Anybody play any of these games?
Saints Row
Darksiders
Metro 2033
Red Faction Armageddon
Company of Heroes
Company of Heroes Opposing Fronts
Company of Heroes Tales of Valor
Worth the six bucks? I mean it’s, like, for charity and everything.
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What do you mean, “what am I missing”? THQ is in dire, DIRE financial straits and apparently sold the Humble Bundle guys on giving this a go. The Slashdotters and ArsTechnicians are apoplectic for the perceived “selling out” that the Humble Bundlers are engaging in. I have great sympathy for that position.
Also, I do not have a Windows PC, so the appeal of these games is highly diminished. Still, Darksiders is a fun game and Saints Row 3 is what would happen if Parker, Stone and the Robot Chicken guys got to design a Grand Theft Auto game.
…So, should I buy it or not? 🙂
Do you like lots of good games for very little money? Buy it for $10, get SR3 for beating the bundle average, then set the sliders to “All Childs Play”.
All right, then. Any of the soundtracks worth downloading? I usually don’t (except for the ME3 one, of course).
Definitely orchestral across the board. Worth a download and at least a single listen, I’d say.
Darksiders runs along these general thematic lines:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDU2pRXqtB8
Disclaimer:
I’ve purchased each and every single Humble Bundle, with the exception of two of the Android bundles, as they largely encompassed games already on offer, and the Humble eBook Bundle. I dig what they’re doing and I now have far more “indie” game content than I’ll ever be able to consume.
So, yeah, ideologically confused and a little miffed that they’re selling their brand out to pimp games in which the protagonists can beat someone to death using a giant marital aid.
I heard good things about Metro 2033, though it just would not be my bag (1st person perspective and I do not get along at all). Bullets are the game currency! How much fun is that! I’ll give you a shiny bullet for 10 dirty bullets that I use to kill post-apocalypse Commies.
I recently played a little bit of Darksiders and found it too “God of War”-y.
Saints Row the Third alone is worth at least 6 bucks.
Metro 2033 is a shooter, but being coming from a Ukranian developer, it takes a different (and more interesting) path than the usual Western shooter. The setting (post-apocalyptic Moscow subway system) and gameplay mechanics are quite excellent.
Company of Heroes is a quite excellent WWII RTS that might appeal to people who aren’t fanatic about RTS. I think those two games (and the other COH content) justifies the bundle.