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[Enzo]

Bundles!

I love them! Yes, those crazy sales you all know and love, where you're given the opportunity to pick up a metric shit-ton of games for a ridiculously discounted price. Having one thread per bundle was all well an good when the Humble Bundles were the only ones worth keeping track of. But those were simpler times! In light of the bundles of bundles now available for your game-hoarding pleasure, I propose THE BUNDLE THREAD. Why not bundle these bundles of bundles all in one delicious thread? Pay what you want!

The Big List of Bundles:
The Humble Bundle - Bundle w/Android 6
The Humble Weekly Bundle - Rochard
Indie Royale - Chosen 2 Bundle
The Indie Gala - June Bundle - Creatures and Pirates
Bundle Stars - Atomic Indie Jam!
The Bitcoin Bundle!
Bundle In A Box - No Bundle
The Free Bundle!

Did I miss any noteworthy bundles? Let me know and I'll at them to the list! I'll also try to keep this list up to date with currently active bundles.

...It just seems that, rather than just posting a new thread every time there's a new humble bundle and largely ignoring the rest, it would be useful to have a thread dedicated to currently active bundles - for when new ones drop, when you want to know what's worth getting, or when you have extra keys to give away. Or if you want to discuss the social and ethical ramifications of bundle culture or something, that too. This is Bay12 after all, who knows what the fuck will come up. Just this week I was alerted to the existence of Bundle Stars and the Be Mine bundles, and the ones currently happening have some pretty damn tempting looking games.

To get the ball rolling: Is it worth shelling out the extra money to get Drakensang and Blades of Time in the Be Mine bundle? I already own bloodbowl and the other 2 $5-limit games don't really interest me.

[Hugehead]

Missed The Bitcoin Bundle, minimum for Steam keys is one Bitcent. Most of the games have already been in bundles at some point but it's worth adding.

[Sirus]

That Be Mine bundle looks pretty interesting. The only game in that whole bunch that I already own is Blood Bowl. However, it's a little strange that they're offering a soundtrack for a game that is not in the bundle (ETHER VAPOR) :/

[BigD145]

Dungeons is worthless. Patrician is pretty good. Two Worlds 2 is an improvement over the previous game. Humble Double Fine wasn't worth it if you had Psychonauts. Drakensang is supposed to be good. It has an RPG pen and paper behind it and everyone has their favorite (and least fav) system.

[Catastrophic lolcats]

I'll just give my personal opinions of some of the games on offer here.

Bemine:

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Blood Bowl edition is Legendary and not Chaos Edition so it's obsolete. I also believe it comes with some DRM which Chaos didn't.
Drakensang, pusedo-realtime party based RPG. It's trying to emulate the Infinity Engine games but can't do that with much success. The story and setting is also about as generic as fantasy gets. It's more Bioware than it is Obsidian in that way. Decent enough if you really have a craving for a "Baldur's Gate-lite" but not really much more than that.
Can't really talk about any of the other games since I don't own them, Patrician looks like the most decent.

Bundle Stars

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Shattered Horizon: This was one of the first few games to only have windows 7 support which the community failed to embrace. I've heard it's a fairly good shooter with zero-gravity mechanics. The community died a while back however.
Nuclear Dawn is a source engine game which tried to combine RTS with FPS. It was quite a different and interesting experience but due to a number of factors the game is now considered dead and the lack of anysingleplayer makes this game hard to recommend.
Iron Grip Warlord is a funny little game which combines FPS and Tower Defence. I've ahd a lot of fun with it but the lack of multiplayer community really brings this down. It's a great LAN games to play with friends however.
Planets Under Attack is part of the strange sub genre of Tower Defence. It involves players being in charge of planets that produce a certain amount of units that are sent to either attack other spaceships or planets with a ratio of 1:1 kill/deaths. Personally I found the game that has down this sub genre the best is Galcon Fusion so if you're interested pick that one up instead.
Don't own any of the other games there.

Indie Gala

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Dungeons is a mix between theme park tycoon and Dungeon Keeper. It really disappointed a lot of people when it compared itself to Dungeon Keeper claiming itself to be the successor when the gameplay was nothing similar. In Dungeons you're goal is to make adventures travel through your dungeons having as much fun and adeventure as possible so you can level them up and harvest their souls. Decent if you're looking for a tycoon game but don't expect it to set the world on fire.

