Topic: Brutal Legend (Read 60484 times)

Boro_Bandito · « **Reply #50 on:** 21 Jul 2009, 08:36 »

Cmon, you know Ozzy only sounds fucked up as he does on TV because its a public image. In reality the guy has got a lot of problems caused by burning out on so many drugs over the years, but its not as bad as they make it seem. Its commercially viable for him to sound like he's speaking complete jibberish (i.e. those texting commercials) so he does.

ackblom12 · « **Reply #51 on:** 21 Jul 2009, 10:27 »

This game cannot possibly be as good as it looks. It would defy everything we know as gamers. Ohgoditlookssogood.

Melodic · « **Reply #52 on:** 21 Jul 2009, 13:51 »

Despite hating metal, thinking Psychonauts was pretty average (sorry guys), and feeling that the combat looks boring as hell, this game looks like so much win that I will feel forced to pick it up.

Storm Rider · « **Reply #53 on:** 21 Jul 2009, 16:18 »

Get the fuck out, Fraser. I do not want to see your goddamn face anymore.

Johnny C · « **Reply #54 on:** 21 Jul 2009, 16:48 »

i'm not going to watch this video i'm putting myself on MEDIA LOCKDOWN and then when the game comes out my jaw will drop every 1-5 minutes

KvP · « **Reply #55 on:** 21 Jul 2009, 17:38 »

Yeah I wasn't a big Psychonauts fan as far as the actual gameplay or humor was concerned, but it had spirit, I guess you could say. Brutal Legend looks like a definite improvement in my eyes. I lol'd.

Boro_Bandito · « **Reply #56 on:** 21 Jul 2009, 18:49 »

I'm with the developers actually, I didn't know Ozzy could act that well.

Also I didn't know this game would be so quirky. Like, maybe I'm just an idiot but the headbangers are just an idea I would have never come up with. I can't wait to see more characters like that.

Ozymandias · « **Reply #57 on:** 23 Jul 2009, 10:05 »

So, Activision is suing Double Fine to stop the release of the game claiming EA stole it from them or something.

Double Fine filed a countersuit claiming Activision is just trying to remove competition from Guitar Hero. As evidence that their game is competition the countersuit mentioned something hilariously terrible:

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Double Fine's suit claims Activision never showed interest in the game and canceled it in 2008 after it acquired Vivendi Universal Games. That was after an effort to convert the game into a "Guitar Hero" sequel failed.

I'm having such trouble remembering a time when EA was the bad guy because Activision has taken that mantle so thoroughly.

Jace · « **Reply #58 on:** 23 Jul 2009, 10:20 »

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We doubt that Activision would try to sue. That would be like a husband abandoning his family and then suing after his wife meets a better looking guy.

imapiratearg · « **Reply #59 on:** 23 Jul 2009, 10:22 »

Oh man, I have to pick this up strictly based on how much I enjoyed Psychonauts.

Storm Rider · « **Reply #60 on:** 23 Jul 2009, 18:40 »

I'm sure EA wouldn't have picked up the game if they thought the legal threat was at all significant, as we can see from the quote Jace posted. I'm sure it's just Activision trying to throw as much of a monkey wrench in EA's financial schedule as they can out of spite because they underestimated the game's potential success.

Dimmukane · « **Reply #61 on:** 23 Jul 2009, 19:14 »

Seriously, I think Bobby Kotick is just butthurt about how much hype this is getting.

Felrender · « **Reply #62 on:** 24 Jul 2009, 11:19 »

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Double Fine's suit claims Activision never showed interest in the game and canceled it in 2008 after it acquired Vivendi Universal Games. That was after an effort to convert the game into a "Guitar Hero" sequel failed.

Wait, Activision dropped Ghostbusters too.

.....Oh man.

Ikrik · « **Reply #63 on:** 24 Jul 2009, 22:02 »

Activision dropped a number of games when it merged:

Brutal Legend
Ghostbusters
Wet
Chronicles of Riddick
Fiffy Cent: Blood on the Sand

All of those games seem really good. I've been excited for Wet since I first saw a teaser for it almost a year go, when it got dropped I was so worried that it was going to get cancelled but then it was picked up by Bethesda. Ghostbusters did really well, I wasn't interested but then again I only really like the first Ghostbusters. Chronicles and Fiffy seemed pretty cool.

Activision have proven themselves to be nothing but complete and utter jerks for the past while. From threatening to stop supporting Sony to all of their games having expensive peripherals. Tony Hawk: Skate? 90 bucks. DJ Hero 90 bucks. And now there's some new shenanigans for making Modern Warfare 2 10 dollars more expensive as a "one time experiment" or some such deal. As well as all the stuff about Double Fine. All their actions have pretty much convinced me to never buy from them again unless they come out with something absolutely and incredibly amazing (which they won't)

David_Dovey · « **Reply #64 on:** 25 Jul 2009, 00:40 »

Oh me oh my you can buy Brütal Legend Zippo Lighters on the Double Fine website!

