Piracy is one of the biggest threats a game studio has to deal with. While there is some debate to be had, pirates and the industry have had a long feud with new protections from game companies and new cracks from pirates, all to try to get enough people to buy legal copies to actually stay in business.
In case you're wondering, chicken bullets do no damage whatsoever, meaning you can't kill anybody, and the game cannot be won. You can't die, either, because the bad guys use chickens, too. You could seriously "play" this game for all eternity and never get anywhere, you and your enemies endlessly bouncing streams of poultry off of one another in a sad metaphor for the futility of warfare.
Serious Sam 3 No Scorpion Crack
One thing the games do have in common, though, is a dedication to creatively pissing off pirates. Where Crysis has chickens, Sam has scorpions. Well, just one scorpion. One big, terrifying, completely invulnerable, utterly murderous, lightning-fast scorpion.
If you went to the store and bought the game for real, you'll never run into this guy. But if you didn't, and you chose to get cute with the hacking and the cracking, be prepared for it to relentlessly stalk you, from the beginning of the game until you can't run anymore. Because you are dead. Because it has killed you. Because you are a thief.
Insomniac developed a series of crack-protected traps. This meant that, even if a pirate successfully removed the original copy protection, the game would still be affected in ways that wouldn't be obvious until you attempted to play through it. Although it should have been obvious from the get-go, when a fairy politely informs you that you're a horrible person doing horrible things:
Great games are bound to be pirated one way or another. But while the idea of a cracked copy looks cheaper, game developers have found a way to put gamers off of it. With the genius of game developers, these games just got the best gameplay revenge for pirates.
There's nothing more hilarious than being a bat that flies like a seagull. Warner Bros did just that. Instead of the gliding ability that Batman can do, cracked copies of Batman: Arkham Asylum have Batman flapping like a seagull. What's even worse is that this method of flying will drop you unceremoniously down below.
When it comes to gameplay difficulty, Dark Souls is a legendary. But for pirates, difficult just got a new meaning if they get their hands on a cracked copy. Those who would like to play the cracked version will have a very difficult challenge on their hands - like ungodly difficult. Why, Developer From Software will make pirates fight off Black Phantom enemies at max-level, all abilities maxed out at 99 and 1900 hit points. We're not very sure if 60 hours of gameplay is enough to beat these.
Playing a game filled with adventure is most definitely fun. But getting a cracked copy of such a game like Dragon Quest V might make you stranded on the sea for far too long. This can be frustrating, really. Boarding a boat in Dragon Quest V is a staple of the game but if you get a cracked copy, you won't be leaving that boat anytime soon. Just hope that you get to spend it with optimistic people. Oh, lots of patience is recommended, too.
Chickens are useless ammunition but that's what pirates get when they play a cracked version of Crisis: Warhead. So what happens? Instead of guns firing bullets and grenades going off in the air, both of those weapons will become chickens in the cracked version. Definitely no match for guns and grenades of enemies unless they using chickens, too.
Anti-piracy campaigns can get cute and EA did just that with The Sims 4. Players who got their own pirated copies had a serious problem with pixilated and blurry copies - not just in the shower but in the whole gameplay of The Sims 4. This little trick made the game visually off-putting that there's no doubt all pirates had a headache while trying to play the game.
Compared to other games on this list, a pirated copy of Serious Sam 3 will work just fine. Finishing it though might prove to be a most difficult challenge. Not only will you be faced with a giant scorpion, it's also pink, loves to chase you and will try to beat the crap out of you. Doing it the other way around will be very challenging since the pink scorpion in the cracked game is faster and invincible to just any kind of damage you might use. Got a glitch to kill it? Try it and the camera in Serious Sam 3 will lock and you'll have to look at the sky for a very long time.
Earthbound is old school given that it's a classic RPG game from Super Nintendo. If Nintendo finds out that a player is playing an illegitimate copy, anti-piracy messages will start coming into the gameplay. However, if the cracked game continues after such a message, Earthbound's DRM scheme will increase exponentially and make hordes of enemies - yes, hordes - instead of just several that players have to fight off. Lastly, the game's last boss, Gigyas, will make your last battle an epic one with a freeze game. Worse, all saved games will be wiped out leaving pirates no choice but to reset the game all over again. So, so cruel.
