Good Old Games Sale Spotlight

[Gibbeynator]

Originally Posted by Darth Marsden

Well, it DID just get Greenlit on Steam, and I'm guessing Al Lowe owns the rights to at least the first game, otherwise how could he remake it?

Just a theory mind, but it does seem to fit.

That was the new remake that got Greenlit. The originals are still... I honestly have no idea what's going on at this point. I THINK Codemasters owns the IP rights, and are licensing those out to Replay Games to make the remake, but the actual original games may/may not belong to them.

[Gibbeynator]

Alrighty, time for the first GOG Gem Promo of 2013, and it's... Hotline Miami? That can't be right, I don't even think it got a reduced price during the winter sale. Ehh, whatever, get Hotline Miami for 50% off.

Edit: And the 500th game is... Omerta: City of Gangsters! I'm just kidding, it's a pre-order, so even though it says '500' in the catalogue, it doesn't count as the official 500th active release. You can pre-order it for $33.99 (although for the Euro folks, the price is apparantly roughly half of what Steam has it for so... yeah).

[Vainamoinen]

Originally Posted by Gibbeynator

Edit: And the 500th game is... Omerta: City of Gangsters!

ROFL. UMG has blocked the release trailer in Germany for reasons of copyright infringement. Now THAT'S funny.

[Gibbeynator]

It's Leisure Suit Larry. The 500th release is one of the Leisure Suit Larry collections. It's 10 bucks, and it comes with Larry 1-5, the VGA remake of Larry 1 and the original Softporn Adventure. No Love for Sail, though, and no word yet on whether or not the talkie versions are included.

Edit: Also, while we get some info on what's really included in this set, enjoy this giveaway (May require Facebook). 500 people may be lucky enough to receive a 10 dollar GOG game of their choice.

Edit 2: OK, we are receiving reports that the talkie version of Larry 6 is included. I will see you folks tomorrow, then.

[Icedhope]

Originally Posted by Gibbeynator

It's Leisure Suit Larry. The 500th release is one of the Leisure Suit Larry collections. It's 10 bucks, and it comes with Larry 1-5, the VGA remake of Larry 1 and the original Softporn Adventure. No Love for Sail, though, and no word yet on whether or not the talkie versions are included.

Edit: Also, while we get some info on what's really included in this set, enjoy this giveaway (May require Facebook). 500 people may be lucky enough to receive a 10 dollar GOG game of their choice.

It's not the talkie it's the regular edition of the game.

[Darth Marsden]

So I was right?

[Gibbeynator]

Originally Posted by Icedhope

It's not the talkie it's the regular edition of the game.

I downloaded it, and there IS voice acting in 6.

[Jennifer]

Originally Posted by Gibbeynator

It's Leisure Suit Larry. The 500th release is one of the Leisure Suit Larry collections. It's 10 bucks, and it comes with Larry 1-5, the VGA remake of Larry 1 and the original Softporn Adventure. No Love for Sail, though, and no word yet on whether or not the talkie versions are included.

It's nice to see another classic Sierra series get put up on GOG.com.

I'll be picking this one up for sure (although I'll probably wait for a sale).

[Vainamoinen]

Oh, fuck.

...not my world.

[Gibbeynator]

So, just because the release is done, doesn't mean I'm done for the day. Are you in the group of "people who bought Eador: Genesis" and also in the group of "people from Russia"? You'll be happy to know that Eador: Genesis has been updated to include a Russian language version.

[Jennifer]

Originally Posted by Gibbeynator

Edit: Also, while we get some info on what's really included in this set, enjoy this giveaway (May require Facebook). 500 people may be lucky enough to receive a 10 dollar GOG game of their choice.

Note that it doesn't require Facebook (not completely at least). You can enter with just your e-mail in this one. You get 8 entries, 1 from Facebook, 2 from twitter (1 from tweeting about the giveaway (which you can do once a day for more entries) and 1 from following GOG.com on twitter), and 5 from just filling out a field that asks what GOG.com should do next to improve.

[Gibbeynator]

Looks like GOG spent all of their 'interesting content' points yesterday with Leisure Suit Larry. Today's sale is the "Mid-Winter Variety Promo", which is 60% off a random mish-mash of games.

[Darth Marsden]

Wow. That IS random.

Any idea if Litil Devil is any good? It's piqued my curiosity.

[Gibbeynator]

Oh, I forgot to add This Week in GOG for the recap and the new game clue. Spoiler alert, the clue is for Bard's Tale.

[Gibbeynator]

The only release from GOG today is Conquest: Frontier Wars for $5.99. No big deal, really, we've known it was coming for several weeks now.

Edit: Minor backtrack onto the topic of Leisure Suit Larry. Finally, someone at GOG explained why they included the VGA-talkie version of Larry 6 instead of the SVGA version. And it all boils down to the fact that it didn't run on ScummVM, which they're using for the emulation of the Larry games. Nevermind the fact you can spend 5 minutes on DosBox making it work, it didn't work on ScummVM, so they didn't bother including it.

[inm8#2]

The Bard's Tale is probably coming on Thursday, then.

[Gibbeynator]

Originally Posted by inm8#2

The Bard's Tale is probably coming on Thursday, then.

Bard's Tale AND Strike Suit Zero. Though, since SSZ was a last minute addition to the schedule, we might get a third game.

[inm8#2]

Oooh cool, I wasn't aware of SSZ. Looks like an interesting space sim/action game.

[Gibbeynator]

Still thinking about getting Defender's Quest? Well, now you can, with today's Gem Promo. Get Defender's Quest for a whopping 60% off.

[Gibbeynator]

Sorry, Bard's Tale fans, looks like your sure thing was wrong. Today's release is the Neverwinter Nights 2 Complete bundle, for the launch price of $14.99.

Edit: A bit later than normal, but the other scheduled release of the day, Strike Suit Zero, is now up for the launch price of $15.99. Or, if you remembered to ask for a GOG code, you'll get it for free if you were a Kickstarter backer.

And the next batch of Mac compatible games are up for download. They are Legend of Grimrock, the Blackwell Bundle, Postal 2, Ultima 7, Conquest of the New World, Alpha Centauri, Fallout 2, Terminal Velocity, Freespace and Colonization.