Pfft! You sound like an Octopus pretending to be a real dad, you can’t fool me!
Comment on Itch.io California Fire Relief Bundle - 422 items for $10
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The point of this is obviously the charity, but I’m not gonna lie, after a quick look at the included games, if Tunic wasn’t in this bundle I would feel ripped off paying $10 for it.
I don’t see any of those other games combined being worth $10 to me. Multiple visual novels / story games, puzzle games, and many games that look like a generic Kemco published RPG Maker game but with a pastel color palette this time. Again, I get that the point of this is charity, but Tunic is literally the only game that I would say brings value to this bundle. If someone already owns Tunic and is considering this, I would say to just directly donate the money.
Artyom@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Kelly@programming.dev 1 day ago
I bought it because my son has been asking for Skatebird, but we also enjoyed an hour playing Ripped Pants at Work together and I’ll give Delver a go later tonight.
Thats the thing with bundles, different titles will appeal to different people.
catloaf@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Yeah, all bundles have been like this. A few good ones and the rest hardly even worth playing for free.
But if you want to donate directly, you can do that here: www.coreresponse.org
Charity navigator gives them a 98% and four stars: www.charitynavigator.org/ein/271703237
Glide@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
If someone already owns Tunic and is considering this, I would say to just directly donate the money.
Or just like… Donate through the bundle and consider trying out some minor projects created by people who are trying to make something cool? Why turn down access to these games out of some form of perceived superiority? This notion that since you’ve never heard of these other titles they can’t possible offer anything of value to you is kind of a spit in the face of struggling artists of all types.
Elevator7009sAlt@ani.social 2 days ago
To each their own. I have no idea what Tunic is, I got it for
- charity
- Cook Serve Delicious
- Blobun
- Octodad
The fact you say it has lots of VNs and puzzle games suggests there is more in the bundle I’ll like if I just explore more as those genres are to my taste.
Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Octodad is unironically worth $10
Flagstaff@programming.dev 2 days ago
I actually disliked Tunic, just saying. I got more enjoyment out of Cosmic Express and Delver (and I didn’t even like the final fight in Delver). Whatever floats your boat…
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Same. I gave Tunic a fair shot until I had to use a guide to get further due to the devs cheaply hiding a teleport gate in the map. Plus the spirit gauntlet was its own bit of bs
Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 day ago
Yes, it was the cheap camera tricks obscuring parts of the map that you could go to that did it for me. It was, like, basically making you check for every possible secret despite the limited abilities of no camera control nor destructible terrain… I get that there was an era of games with this mindset (sorta like some Metroid-&-other games, I suppose), but I just don’t have time for that any more.
This may sound odd to some, but my stance towards quality games is: punish fairly. Life is hard enough as it is so I don’t need a game also going, “Haha, well, screw you here, too.”
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Octodad is well worth $10 even with how old it is.
MurrayL@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Besides Tunic, there are still several good to great games in the first dozen (and no doubt a bunch more if you’re willing to dig into the smaller indies):