I keep buying these and never have time to play any of the games. I guess I'm doing it for altruistic reasons, as I love the whole philosophy behind the business model.
Humble Indie Bundle 9 released
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#32I've slowly been transitioning to Linux-only gaming, because the whole reboot-into-Windows just to play is a pretty steep bar. (Steeper than it even sounds in practice, as now, basically, every time I boot into Windows I have to spend about 10 minutes updating the damn thing, because I don't do it often enough; this has become a vicious cycle.) This bundle is great for that, with all the Linux debuts. Linux gaming is…
I suppose it's personal preference on your desktop OS, but I stick to Win7 and linux VMs. No rebooting, no wine, all games work :)
I'd much rather run VMs for linux stuff than wine for windows stuff.
Now if you prefer [insert window manager of your choice] over Win7 then I get ya
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#33Trying to buy with credit card, and get a message from Stripe saying "you passed an empty string for iovation_blackbox", as if that means something to me.
EDIT: Nevermind, just had to pause Ghostery. Not sure what script was messing it up.
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#34Why does every bundle get upvoted to the top every time? I love Humble Bundle, I have bought a majority of the ones they release - but this is no longer news, it's their business model. If they were doing something new (like the introduction of the eBook or comedy bundle) then I can see it being interesting. Now it's no different then if every new AirBNB listing were upvoted to the front page.
It's certainly different from an AirBNB posting in that it can be used by an unlimited number of people in variety of geographic regions, giving it much broader appeal. It's often the way I realize a new bundle is out, which triggers me to go buy it. Of course, the emails humble bundle sends out could also fill that purpose, so it's debatable whether that's a good reason.
I guess the only other reason is to see people's opinions of the games. I find that useful, but I could also see that it might be more appropriate for other forums.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Huh? I got it back in April from the official site, I believe, and it was DRM-free.
Was it? May be I missed that. UPDATE: I actually bought it for the Linux version now, and I had no idea it became DRM free earlier. In the past it was DRMed. HB writes however: > Trine 2: Complete Story is making its DRM-free Windows and Mac debut!
Yeah, now that I think back on it, Trine 2 had been out for some time by the time I got it through the Humble Store, which was what Frozenbyte used to sell the game outside of Steam and other DRM'ed distribution channels.
And I just got it again, apparently. Not sure what the 'Complete Story' edition is all about, but hey, more content can't be bad.
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#36FEZ! Awesome! I've been waiting for this game for so long.
I'm probably the last person on HN who hadn't seen 'Indie Game: The Movie' but an entire third or fourth of it is about the development of Fez by Phil Fish.
That said, I wish Fish would make a second Fez and just not say a word about it until it's maybe a month out. He'd still get hype and sell a ton of game without people pissing him off.
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#37I keep buying these and never have time to play any of the games. I guess I'm doing it for altruistic reasons, as I love the whole philosophy behind the business model.
I'm in the same boat, and like you it never stops me from buying the next one. Like you, I'm trying to support the thing as a whole (Humble, the devs, and the charities), but the side benefit is that if I'm ever bored I have a whole cache of really awesome games I can download at a moment's notice.
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#38I've slowly been transitioning to Linux-only gaming, because the whole reboot-into-Windows just to play is a pretty steep bar. (Steeper than it even sounds in practice, as now, basically, every time I boot into Windows I have to spend about 10 minutes updating the damn thing, because I don't do it often enough; this has become a vicious cycle.) This bundle is great for that, with all the Linux debuts. Linux gaming is…
I suppose it's personal preference on your desktop OS, but I stick to Win7 and linux VMs. No rebooting, no wine, all games work :) I'd much rather run VMs for linux stuff than wine for windows stuff. Now if you prefer [insert window manager of your choice] over Win7 then I get ya
The big problem with this strategy is that disk I/O in a Linux VM under Win7 seems to be about 1/10th of the speed that it is under native Linux.
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#39I too love this bundle. Pretty awesome that the three charities are Watsi, Child's Play, and EFF.
The games are all very distinct from each other and top notch. My three favorites:
Fez: a perspective-altering puzzle platformer. It's cute, clever, and well designed.
FTL: a real-time starship crew management game, where you assign people to stations and target your opponent's systems. You fly through randomly generated galaxies and have random encounters. Super replayability.
Mark of the Ninja: a stealth-action ninja platformer with very high production values and multiple paths to victory.
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#40You can buy this for Mark of the Ninja alone - it is gameplay-wise really great and a very artistic game.
It's a very, very memorable game, but what do you think about replayability? I can't really bring myself to play it again.