The History of Serious Sam | Unofficial Documentary (1996 - 2005)

[@supersmashbro596]

let's be honest: john j dick is a legend for being the voice of sam over the years.

[@lampovyurge]

Wow, I didn't know just HOW badly I needed a 40 min retrospective of the Serious Sam series in my life until I saw this. So glad to have found your channel!

[@doritorancho4735]

30 minutes and 32 seconds

[@lampovyurge]

@@doritorancho4735 just rounding up

[@doritorancho4735]

@@lampovyurge Nice pfp btw

[@lampovyurge]

@@doritorancho4735 🙏

[@SuperHns]

I remember being blown away in 2001, so many open areas, so many enemies on scream, such a beautiful lightning effects on SS1

[@indescribablecardinal6571]

Damn good videogame for being published in 2001

[@markl5998]

I really like the open spaces

[@patedefruit9172]

Here in France, we had our very own Serious Sam games with the voice of Patrick Poivey for Sam in SS:FE/SE and SS2. So when Serious Sam BFE came in english we were like "Wait.. did they forget something ?!" My favorite was clearly Serious Sam 1 on Xbox, I played it a lot with my brother. Its a lot of good memories. Thanks for the awesome works on your videos. Its a pleasure to watch and rewatch while replaying it !

[@ceomindset249]

I am croatian-russian and I remember seeing turbo limać once, there were also television games such as hugo etc. which you had to play by calling numbers of that specific show and hoping to be chosen, and then you played with your telephone number buttons as controls. Good times.

[@BloodshedRomance]

This was incridibly well put together and i'm honestly kinda mad i'm just now finding out about it. I literally grew up with Serious Sam so its always a place in my heart. Love it, hope to see more of it.

[@BrotherVoidBomber]

Even with the small viewership you have, you put out very well edited and made videos please continue this as this is one of my most beloved game series even though noone has heard of it when i bring the game up with friends.

[@johnnybensonitis7853]

Him big boy now with big channel.

[@alenko7205]

I can't wait for Serious Sam 4 !

[@Bos_Meong]

well hello there it came!

[@FrImYun]

Out today and it's not really worth it.

[@Bos_Meong]

@@FrImYun ehyyy

[@hypsin0]

Eh, I don't think anyone was expect anything better than what we ended up getting. Oh well.

[@earthwormjim420]

It isn't as good as I hoped, there are a lot of bugs and glitches but those can be patched out... overall it felt very rushed and underwhelming

[@Isaacfess]

*YES! Thanks so much for re-uploding this!*

[@Soonjai]

So I did see this before. It felt very familiar.

[@simplewrites]

I’m Serbian and I never knew my cousins made this. Good for them

[@zorgapb4691]

Hell yeah. Nego sta druze

[@gospodin338]

@@zorgapb4691 ma brao Hrvati

[@imnotaracistokay]

You have a cool cousin my guy

[@collinthegamer510]

@@imnotaracistokay I think he meant “cousin” in the term that they are his fellow countrymen, not that he is related to them.

[@turkeyleg72]

Isto brate.

[@emoldandriel]

Oh, boy! I just played Both the First and Second Encounter on Fusion the last week and loved them! This couldn't have come at a better time for me. Amazing work.

[@hoovy1163]

emoldandriel I play them everyday lol

[@mattratt4801]

I miss these Serious Sam videos

[@akkros707]

Me too

[@Isaacfess]

Me three

[@atlassarnosian555]

Me fooooooooooour!

[@NatInTheHat49]

This was really well done and filled me with so much serious Sam nostalgia mixed with a bit of mech commander nostalgia

[@Irregular1-y7s]

AMAZING VIDEO ! One of the best game documentaries i ever saw.

[@gedora5539]

Absolutely amazing video !

[@sefyravelvetpaw8166]

To this day, Serious Sam is exactly what I look for in an arcade shooter. Fast paced, plenty of weapons, SICK music, ancient earth sci-fi setting, and a healthy serving of silly to round it all out. I couldn't imagine a world without Serious Sam. As an aside, I am SHOCKED to discover that 3000 AD had any connection with Croteam, even if for a short time. I played those games - at the time they were a decent, if overly complex, capital ship bridge simulator, though the lead developer was a piece of work lemme tell you.

[@vykkye]

Thanks for all your efforts. SS is holds a special place in my heart. Good work!

