Topic: Humble Indie Bundles. All of them. (Read 2982 times)

LTK · « **on:** 20 Apr 2012, 04:03 »

Find the latest news at http://www.humblebundle.com/ and see Botanicula here and utterly fail at keeping from smiling.

With yesterday's release of the Humble Botanicula Debut - one of those games that's impossible to remember how to spell - Amanita Designs provides a stunning display of self-sacrifice (or at least revenue-sacrifice) by making the game available for a name-your-price immediately after launch, including Machinarium and Samorost 2, with a significant cut going to a charity that conserves vulnerable habitats. In doing so, they're effectively giving up at least half of the revenue they would have received by means of conventional sales, provided that the bundle sells for the same ten dollars as the actual game, which is by no means a guarantee. That, I think you'll agree, is a pretty damn admirable course of action.

But as it turns out, GOG.com had been accepting pre-orders for Botanicula at nine dollars each. People got a bit miffed to discover that at the moment of release, they could have gotten Botanulica plus three other games plus a movie for roughly the same price. So what does GOG do? Well, instead of saying "Buy the humble bundle if you want it so badly, you stingy jerks", they went ahead gave every pre-orderer a download for a soundtrack and artbook, Machinarium, and also a copy of The Witcher 1 so putting their faith into a pre-order will get them something not included in the Bundle. That's GOG for you. Makes me seriously reconsider buying any game from anyone else ever again.

Anyway, Botanicula looks like a fantastic game and I'll be putting ten dollars down for the bundle as soon as I'm able, and I think you should do the same. Here is a first impressions. I laughed the entire way through.

LTK · « **Reply #1 on:** 07 Jun 2012, 11:28 »

Humble Indie Bundle number five contains:

Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Bastion
Braid
Limbo
Lone Survivor
Psychonauts
Super Meat Boy
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery

In other words, the best deal of all time. 0% hyperbole. I'm only barely able to restrain the torrent of exclamation marks I want to put in this post.

ackblom12 · « **Reply #2 on:** 07 Jun 2012, 11:48 »

Jesus christ this is amazing...

If I didn't already own every single one of those games I would be whipping my wallet out.

LTK · « **Reply #3 on:** 07 Jun 2012, 01:09 »

And how could I forget showing you the trailer?

Look who learned to link to full-window youtube videos.

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #4 on:** 07 Jun 2012, 11:29 »

Easily the best HIB yet! "Limbo" alone puts it over the top (I really love that game a whole lot).

LTK · « **Reply #5 on:** 14 Jun 2012, 11:40 »

Limbo is nice, but it doesn't compare to Bastion. One of the best games I've ever played.

Bundle just crossed five million dollars with four hours to go. Holy moly.

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #6 on:** 14 Jun 2012, 05:06 »

$5.1 million in total! I think it's really great that this model works so well and that so many developers are willing to offer up their games for it.

I've only played Bastion for a little while. It's fun, but if that narration keeps up for the entire thing I'm not sure I can handle it. It bugs me and I really don't get the point of it.

Gregorio · « **Reply #7 on:** 14 Jun 2012, 10:51 »

You are making me rage, but I gush so much about Bastion that I'm almost tired of it

.

LTK · « **Reply #8 on:** 15 Aug 2012, 02:27 »

Humble Bundle 3 for Android has just released. Five games, three of which can be played on Android phones: Fieldrunners, BIT.TRIP BEAT and Spirits. The other two, Spacechem and Uplink need something bigger: they don't work on phones, but they do on tablets. Also on Windows, Mac and Linux, but you knew that. Just in time for me to receive an Android phone to install them on!

I also just noticed that it's possible to exactly determine the amount of money that goes to the different developers and the different charities. I had no idea you could do that! Apparently that's been around since bundle number four. Now, given that I already own Spacechem, I could decide to not cut in Zachtronics on the money I paid for the bundle. But I won't do that, because Spacechem is awesome. Still, it's good to have the option.

On a slightly different note, I see that there are payment options for Paypal, Amazon, and Google for the Bundle. Now, Paypal is known for some very unscrupulous business practices, so it's best to avoid paying their fees whenever possible. I don't know if the other two monoliths Amazon payments and Google checkout have any similar bad things to their name, so please inform me if they do.

Omega Entity · « **Reply #9 on:** 15 Aug 2012, 05:39 »

Amazon doesn't charge you anything to pay through them.

LTK · « **Reply #10 on:** 16 Aug 2012, 04:23 »

Neither does Paypal, but they do charge Humble Inc. a transaction fee, which I assume Amazon and Google do as well. They can't very well offer a transaction service for free, can they?

Omega Entity · « **Reply #11 on:** 16 Aug 2012, 08:39 »

That, I don't know.

