Brutal Legend: Buy it, it's awesome.

El Extremo

Antihippy wrote: »

YaYa wrote: »

Antihippy wrote: »

Cohsae wrote: »

Antihippy wrote: »

RCagent wrote: »

All we fucking need is Geddy Lee from Rush to be a fucking Metal Wizard or someshit.

Damnit. I would be so happy.

I do not want to hear Geddy lee's voice in a video game.

I do not want to hear Geddy lee ever.

What if he was an enemy and you got to kill him?

Does he speak?

If so no.

don't be mean to Geddy Lee guys

what you say about his company is what you say about society

Catch the mist, catch the myth.

Catch the mystery, catch the drift.

A-Puck

This game does indeed look Fuckin' Metal.

cloudeagle

Well, lookee what got featured at OXM magazine.



Anyone see this yet?

Mr. G

Antihippy wrote: »

RCagent wrote: »

All we fucking need is Geddy Lee from Rush to be a fucking Metal Wizard or someshit.

Damnit. I would be so happy.

I do not want to hear Geddy lee's voice in a video game.

I do not want to hear Geddy lee ever.

You do know Geddy Lee has a normal speaking voice, right

EskimoDave

I feel like one of those stereotypical schoolgirls from an amine. All giddy and shit.

earthwormadam

My want for this game just can't be diminished by anything.

UnbreakableVow

Mr. G: I had that avatar like a year ago man.

Also, that magazine did not have the exclusive review for Street Fighter IV! Liars!

Anyways, yeah, not much we can tell from the cover of that magazine other than Brutal Legend is indeed a video game that is on the Xbox 360.

cloudeagle

Right, I was just hoping someone had, y'know, read it, and could give us the highlights.

Mr Bubbles

Mr. G wrote: »

Antihippy wrote: »

RCagent wrote: »

All we fucking need is Geddy Lee from Rush to be a fucking Metal Wizard or someshit.

Damnit. I would be so happy.

I do not want to hear Geddy lee's voice in a video game.

I do not want to hear Geddy lee ever.

You do know Geddy Lee has a normal speaking voice, right

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwpGXfHmY-A

Lunker

cloudeagle wrote: »

Well, lookee what got featured at OXM magazine.



Anyone see this yet?

Apparently, Joystiq linked to the article, which just was published online yesterday. Full article here. I haven't read fully yet but it looks awesome.

Tim Schafer — the game designer known for funny cult hits like Psychonauts, Day of the Tentacle, and Full Throttle as much as his goatee and mischievous grin — is sitting in the San Francisco offices of Double Fine, paging through Heavy Metal Thunder, a paperback collection of rock-album artwork. He’s randomly discovered the cover image of Massive Killing Capacity, the third album by Swedish death-metallers Dismember. Backlit by an orange glow, a hulking armored mech suit with missiles for tusks and a chainsaw in each hand belches fire out of tubes on its back, lumbering forward on a battlefield littered with human remains. It’s as laughable as it is lethal.

“I mean, come on,” says Schafer enthusiastically. “How can you not make a videogame about that?”

EDIT:

fragglefart

That would be an amazing end-of-level boss.

earthwormadam

Fraggle farts must be stinky. Also Gogol Bordello kicks ass. They should totally tap some of that band for voice talent.

fragglefart

Voice talent and fire buckets.

Mr Bubbles

fragglefart wrote: »

Voice talent and fire buckets.

'Have you ever been to American Wedding?'

Lunker

Some more interesting clips from that OXM article:

Once slightly safe, Eddie realizes he’s atop a grisly temple made of skulls and corpses, and the landscape of this strange world is full of giant swords sticking out of the ground, towers of bone, pits of fire, wheels of pain, and other stuff you’d see, well, in the pages of Heavy Metal Thunder. “We tried to make every piece of concept art look like it could be a heavy metal album cover,” Schafer tells us. “That’s our decision-making process: ‘What do you think of this creature? Would you see it on an album cover?’ ‘Yes.’ Then it’s in.”

