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But HIB VI managed to pull in only $US 2m and HIB V had Psychonauts. So I think this is actually not a win. It clearly shows that big titles draw the money whether they have DRM and Windows-only doesn't even matter. (to add to it: Psychonatus was DRM-free but the Linux port was totally broken when released.)

And to game companies it's certainly interesting as well. It shows a great way to make some additional money off some older titles and get some PR. I wouldn't be surprised if we see similar offerings in the next year.

(I hope that if it happens: id does a true HIB and uses this as an opportunity to release Rage for Linux.)

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Psychonauts was in HB V (and was unfortunately dreadful, awful controls, bad camera, terrible graphics, potential to have been great). Bastion was the real gem in that bundle, such an amazing game. That bundle was a lot better than 6 and packed with great games, with Sword & sorcery, Super Meat Boy, Limbo and Lone Survivor. That bundle was brilliant.

HB6 was disappointing, too many platformers, Torchlight was repetitive, SPAZ was the only game I really loved in that pack. It even had two brick breaking games in it, a genre dead (and deservedly so) since the 90s.

Sorry that was I typo I meant HIB V. Yeah, HIB VI was a disappointment and Vessel was only finally released for Linux two days ago.

you're probably alone with that opinion

psychonauts is one of the best games of all time, being released in 2005 on xbox it looked amazing, the artdirection is still great on the pc port today and with controller it plays amazing.

while bastion is good it's nowhere near the quality in writing, creativity and gameplay

In my opinion, Bastion is one of the best games I have played in a long long time. I really enjoyed its writing, creativity and gameplay. The soundtrack is utterly amazing to boot.

Personally I loved everything about psychonauts (played the original xbox version), except the game play. Story, art, writing etc. etc. all amazing, and all rate among the best ever seen in a game. Unfortunately the actual gameplay let it down.

I agree that Psychonauts writing and creativity is better than Bastion, I found Bastion to be a better actual game all around.

The bugs in the Linux port let me down. I played quite a bit of Psychonauts and enjoyed it. Certainly some things are annoying (like finding those arrow heads). But the biggest disappointment was that the game was constantly crashing and you had to look up the bugtracker (at least there was a public one) for workarounds and wait for the few patches that were released.

Bastion was a fun game but not really creative.

I personally bought it because of Amnesia. Super Meat Boy was a surprise.. haven't played other games.

Funnily enough I love Psychonauts and find SPAZ boring, so it shows how different people enjoy different things! I imagine the more successful bundles are due to the amount of more mainstream games that everyone can play.

The games in HIB5 were better known

Bastion, Amnesia, Limbo, Psychonauts, Super Meat Boy, Braid

were all popular titles. (* were in previous bundles)

The only game I knew from HIB6 was Vessel and that had no complete Linux port (released two days ago) and OSX port (currently in QA). Torchlight seemed to have been popular as well but I didn't know it.

They should have probably changed the line up a bit. But I don't know how they plan the bundles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humble_Bundle#List_of_games_of...

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