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karl i recognized your avatar as soon as i saw it! me and blathers are tight right now, due to my recent efforts opening up something...(don't want to reveal it now, but it's big!)

the other one was not a zach sorry for the mislead

zchyrs will you also peek? I will give you pears

zchrys I’ve decided your name is Zach Yaris hope that’s ok

i've always read it as zach years

p sure it’s Zachy Rose guys

zochi yarosi

I'm not peeking, but I am staring with weirdo bug-eyes in my avatar. What's up, y'all

pretty amazing coronavirus fundraiser/humble bundle going on now: https://www.humblebundle.com/conquer-covid19-bundle

A Good Snowman is Hard to Build
A Mortician’s Tale
Agents of Mayhem
Alien Spidy
Broken Age
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
Brutal Legend
Darksiders Deathinitive Edition
Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition
Double Fine Adventure
DUCATI - 90th Anniversary
Europa Universalis IV
Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remastered
GNOG
Hacknet
HIVESWAP: Act 1
Hollow Knight
Into the Breach
Jackbox Part Pack 2
Killing Floor 2
Lego Batman 3
LostWinds
Magicka
Pac-Man Championship Edition 2
Party Hard
Pikuniku
Psychonauts
Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
Speed Brawl
Sniper Elite III
Stealth Inc 2
Stick Fight: The Game
Super Hexagon
SUPERHOT
This is the Police
Totally accurate Battle Simulator
Tropico 4
Undertale
VVVVVV
The Witness
Wizard of Legend
World of Goo
Worms Revolution
Zombotron (limited keys)

plus some ebooks and other stuff. all the games above are for PC, but many of them are also for Mac, if you click the link

$30 (or more, if you want to donate more) for all that

i can tell you, europa universalis IV alone is worth well over $600,000, so that's a great deal

Hollow Knight is itself worth $60, but apparently EUIV has stolen its thunder.

Hollow Knight is worth two, three quid

Hollow Knight is worth over $450,000, easily

this entire bundle is worth nearly $22.4M

ok, that's ridiculous, since that would be more than $700k per game.

the bundle is easily worth over $8.2M

and you multiply that by the enjoyment factor, to come up with the "$ per fun times" unit, it's off the charts

this is the police, Lego Batman, let’s throw in another 50p each for those .. altogether this is about £1.38 of games

...actually you divide that by the total enjoyment. my point is that this is a helluva deal

the only problem with it is that i own all the good games in it already

i own all the fair-to-middling games in it

i too have made the deadly mistake of buying all the good games before they show up in charity bundles

yeah, i've already played most of the ones i'm interested in. but of those:

all-timers:
Europa Universalis IV
Hollow Knight
Undertale
The Witness
Pac-Man Championship Edition 2

pretttttty good:
Into the Breach
Jackbox Part Pack 2
World of Goo
Worms Revolution

Notable:
Super Hexagon
SUPERHOT
Tropico 4
VVVVVV
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons (this game sucks, but you can only play couch co-op, split screen style, and it's fun in a kind of B-movie way. BEWARE: near the end of the game, out of nowhere, it turns into a rip-off of the shooting sections of uncharted games. it's sudden and inexplicable, and then all of a sudden after several hours of walking around slowly and pushing ladders and shit, you're tasked with dealing with pretty advanced AI that's shooting from you at all directions. it's jarring and terrible and bad.

Games I haven't played and I'm curious about:

Psychonauts
Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remastered
Darksiders Deathinitive Edition

i think you're mixing brothers up with that newer game by the same guy. brothers is the single player one where you're controlling both chars via the two sticks. maybe theres a coop mode idk

oh shit, you're right! whoops. was that made by the same guy?

the one i was talking about was the prison break one, A Way Out. and come on, those guys were practically brothers after all they went through together

darksiders is just edgy dark fantasy zelda

psychonauts was a big deal at the time but i suspect it's aged dreadfully like all non mario 3d platform/adventure games

take em if you want em

Into the Breach
4Y8KY-BL8XN-8NY2P

Superhot
4P8CM-E4LGF-VNI3V

Lego Batman 3
4B94F-VTXTE-IPANQ

Darksiders 2
48Y3J-ACFH5-I5PXD

Darksiders Warmastered Edition
3Z8ZK-PYG7Q-TY6V0

Brothers a Tale of Two Sons
45L0K-AM63J-R8NPY

Psychonauts
IM3N0-2L2AH-GLC6M

feel like there was a thread to post spare codes but i can't find it

I took Lego Batman 3. Thanks!

