oh shit i need bayonetta too
― qualx, Saturday, 24 June 2017 01:13 (six years ago) link
https://www.humblebundle.com/care-packagelimited availability mega sale$30 or more for starbound, herstory, stardew valley, darkest dungeon, duck game, minecraft telltale, pony island, van helsing, arma gold, shadowrun, psychonauts, machinarium, magicka, kholat, lots more
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 20:28 (six years ago) link
Yup. I have almost all of these games, but I like that it's 100% to charity and will buy immediately
― Nhex, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 20:39 (six years ago) link
bought that b/c I just got a Steam Link w/ that super cheap deal and haven't played any of these
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 20:41 (six years ago) link
I've never used Gog before, but they have a Winter sale right now, and I got an account just to pick up Grim Fandango for FREE.I loved this game when it came out and played it through a number of times. Wasn't tempted to buy the remaster though, as I've not had all that great an experience revisited adventure games that I played a lot in the 90s all that much. I remember them /too/ well, I guess. Still, this might be new enough that I didn't compulsively replay it the way my friends and I did with Day of the Tentacle.
Browsing GOG is weird—just the idea that someone might be willing to pay 10 bucks for Jazz Jackrabbit in 2017.I'm half-tempted to buy "Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet" now. I remember liking its atmosphere, but not really getting anywhere with it. My English might still have been too poor to understand everything, but the top review on Gog does start off by saying "This game is very hard. I often found it unclear what needed to be done to progress."
Also, I should probably try The Dig once. It's the only Lucasfilm/Lucasarts adventure game I never played. I don't know if it just seemed too serious, or if I just never had the chance. I also never got to the end of the incredibly weird Zak McKracken. I do recall becoming a seagull at one point, and that the game came with a newspaper with articles like "Two-headed squirrel attacks two campers at once!"
Welp, this went off the rails. Go get Grim Fandango!
― Øystein, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 23:04 (six years ago) link
GOG is still worth supporting as a)they still seem to be the first to get new remasters/ports of classic stuff to work again before it eventually hits Steam months later, b)their general philosophy is good and c)Steam could really use a little competition
― Nhex, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 23:12 (six years ago) link
i like the dig a lot. good atmosphere. reminds me of infocom's starcross-- lots of glyphs. when i was a kid i even read the novelization.
i usually buy from gog given the choice.
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 23:31 (six years ago) link
it def lacks the lucasarts tone, but so does loom actually.
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 23:32 (six years ago) link
yeah, the dig often gets overlooked but it’s pretty good, and hints at a direction other adventure games didn’t really follow up on - def worth giving it a try
― dipso inferno (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 23:32 (six years ago) link
puzzle and atmospherewise it was closer to something like riven than it was to the house style. but with nicely animated+voiced puppet theater instead of amateur fmv. (riven is a masterpiece tho.)
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 23:57 (six years ago) link
jazz jackrabbit was pirated on the forums of every bbs i dialed into in the 90s
― Mordy, Thursday, 14 December 2017 00:33 (six years ago) link
am i the only ilxor who spent a lot of time playing bbs doors games? iirc there are maybe some tradewars players maybe. i should really start a thread.
― Mordy, Thursday, 14 December 2017 00:34 (six years ago) link
i had tradewars and a bunch of other doors on my bbs
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 14 December 2017 00:44 (six years ago) link
Legend of the red dragon, the local college's VAX jam
― Dan I., Thursday, 14 December 2017 02:57 (six years ago) link
Also apparently a lot less obscure than I'd always thought!
― Dan I., Thursday, 14 December 2017 02:59 (six years ago) link
the bbs's i was most commonly on had lord, p:teos, tradewars, sometimes majormud. i loved finding a bbs that had a ton of expansions for lord setup bc all these games were moved limited iirc. maybe not majormud which was more of a conventional mud but on a bbs.
― Mordy, Thursday, 14 December 2017 03:03 (six years ago) link
Thanks oystein. Been meaning to get around to GF since forever ago
― calstars, Thursday, 14 December 2017 03:37 (six years ago) link
re: Gog support, yeah, I've never given digital purchases much of a thought. When I got back into games three years ago, I just got steam and bought a buncha stuff, and since then I've pretty much uncritically bought everything there. The DRM question isn't important to me, I admit, but I certainly see the value of DRM-free softare. I didn't realize GOG actively worked to not only keep old games available, but also to make them playable on newer hardware. That's certainly worth supporting!
Loom and The Dig really do stand in the Lucasarts adventure catalog as their odd attempts at trying something other than comedy. The Indy games were somewhere between. I never liked Loom, but am glad to hear some of you repping for The Dig. Just bought it, so now I have an adventure game for some of the quiet days during the holiday.
― Øystein, Thursday, 14 December 2017 14:23 (six years ago) link
i have a decent pile of Gog games, like their business model and I've used them for older stuff when the price is right just to save some of the hassle of trying to get things to run properly thru Dosbox
― The Dearth of Stollen (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 14 December 2017 14:33 (six years ago) link
okay I have a steam key going to anyone who wants it for :
Warhammer: Vermintide Dwarf Helmet DLC
I could just put the link here and whoever clicks it first I guess. Or is that bad form?
