Got screwed again.
Bought Torchlight earlier thinking it probably won't be any cheaper than 10 bucks. Now its 5 bucks >.<

If Settlers 7 can go 50% or more, I might bite

Compare to the old Serious Sam? There's a whole lot of difference in the graphics.

The first Serious Sam was directX7 engine, so there's no any programmable shaders or any dynamic effects. Everything is pre-rendered onto the texture, the lighting effects and shadows are all pre-rendered. If you take away a light source, the shadow and lighting effects on the wall will still remain because they are already pre-rendered on the wall texture.

In Serious Engine 3, most of the lighting are dynamic real time lighting, shadows are real time shadow. Of course there are many other effects as well, using pixel shader, advance reflection and other graphical effects.

And there's also real time physics.

The only serious sam game that is close to current engine is the 3rd one, Serious Sam 2.

Ah, point taken


Anyway Second Encounter is now on sale, 10 bucks only. I bought during the summer sale, was like 13 bucks...