I've already got World of Goo and Darwinia, but that still does look kinda tempting...

Not applying discounts to the individual games for those of us who already own most of those == fail.

I have a couple of them and quite fancy getting the path wish the could have done the sale on an individual game basis oh well they are not getting my money for games i already have. Ill just go back to ground control 2.

It's an incredible deal, but I already own 5 of the 10. :( If only it would let us choose what we want for the five-pack, or something. Or just a 75% off each title. Pshaw.
Worth it solely for Braid, the Path, and World of Goo, particularly the first two. (And speaking of the Path, I agree with cioran's defense of it. Cheese's comment is pretty crude and a bit distorted. I have no idea how cioran can use the word bildungsroman when talking of the Path, however.)
Braid is pure brilliance. Original puzzles that challenge gamers in new ways, and a beautifully crafted pomo metaphorical tale. If you don't dig it, you suck.

The Path is messed up. You have to find the wolves for the girls, which can be a literal wolf, or a human that rapes her. You heard me. You lead girls to be sexually violated. And they call that artistic...
That's the cop out interpretation generally put out by people who don't take the time to try and understand the game. Reminds me of one of the first "reviews" for the game where in the reviewer showed that they were incapable of interpreting what happens as anything but rape. That doesn't tell me that that's what actually happens, that tells me the reviewer is fixated on rape. Now you tell me, does that mean the game is fucked up, or that the reviewer's mind is fucked up?
I know which one I'd take that as an indication of.

I own most of them already, sadly... I'm glad I supported the developers though.

you aren't supposed to leave the path!!!!
Steam is sadly missing out on a lot of package sales because they don't allow people to gift the duplicate items. I'd buy it in a second, if i didn't have it already.
But i paid almost that much for World of Goo alone, and it was the best game i played last year... so it's well worth it.

It annoys me when Steam dont allow you to gift the games in a package. Surely thats the best time to get someone interested? I know a few people I would have liked to gift X-Com to.

PS/ Recently there are so many good indie or free games that i rarely need to buy retail games. The other thread has a cool list too, plus http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/08/06/tiny-robots-machinarium-footage/ (!!!)

It's a psychoanalytic, rather than a total bildungsroman. The death of innocence is the chronological progression of personality taken at regular intervals. Look at the ages of the girls. They could quite easily be the same one. The term's used correctly. Like I said, art. Open to a wide degree of interpretation. From a strictly narratological perspective, I suppose it would be difficult to argue due to narrative fragmentation. From a psychoanalytic one, quite easy because the unconcsious is fragmentary.
That said, otherwise, I agree with you agreeing with me. LOL. I've heard Braid's good. I have to pick that up at some point. How long is it? I more or less stopped playing games longer than 5 or 6 hours.

I guess I could see it depending on your interpretation, although it's somewhat loosely applied due to that fragmentary style we all love.
From what I've learned not too long ago, bildungsroman is one of those words misunderstood by a lot of people--including college professors (like mine!)--, and it's not just a tale of growing up past adolescence, but must cover a person's entire life, from youth to adulthood to death, like so many Dickens and Irving novels. Or something....
Braid's only 4 hours, so this Steam deal is definitely the best place to get it. $15 is a bit much to pay for such a short game, even if it is so spectacular.

You are missing out on some seriously good games then.