Big shout out to FrameRater for helping me get this thing working on a Dolphin emulator. Check out his channel here: kzfaq.info/love/CgG9KExe3OEOLcHO4z1B3g

The flame thrower have a third ammo type: laughting gas.

This was “Seriously” my first FPS that I played. I played this when I was 6. My parents rented it from Blockbuster.

The minigun that always hits it's target, no matter where you aim, reminds of the gun Gary Oldman showed off in The Fifth Element. Great Movie

The thing I really liked about Serious Sam, particularly the second encounter is it felt like you were having a tidal wave of enemies coming your way and you had to stem the tide and you were given crazy weapons like the cannon to deal wit the threat. I haven't played many games like that, not even Doom

Seriously, there's so much they could use from this version that I'm dissapointed they haven't. It's probably my favorite Sam game and I'm glad it's getting some recognition.

16:57-17:09 Im honestly supprised you didnt mention that serious sam's guns also work better and worse against certain enemys. To give you an example the best way to kill a single kleer is with the doublebarrel shotgun. However if there are a bunch of smaller enemys the normal shotgun or the m4 will might a better option. The enemys you fight, the ammount of enemys, the environment, the weapons you have at your desposal all have an influence on how successfully you fight your enemy. Fighting enemys in serious sam is like a puzzle where you have to find out which gun(s) are best for each situation and which enemy you have to shoot first.

“Calm down nintendo fanboys a GameCube controller doesn’t belong in a museum... belongs in the trash” Gman continues to be my favorite youtuber

Brings to mind a certain _"Greetings everyone!"_ Dutchman

Next Encounter was my favorite from the unofficial original trilogy. I remember when I first got to Atlantis. I'm still blown away by the entire design of the Atlantis section. The ambience, the soundtrack, the insane vast architecture and surreal skyboxes. Lots of nostalgia coming back.

yaaaay, Framerater got a shoutout :D Feels like he was trying to get your attention sometimes :P

"PS2 controller it's a natural beauty, it's the Jennifer Connelly of videogame controllers" - Gmanlives, 2020 And goddamn, I agree.

"Ah, a Roman colosseum, I met my first wife in a Roman colosseum... it's a shame what happened to her"

I always thought the Harpies in Serious Sam: Next Encounter looked like a version of Aphex Twins warped, wrap around face.

The only Serious Sam game I have is on the Xbox. It just says Serious Sam, so I assume it's a port of the original.

The Hippy blood mode saved me as a kid, my mum came to check on me playing this after she bought it me (the UK boxart was cartoonish so she had nooooo idea how violent it was) and i managed to quickly changed the gore mode to be flowers instead of blood hahah, good times

I think the repetitiveness factor is what made me like Serious Sam 2. The game is about 300 hours long yes, but I really have to compliment how many different places you have to go through, which also most of the time have unique enemies to fit the setting. Most of the cases they work as just reskins from existing classic enemies but still

I remember getting this at my local pawn shop back in the day and already being a serious sam fan, I really enjoyed it.

I Love Serious Sam So much. It breaks my heart that SS4 isn't on console on release

I loved this game. I kind of sucked at it from what I remember, got my ass handed to me a ton of times, but I kept coming back to it.

Dude, your writing and narration just gets better and better with each upload. Informative, and the punch lines had me curling over ahahaha. Keep it up, friend!

I don’t know if I’d say serious sam has a repetition problem as in even for a video game, but I never played this one, the others aren’t so bad as that sounds, doom 4/2016 had a serious (no pun intended) repetition problem where especially after half way through, all of the fights are pretty much exactly the same, where there’s very little variety in enemy placement, it is literally walk into an arena then all of the enemies spawn in size order, over and over and over until the final boss. Serious sam certainly puts more thought into enemy placement but you’re so right about half of the enemies being some of the most annoying enemies ever made! (Kleers, harpies, toads, lizard people etc)

10:45 Mouse cursor on the right reminds me when teachers failed to move the cursor out of the way when watching a DVD.

2:40 Correction: This game is heavily based on the Xbox port of Serious Sam. The menu is the same, but blue. Sam's model is the same. And there are pre-rendered cutscenes like in the Xbox port. Makes me wonder why this game wasn't on Xbox. This would have probably been EVEN better on the Xbox.

How come we still don’t have a Dead Space review by our true sonny jim.

gamecube version is way better. even on the console itself. the fact that you get 60fps alone is reason is enough.

Love your videos! You manage to make me interested in games I wouldn’t normally bat an eye at, like Serious Sam. But you make it seems incredibly fun!

Serious Sam really is a unique flavor of FPS. I've only played TFE and TSE, but a lot of this seems to apply here as well. I can rarely play more than one level without taking a break, and I'm honestly glad the games are as short as they are. Still though, it's definitely entertaining. Killing the very last enemy in a huge arena after tens of waves of hundreds of enemies each really is an amazing feeling. These games really straddle the line between tedious and absolutely kick-ass, and I'm glad I've gotten to play them.

