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The Latest Humble Bundle: For All The Nintendo Fans

I'm tempted to pick this bundle up, but all the Wii U games and my lack of a Wii U are kind of off-putting. I would have preferred a Wii U bundle on the main page, and a 3DS one on the Mobile Bundle.

Would be cool to see some old Playstation games on there or something. I lack any of the current gen consoles though, so I really couldn't take advantage of them releasing console games, cool as it is.
 
I picked this up yesterday, used all the codes for 3DS. Haven't played them yet. Two of them look very promising. Worth the $10.00
 
my friend showed me this last night. it looks really cool. i'm debating on whether to buy it or not.
 
machomuu said:
I feel the need to point out that this is currently North/South America only, currently.

Be careful before you spend your dollars, as the keys are region-locked.
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And excluding Brazil! North, Central, and South America only, excluding Brazil.

It's a shame it's so limited, but I'm not really surprised. Nintendo doesn't seem to fully grasp how the internet works yet. Considering most of the bundles we see are already region-free, ROW copies (with the exception of the occasional "this key will not activate in Germany or Russia" game), it's not entirely surprising to me that a region-locked console would have difficulties implementing an option to get keys for different regions.
Hopefully next time around (and hopefully there is a next time!) they'll give you an option between NA and EU keys, or something.

Orpheus said:
It's really cool to see them put up console games for sale.
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Yes, it is. :)

I bought the $10 tier yesterday. I already have half of them on Steam, but at the very least I wanted to support the idea; I'd really like to see more console-based bundles in the future, even if all we get are Indie games. Even those are expensive on Nintendo consoles, and as much as I love them, it's not like Nintendo knows how to do sales, either.


Interested in seeing what the 2 or 3 BTA tier locked games are gonna be on Monday, too. I can hope and pray for Shovel Knight or Shantae to make an appearance, but I seriously doubt it, lol. I have a feeling it's gonna be more games that have already been bundled a dozen times for Steam - Cave Story, Nihilumbra, etc.
 
Dustmop said:
Cave Story
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I would play the hell out of Cave Story 3D though. I love the original graphics, but the 3D one looks so nice too. ^^ Definitely going to pick this up, and probably going to give away the Wii U codes since I don't see myself owning a Wii U in the near future.

Personally, I don't find it a problem that there's two different console's games in the bundle, but that's mainly because I usually only play about half the games in the bundle anyway. As for whether or not it's a good idea to do this, I think it's a smart way to get their indie/lesser known titles out there. I'm all for more console bundles in the future, might actually get me to play on consoles more - one of the main perks of PC gaming for me are all these bundles and deals that seemed to be exclusive to PCs.
 
I have half of these games already, but if they add some more good ones (like Cave Story), I'll consider buying the bundle. I really hope they continue to do console bundles like this, since a lot of times my laptop can't run the games in other bundles.
 
I don't live in America, so I'm a little bit disappointed. Not that there'd be anything in it that I'd like to get, heck I don't even have a Wii U, but still...
 
I would guess that the keys are so limited because of how the eShop is split up by region. Since this seems to be something spearheaded by NoA, it makes sense that the Americas are the ones that would be easiest to include. However, if you guys remember the Japanese bundle thing a month or two ago, they do have facilities for choosing what you get in the bundle, as you could pick one language pack for Influent. But then they would also have to get Nintendo of Europe or whatever they're called over there involved. idk it sucks but I don't think it's a travesty or anything.
 
no said:
I would play the hell out of Cave Story 3D though.
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If cave story 3D was bundled I would cry tears of joy.

...And they I would probably just cry because I can't buy things online. :c
 
Dustmop said:
It's a shame it's so limited, but I'm not really surprised. Nintendo doesn't seem to fully grasp how the internet works yet.
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This isn't really one of those cases, though. Considering this is done by NoA and that Nintendo has actually expressed the desire to extend the bundle to other areas, it's not so much that they don't understand how it works so much as there's a lot of tape involved and Humble Bundle may not currently be equipped to handle multi-region support. But I don't really think Nintendo's really at fault here- well, they are in the way of administering the region-lock in the first place, but in this specific instance I think that it's more because this really isn't something that's happened before- either for HB or for any console publisher.
 
So I played some of the 3DS Games

Mighty Switch Force: Really Good, Get it. seems like it will be short, but it is fun.
OiliOli: Skateboard game, surprisingly pretty good, not usually into this sort of thing.
Woah, Dave - Arcade style game. Can't really make heads or tails of it.