[@AAAlpherior]

Not sure if it's mentioned later in the vid, but: There definitely WERE -some- changes made to the final box art. They did make his head a bit smaller, sliiightly larger biceps, larger gun, removed the top text, and some other little things.

[@RogueFreeman2]

Just randomly stumbled upon your channel, you put so much work in to your videos yet your views are rather low, you sir have my subscription without a single doubt in mind.

[@jojotoofor9eight766]

Did you actually get the voice actor of Sam in the intro?

[@ahmetkaraosman7509]

no it was from serious sam hd trailer

[@FrameRater]

@@ahmetkaraosman7509 Actually yes, we were Facebook friends back when and he was happy to help. This isn't from a trailer.

[@Blitzwolfer_mobile_edetion]

Im gonna be serious here just as tomb raider, hard reset, cod waw, fear and the serious sam series was really my child hood shooters. Those games meant so much to me that i never stopped playing and thats why im a gamer today. The sad thing is i cant play them anymore because i dont have access to them. Now i just watch walkthrought tutorials to pretend that im playing it. Sure i have other games like minecraft, cod vanguard, cod coldwar, farcry4, GMOD and lego games but it just dont feel the same as my childhood games both in gameplay/ story and music i cant stop vibing to. I love with all my heart 2006 games and past ones those were real legends. Thank you for showing me memorylane just like in serious sam 2 where he looks at old pictures of past legends in the series, i just wanna stand there and just replay all of those games. Again thank you for showing me the entier serious sam series it was an great honor you have just saved a soul god bless all of you

[@GeneralTantzu]

A quality documentary, good stuff!

[@XxDruidmancerxX]

Great video! Too bad it doesn't cover SS3, I was curious about the development of that one, especially with the whole "Trying to be a Doom prototype" at one point.

[@jaymellathomas7958]

I love your new video style!

[@sgx6215]

i once heard that the team started as a couple of guy sitting in a garage

[@medes5597]

Football Glory/5-a-side were heavily inspired by Sensible Soccer which were *massive* football games on the Amiga around this time. They had a lot of clones and copies that all seemed to originate in Eastern Europe, so it's not surprising Croteam ended up having a go at it.

[@xan1242]

holy shit never thought i'd see turbo limač on youtube

[@ericksantos9140]

Yes! I loved this video, im so glad it was reuploaded.

[@robertmihai2023]

Zooms into a 20 pixels screenshots: Aand here we can safely say that Sam had at least 2 leggs and a belt and some green paired boots, perhaps the grass.

[@TheSnorkyShow]

Ah, Turbo Limac brings back so many memories! It's a great game and an awesome video.

[@ThatDrummerDude1228]

So glad this got reuploaded! Why was it even taken down in the first place?

[@sonsofblades]

I remember seeing the "Special Edition" of TFE being sold at Wal-mart many years ago, in just a jewel case for 10 bucks.

[@ronaldjames6067]

Wow. Good documentary ! Well done ! Thanks !

[@MichalKrzycki]

You must be a hardcore fan to dig it so deep and compare all those details.

[@animeist72]

Damn man, I have watched this multiple times because it's just that good.

[@biohazard9503]

When are you going to start making serious sam videos again (if you are going to do so) I was there on the szone discord when you left, please come back

[@FrameRater]

I'm going to remake some of my old beta videos, then we'll see how it goes from there

[@biohazard9503]

Keep it up man, what you are doing is good

[@AndyStriker13LP]

Maybe they misunderstood what "limited edition" means so they limited the number of levels

[@brokensewageplant4193]

IDK why, I was expecting Embryo to be like Garage: Bad Dream Adventure.

[@L3afeon]

this game is my childhood! watched my dad play it when I was 9 years old and then he couldn't get me off the computer! even my brother played who was 5 at the time, and we just started playing again in our twenties, and the nostalgia is amazing

[@chrisbudura1208]

Now this is SERIOUS dedication !

[@FORTASIVOINTA]

Serious Sam 1 and 2 were fabulous, I was mesmerised by them !

[@GORILLA00]

Love it so much.. thank u guys for the hard work on these researchs, i hope u make a video presenting the storyline of serious sam series :)

[@_The_Worst_]

This was a serious documentary...👌🏼💯✔

[@jojotoofor9eight766]

Speaking of that Gnaar projectile, I think a Walker was behind it somewhere and shot a laser and it clipped through the Gnaar while the Gnaar possibly tried to smack Sam with its claws.

