But it’s a dollar moooooooore!
It’s dumb, but I just don’t want all those other games (I already have the old JA games), so I have been avoiding that option for now…
I don’t think anyone at GOG.com suspected the sale would be anywhere near as successful as it was. Remember, they originally were going to sell 101 different games (and give very limited quantities of some of the away for free) over the course of what they expected to be 24 hours or more. I expect that they were blown away when the gaming public ate through those 101 offers (plus freebies) in under 6 hours. This isn’t GOG laughing and saying “Fuck you!” to anyone, it’s GOG trying something new and kind of cool, and being totally unprepared for the reception it got. To their credit, they repaeated nearly every deal, some more than twice, so that people who missed out on the original listings could have a shot at some deals. And yes, the freebies were ridiculously difficult to score (though again in their defense I did manage to nab Defender’s Quest free and I am not a bot nor a hacker), but that is the nature of premium freebies.
Honestly, I thought the whole thing was pretty awesome. I really liked that many of the featured items were classics like Ultima 7, Wing Commander IV and the MOO games. It’s completely awesome that I saw 1000 copies of Planescape : Torment sell out in less than 3 minutes. I also think it’s a huge win for developers. Larian has to be delighted to have seen nearly 1000 copies of Divinity Dragon Commander sell for $22 each throughout the sale.
I would defintely support this kind of sale on GOG again in the future, especially if they take what they’ve learned from the experience and use it to make the next sale a better experience for everyone.
If you don’t already own it, Galaxy on Fire 2 HD is worth that extra $1.
Giaddon
4046
New set of Humble Store deals, some good stuff, including Blacklist for $30, FTL for $3.40, plenty more.
It actually starts tomorrow (Saturday).
Yeah, I figured something might have been up, since I was hearing reports that the Games for Gold link on the dashboard had updated but that IB was still showing at full price.
And its back one last time @$5. 700+ copies left as I write this. I don’t have it. Should I? I’ve already spent $17 in this sale. No, I mustn’t. Is mustn’t a word?
Decisions, decisions…
KiloOhm
4050
You could get with a bunch of other games on the humble weekly sale.
Well, except Woot-Offs have an actual limited quantity of items.
Plus it’s the internet. Fucking everything makes somebody angry or bitter.
This post made me angry and bitter. I’m not sure why.
So I’m thinking about buying both the Humble Bundleand theHumble Weekly sale, but neither of them have games that are really on my wishlists… And, if they were discussed in this thread, I must’ve missed it amidst all of the GoG-sale hullabaloo.
Does anyone want to talk me into, or out of, either sale?
For the HB:
I already own the Fear games (not sure if I’ll ever play them. I like FPS but I don’t like creepy ghost children).
I’m under the vague impression that everyone on Qt3 loves the Batman: Arkham games (true?) and, though I don’t play a lot of action games, I did buy an Xbox 360 controller this year so I’m on the lookout for button-mashing items for my backlog. (Plus I like a good cinematic story; I quite enjoyed my quick romp through the WH40k Space Marine game).
I’m also a big LotR fan, so even though the MOBA is supposed to be crap and I doubt I’d find the time for the MMO, I’m tempted by the War in the North RPG (can I play it local co-op with the 360 controllers?)
For the Weekly sale:
I was tempted by the WWII game, Air Conflict: Pacific Carriers, but the only reviews available describe bugs and bad stuff… :(
The Jagged Alliance games are vaguely tempting (I love tactical TB combat in games like Fallout), but I don’t know the series that well…
I’ve never heard of this Expeditions: Conquistador game… Is it like a historically-based version of Heroes of Might and Magic?
PS: Apologies, but I wanted to experiment with excessively varied formatting. Please don’t be angry.
malkav11
4055
The original Jagged Alliance games are among the very finest turn-based tactical combat games ever made. The new one included has been more lukewarmly received but a fair number of people still seem to like it. It’s real time with pause, though, not turn-based. Expeditions: Conquistador is more like a historically-based version of King’s Bounty (you don’t control settlements or multiple heroes), where all your troops are individual people with backstories, personalities, and unique events and decisions tied to them. It’s pretty cool.
It’s excellent. Originally a kickstarted game, it’s a mashup of HoM&M and tactical, turn-based battles a la X-Com or Jagged Alliance. Plus the RPG elements: characters level up, you assign equipment, etc. Very, very good.
Pod
4057
Jagged Alliance 2 is one of the best games in existence. It’s even better with fan patches that add a myriad of gun-bags and variety of weapons to make it into a loadout-fetishers dream. I was going to reply to this thread with something along the lines of “No, how can anyone be so demented as to compare ‘tactical’ games and not include JA2 as the best?!!??!”, but he was clearly on about JRPG-Tactical games, so I’ll let him off.
edit: Just checked out the bundle. Be warned that my praise does not extend to the new Jagged Alliance games. They kind of suck. Infact, I find it amusing that they’ve put the shitty new ones as the BTA, but the old, original, still-worth-$30 games as the “pay $0.01 to get” ones.
Thanks for the tips on the Humble Weekly. I wasn’t sure about wanting/needing even more games to add to my backlog, but I do love turn-based gameplay and it’s hard to pass up the price.
robc04
4059
My first impressions for the game were pretty good, but my the time I finished the introduction campaign I’d had enough. I had no desire to go through another campaign. Steam has me clocked in at 16 hours, but there are times I tend to leave games paused. My guess is that I played 10-12 hours. You get assigned missions (quests) and have to go out into the countryside (for most of them) to find the locations, picking up some resource drops along the way. There is some simple crafting from the raw materials you find. The battles are hex based like HOMM, but there is much less of a variety in the enemies that you fight, and less variety between units from what I remember. It wasn’t a bad game, but it just didndidn’t have legs for me.
Thanks for the comments everybody. It sounds like I should get the Humble Weekly sale for JA2 alone. I’ll look up a video review or something to help me decide if I want to bother with Expeditions: Conquistador.
Are there no votes on the Batman games, LotR War in the North, or Air Conflict: Pacific Carriers? I’m helpless and incapable of making decisions without the quorum of QT3. :)
TimJames
4061
Batman is very good but it isn’t about button mashing.
Giaddon
4062
Batman rules, War in the North is terrible.
