to do it everywhere else with other phrases.

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They should totally have a trailer about the advanced performance options in the game to show that these guys are one of the last few developers to give a shit about their PC fanbase.