You think HBs are the “best value in gaming”. I think they are not and explained why. I never said your opinion was wrong. I merely disagreed with it. You should learn the difference.
But instead of accepting that someone else might have a different opinion, you decided to have another patented DaveLong pathetic tirade where you instantly decided to get personal because someone had a different opinion. That, Dave, is most certainly a you problem.
SamS
1912
Ha same I’ve been checking this thread every month since the XCOM2 deal waiting for something good as this!
A great offer is not the same thing as a great value. You could offer me the best skateboard in the world with the singular provision that I do not resell it for $1 and it would be a great offer. However, it would have no value to me since a physical disability makes skateboarding impossible and thus I have no use for it. Those two terms are not synonymous.
Yeah, I’m done. This site needs an ignore function. You clearly don’t like me or any of my posts so it’s a personal YOU problem. I’d argue that if anyone else said what I did, you wouldn’t have bothered to reply.
Gotta make sure you knock me down a peg though. You win. I’m out.
While the Monthly Bundle offers good value, it is still down to individual perspective. If you want six games to add to a back log you are never going to play for $12 and call it good value, fine. I personally wait until at least one/ maybe two of the games are ones that I know I will play within a year before I bite.
January with Division 1 was a great deal for me, February I cancelled. March with MYZ and Northgard, I’m back in.
People have different purchasing abilities, different backlogs, different gaming preferences, different EVERYTHING! The value of Humble Bundles is RELATIVE to each individual. The only thing we have in common is our like of gaming and we need to focus on this rather than argue on our differences (cough DaveLong and Granath).
Great, I already said I’m bowing out and I get an aggressive private message on top of that.
I said it’s a great bundle of games and now I find out I have a stalker. Fuck this place. I am done.
Finally unpausing, the new reveals look really nice.
I don’t think I’ll be renewing my yearly subscription, though. In terms of personal value (as opposed to “objective” value), and given the scattershot nature of the Monthlies, I’ve decided it just makes more sense to me to pick up some of the sexier thematic bundles Fanatical or Humble itself put out throughout the year.
Wow, that escalated quickly. Can’t we all just express our own feelings about the relative merits of the monthlies from our own perspective and not have others with a different perspective take it personally? It’s just entertainment (etymologically speaking, that which “holds [one] between” presumably other more pressing things), after all.
Certainly two odd hills to choose to die on.
Never would have expected to find such stirring drama in a humble bundle thread of all places.
Tim_N
1922
Ideally the thread will be a place for people to be able to say “last month’s was great value!” or “I don’t think last month’s was worth it” without the other camp taking up arms.
Personally, to me and me alone, my heavily disclaimered opinion is that the bundles have not been worth it very often. I have a backlog and it’s rare for me to get a game from my yearly humble monthly subscription that makes me say “I am going to play this right now.” If I was 15 years younger I think it’d be the best deal in gaming.
Yup. I haven’t bought a monthly in something like a year and a half (the Stellaris one is the last time I was subscribed). Certainly there was a run there of great stuff (I got Dragon’s Dogma through a monthly, and it’s an all-time favorite) but for the last while there’s been a mix of things I already have and things I don’t want. Their not being to my taste does not, of course, impugne the bundles themselves. I can certainly see how for someone with broader tastes and a smaller library they’d be incredible.
Vesper
1924
I tried out Slipstream and put it in CRT NTSC mode. Made me feel like I was playing Outrun on my Amiga back in the day. Good times. Worth checking out.
I paused for this last bundle, but indeed, Slipstream looked fun, if only for the nostalgia value.
I don’t get nostalgia heavy games like Slipstream. Old looking games without great graphics? ok, because graphics aren’t the most important thing, but going that retro don’t have any function or reason… beyond having a nostalgia trip that is going to maintain itself for 20 minutes. Beyond 20 minutes is going to get old.
newbrof
1927
wow, thanks for the Northgard recommendation, I was looking for a colony builder / small scale RTS … this month is really good. I paused, because of backlog etc. fortunate that this thread pops up regularly!
From what I remember of the Kickstarter, Slipstream was a one-man show so “being able to make the game” is another potential reason for not going all out on the graphics.
