i quit a few worlds in and never went back
― First and Last and Safeways (jjjusten), Thursday, 4 March 2010 22:59 (fourteen years ago) link
if u dont like the puzzles then theres absolutely nothing there 4 u― (Head) (Lamp), Thursday, March 4, 2010 9:54 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
got to agree w/this but don't see why that makes it trash
― ©H0©080ZO (cozen), Friday, 5 March 2010 08:35 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_wl7bInMIo
― 8o---e*.\\\||///.*ə---o8 (forksclovetofu), Friday, 13 August 2010 05:55 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvsZOcdxHpI^better indication of how lame this likely was
― 8o---e*.\\\||///.*ə---o8 (forksclovetofu), Friday, 13 August 2010 05:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Uh…
Where do I begin... Braid has changed my life. I thought I was once another lost soul in this infinite universe, but know I have realized I am the son and the father of chaos and anarchy. One mind, one body, one soul woven, "braided," into space and time. This game makes you look into the darkest caves of the mind, the depths of mankind, until you reach the madness in search for an answer, for her. Defying the law of physics to reach the goal of salvation. Our whole lives we fight the evil, and strive to conquer our demons, but in the end we are the demons. We are the universe observing itself. We are the universe destroying itself.
― litel, Friday, 13 August 2010 07:22 (thirteen years ago) link
this is $2 on steam for a couple days so i got it, opened this thread hoping someone would say like, we figure out he was the bad guy all along or smth, but jesus this "story" !!
it's like... an extreme for terrible indie game writing. it's the unfortunate thing about so many talented people w/backgrounds and livelihoods in computers and not basic storytelling. sometimes it can be a good thing (! pixar movies have mostly been written by animators) but so much of the time it's just this basic lazy drivel about some boring breakup barely translated into anything anyone would ever care about especially cause the writer just comes off as a misogynistic jackass. i can imagine horrible people really loving it.
― my whole family is catholic so look at the pickle i'm in (zachlyon), Sunday, 19 January 2014 02:57 (ten years ago) link
"She never understood the impulses that drove him, never quite felt the intensity that, over time, chiseled lines into his face."
― my whole family is catholic so look at the pickle i'm in (zachlyon), Sunday, 19 January 2014 05:07 (ten years ago) link
Yeah it's hilariously bad. But the puzzle-solving is as great as advertised imo
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 19 January 2014 19:55 (ten years ago) link
yupi like the limbo story way better and it was never explicitly stated
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 19 January 2014 19:56 (ten years ago) link
what's great about the horrible self-serving narration stuff is that, when I played it, every time Tim died - which was very often, I'm pretty clumsy - i laughed.
― if you're happy and you know it, it's false consciousness (c sharp major), Sunday, 19 January 2014 19:59 (ten years ago) link
i will continue to rep for the soundtrack tho
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 19 January 2014 20:04 (ten years ago) link
i should probably go back and finish this, shouldn't I... i vaguely remember getting stuck on one level and never going back to it
― Nhex, Monday, 20 January 2014 06:28 (ten years ago) link
I vaguely remember getting stuck on most levels.
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Monday, 20 January 2014 07:23 (ten years ago) link
its really hard
― lag∞n, Monday, 20 January 2014 16:27 (ten years ago) link
how do we get this dude to quit the gaming industry forever
― Wendy Carlos Williams (jjjusten), Monday, 20 January 2014 16:28 (ten years ago) link
video games fixation w and awful execution of storytelling is really funny and point missing
― lag∞n, Monday, 20 January 2014 16:28 (ten years ago) link
these people wld try to give poker a plot
― lag∞n, Monday, 20 January 2014 16:29 (ten years ago) link
http://www.governorofpoker4.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/1-home.jpg
― Mordy , Monday, 20 January 2014 16:30 (ten years ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Monday, 20 January 2014 16:31 (ten years ago) link
no idea what this is about but it felt relevant
http://i.imgur.com/4qCaGxT.png
why is david schmimmer sitting in that barn
― Wendy Carlos Williams (jjjusten), Monday, 20 January 2014 17:55 (ten years ago) link
I have up on this game on like the last level. Could never beat it.
