Humble Bundle with Android 7, is it worth it?

[AvsJoe]

When I ask if it's worth it, I don't mean the money. $6.50 is a miniscule amount. I'm talking about time. I watched the trailer and the only game that really piqued my interest is Ticket to Ride. Worms is awesome but I've played my fair share of Worms games and don't need to play another and the other 4 didn't impress. Is there a Braid or Bastion in this group? Is this bundle worth buying?

 

[SweetShark]

I suggest you to wait to see the other games as well before make a decision.
For sure they will have at least 3 more games to show.

 

[SweetShark]

Btw, I don't believe you will see Bastion any time soon.
It was already in a previous recent bundle.
Braid on the other hand....who knows, maybe you are lucky and see it in this one.

 

[Smooth Operator]

I'd appreciate if you add links next time you do a thread like this.
https://www.humblebundle.com/

So we got:
- Worms (same game for 50 years now but hey at least it's a good one)
- Ticket to Ride (is the adaption of a board game people say is good)
- Anodyne (return to sprite based Zelda)
- Greed Corp (very capable turn based strategy game)
- The Bard's Tale (one of the oldest and funniest RPG's ever made, if anything is worth the money it is this one)

 

[Deathlyphil]

When I ask if it's worth it, I don't mean the money. $6.50 is a miniscule amount. I'm talking about time. I watched the trailer and the only game that really piqued my interest is Ticket to Ride. Worms is awesome but I've played my fair share of Worms games and don't need to play another and the other 4 didn't impress. Is there a Braid or Bastion in this group? Is this bundle worth buying?

I'm pretty sure I have a spare copy of Bastion if you want the Steam code.

 

[SweetShark]

I'd appreciate if you add links next time you do a thread like this.
https://www.humblebundle.com/

So we got:
- Worms (same game for 50 years now but hey at least it's a good one)
- Ticket to Ride (is the adaption of a board game people say is good)
- Anodyne (return to sprite based Zelda)
- Greed Corp (very capable turn based strategy game)
- The Bard's Tale (one of the oldest and funniest RPG's ever made, if anything is worth the money it is this one)

To be fair, Anodyne is more darker to be equal to a top-view Zelda game.

 

[TheSteeleStrap]

Worms is cool and, beyond that, the rest of the games look really interesting to me. I picked it up, and I'm looking forward to playing these.

 

[Thoughtful_Salt]

Meh, i'm not sure if I would buy a bards tale, especially after seeing that awful trailer of it on the humble site. Worms is not up my alley, but the greed corp game kind of looked neat.

 

[Baldr]

Ticket to Ride is $40 for the board game, $10 digital game normally on steam, plus $2 DLC. Worms Reloaded is normally $20 on steam. I like both games a lot.

 

[AvsJoe]

And then they added Organ Trail. Sold!

 

[Benpasko]

Meh, i'm not sure if I would buy a bards tale, especially after seeing that awful trailer of it on the humble site. Worms is not up my alley, but the greed corp game kind of looked neat.

Bard's Tale is awesome, I have the PS2 original. It has some of the funniest writing I've ever seen in a game, and the game cleverly subverted binary moral choice systems before they existed.

 

[DoPo]

And then they added Organ Trail. Sold!

Organ Trail is...eh, alright, I guess. Depends if you're into it. I tried it for a bit and it wasn't for me - the only sort of amusement I got was from the fact that I named one of my companions Jesus, and the other Satan. Man, Jesus was a dick - I must say, Satan behaved himself way better. But other than that, it's a game where you have to manage your resources a lot and it's quite nice in that respect. It bore me but I admit it was nice - you have to scrounge for money, food, fuel, extra parts for your car, and you have to take care of yourself, your companions, and, of course, the car if you want to advance. I didn't play long enough, but I'm certain things would get tighter if you go further - in the beginning you do have enough but resources are slowly trickling down and replenishing them is not fast or convenient most times.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Meh, i'm not sure if I would buy a bards tale, especially after seeing that awful trailer of it on the humble site. Worms is not up my alley, but the greed corp game kind of looked neat.

Bard's Tale is awesome, I have the PS2 original. It has some of the funniest writing I've ever seen in a game, and the game cleverly subverted binary moral choice systems before they existed.

