Braid - on XBLA - Plus Interview by me..

[Borman]

I had the chance to speak with Jonathan Blow, the creator of Braid, and get his opinion on a number of things..
One of the highlights:

Another user would like to hear your thoughts on the fact that many innovative titles (Such as Braid, or any number of the other breakout hits on the Digital Distribution networks) are being pushed into online distribution, rather then being put onto store shelves with many of the blockbusters. Do you see this as a good thing, or a bad thing, whether because of differences in revenue, media attention, or any number of factors.

I don't know. It's been hard to get a game onto retail shelves ever since I got started in games. But when I got started, Internet publishing was not even an option. But now it is -- so the situation looks, to me, much better than it was 10 years ago. Whether that will hold up, I don't know. XBLA already does not seem so great for indies any more.

Read the Entire Article @ SuperiorVersion.com

In addition, a video of the entire World 2 has been uploaded

[maxlords]

Going to the interview locks up the website...

[unwinddesign]

Wow. This game looks amazing. I had no interest in it before today, but...wow.

[Borman]

Going to the interview locks up the website...

Known problem on IE :\ I cant seem to shake the bug that causes it, as sometimes itll work flawlessly all day for me on IE, then others, not so much

[calthaer]

That game...it looks like it equals the awesomeness.

Alas, that I have no Xbox360. Were it on Steam, I would surely purchase it.

[heybtbm]

Looks pretty cool.

[Borman]

That game...it looks like it equals the awesomeness.

Alas, that I have no Xbox360. Were it on Steam, I would surely purchase it.

It is coming to PC sometime, he hasnt finished it though :P

[diskoboy]

Looks interesting. But I'm hoping it's not 1200 points, here, like it is in Japan.

[Borman]

Looks interesting. But I'm hoping it's not 1200 points, here, like it is in Japan.

I think someone confirmed it will be 800 points.

Ive added a video of the Jumpman Level, and also included an HD720P video of it! Same link (http://superiorversion.com/content/view/245/32/)

[carlcarlson]

Wow, whoever was playing World 2 in that video really sucks at puzzles. That is a good looking game but I'm not sure the gameplay excites me much. The rewind thing is a cool idea though.

[maxlords]

Wow...that looks SWEET (now that I got it to load in Firefox). Hope it comes out on the DS. That looks perfect for DS gameplay. I'll seriously consider getting it for the Xbox after seeing that. How long is the game? It doesn't look incredibly huge...

[Princess-Isabela]

braid looks like must have title, graphically it's very similar to many adventure/platform games released on Amiga in 90's, I cannot wait.
august is an awesome month for xbox live arcade, pretty much every week has a incredible/must have title to offer.
ps.what's with all those people who didn't get 360 yet?
it's affordable and it has killer array of titles available.

[Borman]

Wow, whoever was playing World 2 in that video really sucks at puzzles. That is a good looking game but I'm not sure the gameplay excites me much. The rewind thing is a cool idea though.

You try recording video and such in a smaller then 640x360 window (especially when its HD) :P

[heybtbm]

Anyone pick this up today? I'm seriously considering it...so much so that I plan on picking up a 4000 pt. card at lunch (for Bionic Commando next week as well). I rarely purchase full versions of the XBLA games, but this one has really got my attention.

1200 points is a little steep though.

[maxlords]

Yeah, I was mildly disappointed in the 1200 points instead of the 800 mentioned above...but I'm still seriously thinking about this one. DLed the trial first...but I'll probably get it.

[PapaStu]

I bought and played through Level 2. (There is no level one...) It went pretty quickly thanks to the above posted video. There are a few areas in Level 3 (i'm half way through the level) that make you really scratch your head and play with the rewind button to get through the areas. I've got a bad bad feeling of it being far too short, but it should be a fairly fast 200g and will have some great brain twisters in it.

[maxlords]

200g? That gamerscore points? People base their purchases on that?

[Sudo]

200g? That gamerscore points? People base their purchases on that?

All XBLA games have 200G, and all retail games have 1000.

[PapaStu]

200g? That gamerscore points? People base their purchases on that?

I know there are many that do (and I have as well at times) but I see that as a nice little perk since I do have achievement point whoring pop up every now and again in mah blood and I like having nice high completion percentage scores if I can.

This one is much nicer (achievement point wise) because they arn't tied to doing some random BS task in an online game (Mr. Driller) or something so hard that its impossible to do (Smash TV). If your talking about cost vs points, its too expensive for the 200g being the 1200 MS point cost, when there are plenty of obtainable points in the 400-800 MS Point category.

[heybtbm]

200g? That gamerscore points? People base their purchases on that?

I'm not basing my purchase on the achievement points...BUT...I probably wouldn't even have attempted a speed run through this game if it wasn't one of the achievements.