Already have em all from the same bundle, but good lad. Hope .gs is nice enough to only take one each.

Also Superfrog HD is fanfuckingtastic but I can see why reviews say you have to be a fan of the original really.

Nabbed the crazy golf one cheers m8

I'm not going to take one as I can't run games on my machine, but I thoroughly encourage someone to pick out Worms Armageddon. Had a brilliant time with the Worms games as a kid.

Hate to be the greedy cunt who takes Armaegeddon, but my internet friends often play it together and now I won't need to feel left out. Thanks, lad, you've made my day/week.

>>17231
You must've got it seconds before me ;-;

Can we make a gs Worms Armageddon server?

Someone snagged Superfrog HD and Worms Ultimate Mayhem without saying anything. How rude.

Kind of you to offer anyway OP, thank you.

>>17239
I actually fucked up getting Superfrog. I thought it would be like when you buy the bundle yourself, and you just go to a page with the guys. So gave them a bullshit email.
Now no one can have it, unless OP can do something about it, I couldn't through normal channels. Whoops.

Thanks anyway OP.

>>17239
Sorry, I took Ultimate Mayhem. I won't be playing it until after I get my work done though.
Cheers OP, you make the world a little less shit.

>>17240
I'm the guy who fucked up getting Superfrog, and this thread made me realise I have a couple of steam keys I don't need. Here you go lads.

Broken Sword - PL769-P8CY4-FTZKP

Organ Trail - 6DGAK-3PVPX-6LV7K

Nice one, brother! I took Worms Pinball, thanks!
>>17242
I'll be greedy and nab that Organ Trail, too. I'd leave it for someone else but I've been wanting my own copy for months.

>>17227
I too have a few to spare.
I shall post them tomorrow afternoonish.

>>17243
>I'll be greedy and nab that Organ Trail
Never mind, its already gone.

>>17242
>Broken Sword
Aw snap. I wanted that one. Oh well

>>17244

May I suggest dropping ovr the course of the afternoon/evening to ensure Bike Thief doesn't nab all of them?

>>17247
So it shall be done.

One more spare from me, for a cracking little game.
Thomas Was Alone - NG0Z0-GNLMY-XVGGE

>>17249
I'll keep Thomas company. Cheers.

Superfrog https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=x86ws3w6ys2S2UTq
Worms Blast https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=Fe5YvEtpGws6RDhf
Worms Crazy Golf https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=CP53mh7u8yHmEkVA
Worms Ultimate Mayhem https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=vFrbAFxBhPrNGG3a
Worms Armageddon https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=nsHKPNcW45RdtkTt
Worms Pinball https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=amNSHCm56SW4kNpR
Worms Revolution Gold https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=FEYCnccnty6kszDV
Alien Breed Complete pack https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=EY7y4XyAnGWMyuSK

>>17251
Superfrog HD worked this time. Thanks!

I played through Thomas Was Alone the other week, it's great to see developers trying something different and playing with the medium. I really enjoyed it.

>>17251
Nabbed Worms Revolution.

Thanks ladm8.

>>17253

Alien Breed out of general curiosity, nabbed.

>>17254
It looked quite similar to the free Steam game Alien Swarm from the one or two screenshots I looked at.

I've got a few I'll never use.

Eets Munchies - 3ZFG-XVOI-5RJ0-CML1

A Virus Named TOM - LW9D2-E6PYH-QM6J7

Dead Space - I22IN-LG59N-5YITL

Crysis 2 - B26ZG-MLDPM-5IC8Q

Medal of Honor - A57PW-WD0D9-ZWCQ7

>>17252
What do you mean this time, I was the one who didn't get it last time :(.

I was hoping for it as it's the only game I've seen out of these that runs on Linux that I don't already have. Oh well, suppose I should buy it.

>>17254
I had it on the Amiga. IIRC, the Net Yaroze game Psychon is a homage to it.

>>17232

I ended up getting the Humble Bundle anyway so thought I'd return the favour:

https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=cdZVFkMGvThVRSfD

>>17258
The new games are a different breed indeed.

>>17258
>Net Yaroze
Never thought I'd hear anyone here talking about the Yaroze. Did you have one?

>>17258
>>17261
I plugged in my ps1 a while ago and spent a few days playing various net yaroze games on the OPM demo discs. There was a really good top down shooter, I forgot it's name.

>>17262
Ah, I'd forgotten about the OPM discs.

Rayfire?