It's worth mentioning that the "original" The Bard's Tale was released in 1985 for the Apple II, and got ported to pretty much all of the 8 and 16 bit computers. The android version is a port of a remake/re-imagining from the early-mid 2000's that was available on the PS2, Xbox, and I think PC at the time. I also seem to remember seeing it mentioned as having been one of the largest (in terms of file size) Android games at one point, with something crazy like a 1 gig download needed to play it. Although I may be getting it confused and it was one of the first Android games to need a full gig of ram to run properly or something.

As for my answer to the OP's question: Get it if for no other reason than to see that there are real games out there for Android, many of which actually play pretty darned well. Despite what your average "hardcore" gamer seems to think, smartphones are turning out to be a very important handheld gaming platform, easily capable of knocking both Sony and Nintendo down a notch in the near to mid future if they don't take the threat posed by the new technology seriously.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

And then they added Organ Trail. Sold!

Organ Trail is...eh, alright, I guess. Depends if you're into it. I tried it for a bit and it wasn't for me - the only sort of amusement I got was from the fact that I named one of my companions Jesus, and the other Satan. Man, Jesus was a dick - I must say, Satan behaved himself way better. But other than that, it's a game where you have to manage your resources a lot and it's quite nice in that respect. It bore me but I admit it was nice - you have to scrounge for money, food, fuel, extra parts for your car, and you have to take care of yourself, your companions, and, of course, the car if you want to advance. I didn't play long enough, but I'm certain things would get tighter if you go further - in the beginning you do have enough but resources are slowly trickling down and replenishing them is not fast or convenient most times.

I'd even say it's only really worth if it you're nostalgic for the original (not the sequels) Oregon Trail and think you'd be amused by a mostly straight faced remake with the setting changed to a zombie apocalypse. Bonus points if you grew up on the really early versions (like the Apple II) which used a top down view for the hunting, instead of the later ones (like the Dos and Windows ports I'm familiar with), which were a first person shooting thing where you could move the reticule but not yourself, kind of like that old Deer Hunter game that inexplicably got popular enough to get a (funny, at the time) parody of its own, and that one when it was still a fairly new title.

 

[DoPo]

I'd even say it's only really worth if it you're nostalgic for the original

Eh, it can stand on its own. Sorta. I'd say it's OK even by itself though how many people would like it like that is another story. I didn't, never played Oregon Trail but I know of it (enough references lay on the Internet). As I said, I did find this game boring but on a different day (or year) I may have liked it. I suppose somebody may still do that.

kind of like that old Deer Hunter game that inexplicably got popular enough to get a (funny, at the time) parody of its own, and that one when it was still a fairly new title.

Deer Avenger was awesome. Just sayin'

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

I'd even say it's only really worth if it you're nostalgic for the original

Eh, it can stand on its own. Sorta. I'd say it's OK even by itself though how many people would like it like that is another story. I didn't, never played Oregon Trail but I know of it (enough references lay on the Internet). As I said, I did find this game boring but on a different day (or year) I may have liked it. I suppose somebody may still do that.

kind of like that old Deer Hunter game that inexplicably got popular enough to get a (funny, at the time) parody of its own, and that one when it was still a fairly new title.

Deer Avenger was awesome. Just sayin'

I can see that. I mean it's not like the reason those of us /with/ nostalgia for it are nostalgic because it was educational, it was legitimately fun, or at least as much fun as an educational game could be. May even be partially responsible for my latter day love of roguelikes, what with the permadeath feature and all the random elements.

Also, glad I'm not the only one who remembers Deer Avenger. I wasn't sure how far to go with that comparison, since I live in redneck country to begin with, and wasn't entirely sure how broad or localized the popularity of Deer Avenger and the games it parodied was.

Edit: Now that I think about it, it must have been /massively/ popular, since Deer Avenger wasn't even the only parody game. There was another, totally un-related one called Deer's Revenge, which I never played but remember the "hunter droppings" gag as pictured on the back of the box being cruder than the one in Deer Avenger. The late 90's/early 2000's were /different/, man. I can't imagine a hunting game getting that popular in this day age, not as far as the gun control movement has gotten -- a game like Deer Hunter needs a pretty sizable portion of the population to be gun owners and hunters to gain any kind of popularity. Otherwise it'd be like selling those heavy machinery simulators (Garbage Truck 2013 and what have you) in the US, where we really don't see that kind of job as either interesting or anything to aspire to. Whereas in Germany they're apparently all over that stuff because the trades that use them pay pretty well.