alt Hacker News>It's old, I guess, which means either you've played it already or you haven't and never intend to.
Strange sentiment, which is well past the massification and gamesjournalismification of video games. By then, cover shooters were just a bad memory and most serious hobbyists had for a long time embraced both indies (Braid, in 2009) and older titles (Braid, in 2015, when the article was published).
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Right?
When people are arrogant enough to claim predictive trends in something as complex as human psychology, I get doubt.
I enjoy the technical insights tho.
> (Braid, in 2009)
Braid had already made a pretty big indie-game splash in 2008 on the Xbox 360 as part of Xbox Live Arcade though the PC release was in 2009.
I was lucky enough to have played it before the Xbox release back in June 2008 on PC as a beta tester (Jonathan Blow was on the quartertothree forums and recruited testers there in the run-up to the Xbox release, iirc).
Apparently I was using Windows Vista at the time because some of the bug reports I can see in old emails are about how Braid's DirectX fullscreen mode was broken in Vista.
I don't understand what you're trying to say?
"serious hobbyists" would've already heard about Braid and be in the "played it already" category
>It's old, I guess, which means either you've played it already or you haven't and never intend to.
It's in my Steam library. I'll get around to it eventually. Or perhaps my kids will do so before me.
I think it's worth giving the author some benefit of the doubt that he knows his audience and is not speaking to the entire world, including future generations, all at once.
It's also obvious given the context of the very next sentence that he doesn't mean this as literally as you've interpreted.