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Most of us are probably aware of the latest Humble Bundle, so I thought it might be nice to have a thread for it. Not to discuss whether to buy it or not (although since Avadon was in a previous one, Jeff can't complain too loudly if this convinces someone to go out and buy it), but to discuss our thoughts on the Humble Bundle concept itself (although that's probably been covered during previous incarnations) or on the games included in this one.

 

To start things off, Dikiyoba really, really likes Amnesia: The Dark Descent, as you can probably tell. The other games all look interesting too, but Dikiyoba hasn't tried them yet.

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I'm afraid A:DD sounds like a gruesome experience I'd rather pay to avoid. I'm not a fan of horror. I just can't shake the feeling that adding imaginary atrocities to reality's plentiful supply amounts to some kind of complicity. The best I can do is ignore the whole genre.

 

But I've been thinking of getting Bastion for a while now, and a couple of the other games sound quite interesting, so I got it.

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I've played Psychonauts briefly before, and watched it being played fairly extensively, and I'd recommend it;. it was Psychonauts's inclusion that really sold this bundle for me.

 

(plus I was so sick of Diki yammering on about Amnesia, so I sort of had to get it anyway)

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I already bought Psychonauts on Steam, but I bought this bundle just because I had vague desire to maybe look at Bastion and I absolutely support more Psychonauts, especially Psychonauts that doesn't require fighting with Steam.

 

—Alorael, who will get around to the other things eventually. But he's found that he usually gets bundles, if he does, for one game and gives the others a cursory play, if that.

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Amnesia is in the top 10 games of the past decade, I say. I don't think I've ever played a game that does immersion better than that one. It's very rare for me to get so sucked into a game that I actually stop strategizing and "gaming," so to speak, but "amnesia" is one of the few games that did that for me. It's really quite brilliant.

 

All the other games are good too---except maybe "Bastion." To me that just played like a mediocre, free2play, browser aRPG--only it has the whole voice over gimmick, which is neat for maybe an hour or so, but once it gets old all you are left with is the gameplay which isn't very good. If you want to experience Bastion just save your money and have a friend narrate everything you do while playing "Spiral Knights" occasionally pausing to play a Cat Power song. It'd be more or less the same thing.

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