Haven't played the others. I expect the Digging one to be the best.
 
Woah, I didn't know Olli Olli was on the Nintendo 3DS!? I already have Guacamelee and Woah Dave! on the PS4, but I have always wanted to play SteamWorld Dig! Meh, I think I'll save my money so I can buy Binding of Isaac on PS4. I do really like the idea of console humble bundles though, hope to see more like these in the future.
 
acatfrommars said:
Woah, I didn't know Olli Olli was on the Nintendo 3DS!? I already have Guacamelee and Woah Dave! on the PS4, but I have always wanted to play SteamWorld Dig! Meh, I think I'll save my money so I can buy Binding of Isaac on PS4. I do really like the idea of console humble bundles though, hope to see more like these in the future.
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I have 3DS codes for SteamWorld Dig and OlliOlli, if you want them. c:

I already have them both on Steam, and now on my Wii U, so I hadn't planned on keeping those, lol.

machomuu said:
This isn't really one of those cases, though. Considering this is done by NoA and that Nintendo has actually expressed the desire to extend the bundle to other areas, it's not so much that they don't understand how it works so much as there's a lot of tape involved and Humble Bundle may not currently be equipped to handle multi-region support. But I don't really think Nintendo's really at fault here- well, they are in the way of administering the region-lock in the first place, but in this specific instance I think that it's more because this really isn't something that's happened before- either for HB or for any console publisher.
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Hi. That sentence you quoted was a joke.
[PokeCommunity.com] The Latest Humble Bundle: For All The Nintendo Fans


It's fun to make fun of Nintendo for being shitty at implementing anything online.


"Considering most of the bundles we see are already region-free, or ROW copies, it's not entirely surprising to me that a region-locked console would have difficulties implementing an option to get keys for different regions."

^ HB hasn't ever done this before, so no, I don't fault Nintendo for it; I'm glad they decided to put this up at all. And as I said before, even though I'm in the US and I can buy it, I already owned most of them, I only gave them the $10 to support the idea in hopes it would happen again. Further, I don't fault HB; they've never needed to deal with specific regions at or after check-out before, like any other cheap 3rd party site, they've always just walled off Germany/Russia/Japan/etc when it applies and strictly bought ROW keys to resell (such as the case of Saints Row games, as the German versions are heavily censored). I'm not surprised they weren't really "prepared" for it, either.

I don't fault anyone for the way this came out. Well, no, I will continue to complain about Nintendo's ridiculously long and awkward eShop codes. Every dyslexic's nightmare right there. And how overloaded the servers have been for the past couple days, my downloads keep stopping with an 'error' message. In a way, they weren't fully prepared for this, themselves. :v

tl;dr. I will continue to make fun of it, but I don't fault anyone involved.

This is the first time anything like this has ever happened, there's bound to be some hiccups. And hopefully whenever this happens again in the future, there will be some sort of option for different regions. :)
 
Dustmop said:
I have 3DS codes for SteamWorld Dig and OlliOlli, if you want them. c:

I already have them both on Steam, and now on my Wii U, so I hadn't planned on keeping those, lol.
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OMG that is so nice! Thank you, but I let my friend from college borrow my 3DS for the summer; I really appreciate it though.
 
I have a feeling it's gonna be more games that have already been bundled a dozen times for Steam - Cave Story, Nihilumbra, etc.
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Almost! :P
As of this afternoon we now have Gunman Clive for the 3DS, as well as Sportsball and Bit.Trip Runner 2 for the Wii U. (Wii U only? Isn't Bit.Trip also available on the 3DS?)

Sportsball is Wii U exclusive afaik, but Gunman Clive and Bit.Trip Runner 2 have been bundled a few times for PC.


I almost regret spending $10 on it, but I pretty much expected this from the beginning. Coulda been worse. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
I'm a little bit disappointed. At this point I'd rather spend my money on the Mid Week sale on Steam: Oddworld New n Tasty.
 
Dustmop said:
I'm waiting in that regard. Steam's summer sale was leaked to go on between the 11th and 20th. c:

And several other retailers have already begun their summer sales, too. With some pretty unexpected deals.
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I support Oddworld enough to pay the full price, so this sale works for me since I can afford it. I don't want to spend 3 bucks on it, not if I want a remake of Exodus as well. But I digress.

I may still pick up this bundle, but not til close to the end since I don't have enough money to justify it right now.
 
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