General Video Game Deals Thread

[General Video Game Deals Thread]

Still happy with the Monthly Humble Bundle.  This month came with a twist though, Humble is now funding mini-experimetnal games which are (for now) only available to Bundle subscribers (I don't know if new subscribers get the already released game or not). 

I was(and still am) extremely apprehensive about subscribing to the Monthly Humble Bundle because it will just blow up my catalog of already 600+ Steam games to ungodly amounts and make me feel even worse that I cannot finish them.

 

However the quality of these games keeps getting better I might just subscribe and accept the guilt that comes with it. 

[Idle Thumbs 248: The Bear's Black Heart]

Love The Witness and The Witness talk, but loving even more how Myst is now part of video conversations again (and NOT in that infuriating dismissive "wasn't that shit horrible?" way that is STILL the default mode of discussing Myst, unfortunately).

Myst was cool, is all I'm saying.

As someone who grew up in a post-Myst world and didn't even know of the games existence until about 2 years ago when I started to indulge in the discussion of games and broadening my horizons the only conversations I hear of the game are mainly the impact it left behind.

 

On a side note I still do not know what the game looks or plays like(Haven't bothered to look it up). So my second hand opinion of the game is a positive one just from everything I hear.

 

I think its cool in general that people like me can learn so much about the legacy of games from yesteryear because older folk are now in a position to discuss these games with a much different lenses. I also love the fact that these old games still surprise me in the same way modern tiles do. I recently came across Hexen and SimAnt today and I felt so happy to be uncovering these odd gems for the first time. This is an experience that happens to me a lot when I listen to most podcasts on here.