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There's a Sid Meier humble bundle!

$15 for Civ 3 (complete, all DLC), Civ 4 (complete, all DLC) AND Civ 5 plus both expansions.

Also... Ace Patrol and Railroads. (I've never heard of those >_>)

edit: Oh, it... can also benefit charity. <.<
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codeGlaze wrote:There's a Sid Meier humble bundle!

$15 for Civ 3 (complete, all DLC), Civ 4 (complete, all DLC) AND Civ 5 plus both expansions.

Also... Ace Patrol and Railroads. (I've never heard of those >_>)

edit: Oh, it... can also benefit charity. <.<
Ace Patrol is the suprisingly good tactical turn-based game where you command squadrons of WW1 fighters.
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Also, similar to, but shittier (for the charities) than Humble Bundle, there is Groupees, which is currently doing a Steampunk bundle:
  • Games
  • Airship Dragoon
  • Bionic Dues
  • Steel Steam
  • Syberia I & II
  • Telepath RPG: Servants of God
    Music
  • Johnny Hollow Collection
  • Spiky- Carnival Symposium
  • Sxip Shirey- Sonic New York
  • This Way to the Egress- Caged Bird
    Comics
  • 19XX Book One: Rise of the Black Faun
  • Blood of the Innocent
  • Steampunk
    ebooks
  • Discovering Aberration
  • Tales of Jack the Ripper
  • Wildside Press Megapack
Despite buying the pack, I cannot recommend any of these, as I haven't checked any of them out yet, but it's a large pack of stuff with a pay what you want model. It also donates a flat 20% to Direct Relief International. When less than 50% of my buck goes the the charity I tell the people doing the thing "fuck you, I'll take my stuff for a buck." ...which is exactly what I did here.

Edit: apparently I completely forgot to post a link: http://groupees.com/steampunk2
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Humble bundle's doing another indy bundle, including things like monaco, the swapper, and antichamber. I just picked it up, but already had antichamber. If anyone would like to redeem a copy of Antichamber on steam, reply here and I'll pm you a link for it.
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I was debating picking the bundle up. Are the games any good?
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Yes.

[*]Guacamelee is a brawler with metroidvania exploration and a luchador theme. If that sentence didn't sell you on it, I'm not really sure what would.
[*]Dust is a solid side scroller action rpg. If you have an xbox 360 you can grab the demo in the arcade (there does not appear to be a steam demo).
[*]The only stuff I know about Giana Sisters is what's on the page, so I can't recommend it or recommend you avoid it.
[*]The Swapper is a puzzle game where you have to make copies of yourself and transfer your consciousness around to them to progress. I've enjoyed my brief time with it, but don't know I would actually recommend it yet. I've wanted to play it for a while though.
[*]Antichamber is a first person 'shooter' (really, you get a block gun) puzzle game that does weird things with space and expectations, but isn't inconsistent in the application of the altered rules. The video on the bundle page is a good intro. I recommend it wholeheartedly.
[*]Monaco was described to be as a game about what happens when a theft goes wrong. It's a stealth game that doesn't stop being fun when shit goes bad (not immediately anyway). Also 4-player co-op, if you have 3 other people you want to rob places with. I recommend it, but you can get a demo on the xbox 360 if you're not sure (and have a 360, obviously).

I have no idea what else they're going to add next week, but there's 4 games that I cared about in there, and it wasn't 5 because I already owned 1 of them (I also own Monaco on the xbox, but wanted it on Steam because of updates that didn't trickle over).
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Sold, good sir. :p
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Isnt Gianas Sisters basically Super Mario (if it is, I played it on the C64)
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Post by TarkisFlux »

Bundle added Fez, Starseed Pilgrim, and Beat Boy to itself today. These are in addition to the 6 mentioned earlier, because it's still part of the same bundle.

I already had Fez from something else though, so I'll toss that out there with Antichamber. If you'd like to redeem a code for either on steam, let me know and I'll send you a link.
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is there a trailer video for this?

