Almost two weeks ago now Humble Bundle launched the Humble Double Fine Bundle, which contains 3+1+1 games from Double Fine. (Three games come at any price, one only unlocks when you pay more than the average, and then one more you get a pre-order for only if you pay at least $35.) Because all of the games are from Double Fine, which is a known and relatively well-respected developer, I decided not to review the bundle. These games already have good exposure, so why spend the time to give them more? There is a good chance the people who are interested in them will get the bundle without my review.
Anyway, now we get to how this worked out well for me. I haven't a clue why, but the engines for at least two of the games simply fail, miserably, on my computer. For one game, half the time it would not load then for almost the entire other half the game starts up behind a loading screen, making playing impossible. The other game was reliably starting, had the loading screen issue a few times, but I may have found a solution to that, but had another, major issue. A number of the meshes in the environment were not loading. I actually had a fight on an invisible platform and was running into invisible walls! I have never seen issues like this before and have been unable to find any solutions for these problems. Now I am hesitant to open the other two games I got in the bundle.
So as it turns out, even if I wanted to review these games I would not be able to because of these critical bugs. Hopefully I will have better luck with the next bundle.
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