Any other OpenGL games on the horizon?

[Bateau]

No it doesn't. Go check the game engine video of "Serious Sam 2", it
looks nothing like the old "Serious Sam: Second Encounter". ;-) Google
for it, the filename is "seriousengine2full.wmv"

More info: http://www.croteam.com/

We should start a petition to get Croteam to change the name of their in
development game to Serious Sam 3.

 

[Xocyll]

Second and two mean the same thing.

Not necessarily. Second requires an exact placement in order, 2 does
not.

Serious Sam:
v1 Original game.
v1.2 Second encounter, the engine from v1 with minor changes
v2 SS2, a major version change with a whole new engine.

Xocyll

 

[Raymond Martineau]

I'm not trying to sound clever, you just need to take off the dunce
cap. They have released two SS games already, the next one will be
their 3rd and not second version. No matter what they may call it.

The same engine was used for Serous Sam: The First Encounter, and Serious
Sam: The Second Encounter. Even though most people consider them to be
Serious Sam 1 and 2, these are not the official name as dictated by
Croteam.

You can tell since TFE and TSE are lumped under the "Serious Sam" label at
http://www.croteam.com/.

Originally, Serious Sam 2 would have been called The Third Encounter.
However, at the time it would have been released, the engine would be
outdated. As a result, that's why you see the change in naming convention.

 

[Hank the Rapper]

Yea, that's why they decided to call it *second* encounter. Whatever.

Think whatever you want, Croteam doesn't consider SS:SE a sequel otherwise
they would call the new game SS 3.

 

[Icon]

second (sèk´end) adjective
Abbr. sec.
1. Coming next after the first in order, place, rank, time, or
quality.

1. a. The ordinal number matching the number 2 in a series.

two (t¡) noun
2. The second in a set or sequence.

So...
It was the second encounter, i.e. the encounter coming next after the
first in order, after the first encounter that is.

How does the definition prove that it is a sequel?
It may be the second game in the series, but it is not necessarily a sequel.

 

[Slash]

So...
It was the second encounter, i.e. the encounter coming next after the
first in order, after the first encounter that is.

How does the definition prove that it is a sequel?
It may be the second game in the series, but it is not necessarily a sequel.

Couldn't it be likened to a TV show, where you have multiple episodes
per series, but can have multiple series as well? Series 1, episode 3.
Series 2, episode 1. The second series would be considered a continued
retelling of what was seperated into multiple segments in the first
series. Another example would be fantasy novels. You can certainly
have multiple books in a set, each continuing the story, and then have
a second book which perhaps picks up in the same realm but at a later
date in time to tell a larger storyline.

Or, to quote Eep², it's all relative.

-Slash

 

[outcast]

Pacific Fighters by default has OpenGL, and you get new effects, water
with pixel shader 3 only with OpenGL I think.

Along with Quake4, also add Soldier of Fortune 4, that uses the D3
engine (opengl). And since Raven has licensed Jedi Knight series, they
will probably make the installment on the ID engine.