I am just glad a lot of people will get to play Northgard now, its really great.
robc04
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Anyone know if Absolver requires combo memorization?
Wow, that’s the best one in ages. Back in!
Have to do some more research but first impressions March is a hard meh from me. I’m not big on strategy games.
I already had Paradigm, but otherwise happy to see some titles that are new to me, since I like to poke my nose outside my comfort zone with these bundles.
Next month’s early unlocks are pretty appealing, especially Mutant Year Zero.
I think this is the first time I will opt-in on a Humble Monthly since the Warhammer deal a couple of years ago. Northgard has been on my wish list and Mutant Year Zero is on my follow list. Absolver is an absolute zero to me but those other two for $12 is a steal.
Not really impressed with the reveals, but I was in this month for Vermintide 2 and Cultist Simulator, so I got my $12 worth easily.
I canceled for next month, but only because it had me on the 3-month plan and I’d rather go back to deciding each month. I’ll probably resub later in the month to get Northgard and Mutant : Year Zero. I’m curious if they will send me an email in 24 hours offering me an additional free game or credit if I resub now that I cancelled. Man, the hoops I jumped through to cancel too…holy crap.
ARE YOU REALLY SURE?!?!?!?
This! It’s such a beautifully realized set of interlocking strategy game concepts that I can’t recommend it highly enough.
It’s been sitting in my cart for sale after sale, but I kept looking at my backlog and taking it out. No more!
Otagan
1900
That’s a good idea. I gave up the $3 discount I was offered to stay in just in case they try giving me another free game.
Northgard is a little bit deceptive. When you first start playing it, you’re going to think “I know how this game works, I’ve played this kind of game dozens of times.” It seems like a routine little RTS. It’s only after about 20 minutes that you realize you aren’t in Kansas (or Midgard) any more. For me, the thing about Northgard that revealed its brilliance was playing it and discovering the things I wanted to do but couldn’t do. Oh, hey, found an enemy AI player, and I think I’m more advanced than they are. Just need to build some axemen and axe-throwers, and I’ll take them apart. Oh. But I’m up against the population cap again. OK, I’ll need to build a house or two. Oh, wait, all my territories are already capped on buildings. Hmm. Oh, and making new population is going to be a serious drag on my side’s food income, and I used a bunch of that to goose happiness and I’m already kind of sweating winter. Uh. Huh. Hmm.
A lot of strategy games, and especially strategy RTS’s have a way to destroy buildings you’ve built. Typically it’s because you’ve built something accidentally and didn’t mean to, or you mis-clicked, or whatever. In Northgard you destroy some of your existing buildings routinely as a matter of strategy, because you have to try to make the most of a variety of scarce resources, whether that’s building caps in territory tiles, population, or whatever. It’s just so, so good.
+1
I had budgeted 15 bucks for next month and was gonna subscribe to FFXIV for a month but this seems like a better value 🤪
I think this is still the best value in gaming. You get volume and typically you get quality. The only reason I could see someone passing is because they only play one genre and that genre is typically underrepresented, like first person shooters. If you like games of all types, the Monthly can’t be beat IMO.
Well, or because, like me, they already own so many games that it’s a real crapshoot. But I am definitely in this month.
Resubscribed this month, MYZ & Northgard well worth it.
When I look at the December HB I think I would only have loaded Seven. January might be Cars 2. I doubt I would have loaded anything from February or March. If I spent $48 for those 4 months I would not perceive my purchases as having great value. Why? Because I already have great games like Frostpunk, Kenshi, Parkitect and Tower of Time waiting on me, never mind favorites like BATTLETECH or early access titles like Oxygen Not Included. Then there is the expansion for HoI, the desire to play another game of Thea and the scenarios I have yet to complete in Order of Battle.
So the HB is a good deal but only for those who have fewer time restrictions. Time is the more important commodity to many of us and not the number of games. I already have enough games I know I already like demanding my time that a bunch of games I might like has little value.
That’s a you problem. You’re projecting onto other people when you say “Time is the more important commodity to many of us”. It’s probably not “many”. It’s more like “some” and you specifically.
That says nothing about the value of the monthly package for people who appreciate a lot of game types. It just means you specifically don’t have time to play them and like to buy other games instead.
Which brings me back to a question I have asked before in this thread I think… why are you here? To put myself and others who appreciate the bundles down? Does this make you feel good to dispute the value of multiple quality games for $12?
Did you not see where I purchased this months’ bundle? Should that matter anyway? Did you appoint yourself forum cop?
Also, there is a huge thread about backlogs here. It is not just a 'me" problem. Maybe you just have all the free time in the world to play games. I know not. Those of us with jobs and lives quite often have to be more particular about our entertainment choices. That erodes the value of a HB when there is limited time to play the games included.
Also, value is subjective. You can imagine the value I place on your opinion.
With that argument (I already a big backlog!) you also wouldn’t buy any game at all in all year. It doesn’t mean the bundle isn’t the best value in gaming, as DaveLong said. That you don’t need something of great value doesn’t meant isn’t a great offer, in general.
Apparently you’re the forum cop because you came here to let us all know that our opinion of the value of some games we bought is wrong.
Again, I’m just saying it’s a you problem. You’re extrapolating your own opinion of the time you have available versus receiving more games and saying to yourself, “Self, I have too many games to play. Even though these might be good games, I can’t play them now.” That’s fine. You can decide that for yourself.
Separate from that, there is the value of the bundle and its games, which typically are of high quality and come in a large bundle so there’s usually something for everyone to play. Millions of people around the world do not have Steam backlogs of 500 or more titles. They are happy to receive a cool bundle like this, which is definitely among the best value in all of gaming.
