I’m curious. Which ones are the top 4 here?
For my tastes this Bundle actually looks a little better than usual and at least isn’t an Anime/Otaku-fest. I already own the games that I have the most interest in: Pathologic 2, Ancestors, Chaosbane, and Total Tank Simulator…but that is a me problem.
I might get a few hours out of PC Building Simulator maybe. Song of Horror actually intrigues a little since I love horror games and this has a touch of old-school Resident Evil feeling. Since there were a few shout outs here, Tales of Neon Sea caught my eye since it has been a while since we had a good Cyberpunk game. So a few interesting pulls, but not sure there is enough to engage me due to the significant overlap with my existing library.
This bundle is pulling from a lot of very different genres so it might be a hard sell for others as there may not be a lot of overlapping interest across games; a problem for any non-themed bundle I suppose.
Bluddy
3535
PC Building Simulator reminds me of this
Has your experience playing PC Building Simulator been particularly terrible then?
I’m in for Chaosbane and PC Building Simulator alone. I’ve had my eye on both for awhile, and $6 for each is lower than I’m likely to see in any sale. Pathalogic 2, The Vampire game and Tales of the Neonsea all help round out the deal for me this month. All are interesting looking games.
Of course I will do the pause dance first to see if they throw a bribe $2-$4 my way, but I think it’s a good month for me to be a Choice subscriber. Kinda bummed I didn’t bite on the $6 6 month deal now.
This vampire game was a sequel to “Coteries” from a few months ago.
I’ve been told Not Tonight is fun. It’s like a weird british Papers Please.
I expect it’ll be back again. All these other promos keep returning.
Kolbex
3540
I have been teetering on the fence about buying Ancestors for a long time, and if I’d picked up the $6 deal, I’d have it already!
Not in love with this bundle, but it does have the advantage of containing zero games I already own! Still got it for a few games: PC Building Sim, Tales of the Neon Sea, and the couple of other obscure indie games that might end up being good.
And maybe Ancestors has gotten better than when I first played it (for IGF judging). It’s a really ambitious and deep game, but also very hard to play and comprehend.
Also, dang, I own SO MANY Warhammer games thanks to Choice. I am sure some of them are very good games underneath, but Warhammer just instantly turns me off. Am I missing any classics?
Best one they offered was Mechanicus. I don’t know how it is later in the game, but the first hour was oozing atmosphere.
As I usually do, I took a quick peek at the downloadable bonus game for this month’s Choice, and it was an incredibly pleasant surprise! Heeey, Park-Boy! is basically a remake of Chibi-Robo (which I played on the Nintendo DS), and that’s a thing we definitely needed.
It starts out seemingly dully straightfoward, as your miniature alien has to methodically water flowers, play music for them to get them to seed (that’s how it works!), and then water those seeds until you build up each park plot into a grassy-green patch that grows flowers on its own. It’s not un-fun, but it’s nothing to write home about. But grow enough flowers and you get upgrades that eventually broaden the gameplay substantially. It’s all still pretty casual and churn-y, but there’s nothing else like this out there, so I’ll take it!
I do wish that the character design and animation had the charm of Chibi-Robo, but we can’t get everything we want, I suppose.
Wait, some people are interested in playing the pc building sim in a non-ironical fashion?
Why?
stusser
3545
Another month with no headline games. Humble bundle is really going down the toilet. Staying paused.
I will admit to buying it on a steep sale while waiting on parts for my nephew’s build so we could visualize different looks in various cases (although of course it doesn’t have all of them). I tried the actual “game” (as opposed to the free build) for the hell of it and that was pretty damn monotonous.
It has a very satisfying campaign mode that essentially plays as an old school tycoon game in which you build and upgrade your own PC repair/upgrade business/shop. The core gameplay loop is super simple, but deceptively satisfying. You can play your own music while chilling with it, and it walks that very interesting tightrope of being a game that possesses enough challenge to be interesting and yet also perfect for relaxing with and winding down while playing. After hectic workdays of 10 or 11 hours, I’m probably too mentally tired to play a lot of games. But I can play something like this and get a good amount of enjoyment from it.
I want to rebuild an old computer that broke a few months ago. Probably needs a new motherboard, power supply and memory (it was 10 years old when it went out, so it lived a good life). Would PC Building Sim be helpful to figuring out what I should do?
I honestly don’t know.
It might give you a general set of ideas, but that might be about it. At the more bleeding edge of technology, it’s a little bit more “educational” on the point of builds and compatibility, helping to with things like matching CPUs to compatible motherboards and chipsets and PSU requirements and things of that nature.
My own bias is that I’m a fairly experienced PC builder my own self, so as far as how helpful it is for folks who don’t do a lot of building, it’s hard for me to say really.
I think you’d be better off with an internet guide, probably. Actually assembling things is, while not errorproof by any means, pretty straightforward. You put things in slots, and they’re labelled usually. It’s picking what to put in that’s tricky, and there’s lots of advice on that out there. (Probably showing the physical installation process too, if you end up needing that, but I think that’s less likely.)
I bit on this one after several paused months. So far, I’m enjoying Chaosbane. Scratches that Diablo itch with the added bonus of the usual WH over-the-top voice acting.
Kadath
3552
I just realized I’ve been switched from yearly to month to month. Is there still a way to get the $99 a year deal? There is no savings showing to me to go to yearly, it’s $132…
