Indie Game Bundle Notice & Discussion Thread [ NEW - Deep Space ]

The Anonymous

Yeah, never heard of any of this stuff before. That game with the cars sounds pretty awesome though, maybe the whole bundle's worth it just for that!

Wyborn

Burnout Paradise might be the best game in the bundle, for real

Edit: Wait the HRC is transphobic?

TychoCelchuuu

Wyborn wrote: »

Burnout Paradise might be the best game in the bundle, for real

Edit: Wait the HRC is transphobic?

I think I played a demo of Burnout Paradise or something years ago (because the game is a few years old now, right?) and the acceleration felt weird and cartoony - it was like the arcadiest possible racing game ever. It made GTA 4 feel like DiRT and DiRT feel like Project CARS or some super realistic racing sim. I'm not sure that's necessarily bad but my feelings at the time were "if this is a game about JUST being in a car, I think I want it to feel more like being in a car." I guess I could enjoy an abstract sort of racing game like F-Zero or something where nothing behaved like real cars, so I should be able to enjoy Burnout Paradise even if the cars behave nothing like cars, but something about it just felt off, and I'm not sure if it was the mismatch of actual cars to hilariously cartoony handling, or whether the cartoony handling itself turned me off completely apart from how weird it made things feel in the semi-realistic setting.

And yes HRC is shitty towards trans* people and has been since its inception. More info here. I think it has gotten a bit better in recent years but not much.

cooljammer00

A lot of those types of places are shitty towards everyone, but ESPECIALLY those who are already ignored or treated poorly, like trans people.

Medium Dave

Wyborn wrote: »

Burnout Paradise might be the best game in the bundle, for real

Edit: Wait the HRC is transphobic?

Burnout Paradise is one of my desert island top 5 games. I fucking love that game. LOVE IT.

Wyborn

It is basically the ultimate arcade racer

AnakinOU

if only the DLC actually worked.

SaraLuna

as a heads-up: burnout, crysis 2 and medal of honor provide separate usable origin keys through steam after you activate them (different from the ones the bundle gives you)
dead space 1 technically does as well, but it's a bit of a pain: you have to install it, dig the key out of your computer's registry, then enter in into one of the ea legacy redemption sites, not origin proper

exis

The only problem with Burnout Paradise is that it's so fucking awesome that I've already played an absurd amount of it on 360. I feel like it would be insane to install on another platform now.

darleysam

That is an exceptional bundle. I don't even think I'll be able to run any of those games on our current PC, so this is a completely pre-emptive buy.

edit: Oh outstanding, didn't realise it also came with the Battlefield 3 and Sims 3 soundtracks. Day = made.

TychoCelchuuu

In a week where EA games, the killer of such studios as Bullfrog and Origin, is running a Humble Bundle, I present to you the least appealing description of a Humble Bundle ever:

This week’s Humble Weekly Sale is a curation of five indie games handpicked by PewDiePie!

The games are good though.

SaraLuna

well, except for McPixel, which I count among the worst games I've ever played

TychoCelchuuu

Hey, the Humble Indie Bundle lets me pay via credit card now. That's cool.

AaronKI

Do either the Origin Bundle or the Weekly Sale hand out individual Steam keys? I know that some of the recent Humble Indie Bundles have done that, but I was bummed to discover the Deep Silver bundle didn't.

TychoCelchuuu

Both give individual Steam keys.

Glal

AaronKI wrote: »

Do either the Origin Bundle or the Weekly Sale hand out individual Steam keys? I know that some of the recent Humble Indie Bundles have done that, but I was bummed to discover the Deep Silver bundle didn't.

There are little symbols next to game thumbnails that denote which service that particular game is on.

TychoCelchuuu

The question was whether you get a Steam key per game, not whether you get Steam keys at all.

Frem

From Reddit:

According to steam database, keys for Dead space 2, medal of honor airborne, bulletstorm, and red alert 3 uprising were all updated at the same time as the other steam games in bundle so they will probably be added to beat the average in a few days.

