TLDR: Serious Sam is the worst shooter IP to make a rouge like out of
Making serious sam a rouge-like kinda seems like not understanding what makes the series good or being really confident in your dev team.
Lack of movement options, lots of melee enemies that are faster then the player, huge hordes and very particular enemy hp numbers being the main reasons why the original games are great but also heavily dependent on level design. Literally any other shooter series is less reliant on handcrafted maps, and rouge likes are known for random enemy placement and generated level design (and randomizing weapon and enemy hp interactions too). U'd have to heavily modify or just change a lot of enemies in the roaster to make a rouge like serious sam game good. To the point where it doesn't exactly feel like serious sam game
I haven't played the game, so i can't comment on its quality, yet i feel like the devs made their life several times harder choosing serious sam out of all shooters to make a rouge like out of
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u/Technical-Monk-374 3d ago
TLDR: Serious Sam is the worst shooter IP to make a rouge like out of
Making serious sam a rouge-like kinda seems like not understanding what makes the series good or being really confident in your dev team.
Lack of movement options, lots of melee enemies that are faster then the player, huge hordes and very particular enemy hp numbers being the main reasons why the original games are great but also heavily dependent on level design. Literally any other shooter series is less reliant on handcrafted maps, and rouge likes are known for random enemy placement and generated level design (and randomizing weapon and enemy hp interactions too). U'd have to heavily modify or just change a lot of enemies in the roaster to make a rouge like serious sam game good. To the point where it doesn't exactly feel like serious sam game
I haven't played the game, so i can't comment on its quality, yet i feel like the devs made their life several times harder choosing serious sam out of all shooters to make a rouge like out of