Serious Sam HD (TFE & TSE) looks pretty good in action I think. The colorful but not too cartoony style feels well balanced with the tone of the game, somehow. SS3 looks more realistic, almost to the point of being DNF/military shooter dull. (Edit: But with the vivid color scheme it looks pretty snazzy! I don't like what they did with the brain mech though.) SS2 was perhaps excessively cartoony.Plus Offers a playful contrast to the more "realistic" military shooters out there with: Some good/fun enemy designs. Favorites being the Bombs-for-hands and Blue brain mech. I think those designs in particular have a "memorable thing" about them (a striking combination of features) and great silhouettes/recognizeability. Open areas with lots of shooting. It reminds me of EDF and Robotron 2048. The bull enemies feel very authentic as they charge and tumble, dying. The cannons look so excessive and fun. Coop. Is it twice the fun? I think so.Minus Plain story/level format. Start level, mow down spawning stuff, get some weapon, next level. Some generic enemy designs Some generic weapon designs. I'm not much for revolvers, shotguns and such (although they are useful for providing a reference point). I think the UT series did a good job coming up with unique and fun weapons. Not enough shootingvariety. I'd like to be able to lay down combos and improvise, perhaps dual-wielding (any) 2 guns, each with 2 fire modes (hey, gaming-mice have a lot of buttons these days). I think it would break up the monotony a bit. There might be some weapon-enemy vulnerability tables, but I'd rather see some kind of consistent, almost like a language which can be read. Anything that looks armoured can be damaged by piercing weapons. Anything soft and mushy is more vulnerable to cutting, shotgun pellets, fire, etc. In same cases you might want to crush and knock your enemy around (the skeletal Kleers). As long as you keep plowing bullets into the enemy, its HP will go down and then it will do the death animation. In SS2 there were a few enemies with shields that you could knock off, but it almost seemed like you had too, and it looked repetitive. I think the enemies would feel more interactively tangible if they could be wounded, perhaps having parts which could be blown off or damaged. I'm not sure what seeing badly wounded enemies would do to the player's empathy though. Afaik, SS does have a low-HP texture, but an animation/behaviour change would be welcome I think.... and maybe a few separate parts for the larger monsters (shield plates or limbs that can pop off). Imagine if there were charging bulls which had an armoured face plate. When they come at you, shotguns won't be of much use, but if you let them pass you, you can do damage to the unshielded body. Or you can crack the face plate with an armour piercing rocket and then use the shotgun (which would be fun and accessible if dual-wielding). This type of combat might be more fun than just plowing bullets into whatever comes at you. With so many enemies, it's difficult to pull off stuff like persistent corpses. Corpses might clutter up the view, obscure living enemies, slow the computer down, and introduces player-corpse collision questions and troubles. Personally, I'd really like to see what happens if persistent corpses are used in a game with Serious Sam's body count. Thoughts on persistent corpses: Immersion is not broken by magic puffery. Landmark creation (oh, I'm where I killed those guys). Stand on piles of bodies, like on epic cover illustrations. Use bodies as cover. Use bodies as stairs. Blow piles of bodies up. I don't think it will look too distracting if body chunks are kept consistent in color and texture. Corpse models can degrade to something lowpoly (or even decal-ish?). Only the larger chunks could have object-object physics collision. It doesn't feel like there are ever huge hordes of enemies on screen simultaneously, instead enemies keep streaming in. It would be fun to fire into a wall of enemies, and I think that could be done. Serious Sam is not Quake 1. The maps are simpler, more open and flat, like in say StarCraft 2 where we often see hundreds of units doing their logic. HeroineHeroine roughs. Grave Gail, possibly Grim Gail.I like the white suit design the best, perhaps because white suits are rare (PN03 had a sort of primarily white suit I guess). It could be an android incarnation of a Netricsa, a bit like Andromeda's incarnation "Rommie".
Soon, you'll enter huge, arena-style spaces with a ton of weapons and armor sitting in the middle. This means it's time to get ready for a real fight, taking it to waves of foes that include the new enemies you just learned about. The first time this happens in the game, Sam even makes a crack about how "usually, a bunch of bad guys appear" when he comes across a setup like this. 2ff7e9595c
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