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The Humble Indie Bundle V
« on June 1st, 2012, 06:50 AM »
Anyone interested in gaming and charity should take a look :)

http://www.humblebundle.com/
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Five incredible, best-selling games. Humble Indie Bundle V features five modern masterpieces and their soundtracks. Experience the fear and paranoia of Amnesia: The Dark Descent; the intensity and impact of LIMBO; the zany characters of Psychonauts; the future-retro, audiovisual concoction of Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP; and, for customers who pay more than the average price, the exquisitely crafted action-RPG, Bastion.

Pay what you want. If you bought all these games and soundtracks separately, it would cost around $110. But we are letting you set the price!

The games work great on Mac, Windows, and Linux.

You can support charity. Choose how your purchase is divided: between the developers, the Child's Play Charity, or the Electronic Frontier Foundation. And if you like this deal, a tip to Humble Bundle would be much appreciated!

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Re: The Humble Indie Bundle V
« Reply #1, on June 1st, 2012, 10:37 AM »
Pretty nice offer... I already have Psychonauts (but the PS2 DVD, and I actually never played it...) and am a supporter of Tim Schafer (and Ron Gilbert!), wanted to have a look at Bastion (because of the dungeon RPG style) and Superbrothers because of its excellent retro soundtrack. And the good news is, I get to download their soundtracks legally :)
Plus, I could pay by PayPal. I know Pete was into Humble Bundles, but they won me over as well this time!

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Re: The Humble Indie Bundle V
« Reply #2, on June 1st, 2012, 01:22 PM »
Bastion is an excellent game, Psychonauts slightly less so, but easily well worth putting some cash into the mix - especially considering you get all the games for Win/Mac/Linux and you get all the soundtracks (and both Bastion and Psychonauts have great soundtracks, I haven't yet dived into the others)
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Re: The Humble Indie Bundle V
« Reply #3, on June 1st, 2012, 02:29 PM »
Superbrothers is the best ost I've heard since NieR and Shatter. Not as good though. I'd say as good as Etrian Odyssey 3 in the same style.

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Re: The Humble Indie Bundle V
« Reply #4, on June 1st, 2012, 02:47 PM »
Haven't listened to it yet, to be honest most of my recent playing has been between Blur (driving game, though the studio appears to have been closed by Activision), Torchlight and a little known game called Slydris.

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Re: The Humble Indie Bundle V
« Reply #5, on June 1st, 2012, 03:26 PM »
Try the osts I mentioned while you're at it ;) they're easy to find, pm me if you can't!

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Re: The Humble Indie Bundle V
« Reply #9, on June 1st, 2012, 09:26 PM »
And you didn't spend your afternoon cutting wood and drilling into concrete walls. :whistle: (what a day...)

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Re: The Humble Indie Bundle V
« Reply #10, on June 1st, 2012, 09:30 PM »
No, I spent this afternoon doing the weekly shopping before this country goes mad because of the Jubilee weekend... fighting with the maddening crowds in the supermarket is almost as tiring.

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Re: The Humble Indie Bundle V
« Reply #11, on June 1st, 2012, 09:33 PM »
We have that kind of crap in France too, queen jubilee or not. It's called Saturday :P

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Re: The Humble Indie Bundle V
« Reply #12, on June 1st, 2012, 09:39 PM »
Oh, this was *worse*. It's a long weekend with the Jubilee, which means it's largely panic-stations with people getting enough food in.

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Re: The Humble Indie Bundle V
« Reply #13, on June 2nd, 2012, 08:31 PM »
Yeah I can imagine the pandemonium. Half of Britain seems to have gone abroad for the weekend and their places taken by an influx of tourists. I'm some 8,000 miles away[1] and so am missing all that - the bad and the good. Unfortunately none of the TV stations, including the satelite  are planning any coverage and all flights to Hong Kong, where they are televising the main events, were fully-booked. Oh well, hopefully my daughter has remembered to set the VCR.

When you think about it, some of the most memorable royal happenings have come at times when the country is at its lowest ebb and for a few short days, such events do raise the national morale. And pageantry is something we do rather well.

 1. in the world's largest city in terms of land area

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Re: The Humble Indie Bundle V
« Reply #14, on June 4th, 2012, 06:20 PM »
Also neat, there's still 10 days to run but already almost $3m worth of money has gone in!
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