Everyone should not buy Braid

[twesterm]

Onyxmeth said:

twesterm said:

I just picked a random game people love to shit on.  If that one doesn't work, go buy The Sims 2.  If you already like that, go Carnival Games.  If not that, go buy Resistance.  I can keep naming games and I could eventually find one you just don't like.

Easier way would be to just say that not all games, no matter how good they are, appeal to everybody.  It was Jonathon Blow's own choice to make the game as difficult and different as it is and that is one of the risks of making a game like that.  He knows his target audience.

This can be said about any game. No game is liked by 100% of all people. Why did you choose this game and this game only out of the thousands released to make a thread entirely about the audience this doesn't cater to as a warning? Why not Madden 09? Or Sims 2? Or Carnival Games? Or Resistance? Each has warranted it's own twesterm warning thread of who should not buy it, right?

 

Because I think Braid is different.  I can read a faq for something like Uncharted, Gears of War, or Super Mario Galaxy and it doesn't ruin the game.  So those people that buy those games purely on hype are still fine because if they get stuck or whatever it's no catastrophic thing to read a faq.

With something like Braid it's a very hard game and everyone is telling everyone else to buy it.  Those people who don't like puzzle games for whatever reason are going to get stuck and refer to a faq and completely ruin the game.  What's the point of a puzzle game when you don't actually do the puzzles.

Even if someone wants to branch out and try new genres Braid isn't something you want to start with in the puzzle genre.  You'll get frustrated and never play the genre again.  If they started with something like Zack & Wiki that has a good learning curve or Portal which is something you can brute force your way through that also has familiar elements that would be better.  Braid would just frustrate those people.

I also make this thread because I know people that bought this game purely on hype and they hate puzzle games.  They come back telling everyone how terrible the game was because it's boring, no action, too hard, ect.