![]() Spectacular Environments – Battle across the expansive battlefields of near-future Egypt bursting at the seams with total chaos. All of them!įearsome Enemy Creatures – A new battalion of unforgettable minions including the rumbling Scrapjack and towering Khnum join the legendary Headless Kamikaze, Gnaar and Sirian Werebull to create the fiercest opposition you’ve ever had the pleasure of mowing down! No cover systems, no camping – it’s just you against them. KEY FEATURESįrantic Arcade-Style Action – Hold down the trigger and lay waste to a never-ending onslaught of attackers or face being overrun by Mental’s savage beasts. Serving as a prequel to the original indie and Game of the Year sensation, Serious Sam: The First Encounter, Serious Sam 3 takes place during the Earth’s final struggle against Mental’s invading legions of beasts and mercenaries. Once you restart the game, all of the save files will be deleted.Serious Sam 3: BFE is a first-person action shooter, a glorious throwback to the golden age of first-person shooters where men were men, cover was for amateurs and pulling the trigger made things go boom. The game will completely freeze at some point in the middle of the Giygas fight. If you do manage to make it through to the final boss, Earthbound has one last surprise. Now, while this is annoying to deal with and gives the game a difficulty curve on steroids, it isn’t impossible to play. Plus, a few enemies will appear in places that they have no right being in. Pirated copies of Earthbound are a lot harder than the real deal. The first really noticeable change happens almost right away. Most of these protections were very small and not really all that noticeable. Many earlier games relied on the users authenticating their games with manuals. Earthbound had no less than five layers of protection. The developers of Earthbound were not kidding around when it came to protecting their games from pirates. So beware pirates, your thievery lets the Joker get away. An early mission requires you to glide from one platform to the next. The lack of gliding actually does a lot more than completely destroying Batman's dignity it makes it impossible to proceed. It’s quite undignified for the Dark Knight. If you continually press the glide button, Batman will flap his wings like a toddler pretending they can fly. However, keep going and you’ll quickly discover that it’s not you.īatman Arkham Asylum nerfs the gliding ability in pirated copies. Most players will just assume they did it wrong. However, once you press the glide button, Batman will drop like a rock. Next, it will ask you to do a gliding kick to take out a singular baddy below. You’ll be prompted to grapple onto a nearby statue. However, it very quickly becomes apparent that something’s not right the first time the game asks you to glide. Everything runs smoothly, and there don’t seem to be any funny bugs. For a taste of unintentional glitches check out our lists on scary and game breaking glitches.Ī pirated copy of Batman Arkham Asylum seems normal at first glance. The glitches on this list only occur if you’ve got an illicit copy of the game. There are several instances where pirates go to complain to the company or post youtube videos of their “bugs,” only to have the developers turn around and out them as pirates. The funniest thing about these pirated games by far is the reactions of those who stole the games in the first place. Others do hilarious things like turning your character into a seagull or slapping an eyepatch on the player character. Many of these will ruin your game completely breaking it or even erasing all of your saved data. That being said… there are some rather downright hilarious and ingenious methods video game companies have used over the years to protect their games. I am in no way advocating pirated copies of video games. It is important to understand that companies have every right to protect their games. Other egregious examples are scattered throughout gaming history. The most recent case was in RiME, where hackers discovered that the DRM actually slowed the game’s performance significantly. ![]() ![]() ![]() Video game companies can sometimes take their DRM systems too far. However, DRM has gained a pretty bad reputation in the gaming community. DRM or Digital Rights Management is designed to help game developers protect their games from piracy.
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