>>17263
>>17262
I just google image searched 'Net Yaroze' and it was Psychon, as mentioned in >>17258

Oh my lord, Timeslip

https://www.youtube.com/v/wR9Q2j7yLmw

I have a load of demo discs saved up in the loft i drag out nostalgia now and again. The one with the MGS demo has a big bundle of Yarzoe games.

Fuck Yeah, The Incredible Coneman! https://www.youtube.com/v/4JU4iAqvQ0o

>>17266

That one was very clever. I can remember years later being unimpressed by various indie games ripping the idea off and putting fancy or pretentious graphics and styling on top and being hailed as great inventors. Not the first and won't be the last.

***ORIGINAL CONTENT DO NOT COPY***

The games medium has got old enough it is suffering from the same problems as music, film and literature. People lifitng a great deal of their work or inspiration from elsewhere. The other industries or fields are mature enough and have good enough critics and standards they can pick up on this, identify it and spread the word or judge it accordingly. Unfortunately the games industry is very immature in more than one sense of the word, as are the fans, critics and apparatus built around it. I'm hoping it is only a matter of time, but it really can't come soon enough.

Anyone remember the Net Yaroze game where you controlled an island in the sky and it sent out fighters/bombers and you had to battle an AI who did similar. You also controlled a fighter yourself and could get stuck into the fray to tip the balance. It was like an air based version of Future Cop's skirmish mode, "precinct assault" (which was also excellent).

>>17267

That was actually a decent little game. Some of those Net Yaroze chaps had talent.

>>17270

>Future Cop's skirmish mode, "precinct assault"

"Remember - Hovertanks, turrents, points, crime...beautiful". The multiplayer or skirmish mode was probably even better and more fun than the already fun main campaign. It had a good variation of difficulties and a nice extra hard secret mode. It'd be a super game to remake these days and with map making and modding possibilities it would have a lot more options. Add G-Police to that remake pile please.

Ok ladm8s, I have a bunch of steamkeys to give away from various bundles. Will be posting them through the night. First one coming when I get home in about half hour.

>>17272

Are we running a competetion to see who "liberates" the most?

>>17273
No, we're going to fairly divide them equally. Worry not about stalking the thread.

Aquaria - JB003-QAP9R-3ZGY5

>>17274

>We will divide them equally. But my equal part will be bigger than yours.

>>17276

Why so cynical? I've posted 8 and taken none.

>>17277

I was only 'aving a bubble, m7.

Ladm8s i'm gonna start posting my wares, please just.. be nice and share.

Fractal - 6CNVQ-80CNF-ZDVNF
Nightsky - 4Y0F8-PF684-CG92E
Waking Mars - PA6EN-KPTJH-VMB0A

Brazen (Prototype) - B7ZRX-Y4C7Z-M5GEN

The Humble Indie Bundle #3 - HKIXA-JHYJV-QV7I8

>>17251
Nabbed Ultimate Mayhem, cheers lad.

Wizorb, BIT.TRIP.RUNNER, Gratuitous Space Battles, and Jamestown - 9Q2KY-0PN8W-9DBPJ

The Binding of Isaac + Wrath of the Lamb DLC

XCJMP-DTXF0-B4VWB

You lovely shower of bastards.

Times like these I wish I had a computer powerful enough to run something other than minesweeper.

>>17283
Nabbed, many thanks!

>>17285
Most of these will run on a toaster.

>>17287

Currently playing Crysis 2 on mine. I just wish it had a few more buttons...

>>17288
You need to jiggle the crumb try to reload on mine. But the defrost button is broke so I cant fire in the first place.

>>17289

Cheers for the tip. Pity about the defrost m8, you have my sympathy.

>>17288
That'll overheat if you run it for too long. Here's a tip: when the framerate starts to drop, run a cold bath and submerse the toaster in it. You can keep playing while you soak!

>>17291

Why haven't I thought of this before? I've been bunging it in the freezer while paused. Cheers ladm7!

More key then?

Closure - 53QJB-X7XMD-6RCF3
Shank 2 - MI83M-KAPRV-X0YR8
Snapshot - XFPHX-IPR0M-RIQDK
Legend Of Grimrock - MXJE5-NQFEL-M8AT9

Dungeon Defenders + All DLC - Z2K2R-ZWKKY-MEXB9

Do acknowledge if you take any of these ladm8s, or if you attempt and some scoundrel has taken without saying.

>>17294

I really appreciate the effort lad, but I keep on getting the Steam equivalemt of "This voucher has been redeemed" every time. They are definitely going somewhere.