4:17. No it's just an Aphex Twin reference. :D

Gmanlives is probably the only youtuber that genuinely makes me laugh. His jokes are precious

I've been watching your reviews for the last 3 and a half hours and I completely lost rack of time. They are just so informative and entertaining. The best reviewer on youtube in my opinion.

I played First Encounter and Second Encounter when they came out, but this was the first Sam game I owned myself and beat 100% (Gamecube). It's the game that really made me fall in love with the Serious Sam series. I would love to see a remastered high-def version on Steam. Edit: Where GmanLIves clearly hates this game because "Newer is Better", Serious Sam fans will love this game. Serious For Life!

Many thanks for making another video about this Gem of a franchise

Gman! Thanks for covering this. I rented it from blockbuster back in the day. I had to ebay the PS2 version a couple of years ago. I think I played and own every version except the gamecube. Sick games. Keep up the good work.

I watched the whole video G, I liked it so much!

Holy crap! I forgot about this Serious Sam, I loved it as a kid! Thank you for reminding me about this gem

1:18 GmanLives when roasting the Gamecube controller

10:31 Thanks for the shout out Gman

Awesome review! This was the first FPS game I ever played since I was like 5, lol. I always wished more people knew about this particular SS game.

Thanks GMan for providing me with another awesome gaming KZfaqr to watch.

the cartoon look started with SS gold and the xbox version of SS, which were basically first and second encounter in one continuous game with added cutscenes.

I remember this being the first shooter I ever played and being completely in love with it... Serious Sam is total badass.

I remember renting this as a kid for PS2. Great spin-off!

Oh damn shoutout to frame hell yeah. Been subbed to that dude for years.

The harpies look like they got the Aphex Twin treatment.

This is the one with split screen multiplayer right? I remember playing with a friend on his console long time ago, good old childhood times!!

1:28 isn't that the Spongebob game with the NSFW pictures of Patrick and Spongebob boning each other and making ahegao faces?

My Introduction to the Sam Franchise and one of my favorite

Love your videos!! Keep going!!

thanks mate gotta check it out

AWESOME I'm so glad you did this review of SS franchise!! GOOD ONE!!!

Reviewing GmanLive's "Seriously" underrated KZfaq videos.

A long time ago my dad found a discarded ps2 with a box full of games & took it home for me and my little brother to play. And the first game we popped in was the Next Encounter and we've been fans of the series ever since.

NO WAY Serious Sam 1, the xbox version, was what i GREW UP WITH, I was so sad when I played the game on steam it didnt have the cutscenes or any of the other charm, even though I still loved it! This game was also really good and I remember playing it, I love that hud, it brings back so many memories! Seeing you do a review of it is so out of left field but so amazing! Keep it up!

This was my first Serious Sam. I've loved the games since.

11:49 This is what i've noticed with almost all games ever made. Psychonauts break this very well with the starting area and main hub being large areas of cliffs and hills with many houses and tree house like platforms to walk up and down on. Especially with the ball physics you get later. Otherwise I miss a lot of verticality in games. Haven't you ever played a game like TF2 as the Demoman and just thought "I wish there was a downward streets I could just let my grenades roll down of" I did this in Battlefield Heroes with a barrel when it still existed and it was hilarious and fun.

That diss on the GameCube controller doe, had to replay a few times. Had me rollin’

Serious Sam is like the Dynasty Warriors of FPS games.

7:33 HEY! How DARE you talk shit about the grenade launcher! TAKE THAT BACK!

Played this in co-op with a friend back in the day on the ps2, good times.

A childhood not many experienced, I loved the first 2 games

Part of the fun of SS is finding the secrets. Other than that it gets repetitive like you mentioned at the end. Would really be cool if Croteam does the “certain weapons work well with certain enemies” trick

This is my first Sam game. It's fun in Co-Op as you if one of you die during a boss fight, then the boss bar doesn't reset.

First of all, I respect that you don't like certain aspects of Serious Sam which is perfectly fine. I just want to explain my opinion of Serious Sam's map designs you went over at (15:02). I think the smaller and narrower maps help make Serious Sam more fun. The large wide-open maps are fun don't get me wrong, but it kinda gets old after a while due to repetition and giving the player alot of space to move making it way too easy to survive waves of enemies.

This was my first Serious Sam game I ever played via GameCube, I loved this game.

Who else is hyped for Serious Sam 4 this month?

