I present you the Humble Bundle. Offered by Wolfire. You can own 5 Indy games. You name the price. Entirely DRM free. Mac, PC, and Linux.
World of Goo
Aquaria
Gish
Lugaru
Penumbra
I already own one of the games, but I could not pass on this deal. And I am significantly Anti-DRM, so I whole heartedly support this and I paid $40 for my copies.
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The Humble Bundle, 5 games, name your price
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The Humble Bundle, 5 games, name your price
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World of Goo and Penumbra are worth cash, the others not so much. 
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World of Goo is the only one I've played. I enjoyed it imenslely, but was irritated by it being shackled by Steam. I love what they are doing here.
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I got World of Goo pre-steam, so I've never had any DRM problems with it. Can't finish it though; I suck at puzzles.
Penumbra is kicking rad awesome and shames 'scary' AAA titles.
Penumbra is kicking rad awesome and shames 'scary' AAA titles.
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The bundle now includes Samosta 2.
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Penumbra looks like it might be fun, and more adventure games are always a good thing. Think I'll snag this on payday, since I've got no problem dropping $20 or $30 on a decent indie bundle and mainstream gaming is kinda 'meh' right now anyway.
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The website suggests that once you buy the bundle you can somehow get the Penumbra 'collection' for $5.
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When you install the Penumbra game that comes with the bundle, the installer gives you a discount code (and puts a readme file in the game's directory with it in case you miss it) for their online store.
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Ah. I wasn't aware there were more Penumbra games than Overture and Black Plague, so needing a 'collection' after you already have 50% of it seemed odd.
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Penumbra is amazingly terrifying. Play it
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Don't bother with Requiem. It's nothing more than a crappy platformer and puzzle game awkwardly shoved into the penumbra setting with none of the creepy or scary parts and adds absolutely nothing to the story of the first two games. There are absolutely zero monsters or enemies and in many ways it felt like a very cheap portal knockoff. If I recall correctly, the whole game of consists of nine or so levels where your entire objective is to find keys to open the portal to the next level.Stark wrote:Ah. I wasn't aware there were more Penumbra games than Overture and Black Plague, so needing a 'collection' after you already have 50% of it seemed odd.
If you want to see how bad it is, a Let's Play of the whole trilogy was done recently on the Something Awful forums and you can see the archived version here. Note: Link goes to the LP Archives and not the Something Awful Forums.
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What are those games? Adventures, RTS, action?
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World of Goo is a puzzle game, Penumbra is a first person adventure game, and I don't know the rest.
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Lugaru is a not great furryphysics-based fighting game.
Gish is... I don't know, I'm yet to play it.
Aquaria is a quite interesting adventure/puzzle game that plays like a Ecco the Dolphin mated with a Zelda-esque thing.
Samorost is a really cool point and click adventure from the guys who did Machinarium.
Gish is... I don't know, I'm yet to play it.
Aquaria is a quite interesting adventure/puzzle game that plays like a Ecco the Dolphin mated with a Zelda-esque thing.
Samorost is a really cool point and click adventure from the guys who did Machinarium.
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Thank you both. I don't think I'll buy any of those, they do not sound like I would enjoy them.
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It is worth it for World of Goo alone. That is a seriously great game.
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World of Goo. Goo based physics game. Whats not to like?Thanas wrote:Thank you both. I don't think I'll buy any of those, they do not sound like I would enjoy them.
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Do you know how long this will be open? I planned to get myself Penumbra when I find a new job, but with things the way they are economically, that could be a while....
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Just pay a cent. I used Amazon payments because paypal sucks shit and it was fine.
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I thought this thing was over already, but the counter on the site was still going last night.
I'm torn between my irrational need to buy the boxed editions, and wanting to get this bundle.
Them going open source on some of the games is very neat, though. Wonder if anyone will code Stereo rendering and wiimote support into Penumbra?
I'm torn between my irrational need to buy the boxed editions, and wanting to get this bundle.
Them going open source on some of the games is very neat, though. Wonder if anyone will code Stereo rendering and wiimote support into Penumbra?
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