>>17293
Closure is great. Hope the ladm8 who got it appreciates it.

>>17296


Just out of interest, as the possible "free shiny things" got me to bother to download Steam (I play EVE so am not fussed about the failure on my behalf), where have all these keys come from? You can't have accidentally paid and downloaded so many games, twice, can you?

>>17298
All off various bundles I either already owned games from, or just didn't fancy.

>>17295
I fear a bot is pinching them. I dont fancy posting the rest unless they're going to go to a worthy cause.

>>17299

That might be a tad paranoid off to /boo/ with you.

If you still have more I am hapy to hit refresh after a certain period of time and see if I can actually do so. That might prove malevalence or not. I am warming up dinner though...

>>17299

Obfusticate the keys so that no bot can steal them. For example, write it backwards.

>>17299
We could pool all the keys together and raffle them off at Christmas. Users could express their interest in the games they wanted and that way we could distribute them more fairly.

>>17302

I'd only agree to this if purps was the rafflemast-

>>17303

Oh. Carry on then.

>>17301

Oh...canny.

>>17301
Makes sense. Ok lads. Keys are now mirrored.

Cave Story + - ANE07-7XFGR-ZNKCF

>>17306

Got that one, cheers lad. Fuck knows what it is about, but I assume it is worth a dig.

>>17303
This works too. Ok lads, what have you. Mirrored keys now, or THE GREAT FATHER PURPS MYSTERY GIFT SACK?

>>17308

Happy to grab entertainment now.

>>17299
>I fear a bot is pinching them.
Wait, is this a thing now?

>>17308>>17309
Last one til we get some more input. Also mirrored.

The Basement Colection - AJ7X5-Q8N9C-90DCV

>>17310
It is on 4chan at least. And the lack of people acknowledging receipt despite keys being used leads me to believe as such.

>>17311

>>17307 Here.

I waited a few and then tried, and to my embarassment got that as well. The Basement collection that is.

I think Bikethief some people are not being kind enough to thank OP. Cunts, the lot of you.

>>17313

Oh, just out of interest, as I am new to Steam, is it possible for me to gift one of them to another lad?

>>17310
One of our users writing a script to look for CD-key like strings in response to this thread strikes me as more likely than a bot roaming the internet, but I agree it's still far-fetched.

>>17311
Already taken within two minutes.

>>17315

As the lad who ended up with it, may I re-iterate my request into whether it is possible to pass it on again? Or is going to end up a guilt-ridden purchase to put on here come payday?

>>17316

You can't re-gift games once they've been activated, no.

>>17303

I'd consider gifting my whole Steam account for something like that. It depends how much if any personal information there is on it.

>>17317

Shit. Payday it is then. The particular joy in this is that it won't work with my set up anyway.

Ah well, cheers OP, the genorosity is appreciated, I am sure, by all those who avoid stealing bikes.

>>17318
A nice thought, but impractical.

>>17320
Why is it impractical?

>>17321
Too much personal information on there.

Will be posting more Mirrored Keys this afternoon lads.

Offspring Fling - WPEY7-GHRB6-BMNF3

Dear Esther - (Requires a super toaster to play properly) - TH7DX-NH880-DGXFW

>>17324

As the lad who unintentionally grabbed two last night I haven't touched these also i only have a one slice toaster. Anyone got them? If so why the lack of thanks?

>>17324

I took Offspring Fling. Cheers!

>>17325
One does not do good deeds for the praise and adulation; that way madness lies.

Want more lads?

>>17329

I'm always looking for more lads!

Just noticed they have a new tab on HB. Now there's the normal one, weekly one, and a new one called Store. Thay have different sales on every day in there apparently, and this is day one. I just bought Euro Truck Simulator 2 for 4 quid because I'm a sad bastard.

>>17393
I didn't think I'd be given an excuse to post this.

https://www.youtube.com/v/J1_tE5MxjYA

>>17397
That's superb. Thanks lad.

>>17397
Chorus grated a bit but I was more amused with the verses than I thought I would be.

You should try the street sweeper simulator. It even has the warning beeps and loops for the virtual pedestrians.

Know what I especially like about the new tab on HB? the part where you can select Linux, and it only shows games available for Linux (bottom leftish).
Years ago, I told everyone that Linux could be a viable gaming platform. They called me mad! WELL LOOK WHO'S LAUGHING NOW!

>>17395
Made my night.

