Next to that giant, many, many games fall short but SS4 isn’t even in the running. The shadow from Doom (2016) was already daunting but then Eternal somehow still managed to beat the odds and take it further. There is a complete lack of innovation or interesting development, either in the story or the gameplay, and might I remind you Doom Eternal came out this year. Instead it’s stale and completely outdated from the very first level. Serious Sam 4, on the other hand, is nothing like that. It makes everything seem fresh and the sheer volume of enemies, something the series is particularly famous for, feels even more exaggerated when you’re actually standing there, face-to-face with the onslaught. Originally titled Serious Sam: Planet Badass, I wonder if they were worried people would think it was just a spin-off, or a VR collection where the franchise has found some success in the last couple of years – and with good reason! Mowing down fields of aliens coming from all angles with a massive array of explosive weaponry is an awesome time in VR. Please support our page theGeek.games on Patreon, so we can continue to write you the latest gaming, movie and tech news and reviews as an independent magazine.After nine years, Croteam are back with a new main-line Serious Sam game. An adventure that already showed its playability with an action-packed gameplay trailer during the Devolver Direct, and that recently offered us another look with a video loaded with shots, explosions and a Papamovil mecha. This is nothing short of curiosity, of course, and Serious Sam 4 will continue to offer a planet full of tough guys and explosive combat when it debuts on PC and Stadia on September 24. of tough guys (Planet Badass) in the most literal sense.Īnd this cannot be translated as is to the rest of languages, as Lucic explained. Lucic explained that since Serious Sam 4 takes place during the beginning of an alien invasion on Earth, the only people who have not been enslaved and are still fighting are “badasses”, which makes their setting a planet. I guess it’s the same as with any pun, it only works in its original form.”Īpparently, the name ‘Planet Badass’ had a relationship with the plot, beyond being a name with grace. “ In speaking with the teams, we concluded that translating Planet Badass while keeping the original idea of the name is practically impossible. “ We are going to localize Serious Sam 4 to multiple languages,” Daniel Lucic, Croteam’s communications manager, tells Kotaku. It was something so simple, that its developers did not know how to translate it. Still, the reason for his withdrawal was not this. „ Translating Planet Badass keeping the original idea is impossible” – Daniel Lucic, Croteam In fact, the user comments, there was a person who dedicated himself to spamming day in and day out with an image of Randy Pitchford wearing glasses with the message “Badass” printed on it, asking for the name to be withdrawn. Apparently, the nickname ‘Planet Badass’ did not finish curdling among some fans, who saw it as a “silly” name and showed their complaints constantly on Croteam‘s Discord server. On the game’s Steam page, and according to Kotaku, a user explains one of the possibilities. What is the reason? Before anyone thinks of possible censorship or the like, the truth is that it is a very different reason.īattleborn booth at PAX East – we’re giving away Badass glasses to the first players each day. A title that, when it was announced a few years ago, had the name of ‘ Serious Sam 4: Planet Badass ‘, but which has now removed the subtitle for its final release. Serious Sam 4 is hitting stores this month, ready to dish out shots and explosions equally.
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