Direct2Drive.com is in their 4th week of their month long gaming sale-a-bonanza, and this week looks pretty good. Mass Effect 1 + 2 bundle for $35, Aion for $25 (any good, Jago?), Fallout 3 for $15, etc.

Nice little sweep of games. Anyone know if Sacred 2 or Divinity 2 are worth their sale price? Or Civ 4 Complete Collection for $10?

Fuck, whatever, I'll probably get em anyway. 

sacred 2 is fun for mindless killing. there's a story, but you really don't need to pay attention to enjoy the game.
there are a lot of ways to develop each class, so there's a lot of replayability. 

Worked for me, pretty good fun, I evicted the fuck out of that bitch.

Minus a million points for the bit where you have to hit the globes in order, covering the whole length of the level only to have pressed them in the wrong order. Also, there is not way of telling what the correct order is. 

That was crap. I wanted to hit stuff while moving as well.

Good idea though. 

I didn't like it much either. In retrospect i realized your worst case (if you're clever about which order you attempt to hit the globes) is to have to make the trip down and back up 3 times (if you keep guessing wrong) but still, i agree that that was a bit too tedious. 

http://www.nitrome.com/games/rustyard/
http://www.nitrome.com/games/finalninjazero/
http://www.casualcollective.com/#games/The_Space_Game
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/511754
http://armorgames.com/play/1871/totem-destroyer
http://www.unoriginal.co.uk/n-game.html
http://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html
http://www.foddy.net/Evacuation.html
http://www.onemorelevel.com/game/bloxorz
http://www.onemorelevel.com/game/boom_bot_2
http://www.onemorelevel.com/game/civiballs_2
http://www.blitzgamer.com/play/strategy/10000486/crush-the-castle-2.html
http://www.freewebarcade.com/game/cursor10/
http://www.onemorelevel.com/game/deanimator
http://www.flasharcadegamessite.com/23351-Entangled-Game.html
http://www.feedthehead.net/
http://www.playauditorium.com/
http://armorgames.com/play/2675/phage-wars
http://www.onemorelevel.com/game/maverick
http://armorgames.com/play/2153/aether
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/launchpad/launchball/
http://fantasticcontraption.com/
http://www.eyezmaze.com/eyezblog_en/blog/2005/09/grow_cube.html

Some of these have already been posted here. 

Awesome pay what you want offer:
http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/05/The-Humble-Indie-Bundle 

Zwiffle: Aion is great for the first 26-27 levels, until it turns into a grindfest of an epic proportions, which gets progressively worse with each level. NCSoft also has non-existing "customer support" whose sole reason for being there seems to be to insult the remaining paying customers. 

to be precise, you can't pay less than $0.01. Or negative amounts of money, for that matter.

Of course, that also means you NEED an account at one of their pay thingies, which are mostly evil or very US centric (or is theresome way to let amazon.de handle the transaction?). What am I gonna doooooo!? 

 

 

I bought it.

For megaman: http://www.wolfire.com/1/humble/johnbeard.jpg 

> grindfest of an epic proportions, which gets progressively worse with each level

isn't that why you play these games?

Is it true that Aion uses the Cryengine? 

If my scraping is correct the pack is currently doing $135 per minute. That's 8000 dollars per hour. Pretty good for some "old" indie games, eh? 

isn't that why you play these games?
No, a well-made MMO masks the grind with a lot of things and makes it as subtle as possible.

Is it true that Aion uses the Cryengine?
Yes. 

Since I'm pretty much a non-gamer these days and not been too much into RTS I guess I won't play it in the end - but it does seem to be a game with some interesting concepts!

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/05/achron-the-rts-where-time-keeps-on-slipping.ars 

http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2010/05/10/phenomenon-32-released/

First impression: nice atmosphere, way too hard. For me, anyways ;-) died maybe 20 times in the first 3 levels. 

Nice one, way to go. Five games for one dollar! (nah, I payed more) Though wtf at the $1000+ donations. 

http://jayisgames.com/games/manufactoria/ 

...but that one just confuses the fuck out of me. I think there's something in the branching/coding explanation/instructions that I'm just not understanding. 

The interface is abysmal, but the game is pretty engrossing once you get into it. I've done all but the last two rows.

Got stuck on Androids for a while, but eventually found three solutions (one extremely slow, one flaky hack, and one that's actually good). 

minesweeper RGB hybrid --

http://www.hojamaka.com/game/mamono_sweeper/

Each "mine" is actually an enemy level 1-5. When you start, you can safely kill only level 1 enemies; if you click on a higher-level enemy, you will take damage. After killing some enemies, you level up and can kill level 2 enemies, etc.

Normal minesweeper controls, and press A or D to flag a square. 

Liked it. I was still confused for a couple of minutes, despite your description, due to general stupidity. All round a nice twist on the old formula. 

but I don't know if I like the monster metapher so much. 

http://www.locomalito.com/juegos_hydorah.php (it's a win32 exe, not flash)

It's an old-school side scrolling shooter, a la Gradius and R-Type.

The website seems to be hosed right now, but i played it a little last night, it's pretty nice. I've only beaten the first level so far.

Though, i wish i had a gamepad, arrow keys don't work well for twitchy 2D games for me, for some reason.