The first serious sam game I played. Got it in my 11th birthday. I loved it. It was fun. I played the first encounter later on. I can honestly say, the next encounter perfected the first encounter. More balanced, the alternative ammunition was amazing, no overdone segments, the boss fights. The weapons were definitely improvements, minus the grenade launcher. All the time periods had great artwork and atmosphere, especially in the later stages in Atlantic and space. I played 2 and 3 and they don't hold in comparison. You don't feel the soul, it honestly just feels like it's slapped together.

The GameCube controller is really ergonomic and is an amazing controller... for games designed around it. It's pretty over specialized for the diets of games Nintendo was making at the time and doesn't work well as a general purpose gamepad, which definitely caused some issues for multiplats.

I loved playing this game with my best friends back in the day, I'm tempted to buy the game cube version so I can play it again

Serious Sam: the game franchise that gets crazier and weirder every sequel.

When I was 4 years old I played this game a fuck ton, dont get me wrong i didnt get past like lvl 4 or something considering I was 4 years old, and recently I tried to find this game and I finally did. The sound effects give me so much nostalgia 😭

Next encounter was my first Serious Sam game 🤣 me and my brothers loved this game so much

16:58 In Serious Sam, every weapon has a purpose. If you try to use the double barreled shotgun against everything, you will die. 1 pistol bullet, or Tommy bullet, to stagger the kamikaze enemies. This way, you can create distance between you and them. A 2nd bullet kills them. The missiles of the Major Bio-mechanoid can be destroyed if you shoot them. In that case, you can use the pistol, Tommy or Minigun for that, but the Tommy is the best for that to avoid wasting ammo, etc. Besides, since when taking away the control of the player during fights (glory kills and chainsaw kills) is considered an evolution? Doom 1 and 2 were never about arenas and moments that took control away from you, which is worse in Eternal because those are more frequent and forced than 2016.

I've still got my copy. This game was awesome.

Got this as a gift when i was 9 at the equivalent of a dollarstore, i played the sh!t out of this, and it was my introduction to the Serious Sam series, i love this game to death, i hope Croteam buys this game from Climax Studios and do a HD remaster for all current platforms, it truly deserves some recognition.

They need to make a compilation of all the games and release on console....charge 60$ and take my money.

17:00 Have you still not realized how Serious Sam works? Aside from the 2nd game and this one, Serious Sam really expects you to change weapons for the situation. Basic shotgun for the beheaded folks (including kamikazes and the humanoids with heads in SS3/4), double shotgun for Kleers when they're close enough, knife/sledgehammer for Gnaars, 1 rocket for Bio Mechanoid minors, 3 rockets for the green/small Aludran Reptiloids (5 rockets in this game tho), Chaingun/XL2 Lasergun/Serious Cannon when things get too serious and 4 rockets for the big hitscan scorpion bastards, 2 rockets/close double shotgun blasts (except in this game and Serious Sam 4, where you can oneshot the werebulls when they're close enough with the double shotgun) for the werebulls, and more.

I loved this game, I would play this with my cousins back then. I still play on dolphin emulator and also have a physical copy.

I used to play this so much on the game cube with my father

Decino, Jarek and now you? This game won't be forgotten after all

I never expected Gman to shoutout Frame Rater

i cannot believe i finally found the one serious game i played most after losing it to time for many many years

This was a classic. I owned this game on PS2. I feel old. My first FPS was doom from like age 3 lol

I was actually beta testing a mod remake of the first few levels of this a while back. NE may not be Croteam game but it's a solid Serious Sam game.

I still have this game for my ps2 aswell

god i loved these games as a kid

cool i had this on gamecube just supported u

Been waiting so long for someone to bring this gem up Edit: It'll be difficult since this one is original xbox only, but you should try and check out Serious Sam. It uses the same cartoony artstyle and combines both the first and second encounter, all while adding new secrets and features.

My first Sam game was this one, such fond memories

The mini guns are the best weapons because it always hits its target.

I had some amount of fun with it back when I only had a GC and N64, needed a friends help in co-op to beat the final boss though. I think I sold my copy eventually but I do have a PS2 copy I bought years ago. never found the secret combine, maybe one day I'll play it again, shame they can't put it on steam.

I loved this game. I bought it for the Ps2 originally. Sold that copy and recently picked up the superior Gamecube port.

this was so good especially splitscreen co-op, best game in series.

This was a random rent one day when I was looking for some new PS2 games to play. Me and my brother played the shit out of the coop mode! Underrated classic imo

You actually touched a point I don't think fans of the series hate, but actually overlook. It DOES get boring after a long session. I can never complete any of the games in one sitting. It took me a week to finish SS2, and SS3... I don't think I even got out of Egypt!

Was such a treat to play

13:15 Is it you, Aphex Twin?

JAREK THE GAMING DRAGON also did a great video on this quite recently

I used to play this all the time on gamecube when i was a kid

Nice editing when you said "It's like jumping into a swimming pool and then complaining about getting wet" and Sam jumps backwards into water as you say it