Originally Posted by GuardianE But it says "owners".

They assume you will buy it after playing for a few minutes, while most will wait until the free trial is over. If there even is one.

"Even more on Monday" would lead me to believe the Steam summer sale starts this weekend, and Serious Sam HD is going to be one of the daily deals on Monday.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/92000/

Hydrophobia: Prophecy
75% off. $3.00

Originally Posted by namster1337 http://store.steampowered.com/app/92000/ Hydrophobia: Prophecy 75% off. $3.00

Anyone have any kind words for this one? Looks like it might be a decent game.

Originally Posted by Hydro2Oxide Anyone have any kind words for this one? Looks like it might be a decent game.

I got it for $5 on XBLA and was satisfied. Its decent.

Originally Posted by Hydro2Oxide Anyone have any kind words for this one? Looks like it might be a decent game.

Kinda wondering the same thing.

Midweek madness says it's ending 6 hours earlier than normal (!)

That said, the counter seems to be running the normal amount of time, ending at 4pm pacific

Any opinions on Blue Toad? Says it's 1-4 players co-op. Is it fun if you play single player?

Originally Posted by Hydro2Oxide Anyone have any kind words for this one? Looks like it might be a decent game.

I also got it for 400 points on XBLA. It was okay for that price. $3.00 is certainly fair.

Hydrophobia looks kinda cool. Especially since the devs put out a lot of updates and revised versions to try and fix it up.

That was a fast price drop.

Hydrophobia looks pretty decent for that price, might grab it. I hope the summer sale starts in two days....

Rock, Paper, Shotgun had some less than stellar things to say about Hydrophobia. Worth a read before buying so you know what you're getting.

Originally Posted by Sinsarmor quote from devolver digital, the creators of the serious sam games - "This weekend there will be a whole bunch of new Serious Sam HD owners on Steam. Even more on Monday. #SeriousFireworks" http://twitter.com/#!/devolverdigital well somethings coming i just hope what ever it is was worth the wait

Sounds like the Summer Sale will start Thurs/Friday (where almost all prices are slashed) with SSHD being a daily deal on Monday for an extreme 90% discount. To the guy who said 'free weekend,' they aren't going to do a free weekend promo on SSHD...

Originally Posted by utopianmachine Any opinions on Blue Toad? Says it's 1-4 players co-op. Is it fun if you play single player?

Eh, it's an extremely casual/easy puzzle solver. If I recall right it was even cheaper during the Holiday sale (around $2) -- even if you're interested you're still better off waiting.

I'm about an hour or so into Hydrophobia and I think it's almost worth $3. It's woefully underpolished and has weak craftsmanship. The water looks like gelatin but still flows back and forth in a weighty manner. The developers have been behaving bizarrely since the XBLA original release, never quite managing to approximate normal human behavior.

Checked the FAQ for the XBLA version and it appears I'm at the 40%-ish mark and have only just seen the barest flecks of combat. The whirrr-blast charge up of the basic ammo is a satisfying mechanic.

I can't really decide if I like it. The basic level design, pacing, graphical style, plot... pretty much all of the intangibles... they just aren't anything special, but the crunch still isn't bad. It's not a waste of time...

It's hard to describe. I'd put it like eating at McDonalds, for their Chicken McNuggets or their Sausage and Egg McMuffins. They aren't made well. They're cheap. But they have that certain texture that is satisfying, that makes them nice to eat now and again, but certainly as a rarity.

EDIT: Serious Sam HD is decent but gets boring fast. Calling it an "old-school" shooter is a misnomer. Doom and Duke and Dark Forces never ground the game to a halt to fight 100 of the same enemy.

And then later for 120.

And then again.

And then 150.

And then again.

Well from what I've heard Hydrophobia is only about four or five hours long at most.

Originally Posted by RollingSkull EDIT: Serious Sam HD is decent but gets boring fast. Calling it an "old-school" shooter is a misnomer. Doom and Duke and Dark Forces never ground the game to a halt to fight 100 of the same enemy. And then later for 120. And then again. And then 150. And then again.

If fighting huge numbers of enemies is something that brings a game to a "halt" for you, Serious Sam probably isn't your game. Most fans love SS because of those enemy counts.

Perhaps they should insist on better basic gameplay fundamentals and pacing rather than being wowed by simple numbers. As it stands, comparing Serious Sam to the "classics" is an insult to the latter.

Well from what I've heard Hydrophobia is only about four or five hours long at most.

I think 5 hours is a stretch by most measures. Reviewers quote 3-4 more often than 5.

As it stands though, I think the point is you can't expect that, just because it is short, it is tightly packed like an arcade game. It's 3-4 hours with the same sort of fluff you can expect from standard games.

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I've always felt Serious Sam was pretty good. It's not the kind of game you play if you're looking for depth, you pick it up because you want to shoot hordes of crazy enemies for a while.

If you really want to see the the full potential of it, use a cheat code and skip ahead to the last couple levels. Hundreds of enemies relentlessly swarming at you in a massive arena, wave after wave of them forcing you to use every weapon in your arsenal as you slowly run out of ammo and health... If that doesn't appeal to you, you're probably not in the game's target audience. Personally, I will probably jump at the sound of skeleton hooves and distant screaming for the rest of my life.

$3 for four to five hours of entertainment seems fair enough to me. I bit on it. :p

Originally Posted by RollingSkull Perhaps they should insist on better basic gameplay fundamentals and pacing rather than being wowed by simple numbers. As it stands, comparing Serious Sam to the "classics" is an insult to the latter.

I've always considered SS to be a game that got the core shooting gameplay spot on. Otherwise, the enemy counts would make for a pretty crappy game. But hey, to each their own.