[@markhamm4374]

I absolutely love the second encounter

[@FrameRater]

I don't lol

[@markhamm4374]

FrameRater why what’s there not to like?

[@lemonov3031]

@@FrameRater Dude, I...

[@Michaeluj]

I am glad to see that you really did your research here. But, as someone who knows very little of the series, I had a very difficult time following what topic you were discussing as well as its place on the timeline. While it was great that you started each segment with the title and build of each game, I think that more could be done to make viewers understand what you're talking about so that we can follow the narrative more.

[@ReAlexon]

This 'Video is great. why does it only have 50k views. It deserves at least a million.

[@greenreaper1605]

I found Serious Sam on og Xbox and loved it then on PS2 and have been a fan since.

[@III-------------------Ill]

You always have my support :)

[@Wowls]

Serious sam next encounter was rad af

[@jojotoofor9eight766]

Could you host these files on Mega or Mediafire and give a tutorial on how to download them? I'd love to experience this version myself! I cannot find any archives of this version, and I dare not to look in the darkest depths of the net.

[@thegoldencrowbargaming9390]

*YOS YES AAGRRGH* im so happy for this video :) 10/10

[@BADC0FFEE]

one thing you forgot to mention is that football glory was a shameless Sensible Soccer clone, to the point that it's almost 1:1 to that game

[@greenhowie]

So sad to hear what happened to this series... I'd love the team to do well and sell way over target but it's not going to happen. Not with the overhead decisions being made for them... Looking forward to the next installment becoming a cult classic in 5-10 years when youtubers run out of other missed gems from this gen, though.

[@masterneme]

Serious Sam II ❤️

[@endless031]

eeew

[@MrMental4]

Need a Serious Sam 2 HD and VR ^^

[@aci2634]

SS2 The worst of the series

[@blur4504]

I don't think it's the worst, but it's sure different

[@That_Handle]

Which releases still have multiplayer support for online and LAN / LAN-tunneling nowadays? I'd venture to grab them all for family and friends (within reasonable hardware requirements) . 👍

[@PACKERMAN2077]

The devil concept model for Ugh Zan III, isn't that one of the preserved specimens in the secret museum in the end of the second encounter? I've only played the Xbox version so I don't know, but I've always wondered if that was an original Easter egg or something they added in the Xbox port. It's in the same level of the cutscene for the memorabilia Easter egg, before reaching the cathedral

[@thesynthscreamcollective]

OMG turbo limach show..i remmber that airing on TV when i was in kindergarden

[@thDecimus]

In my downloaded version of the Serious Sam Alpha there is Werebull model from the final version, so... Yeah, interesting. Maybe they changed it in later Alpha build?

[@Commodor221]

I creamed my pants with the cathedral and the theme playing. That's a money shot.

[@TheSektorz]

people dont talk about serious sam nearly enough

[@ryszakowy]

honestly after the intro i kinda hoped sam's voice would be narrating the whole thing

[@twistedpicsproductions4849]

Did he get Sams actor to do the opening of this vid?

[@MentalParadox]

John J. Dick, yes. He's a pretty approachable person. He has his own KZbin channel.

[@twistedpicsproductions4849]

@@MentalParadox can i get the name of said channel?

[@Valnjes]

Could you please share the alpha files? I would love to try the game!

[@iceranger3345]

Is there any way to download the serious Sam maps for obj or stl or even models

[@PROSTO4Tabal]

not global illumination, but multicolor lighting. good old days ;)

[@2112SNEEK]

Well, when I played the game around 2000 I remember that after finishing the game on serious we had to go through every level to destroy everything we could to activate somekind of weapon that made use of all the temples to shoot Mental. Anyone familiar with this?

[@rajpranjal8861]

The number of enemies were reduced. What? You mean to say more screaming kamikaze bombers were supposed to be there?

[@lewsmal9959]

Wait what they want to do update all classic levels in xbox and make the third encounter or they are do anything else and make the third encounter?

[@LilMissSmartyPants.922]

this series is alot of fun, i love it

[@game-enjoyer13]

Even though doom is more popular and kinda did come first and start the whole “fps shootem up” genre.....i had more fun and time with serious sam WHILE KNOWING about doom and how it was so popular.

