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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
I'm happy to see another 1-day promo, but I already own every edition of this game and its sequel. Sorry!
Posted March 23, 2011
Thanks GoG, first one day promo I took advantage of. don't really have any fpses in my catalogue except for UT GOTY and Painkiller so I'm pretty excited to try this.
Post edited March 23, 2011 by deshadow52
Posted March 23, 2011
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Runehamster: I am definitely going to be purchasing every single promo, just to bloat my backlog even more.
I keep planning on this but I keep having the games already!! I'll just claim that means I have excellent taste. :-D
Posted March 23, 2011
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deshadow52: Thanks GoG, first one day promo I took advantage of. don't really have any fpses in my catalogue except for UT GOTY and Painkiller so I'm pretty excited to try this.
If you like Painkiller you should like this, although Painkiller does it better (classic run-and-gun arcade-pace madness). Sort of a spiritual successor to the old Doom/Quake games, but it's pretty too. Painkiller goes for the creepy atmosphere and does it well, but also has really excellent arena design; Serious Sam:TFE goes for a fun and almost parody feel, and the arena design is off-and-on (when it's on, it's pretty good though). Serious Sam:TSE is a strict improvement, with two excellent weapon additions and much more consistently good level design. [So if you like the first encounter, definitely get the second.]

Absolutely nothing can compete with the awesome weapons of win in Painkiller though. Any game that end up getting compared to it sufffers, 'cause nothing else has "a gun that shoots shurikens and lightning" (to quote Yahtzee Croshaw), a friggin' tree launcher, or the Painkiller itself. :-D

edit: dangit, sorry 'bout the doublepost, I keep expecting posts to auto-combine >.>
Post edited March 23, 2011 by Curunauth
Posted March 23, 2011
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deshadow52: Thanks GoG, first one day promo I took advantage of. don't really have any fpses in my catalogue except for UT GOTY and Painkiller so I'm pretty excited to try this.
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Curunauth: If you like Painkiller you should like this, although Painkiller does it better (classic run-and-gun arcade-pace madness). Sort of a spiritual successor to the old Doom/Quake games, but it's pretty too. Painkiller goes for the creepy atmosphere and does it well, but also has really excellent arena design; Serious Sam:TFE goes for a fun and almost parody feel, and the arena design is off-and-on (when it's on, it's pretty good though). Serious Sam:TSE is a strict improvement, with two excellent weapon additions and much more consistently good level design. [So if you like the first encounter, definitely get the second.]

Absolutely nothing can compete with the awesome weapons of win in Painkiller though. Any game that end up getting compared to it sufffers, 'cause nothing else has "a gun that shoots shurikens and lightning" (to quote Yahtzee Croshaw), a friggin' tree launcher, or the Painkiller itself. :-D

edit: dangit, sorry 'bout the doublepost, I keep expecting posts to auto-combine >.>
Thanks for the info I think i will buy the second encounter sometime down the road. My favorite gun was the stake gun actually (or as you called it the tree launcher, lol) it took skill to use but if you know how to aim in tight situations then your good to go. The best part is every kill feels satisfying; especially when you stick em to a wall
Posted March 23, 2011
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Curunauth: If you like Painkiller you should like this, although Painkiller does it better (classic run-and-gun arcade-pace madness). Sort of a spiritual successor to the old Doom/Quake games, but it's pretty too. Painkiller goes for the creepy atmosphere and does it well, but also has really excellent arena design; Serious Sam:TFE goes for a fun and almost parody feel, and the arena design is off-and-on (when it's on, it's pretty good though). Serious Sam:TSE is a strict improvement, with two excellent weapon additions and much more consistently good level design. [So if you like the first encounter, definitely get the second.]

Absolutely nothing can compete with the awesome weapons of win in Painkiller though. Any game that end up getting compared to it sufffers, 'cause nothing else has "a gun that shoots shurikens and lightning" (to quote Yahtzee Croshaw), a friggin' tree launcher, or the Painkiller itself. :-D

edit: dangit, sorry 'bout the doublepost, I keep expecting posts to auto-combine >.>
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deshadow52: Thanks for the info I think i will buy the second encounter sometime down the road. My favorite gun was the stake gun actually (or as you called it the tree launcher, lol) it took skill to use but if you know how to aim in tight situations then your good to go. The best part is every kill feels satisfying; especially when you stick em to a wall
I completely agree. That thing is satisfaction in gun form. Even with a wide and growing array of ballistic, pin-enemies-to-walls crossbows in games these days, nothing captures the feel it has. Actually, you can find functional equivalents to most Painkiller weapons in other games, but their presentation is simply so amazing that everything feels tremendously unique and fun.
Posted March 24, 2011
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dwbridges: How about... "A GoGantuan Bargain"
Oooo. I like it. I may have to use that in a sentence one of these newsposts. :P

I would point out, though, that as Dr. Johnson notes, "He who would make a pun would pick a pocket." ;)
Posted March 24, 2011
not that much time left, so get the game cheap while you can people :)
Posted March 24, 2011
Nice seeing that the flash... opps i mean GOG gems promo has made a comeback, t think they were pretty cool. Hopefully a title that actually catches my eyes shows up next time.
Post edited March 24, 2011 by Gexecuter
Posted March 24, 2011
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TheEnigmaticT: I would point out, though, that as Dr. Johnson notes, "He who would make a pun would pick a pocket." ;)
mmm... good movie. Haven't watched it recently though. I should remedy this!
Post edited March 24, 2011 by dwbridges
Posted March 24, 2011
Disappointed I didn't see an email for this promo. Also, promo details sit there past their expiration, but don't specify "when" they are happening. For instance, this SS promo says "today" until "tomorrow", so I clicked it, but was fooled. It isn't really today. No posting date, just confusion. I'm sure this could be improved ;)
Post edited March 24, 2011 by fuzzknuckle
Posted March 24, 2011
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fuzzknuckle: Disappointed I didn't see an email for this promo. Also, promo details sit there past their expiration, but don't specify "when" they are happening. For instance, this SS promo says "today" until "tomorrow", so I clicked it, but was fooled. It isn't really today. No posting date, just confusion. I'm sure this could be improved ;)
Thanks for the feedback fuzzknuckle. Our flash promos will be happening on 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month, so I recommend checking out GOG.com on these days or following us on twitter or facebook to get the update on time :). Also, we're not sending emails out for our flash promo as it's pretty short and emails are often getting delayed here.
Posted March 27, 2011
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fuzzknuckle: Disappointed I didn't see an email for this promo. Also, promo details sit there past their expiration, but don't specify "when" they are happening. For instance, this SS promo says "today" until "tomorrow", so I clicked it, but was fooled. It isn't really today. No posting date, just confusion. I'm sure this could be improved ;)
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Destro: Thanks for the feedback fuzzknuckle. Our flash promos will be happening on 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month, so I recommend checking out GOG.com on these days or following us on twitter or facebook to get the update on time :). Also, we're not sending emails out for our flash promo as it's pretty short and emails are often getting delayed here.
Thanks for the clarification. I didn't realize how the flash promos worked. I'm going to add it to my calendar (I'm on Twitter, but really don't use) to make sure I come and check it out at the right times. Thanks again!
Posted March 28, 2011
Great promo. I'm enjoying the heck out of SS1E.
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