Holy balls, I just could not reverse the trailer into the spot. ended up getting annoyed with it and pressing the end early key.
Another day though (or in a little while) I will defeat it.

>>17400

https://www.youtube.com/v/nbDTdoFnsNA

>>17427

Living the dream. No matter what kind of game you can think of, it seem someone has had a go at it.

It's your lucky day lads. I have 4 codes to give away, which will happen either throughout today, tomorrow if I forget about it, or all at once if I get bored of stretching it out.
I'd appreciate knowing a human got them and not some bot so a thank you post would be nice, however it is not required.
First one for you Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY edition.
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=nf6x4PhXXSRmnenY
Be warned, you MUST put in your real email, it won't just take you to a page with the steam key. I got burned that way with the Superfrog game early in this thread.

Code number 2, F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=q4TTbrWzdawhnyyC

Ooh, while we're on the subject...you know how you can select how much you want to donate to the humble bundle? Well if you are going to donate more than you have to, consider trimming the excess off and spending that on a second humble bundle to post here. The developers still get the same amount of money and it's a fun thing to post here.

You'll have to do without the other 2 codes for now lads, as I've been banned for a week for misuse of apostrophe.

>>17446
That's a very good idea.

Let's just pretend I'm not banned for this post.
F.E.A.R. 3
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=VqVMN2WNudbwvp5v

>>17452

Got it. Cheers lad.

>>17453
You're welcome. Glad it's gone to a good home.

>>17454

We'll see if I can actually play it on this set up, but I have been meaning to check out the F.E.AR. series. 2 might have been more likely to run. But hey, in a fortnight I have a new build.

>>17456
Try grabbing that too. I suspect it's gone, but no one has posted saying they've taken it.

>>17458

Tried, but nabbed. In fairness it might have been someone just about to clock off from work. We shall see if he has the politeness to post after dinner.

Last one from me for now.
The Lord of the Rings: War in the North
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=smf3y3WyBPqHYm6N

>>17462

You legend. You utter fucking legend.

>>17463
Glad to bring a little happinness to .gs.

Good Lord! MOO 1 + 2 giveaway sold out in about ten seconds at most and the sever pooped out for a few seconds after.

GOG are doing a lot of freebies too. You just do a pretend purchase and it's yours for good, including whatever extras they chuck in. Some good ones given away so far too, not only crappy ones. The pace has really picked up so word has really got about or the yanks are awake.

>>17466
> You just do a pretend purchase and it's yours for good, including whatever extras they chuck in.
Really? How, pray tell, does this work my friend?

>>17467

It's entirely above board and nothing clever. You just click on the button to buy it during the offer and it's listed as a £0 purchase and then it is instantly added without needing to do any paypal, etc. So even if you're wary of giving financial stuff to them you can still get the freebies. they also have a few semi-permanent freebie offers, including an ultima game. They too can be got the same way.

The servers are really being hammered, so jump in quick to give yourself time if you really want something. I managed to score Beyond Good and Evil for nowt. Very good platformer adventure back in the day. The games have no DRM and let you download them without needing to install any special software gateways like Steam or Origin, etc. If I end up with doubles in my panic I'll pass them on.

>>17469
>Origin
Anyone use this? I don't, but I've got a code for a game for it.

>>17470

I'm sure someone would be happy enough to even sign up for it if they really wanted the game or were skint. Might do someone down on their luck a good turn.

It is interesting to see how fast some games sell out and how long some sales drag out on GOG. It's a clear vote on popularity or desirability.

BG 2 complete for £1.50 right now!

>>17471
Fair enough. Here's the Origin code for Dead Space 3
6DNW-XTU3-5X9H-3JKV-NRH2
Looks like I have some others too...I got keys for Steam and Origin, but only ever redeemed the Steam ones. Dead Space 3 had no steam code.
These might work for you, unless Origin and Steam partnered for this (unlikely) or bikethief beats you to it.

These first two haven't been redeemed anywhere either, actually.

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising Origin Key
C3G8-J5LB-32MK-85LY-QW2H
Populous Origin Key
D2AA-GNHG-D3DJ-A96Y-SF8R
------------------------------------
Try your luck with these.
------------------------------------
Dead Space Origin Key
BF7F-NXQ9-HSK7-YMGZ-DLPG
Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box Origin Key
7AFX-3RFK-9JXA-LKAE-6X6J
Crysis 2 Maximum Edition Origin Key
9Y2S-ARTE-YJL8-EB9L-YDYP
Medal of Honor Origin Key
AG2J-96KG-G6JC-GN6A-PXZC
Mirror's Edge Origin Key
BRUL-LAL4-PJWE-KSBH-DZN3
--------------------------------------

Good luck!