[@mancman-bu4kz]

Football glory looks lot like sensible soccer

[@mr_beezlebub3985]

Have you talked about Serious Sam Fusion yet?

[@Gas93_3]

nice work guys

[@ireneparkin3360]

Now Devolver Digital owns Croteam.

[@getreal2977]

I like to sell it to friends like this: You can think of the game what you want. Alone the soundtrack of the games is worth the purchase as they never get old. And you get a fun game on the side. :) Long live Damjan Mravunac. I just wish he had made a longer soundtrack to SS4.

[@marcelahernandez369]

instant subbed and liked

[@spacegraysergey]

Nice work

[@glu9862]

Enard boss fight music in the background

[@MrTheil]

Is that THE John Dick, the voice of Sam, in the intro?

[@Storm59-59]

Now i see why there are soccer references in Serious Sam. It's a nod to their old soccer games.

[@readonly999]

Croteam nailed it SO HARD with 1st and 2nd encounter. You'd think such a technically accomplished game from 2001 made in Croatia would be full of eurojank, but it played buttery smooth and on cheapie hardware. It was FUN, vibrant, clever, also insane with the sheer amount of enemies on-screen rendered in full detail on what felt like giant arenas. I cannot fathom how Cro lost their way with SS2, which was this oversaturated bloomy disgrace of a sequel, and then SS3 which played okay, but its drab take on the DOOM 3 art style sucked the life out of the game. Apologies to any of the developers potentially reading this, I'm still very grateful for the childhood memories and deeply respectful of what a tiny developer from Croatia managed to accomplish.

[@Laki99000]

When are you planning to do 2005 - 2020 period? After ss4 comes out or you won't do a video about it at all?

[@FrameRater]

No plans at this time.

[@Kryptkicker69]

FrameRater any reason why?

[@FrameRater]

@@Kryptkicker69 Lack of interest

[@Kryptkicker69]

FrameRater sad but fair! Thanks for the response.:) also just wanted to say I’m glad I found these, I grew up playing these games, I’m 25 now and it’s been awesome watching these and remembering all those good times.

[@whatmatterson]

Great job

[@123OGNIAN]

I want to see a direct compare some time of serious sam 2 for xbox and pc.

[@bryceharney5960]

Sometimes I wanna dive into a detailed rpg and roleplay the shit out of it. Then there are times I wanna mindlessly blast waves of aliens and Serious Sam scratches tf outta that itch!

[@theroyalguard9443]

FrameRater - I want to thank you for this brilliant Documentary about Serious Sam! Which is my first video game ever. I was 7 years old ( 2002 ) somewhere in the Summer I was so excited I will never forget this moment and the feelings I've got back then. I have one question for you. I am searching the book of the Serious Sam , this book when you start the Second Encounter in single player and the game shows you the story from the first encounter. ( Hope you get my idea ) I have search a lot in the internet but nothing leads me to this book. I don't know where else to search and who else to ask but You or decino. I really hope you or perhaps decino helps me to find/buy this book ( if exists ). I really really pray this book exists or some answer that could lead me to make this book or something. Cheers! Serious Sam♥

[@princelorian]

Awesome Framerater is ubderrated as shit. Quality work my dude!

[@andrewx8888]

Looks like you need a new one, since there are new VR games, and Serious Sam 4.

[@chubbybok]

its not serious sam Story, its the company story.

[@KillThad]

Did you commission John J. Dick for the intro? EDIT: Read the credits.

[@IAmHereOrThere]

Watching this right now. 👍

[@danieldolebski2689]

7 people have never played Serious Sam

[@froglifes6829]

You shouldve mentioned that they were devolping the game while their country was at war. From what i remember the developers had to pause making their games to go serve. Or atleast a couple did am not sure if all of them did.

[@The101Point1]

Serious Sam The second encounter HD Is my favorite

[@Trzyzet]

Pure gold!

[@sabney09]

So what is the official documentary? Now that is a serious question...

[@deathbringer9893]

i know this vid is old but ima need all the songs used

[@Sluggadome_Rotunda_Bernardson]

Great video but it felt like it was only meant for serious Sam super fans and not as a way to inform new people about the series or casual fans about the deeper layers.