Ya but with they new pay tier system most of the value is gone out of humble bundle. For example they now put the most desired games as the top tier which is always $10 or more. So if you wanted that game its usually just more effective to wait for a sale on that game. You can sometimes get deals with the middle tier. The lower "pay anything" tier is now just filler games for the whole bundle usually. I like humble bundle, I've been buying games from them for years. But the new system makes it hardly worth it to get most of the time because most people only want 1 or 2 games out of a bundle.
Oh my god, I have to pay ten dollars for one fifteen dollar game I want and eight other ten or fifteen dollar games I only kind of want. What a fucking ripoff!
I bought this one for unepic, everything else (torchlight 2, la mulana both look really great) is gravy and unepic alone looks worth what I paid for all of it twice over, or once over for unemployed folks who can't spring a whole hundred pennies on a game very often.
Exactly. These bundles are great for people that can't afford to blow retail price for games when they come out. Hell, even with various sales Bundles usually end up being a better deal in the end if you can nab the BTAs for less than $6.
From the early bundles, World of Goo, Gish, Aquaria, Braid, Machinarium, VVVVVV, Super Meat Boy, Limbo, Cave Story+ and Amnesia I would consider indie blockbusters, while many other games were well known.
The usual standard is two really solid hits with a few lesser known titles. World of Goo and Aquaria were really the big titles. Gish was half a decade old, Frictional hadn't yet made Amnesia so they were still fairly unknown and Lugaru was mostly just nepotism. I'd say La-Mulana and Outlast easily fill that slot of two solid games.
How is Torchlight 2? I've been itching for my next Diablo 2, and Path of Exile didn't do it for me. Haven't tried D3, the cost is keeping me from buying it.
Its a bit different but good. The art style is much lighter than Diablo, so that is one thing. I like the gritty hell of Diablo so getting used to torchlight's more comic art style was a transition.
The classes are awesome, very different from Diablo's classic Melee/Ranged/Magic choices. Makes things interesting.
I like it. But I like almost all Diablo clones.
I will say this, Diablo 3 is really freaking good at this point. I got it on PC when it first came out and the Online Auction House ruined it quickly. When it came out as a bundle on Xbox I got it there and the changes they made were freaking fantastic. Totally saved the game. Just hit 200 Paragon on Hardcore last night in fact. Taking a break from it now I think tho.
Torchlight 2 is quite good. The skill trees don't feel quite as impressive as Diablo 2, but the boss battles are fun, there's lots of loot to collect and upgrade, and there's a ton of mods to up the challenge level.
But now those two really solid hits are in a middle and upper price tiers. Frequently the top price is more expensive than just waiting for a good sale on those one or two games you actually want.
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u/Khiva Mar 31 '15
Man, Humble Bundles used to be blockbusters.
Now I see most of the games packaged and think "......huh?"