robc04
1701
Amazon has a bunch of board games on sale, including Small World, Five Tribes, Catan Family Edition, Ticket To Ride - Europe, Roll For the Galaxy
Something to keep in mind, if you care about who you’re money is going to, is who’s selling you the game. If you’re buying the game from GOG, that’s who’s getting you’re money; buy it from GameStop’s site, you’re money’s going to them. The only times you’re paying you’re money directly to a developer or publisher is when you’re either purchasing something directly from their site or contributing to a kickstarter or equivalent. If you’re purchasing from an online retailer like Steam, GOG or GameStop, well, be prepared for the squat (if applicable).
Also, just because a developer closes shop, doesn’t mean their rights in the game disappear. As it turns out, Maxis was already wholly owned by EA before they shut them down, so EA always got all the money from the last version. OTOH, there’s are whole diverse chains of ownership of the various Interplay titles that were sold off when they folded. Bethesda, of course, obtained the Fallout IP, while I believe the Black Isle titles, like Planescape, went through a few different hands. Depending on the terms of the contracts, this stuff can get complicated. In any case, Steam and GOG didn’t obtain the rights to sell all those Infinity Engine games for free. They had to pay someone something for them.
Well I was just teasing Mr. Rubin but your post was quite informative. :-)
-Todd
Well I love you guys, but I bought it. It was cheap enough that my curiosity won out.
ioticus
1705
I always get excited when Amazon does these sales only to be let down once I see what the choices are.
Yeah, pretty much. It’s not that they never include hobby gamer friendly choices - stuff like Zombicide and Ascension (and Homeland, if Tom is to be believed) are solid enough picks. But they’re definitely dominated by casual and/or entry-level picks and the handful of me-friendly items are usually stuff (like Zombicide) that I already have.
Squee
1708
Tried buying it again one last time and the order went through. They’ve got me, ohhhhhhhhhhhhh they’ve got me.
On the bright side I am enjoying it other than the tiny tiny plot sizes. Managing RCI and density for specialized “Cities” (Trying to make a big industrial plot, commerce and residential plot, and then residential and tourism/gambling plot) is taking some fiddling but seems like a good use of $7. Think that’s about what I spent on Banished and I imagine I’ll get roughly the same entertainment until I burn out.
The sci-fi city stuff seems a bit overpowered though. Better technology should mean better everything, true, but you don’t really get much in the way of tradeoffs. It’d be nice if the dystopian Judge Dredd megatowers increased crime massively or something, for example. Also not sure if disasters occur naturally or not. I see buttons to trigger zombies and UFOs and Godzilla and earthquakes and such but have yet to have anything happen by itself other than normal fires.
Gamers Gate are having an end of summer sale, apparently summer ends early in Sweden. Lots of discounted stuff, but the Unity of Command trilogy at 80% off caught my eye.
Witcher 3 at Greenmangaming for $30.
The new Humble Mobile Bundle includes a ton of Games Workshop apps for Android.
I bought in despite not knowing most of these games (who can say no to 9+ Warhammer games for less than $4?), but in the course of looking up each game for this post I started to feel disillusioned because many of these apps have mediocre (or worse) reviews, with lots of complaints about bugs and only the thinnest veneer of Warhammer over some generic mobile-game-fare… The Talisman Prologue reviews are so bad that I felt like I should probably boycott the devs (and GW). Fortunately, Humble Bundle does let you choose which devs get your money.
Includes:
Warhammer Quest (An RPG with tactical combat sounds great.)
Warhammer 40,000: Carnage (I think this is an endless-runner game, only as a space marine)
WH40k: Storm of Vengeance (A “lane strategy game”)
Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf ("…a turn based strategy deck builder", which sounds pretty interesting).
The Horus Heresy: Drop Assault - Warmaster’s Edition (I guess this is one of those weird Clash of Clans-esque games that Kate Upton has been trying to sell me. I don’t really understand how they work, but maybe this is fun?)
Warhammer: The App (I think this is just a promotional app so Games Workshop can try to sell me stuff… I’m not sure why I’d want to pay for this).
Pay more than the average of $3.65 to unlock!
Talisman Prologue (I’ve had my eye on a Talisman game recently, but reviews on Google play say there are actually two different developers making two different versions of Talisman, and this one seems to be the inferior product without any multiplayer options… It sounds like it may not even allow AI opponents or local pass-and-play).
Chainsaw Warrior: LotN (I’ve never heard of this, but it says “cult classic” and it looks like some sort of interesting RPG+cards zombie apocalypse game.)
Warhammer: Snotling Fling (3d Angry Birds I guess).
Chainsaw Warrior was a solo boardgame GW published back in the 80s. It’s super random in both encounters and the main mechanism you have for interacting with the game (rolling dice). I’m not sure it has any real value outside of nostalgia. LotN appears to be a sort of digital sequel, so maybe it’s a little more interesting? I dunno. Warhammer Quest is pretty good but has a ton of IAP that isn’t included from what I can see. And Talisman: Prologue is completely skippable. Not familiar with any of the others but they don’t look great. Except maybe Space Wolf.
Haha, a WH40K endless runner.
New mainline Humble Bundle is much better:
$1:
Pac-Man Championship Edition DX+
Platformines
DeadCore
BTA (currently $5.68):
Ridge Racer Unbounded
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon
More games coming soon!
$10:
Dark Souls
$1 for Pac-Man Championship Edition DX+ is an insane deal.
LockerK
1715
Great bundle to BTA on, and the $1 tier is a no-brainer if you don’t have Pac-Man.
Hery
1716
What is with the garbage on the steam midweek? Two early access survival games? Aren’t there enough of those?
How can Reign of Kings not be a success when they’ve obviously worked long and hard to give every MMO player features they’ve been clamoring for, such as the “orifice slot”?
MMORPGs will never be the same!
Frodo69 : “Oh crap, I just died at the bank!”
DorfTosser : “How is that even possible?!”
Frodo69 : “I wasn’t paying attention and accidentally dropped a sword onto my orifice slot”
DorfTosser : “LOL! Ouch! I can’t believe they even let you do that”
Frodo69 : “Not only is it possible, some dev even coded a death animation for it…”
The orifice slot needs a sort button.
I’ve taken a pretty much blanket stance against supporting early access games. I’m sure someone will tell me I’m missing out on something because of it, but as my developer friend once said… Life’s too short for demos and betas.
I just have no time to test games for people anymore. LMK when it’s done and then I’ll consider it.
I’m going to use my orifice slot to smuggle Tyndale Bibles into England.
-Todd