― Jeff, Monday, 20 January 2014 18:11 (ten years ago) link
I'm still glad that I skipped reading 99% of everything in this game. I'm sure it's horrible but I wouldn't know.
― polyphonic, Monday, 20 January 2014 19:05 (ten years ago) link
I'll quote Lars Von Trier and say that sometimes you've got to take the good with the evil.
― Nhex, Monday, 20 January 2014 20:30 (ten years ago) link
Braid's artsy-fartsyness/pretentiousness/preciousness is the package you cannot divorce from the gameplay
― Nhex, Monday, 20 January 2014 20:36 (ten years ago) link
It's very easy to divorce it. Just walk past the books without clicking on them.
― polyphonic, Monday, 20 January 2014 20:41 (ten years ago) link
You're still controlling that little painted man across a storybook landscape.
― Nhex, Monday, 20 January 2014 20:43 (ten years ago) link
Mario you pretentious fuck
― polyphonic, Monday, 20 January 2014 20:44 (ten years ago) link
i like how its mario thats p funny
― lag∞n, Monday, 20 January 2014 20:53 (ten years ago) link
thank you
― polyphonic, Monday, 20 January 2014 21:05 (ten years ago) link
all video games shd be mario just spitballin
― lag∞n, Monday, 20 January 2014 21:08 (ten years ago) link
However, others—including new media academics—have disagreed, praising the philosophical complexity of the game, saying "Jonathan Blow's Braid is the sort of ontological labyrinth that Jorge Luis Borges might have made. Embedded in the simple gameplay design are genuinely huge concepts."[90]
― my whole family is catholic so look at the pickle i'm in (zachlyon), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 01:06 (ten years ago) link
[90] I murdered this guy
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 01:08 (ten years ago) link
Braid has also garnered academic interest and acclaim for its complexity, with narratologists saying "Anyone who thinks... the unique constraints of game play cannot possibly be used to best structure a story has probably not encountered Braid, which marries pure mechanics and story into a philosophical platform." [109] Braid's use of narrative elements and puzzle-making has been compared to similar techniques of "imperative storytelling" in novels such as Life A User's Manual and Through the Looking-Glass.[110]
― my whole family is catholic so look at the pickle i'm in (zachlyon), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 01:10 (ten years ago) link
Barf
― Jeff, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 01:11 (ten years ago) link
Braid barf.
Journalists have considered Braid's plot to be interwoven with the game itself, much as the book Dictionary of the Khazars and the films Memento and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind interweave the narrative into the work's construction.[23][24]
Others have likened Braid to punk rock,
― my whole family is catholic so look at the pickle i'm in (zachlyon), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 01:12 (ten years ago) link
so these films interweave the narrative right into the whole work v interesting v unusual have to think abt that
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 January 2014 01:13 (ten years ago) link
you forgot punk rock don't forget punk rock
― my whole family is catholic so look at the pickle i'm in (zachlyon), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 01:18 (ten years ago) link
xkcd: the game
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 22 January 2014 01:33 (ten years ago) link
I just started this game I think yesterday? I am at the end of world 5 or 6. I am going to be so sad when this game is over.
― "Jiggle It" - 2 in a Zoo (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 31 March 2014 01:34 (ten years ago) link
I don't think I've gotten as excited on an intellectual level abt a game since EarthBound. Is Portal really this good??
why is david schmimmer sitting in that barn― Wendy Carlos Williams (jjjusten), Monday, January 20, 2014 12:55 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Wendy Carlos Williams (jjjusten), Monday, January 20, 2014 12:55 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Monday, 31 March 2014 02:17 (ten years ago) link
http://arxiv-web3.library.cornell.edu/abs/1412.0784
― celfie tucker 48 (s.clover), Friday, 5 December 2014 20:16 (nine years ago) link
https://vimeo.com/36579366#t=13m24s
some clever thinking on playing with code to design games using already created templates
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 16:59 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c53fGdK84rcand xpost to portal and russian doll too i suppose
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 04:03 (four years ago) link