Zero Punctuation: Braid
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Really people, are you serious?
I was gonna post: "Whatever happend to being funny and clever as opposed to being an angry if eloquent misanthrope foaming at the mouth while rabidly calling everyone a moron?"
Don't you people have better things to do than inflate Yahtzee's already vast ego?
(appologies to those who actually did say something other than "grate as usul" or some variation with worse or better spelling)
I was gonna post: "Whatever happend to being funny and clever as opposed to being an angry if eloquent misanthrope foaming at the mouth while rabidly calling everyone a moron?"
Don't you people have better things to do than inflate Yahtzee's already vast ego?
(appologies to those who actually did say something other than "grate as usul" or some variation with worse or better spelling)
"Intertubes" is just a word for the internet going around as a joke on the web. It started with this old senator who said some stupid stuff about networks, see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f99PcP0aFNE .dannydamage post=6.69741.673075 said:
But you're right, it's a bit stupid to actually use it. I just got so used to it.
Oh right, thanks. To be fair I thought we'd already made up a mock word (interweb) to abuse the fashionable-net users, why did we need another?parttimeesthete post=6.69741.673639 said:
Is it a circle of net-noobs thinking their not noobs anymore and their only way to attempt to prove it is by calling people who have been net users for 2 months less than themselves a new name?
*Sigh* I'm that disappointed by the chewing and spitting out of the English language I can't be arsed to rant anymore.
It looks like Yahzee thought (mostly correctly, unfortunately, Adrian you stupid *****) that he was going to get that jab about teabagging to pass through without people noticing what he was actually talking about. Unfortunately, human beings are born with the talent of being able to smell bullshit better than they can make it. Nice try. Passive-aggressive pussyfooting isn't going to get you anywhere. I'm not forgetting that flagrant disregard for an entire dimension of fun that easily, either. He's in denial at this point. "Well, it's apparent that I can't come up with any clever plans when under fire, so it looks like it's time to claim that slow-paced puzzlers are much more satisfying anyways!" Yeah. Uh-huh. I bet those grapes were bitter anyways. I'll believe that load of bull the day he comes home from Evolution without getting jabbed to death in his first round of Super Turbo.
Well I blame a lot of people for the state of the video game market but not nessecarily me in particular. YES occasionaly I get lost in the madness of decapitating enemies to the music of Linkin Park but all in all a good story goes a long way. Even if the game is repetetive a good storyline may be able to save its ass. Halo 3 I found awful because it didn't keep me interested despite the fact its all adrenaline based action. And the same follows with a lot of games. The creativity is much more important then the action by far.
Just in case Yahtzee actually reads this, I gotta say... I'm disappointed.
The review, in general was great, fine, whatever. But seriously... two doors with no indication of which to pick?
The only places I can think of would be in World 4, and you didn't once - not even after the first one - "Green key, non-green door... I've seen this before, and sure don't want to be reversing time"? Or, perhaps, "Hey, everything in this world advances when I move to the right... even that one puzzle piece I have to get while moving to the right... maybe given two options of how to approach, I should be moving to the right"?
Come on, man. Before this review, I would point and laugh at people that claimed it was totally arbitrary or there was no indication which one to use. But you're an intelligent guy, and you didn't figure it out after three iterations? That's just... sad.
The review, in general was great, fine, whatever. But seriously... two doors with no indication of which to pick?
The only places I can think of would be in World 4, and you didn't once - not even after the first one - "Green key, non-green door... I've seen this before, and sure don't want to be reversing time"? Or, perhaps, "Hey, everything in this world advances when I move to the right... even that one puzzle piece I have to get while moving to the right... maybe given two options of how to approach, I should be moving to the right"?
Come on, man. Before this review, I would point and laugh at people that claimed it was totally arbitrary or there was no indication which one to use. But you're an intelligent guy, and you didn't figure it out after three iterations? That's just... sad.
Don't even try man, I said something of that nature on the first page of the GTA IV review and they ripped me apart.Eldritch Warlord post=6.69741.673622 said:
They would do that even to the Arab of Magnificence?ElArabDeMagnifico post=6.69741.674044 said:
But I think of it this way, if I don't reply to the Yahtzee Disciples then I'm immune to their idiocy.
