Brutal Legend Coming to PC

Milanezi

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Alfador_VII said:
Please don't buy this if you've only seem the first hour or so, or even played the demo.

It turns from what looks like a cool open-world driving and hack and slash game, into a poor quality RTS-lite.

Biggest bait and switch I've seen on the PS3, and it suckered me into buying the damn thing.
100% what you said.
 
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Isn't this ancient? WhyTF would a PC gamer want an ancient game (from what I understand not a particularly great one) made for consoles? It's like offering me an out of date fish that's been in the Sun for a week when I'm not hungry and when I already have a fridge full of fresh food. Not even fish because I like fish, but more like dog food.

Double fine are giving me out of date dog food. I'm not hungry Double Fine! I have fresh food in my fridge, stop giving me dog food.
 

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Your Gaffer said:
And no one will care. Too little too late.
I care. Your statement is therefore inaccurate.
KingsGambit said:
Isn't this ancient? WhyTF would a PC gamer want an ancient game (from what I understand not a particularly great one) made for consoles? It's like offering me an out of date fish that's been in the Sun for a week when I'm not hungry and when I already have a fridge full of fresh food. Not even fish because I like fish, but more like dog food.

Double fine are giving me out of date dog food. I'm not hungry Double Fine! I have fresh food in my fridge, stop giving me dog food.
Are you saying PC gamers don't play old games?
Because I still play games from the 90s.
 

ascorbius

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Saw Tim's tweet about this, Immediately continued my 360 saved game (I was stuck on the RTS battle at Lionwhite's place) So I rallied and beat it... in the meantime, my Dog was eating the manual which I'd taken out of the box to remind myself of the controls. (Perhaps he wanted me to get the PC version)


I will add to what others have been saying in that I personally don't care too much for the RTS elements of the game... but BY GOD does it Rock! Driving around in the Druid Plough blasting Ozzy and running over stuff through album cover art is just pure unadulterated joy.

So now it's on Steam... and for £15 I can have the OST and the game? Count me in!

and if this goes towards making Brutal Legend II, I'm really in. ...but no RTS OK?
 

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KingsGambit said:
WhyTF would a PC gamer want an ancient game
Don't let the Counter Strike 1.6 players here you say that...it would not turn out too well.

OT: Bought this back when it came out on the 360 when I was a console gamer. I enjoyed it. Loved the aesthetics and the Album cover landscapes, music, and the VA's. I even kinda didn't mind the RTS elements too much since it was something that was not done very much on consoles, usually for a reason, but I digress. Watching the reviews before it arrived let me know those sections were coming, so I got my reaction out of the way before I actually played the game and enjoyed it. I loved how much love for the genre was put into the game, warranting a second buy from me, Mister Schafer. Not to mention that delicious, delicious OST included in the $18.74.

Not to mention that even though nearly everyone has their own opinion on Jack Black, but to me he always seems to be really enthusiastic and care about music no matter what others think of him, and doesn't actually take himself too seriously. I know some people are less than enthusiastic about him though.
 

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Really liked the game on 360. Will likely buy it again if the port turns out to be quality, because I never play my 360 anymore. I liked it for what it was, even though EA made sure the marketing made people think it was a God of War rip off rather than streamlined RTS played from a third person perspective.
 

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Denamic said:
Your Gaffer said:
And no one will care. Too little too late.
I care. Your statement is therefore inaccurate.
Oh snap son, I done got told!

/of course I could just have been using hyperbole to make a point but naw, you told me dawg
 

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Denamic said:
Your Gaffer said:
And no one will care. Too little too late.
I care. Your statement is therefore inaccurate.
KingsGambit said:
Isn't this ancient? WhyTF would a PC gamer want an ancient game (from what I understand not a particularly great one) made for consoles? It's like offering me an out of date fish that's been in the Sun for a week when I'm not hungry and when I already have a fridge full of fresh food. Not even fish because I like fish, but more like dog food.

Double fine are giving me out of date dog food. I'm not hungry Double Fine! I have fresh food in my fridge, stop giving me dog food.
Are you saying PC gamers don't play old games?
Because I still play games from the 90s.
I've been enjoying Master of Orion II again, just started playing Dead Space I for the first time and have grabbed Baldur's Gate Enhanced Ediotion.