Well, red alert 3's standalone single-player-only expansion is exciting.

Wyborn

I love Bulletstorm bro

TychoCelchuuu

Medal of Honor Airborne is a fine generic WW2 FPS. Dead Space 2 is pretty great.

testsubject23

I said to myself, "HAH! Humble bundle! You failed this time, I own most of those games and will not install Origin! Today, I keep my money!"
And then I saw the weekly deal, and hung my head, and clicked "Buy Now".
Well played, Humble Bundle, well played.

Panda4You

Never played RA3, and now that I've got some real rts experience with sc2 it'll be fun to try something different

TychoCelchuuu

New Indie Royale! I'll pick this one up for Retrovirus and Signal Ops.

Frem

Don't the Humble Bundle extras usually unlock after the 7-days-to-go mark? It's been a week. :-(

Incindium

Frem wrote: »

Don't the Humble Bundle extras usually unlock after the 7-days-to-go mark? It's been a week. :-(

The weekly sale ends in 20 hours and the Humble Bundle has 6 days 20 hours so maybe then( in ~20 hours)?

Bullio

Frem wrote: »

From Reddit:

According to steam database, keys for Dead space 2, medal of honor airborne, bulletstorm, and red alert 3 uprising were all updated at the same time as the other steam games in bundle so they will probably be added to beat the average in a few days.

Well, red alert 3's standalone single-player-only expansion is exciting.

Too bad you won't be able to buy Bulletstorm's DLC after tonight and the game itself will probably end up dead when GFWL shuts down. You might be able to play it in offline mode, but I never got it to work.

Would be cool if BS's DLC was included, though.

AaronKI

The EA Extras are up: C&C: Red Alert 3 Uprising (Steam/Origin) and Populous (Origin).

lowlylowlycook

Oh god, I figured I was making a mistake by buying games that had to be on Origin. But for charity that was OK.

It turns out that the Sims uses a totally different system.

EA this is why everyone hates you.

[edit] Maybe not. According to the HB page it should be the same but when I try to log in it doesn't work or even tell me that the password is wrong/whatever.

Still it's worth hating EA for not integrating this into Origin.

TychoCelchuuu

CHECK THIS SHIT OUT. Great Paradox bundle. Leviathan Warships, Crusader Kings 2, Magicka...

Also you can pay $125 for basically every game Paradox has ever made. That should drive up their average.

Drake

Just dropping in to say that the current Groupees Be Mine bundle is totally worth it for Ring Runner. I'm twenty hours into the campaign and having a great time fitting up various ships for different combat roles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AKu48jZnzo

Wyborn

Oh shit a comedy bundle with two shows by Patrice O'Neal!

You guys Patrice O'Neal was hilarious

SaraLuna

GOG is doing a pick 5 for 80% off thing.
there's some good stuff in there.

Medium Dave

pablo_price wrote: »

GOG is doing a pick 5 for 80% off thing.
there's some good stuff in there.

Anyone got opinions on Omerta and Driftmoon?

SkutSkut

I liked Omerta, it's not a super complicated game but if you like the setting it's definitely worth it.

darleysam

Apple Jack 1 + 2 are in the Indie Royale bundle. Buy it now, you sluts: http://www.indieroyale.com/

SaraLuna

new mainline humble bundle is up.

it's full of super popular games that everyone already owns

rikdaly

I don't have Brutal Legend or Fez so it's a great deal for me

Frem

Note that this bundle is slightly different. You can't get the games added in the second week just by buying early anymore; now you actually have to BTA.

LostNinja

My humble bundle steam key for eets munchies isn't working, has anyone else had this problem?

Frem

LostNinja wrote: »

My humble bundle steam key for eets munchies isn't working, has anyone else had this problem?

Yes. I emailed them and got back a form email immediately saying to restart Steam. It worked after that.