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Except Braid was groundbreaking. Just not in the way people think. Braid not only showed tons of people that the "Indie" scene actually exists, but that it is a viable alternative to the AAA game design model.

I have no trouble with the gameplay in Braid except maybe for the hoops one is made to jump through to get the "true" ending (stand there for 40 minutes while this platform creeps across the entire level?).

And I've seen games with worse endings than Braid. Arx Fatalis: "You've stopped the Big BadbutnowyougottagoBYE!" Eye of the Beholder: "Here's a block of exposition text followed by the DOS prompt!" That doesn't mean that Braid's ending isn't shit, because it really is.

 

Heh. My friend bought the game through some humble bundle and we installed all the bundle games on his steam account. Tried Fez, crash on startup. OK new try, now it works. Jumped around for 5 minutes, new crash on zone transition. Quit trying after that. When I look at my friends steam account, he still hasn't played Fez after that.

 

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Still better than the hordes of mobile-to-PC ports that are invading Steam lately.

 

Yeah, I like puzzle games. I don't remember Braid's being especially thoughtful, and I remember many levels where your reflexes were more important than thinking the puzzle over (the usual one being "REVERSE TIME TO OPEN A DOOR THEN RUN AT SONIC THE HEDGEHOG SPEEDS TO GET THROUGH BEFORE IT CLOSES!!!").

 

LIMBO had some interesting ideas, I was playing a game called The Swapper recently that has some nice puzzles, most parts of the Oddworld games and of course there's about 900 billion flash puzzle-platformers on the internet that are worth playing. FEZ is good too, Phil Fish aside.

Aside from puzzle-platformers, MYST, Portal, Lemmings, World Of Goo are all good, and depending on how far you stretch the definition of "puzzle", throw L.A Noire in there.

 

I remember a few doors that close after a certain amount of time, forcing you to do a Half-Life-esque "run through the door before it closes" thing, and every other level had those cannons that shoot flaming turds or whatever at you, although admittedly they were used in puzzles a few times so at least they were occasionally more than just a platforming obstacle.

You can reverse time to retry the obstacle, but the "puzzle" in those cases is still a platforming reflex test and not the ultra-advanced godlike puzzles that critics praised Braid as having.

It's been ages since I played LIMBO but I remember the mine tunnels and industrial rooftops of the second half being some of the best parts of the game, even if most of the puzzles were recycled edits of puzzles from the first half.

 

I liked Braid, but I had problems with it starting about halfway through. The puzzles required immense precision, and imho the controls weren't very supportive of that. I remember one point where I just got so fucking angry at it that I started slamming my fists into my desk because I had to restart all the time because I was getting off a ladder just slightly the wrong way, or something.

To answer your post, though, Vessel is the king of puzzle platformers. The systems it uses are so unbelievably fun to explore, and the puzzles always introduce something new.

The Swapper is also quite nice, though it sort of quits while it's ahead. What it has is great, but it's about half the length of Braid or a third of Vessel. There were a lot of opportunities for it to try more and more new things.

 

Lol, I'm all for Free Software and I religiously fap to Stallman's toe jam but that guy is quite an asshole.

 

How did the Germans that fancy technology in the new Wolfenstein game?

They stole it from God's Chosen People of course, silly goyim.

 

Zionmax indeed.

 

Assassin's Creed is probably one of the easiest game ever, in the combat system department. I remember playing the sequel for the first time and no matter how many enemies I had to defeat, I've always had an upper hand. The best thing about it was great views and historical buildings which we see during the auto parkour.

 

I remember playing Assassin's Creed 2 and marvelling at the fairly diverse range of knives that you'd never use, swords that you'd never use, and a whole plethora of gadgets that you'd never use because the dual hidden blades were a guaranteed one-hit kill once you landed an extremely easy to master counter attack.

Made me wonder why they even bothered.

 

Only because KF 2 was announced recently:

 

The only challenge in the series is the "stealth" following missions, which not coincidentally are the ones most reviewers bitch about being annoying.

 

That's because they are annoying as fuck and are completely overdone.

 

They are kind of annoying, but they're also the only real video game part of any of the games. Which I guess says a lot about the team making them? I don't know.

 

IGN Top 100 Games of a Generation

http://www.ign.com/top/games-of-a-generation


#40->Oblivion

 

I was going to quote individual parts of IGN's soliloquy on Oblivion and rip it apart piece by piece, but just look at it, it speaks for itself.