Spluff · « **Reply #65 on:** 25 Jul 2009, 01:55 »

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Fitty Cent: Blood on the Sand

I can forgive activision for dropping those other games when they kept this monstrosity from being unleashed upon the world.

Nodaisho · « **Reply #66 on:** 25 Jul 2009, 01:59 »

Except it came out anyway. And it was better than the predecessor (not that that takes much doing), apparently.

Felrender · « **Reply #67 on:** 25 Jul 2009, 09:01 »

"Shitty cash-in" aside, Blood on the Sand was a surprisingly competent shooter.

Ikrik · « **Reply #68 on:** 25 Jul 2009, 13:40 »

Quote from: Felrender on 25 Jul 2009, 09:01

"Shitty cash-in" aside, Blood on the Sand was a surprisingly competent shooter.

What was more suprising for me was all the interviews and docs I saw showing how ridiculously involved 50 was with this entire production. Usually when actors say they play lots of videogames it's a bunch of bull (Megan Fox for Transformers). But 50 would be talking about how much action he wanted and how he wanted the gamer to a have a really fun time. Watch him talk about the first game, the guy hated the living guts out of it. I'd pick it up but I've heard it's only like...6 hours of gameplay.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #69 on:** 07 Aug 2009, 10:12 »

In the end

maxusy3k · « **Reply #70 on:** 07 Aug 2009, 11:30 »

As soon as I read they'd moved to settle I had a feeling it would be something like this. Activision got pulled for not having a leg to stand on and the last thing anybody wants at the moment is an expensive, protracted legal battle, particularly when what I imagine the real objective - delaying the game's release - was probably not even going to land.

Storm Rider · « **Reply #71 on:** 08 Aug 2009, 15:46 »

This is unconfirmed, but supposedly EA's Danish branch has accidentally leaked Brutal Legend's entire licensed soundtrack. I'm not familiar with all of it, and some of it's not good (Static-X? Marilyn Manson?), but there's some pretty inspired choices on that list. Carcass, Candlemass, Overkill, Running Wild, and Slough Feg are all bands that I'm pretty surprised got in. There is a very conspicuous lack of Maiden, as the article points out, but maybe EA couldn't work out those rights since I know that process has been difficult for the rhythm game makers.

By the way, this game is still going to kick tremendous ass, in case you had forgotten.

MadassAlex · « **Reply #72 on:** 09 Aug 2009, 23:43 »

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Black Sabbath - Children of the Grave
Black Sabbath - Symptom of the Universe
Candlemass - Witches
Diamond Head - Am I Evil?
Iced Earth - When the Night Falls
Iced Earth - Pure Evil
Judas Priest - Battle Hymn
Judas Priest - The Hellion/Electric Eye
Judas Priest - Leather Rebel
Judas Priest - One Shot At Glory
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Manowar - Die For Metal
Manowar - The Dawn Of Battle
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Mastodon - Oblivion Instrumental
Megadeath - High Speed Dirt
Megadeath - Tornado of Souls
Metal Church - Metal Church
Motorhead - Back at the Funny Farm
Motorhead - In the Black
Motorhead - Marching Off to War
Motorhead - We Are the Road Crew
Ozzy Osbourne - Mr. Crowley
Racer X - Technical Difficulties
Racer X - Y.R.O.
Tenacious D - Master Exploder
Tenacious D - The Metal
Testament - For The Glory Of
Testament - More Than Meets The Eye

AW HELL YEAH

snalin · « **Reply #73 on:** 10 Aug 2009, 06:45 »

The surprising bit is that there's only two Tenacious D tracks. This would be a perfect opportunity to push their music, right?

David_Dovey · « **Reply #74 on:** 11 Aug 2009, 05:28 »

He's got enough sway to get Kyle Gass a cameo (again)

Spluff · « **Reply #75 on:** 11 Aug 2009, 23:07 »

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Budgie - Breadfan

aw hell yeah

loco_banana · « **Reply #76 on:** 12 Aug 2009, 06:47 »

\m/ -_- \m/

Rocktoberrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Damned expensive month, haha.

ackblom12 · « **Reply #77 on:** 16 Sep 2009, 11:05 »

Demo available Sept 17, aka tomorrow.

http://kotaku.com/5360804/brutal-legend-introducing-kabbage-boy

Felrender · « **Reply #78 on:** 16 Sep 2009, 17:20 »

Hahah, the pop-ups.
I'm torn between bleeps and no bleeps.

Nodaisho · « **Reply #79 on:** 16 Sep 2009, 19:20 »

Man, out of all of the overkill songs there are (62 if you stop at I hear Black, the few albums after that tend to be as polarizing as the black album, same with their newest stuff), they had to pick Word of Hurt? It isn't a bad track, but there are so many better ones.

Other than that, this looks like it is going to be completely awesome.

ackblom12 · « **Reply #80 on:** 17 Sep 2009, 11:13 »

I'm sure most folks have figured this out already, but the demo the video mentioned is coming out today is only for certain stores pre-order customers.

