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Metro is actually one of the few games cheaper in the EU, it's 20 euro here so any sale will put it miles below $39.
Nice as an extra with a game of course but perhaps something to consider in your purchase
It was kind of neat, but not interesting enough for more than one or two playthroughs, making the randomly generated aspect a bit silly.
Edit: Although it looks like they added a ton of stuff since I played it.
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Pet peeve alert. Spoiler'd for pedantry.
Rogue:
I LOVED that game. I always wondered what people were talking about when they said "Rogue-like".
I have a rogue in WoW named Moulin. No one ever gets it.
Yup. Roguelikes are the games inspired by that classic; most famously NetHack, Dwarf Fortress and such. I've still got the damn thing installed.
That's awesome! :^:
Absolutely no excuses now, everyone should own Braid.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs2DsoiA54Y&hd=1
Because of my backlog I was gonna wait to get Magika on a sale, this might make me buy this now just so I can give these guys some of my money. OMFG <3<3<3
I think I might wait until this hits to pick up Magicka, for the inevitable Steam combo pack.
Does look awesome though, those Paradox guys are alllllllright 8-)
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Almost as good as my Pokegnome.
I am the only one who didn't like Braid? The story text drove me nuts, the pacing was mind numbingly slow and the environments all felt the same.
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But seriously play the demo, and keep in mind that it just get´s better from there, with new mechanics added throughout the game.
The only similarity between Braid and Super Meat Boy is that they are 2D platformers. The level of precision required to beat Braid is thankfully rather low.
Just make sure to try the demo. The game is rather unoptimised, and once you hit areas like the forest quite a few people (myself included) experience terrible stuttering, making the game near-unplayable. This on a machine than can run Just Cause 2 and it's ilk on max settings without any performance hit.
Also, you may just not find the game itself to be that fun in single-player. The entire thing was developed and balanced around the multiplayer (which was completely broken until recently), so a great many of the more entertaining spellls and tactics are of limited use when everything's rushing you. You'll also find yourself being instantly killed many times in later levels because the game presumes the existence of other players with the resurrection spell, and checkpoints are pretty unforgiving.
Not disputing the presentation or the effort they're putting into their marketing, just that you may give up n frustration before seeing much of it.
And even there, I'd say Braid is about as much a platformer as Minecraft is an FPS :mrgreen:
Edit: To clarify: buy Braid, everybody
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I didn't care for Braid either. The character designs were pretty unappealing, and it just seemed a bit pretentious. It felt like a class in mongoloid dwarf art appreciation 101. I can totally see how a lot of people dig it though. It just wasn't for me.
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That trailer just made me buy Magicka. Cant wait to play it and the Vietnam expansion
I have played the demo, several times.
No stuttering that I noticed, though my rig is fairly beefy.
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I didn't like it either. It just didn't work for me with the fake Monet impressionism and I didn't like how heavy handed it was with the I'm a really deep game approach.
I just liked it for the puzzles. I ignored most of the heavy-handed, self important story BS.
I did quite like the art style though, the painterly look needs to be in more games.
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THIS.
The puzzles are fantastic, the art looks great but the story stuff is a lot of BS, which can be totally ignored if you feel so, and probably will in the later half of the game.
Well worth 3 bucks.
You are very wrong.
Braid is, outside of perhaps the first 1-2 levels, a puzzle game where you need to figure out the "gimmick" of each level in order to progress. It looks like a 2D platformer, but as someone who loves 2D platformers and dislikes "have fun being frustrated until you figure out the only solution" puzzle games, I feel compelled to prevent anyone else from buying Braid thinking it'll be like Prince Of Persia.
Oh, and thank you, Steam thread, for making me feel like I'm not the only person alive who disliked Braid.
I don't like it either so no worries
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Yeah its nothing special tbh.
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Yeah, Braid is all puzzle, very little platforming. Platforming is just the language the game uses to present those puzzles.
To each his own, but at $3, it's hard not to recommend it to anyone who has even a passing interest in it.
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Yes, I say this with a completely straight face.