There’s a “Boomer Shooters: Bigger and Boomier” bundle on Humble of new retro-inspired FPS games.
$2 = Impaler (???)
$4 = Forgive me Father, Viscerafest, The Citadel
$18 = Nightmare Reaper, Deadlink, Graven, Wrath - Aeon of Ruin
I’ve heard of Graven, Wrath and Forgive but actually don’t know how they turned out. Deadlink has a Cyberpunk-ish theme which is a big weakness for me so I’m tempted…
That’s almost all games I don’t have, rare for humble these days.
Wrath was in a Humble Choice awhile back some of you might’ve not claimed.
Stupid question, what’s a boomer shooter?
Shooter for boomers? Shooter with lots of explosions? Boomerangs?
I saw “retro 90s” and immediately thought shooters for boomers.
That’s a fantastic bundle.
Looks like I have nothing in that bundle except Wrath - Aeon of Ruin. I haven’t heard of any of the others except Graven though.
I. Could not. Resist.
I’m a (very late) Boomer, having been born in 1961 (and out of the country to an American dad and then-Salvadoran mom, so I don’t know if I even “count”), but I played DOOM II and Duke Nuk’em 3D, Quake, Marathon and Marathon II, and even weird one-shot Mac-only efforts like Sensory Overload, all in my thirties. So I totally get “Boomer Shooter.”
One cool thing about those “2.5 D” engines of yore is that they allowed for some extremely trippy multiplayer maps that aren’t possible in true 3D space. There was this very cool one in Marathon 1 that I can only describe as a big cube inside a bigger cube. The smaller cube had an opening halfway along each exterior wall with a hallway into the cube. The hallways formed a cross and all met in the center, and when you’d head out a different hallway from the one you’d entered, you’d be in a different instance of the room you’d left. It messed with your head.
I think I’ve moved past retro shooters unless they come packaged next-gen like Doom. I enjoy the playstyle but I have turned into a production value snob when it comes to action and spectacle games. Not so far as I can’t enjoy anything from this century, but if you are aping 90’s graphical style and it’s not a style that really embraces it (for example, Gunfire Reborn, Celeste, etc) then there isn’t much appeal. This isn’t true of other genres, I can still play Dominions or JRPGs. Odd how we change.
Across the Obelisk is having a free weekend on Steam, but it’s cheaper elsewhere.
Tainted Grail: Conquest is $6 on Steam, new lowest price. The QT3 forum thread is over here.
Ohhh…Thanks! Jumping on Tainted Grail. I’d been waiting for it to show up in a Humble Choice or other bundle, but at $6 it’s basically the same price point where it would make up half the value in a Humble Choice bundle or most of the value in a Fanatical bundle for me anyway. Deal!
New humble bundle:
Low price to get them all. First bundle for almost all of them, and they haven’t even been bargain bin discounted yet. Most are pretty cheap though if you only want one or two.
Three were on my wishlist. Rogue Genesia had a fun demo. Nomad Survival is okay, but got stale fast for me.
If you own (or buy) the Final Fantasy XIV starter edition you can get the Stormblood expansion free until 8th of May:
And apparently if you have a 30day+ lapsed subscription, the game will be free to play until the start of May.
It coincides with the Stormblood expansion promotion so it’s free to play until 8th May.
…with their standard condition that limits you to four days of playtime within that period of course. And for one day in the middle of those days the game will be down for maintenance. :)
*edit: for some reason I thought it was the 1st of May today, I have gone back and fixed my dates up lol… :
I missed the ‘4 day’ bit. That’s much less enticing.
Asking for a friend: if I haven’t played through Ff is it worth it to slog through the early expansions?
the answer is in the question, if that person considers it a slog.
also there are no links between ff games. some fan service and winking, at most.
if there is a link, it’s that they focus more on vanities and a certain esthetical… flair, let’s say, than on quality stories or writing.
sometimes the combat system is fun, which is what makes me play a few of them.
The FFXIV base game is really the low point. They had to throw that together without much time for polish back when the game was rebooted after the catastrophic original launch.
Once you reach the first expansion area (Heavensward) , the quality of the writing, the story and the voicework improves by leaps and bounds.
The community is usually friendly (mostly because there’s actual GMs around that can and will hand out bans for people who can’t behave), even if it occasionally comes across as a bit passive-aggressive. Visuals are nice for an MMO, the fights are okay to great, there’s plenty of fashion chasing, mounts, pets, a casino (tacky, not sleazy) where you can play mini games for cosmetics, and a healthy dose of humour.
The later expansions range from good (Stormblood) to downright stellar (Shadowbringers). If you have a few hundred hours to waste, I can highly recommend it. I quit some time ago (seen all there is to see, and I’m not really one of those high-end raiding folks anymore), but I’d still say it’s one of the best MMOs out there. It’s very casual-friendly.
It’s a good one. Everyone grab it!