The Game Bundles Thread

[Skynet]

Man, if I didn't get SR4 free on XB I would have grabbed that for SR4 alone.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

I was wrong, the anal probe weapon was in SR4 and it wasn't removed.

[Iced Coffee Man]

Well I'm glad I didn't get it anyway. Why did we go through all the crap to introduce an 18+ rating? They expel more hot air than an observation balloon.

[Code-Red]

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Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl if anyone wants it.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl if anyone wants it.

I just grabbed it. Thanks a lot Code-Red.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

Sonic Humble Bundle Leaked?

The 25th anniversary is just a few weeks away, the announcements and teases are slowly trickling out, and we might have a heads up on one announcement. According to a poster at Reddit, there might be a Sonic Humble Bundle on the way.

The bundle in question seems to be as follows.

Pay what you want (single combined key)

Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic 3D Blast
Sonic Adventure DX

Beat the Average (single combined key)

Sonic CD
Sonic Adventure 2
Sonic Adventure 2: Battle Mode
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Sonic and SEGA All Stars Racing
Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode I

Pay $10 (single combined key)

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed Metal Sonic
Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed Yogscast
Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed Ryo Hazuki
Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode II
Sonic Generations
Sonic Generations – Casino Nights
Sonic Lost World
Sonic Lost World – NiGHTMARE Zone

Second Week BTA Bonus (single combined key)

Sonic Spinball
Sonic 3 and Knuckles
Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine

To further support this claim, there are a number of items recently added to the Steam Database which seems to indicate that this is indeed happening.

https://steamdb.info/sub/110002/apps/

https://steamdb.info/sub/110003/apps/

https://steamdb.info/sub/110004/apps/

Not idea when these will go live on the humble bundle store, but odds are it should be this month.

Source: Sonic Stadium

[melancholy]

Wait, Lost World was released on PC? I would buy this bundle just for that game.


...and I mean that literally, because I'm pretty sure I have all the other games on Steam already.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

Yep, late last year.



It's only sold 41k on Steam, so it wasn't a blockbuster.

The Humble Staff Picks Bundle: Hamble

The Staff Picks Bundle is back! This time it’s not just Humble; it’s Hamble too.

This edition of the Staff Picks Bundle features Hamble: our friendly office bindle pig! When he’s not snuffling around for truffles, he’s snuffling out some choice video games. Here’s what he rounded up for this bundle:

Pay what you want for 1001 Spikes, Absolute Drift, and Snakebird.

Pay $1 or more to get a coupon for 10% off one month of Humble Monthly for first-time subscribers.

Pay more than the average price to also receive Hand of Fate and Deathtrap.

Pay $10 or more for all of that plus Viscera Clean-up Detail + House of Horror DLC and Craft the World.

Pay $40 or more to get all of the games plus your very own Premium Hamble Plush (price includes worldwide shipping).



https://www.humblebundle.com/hamble-staff-picks-bundle

[pixel]

NEO GEO Humble Bundle Encore

They have 25 games available:

Tier 1: $1
ART OF FIGHTING 2, FATAL FURY SPECIAL, KING OF THE MONSTERS, METAL SLUG 2, SAMURAI SHODOWN II, SENGOKU 3, THE KING OF FIGHTERS 2000, BASEBALL STARS 2, BLAZING STAR, and IRONCLAD., and a coupon for 10% off Humble Monthly for new subscribers.

Tier 2: Beat the average price (BTA)
THE LAST BLADE, PULSTAR, METAL SLUG, METAL SLUG 3, SHOCK TROOPERS, NEO TURF MASTERS, THE KING OF FIGHTERS ‘98 ULTIMATE MATCH FINAL EDITION, TWINKLE STAR SPRITES, The Neo Geo 25th Anniversary Soundtrack, REAL BOUT FATAL FURY 2: THE NEWCOMERS, and THE KING OF FIGHTERS 2002.

Tier 3: $10
SHOCK TROOPERS: 2nd SQUAD, SAMURAI SHODOWN V SPECIAL, GAROU: MARK OF THE WOLVES, METAL SLUG X, and THE KING OF FIGHTERS 2002 UNLIMITED MATCH.

If anyone wants a copy of Metal Gear 3, I'd be happy to gift it.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

Nice. I'll have to get that one because I didn't get the previous Neo Geo bundle.

[Matisfaction]

Wait, Lost World was released on PC? I would buy this bundle just for that game.


...and I mean that literally, because I'm pretty sure I have all the other games on Steam already.

This was first Sonic game that I had been genuinely excited for in a long time, I remember seeing the footage and thinking "Sonic Galaxy! This could be great...". Big let down, but at least it's not Sonic Boom.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

The Sonic bundle is up.

https://www.humblebundle.com/sonic-25th ... MUV9Ar1PHw_

The Beat The Average price is higher than the third tier.

[pixel]

Ah hell yeah! Those Sonic games work in the new Genesis launcher, cool stuff

Edit: Oof, finally played Sonic 4. It's the best Flash-based Sonic knockoff I've ever played! Newgrounds has really stepped up their game.

[melancholy]

I'm seriously thinking of throwing down the $35 for that shirt. Though a 3 month turnaround for shipping is kinda stupid.

[melancholy]

A question to everyone that bought a bundle: did you actually click on the 'Choose where your money goes' option?

So as you know, they have it set up where you can just click a default $10 for everything and go straight to Paypal. But if you want to customize where your donation, they have a drop-down menu where you can set where the money actually goes. It used to be something they forced you to do before checkout. Now it's just hidden under a menu that's easy to ignore.

The last bundle I bought, I didn't even pay attention. I just clicked my amount and paid. But today I actually looked, and now I know why they collapsed the option. If you just go with the default, 65% of your donation goes to Sega, 20% goes to Humble Bundle, and a measly 15% actually goes to any charity. Considering this whole thing is supposed to be for charity, having the sliders cut 85% off the top by default is a sneaky business move.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

I used to change it so the majority goes to charity with a bit going to HB & the devs, so if I paid $5 it would be $3 to charity & a $1 each to the others. Haven't paid as much attention to it of late but when it's a bigger company like Sega, EA, Capcom etc. I lower their amount.

[Skynet]

I always choose where it goes as I want the charity to get the most. When I noticed it seemed different I made sure I changed the amount to each of them.

[pixel]

FWIW, I donated 100 percent to charity when I bought the Sonic bundle. Sega has proven time and time again that they aren't responsible with money.

[ian]

A question to everyone that bought a bundle: did you actually click on the 'Choose where your money goes' option?

I've only bought 3 bundles, but each time I pick the percentage that everyone gets.
When I got the EA one, I gave 95% to charity, 5% to humble bundle and nothing to EA.. Like it should be.

FWIW, I donated 100 percent to charity when I bought the Sonic bundle. Sega has proven time and time again that they aren't responsible with money.

I wouldn't give Sega a cent for a sonic game either.
And yet, if we could have old (1986-2003) Sega back.. I'd say FUCK CHARITY, TAKE ALL MY MONEY!!!

[Matisfaction]

Sonic Colours is supposed to be quite good (according to some), can't see it in the bundle so I'm guessing that it was exclusive to the Wii?