Does this seem rather pointless and stupid to anyone else?

Reed · « **Reply #81 on:** 17 Sep 2009, 11:43 »

Yes, Yes it does.

It also fills me with untold amounts of rage (this may or may not be hyperbole).

Do people who have already decided to buy the game really need to try it out to see if they like it?

Storm Rider · « **Reply #82 on:** 17 Sep 2009, 15:06 »

Y'all are just jealous that I'm gonna be playing the game in an hour while the rest of you suckers have to wait a week.

Dimmukane · « **Reply #83 on:** 17 Sep 2009, 21:43 »

My EB doesn't have the pre-order codes yet, I'm kinda pissed.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #84 on:** 19 Sep 2009, 22:39 »

Quote from: ackblom12 on 17 Sep 2009, 11:13

I'm sure most folks have figured this out already, but the demo the video mentioned is coming out today is only for certain stores pre-order customers.

Does this seem rather pointless and stupid to anyone else?

Motherfuckers

I spent about an hour scouring the PS3 store looking for the demo on Friday night. I thought maybe I was just dumb and couldn't find it. I'm not too experienced with that stuff.

Storm Rider · « **Reply #85 on:** 22 Sep 2009, 14:57 »

Here's your weekly reminder that Brutal Legend is going to be the best fucking game ever.

Marauder_Pilot · « **Reply #86 on:** 22 Sep 2009, 17:06 »

Quote from: Dimmukane on 17 Sep 2009, 21:43

My EB doesn't have the pre-order codes yet, I'm kinda pissed.

Lame, we've had ours kicking around for weeks now.

The fact that there's no demo for PS3 makes me sad. Every day, I go into work, see a whole stack of 360 demo codes that I CAN'T FUCKING USE TO GET THE SWEET BRUTAL LEGEND AWESOMESAUCE makes me cry a little.

Storm Rider · « **Reply #87 on:** 22 Sep 2009, 17:30 »

Uh, what? There is a demo for PS3. I've seen websites giving out codes for it.

Marauder_Pilot · « **Reply #88 on:** 22 Sep 2009, 17:36 »

WAT.

Well, that sucks. Where the hell are the PS3 demo codes?!

Dimmukane · « **Reply #89 on:** 22 Sep 2009, 19:01 »

Oh, they got in a couple days later, I was just a little miffed because I really wanted my best friend to check it out before he had to go back to Arizona. Which he was able to, and he went from highly skeptical to totally hooked, so it was worth the guilt from badgering the guys at Gamestop for the codes.

Felrender · « **Reply #90 on:** 22 Sep 2009, 23:02 »

Managed to grab a copy. A bit short, but really great.

Marauder_Pilot · « **Reply #91 on:** 23 Sep 2009, 09:01 »

Did you do any of the RTS-ish battles? A lot of the previews I read said that they were kinda chaotic and uncontrollable, have they gotten any better?

Felrender · « **Reply #92 on:** 23 Sep 2009, 11:17 »

There wasn't any of that in the demo, sadly.

Storm Rider · « **Reply #93 on:** 23 Sep 2009, 16:18 »

Yeah, the demo ends right after you beat the worm boss, which is pretty early on if you've seen the developer videos. Apparently that's where the open world becomes available, so it makes sense that they cut it off there. Still, the demo is all of 20 minutes, tops.

maxusy3k · « **Reply #94 on:** 02 Oct 2009, 00:07 »

Man I am so pissed I don't have the money to buy this on release. Played the demo just now, was giggling from the title screen to the end.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #95 on:** 04 Oct 2009, 12:29 »

Holy Christ guys I played the demo last night Holy fucking Christ

The first battle is set to Children of the Grave

Holy shitfucking Jesus crank-turning Christ

Dimmukane · « **Reply #96 on:** 04 Oct 2009, 12:42 »

Yeah, that about sums up my feelings on it.

Storm Rider · « **Reply #97 on:** 04 Oct 2009, 14:11 »

Quote from: David_Dovey on 04 Oct 2009, 12:29

Holy Christ guys I played the demo last night Holy fucking Christ

The first battle is set to Children of the Grave

Holy shitfucking Jesus crank-turning Christ

And the best part is that the guitar doesn't actually kick in until you pick up the axe! Before that you just get the bassline so you can listen to the jokes and still have the song sync up for the badass part. So good.

Boro_Bandito · « **Reply #98 on:** 04 Oct 2009, 17:07 »

Man I am so glad I have enough money to buy this on release day.

Nodaisho · « **Reply #99 on:** 04 Oct 2009, 20:55 »

Quote from: David_Dovey on 04 Oct 2009, 12:29

Holy Christ guys I played the demo last night Holy fucking Christ

The first battle is set to Children of the Grave

Holy shitfucking Jesus crank-turning Christ

I know. I watched a commentary by Tim Schaefer (did I misspell that?) over someone playing the demo, that moment sold it to me. As soon as I have the money and it is on a system I own (come on, port it to PC, you know you want to), I am getting this.

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