Before the Titans of this world ascended to become the Metal Gods, they left behind the plans and parts for cars, weapons, and all kinds of cool stuff, but nobody has had the mechanical know-how to figure them out…until Eddie comes along. “He’s a roadie, so he can build anything,” reasons Schafer. “He’s a very practical-minded guy.” It’s not long before he learns a few riffs on his guitar — by tapping button combos, Ocarina-style — to raise ancient relics. Eddie snaps together a hot-rod (“the Deuce”) and teams up with Ophelia, a comely member of the human resistance who becomes Eddie’s love interest. Ophelia battles alongside Lars and Lita Halford, who have good intentions and great charisma but lack the organizational skills to mount a proper revolution against the demonic Tainted Coil and their human turncoat leader, General Lionwhyte (voiced by Judas Priest vocalist Rob Halford). “General Lionwhyte kidnapped all the young men living in this town and took them to a mine,” explains Schafer, as the Deuce barrels toward our destination. “But he didn’t even give them any tools, so they’re forced to bash their skulls against the walls.”

Finding the thick-necked men aren’t chained up but simply demoralized into submission, Eddie liberates the slaves with — what else? — the inspirational power of heavy metal, and turns these literal headbangers into his own army. A simple D-pad tap tells your boys to follow you, stay put, or attack a target — which in this case are glamtastic leopard-print statues of Lionwhyte that shriek “Teamwoooork!” Don’t worry, it’s not a strategy game, nor does Schafer even cite the minion-powered Overlord as an influence; the simple interface gives us the impression that commanding troops won’t be a burden, or stop you from cleaving nonbelievers in twain with The Separator.

From here, you’re free to explore Brütal Legend’s open world, finding battles and joining them at will. The Deuce makes it easier to get around, but you’ll also use it in races and in combat, since the car can be outfitted with weapons. You’ll buy upgrades with lighters, the cash-like reward for successful missions, sweet Deuce jumps, and “anything that we deem to be extremely metal,” says Schafer. As you progress, you’ll amass a bigger army of Ironhead forces and find new weapons — hot-rods with ballistas mounted on top, guys that carry enormous stacks of amps (which can be used to generate foe-crushing feedback), runaway rocker chicks with crossbows who ride on your shoulders (like at a concert, get it?), and chopper-riding Fire Barons who pack Molotov cocktails, which you can pour out to “create a ring of fire to burn your enemies,” notes Schafer. “Or just write your name.”

I'm normally not a fan of open-world games, but if the writing is as Schafer as ever, then I'm going to love the game in spite of its gameplay.

cloudeagle

As Lunker quoted, Schafer said every piece of art has to look like it would belong on a heavy metal album cover.

And it looks like the game will take several elements of other games and combine them with awesome.

Before the Titans of this world ascended to become the Metal Gods, they left behind the plans and parts for cars, weapons, and all kinds of cool stuff, but nobody has had the mechanical know-how to figure them out…until Eddie comes along. “He’s a roadie, so he can build anything,” reasons Schafer. “He’s a very practical-minded guy.” It’s not long before he learns a few riffs on his guitar — by tapping button combos, Ocarina-style — to raise ancient relics. Eddie snaps together a hot-rod (“the Deuce”) and teams up with Ophelia, a comely member of the human resistance who becomes Eddie’s love interest. Ophelia battles alongside Lars and Lita Halford, who have good intentions and great charisma but lack the organizational skills to mount a proper revolution against the demonic Tainted Coil and their human turncoat leader, General Lionwhyte (voiced by Judas Priest vocalist Rob Halford). “General Lionwhyte kidnapped all the young men living in this town and took them to a mine,” explains Schafer, as the Deuce barrels toward our destination. “But he didn’t even give them any tools, so they’re forced to bash their skulls against the walls.”

Finding the thick-necked men aren’t chained up but simply demoralized into submission, Eddie liberates the slaves with — what else? — the inspirational power of heavy metal, and turns these literal headbangers into his own army. A simple D-pad tap tells your boys to follow you, stay put, or attack a target — which in this case are glamtastic leopard-print statues of Lionwhyte that shriek “Teamwoooork!” Don’t worry, it’s not a strategy game, nor does Schafer even cite the minion-powered Overlord as an influence; the simple interface gives us the impression that commanding troops won’t be a burden, or stop you from cleaving nonbelievers in twain with The Separator.

