Ordering the 29th bundle?
That was fast, thank you Mille! ^^
I'm in as usual. :-)
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And you were right! It is definitely the best game in this bundle!! :P
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Going to wait for hints.
Their last bundle blew like a 2 dollar whore on two-fer-Tuesday. :X
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Cyanic just said in chat that the 'bundled 7 times' game is actually a different unbundled edition:
cyanicGroupees HQ17:33
Correction to the 7 bundled: this edition has actually not been bundled.
GabrielIreland17:34
I dont get it cyanic
cyanicGroupees HQ17:35
The base game shows as 7 times bundled on ITAD, but edition you get here has not been bundled.
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The first game looks okay, I'm waiting for more reveals.
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Quote regarding The Descendant being ep. 1 or full season:
cyanicGroupees HQ18:29
It's not the full season version AFAIK.
Booooooo~
I want to look at the sunset with a special someone... (ღ˘⌣˘ღ)
Yayyyyy~
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It's not just about unbundled or bundled games, it's about quality as well. You gotta balance between quality, number of games and pricing. Dangit groupees, you're no different than IG trash.
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Oh Groupees... So close, but so far away. If The Descendant was the full season, I would break my no-buying-stuff rule for the second time this year.
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Well, look at it the bright side. A) you saved some money, b) you still only broke your no-buying-stuff rule once this year, c) you don't have to deal with the rest of the trashy stuff in the bundle! :x
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live! :)
- The Descendant
- Black Viper: Sophia
- No Way Out
- Hidden Mysteries: Titanic
- Call to 10
- In Between - Deluxe
- Terror Lab
- Fun Puzzle Shooter (Greenlight)
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Yep! Chart is live too! ^_^
... Sad face, I forgot to pre-order ;-; And I clicked on the bundle when there was 8 seconds left D:
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You're not alone Mille, I managed to forget to pre-order bundles multiple times already. :-)
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Haha! Well, even more ironic since I made a thread for it lol. But I wanted to wait for hints, and then a billion other bundles got in the way today, and then when I wanted to check on the page it had 8 seconds left. xP
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I forgot most probably because I had some medical issues in 2016.
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The Descendant is for episode 1 only?
That kinda sucks. =/
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Yeah, especially since the full season already got bundled in an IG bundle. :/
But I already wrote yesterday that it's only the first episode in the guesses / hints section!
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I'm missing 3 games (4 with the greenlight), but you are right. They really aren't that appealing. I'm okay with forgetting to pre-order now! Thanks Pete! :X
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Got 3 new games to play and the rest I can gift/keydrop. ^^
Not a good or a bad bundle but more like something in between. ;-)
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You're Mille, you see everything. ^^
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7 Steam, 1 Greenlight, 2 unbundled, most others bundled 1-2 times, one bundled 7 times.
Correction to the 7 bundled: this edition has actually not been bundled.
Yeah, except the base game for "In Between" (the one bundled 7 times) was free I don't know how many times.
The Descendant (Episode 1) seems decent but the rest is shovelware.
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Yikes, glad I skipped this one.
The two I was missing are "mostly negative." :X
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Completely missed the pre-order on the past couple groupees bundles, and I'm okay with that... :P
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Yeah xD At a second glance I don't mind either.
Also hard not to get a bit confused when they had 3 pre-orders the past 25 hours!!
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Someone should take an Uncle Sam poster (or better yet a caricature thereof) and then make a meme out of it that says "Groupees wants your money!!"
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Hm. Part of me is a bit interested in the first-time-bundled HOG, but I also know that Hidden Mysteries is pretty much a really bad HOG series, which I swear was made only to cash in on the really old (as in, second HOG series since the genre's conception after Mystery Case Files) Hidden Expedition franchise; that franchise even started with a Hidden Expedition: Titanic.
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Hidden Expedition: Devils Triangle though is one of my most favourite HOGs of all time. It was so funny, full of hidden references, I loved it. For some reason I missed they continued that series. They turned out to be quite bad you say? That's a pity.
EDIT: Nevermind, I just noticed it's a different series. /facepalm
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Nah, Hidden Expedition was also shoved onto Eipix, who are nowadays usually recognised as the best HOG creator studio ever. They are responsible for the modern Mystery Case Files games as well. Expedition by now has explored some really strange scenarios, although it has also been "fantasy-ised".
I meant that the Hidden Mysteries series felt like some a weak cash-in rip-off of the more famous Hidden Expedition franchise. Where Titanic, the starting game, was actually my first HOG. The irony is that it is one of the most difficult hidden object games ever, so I haven't actually manage to find something nearly as challenging in the genre in the past nine and a half years. :)
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The more you know...
