Well, the first 2 levels were great! And then the episode completely shits the bed immediately afterward.
A good expansion, mod, level pack, etc should emphasize a game's strengths, but Dimension of the Past mostly emphasizes Quake's weaknesses. The Knights are a pretty dull and uninteresting enemy in the base game, so here, DotP throws what feels like hundreds of them at you. CONSTANTLY. The second secret level is, no joke, nothing but 50(!) Knights and a handful of Vores thrown in. Ugh. People joke that to be good at Serious Sam, all you need to do is press the "S" key, but I think I backpedaled more playing this one godforsaken expansion more than I did playing through the entire Serious Sam franchise!
Also, did I mention all the bullshit instadeath traps you'd have no way of knowing about until you've already died to it? sigh
Oh and have fun never having ammo because the bullet sponge knights eat it all up unless you're finding most of the secrets (and even then I was still running out of ammo somewhat regularly and had to melee the knights to death.)
What a miserable slog this was.
A good expansion, mod, level pack, etc should emphasize a game's strengths, but Dimension of the Past mostly emphasizes Quake's weaknesses. The Knights are a pretty dull and uninteresting enemy in the base game, so here, DotP throws what feels like hundreds of them at you. CONSTANTLY. The second secret level is, no joke, nothing but 50(!) Knights and a handful of Vores thrown in. Ugh. People joke that to be good at Serious Sam, all you need to do is press the "S" key, but I think I backpedaled more playing this one godforsaken expansion more than I did playing through the entire Serious Sam franchise!
Also, did I mention all the bullshit instadeath traps you'd have no way of knowing about until you've already died to it? sigh
Oh and have fun never having ammo because the bullet sponge knights eat it all up unless you're finding most of the secrets (and even then I was still running out of ammo somewhat regularly and had to melee the knights to death.)
What a miserable slog this was.