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General discussion (archive)GOG Gems Promo: Serious Sam 60% today!(59 posts)(59 posts)
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Posted March 23, 2011
As our catalog gets bigger and better every week, it’s easy to lose track of some of the awesome games that we have to offer. Of course Fallout, Baldur’s Gate, and some other of our most popular titles will always get a lot of attention, but GOG has many more classics to bring you. To help encourage you to explore the dustier reaches of GOG’s catalog, we’re going to be offering a promo on the first and third Wednesday of every month. Think of it as a curated promo on some of GOG’s favorite titles that you may not have played. Whether we’re encouraging you to explore incredible new worlds or inviting you to see how a titanic series got its start, we think every game we’re going to be offering on our GOG Gem Promos will be an excellent title, and we hope you give them all a try.

For our inaugural GOG Gem Promo, we’d like to introduce you to a serious friend of ours. His name is Sam. Released by Croatian developers CroTeam in 2002 when games were becoming ever more “realistic” (by which most developers seemed to mean “brown”), Serious Sam: The First Encounter was a throwback to the button-mashing, alien-killing days of shooters gone bye. Saturated with color and packed with so many bizarre enemies (headless monsters with bombs for hands, anyone?) that your screen would fill with literally hundreds of them, Serious Sam’s combination of gameplay and wacky world-building made it a huge success. The First Encounter has been available on GOG since August of 2010. While it’s not the HD version you can find elsewhere, the gameplay is untouched, and for $2.39 you owe it to yourself to skip that post-lunch latte and get serious.

This promo will run from 12:00 noon GMT today all the way to 11.59 GMT tomorrow. Grab your copy of Serious Sam: The First Encounter while it’s hot, and stay tuned for our next promo in two weeks!

(Hint: It won’t be Serious Sam: The Second Encounter)
Posted March 23, 2011
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Smannesman: I already bought the HD versions of both for 2 or 3 bucks last year from Steam, but maybe I'll still get this one for nostalgia's sake.. I haven't decided yet.
The flash promo thing (perhaps we should call it midweek madness?) I really like.
midweek madness is how steam calls them :P
Posted March 23, 2011
excellent idea ! thanks !
Posted March 23, 2011
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Eclipse: midweek madness is how steam calls them :P
Besides, we aren't mad about them. :)
Posted March 23, 2011
I had to buy it for this price.
Posted March 23, 2011
Hell. Have both classic on steam. But this is tempting enough and I am still not played much. Oh hell, I take it. OST is looking good
Posted March 23, 2011
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TheEnigmaticT: The observant of you will notice that this is pretty much a "Flash Promo" like we ran in February. We'll be doing these on the first and third Wednesday of every month. Hope you guys like it!
You brought them back?

*Hugs TheEnigmaticT*
Posted March 23, 2011
DAMN SKIPPY! YOU GUYS ROCK!

I think I'll buy this just on principle. Everyone keeps telling me to play the game anyway :D
Post edited March 23, 2011 by Runehamster
Posted March 23, 2011
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Roman5: Edit: there is a spelling mistake in the newspost

"incredibel new worlds "

Double edit: That was fixed quickly, but don't think I didn't see that GOG team :p
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TheEnigmaticT: I actually spotted it before you posted it, thus accounting for the uncanny speed with which the edit was made. Thanks, though, for the sharp eye.
Ok it's totally OT but, there's a great diary thing going on about Arx Fatalis on RPS: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/03/23/arx-fatalis-diary-1/
So maybe if you guys do an Arx Fatalis sale for the next midweek mad.. err, gog gem you could get at least a link on RPS (our you could ask permission to publish the diary serie from RPS here on Gog to have a new, cool, featured article)
Post edited March 23, 2011 by Eclipse
Posted March 23, 2011
Awesome! Of course, I'm not much of an FPS fan so I'll give this a miss. Here's hoping for something I want in a fortnight.
Posted March 23, 2011
Love seeing these mid week sales back (whatever they want to call them), I do wish they were every Wed. instead of every other, but we beggars can't be choosers now can we.
Since I already own this game I'll pass on this, but I hope enough people do jump on it to keep these sales going.
Posted March 23, 2011
Great promo!

Too bad I already owned the "HD" edition.
Posted March 23, 2011
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SWorD84: Does this version has a multiplayer mode?
Yes, it does. And yes, there are people playing it, as I found out after I picked it up at Christmas.

I remember when this game was being 'talked about' on Old Man Murray - man, I miss old Man Murray, and the hatred of crates, and so on. If you haven't read those interviews with Roman and the other developers, you should. (This should also explain why one of the giant head guys says 'Old Man Murray' all the time.)

Everyone should have this game, really. It's just a load of mindless blasting fun. Yes, there's the HD version, and I have it. But no, it's not on sale (:
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TheEnigmaticT: I actually spotted it before you posted it, thus accounting for the uncanny speed with which the edit was made. Thanks, though, for the sharp eye.
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Eclipse: Ok it's totally OT but, there's a great diary thing going on about Arx Fatalis on RPS: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/03/23/arx-fatalis-diary-1/
So maybe if you guys do an Arx Fatalis sale for the next midweek mad.. err, gog gem you could get at least a link on RPS (our you could ask permission to publish the diary serie from RPS here on Gog to have a new, cool, featured article)
You know, while we're discussing off-topic bits that should be gog gem'd - the "gem" of this year's GDC seminars: which can now be viewed on GDC Vault:

http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014630/Classic-Game-Postmortem-OUT-OF

Eric Chahi's "Another World" (or in the States, 'Out of this World.')

Which is absolutely worth paying the full price for...
Post edited March 23, 2011 by Truck
Posted March 23, 2011
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Truck: Yes, it does. And yes, there are people playing it, as I found out after I picked it up at Christmas.
Bought it. ;) It rocks!
Posted March 23, 2011
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Eclipse: midweek madness is how steam calls them :P
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TheEnigmaticT: Besides, we aren't mad about them. :)
How about... "A GoGantuan Bargain"
Posted March 23, 2011
it's not a bundle deal :(

oh , well
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