Hundreds of hours of top quality RPG fun (before you even touch mods). The BG2 offer was spectacular. Was actually £1.29 with the current conversion rate. Less than a penny per hour of entertainment, I'd say. Plus, it is a very replayable game. I'd recommend it even at the standard price. Good value for money if things are a bit tight too.

>>17473
I would have jumped on it, but no Linux support.

That's why I've given away the codes I have in this thread.

>>17474

I'm sure it can be run on ubuntu and the like by now. It is hugely popular and a good few years old. Not the most demanding system-wise either.

>>17472
The C&C:RA3 key has been used. By me. Cheers.

https://www.youtube.com/v/Tb-gI_pFog0

>>17477
Great news lad, enjoy!

>>17477
I like the Hell March but the RA2 version is the fucking tits.

It fits so well in the game's intro as well: https://www.youtube.com/v/fnd0qg4I_MM

>>17477

That was the last playable C&C game. And only just, at that.

wut

Planescape: Torment for £1.29 too. The instant it came up I dove for it. So must have many others as the server died for ages. Thankfully I managed to worm my way in and snatched one of the few hundred copies at that price (which vanished in seconds if you take the server outage out of it). Well worth it. I can get a year's supply of gaming fun for the price of one AAA title at this rate.

>>17479
The bit where it says WESTWOOD STUDIOS PROUDLY PRESENTS really makes me tear up a bit. It makes me think developers don't actually give a fuck about their products anymore. :(

>>17481

Ouch. Don't think I'll be paying that for a FPS any time soon.

>>17483

It was a shame what happened to Westwood. So many good companies were wiped out or twisted out of recognition by that era of EA gobbling them up. I'll never forget the hours of fun I had clicking on the Harkonnen adviser's nose to make him go into spasms of twitching like a lunatic.

>>17484
Right, that kind of money is reserved for F2P games.

>>17486

Horrifying seeing how much money people are putting into these farmville type money sinks. They are often very poor games and there are plenty much better games that do the same for a lower long term cost. I worry it'll damage the market again, just as DLC was a broken leg.

>>17487
>just as DLC was a broken leg.
You've not played many videogames this last generation, have you?

>>17488
As in that they damage the quality of the games, presumably.

>>17489
Add on levels arent so bad. Where it gets bad is in something like an online game where some of the "DLC" gives players an advantage.

>>17488

I was talking to my mate who used to be a big PC gamer back in the day, like 15 years ago. He doesn't understand DLC.

He doesn't understand why people buy it, or why they don't complain about it. He started talking about how it was "all down hill after The Sims" which he claims are the spawn of Satan because they would schedule "expansions" and charge full price for them, but you needed Sims vanilla to play them.

It wouldn't shock me if that is when EA started to realise they could get away with shit like that.

"DLC"Is good when it's stuff like the GTA V Expansions or RDR Undead Nightmare. Proper full flourished expansions.

New Guns & Outfits however, no.

>>17490

Yeah, no one minds the odd small expansion or extra levels. That one with the DLC advantage is a very nasty move though and is so obviously a shitty thing to do it says a lot about those behind it. Or just as nasty is the day zero DLC that was obviously stripped out of the game to be repackaged. It ends up in a sort of "collect them all" thing where you have to dart around and snap up these missing parts to get the complete experience and often these greatly increase the overall price. Very nasty and dishonest. And all that is assuming you are even able to get all the missing parts. If you're unlucky and the game is out of print you are stuffed, as you could well be if you bought it in the 'wrong' shop and you can't get those parts. Worst is when you see it happen to a sequel where the old game included it all but as the new game made in the "fuck the gamers and customers up the arse" era it is stripped to the bone to milk you dry. Like that other poster said, there doesn't seem to to be the pride and love there used to be. I'm glad this sad and soulless age isn't my only or first experience with gaming.

I was particularly shocked and dismayed by Paradox doing it so badly. They even stripped out the unit counters (I shit ye not) and sold them as separate in some games. Things that used to be included as part of the very basics are hacked out and dripped back in and things that would be extra freebies (like the save game convertor) will cost you $10. Although Paradox seems to have changed somewhat over the years from the smaller company they used to be so it shouldn't come as too much of a surprise they'd go sour elsewhere.

