Just finished
Serious Sam 3: BFE. Not as bad as Serious Sam II, of course, but not quite as good as the two first installments of the series.
Oh, there are good moments in Serious Sam 3!! That is, if you manage to pass the 3 or so first hours, in which you will feel like playing COD instead of a Serious Sam game: not many enemies, most of the time you only see them because they already shoot you several times because THEY ARE OF THE SAME $@#% COLOR THAN THE SURROUDINGS...
Then it gets better once you arrive to the great pyramid, it starts to look like a Serious Sam: lots of waves of enemies, you're shooting like crazy, barely escaping death. The surroundings are not very varied, since you're always in Egypt, but the enemies are a mix of old acquaintances (the kleers skeletons, the headless suicide bombers, the werebulls) and new pests to eradicate (special awards to the tentacle-helicopters and to the tentacle-ladies who will hurt you with their mind). A very good challenge, hard but not impossible.
And then, the final boss. I was playing in normal mode and this is pure madness. I don't know how I managed to finally kill him (after innumerable deaths) but it's dificulty is just plain stupid, IMHO. This kind of ruins the game, just like Serious Sam II's final boss, the Mental Institute.
Bosses from Serious Sam First and Second encounters were what I call bosses: hard, tough, merciless but beatable by an average player such as me. Serious Sam II and 3's bosses are nothing like that and reserved to the most dedicated players...
Too bad, otherwise it could have been a really great game. So far, First Encounter and Second Encounter will stay in my list as the best games of the series.
So far in 2012:
Trine
Syberia
Katawa Shoujo – Emi
Bastion
Portal
Hydrophobia : Prophecy
Mass Effect 3 + DLC From Ashes
Portal 2
Serious Sam II
Serious Sam 3 : BFE
Link to my first, up-to-date post :
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/games_finished_in_2012_1/post15