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I got
World in conflict
Strong Bad
Grim fandango
Sam and max season 2
Here mines

Everything
Imperium Galactica 2 Alliances
Bombshell
Got Serious Sam's bogus detour. Could be worse.
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Starmaker: Stupid ending, awesome art and environment design. It's no Owlboy but definitely one of the better games in the sale.
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IAmSinistar: I thought the ending worked, but you're not alone in not liking it. Still, great game design, and I love the "wordless" (well, gibberish words) aspect of it.
1. "Bros before hos" is a terrible lesson to teach.

2. The altar and the cave don't make sense together.

3. Bodies don't work like that! Look, I get "magic". I love magic, I love [awesome], but where the plot implicitly or explicitly intersects with reality, reality has to fucking win, especially if the departure from reality goes against the player's interests. It's a big pet peeve of mine, it touches on science, philosophy, ethics, [trans]humanism, etc. Fiction is important, it's a blueprint of the future in a way; and all fiction informs people's understanding of the world to an extent. This trope is Not Good.

On the other hand zOMG FLUFFY TREE IS FLUFFY!!!1!
Got Arnikrox or whatever it's called. Wish I got SOMA instead. I was hoping some Nihon Falcom games would be up. :-(
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Starmaker: 1. "Bros before hos" is a terrible lesson to teach.
I definitely agree with that. I didn't get that from the ending, but you've clearly thought about it much more deeply. I think I kind of just skated the surface metaphors, whereas there is more below to be gleaned.

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Starmaker: 2. The altar and the cave don't make sense together.
Afraid I don't recall enough about the game to argue either side of this. :)

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Starmaker: 3. Bodies don't work like that! Look, I get "magic". I love magic, I love [awesome], but where the plot implicitly or explicitly intersects with reality, reality has to fucking win, especially if the departure from reality goes against the player's interests. It's a big pet peeve of mine, it touches on science, philosophy, ethics, [trans]humanism, etc. Fiction is important, it's a blueprint of the future in a way; and all fiction informs people's understanding of the world to an extent. This trope is Not Good.
I don't think magic and physics have to be at loggerheards in a fictional setting, but I do believe ground rules should exist as to how they interact, and in what ways one has sway over the other. I agree it's bad storytelling to violate your own logic or result on deus ex machina resolutions. I don't like it when an otherwise well-told story is undone by tugging on one weak plot thread that causes the whole primary motivation to unravel. Again, I didn't get that feeling from this game, but it sounds like I may not have examined it to the level it deserved, as it was trying to tell a rather deep tale.

[SPOILER BELOW]

EDIT: And just to clarify, it wasn't the tree portion of the ending that I thought was what worked. It was simply the death that I found effective. To me it short-circuited the convention of "complete this quest and all will be well", and instead placed it into a framework of consequence and even powerlessness. I found it laudable for a game to expose the player to those mechanisms, when so often games offer a dream of power or clear-cut purpose.
Post edited August 14, 2017 by IAmSinistar
Got Guild 2 and Kyn... could have been worse.
I just bought a pinanta but the hub says I don't have any. what gives?
Got Armikrog and Kyn .... knew this was a bad idea.
Bought 3 and I received:

Little Big Adventure 2 (Wishlist)
Imperium Galactica
Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell (Own on PS4)


Not a bad lot for $9!
Got about 2/3 that I'd have bought anyway - so might have just bought those as well instead, same price - plus extra games on the shelf that I'd probably not even download :)
Got Cossaks 3 (wishlisted) and Trine (Enchanted edition). Better than I expected
I Bought 2 and got:

Spellforce platinum edition
7 Kingdoms 2 HD
Bought 4 piniatas:

- Trine Enchanted Edition
- Seven Kingsdom 2 HD
- World in Conflict: Complete Edition
- Imperium Galactica

Never been a fan of RTS.But we live with what we get.
Post edited August 14, 2017 by DL4
My $9 got me Imperium Galactica , Capitalism II and Stories Untold.