Screw you guys it’s one of the best mecha games ever made to this day still. :)
Of the ones I played, I’d say it is THE best. Also, it was so ahead of its time in so many ways.
Is it still playable despite the low resolution and awkward keyboard controls?
I just figured I missed my window on Terra Nova. My brother and I looked so hard back in the year it came out. We didn’t really know about mail order stuff, so we drove around town in Quincy, Illinois, looking for any store that might carry it. That whole summer following the game’s release, I remember we used to go to Walmart’s game section and this other small little video game store we found in town. Sadly, it was never carried.
KiloOhm
2725
But is it worth playing today? I love mecha games.
davidf
2726
I’m interested in what others say to this. I played it again and despite the ugly low res graphics for the game ( the cut scenes are still decent surprisingly) and found myself enjoy playing despite the low res nature and lost many hours playing missions. I suppose that part of that draw came from my memory of playing it way back in the day… so really wondering if it can connect for non fans.
Speaking of which I keep checking this thread and GOG hoping SFC2 and Empire of the Fading suns will get re-released to work with modern OSs. Empire in particular…but I want the cut scenes back! The intro and ending movies still impact my enjoyment SO MUCH!
I have no idea whatsoever, because I played it around the time of its release, and never again. I did buy it from GOG though, but I didn’t try to play it again yet. Too many (new) games to play right now.
Tim_N
2728
I thought I had cancelled after the first bundle, but a week or so ago got an email saying that my credit card was charged for the December one. Wasn’t very happy! I don’t regret it now though, that’s a good collection of games for $12. The hard question now is do I resub for january.
They already have a company store in the client for their engine, so the infrastructure must be partially in place… ;)
So I actually cancelled and then got that same email. I had to write them and ask them to cancel and refund me. So maybe they had a problem with their cancel process. Glad it worked out for you. Would not have been a good bundle for me, so looks like it worked out for both of us.
The i was cutoff by that lo-rez hud.
(I remember it ran smooth on my 486DX, but I ended up playing other stuff.)
Is this where I come to bitch about the Humble Monthly Bundle?
There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.
Only they did fool me again.
Thraeg
2733
Yeah, saw the list and am glad I canceled after last month.
Seems like the Humble monthly is for people that have never bought a game on digital distribution before. Maybe someone that has just built a PC for the first time.
-Todd
Tim_N
2735
What do you guys expect? 6 games that need to be at least fairly recent and good. Chances are you will already have a couple of them if you regularly buy good games. I don’t know if the format really works, but I don’t understand the disappointment. Do people want them full of obscure/old/bad games?
Thraeg
2736
Not sure if there’s a good way to explain this without sounding like an entitled asshole, but let me first stress that me deciding that the value proposition isn’t quite there for me personally does not in any way mean that I think they owe me more or that I’m mad at them for their approach. I think it’s a cool idea, and it would be an amazing value for someone with broad tastes who decided to mainly rely on it as their main way of discovering new games, rather than buying elsewhere. That said…
Compared to a normal Humble Bundle (the standard ones, not the Weekly or Mobile ones that tend to be weaker), the Monthly costs around double the typical beat-the-average amount, and requires buying in before knowing what it contains. In light of those two factors, and the noise they made about getting games that haven’t been bundled or deeply discounted before, I thought they would pull out the stops with game selection to really make the case for its value in comparison. I envisioned something along the lines of one headliner (well-received, and recent enough to still be selling for fairly close to full price), a couple other semi-recent lower-profile games, and a few older fillers. But at least subjectively, they’ve struck me as roughly equivalent to an average Humble Bundle (i.e. still solid value, as I’ve bought plenty of those over the years, but not a huge wow factor to justify the extra cost and blind purchase).
That said, I took another look at the new one, and I take back my earlier dismissal. I checked the price histories, and three of the games (Rust, Neon Struct, and Chroma Squad) were recent enough to be only 30-40% off in the last sale (contrasting with the first month, where the only ones that haven’t had deep discounts were cheaper to begin with, so every game in it could be had for under $5 a la carte). I glazed over a bit and was glad I canceled due to the survival and stealth genres not really being my thing, but if that’s the general approach they’re aiming for and they keep it up, those slots could easily be games I would care about, so I might resubscribe at some point.
The first bundle was definitely worse than the second, uncharacteristic both of Humble Bundle’s usual high-price-tier offerings and of what you’d generally see from the launch offerings for a service like this.
I only had one and a half games from the second bundle beforehand, and one of the games, Chroma Squad, was one I was interested in during the Steam sale, but skipped because it seemed like likely bundle fodder. Also, while I’m not particularly interested in survival games, Rust alone has never cost less than this full bundle did.
Mind you, I generally don’t buy PC games until they hit mega-sales and bundles anyway, so unless they decide to throw Undertale, Shovel Knight, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, or Clannad (in decreasing order of likelihood) into one of them, I’m still not going to have more than one or two repeats in a given bundle, and they’ll just be high-tier offerings from past bundles.
I just don’t see the blind buy approach as being a particularly good deal for anyone that actually keeps up with gaming, but it might have been useful as a way to highlight obscure-but-good titles. Since they’re not doing that, it has zero value to me.
Not that I want to argue against your (presumed) sarcasm… But I’ve bought a ton of games on digital distribution (Steam says 135 games, plus another 20-40 on GoG and Humble Bundle), and I don’t own any of this month’s Humble monthly titles.
I realize “a ton” is subjective and many Qt3 members may have 2-10x more games in their libraries, but owning 100+ unique items in any category (cars, stamps, coins, albums, board games, dog breeds) probably qualifies me as a collector.
I’m also unimpressed by the Humble monthly concept (I haven’t joined, and I see very little appeal in a blind purchase subscription), but I think it’s a pretty wild stretch to say these are games that every PC gamer obviously already owns. :-) Maybe they’d do better with a Columbia House subscription model? (i.e., subscribers have some choices every month).
FYI all, Starpoint Gemini 2’s going for $8.79 US over on GOG: https://www.gog.com/game/starpoint_gemini_2 I think that’s the lowest I’ve seen it. At this point it’s probably been surpassed by Rebel Galaxy, and I think our own Mr. Rubin said it got a bit grindy, but it is pretty.
