Serious Sam 3: BFE

Game Info

Serious Sam 3: BFE is a first-person action shooter, a glorious throwback to the golden age of first-person shooters where men were men, cover was for amateurs and pulling the trigger made things go boom. Serving as a prequel to the original game, Serious Sam: The First Encounter, Serious Sam 3 takes place during the Earth’s final struggle against Mental’s invading legions of beasts and mercenaries.

Name

Serious Sam 3: BFE

Companies

Croteam

Released

11/22/2011

Platforms

Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

Engines

Serious Engine

Type

Shooter, Puzzle, Indie

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Monday, November 18, 2024 8:28:17 PM

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PurplePike

Steam user

PurplePike is currently in a padded room muttering to himself. The following journal entries were found in his room this morning.
--Ybrik66

When I was younger I got this game; the name of it was Serious Sam 3. I tried to play it when I was younger, but for whatever reason I never truly got into it. As I am on a mission to clear out my Steam backlog, sooner or later it would come up, and I would find out for myself why I could not delve into this game, if there were any reason at all. Serious Mode, New Game. Let's go.
DAY 1
As I venture through the first few through levels I instinctively glide through them like a fish through water. One might feel nostalgia when playing a game from their earlier years, but I did not feel such. I more felt... confusion, like one trapped in a maze. Why was it that the glory kills don't give you any benefit, but rather put you in a state of vulnerability and danger? Why was the helicopter so hard to hit with the rocket launcher, despite the fact the enemy itself had goddamn hitscan? Why does this game have terrific graphics, but such lame environments? Regardless, I think I'm on the last level I completed before I quit - I'll leave it off here for today.
DAY 2
What the fuck is this shit? Slowly it's all coming back to me, but I didn't think it'd be this...uncanny. While the first few levels were a somewhat-tactical shooter experience, all of a sudden I'm getting spammed with common enemies, spammed with big enemies, spam after spam after spam... Corridors of spam, followed by corridors of more spam; just when the last of the spam falls the next wave begins, spam spam spam... The skeletons. I thought they were a special enemy! Now they send them in droves. Spam, spam, spam...
DAY 3
I've finally reached new territory. Though my learning is gradual, I am progressively unraveling what it is this game is - why it is, that you have infinite range and perfect accuracy, why it is the enemy waves never ends, why it is that this game eluded me for so long! This game is to dig to the center of the earth, then off to the other side. This game is to dive into the tunnel you created, newly confounded by its labyrinthine design and similar walls and turns. This is not a game in which one is to have fun, but rather for one to smash their heads against, over and over and over and over, spam after spam after spam after spam, again and again and again and again in an unending rhythm of monotony and boredom, monotony and boredom, monotony and... I think I'm nearing the end of the game. The end is near. The end is near. One level left. One level left...
DAY 4
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INSTANT DEATH DOG SHIT MISCOMMUNICATION MISUNDERSTANDING MISUNDERSTANDING BORING REPETITIVE UNINTERESTING ASININE DIVINE STUPID SPAM BLAST, KLEER HITSCAN EGYPTIAN COIN ACQUISITION MONKEYS IN THE DARK CAVES OF MY ASS IN THIS MAZE OF INFINITY AND I AM THE MAZE RAT IN THE LABYRINTHINE CORRIDORS OF THE BLIND! SERIOUS SAM 3! SERIOUS SAM 3! SERIOUS SAM 3!!!
DAY 5
I love Serious Sam 3.
I love Serious Sam 3. :)

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Storyline

Prior to AD 2060, humanity had slowly begun uncovering artifacts and ruins left behind in ancient times by the Sirians, the famous and long-thought extinct race from the place of Sirius. Unfortunately, Mental has chosen this time to turn his attention upon Earth. He dispatches his space fleet carrying his endless hordes to attack Earth, leading a three-year conquest that has humanity driven almost to the point of extinction. In a last-ditch effort, the survivors turn to the Time-Lock, a recently excavated device supposedly capable of granting a single person the ability of time travel via an inter-dimensional portal. Through it, that person could reach a pivotal point in time and alter events of the past. But as the device lies dormant, they must first discover a means to turn it on. Sam "Serious" Stone, part of the Earth Defense force, is dispatched with a detachment of soldiers in the Alpha team to modern Egypt, which is occupied by Mental's alien army. Their original mission is to recon, rendezvous, and extract Bravo team who are protecting Dr Stein, a scientist carrying hieroglyphics believed to contain instructions for powering up the Time-Lock. Sam's insertion goes haywire as his chopper is shot down and both teams are quickly wiped out. However, he is able to recover the hieroglyphics from Stein's phone in the museum and transmit them to headquarters. Deciphering indicates there is a hidden Sirian chamber below the Great Pyramid. Sam clears himself a path to a tunnel underneath the Sphinx and descends into the Pyramid. He not only discovers the hidden chamber but recovers crucial information and a bracelet device from the remains of what might have been Earth's last Sirian. In order to power the Time-Lock, two dormant but incredibly powerful plasma-energy generators need to be activated. Hellfire from Charlie team inserts Sam to bring both online. This is slowly accomplished and Team Charlie is staged to enter the Time-Lock. Sam is relieved of duty and in the process of being extracted from Cairo, but is shot down once again and is forced to flee towards the lost ruins of Nubia. Traversing through more tombs, Sam gets back in touch with Hellfire and learns that Mental's forces have overrun the human military and killed them all shortly before dying herself. Now determined to finish what the Sirians has started, Sam vows to use the Time-Lock himself and kill Mental in the past before he can destroy humanity in the present. Sam then makes one last travel to Hatshepsut Temple, where the Time-Lock is located. The struggle to this destination ends with Sam killing Ugh-Zan IV. With Ugh-Zan IV dead, the Time-Lock then activates, displaying an inter-dimensional portal to 3000 B.C., the timeline where the Sirians became extinct. Sam calls Mental on Stein's phone and is answered by Mental's daughter, Judy. She tells him that Mental is planning to "moon" him. Sam notices the Moon plummeting rapidly within Earth's atmosphere and escapes through the Time-Lock to 3000 B.C. as the Moon impacts Earth, destroying the planet.

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