The first DLC I remember is the horse armour in Oblivion, a non-functional graphical mod in a single-player game (amusingly, I read that as of a year or so ago there were still multiple people buying it every day on Xbox Live). Most customers find this pretty insulting, I know I considered DLC a dirty word for some time. Modern DLC packs, though, tend to have substantial extra content that people actually want. I don't really understand how people can't see the difference. DLC expansions are no weirder than sequels, they're just smaller in scope.

I wonder if in five or ten years time we'll be looking back on free-to-play and remarking how brutally consumer-unfriendly the play-to-win games we see today are. There's a lot of painfully clumsy monetisation that's going on in games at the moment but sooner or later someone's going to nail the cost/time/reward matrix just fucking right and we'll all come to enjoy it one way or another.

The 80s and 90s were a golden age. It's sad we don't see the same greatness any more. I remember looking forward to what would come. I expected ever more complicated games and greater innovation. What I got was horse armour and graphic updates.

I can also remember the sweeteners and promises when the digital system was being pushed - that we'd save money as we wouldn't have the costs of manuals and printing and producing physical copies that need to be shipped or sold through middle men. Yet almost always I can find the physical copy cheaper than the digital one. RIP OFF. Not only do they charge a much higher price they are clearly gouging for more profit as they have lower costs. And in the end you are beholden to them for your entire game collection's availability and continued usability. When they go tits up, bang goes all your games or DLC. We won't see the same preserved collections of old.

>>17497
You're being a touch nostalgic I feel. Today, thanks to digital distribution and crowd funding, PC games are going through a veritable golden age. The apparent support for smaller developers on the new console platforms seem to indicate that gaming in general may be entering a renaissance where development once again opens up to all-comers, which can't be anything other than a good thing if complicated games and greater innovation are what you want. I'm genuinely confused as to why you'd feel the way you do.

>>17498
> Yet almost always I can find the physical copy cheaper than the digital one.
Strange, with me it's the exact opposite.

>>17500

Really? Any examples of that?

>>17499

Where are the fruits of this golden age then? All I've been shown are rotten apples.

>>17499
>PC games are going through a veritable golden age.
Yeah. Irrespective of what games you loved in the 80s and 90s you can get more, and better, today in all those genres than you could back then, with few exceptions.

>I'm genuinely confused as to why you'd feel the way you do.
When people say "the 70s/80s/90s were a golden age" or similar what they mean is "I don't enjoy games as much as I used to when I was a highly impressionable child/teenager" which is a natural fact of modern games inevitably lacking that nostalgia. Nothing will ever alter my conviction that Chuckie Egg is one of the greatest platform games of all time, in the same way no one will ever convince me that Transformers: The Movie isn't a flawless gem of cartoon animation, but objectively I'm fucking wrong. The entertainment available today is better than we had as kids, and if I could trade Minesweeper for Minecraft among my childhood memories then I'd do it in a second.

>>17502
> no one will ever convince me that Transformers: The Movie isn't a flawless gem of cartoon animation, but objectively I'm fucking wrong. The entertainment available today is better than we had as kids,
You're totally wrong, kids' films today have nothing with the depth and scope of emotion that Transformer: The Movie had.

>>17501
> Really? Any examples of that?
Steam sales, Humble Bundle etc.

Jack fucking Keane has broken the GOG.com sale. All the staff there have gone to bed so no one can do anything about it. It's been on sale for hours now, but almost no one wants to buy it, so it sits there forever. Some people bought copies just to try and get rid of it, but it isn't enough. Previous two games sold out in as many minutes. This must be hugely embarrassing to the developers/publishers and might get them to look at their games and their prices. The others must be doing something right when they can sell out before you get your CC details in.

>>17504

Sale prices don't count or someone can say their mate Billy gave them the disc for 1p. Standard pricing only, please. The kind you can rely on to buy and have shipped or available any time and not hoping for the alignment of the planets and moons.

>>17502

>Yeah. Irrespective of what games you loved in the 80s and 90s you can get more, and better, today in all those genres than you could back then, with few exceptions.

No you can't. You can -at best- get the same with better graphics or the same thing with very small changes. They lack the ambition and revolutionary leaps of old. Sad times.

After six hours in the flash sale they managed to sell out Jack Keane 2 at last. Mostly because one person bought 20 copies to get rid of it and others were doing likewise after all those hours of madding frustration for everyone.

>>17508

https://www.youtube.com/v/xvX_5ym_ajI

It was like Stalingrad, lads, but we survived. Over a thousand posts about it on the site and goodness knows how many elsewhere.