From here, you’re free to explore Brütal Legend’s open world, finding battles and joining them at will. The Deuce makes it easier to get around, but you’ll also use it in races and in combat, since the car can be outfitted with weapons. You’ll buy upgrades with lighters, the cash-like reward for successful missions, sweet Deuce jumps, and “anything that we deem to be extremely metal,” says Schafer. As you progress, you’ll amass a bigger army of Ironhead forces and find new weapons — hot-rods with ballistas mounted on top, guys that carry enormous stacks of amps (which can be used to generate foe-crushing feedback), runaway rocker chicks with crossbows who ride on your shoulders (like at a concert, get it?), and chopper-riding Fire Barons who pack Molotov cocktails, which you can pour out to “create a ring of fire to burn your enemies,” notes Schafer. “Or just write your name.”

And what was the motivation behind Jack Black's voice as Eddie?

“We said, ‘Let’s make Eddie half–Jack Black, half–Glenn Danzig,’” says Schafer. “Not like the Glenn Danzig/Jack Black lovechild, but like they had made out a little bit.”

I'm not necessarily a metal fan, but this is just so gloriously over the top I've got to try this.

Edit: LUUUUUUUUUUNNNKEEEEEERRRRR!!! *shakes fist*

Lunker

Another interesting tidbit from the writeup: Schafer originally wanted Jack Black but didn't think he'd be interested, but then someone told him that Black was a big fan of Psychonauts.

Ninja Snarl P

The metal levels of this game are approaching ludicrous proportions. Hell, the level of metal itself is practically so awesome it's metal. This game is so metal, it's metal.

The_Scarab

Ninja Snarl P wrote: »

The metal levels of this game are approaching ludicrous proportions. Hell, the level of metal itself is practically so awesome it's metal. This game is so metal, it's metal.

I don't know, it's not that metal.

Spoiler:

WRONG

Foefaller

http://www.gamespot.com/news/blogs/sidebar/909182374/26779993/report-activision-ea-feuding-over-brutal-legend.html

Looks like Activision figured out how much they screwed up not publishing Brutal Legend...

Also, if that is not irony, I don't know what the fuck is...

Ninja Snarl P

Foefaller wrote: »

http://www.gamespot.com/news/blogs/sidebar/909182374/26779993/report-activision-ea-feuding-over-brutal-legend.html

Looks like Activision figured out how much they screwed up not publishing Brutal Legend...

Also, if that is not irony, I don't know what the fuck is...

So the people at Activision have no plans to actually publish the game, yet they are claiming that they have the publishing rights? Even after signing away the rights to EA? Talk about moronic. First they ditch a slew of games because they don't think they'll be easy enough to make sequels of, then they fight to get back the rights to one of them so a competing publisher can't make any money off of it. I suppose what gamers want truly has nothing to do with the way Activision does business.

And thanks for bringing this thread back up so I can once again see Scarab's post showing me how this game is even more metal than I thought. It is a thing of beauty. On a side note, I just noticed The Rocking One's belt buckle matches what I assume to be his new throne room. And so the metal scale plinks up another notch.

Death of Rats

They can't be fucking serious.

Helloween

Holy fucking shit! How the hell did I miss this game?

I must now go and rock out.

Also...METAL:

ChewyWaffles

This game's premise sounds absolutely terrible. That and the sound of Jack Black's voice makes me want to stick a pencil in my ears.

Couscous

This game's premise sounds absolutely terrible.

How can you hate the premise of playing as a roadie in the most metal of metal worlds ever conceived? This is more metal than the metalest metal times infinity!

Feels Good Man

ChewyWaffles wrote: »

This game's premise sounds absolutely terrible. That and the sound of Jack Black's voice makes me want to stick a pencil in my ears.

You have a lolcats meme phrase in your profile and location. Clearly, you are no real arbiter of taste.

Faffel

Helloween wrote: »

Holy fucking shit! How the hell did I miss this game?

I must now go and rock out.

Also...METAL:

Spoiler:

tofu

Feels Good Man wrote: »

ChewyWaffles wrote: »

This game's premise sounds absolutely terrible. That and the sound of Jack Black's voice makes me want to stick a pencil in my ears.

You have a lolcats meme phrase in your profile and location. Clearly, you are no real arbiter of taste.

heh

Helloween

Faffel wrote: »

Helloween wrote: »

Holy fucking shit! How the hell did I miss this game?

