braid

what's the creator's deal, is he a nazi or something?

He's just really pretentious in that 14-year-old film 101 "hidden meaning" and "not intended to be understood" fuck-you-david-lynch kinda way

Man, don't compare that jerk to David Lynch, please! Besides being much more of a pleasant man, Lynch has actually done a lot of good work, far more than can be said for this sputtering developer who has the need to make of an ass of himself on the internet.

I haven't even played the game, but just from what I've read from Blow, I'm not sure I even want to bother anymore.

It's a great game.

Lynch is great, but most young film geeks who get obsessed with Lynch/Cronenberg can be pretty insufferable.

link please

I meant that in that he's the kind of guy who might just yell "Fuck you! David Lynch!"

Here's one link of many, I'm sure: http://savetherobot.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/jonathan-blow-talks-braid-nobodys-figured-it-out-yet/

I was amused. In any case, it's on par with the quality of videogame journalism anyway.

Posted by: sp0rsk | Sep 17, 2008 1:18:46 PM

sp0rsk OTM!!!

I agree

joystiq thinks its "retared" tho
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/09/17/soulja-boy-tells-em-about-braid/#comments

This made me convinced more than anything that Soulja Boy is the Jonathan Swift of our generation. When it comes out that he has a double masters in English and Anthropology at Columbia or something I'll be here to say I told you so. I'm so not joking.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=sBDzc_7Crs4&feature=user

http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Halo3/Default.aspx?player=Souljaboytellem

http://live.xbox.com/en-GB/profile/profile.aspx?pp=0&GamerTag=Souljaboytellem

souljaboy only got 1 achievement on braid; lame

so i recently played this through. great game. got every piece without cheating but i will admit the second piece on "elevator action" made me swear, scream and stare blankly at the screen for a long time before i got it. in the long run the game was probably more frustrating than truly rewarding.

anyone else have the immediate after-effect of feeling like you can hit rewind in other games?

the rewind really should become praxis instead of reload, like in TOCA.

on steam today
http://store.steampowered.com/app/26800/

Video Card: tbd
^^^ kind of worried about this since i only have a shitty pci one

they just pushed it to tomorrow

have we talked about the Tim Rogers review of Braid yet?

http://www.actionbutton.net/?p=499

a mountain of untenably self-absorbed doodoo IMO (by which I mean the review, the game, Rogers, and Blow)

nooo don't mention Tim Rogers!

(i'm waiting on the mac port, probably)

I think the Mac version came out and nobody even noticed (at least I didn't hear about it on any of a kazillion RSS feeds, surprisingly). That's another game on the "eventually will buy, someday" queue...

This game seems a lot more pretentious and Donnie Darko-ish in hindsight than it did while I was playing it. I think that without the benefit of the puzzles, the narrative is pretty weaksauce.

At some point I just started skipping all the story stuff, because f that.

the story is offensively bad. or, well, maybe it's just bad, and its fans are offensive. i have a hard time differentiating.

demo keeps crashing after about 10 seconds :(

mac version

never got the controversy about the angsty sexist tripe in the story. it's the definition of tl;dr.

if there were braid like puzzles for the ipod/iphone, my work productivity would plummet.

The writing is... worse than I anticipated. It's still a gorgeous game, visually and musically. Glad they included some of the trippy World 4 levels in the demo. I'll probably pick it up someday.

this game is a testament to how quickly puzzle games get me frustrated and headed for the walkthrough. probably will not complete, but hey, it was cheap, so whatever.

ugh, this piece of shit is coming to pollute the PSN

Why don't you just pretend the little dude's name is Jeff and skip all the story parts? It's one of the best puzzle games of all time.

because hating on Braid is exponentially more fun than actually playing it

You must be having a lot of fun, because the game was a fucking blast.

jamescobo u kno I like ur style but c'mon man!

Great of that news to come less than a week after I get a 360 mostly to play this (and Monkey Island). Oh well, still worth it.

if, if you are going to play this soon and care about 200'ing it I suggest u look up spoilers for the secret stars beforehand cos there's no way you'll work them out without a guide

don't look up spoilers for any of the main stars tho else u r a noob

I'm most of the way through! About 5 left on world 6. I looked up one though, I am a noob :( Related to what I assume Will was complaining about upthread, I figured out the extra mechanic in World 2 but then come the same stage in the next world I bcame so certain there was something similar that I looked up to see why it wasn't working and saw the real answer.

(and Monkey Island).

Wait. What?

monkey island is on xbla now, mordy

The new episodic Telltale one??

um I thought it was an HD remake of the old one w/new art but iunno, haven't heard of this telltale one

I might be wrong

Yeah just the remake, although seems like it might get the new one eventually. Hope so as the Wii one is almost unplayable.

i should see if i can get keith or stet to code an autofill button that just enters "the Wii one is almost unplayable", might save a lot of time.

Im too stupid to get these puzzles right and too proud to look up answers, hence I havent played this game in what seems like a year

morelike brAIDS amirite

BRAid

sadly my final take on this is kind of meh tbf

would play BRA ID btw

this game was fun but the design is like so purposefully obscure that its not fun to just "play" its only fun to "solve" and the story is like mindrape

I think I only like puzzle games when they're completely abstract and self-contained; story-based puzzle games like Braid and The Lost Vikings just strike me as tarted-up and stupid for whatever reason. I mean, I don't need a reason to keep playing Pic Pic, y'know?

for obvious reasons I am avoiding Professor Layton as if it were a jar of mayonnaise left in the sun. really, the biggest exception to the rule I can think of is Puzzle Quest, and even then it was the combination of Puzzles + Stat Management that hooked me, not Puzzles + Story.

I just started playing the full version of this, having (minimally) read about it in a few places. Just as aggravating as any other puzzle game I've played, although the added gimmicks on each world throw things into the mix. I'm fairly easy to please with games, so it's definitely some fun. I realized that the character does a little head-bobbing motion if you try to activate something and there's nothing there, so I wasted about thirty seconds by doing it repeatedly and then rewinding to make it look like he was headbanging. I hope I'm not the only one.

xp. I loved Braid and I have no idea what the story was since it seemed like a bunch of pseud-shit, didn't detract from my enjoyment. Also like, the story to Lost Vikings isn't exactly a prominent feature of the game.

this is cheap on steam this weekend. worth getting?