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Humble Indie Bundle VI
« on: September 18, 2012, 01:18:01 pm »
New HIB. http://www.humblebundle.com/

Dustforce, Rochard, Shatter, S.P.A.Z., Torchlight, Vessel.
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Re: Humble Indie Bundle VI
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2012, 02:16:40 pm »
Ooh, Vessel. I really wanted to get that. I already have Torchlight and SPAZ though, how are the other 3?

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Re: Humble Indie Bundle VI
« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2012, 02:28:18 pm »
Shatter is a classic arcade game taken to its logical extreme and polished perfectly, with a great soundtrack.

EDIT: Also, here is a review of Vessel.

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Re: Humble Indie Bundle VI
« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2012, 02:33:16 pm »
Bought for the Torchlight soundtrack. Still haven't played the games from HB#1 yet!

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Re: Humble Indie Bundle VI
« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2012, 03:06:23 pm »
Now that's a bundle!

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Re: Humble Indie Bundle VI
« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2012, 03:57:53 pm »
So Dustforce. It's a time/score attack precision platformer where you sweep up all of the dust and get to the end of the level as fast as possible. I'm glad I'm not joking.
Rochard is a physics-based platformer which relies a whole lot on gravity manipulation. You can manipulate gravity of the area, and you also have a gravity gun to solve puzzles with. You also get some guns, grenades, and so on for some light combat elements and more explosive puzzle solving.
Shatter is a breakout clone which relies on being very physics-based. Some blocks will move about according to the physics engine, and you have a fan that can pull in or blow away various objects, including the ball itself.
Space Pirates And Zombies is a game that's all about going around in space, being a pirate, stealing or trading for blueprints, and getting your mothership as powerful as possible. Later on, zombies are introduced and the game establishes sort of a meta-campaign where you push back zombie territory to fix up regular space society.
Torchlight is... sod it, you know what Torchlight is.
And, Vessel is a puzzle platformer with neato water physics, and the ability to create little buddies out of water who will help you solve puzzles.

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Re: Humble Indie Bundle VI
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Re: Humble Indie Bundle VI
« Reply #7 on: September 18, 2012, 06:17:13 pm »
This is a good Humble Bundle if your really into platformers. Three of them, wowsers. Shatter is a solid game for its genre, though if your not interested in that genre, you'll get bored fast. S.P.A.Z. I hear is excellent but I never really got into it the several times attempts I tried via demos. And Torchlight is Torchlight, though I've never played it myself. All in all, its a great bundle, but a bit lacking in variety and a bit niche compared to previous bundles. And compared to the last Humble Bundle just not as good, but that was such an excellent bundle too.

I don't think I'm going to get it. I mean, Torchlight just isn't in my interest area, I already have Shatter and SPAZ didn't do it for me. And I have yet to really tackle Super Meat Boy so I'm staying away from platformers atm.
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Re: Humble Indie Bundle VI
« Reply #8 on: September 18, 2012, 07:27:22 pm »
SPAZ, I think, is pretty awesome. The real problem is that it takes a long time for it to really get to the exciting part. I think I was playing for something like 20 hours before I finally uncovered zombies and got too scared to keep playing it because I now have to constantly mash that self-destruct button or risk getting overwhelmed. The zombies are like half the game though, and they're really what end up making combat super interesting.

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Re: Humble Indie Bundle VI
« Reply #9 on: September 18, 2012, 11:15:55 pm »
Vessel is not much in the way of major platforming as it is using its awesome liquid physics for a lot of puzzles, with various liquids. You don't need to have meat boy skills to get through most of any of it.

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Re: Humble Indie Bundle VI
« Reply #10 on: September 19, 2012, 02:16:23 am »
Rochard's pretty good too - it leans towards a run-and-gun/puzzler (if there is such a thing) more than a straight-up platformer.

Seriously, if I didn't already own all the games in this bundle I'd have paid $15 at least, and still considered it an absolute steal. Amazing bundle!

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Re: Humble Indie Bundle VI
« Reply #11 on: September 19, 2012, 05:07:20 pm »
Well, I did my best to give a good impression of every game, but everyone else is doing that too. :P

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Re: Humble Indie Bundle VI
« Reply #12 on: September 19, 2012, 09:51:34 pm »
Can anyone recommend any Torchlight mods? Or is the game pretty much complete on its own?

In particular, I'd love to know if there's a way to play it with a joystick.

edit: the soundtrack to Torchlight II is apparently being given away as a promo:
http://www.torchlight2game.com/news/2012/09/18/the-torchlight-ii-soundtrack/
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Re: Humble Indie Bundle VI
« Reply #13 on: September 19, 2012, 10:38:49 pm »
More music for my music collection, awesome.

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Re: Humble Indie Bundle VI
« Reply #14 on: September 20, 2012, 12:30:07 am »
Torchlight mods? There are some simple ones like making sure green items always are ID'd, or making potions stack above 20. Other than things to fix little nitpicks with the game, there's nothing that's really all that necessary.