Humble Origin Bundle 2

Lateralus · Apr 14, 2015

https://www.humblebundle.com/

Pay What You Want includes:
Dragon Age: Origins Origin Steam
Peggle Origin
Dead Space 2 Origin Steam
Medal of Honor Allied Assault War Chest Origin
Command & Conquer Generals + Zero Hour

Pay more than the average to unlock:
Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare Origin
Dragon Age II Origin
Bejeweled 3 Origin Steam
Mass Effect 2 Origin Steam
*More games coming soon

arr4ws · Apr 14, 2015

Some very good stuff in there. Bought

Sovern · Apr 14, 2015

Is a complete play through of ME1 necessary to enjoy ME2? I only got to the halfway mark in ME2 before getting bored but loved the demo of ME2 and all of the choices that you could make.

Lateralus · Apr 14, 2015

arr4ws said:
Some very good stuff in there. Bought

Yes, I was pretty excited about Peggle and Bejeweled also

Overall, great package, though probably not quite as great for me as the first Origin Bundle which contained Dead Space, Dead Space 3, Burnout Paradise, Crysis 2 Maximum Edition, Medal of Honor, Mirror's Edge, Battlefield 3, Red Alert 3, etc. That one was pretty epic.

Still, this one's no slouch and will help fill in some gaps in my collection (I didn't have Generals or ME2...heard DA II was pretty meh, though).

Lateralus · Apr 14, 2015

Sovern said:
Is a complete play through of ME1 necessary to enjoy ME2? I only got to the halfway mark in ME2 before getting bored but loved the demo of ME2 and all of the choices that you could make.

I wouldn't say "necessary" to enjoy, but ME is one of those franchises where you do want to play each game in series because they intertwine so heavily. You could play the second or third one alone and still like them, because they are very high quality games, but you would appreciate them far more IMO if you played them in order.

Dead Space 2, on the other hand...not being a story-driven game, did not carry over many characters from the first game and your choices in the first game had no bearing on what happened in the sequel (granted, there weren't many choices as it was pretty linear). But they referenced some things from the first game, and I wouldn't have appreciated that as much had I not played the prequel first.

DonInKansas · Apr 14, 2015

If you buy it now do you get the games they release later in the bundle?

nomu · Apr 14, 2015

Sovern said:
Is a complete play through of ME1 necessary to enjoy ME2? I only got to the halfway mark in ME2 before getting bored but loved the demo of ME2 and all of the choices that you could make.

Lord no. ME2 is actually pretty light on filler. If you got bored halfway through ME2 you'll probably last a couple hours max in ME1. Unless you got bored because you felt a lack of flavor NPC interactions and aimlessly wandering around, which ME1 has in spades.

vdragonlance · Apr 14, 2015

Nice, thanks for the heads up!

Sovern · Apr 14, 2015

nomu said:
Lord no. ME2 is actually pretty light on filler. If you got bored halfway through ME2 you'll probably last a couple hours max in ME1. Unless you got bored because you felt a lack of flavor NPC interactions and aimlessly wandering around, which ME1 has in spades.

That was a mistype. I m,eant to write I only managed to get halfway through ME1. Thanks for your input though!

How are the moral choices in ME2? Are there a ton of meaningful choices to be made? I've been getting bored with most modern RPG's because most of the dialog choices are not meaningful or if they are meaningful play only a minor role in the outcome of any one event.

Lateralus · Apr 14, 2015

DonInKansas said:
If you buy it now do you get the games they release later in the bundle?

Sí Señor.

edit: if you pay more than the average.

[L]imey · Apr 14, 2015

I have pretty much everything else, but I picked it up for the pvz:gw which I had my eye on a few months back.

Anyone have an opinion on it nowadays?

kirbyrj · Apr 14, 2015

I grabbed it. Only had a few of the games, so it was worth it.

nomu · Apr 14, 2015

Sovern said:
That was a mistype. I m,eant to write I only managed to get halfway through ME1. Thanks for your input though!

How are the moral choices in ME2? Are there a ton of meaningful choices to be made? I've been getting bored with most modern RPG's because most of the dialog choices are not meaningful or if they are meaningful play only a minor role in the outcome of any one event.

Depends what you consider meaningful. There's plenty of flags to toggle for who lives and dies, for both party members and NPCs, but revisiting the consequences of your actions usually happens between games in the ME series and rarely within the same game. The split between life/death choices and "choose your cutscene" is pretty good (though there is necessarily far more of the latter) but major story branches aren't really on the menu in ME games.

