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Re: Humble Indie Bundle 9 released

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Post by breadbox »

danso wrote: post #24

Holy...moly. As a Mac gamer, I've been waiting forever for Mark of the Ninja and Fez. AFAIK, they've not yet been previously released, so is this an exclusive for Humble Bundle? If so, what a huge scoop. If I were those developers, I would've hawked the games on Steam for a couple of weeks...as Mac fans like me would've happily paid full price. edit: The average purchase so far is $4.37...seriously? Given the caliber…

This is the first game indie game bundle; they've been branching out. (The previous bundle was a bunch of standup comedy videos, actually.)

But I completely agree. In fact, in the wake of Snowden, I made a mental note to pay extra attention to the next Humble Bundle charity split. I was planning to send it all directly to the EFF, but now I've realized that I can't just stiff everyone else. In the end, I paid double my usual amount.

Re: Humble Indie Bundle 9 released

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Post by wmf »

kzrdude wrote: post #40
middus wrote: post #6

You 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.

There are so many games being released that I appreciate a game that I can play through in 10-20 hours and then put aside. Speaking of Mark of the Ninja specifically, I thought new game plus mode was fun because you can use abilities unlocked later in the game in the early levels, and there's a DLC coming soon.

Re: Humble Indie Bundle 9 released

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Post by larrik »

green7ea wrote: post #25
jerf wrote: post #19

I'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 have also been doing more gaming in Linux recently. I only have a windows partition for Starcraft 2 and League of Legends. If blizzard ever gets on board the linux bandwagon, I won't need a windows partition :-D.

I actually run both under wine. LoL runs great, actually. Better than the official OS X client does on my Mac Mini.

Re: Humble Indie Bundle 9 released

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Post by larrik »

elliottcarlson wrote: post #27

Why 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.

They're rare enough to be notable, and they promote Linux (usually) and charity. Why not?

Re: Humble Indie Bundle 9 released

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Post by jerf »

rschmitty wrote: post #32
jerf wrote: post #19

I'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

"Now if you prefer [insert window manager of your choice]"

I've gone deep down that hole. XMonad, fairly custom, custom keyboard layout, custom emacs... occasional light gaming is all I do now that Windows has an advantage for me personally. YMMV.

One nice thing about Ubuntu still being based on Debian is that it's easy to install enough to satisfy Steam and all the games, since Ubuntu is what they target, while leaving the Ubuntu UI off and doing whatever you want underneath.

Re: Humble Indie Bundle 9 released

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Post by mamcx »

danso wrote: post #24

Holy...moly. As a Mac gamer, I've been waiting forever for Mark of the Ninja and Fez. AFAIK, they've not yet been previously released, so is this an exclusive for Humble Bundle? If so, what a huge scoop. If I were those developers, I would've hawked the games on Steam for a couple of weeks...as Mac fans like me would've happily paid full price. edit: The average purchase so far is $4.37...seriously? Given the caliber…

I buy because the same. And trine look fantastic.

Re: Humble Indie Bundle 9 released

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Post by ebroder »

nollidge wrote: post #33

Trying 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.

Sorry about that! Has to do with some anti-fraud tools we've built into Stripe Checkout. Should be fixed now, so you shouldn't see that again, Ghostery or no. Feel free to let me know (evan@stripe.com) if you (or anyone) still sees it.

Re: Humble Indie Bundle 9 released

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Post by brador »

larrik wrote: post #44
elliottcarlson wrote: post #27

Why 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.

They're rare enough to be notable, and they promote Linux (usually) and charity. Why not?

They're every week.

Re: Humble Indie Bundle 9 released

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Post by criley2 »

bryanlarsen wrote: post #38
rschmitty wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I run my ubuntu VM off of a SSD. My VM performance is (unbenchmarked) seemingly faster than many laptops and netbooks running Ubuntu. It's blazing fast performance that I believe is better than most native Linux installs on spinning drives.

I don't have I/O benchmarks to back that up, just anecdotes from my usage, but I'd be shocked to find that my ubuntu VM was 10% of native performance.

Re: Humble Indie Bundle 9 released

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Post by venomsnake »

bryanlarsen wrote: post #38
rschmitty wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If you give access to real drive/partition it is native.
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