I've grabbed Into the Breach, thanks!

I played Psychonauts a few years back, so not that recently but well after its time. The controls are p. cumbersome and the graphics are dated but I still found the world charming. That said, I only got through the first couple of levels and one of those was a real chore with the controls. Apparently that's the most painful level controls-wise, so I kind of still want to revisit it with the aim of finishing it, but I might just watch someone else do so on youtube instead.

(As an aging nerd it was also nice to hear the Invader Zim voice actor again, but that may not be a super draw for normals or people with functioning taste cells)

Anyway I have 60% of these games, which is maybe notable in itself since I generally only get games from bundles and for <£5 in Steam sales, and the only one I actively want is Undertale which has a regular Steam price of ~1/5 of the bundle price, buuut, it's a good cause AFAIK, so will probably go in for it.

PS spare key thread is here -- First Come, First Served: A Thread for Offering Duplicate Games from Bundle Sales as Gifts -- but itt is probably as good a place anyway

Psychonauts is pretty classic, I'd say - a lot of it is the writing, but it's also got some great level design (Lungfishopolis, Waterloo World, Velvetopia, and especially the Milkman Conspiracy)

it's an all time fave for me but another i wouldn't want to go back to

agree in that it's great but hard to argue going back to at this point, unless you REALLY love 3D adventure stage setpieces and don't mind schlepping through a lot of mediocre/bad platforming to get to the beautiful bits

also the best shit is almost all in the second half (considerably!) so it takes some time to get to it

just in case anyone else missed the coint and plick rollout, like me:

POLL is YOU: Thirteenth Coint and Plick results (best games of 2019)

I took Darksiders 2, many thanks!

i bought thimbleweed park on sale for $8 on the switch and have been enjoying it. a very faithful homage to lucasfilm games point-and-click adventure games, made by the creators of maniac mansion and secret of monkey island, with all the fun/frustration/terrible humor that implies.

i really enjoyed the first half of it and hated most of the 2nd half

ha well maybe i'm not halfway through yet.

it's my favorite of the many lucasarts nostalgia adventures.

now that i can focus on literally any other thread...

what me playing now:

- Control. If I had played this sooner it would possibly have ended up on my disappointments list. I'm not far yet. The art direction is obviously next level but the dialogue, the shooting, the overwhelming linearity/killbox/lackluster pick-up-and-read environmental storytelling... I want to like it but so far it's leaving me cold. Maybe I'll change my opinion later in. I hate that you unlock the throwy power and they immediately give you a boss who automatically dodges throws. Wtf is that. Just unlocked evade, which like... how you don't get that in the first 30 minutes is beyond me. Anyway.
- Antimatter Dimensions. It's free and it was on the rollout, so I figured what the heck. I guess it'd be a cool way to teach kinda how dimensions work? Shame all of the "jokes" are pepe trash
- Animal Crossing. I've never had CBD but I imagine this is what it feels like. My heart rate has never been lower, this is a delight. Unfort introduced it to my partner tho so uhhhh who knows how much more I'll get to play lol

yes you have to get further in - i was also disappointed in the beginning but it opened up

i shall trust you and keep going (i guess i would've anyway, i bought it haha)

I'll just keep playing with more ~hope~

First time i played it, I gave up before the real game actually starts. You need to at least get to the challenges.

Cat Quest. Pretty nice and cute little game, like a baby Diablo with Paper Mario-style.
I thought it was mobile-focused based on its look, but it's definitely geared towards pad control.

hello fellow gamerz, peace and health to you all.

i finished Outer Worlds; i'd give it a C+. it scratched a bit of the New Vegas itch. some of the design decisions, idk, there's 3 kinds of ammo and like 150 kinds of food. pretty good v/o tho, thankfully.

i finally gave up my daily challenge gold streak in read dead online. if any new content rolls out i'll get back in the saddle (yes sorry). after i could afford to put together 10 outfits i liked my motivation kind of fell off truth be told.

i beat control over the weekend (it's great) and just started outer wilds. died twice so far. the controlling is a little frustrating so far but i'll stick with it.

i was thinking i'd try outer worlds afterwards maybe... there's always lots to play

The controls in Outer Wilds (the names of these games...) are sensitive but you get better with practice, generally.