When worms first came out, I was a master of the ninja rope.
I, too, was pretty awesome with the ninja rope. Though, I preferred the old "leave dynamite on his head and run" to the finger poke.When worms first came out, I was a master of the ninja rope.
I actually used to whip the Team 17 guys asses when I could catch them on. They thought I was cheating
With a ninja rope, there was nowhere I couldn't go in a map. Straight up, through tiny cracks...it didn't matter. I could get anywhere with one.
My favorite tactic was ninja roping across the entire map right up next to a worm and using the finger poke to push them into the water. So satisfying.
Did you use the tactic of climbing up the rope until you swing so fast you enter the speed force, and then propel yourself across the entire map?When worms first came out, I was a master of the ninja rope.
I actually used to whip the Team 17 guys asses when I could catch them on. They thought I was cheating
With a ninja rope, there was nowhere I couldn't go in a map. Straight up, through tiny cracks...it didn't matter. I could get anywhere with one.
My favorite tactic was ninja roping across the entire map right up next to a worm and using the finger poke to push them into the water. So satisfying.
I liked doing that, then re-extending the rope so it pushed me a mile up in the air.
While not exactly an epic game of awesomeness, it's worth experiencing it for free. (I pirated it back in 2011)
Yup. You could also bounce the rope so fast it'd let you squeeze through little cracks, or shoot straight up by extending the rope, which would let you reach a much higher level, as gas bandit mentions below.
I actually got this with Twitch Prime, but I still grabbed this one, both for soundtrack and because I fully expect one of these services to eventually decide "We're broke - no more game for you.".
When they were bought by IGN
And none of them are all that enticing right now.
Agreed, when I saw EIGHT bundles I was all "AW SNAP THAT SOUNDS GREAT! Okay...don't won't that...or that...or that...or that....or that....or that...or that...or that....I'll stick with the 100 games I have I still haven't beaten."
Thank you Bubbs, because of this-I REMEMBERED-I have a GOG account! With like...SEVEN other games I haven't downloaded, holy crap.
I liked it
My guess is that the game economy model is moving towards one where the majority of money is not made at the time of sale, but instead after the sale through DLC, in-game purchases, loot boxes, etc. At that point, the game just becomes a framework to entice your future purchases rather than itself being the product sold.
I'm assuming it's the publishers that are allowing this, and Valve is more than likely happy with it because it helps keep Steam as the premiere place to buy games (with DRM). I suppose there's some lost sales for GOG, but I have to imagine the amount of people willing to buy games a second time just to get them DRM free is relatively small. I imagine they're using it as advertising for the their site. Getting people to look at your store, create an account, and check back are pretty huge things. If only a small fraction of those who visit the site buy something, that's still considered a success.
Notice how a lot of these games are either part of a series that has a more recent title that still selling at a high price? Or they're from an indie developer that has a more recent title they want attention for? Some of the people who get the game for free might have bought it, but a lot more wouldn't have played it otherwise, and some will then go on to purchase other games in the series or from the same developer.
More to the point, just getting people to install and sue the service is the hardest part of the equation. Free games get people invested in a system, so they are more likely to purchase games for it.
