Jolt Country

Included as part of the Humble Bundle Weekly Sale, after watching the Gaea Mission trailer, a number of long dormant neurons associated with Battle Zone 2 fired off and I became intrigued.

Sooo... I'm going to play this game and report back on if its just another "me too" knock off of a classic title or truly worthy of the time of the fine denizens of this forum.

Wish me luck!

I am very tempted to buy this week's bundle.

I've always wanted to play that Day Z mod but didn't want to invest into buying the actual game.

But I'm really a one PC game type of guy and I'm currently playing two. So I'm already overdoing it. I just don't know if I'd ever get around to actually playing them. And by then the standalone Day Z will probably be out.

I was also intrigued by that Carrier Command as well.

Does anybody have any opinion on these games? Are they worth the whopping investment of 6 dollars?

Take On Helicopters
UFO: Afterlight
Carrier Command: Gaea Mission
Alpha Prime
Arma
Arma Tactics
Arma II
Arma II Operation Arrowhead
Day Z mod

OKAY - I haven't played these games, but I've seen the trailers, read synopses, etc and developed a "one pass" feel for them after paying attention to them for about five minutes when they were released:

Take On Helicopters - generic Helicopter simulator, very "rough" and "me too!" feel as they aped SimCopter.

UFO: Afterlight - poorly made X-Com clone (feels like a shovel ware title)

Carrier Command: Gaea Mission - Absolutely no idea, but the game brought me back to Battle Zone 2 which was why I was intrigued.

Alpha Prime - a rash of poorly produced scifi FPSes were produced in the early 2000s' and this feels like it firs the mold.

Arma & Arma II - this series seemed like Delta Warrior meets Modern Warfare and a bit of a cash in on the genre.

Day Z mod - the most talked of and highest rated game of the bunch.

Soooooooo..... Unless anyone wants to play Day Z (which is absurdly fun) I'd pass on this bundle (entrance fee is only $6, which is better than any Steam Sale). Personally still interested in Gaea simply because I'd enjoy a Battlezone clone of some kind, but that is about it.

Verdict: $6 for Day Z is worth it if you like well produced zombie, open world games.

Still trying to get through Gaea: the first two missions of the game are an average FPS that leads up to acquiring a carrier that activates the strat. portion of it.

Give me a little more time!

You're doing better than me. I'm still waiting for some ebay cocksucker's money to go in my paypal before I buy it.

I want to do a thread somewhere about those "title.jpg" bars that all games seem to have. The ones that you see on Steam and those bundle sites. What makes a good title.jpg? I am sure I could make very POOR ones. I could make one that was terrible for Cyberganked.

I need to communicate the genre of the game, the graphics style and probably put a hot chick there. But at the same time, you don't get much space.

Looking at a lot of the representative graphics for the games in that bundle, the best one is Arma: Tactics. With the name of the game and the way it has four little dudes pointing guns toward the camera, I was like, "this is probably a squad-based tactics game." It is, apparently!

Also, that makes me want to get the bundle, cos I like those kinds of games!

I bought the bundle for $4, doesn't sound like you guys loved the games for more than the average.

Well, I went ahead and bought the whole bundle even though this ebay cocksucker's money still hasn't went in. These games better be worth 6 dollars!!!

I found out Arma is the spiritual successor to Operation Flashpoint, by it's original creators, now I am very excited because I loved the OF game I played.

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:I bought the bundle for $4, doesn't sound like you guys loved the games for more than the average.

I always pay just at the average or pony up the $6 for the full pack. Sure my logic is exactly the same as the company "I'll pay that extra four or five dollars to have ALL THE GAMES!" otherwise I feel as if I missed out.

They added Fish Fillets 2 to the pack!

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Little Nemo + X-Files =

Added Arma: Cold War Assault too. I looked it up and that is actually the original Operation Flashpoint game re-branded to Arma.

After I bought the bundle I couldn't figure out why I had so many games. Went back to the page and said OOOOoooOOooOOOooOOH!!

My first Humble Bundle is going great.

Tried Cold War Assault. It is GOD AWFUL. It was impossible to play.

Tried Arma: Gold Edition. It won't launch.

Arma II plays but the menus flash as if everything is being clicked a million times a minute. I can get into the game, I just can't change any options.

This is going great.

Oh well, I'm burning through these games and getting to try Day Z a lot quicker than anticipated.

Arma sucks a dick and DayZ is even worse. I hope that fish game is good.

I went all this time without buying these Humble Bundles and now I've done bought 2.

Up until last week all I had was ONE free game on my Steam account. Now I have 27.

And I'm playing Civ V instead.

White people problems.