― In space, pizza sends out for YOU (Ste), Thursday, 28 December 2017 12:44 (six years ago) link
there's a thread for that: First Come, First Served: A Thread for Offering Duplicate Games from Bundle Sales as Gifts
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 28 December 2017 15:01 (six years ago) link
somewhat decent bundle here. it has gabriel knight 1 remastered and the latest deponia game. under $8.
https://www.indiegala.com/point-and-click-definitive-bundle
― adam the (abanana), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 20:11 (six years ago) link
yup, i got a bundle copy through forum dudes. at Happy Hour prices it's ~$2
― Nhex, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:05 (six years ago) link
"strategy bundle" looks great
https://www.humblebundle.com/games/strategy-bundle
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 19:13 (six years ago) link
Might go Tier 3 for Tooth and Tail
― Nhex, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 21:17 (six years ago) link
But I probably shouldn't considering my massive backlog, including X-COM 1.5 and 2
Tooth and Tail is great - anthropomorphic animals waging marxist class warfare RTS
― Mordy, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 21:26 (six years ago) link
(maybe great is selling it too high - but it's def worth a play - and endless space 2 comes in the same tier!)
― Mordy, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 21:27 (six years ago) link
Too many games, as usual. Any cheap standouts on Steam for the Summer sale?
― Nhex, Sunday, 1 July 2018 06:41 (five years ago) link
it really depends on what you're into. i bought chip's challenge 1&2 for a dollar.
― adam the (abanana), Sunday, 1 July 2018 06:46 (five years ago) link
Yeah there's too many
I have so far bought:Objects in Space - typical space trade/buy type game using lots of terminal type interfaces to interact with ship functions and port computers. Like it a lot so far.
3030 Deathwar Redux - 2d retro version of the above, nice ship combat though
Ultima Martian Dreams (free on GOG) - Ultima VI engine based/Mars version
I'm tempted with Watchdogs 2, it's standing now at 67% off !
― In space, pizza sends out for YOU (Ste), Sunday, 1 July 2018 10:21 (five years ago) link
Bought a bunch of extra tables for Pinball FX but nothing else.
― JimD, Sunday, 1 July 2018 16:17 (five years ago) link
bought Ori and Cuphead, lol who needs an xbox. also took a punt on Speed Dating For Ghosts, love the artstyle and just the idea of it all
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 2 July 2018 09:22 (five years ago) link
bundle of 1990s PC games with a lot of graphic adventureshttps://groupees.com/remutexx
I Have No Mouth etc., Starship Titanic and more for under $3
― adam the (abanana), Friday, 20 July 2018 18:54 (five years ago) link
if you've never played I Have No Mouth i highly recommend it. i've never heard the original soundtrack bc the copy i had the sound didn't work so i'll always remember it as tho it were scored by thom yorke's the eraser
― Mordy, Friday, 20 July 2018 19:12 (five years ago) link
finally bought DOOM for $20
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 20 July 2018 21:09 (five years ago) link
been trying this year not to add to the infinite backlog, but i kinda like that Unity bundle and having a bunch of assets I will never, ever use as I have no idea how to program Unity
but Shadows of the Shogun and Torment look good, so fly away $15...
― Nhex, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 09:24 (five years ago) link
I think Unity's pretty easy to learn! (at least, like, comparable to Unreal, I think?)
― vote no on ilxit (Will M.), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 13:25 (five years ago) link
LootCrate started their own Humble Monthly Bundle competitor, LootPlay. Same idea - one title revealed, the remaining games are a mystery.https://www.lootcrate.com/crates/loot-play
― Nhex, Thursday, 18 October 2018 04:09 (five years ago) link
very easy to get some basic stuff going but you need to know c# for collision/events etc
― In space, pizza sends out for YOU (Ste), Sunday, 21 October 2018 11:53 (five years ago) link
I knew Hyper Light Drifter was an inevitable inclusion - currently in tier 3 of this year's Day of the Devs bundle at a reasonable $12 (with Minit!)
― Nhex, Saturday, 27 October 2018 21:19 (five years ago) link
yw https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/subnautica
― Mordy, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
it starts...
― Dan I., Thursday, 20 December 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link
Catherine just released on Steam, although it's "Catherine Classic" meaning it's prob the same game as on PS3 and 360, but Atlus is soon releasing an expanded one for PS4 (and PS Vita apparently?! Lol) so might just be worth waiting for that. Still, if it's a game yr interested in and yr on PC only, there you go!
Also apparently Ubi has jumped ship from Steam to Epic Games launcher/store thing?
― suggest boban (Will M.), Thursday, 10 January 2019 17:04 (five years ago) link
i thought ubi already had their own launcher
― ciderpress, Thursday, 10 January 2019 17:22 (five years ago) link
They do, but the install base probably sucks
― Nhex, Thursday, 10 January 2019 22:32 (five years ago) link
A Story About My Uncle is free on Steam today.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Sunday, 13 January 2019 14:54 (five years ago) link
Looks like the free Humble bundle deal is gone for that game, but it's still half off...
― Dan I., Sunday, 13 January 2019 20:04 (five years ago) link
haven't paid for a bundle in a while but the strategy one looks good -- i've wanted to grab stellaris for a while and niche looks interesting too
― Mordy, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 21:33 (five years ago) link
Worth going up $5 to get CLANNAD from the current Humble Hot Date bundle?
― Nhex, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 01:44 (five years ago) link