Humble Indie Bundle 5 launches: Psychonauts, Limbo, Amnesia and more
If you've been suffering from indie game bundle fatigue, this should snap you out of it. Humble Indie Bundle V has launched, offering Amnesia, Limbo, Psychonauts, and Sword & Sworcery for whatever you fancy paying. Pay more than the average, and you'll get Bastion too.
If you've been suffering indie game bundle fatigue, now that a new one launches almost every week, the latest Humble Bundle should perk you right back up. The 'pay what you want' Humble Indie Bundle V packs Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Limbo, Psychonauts, and Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, plus, if you pay more than the average price, you get Bastion too.
Head on over to Humble Bundle to slap down whatever you fancy paying, dividing it up as you please between the developers, charities, and organizer. As ever, the games come for PC, Mac and Linux, and are available as DRM-free direct downloads with bonus Steam keys. Oh, and you get their soundtracks too.
Now, sadly the customary Humble Bundle rapping is absent from HIB V's trailer, but maybe the Bastion narrator and Tim Schafer will make up for that:
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replyAlice O'Connor posted a new article, Humble Indie Bundle 5 launches: Psychonauts, Limbo, Amnesia and more.
If you've been suffering from indie game bundle fatigue, this should snap you out of it. Humble Indie Bundle V has launched, offering Amnesia, Limbo, Psychonauts, and Sword & Sworcery for whatever you fancy paying. Pay more than the average, and you'll get Bastion too.-
Holy shit, this is probably their best bundle yet.
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That's the best indie bundle I've ever seen. Every single one of those games are stellar.
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I think it's mostly in there because it really isn't that indie but Doublefine is and it's just an older game they have the rights to that they can include in the bundle.
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because doublefine bought back the rights and is a company that has popularizes new venues of self-funding with stuff like kickstarter or with the help of a single individual looking for outside captital managed to fund ports of their smaller scale games to bullshit platforms like osx.
also its fucking psychonauts. the game that is what independent games want to be and fail on most occasions.
it even has the shitty game mechanics you are used to from most independent games.-
Huh? I don't care if the dev is indie - was the game developed independently or wasn't it? It can't be an indie game if it was funded by a big name publisher, regardless of who owns it right now.
That would be like me buying the rights to Crysis and then releasing it as an indie game because it's just me getting the profits now.-
indie games exist because publishers don't want to take risks and make shovelware, psychonauts is the complete opposite of shovelware. its only concession to the publisher was that its a platformer but even there that's just the camouflage, in reality its incredibly well written adventure with hilarious creative settings and overall themes.
indie developers want to make games like psychonauts but can't trick publishers to fund it. doublefine managed to and it didnt really pay for them. (the publisher whored out the game along packs of cheese in the fucking supermarket).
why would anyone want to penalize the studio that makes games we want from independent studios who btw had severe financial problems just before the kickstarter thing.
they started something that snowballed into something much bigger and they did good for the whole industry. its an independent game by nature, made by a company that makes games we want
funding for it is irrelevant at this point. this isnt ea republishing independent games. this is the polar opposite.
(btw fuck crytek in the ass and fuck crysis 2 and everything else they are about to shit out, they had a spark when they started but now they are just garbage /awkward gangsign).
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Bastion was published by WB but was pretty much self funded.
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I guess you can ride the 'undersold' coattails to call it indie. would make more sense if they did a humble classic games bundle for stuff like that.
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AND you get the soundtracks to all the games? Holy hell this is a good deal.
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So incredibly bought, been wanting Bastion and Amnesia for a long time. Already own Limbo on PC and already own Psychonauts on xbox but I've been wanting to own it on PC for a while so that's great. I've heard good things about Sword and Sorcery too so WOOT.
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Do these activate on Steam?
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Yep. Bastion is its own separate key and the others come as one bundle key.
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Bought so hard.
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Shit, that means I can't give away Psychonauts, right?
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If that's true, I cannot see in Steam how.
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Holy crap, that's a crazy good bundle. I only have Psychonauts.
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Psychonauts is the reason I'm buying this one. Everything else is just gravy.
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Every one of these games is a gem.
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just for good measure http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkmBPtglbDs
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Haven't gotten my key yet, either. I'd just give it a while.
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Yeah same here, I'm guessing their server is taking a hell of a bashing.
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I had this problem (paid with paypal) and when I got returned to the humble bundle page it just sat there saying something like "waiting for paypal to process" (even tho I had the email from paypal already).
I figured it was because I was blocking cookies on the humble bundle page, so I whitelisted it, duplicated my tab, and then got to the screen that told me to click for my keys.
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Christ. I already own half these games, and I'm still considering it :O
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I own all of these games and I am still considering this :O that has to be the best bundle ever
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so right now there is:
http://www.humblebundle.com/
http://www.indieroyale.com/
http://www.indiegala.com/
http://www.gamemusicbundle.com/
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I'm poor as shit but that is so fucking bought'd that my bank high fived me.
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That's some stupid logic
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but the developers already got paid to make the game, why should I have to pay too??
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Nice. You realize these are geared towards Charity donations?
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you know, at least they allow you to divert your funding how you want it, so if you want to pay $10 for this, but only want to pay the indie guys, then you can, which is nice.
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We all know that "indie" is a bullshit term, especially when it comes to games. Most "indie" developers are laboring under the hope of money raining down on them from a lucrative publishing deal. But, compared to most of the developers getting mentioned here on Shack', these guys are practically paupers.
I try to keep in mind the fact that we can divide up our contributions, and one of the major reasons for the Humble Bundles' existence is to help fund charities. The last two I bought I gave a full 100% to these causes. If these corporate-published games help to keep the charities afloat and doing good works, I feel that's legit. Indie cred be damned. -
Bastion was almost entirely self funded by the developers, yes it's indie.
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Pychonauts is probably the furthest from Indy, but given how poorly it did and that the complete rights are back under DoubleFine I feel good enough calling it that even if it didn't start that way. Bastion, as others have said, was completely self-funded, and Limbo, while I wouldn't exactly call it Indy in terms of development, is definitely an "artsy" game with a fair amount of risk behind it. This is probably the least Indy HIB but it's a damn good one.
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Indie is a very nebulous term.
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Holy shit that's an awesome bundle! I already own Limbo and Bastion on the 360... but it's still worth it for the other games which I've never played (but always wanted to). I'm in for $20. I'm always way over the average on these things, but I'd feel like a thief paying any less for these games.
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The only games I don't own on there already, for the PC, is Limbo and SB:S&S EP, I'll probably still chip in at least $10.
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This is a great bundle - but unfortunately I already have or have played all these games :(
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Damn it is rising fast, it was only 6.42 a few hours ago. Guess I better pounce.
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That's significantly higher than the average HIB average at this point in time, and it's already at $872,000
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Too good to pass up! The sound tracks alone seem to be worth it.
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