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Korwin wrote:Isnt Gianas Sisters basically Super Mario (if it is, I played it on the C64)
The original one was, but the newest one only really shares the platforming genre with Super Mario.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/223220/
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There's an Origins (ie, EA) Humble Bundle with Dragon Age Origins and DA2 for those who, like me, haven't gotten a chance to play them yet.

Other notables(?)-
  • Peggle
  • Dead Space 2
  • Medal of Honor Allied Assault War Chest
  • Command and Conquer Generals
    If you pay more than the average-
  • Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare
  • Bejeweled 3
  • Mass Effect 2
And of course there'll be more. I'm kind of hoping that includes the first ME and Dead Space, since I haven't played either of those.
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Humble is giving away Spec Ops: the Line currently. Its supposedly a mindfuck of a story behind a bland "chest high walls cover and shoot" shooter. Played it before got a few levels in and got bored.
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Eh, the DA2 bundle is just for DLC, which means the whole thing would be $50. That's a better deal than paying $20 for each expansion but still more than what I would want to pay for DA2. As tempting as it would be to own if for PC (there's a mod that gives isabella a pair of shorts. Best mod ever)
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I am considering paying $15 for the full Black Library bundle, just so I can give the finger to Games Workshop by setting the sliders so that fully 100% of my money goes to Child's Play and the Humble Bundle.
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Chamomile wrote:I am considering paying $15 for the full Black Library bundle, just so I can give the finger to Games Workshop by setting the sliders so that fully 100% of my money goes to Child's Play and the Humble Bundle.
It's a tax break for them. They don't get your money directly, they get it by not paying taxes.
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Well, damn. I guess I'll just have to content myself with pirating everything they ever release, then.
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Humble giving away "The Flame in the Flood" for free currently.
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LOTR RPG books on HumbleBundle, $15 gets you the whole shebang. Even if the RPG isn't good, it seems worth it for the maps and setting info.

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/lord ... -rpg-books
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The discovery pack still has 2 more days:

War for the Overworld: An okay attempt to make a new dungeonkeeper game with all of the monster names changed.

Osiris New Dawn: A dumb sci-fi/horror house-building game. Bang on a rock with another rock to get metal ores! Bang on a tree with a rock to get berries! Combine berries with tree leaves to make healing items (that work through your space suit)! Step on a sea urchin spike for the 100th time and suffocate! Build a mech suit and fight a ghost! It's great if you don't mind how stupid it is. The tech trees look like they were somewhat well thought out. Optional multi-player.

Kentucky Route Zero: a weird puzzle game with pretty simplistic puzzles (no carrying objects from area to area that I've seen). Mostly just there for a weird experience. Enjoyable.

RWBY Grimm Eclipse: Named after the 4 characters I don't know anything about. You (and possibly other people) run through a linear forest hitting things for xp. I couldn't find a controller layout anywhere, or an explanation of what was going on in the game.

Phantom Brave PC: Disgaea, except with less humour and more story.

Tricky Towers: I also couldn't figure out what I was doing on this one. I think you're building a tower to match someone else's (computer or a human) by dropping tetris pieces that slide over each other and fall down?
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I bought RWBY last year during the Steam Crimbo sale. Its an amusing game to play with a few friends but other than that it gets stale fast (especially if you play solo). Plot makes no sense (it supposedly takes place between Vols 1 and 2). Also it's def geared towards fans of the series.


If you do have some free time and are into the animes (Yes, I know its western, fuck you, anime influence shows in it) I'd say give the series a shot, the 4 character trailers for season 1 are pretty good, the first second is kinda weak, second and third season a much better, fourth is kinda bland but moves the story along, fifth starts out ass-numbingly slow but picks up about halfway through.
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Iduno wrote:Phantom Brave PC: Disgaea, except with less humour and more story.
And 4000% more misery tourism.
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Dogbert wrote:
Iduno wrote:Phantom Brave PC: Disgaea, except with less humour and more story.
And 4000% more misery tourism.
And no New Game+.
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Post by Iduno »

$1 for Dawn of War in the Games Workshop bundle. The middle tier isn't looking good, though.
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It's the base game. The DoW master collection (DoW, Winter Assault, and Soulstorm) is generally a better deal.
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