Yeah, still not interested. I can see the quality and the appeal for some, in a “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” kinda way. But that one had old-school animation, Christopher Lloyd, Bob Hoskins and Kathleen Turner as Jessica Rabbit (yowza).
I might still get it for Ghostrunner, or at least see if Ghostrunner is available at a better price eventually.
Bluddy
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Ghostrunner was a giveaway on gog and I haven’t even booted it up. Insta-pause for me.
Ah, that was it. Maybe I have it on there if I snagged it in time. If so, then yeah, pausing.
Vesper
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Ghostrunner is really good.
No, I just found it quite difficult with a controller, so when I hit a part I had to repeat like 20 times, I called it quits. Ymmv.
I hear you, especially if (as I suspect) it only has checkpoint saves. Still, I’ve ascertained that I have it on GOG so it can’t hurt to try it.
Same. Plus I can play Destroy All Humans on Game Pass. Never heard of the other games.
Apparently I don’t actually have Chicken Police or Suzerain. Could have sworn I did. So, Monster Sanctuary refund and Choice purchase it is!
I just think a lot of devs / artists like using anthropomorphic animals for a variety of reasons (usually character-based, or for easy puns, both of which apply in Chicken Police), and the “ugh, furry!” catcalls are tiresome but ignorable. I’ve seen a couple of games made by furries, and Chicken Police is definitely not made by furries! And let me just add a reminder that, as a guy with an animal avatar, anthropomorphic animals and furries are definitely not the same thing at all.
Ghostrunner is great, but it’s not easy. I love these movement-based games but you need to put a lot of time into it to really get good and enjoy it. Or at least I do. The insta-restart from just before the point you died though makes it much more palatable. I’ve only played the demo, mind.
The main thing encouraging me to pause, though, is the fact that none of these are going to replace Elden Ring in my playlist, and by the time I get done with that and another couple of games I want to play, they’ll be so far down my backlog that they’ll essentially not exist.
Doesn’t pausing reset your 20% discount to 10% though? Not that I’ve used it lately (the discount, that is).
Indeed, under the new régime, the discount resets at 10% and doesn’t get back to 20% till you’ve been buying the bundle for a year. I bought last month’s but this one is definitely a pause, so too bad so sad (having bought last time around I won’t even get the “please don’t pause” bribe).
I can guarantee you, the main reason so many indie games do animal-headed characters, even when their themes are serious and settings are otherwise realistic is almost always because trying to animate human faces talking either takes huge technical and artistic resources or you end up belly-flopping into the uncanny valley. It’s less distracting to have a rooster flap its beak.
They don’t seem to realize that this means I’m less likely to buy anything from the Humble Store.
Interestingly (well, I think it is) I’m similarly critical of animals hitting the same issue, but as a zoologist I’m probably in the minority. ;)
Like all silly decisions, they’ll have to find out the hard way.
I hadn’t noticed, but Monster Sanctuary is also on Game Pass.
And Talos is on this bundle for cheap.
https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-slayer-bundle-5
And suddenly I want to play “Smaug: Chicken Detective” in all its zoologically correct glory.
Damn. Where do I find devs for hire?
I remembered to pause last night. Phew!
You have until April 26th…
I’m a forgetful person. It’s still a relief.
Plus now that the 20% discount is gone, there’s little reason to wait for the last minute.
stusser
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I just set a reminder every month for 1 day before the next renewal. Very quick with siri or google assistant.