Bitcoin Beta:

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Eufloria, see Planets Under Attack in Bundle Stars.
World of Goo, Great game but one every should have by now. If you don't own it I would say it's worth it to throw down a bitcoin cent.
The rest are fairly mediocre experiences. Might be worth throwing down a cent or two if you don't already own them

[Sirus]

That Be Mine bundle looks pretty interesting. The only game in that whole bunch that I already own is Blood Bowl. However, it's a little strange that they're offering a soundtrack for a game that is not in the bundle (ETHER VAPOR) :/

Odds are, Ether Vapor was probably made by the same producer. It could've sweetened the deal for someone out there, raised interest in the title, and didn't really cost them anything, so I see no reason to oppose its inclusion.

I'm not opposed to the inclusion of the soundtrack (the demo tracks sound pretty sweet), I'm confused as to why they didn't include Ether Vapor itself.

Still, I'll probably pick up this bundle. 5+ bucks for several games and albums is a pretty good deal.

[Mickey Blue]

There are also the free bundles (http://www.thefreebundle.com/) which don't really expire (there are more recent ones but so far as I can tell you can download from any of them).  The games are.. What you'd expect for the price, but if they even give you twenty minutes of fun they are worth it.  I haven't played nearly all of them but Antibody is pretty fun.

I bought the Indie Bundle Jam 7 a short while ago, haven't had time to try out all the games yet. 

Planets Under Attack is a fun little game, it's a little twist on tower defense, has easy to pick up and play mechanics and really good aesthetics.  It's also, for me at least, surprisingly difficult.  That said, it's not really that deep and I doubt it will have much staying power.

Ion Assault is an arcade-like space shooter which is (as they say) like asteroids on steroids.  Like asteroids your goal in each level is to destroy all the asteroids (which split into smaller and smaller pieces) while destroying/avoiding enemy spaceships and the like.  I had a good time with it, the aesthetic is nice, the controls are pretty good, and it's just fun.  That said it's pretty short (five levels I think) but then it costs like a buck.

I haven't really tried the others yet, installed and started Two Worlds II and so far it felt pretty "Meh" to me, I figure I'll give it a little bit more time to see if it grabs me but have in the past decided there are too many great games out there to waste my time on 'ok' ones. 

I may buy the bitcoin bundle, amazingly I don't have world of Goo yet (it's one of those games I keep meaning to buy but never getting around to it). 



I'm curious about Dungeons.. I remember the debacle of it's release and how it was touted (by possible them and certainly the fans) that it was going to be the spiritual successor of Dungeon Keeper and failing (spectacularly) to live up to that.. However how is it as a game? It's hard to get a clear review on it given how many boil down to "It's not Dungeon Keeper 3!1!1!!"

[Aoi]

Do Humble Weekly Sales count?

http://www.humblebundle.com/weekly
Alan Wake: Collector’s Edition
Alan Wake’s American Nightmare

[BigD145]

More than one game is a bundle, I'd say. BUT I'd also say these bundles generally have more than just a game and that game's expansion or sequel.

[Aoi]

More than one game is a bundle, I'd say. BUT I'd also say these bundles generally have more than just a game and that game's expansion or sequel.

Yeah; as far as a "bundle" is concerned, it's pretty weak, but as part of the "Humble" brand, I figured it was worth a mention. (Doubly so since I didn't see it elsewhere yet, but I didn't look particularly hard.)

[Enzo]

Awesome, added those bundles I missed. Weekly bundles count, I guess. Close enough.

I'm pretty sure everything in the Bitcoin Bundle has been in a Humble Bundle in the past. But if you missed out and don't have World Of Goo already,that game is amazing.

Just shelled out for Be Mine 8. Why the heck not, it costs as much as a sandwich. If anybody wants the key for Blood Bowl, let me know, since I already have Chaos Edition.

[Mickey Blue]

I'll take it, if nobody else wants it.  Never played it but it looks interesting enough.

[Mephisto]

There's a new Bundle Stars bundle, the Outlaws Bundle. It looks thoroughly meh.

The Zombies vs. Aliens bundle has also come back for a few days. It is about on par with the previous.

[BigD145]

There's a new Bundle Stars bundle, the Outlaws Bundle. It looks thoroughly meh.

The Zombies vs. Aliens bundle has also come back for a few days. It is about on par with the previous.

Yeah. Very meh. Probably wouldn't touch them if they were free.

[ishlilith]

New Humble Bundle,

Little Inferno
Capsized
Dear Esther
Awesomenauts
Thomas was alone

BTA:
Proteus
Hotline Miami


Worth it just for Hotline Miami, best game of last year probably.
Capsized is a bit meh, but little inferno and awesomentauts look fun.