Posted on 08/13/2014 at 05:37 AM
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Well, I mean I did just write a whole article lamenting the state of modern FPS and reminiscing of old, but in terms of actual nostalgia nothing can beat my first real FPS experience with Serious Sam.
I was nine years of age when I bought a copy of the Australian version of PC gamer - because demos bitches! This issue in particular only had one demo and it was for Serious Sam. And damn, it was a big demo. I remember it showed an earlier level. It was more enclosed and similar to what we were used to. Then I jumped over to the other level, and my mind was blown.
The level was HUGE! Like scary big for the time, and there were seemingly millions of enemies all coming for me at once. As a kid, I had nightmares about the screams of the kamikazes. I fucking hated those enemies. But me and my brother used to try and see if we could beat each others high scores on that level on hard. We never made it very far, but holy damn it was fun watching each other play and laughing our asses off and swearing in frustration.
You just don't get moments of sheer tension like you did in that game. You know those moments where you barely dodge a kleer skeleton, blow it to bits with a double barrel shotgun then turn around and have 7 kamikazes all bearing down on you while you frantically switch to an automatic weapon and try and backpedal, sidestrafe, and shoot your way to safety.
Ah... that game was awesome.