Eipix games - I didn't follow the HOG scene anymore since I discovered Steam and just browsed their website: we need all of their catalogue on Steam, right now! There are new Msytery Case Files! How did I miss that? And tons of other series I loved were continued as well.
How can they not be on Steam, seriously? All parties involved are missing out. Instead we're stuck with the same Artifex Mundi template over and over again. :O
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Eipix is mostly funded by Big Fish, and they keep their games mostly on their own platform.
Still, there are plenty of Eipix games on Steam by now, although the price is…
http://store.steampowered.com/search/?developer=Eipix%20Entertainment&snr=1_6_4__422
It is mostly Dark Parables, their original debut franchise, which series will fully be available on Steam. As for MCF and Hidden Expedition, maybe one day they put the entire series up as well. The first five games of each series have already received a Steam release. And yes, they are still ongoing, with MCF at 15 games and Hidden Expedition only one behind.
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Wow, this completely bypassed me. None of those has been in a bundle either. And yeah, you're right about the prices...
Well, thanks for pointing this out to me, talgaby, from now on I'll have them on my radar. :)
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I am a bit mad at myself that I found about this too late as well—despite watching the HOG group alerts—, because the Dark Parables series pack was around 40-ish Euro at one point, and the bundle gets automatically updated as they port over the games, meaning I could have had all 13 games for that price.
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I just eyed it myself, that price tho... ;___;
Let's hope they discover at some point that bundles are a thing. ;)
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We have been kinda begging BFG for two-three years now to do that but they haven't managed to discover that sale discounts can go beyond 50% thus far…
They are very aware that they have the best HOGs on the market, better than most Artifex Mundi ones, but they have an insane pricing policy. And Steam is still a lot friendlier than what these game go for at their launch period at the Big Fish Games platform.
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Well, back in the days I didn't pay for HOGs. :X
And as things have developed, it looks like it may take a long time until I play one of their games. A) I recently passed the 2000 game mark on Steam aka I have plenty of legit games to play, and B) I'm not supporting an insane pricing policy. ;)
Although I have to admit it seems fair to price good products accordingly. Why sell something for cheap if it also sells for expensive? A decent sale here and there shouldn't hurt though.
The whole bundle scene is in a state of change now: the cheap bundles contain mostly older, already before bundled titles or the crappiest of crap that emerged out of Greenlight. Greenlight is about to disappear. Decent games are bundled in a lot pricier bundles than they used to, which is a good development in my eyes, to give the players more incentive to value their purchase. Who knows, maybe we'll one day see Eipix games in a sale that they and we, the customers, see fit. The playerbase is there, they just gotta snatch it.
Who is "we" btw?
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HOG players or casual players. BFG's Steam presence was an on and off thing for a while, but about a year and a half or maybe two years ago they made a commitment to expand on Steam. This is when they opened by putting up Drawn 1, I think the only game thus far that even received cards (which are expensive as hell for a casual game this old). They had some community interaction for a while, but now I mostly just see them quietly putting games on Steam with maybe minimal tech support there. I am… kinda baffled on what they are exactly doing, but they seem to be continuously doing it at least.
I still hope that they'll one day do a Bundle Star bundle though, even if it is for a 80% sale not the usual ~92% one. But that would mean Steam keys, and they are one of the few studios who have several Steam games but no stores that sells Steam keys for them.
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Seems weird to me. Almost as if they didn't want any attention from Steam buyers. And here I was thinking everybody's after money in the end. ;P
Hm, shrugs, we'll wait and see I guess. :)
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Man, this whole thread tangent was some serious HOG education for me. Thanks.
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Weeell, being a HOG player who was already around when the whole genre started (or at least what we call HOGs now… back then they went under a differnet name, but I cannot recall by now what it was) has its side effects. :)
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Hey! If it was free i would have problems to find a game that pleases me. Thanks but no MilleW my dear.
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Build a Bundle #29
Pre-order: $1.50Pay minimum $1 for 2 games, and $3 for all 8 games!
8 games (7 Steam & 1 greenlight!)
Bundle ends in 14 days!
Customize your bundle from these items:
*Base game was bundled 6 times!
Greenlight game:
Retail: $48.93
CV: 5.09
Warning:
You cannot create giveaways for the following game: "In Between - Deluxe"
Confirmed: ✔
Background game: Image
Guesses / Hints: ❓❗
Quote regarding the content:
Quote regarding The Descendant being ep. 1 or full season:
Are you interested in knowing other ongoing bundles? Feel free to check out the new master thread!
Wondering what games you already own from this bundle? There's an extension/UserScript for that! It's called the RaChart™ Enhancer!
Thanks to Aresda & GodFeeling for notifying me!
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