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Braid was that way for a reason by Tony 03/14/2013, 2:32pm PDT
Maybe the reason wasn't good enough, but I don't believe it was entirely gratuitous. Braid's a puzzle game. It's also a game about puzzles. It's actually about more than one thing, but if you wanted to reduce the meaning of its stories to a simple message, one of them could be "The kind of person who treats the world as a puzzle to be solved can do a great deal of harm - to the world, to himself, to his relationships." And in light of that, I think the story of Braid is itself meant to be a puzzle. You need to work to piece together its meaning. It's disjointed, postmodern and weird in the name of ludonarrative harmony.

I liked Braid. =)
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Have you guys had an Anna Anthtopy thread yet? by matt mysterio 03/14/2013, 7:43am PDT NEW
    I thought Mass Effect's story of killing/fucking aliens was a woman's fantasy? NT by Mischief Maker 03/14/2013, 7:52am PDT NEW
        In ST, Shatner fucking green alien women was by men. The creepy fanfiction of NT by him fucking Spock was by women. 03/14/2013, 4:20pm PDT NEW
            Did Kirk ever actually fuck a green woman? by Mischief Maker 03/14/2013, 10:30pm PDT NEW
                Not in the original series by Siskel and Ebert 03/14/2013, 10:55pm PDT NEW
    I guess the indie scene will be a better when all it's old white men in dresses. NT by Worm 03/14/2013, 8:48am PDT NEW
    Re: Have you guys had an Anna Anthtopy thread yet? by Mysterio 03/14/2013, 11:15am PDT NEW
        Re: Have you guys had an Anna Anthtopy thread yet? by matt mysterio 03/14/2013, 1:05pm PDT NEW
        Braid was that way for a reason by Tony 03/14/2013, 2:32pm PDT NEW
            You're on the wrong forum, buddy. NT by Mysterio 03/14/2013, 4:11pm PDT NEW
                Tony, welcome back. I missed you. NT by Shredder 03/14/2013, 4:39pm PDT NEW
            He's on the right forum. NT by It's now full of the wrong people. 03/15/2013, 10:13pm PDT NEW
    I thought dys4ia was good as a piece of interactive typography or whatever. by Gutsby 03/14/2013, 1:43pm PDT NEW
    her book was ok by jeep 03/14/2013, 3:03pm PDT NEW
        Re: her book was ok by Wayne Gretzky Hockey III 03/14/2013, 3:30pm PDT NEW
            Ten sentences by jeep 03/14/2013, 5:13pm PDT NEW
    video by Vested Id 03/14/2013, 3:15pm PDT NEW
        This is a fucking nightmare. NT by Gutsby 03/14/2013, 3:30pm PDT NEW
        Get that dude a wheelchair, a video camera and a frying pan! NT by thank you two cups of milk 03/14/2013, 4:14pm PDT NEW
        It's Tina from Bob's Burgers! NT by Rafiki 03/14/2013, 4:32pm PDT NEW
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                IT'S NOT EVEN JUST THE PHOTOGRAPH. It's the *everything* by Rafiki 03/14/2013, 7:36pm PDT NEW
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        have there been any good games made in Twine by yes 03/18/2013, 12:29pm PDT NEW
            Snake dongs. NT by skip 03/31/2013, 11:50am PDT NEW
    I'd like to hear more about how Object Oriented Code is an illuminati plot. by Worm 03/16/2013, 9:50am PDT NEW
        It's made for managing code in big organizations, SO YEAH BASICALLY NT by Gutsby 03/18/2013, 12:36pm PDT NEW
            Like hell it is NT by Entropy Stew 03/18/2013, 2:37pm PDT NEW
 
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