I feel this Build a Be Mine is easily the weakest Be Mine bundle so far. The building part of the bundle is expensive for the not so much bundled not so old games. Still an OK price, but the bonuses are poop (though the music may be OK) compared to the other Be Mine bundles where I was consistently impressed by the bonus games. I felt pretty lame paying $3 for 100% Orange Juice, Lili, Isomer, and Spirits DLC. Seems a bit much but eh, wanted Lili and Orange Juice.
I would have been fine buying Lili for $3. Hell, I would have ended up buying Lili for $5 (75% off) on Steam once it hit that.
It's by no means the best Be Mine, but I don't think it's the worst, and it's the best bundle I've seen in awhile.
Maybe that's just it. I don't like RPG-Maker or Weeaboo games, and I don't care to own lots of disposable music. Edit: and I certainly don't trust Groupees to hold onto it for me.
I'm sure there's the rare musical gem in there if you care to wade through the rest, but music is very personal for me and I haven't had good luck finding stuff I enjoy by trolling garbage bins. YMMV.
Yeah, I don't doubt people enjoy them to some degree. It just doesn't work that way for me, personally. I'm obviously much more particular about my music than I am about my games.
I'd much rather get music recommendations from friends or from a service (Spotify, Pandora, etc)... or even from listening to the radio, than to sort through big piles of tunes from a location that may or may not be around next week. It would probably help a lot if these weren't just direct downloads because I feel sort of the same way about direct dowload games.
Weird, I know.
Have you tried listening to anything in Groupees? They've offered a lot of different genres... Alternative, metal, techno, chiptune, dubstep, folky stuff, even from some headline bands like Smile Empty Soul and Taproot. The recent Celtic bundle was great too.
Pandora and those radio players are notorious for having laughably shallow recommendations, many of them nonsensical and 90% of the time bands you've already heard of (unless you've been living under a rock). I'll admit I get "lazy" and don't bother checking out new music, just sticking to bands I already know of, but Groupees has done really well over the years plucking some really good artists out of the woodwork for their bundles.
You said you like recommendations from friends, right? Sometimes people will post recommendations of music out of Groupees bundles here if you pay attention. Squirrel has done it, I've done it (I just gave a
full mini-review of the Celtic bundle), and I know others have. Maybe you're hella picky about music, but I'd still say it's worth checking out some Groupees stuff. There's your occasional pile of
Remute shit in there, but they do a good job at picking good stuff out.
I love the powerglove, its sooo bad
http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Intro/2JRInr?src=5