I must now go and rock out.

Also...METAL:

Spoiler:

A stong case sir. I present you with:

Spoiler:

This game needs to emit a death scream when you turn it on. It HAS to.

Feels Good Man

tofu wrote: »

Feels Good Man wrote: »

ChewyWaffles wrote: »

This game's premise sounds absolutely terrible. That and the sound of Jack Black's voice makes me want to stick a pencil in my ears.

You have a lolcats meme phrase in your profile and location. Clearly, you are no real arbiter of taste.

heh

get it, cause my name was turned into a 4chan meme after I made it

get it?

do ya get tha joke


Anyway this game is gonna own if it ever comes out

Xenogears of Bore

Once again I find myself rooting for Activision and against EA. Come on Actiblizzon.

HenryVape

I hope the game got a bike with sawblade wheels. Because nothing is more metal than painkiller, its the metalliest of all metalalbums ever released. Isnt Rob halford and Lemmy supposed to appear in this game? Because that would make this game so metal it hurts.

Metal!

Helloween

HenryVape wrote: »

I hope the game got a bike with sawblade wheels. Because nothing is more metal than painkiller, its the metalliest of all metalalbums ever released. Isnt Rob halford and Lemmy supposed to appear in this game? Because that would make this game so metal it hurts.

Metal!

I love you.

Halford is in it, not sure about Lemmy mind. I hope he is, it would make this even more metal than it was.

GalagaGalaxian

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

Once again I find myself rooting for Activision and against EA. Come on Actiblizzon.

Why? Company A buysout Company B, drops some games they were making, Company C decides to publish one of the dropped games and Company A tries to cockblock it even though they didn't want it.

Why would you cheer for this? Even if you DON'T like the game or Company C it is a dick move.

tofu

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

Once again I find myself rooting for Activision and against EA. Come on Actiblizzon.

Uh, why? Activision is the one that dropped the game, EA's the one that picked it up and saved it.

One Thousand Dicks

Helloween wrote: »

HenryVape wrote: »

I hope the game got a bike with sawblade wheels. Because nothing is more metal than painkiller, its the metalliest of all metalalbums ever released. Isnt Rob halford and Lemmy supposed to appear in this game? Because that would make this game so metal it hurts.

Metal!

I love you.

Halford is in it, not sure about Lemmy mind. I hope he is, it would make this even more metal than it was.

Last I heard Lemmy's in the game as

Spoiler:

a Motorcycle-riding shaman who heals using bass tones

Xenogears of Bore

tofu wrote: »

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

Once again I find myself rooting for Activision and against EA. Come on Actiblizzon.

Uh, why? Activision is the one that dropped the game, EA's the one that picked it up and saved it.

Would saying that the thread title contains a joke help explain this a little better?

Faffel

Helloween wrote: »

HenryVape wrote: »

I hope the game got a bike with sawblade wheels. Because nothing is more metal than painkiller, its the metalliest of all metalalbums ever released. Isnt Rob halford and Lemmy supposed to appear in this game? Because that would make this game so metal it hurts.

Metal!

I love you.

Halford is in it, not sure about Lemmy mind. I hope he is, it would make this even more metal than it was.

I hope the guitar is powered by the souls of the damned and the tuning chord lets out an agonized shriek from the souls within.

Helloween

Faffel wrote: »

Helloween wrote: »

HenryVape wrote: »

I hope the game got a bike with sawblade wheels. Because nothing is more metal than painkiller, its the metalliest of all metalalbums ever released. Isnt Rob halford and Lemmy supposed to appear in this game? Because that would make this game so metal it hurts.

Metal!

I love you.

Halford is in it, not sure about Lemmy mind. I hope he is, it would make this even more metal than it was.

I hope the guitar is powered by the souls of the damned, the tuning chord lets out an agonized shriek from the souls within, a storm begins and lightning strikes into it.

Also your hair begins to grow.

HenryVape

Is there going to be a lot of beer in this game?because you cant have metal without beer. no matter what kind of metal it is(well perhaps not the kind of progmetal that is 20 MINUTES DRUMSOLO AND 15 MINUTES WAILING GUITARS! and synths )

perhaps a river of beer besides the mandatory river of blood and fire?