>>17506
> Sale prices don't count or someone can say their mate Billy gave them the disc for 1p. Standard pricing only, please. The kind you can rely on to buy and have shipped or available any time and not hoping for the alignment of the planets and moons.
Counts for me. I get every game I want, and never have to wait longer than a month or so for it to show up somewhere on sale.

>>17472
>>17477
In case anyone missed this earlier...or if you didn't, then it might be that we have only one Origin user on the board. If that's the case, fill your boots lad and grab them all.

>>17507
You just aren't playing the right games.

>>17501
>Where are the fruits of this golden age then? All I've been shown are rotten apples.
That's always going to be subjective to a certain extent, but for me Hotline Miami, Fez, Crusader Kings 2, Braid, Skyrim, Dark Souls, the Bioshock series, the Mass Effect series, the Uncharted series, Bastion, Journey, The Last of Us, the Walking Dead, both Portals, Persona 4, Red Dead Redemption, GTA V, the Witcher, Mark of the Ninja, Kerbal Space program, Don't Starve, Dark Souls, Papers Please, and most recently Brothers have been the best example of the stellar quality of games in the past few years. I would also suggest that, contrary to >>17507, they're far more than "the same [thing as the 80s and 90s} with better graphics or with very small changes".

>>17513
But they're AAA titles, AAA titles are always bad

>>17513
Not who you replied to, but how old are you?

I think some of those games are classics (Skyrim, The Portal games) but a lot of the others are just middle of the road. Braid and Bastion, for example (maybe MOR is too unkind to them) just didn't grab me by the balls as much as say Starfox, Ocarina Of Time, or even Dizzy.

I'll say this, one genre that has been kicking out good games is the Adventure lot. If you ever liked point and click hair-tearers like the Discworld game, stuff like Critter Chronicles (available for Linux!) is awesome. It's the one time I feel that better graphics haven't made the developers lazy.

Portal 2 though...for me, best game of the last ten years.

>>17515
Braid is excellent. I wouldn't even mention Skyrim, the storyline was pretty rubbish and the quests generic.

>>17516
> I wouldn't even mention Skyrim, the storyline was pretty rubbish and the quests generic.

>>17517
I don't think so. All the quests involved going from A to B, more or less.

>>17515
Braid is something like six years old now and when it came out there basically was no indie games scene. I think it's a somewhat over-hyped game, it certainly became the darling of the "games are a serious artform for serious consideration" crowd, and their endless bleating about it gave it a legacy that anyone playing it now would probably struggle to match to the game's own merits. It was an important milestone, though, and I think you could reasonably make the case that it signalled the arrival of the mainstream indie game, which pretty much everyone agrees has been a good thing.

Starfox (on SNES) is a pretty shit game by the way. Terrible framerate, sluggish controls. You need some heavy-duty nostalgia goggles to make that game playable.

>>17519
> Starfox (on SNES) is a pretty shit game by the way. Terrible framerate, sluggish controls.
I agree the framerate is bad. Don't complain about the controls though lad. Not my fault if you're not top gun material.

I think Lylat Wars will stand the test of time though. That game was off the hook.

>>17520

Do a barrel roll.

Anyone fancy FEAR?

https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=HhydAVWVcWyGTAsM

>>17532

Legend. Cheers lad. Got really excited about this looking at the wiki on the series last night.

>>17533
No worries. the Expansions for fear 1 are well worth a blast too. But they get retconned/ ignored by Fear 2 & 3 proper.

Warhammer 40,000 - Dawn of War

W358H-GIQAL-MQYRF

>>17515
>Not who you replied to, but how old are you?
Old enough to have started playing games on a SNES.

And yet young/immature enough to be able to cite a couple dozen of my favourite videogames from the past generation off the top of my head.

The early to mid 2000s were really the nadir of gaming, I think. Unless you were a fan of WW2 shooters or the occasional modern shooter, there was rather a drought of interesting material. It's frankly incredible that the scene has changed to the point that Sony dedicated a huge chunk their E3 stage time to indie games this year. It would've been unfathomable that that could happen just a few years ago. I find it hard to be anything but optimistic about the state of gaming and its future.

If Sony and EA get their claws into indie games then you can kiss it all goodbye, just as the great old smaller studios or companies like Westwood and Origin. The games scene was like a graveyard after that.

One each lads.