Yakk · Apr 14, 2015

Thanks, picked it up for PvZ:GW also!

EvilViking · Apr 14, 2015

In for one

Raekwon · Apr 14, 2015

Got it, although I already own dragon age origins, dead space 2, and mass effect 2. Of course I haven't played dead space 2 or mass effect 2 yet either. These bundle are killing me.

samborarocks · Apr 15, 2015

I'm in, have most of the games on the list so far, but missing a couple I wanted....

limitedaccess · Apr 15, 2015

Speculation is one of the BTA games will be Simcity as it is in one of the background mashup images.

BurntToast · Apr 15, 2015

Wow one key for all the Origin games. Sucks if you already own a nice chunk of them :/

Raudulfr · Apr 15, 2015

limitedaccess said:
Speculation is one of the BTA games will be Simcity as it is in one of the background mashup images.

Well, it's a SimCity game, not just the one you're expecting

http://imgur.com/DRuPE5Q

limitedaccess · Apr 15, 2015

Great... I only BTA because I was hoping for a Mass Effect set to gift

MrC4 · Apr 15, 2015

Great bundle. Picked up two at $5 each for my sons.

cyclone3d · Apr 15, 2015

Some of those games have been in the "On Us" (free) from Origin in the near past.

Edit.. at least according to the screenshot in a previous post.

DPI · Apr 15, 2015

cyclone3d said:
Some of those games have been in the "On Us" (free) from Origin in the near past.

This is only relevant if time machines had already been invented

cyclone3d · Apr 15, 2015

DPI said:
This is only relevant if time machines had already been invented

Yeah, I can't see the pics here at work so I thought maybe I was missing something that was obvious.

wizzi01 · Apr 15, 2015

I've never played dragon age. I guess for .50 a game I can't really be disappointed.

Raekwon · Apr 15, 2015

wizzi01 said:
I've never played dragon age. I guess for .50 a game I can't really be disappointed.

It's great. I'm just remembering that I sunk maybe 30 hours into it and never beat it. Looks like I get to play it from the beginning again.

suiken_2mieu · Apr 16, 2015

Bought, it's a pretty good deal.

Sovern · Apr 16, 2015

Mass effect 2 seems amazing, shame I couldn't get into ME1 due to all of the boring mining side missions.

westrock2000 · Apr 17, 2015

Yakk said:
Thanks, picked it up for PvZ:GW also!

The game is very fun, but the servers, at least on Xbox one are absolutely terrible. And considering you have to connect to the server just to get to main menu. I have come very close to mailing the disc to EA and telling them to go to hell.

Yakk · Apr 18, 2015

westrock2000 said:
The game is very fun, but the servers, at least on Xbox one are absolutely terrible. And considering you have to connect to the server just to get to main menu. I have come very close to mailing the disc to EA and telling them to go to hell.

I hear you... I tried a few games on PC and very smooth. That was A LOT of fun, bought a few more bundles for friends! Great game!

ShepsCrook · Apr 18, 2015

In, may as well.

BobTheBuilderr0x · Apr 19, 2015

Any idea what games they adding to the bundle on Tuesday?

Raekwon · Apr 19, 2015

BobTheBuilderr0x said:
Any idea what games they adding to the bundle on Tuesday?

If i had to throw out a wild guess - Simcity 2k, wing commander 3 and 4, and ultima 7.

BobTheBuilderr0x · Apr 19, 2015

So from reading it if I pay the average now do I get the extra games later?

Lateralus · Apr 19, 2015

If you beat the average, yes.

staknhalo · Apr 19, 2015

Man, I was hoping on of the Battlefield Bad Company 2 games would be added, otherwise I prob would have stuck with the reg bundle just for Dead Space 2

Raudulfr · Apr 21, 2015

And, as predicted, the 4 extra games are Wing Commander III & IV, SimCity 2000 and Ultima VII.

ShepsCrook · Apr 21, 2015

The added games didn't get unlocked, I put in more than the average.

HFBallad · Apr 21, 2015

Got to your HB account.
The new added games have a different code than the first one for Origin.

Humble Origin Bundle 2

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[H]ard|Gawd

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Limp Gawd

[H]F Junkie

Supreme [H]ardness

[H]F Junkie

[H]ard|Gawd

2[H]4U

[H]ard|Gawd

More [H]uman than Human

Supreme [H]ardness

2[H]4U

[H]F Junkie

Gawd