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I strongly recommend getting bundle and beating the average just for Dungeon Defenders alone. Aside from a few end-game progression issues, it's an incredible value, especially with the extremely, extremely large amount of DLC.

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I honestly did not enjoy Dungeon Defenders that much. I bought the base game and the original Orcs Must Die during a Christmas sale on steam and I thought Orcs Must Die was a much better game. The two games seem similar and at first glance DD looks better because it has multiplayer and more rpg elements than OMD does. But I thought OMD had much better core gameplay. I thought the game was just more fun. I felt like the controls and camera viewpoints were better.

That said this is a great deal if you do end up liking the game because Trendy seems to be making most of their money by releasing dlc for dungeon defenders, and I think there is around $50 worth of dlc in the bundle. I have 25 dlcs listed for the game in my steam library, and I haven't spent any money on the game besides the purchase of the base game and the humble bundle.

I will second that. I finished OMD 1 and 2 (1 was much better), but couldn't get into DD much.

Fair enough. I loved OMD too (haven't bought OMD 2 yet). You're right that they're similar, although OMD was frustrating at times.

I'll wait until the Linux version I bought in the previous bundle actually works without crashing after five minutes of play, I think.

I usually buy HIB for $0.01 and the games that properly work on Linux and have a working Steam package, I re-buy them for higher price.

That sounds like a good argument for Humble Bundle to have a convenient way for purchasers to go back and make a second donation after purchase.

They do, you can go and up your price after buying:

“Like what we're doing? Click here to increase your order amount!”

I'm pretty sure every Humble Bundle I've ever bought has had a "Like what we're doing? Click here to increase your order amount!" link on the download page, so they've already covered that base. :)

If only it played for 5 minutes for me. I get some obscure message at startup (I think it has to do with the format of the textures). Tried support - didn't get anywhere.

It looks fun, but the crooked over the head camera makes me sick. I mean physically sick. It screws with my sense of symmetry, my side vision and my expectations for character movement all at the same time.

I doubt raising it as an issue would mean anything, sadly. People like me must be rarer than colour-blind linux users running xmonad.

Yes Dungeon Defenders is the headliner of this pack. Very interesting game: third person shooter, team based, tower defense.

You can also switch between 3rd over-the-shoulder, 3rd top-down, and 1st person.

DLC?

Downloadable content, what used to be sold as expansions when distributed in CDs.

Down Loadable Content. Addons that kind of thing.

Downloadable content. In DD's case, it's an expansion, exclusive characters (2 of which are overpowered), and exclusive costumes.

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