"The problem I have with Braid is actually almost entirely Microsoft's fault, so I apologize, Mr. Jonathan Blow, but I will likely never finish your game and fully experience your masterpiece."
Braid? If you want to experience the content, there's a simple solution depending on how old school you are: just play through the whole game in one sitting. It's not even as long as the first Super Mario Bros. on Nintendo and you get infinite tries. I would call this "easy mode" back then.
Even so, we still deserve a solution at some point since not all XBLA games can be completed in such a short time.
Yeah, that is pretty interesting because Microsoft has said before that they can't affect people's accounts and alter achievements or anything like that. I actually think they can, but I'm sure they won't ever admit it because how do you prove that you actually earned an achievement that ends up disappearing?
I know that kind of a different subject, but you know what I'm saying.
Way to go off on a tangent there but I know what you mean. Microsoft can mess with accounts though because they've taken peoples points away and labeled them cheaters. If they can do that, I'm sure they can do a lot of other things.
Cookigaki does not understand. Cookigaki does not own Braid at all and has no real interest in game after playing at a friend's house. Too expensive for such a short game too.
I think most people should have waited for the PC version, but then how many people would be aware of it now if nobody bought it and talked about how great it was?
This isn't a goddamned epidemic, it's one person's sob story over a crappy situation. Everyone I know has never had a problem with disappearing save files or memory.
Could you imagine how much crying and ranting there would have been if blogs were around when the original Nintendo was released?
"Robbie: is it worth it?" "Oh noz, I had to blow in my disk again!" "Blogdouche.com: Zelda 2 save file lost, will never buy Nintendo again"
why are they a fool? hes just trying to beat a game that he couldn't beat yet after his 360 was out getting refurbed or whatever and we he got it back and tryed to play braid he was stuck on world 2. so what makes u think he needs a life
You're right. Complaining about what's wrong in the gaming world is certainly something a gaming journalist should never do. I'd hate if attention was brought to the subject and things actually got fixed.
I just don't think fat jokes require any sort of thought process...haha. I never let people tell them in real live. I tell them how untactful they are.
This seems more like a persuasive argument from a PS3guy. First he talks about how this all happened because of the RRoD. And then he starts listing off the DRM issue and how it can only be done once a year, a clever jab at an MS feature. I just don't know if this is true, but considering that the purpose of the article is mostly to persuade other gamers once again that MS is the nazi zombie devil machine, I'm not going to buy into it.
But 10-15 for a downloadable game. The game isn't very interesting to me. Can be beaten very quickly. This seems like an article just to get hits. If that game were that important to him he would want to beat it no matter what.
Edit: not saying that we should go out and buy a game twice. No. But if that game is that important to him that he made an article about it, then he should think about that. And it does suck about his 360
Then why doesn't Microsoft just buy him the game again? Heck, why charge at all? Microsoft should just give ten bucks to everyone who downloads the game for free.
The problem is that things like this DO add up, especially since no one works at a profit: you work for your value, and mostly that is even less when one considers that a business owner makes money off of the person working for them... whereas everything, including games, are sold at a profit.
So who wants to throw away their hard-earned money away for that scenario to possibly occur again?
I told myself if my 360 breaks and needs repair that I can't do myself, I will dump it that day, and never look back or buy another one until maybe the next gen.
I beat Resident Evil 5 in 2 hours 49 minutes, so that can easily be beat in a single sitting. I would still understand someone's frustration if they lost their saved game though.
Losing save files has always been a major problem in gaming, and it is clearly going to rear it's ugly head from time to time.
But for god's sake, the improvements that have been made in storage and the fidelity of the security, is it necessary to moan over one error? I remember losing several files on my PS2 memory cards, corrupted game saves on computer games, dissapeared files on Nintendo games, pretty much every system I've ever got my hands on. Life sucks, quit your crying and get on with it.
This guy is an idiot, theres a way to transfer the license on microsofts site. 1 min. on google should've had him figuring this one out but no he would rather spend 5-10 min. writing this.
Someone needs to give this guy a clue and a tissue. People wanna complain about DRM when piracy is almost single handedly killing PC gaming? This problem isnt Microsoft's fault, its a problem of this crappy generation of gamers that dont want to earn anything for themselves.
I hate microsoft's DRM bs. not only do ALL arcade titles require you to be fully connected to XBL but also ANYTHING you've downloaded including tv shows, movies, DLC...
doesn't PS3 somehow have no piracy issues even without nasty DRM?
EDIT: ok not all arcade titles there is the 1 that comes free with the hard-drive-equipped consoles, "Hexic HD". that 1 doesn't require you to be online. and that's it.
Am I the only person to have cared enough to find out why a game I bought doesn't work the way it should? Yes Microsoft hasn't stepped up, but this is what you have to do: Load Braid, press the guide button and sign out, then sign in.
Yeah I know you shouldn't have to do this, but you can be like this guy and act like a wet cat in a corner or you can be like me and others and enjoy this amazing game.
I wonder how many people are going to suggest just buying the PC version...
That's pretty interesting because it's not like Microsoft can just give him another copy. I wonder how they would even go about fixing it?
It appears Cookigaki you should have waited for the PC version.
Whoever wrote this article is a fool. Seriously. He/She needs to get a life.
anyway, he should hide instead of shocking people with his looks. and he shouldn't eat a whale for breakfast every morning.