> Braid is not only widely considered one of the best games ever made[0]
The source here is a wikipedia article containing "A list of video games that multiple have considered to be among the best of all time"
I don't know anyone who is into gaming that takes the opinions of "video game journalists or magazines" seriously anymore. They are so obviously just a marketing extension of the videogame industry that you can't trust anything they say. Look at recent developments with Dragon Age Inquisition. Reviewers gave it great scores, but it flopped hard enough that Bioware had huge layoffs [0]
Braid is a game that people barely remember exists today, and in another 10 years it will be even more obscure. It is not remotely an all time great
> its success was also instrumental in the explosion of indie games in the late 00s/10s
Don't give Braid too much credit here, it caught the indie game wave at the start but the wave was coming either way. The explosion happened at the same time Braid came out, not years later inspired by its success.
> Look at recent developments with Dragon Age Inquisition. Reviewers gave it great scores, but it flopped hard enough that Bioware had huge layoffs [0]
First off, it's Dragon Age: Veilguard, not Dragon Age: Inquisition.
Second off, it's had a better release (in terms of sales X days from launch) than literally every other Dragon Age came to date.
While it's true that it underperformed expectations, that's more because the expectations were ludicrous to begin with, and the actual performance can hardly be called a flop.
The source here is a wikipedia article containing "A list of video games that multiple have considered to be among the best of all time"
I don't know anyone who is into gaming that takes the opinions of "video game journalists or magazines" seriously anymore. They are so obviously just a marketing extension of the videogame industry that you can't trust anything they say. Look at recent developments with Dragon Age Inquisition. Reviewers gave it great scores, but it flopped hard enough that Bioware had huge layoffs [0]
Braid is a game that people barely remember exists today, and in another 10 years it will be even more obscure. It is not remotely an all time great
> its success was also instrumental in the explosion of indie games in the late 00s/10s
Don't give Braid too much credit here, it caught the indie game wave at the start but the wave was coming either way. The explosion happened at the same time Braid came out, not years later inspired by its success.
[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2025/02/02/after-drag...