Batman™: Arkham Asylum GOTY:
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=uTN3CehqSFrpEFAf

Batman™: Arkham City GOTY:
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=GhWUbGRVVq3P6EU6

Batman™: Arkham Origins DLC:
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=kheb8rWsGrcy8h3D

>>17567
Indie games don't need Sony or EA though, that's the whole point. There are now tools and distribution methods that make it possible for an individual or a small team to make an interesting, professional quality game on a shoestring budget, and make a substantial profit if the result is good. The reason that (as >>17540 pointed out) the early 00's were such a creatively bankrupt time for videogames is that the market swung full tilt toward closed, proprietary consoles with high game unit costs, and these games were almost entirely bought from brick and mortar stores that added their own significant overheads. The barrier for entry was measured in millions dollars per game project and required hundreds of thousands of unit sales to break even. There is very little tolerance for risk in any environment like this, which is why we ended up storming Omaha beach ad nauseam.

Westwood got fucked because they needed EA. Team Meat, Mossmouth, Mojang, these folks don't need EA, and platform holders like Sony are increasingly coming to them cap in hand asking for access. The bad old days aren't coming back - the genie is out of the bottle. The real question is, to what extent is the rise in popularity of small, cheap games going to eat into the viability of triple-A blockbuster titles?

It has happened once, it will happen again. When you lads get old enough you'll understand. You'll see the cycle happen again and taste nothing but ashes and disappointment.

This in mind, I found a couple of nice old Sega leaflets a while back. Anyone wanna see em?

>>17571
Yes please.

>>17571
YES

I am going to dump some Viz ones, hope they aren't the same.

>>17575
I dislike the quip about female players but I posted it anyway.

>>17578

Oh, you're one of those boring ones then. Pity.

>>17579
I just posted ancient videogame adverts from Viz, we can both rest easy in the knowledge that I'm pretty boring.

ok lads. Here we go.

>>17581

>>17582

>>17583

And now, Megadrive.

>>17585

>>17586

>>17587

>>17588
And finally, a reaction image purloined from the Megadrive stuff.

>>17604

>>17605

>>17606
Holy fuck, I want one.

>>17607
The Mega PC is the less interesting of the two, being as it is functionally split in half (kind of like the image shows) - the "special" bit is the monitor which is both capable of both 15.6kHz for the Megadrive video and 31.2kHz for the PC VGA video (I have a feeling the sound card is shared but everything else is discrete, so the PC can't interact with the Megadrive or vice versa). The Teradrive actually allows you to talk to the 68k CPU but you're stuck with a 286 and a very odd, very custom Japanese system architecture. They are both pretty cool IMO.

>>17228

I don't know why you like Superfrog HD so much, is it the nostalgia factor? I'm inclined to go on a AVGN type rant.

-Why can't you use spud whilst jumping?
-Why can't you use spud in the 8 cardinal directions?
-Half the time I don't know where the fuck I'm going despite the occasional arrows.
-It's cheesy as fuck.

It's growing on me but I still think it sucks and I'd never buy it on its own.

>>17647
To add to that, is this game a sonic knock off?
What's the point of the fruit machines?
Why does he hold his breath underwater?

>>17647>>17648
I grabbed a copy of Superfrog HD from this thread and I quite enjoyed it. All the things you mention are basically just remnants of 90s game design, and the limitations of the hardware of that era combined with development time/budget constraints. Saying it's "cheesy as fuck" is kind of missing the point, it's like saying that Mass Effect is a bit too sci-fi or that Disney movies are a bit family-friendly.

If you weren't playing games in the 80s and 90s it probably (and justifiably) has very little appeal.

>>17647
I liked it back in 1992, so it's most likely that.

The game is pretty unchanged really. The levels are changed to be easier, but the original levels you unlock with the fruit machine are the proper ones.

Got Jamestown already from this HB if anyone wants it.
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=eET3c685d2DbbkeC

Serious Sam 3 if anyone wants it. The online co-op is fun on this.

https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=uPS2PNGrX6R7ddnw

>>17882
Thanks ladm8. Much appreciated.

Heartwarming to see the Christmas spirit in action here. N1.

>>17884
Have a nosey back through the thread lad, i'm sure half the games have not been claimed yet.

>>17885
I'm pretty sure 90% of them have been claimed. Quite a few were taken and not acknowledged.

Anyone fancy some fun with Garry and his mod? Here yeh go.

https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=XynzCUW5BpCEBfEb

>>17887

One of those mods or game modes that can be very basic or hugely complicated and time consuming depending on how you approach it. Certainly fun for organising huge battles.