PC gamers LOVE to replay old games, especially if they're recently upgraded their rigs. Playing a game you loved that never, but now does, supported 1940x1280 on a 25" screen can be a wonderous thing. Brutal Legend is disliked for having real time strategy components, and that is understandable considering how it's on a console and consoles are known for handling real time strategy like arse. PCs, however, are perfect at handling real time strategy (mostly due to the Glorious Masters being the ones who use PCs) so I can see it being well received.
 

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Your Gaffer said:
Denamic said:
Your Gaffer said:
And no one will care. Too little too late.
I care. Your statement is therefore inaccurate.
Oh snap son, I done got told!

/of course I could just have been using hyperbole to make a point but naw, you told me dawg
Your 'point' was stupid and deserved a stupid response.
 

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Well, I've got it on the 360, and I loved it, indeed I recently just played through storymode again having not really done so since I got it.

However, it is a very niche game, which is a shame, because despite that it could have been so much more popular had it done the gameplay right - As I say, I loved it, but the criticisms about the gameplay are, in my opinion fair...

For example, the RTS elements - Tim Schafer can talk all he wants about how it's not supposed to be played like an RTS, but the fact remains that those battles were a massive ballache requiring me to recruit and order around units. They could have kept the stage battles but simply given you the solos, whilst getting two armies to fight each other - this would have been more epic (imagine, two hordes going at each other in the mists of the dry ice mines... You in amongst it using your guitar and axe to bring aid to besieged Headbangers, or dicing with their general in hand to hand combat in order to demoralise the enemy... It could have been amazing - instead I just pumped out as many units as I could and played intermittent facemelters to secure victory.), and gotten rid of the annoying having to recruit and try to control resources and such.

Further - The game was in dire need of a decent tutorial, or to be more specific: better and more obvious explanations of things, I'm pretty retarded, and as the lowest common denominator I found it irritating that I basically had to google how to free bound serpents, and legends.

So, I guess what I'm trying to say is... Whilst I loved the first one, what I think it needs more than a PC release, is a sequel (or re-make), which focuses more on the awesome - Hack and Slash, Guitar solos, Epic Metal world with Epic Metal storyline. Getting rid of the bad parts - RTS being the main one.
 

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Stu35 said:
imagine, two hordes going at each other in the mists of the dry ice mines... You in amongst it using your guitar and axe to bring aid to besieged Headbangers, or dicing with their general in hand to hand combat in order to demoralise the enemy
...That's exactly how it did play, though, when you knew how to play it. The problem, like you said, was with the lacking tutorials: specifically, a lack of any emphasis on the importance of using the flag. If you use it, your troops will get moving automatically when they spawn, and you're actually able to do your own thing, hopping around the battlefield, helping out where you see fit. If you don't use it, that's when you have to go fetch new units from the base every ten seconds.
 

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I never finished the 360 version, but if they've tightened up and balanced things over the years I can see myself getting this. I actually quit playing on 360 constantly thinking "man this whole setup is much more suited to KB&M". If this really is the ultimate metal fantasy strategy open-world headbanging ball buster I was expecting before, it's a sale.
 

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Provided the Steam version has the save purging glitch fixed, I might pick it up when it's on sale.
 

Stu35

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random_bars said:
Stu35 said:
imagine, two hordes going at each other in the mists of the dry ice mines... You in amongst it using your guitar and axe to bring aid to besieged Headbangers, or dicing with their general in hand to hand combat in order to demoralise the enemy
...That's exactly how it did play, though, when you knew how to play it. The problem, like you said, was with the lacking tutorials: specifically, a lack of any emphasis on the importance of using the flag. If you use it, your troops will get moving automatically when they spawn, and you're actually able to do your own thing, hopping around the battlefield, helping out where you see fit. If you don't use it, that's when you have to go fetch new units from the base every ten seconds.
I disagree, it did not play like that - because I kept having to bloody well recruit new troops, replant rally flags, keep playing the rally troops solo because I couldn't remember where I left said bloody flag.

It sounds a minor thing, but when I'm busy kicking emo gravediggers in the face I don't want to have to keep hitting 'rb' to check that I've got enough troops, or enough fans to recruit more troops, or that I've got my rally flag where I need it in order to make sure my new troops arrive where they're needed.

Once again, I want to reiterate that I loved the game, to an extent I even enjoyed the stage battles, however I found the RTS elements of recruitment and resource management(even if they were incredibly rudimentary and boiled down to "secure a fan geiser or three, then pump out units until you're at max capacity and ATTACK!") to be completely unnecessary.