Humble Indie Bundle V Released

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Humble Indie Bundle V Released

Posted by Soulskill on Friday June 1, 2012 @02:52AM from the linux-is-winning-again dept.

New submitter Splintercat writes "The Humble Indie Bundle V has just been released, featuring Psychonauts, LIMBO, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, and Bastion for Windows, OSX and Linux. Ubuntu software center support has also been added as a method of downloading."

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Pretty good bundle by tocsy · 2012-06-01 02:59 · Score: 5, Informative

Worth it for Psychonauts alone, if you don't have it. I'd never heard of any of the other games but I've been told they're all pretty spectacular.
1. Re:Pretty good bundle by dyingtolive · 2012-06-01 03:05 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  Amnesia is amazing. I really need to go back and finish it. Sword and Sworcery is... interesting, but the soundtrack is pretty decent if you're in to that kind of thing.
  
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2. Re:Pretty good bundle by Anonymous Coward · 2012-06-01 04:22 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Amnesia is so amazing you didn't bother to finish it?
An all-star pack by PhrostyMcByte · 2012-06-01 03:00 · Score: 4, Insightful

Including the scores in FLAC is awesome. More games need to do this.
If you ever wanted the best-of-the-best indie games, this bundle is full of them and well worth paying for.
Yes, I'm going to say it again by guises · 2012-06-01 03:16 · Score: 5, Insightful

All right, this has been said to death but what the hell: You, yes you, need to play Psychonauts. It is a game that every single person needs to play, and here it is on every major platform, DRM free, for $.01 (if that's what you want to pay). No excuses any more.

Suggestion: the game plays better with a control pad, so consider acquiring one of those if you don't have one already.
Limbo Linux port by ProbablyJoe · 2012-06-01 03:27 · Score: 4, Informative

Unfortunately the Linux 'port' of Limbo is actually just a Wine wrapper. It doesn't even run for me, some say it works worse than running the Windows binary in Wine, or have reported various problems and bad performance.
Pretty lazy when every other game has managed to make a proper native Linux port.
Re:Never heard of these games by ProbablyJoe · 2012-06-01 03:28 · Score: 3, Informative

Amnesia is the only one I've played, which is very good. Bastion and Limbo are also very highly rated. Don't know anything about the one.
More bundles by Anonymous Coward · 2012-06-01 03:34 · Score: 5, Informative

If you're into indie game bundles. There are currently several other active bundles:
Groupees Build a Bundle
Indie Gala
Indie Royale Graduation Bundle
Bundle in a Box
Cross platform via wine by ProteusMoteus · 2012-06-01 03:37 · Score: 5, Informative

Limbo on Linux is a wine bottle that runs with very poor performance. Trying to improve performance via the latest version of wine exposes a recent bug (shader model 3.0). Psychonauts on Linux is a real icculus port, but is just a wine bottle on Mac.
Don't consider wine compatibility as the type of support for Mac/Linux that I expected from the Humble Indie Bundle.

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1. Re:Cross platform via wine by MasterPatricko · 2012-06-01 03:47 · Score: 5, Interesting
  
  disappointing, but they have an excuse, don't know how valid it really is:
  from the FAQ:
  
  Q: Why is Limbo for Linux a wrapper?
  A: Unfortunately the audio for Limbo is middle-ware which could not be properly ported.
  
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2. Re:Cross platform via wine by makomk · 2012-06-01 05:29 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  Using Mono to make it easier to port applications developed for Windows to Linux is something that even RMS doesn't particularly object to. The reason why it was controversial was because the Mono developers were trying to push it as a platform to develop new Linux desktop applications, which exposed the Linux desktop to legal risk from Microsoft and their patent portfolio and meant that the applications actually worked better under Windows than Linux. In fact, I think this is the first Windows application I've come across that's been successfully ported to Linux using Mono rather than the otther way around.
Re:Never heard of these games by thoth · 2012-06-01 03:39 · Score: 4, Insightful

It's tough to give a blanket recommendation given I (nobody) can really know what you'll like, but my thinking on this is these games are available at such a low cost, it is worth getting them just to play for an hour each. And support the concept of multi-platform DRM-free gaming. With this bundle, you even get the soundtracks in 2 formats! If it turns out you like one, that's like icing on the cake.
I've thrown in $15 - $25 for each Humble Indie Bundle so far, and have found a few real gems in there. My favorite so far as in HIB 2 (I think): Space Chem, which is basically an organic chemistry puzzle game.
Anyway, I played Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP on my iPhone, partway, and look forward to having it around on all my systems. It's got simple graphics, but a quirky sense of humor (written dialog) and some great background music. I'd say check it out. YMMV as far as Metacritic scores, but I'll also note that all games in this bundle score well, above 80/100.
DRM free by tepples · 2012-06-01 03:56 · Score: 4, Insightful

here it is on every major platform, DRM free
It works on my PS2?
Or my Nintendo Wii?
Or Xbox360?
It appears you may have cut off guises' comment out of context. Those are not DRM-free platforms; they require all code to have been approved by the console maker.
Re:As always Linux by ifiwereasculptor · 2012-06-01 04:49 · Score: 3, Insightful

And our reward is lazy, Wine-based "ports".