I'm surprised a number have people have mentioned the "two door" thing (to confirm, yes, there is nothing "random" about it, and if you do screw up, it takes all of 10 seconds to walk back to the door and reset the room), but no one's mentioned the "lazy repeated design" thing.
There was absolutely nothing lazy about this -- in every case, there is some new and interesting puzzle to solve, even if the elements appear to be arranged the same way to first glance. "Hunt" shows up twice, for instance, but the mechanics of the two worlds they appear in make them totally different when it comes to actually solving it. "Phase" appears twice, but the second time, half of the platforms have disappeared, forcing you to use your time manipulation powers in a new way. This is the first time I've really strongly felt Yahtzee was completely off-base with a review.
As for the story/gameplay divide, I don't agree with him, but I don't disagree with him. The writing is pretentious, and if you're waiting for a clear explanation, it's never going to come. The story is not required for the gameplay, but each world tied its unique gameplay mechanic to the emotional issues of the protagonist; I thought that was really neat. World 5's gameplay gimmick/emotional setting always gets to me. I think Joe Blow tried to do something new here, and it's not going to work for everyone. To me, it worked, and a number of people I've shown it to have confessed that it touched upon something personal to their lives regarding relationships and regret.
As for everyone left wondering what Braid is about: it's a puzzle platformer with a little bit of hop-and-bop, it will mess with your understanding of time worse than Portal messed with your sense of space, it's absolutely gorgeous and if you enjoy using your brain you should drop the $15 on it without hesitation.
There was absolutely nothing lazy about this -- in every case, there is some new and interesting puzzle to solve, even if the elements appear to be arranged the same way to first glance. "Hunt" shows up twice, for instance, but the mechanics of the two worlds they appear in make them totally different when it comes to actually solving it. "Phase" appears twice, but the second time, half of the platforms have disappeared, forcing you to use your time manipulation powers in a new way. This is the first time I've really strongly felt Yahtzee was completely off-base with a review.
As for the story/gameplay divide, I don't agree with him, but I don't disagree with him. The writing is pretentious, and if you're waiting for a clear explanation, it's never going to come. The story is not required for the gameplay, but each world tied its unique gameplay mechanic to the emotional issues of the protagonist; I thought that was really neat. World 5's gameplay gimmick/emotional setting always gets to me. I think Joe Blow tried to do something new here, and it's not going to work for everyone. To me, it worked, and a number of people I've shown it to have confessed that it touched upon something personal to their lives regarding relationships and regret.
As for everyone left wondering what Braid is about: it's a puzzle platformer with a little bit of hop-and-bop, it will mess with your understanding of time worse than Portal messed with your sense of space, it's absolutely gorgeous and if you enjoy using your brain you should drop the $15 on it without hesitation.
Being called Adrian I think I'm receiving a lot of unjustified hate on the internets, today
ironically I do not own any next generation consoles nor do I play pc games like bioshock
crysis and what other games you bloody dicks play these days I enjoy games like stronghold, red alert 2, star trek armada, blockland, the myth of soma, samp, zdaemon, sim city etc the most graphically intense game I play are half life 2 type games
so fuck you it's not this particular Adrians fault I'd rather we were all playing new 2d rts games, or good zombie survival simulations
ironically I do not own any next generation consoles nor do I play pc games like bioshock
crysis and what other games you bloody dicks play these days I enjoy games like stronghold, red alert 2, star trek armada, blockland, the myth of soma, samp, zdaemon, sim city etc the most graphically intense game I play are half life 2 type games
so fuck you it's not this particular Adrians fault I'd rather we were all playing new 2d rts games, or good zombie survival simulations
Well, it was simply because they misunderstood me, they thought I was attacking them and calling them stupid or something, but I just tried to do some good for the thread.Eldritch Warlord post=6.69741.674059 said:
Conclusion? It's futile, no yahtzee discussion allowed.
I just wanted to clarify something I said: "This is the first time I've really strongly felt Yahtzee was completely off-base with a review," emphasis on "first time". He's always entertaining, while at the same time being extremely accurate. If he wasn't normally so spot-on, I wouldn't have felt the need to say anything.
Thank you for blaming the right people including me. Unfortunately I was one of the people who had been buying those crappy driver game without realizing they sucked.