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #12 on:** 18 Sep 2012, 03:29 »

VI is out! https://www.humblebundle.com/

Torchlight alone makes this one amazing. The other games don't seem quite as great but I'm sure there's some fun stuff in here anyway. V was so good that I didn't expect this one to top it, and I think on a game-by-game basis it doesn't, but thanks to Torchlight I'm not thinking twice about buying it.

LTK · « **Reply #13 on:** 18 Sep 2012, 11:26 »

I know that Dustforce is an excellent action-platformer, Vessel is a puzzle platformer with fluid mechanics, and Rochard is also a platformer starring, I think, a redneck. But I have actually played Shatter and it's frankly an amazing take on a breakout clone. It has outstanding music, awesome visuals, and excellent mechanics. It's really a great modern arcade game.

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #14 on:** 01 Oct 2012, 10:04 »

I just bought the bundle. Now I just have to wait a year for the games to download. It would also have helped if I'd checked the system requirements before I did so.

LTK · « **Reply #15 on:** 19 Dec 2012, 02:24 »

I think I missed posting about an Android bundle before, but now there is the HIB 7. It's worth getting for Legend of Grimrock alone.

LTK · « **Reply #16 on:** 30 Dec 2012, 05:55 »

Cave Story+, the Basement Collection, and Offspring Fling! have been added to the bundle.

I am having so much fun with Cave Story+!

LTK · « **Reply #17 on:** 31 May 2013, 06:30 »

Holy moly, the HIB 8 has Hotline Miami, Proteus, Little Inferno, Awesomenauts, Capsized, Thomas Was Alone and Dear Esther. It's a Frankenstein's monster of the gamiest games combined with the least gamey of games.

Proteus is an ambient musical exploration game, Dear Esther a narrated exploration game, and Thomas Was Alone is a narrated platformer populated by a bunch of 2D geometric shapes who each have more personality than the last ten high-poly, ultra-HD triple-A game characters you can think of combined.

Hotline Miami is a hyperviolent top-down shooter/brawler, Capsized is an action platformer with a lot of shooting of aliens, Awesomenauts is a 2D sidescrolling DOTAlike, and Little Inferno is a satire of Facebook 'social' games.

Also, the Humble Weekly deal is all of Telltale's adventure games, most notably the entire highly acclaimed Walking Dead series. The current average is just over $4 for the bunch.

I'm actually not quite sure which one is the better deal. So maybe do what I do and buy them both.

Game and Watch Forever · « **Reply #18 on:** 31 May 2013, 07:14 »

Already have TWD, Sam & Max, and Poker Night at the Inventory. The others don't interest me, so I'll pass on the TellTale one. But if you don't have them already, I highly recommend them.

I'll probably get the other one though. I have Hotline Miami (still need to get around to playing it) and access to Little Inferno, but the others look interesting enough to throw some money. I'm particularly interested in Thomas Was Alone. I loved Bastion to death, so it's awesome to see another game take a narrated approach as well. And the artsy gamer in me really wants to give Dear Esther a couple tries.

de_la_Nae · « **Reply #19 on:** 03 Jun 2013, 05:12 »

I picked up the bundle and have slowly been getting around to them. Awesomenauts is a fun little diversion. Hotline Miami is pretty wicked, and unsettling at the same time (that's a plus generally in my book). Hadn't gotten to the others yet.

de_la_Nae · « **Reply #20 on:** 04 Jun 2013, 03:46 »

Thomas Was Alone is good.

Humble Bundle 8 just had 4 games added to it. If you already purchased the Bundle you have been granted access, so I hope you saved your receipt and download URL.

LTK · « **Reply #21 on:** 04 Jun 2013, 04:03 »

I hope so too, because they're the only way of getting to your games after you've paid for them. I have an account on Humble that holds all of my bundle purchases as well as the games bought from the developers using their store. The list is starting to get unmanagable.

The additional games are Tiny & Big in Grandpa's Leftovers (really weird physics and destruction-based 3D puzzle platformer), English Country Tune (bastard hard puzzle game), Intrustion 2 (2D side-scrolling robo-shooter), and Oil Rush (naval strategy game).

I'm looking forward to playing those as well. With maybe the exception of Oil Rush, all of those games are ones that I've learned about and that I would want to play, but not enough that I would pay for them. Which is why I love the Humble Indie Bundle.

I'm feeling slightly bad for not giving them more money, really...

Game and Watch Forever · « **Reply #22 on:** 04 Jun 2013, 04:18 »

.... Intrusion 2 has airships WITH FUCKING ARMS!

I have no idea why this amuses me so much. I finally got around to getting it. I made an account a while ago since I didn't want to miss out on the game sales. I still need to actually download all this video game music I've apparently acquired...

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