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Renzo

Why are we not talking about Trenched, the next game from Double Fine?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2AK-e2jdkM

Cooperative mech combat!

Loot!

Releasing June 22nd on Xbox Live Marketplace!

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Cantido

The Xbox exclusivity... could they be gunning for Summer of Arcade? I hope they get it. I can see the game shares Brutal Legends sense of scale, ranging from the tiny soldiers to the huge monsters. The stationay defenses look like MNC as well.

I love me some Mechassault, and I got to PM Brad Muir once (the Double Fine guy who made this) so I'm super exited.

Also, I love the robots themselves. They are called Mobile Trenches, and they are just a WW2 trench slapped on a pair of robot legs with a dude inside it.

Ninja Snarl P

Double fiiiiiiine!

Anyway, Patton would definitely approve of this game. If fixed defenses are a monument to man's stupidity, then mobile fixed defenses would be a monument to man's brilliance.

Any idea on how much this is going to cost?

Cantido

Probably 1200 as usual. Also, M$ is publishing this one. That could also mean a return to PC.

AnakinOU

Needs to come to PC.

DietarySupplement

Man, saw the thread title and was hoping for some sort of WWI trench-based game or something.

But this works too!

The Dude With Herpes

This looks awesome.

Also, saying "M$" should be an infractiable offense.

It's two-thousand-eleven for fucks sake.

Cantido

Thread title should say "You got trenches in my giant robot!"

Yay for all american robots. All the Japanese robots are powered by blood, or A Man's Fighting Spirit, or the Blood of Christ or whatever anti-chrisitanity nonsense they can come up with.[/kidding]

Renzo

Changed the thread title for clarity.

Seriously, this looks awesome. Reminds me of Mechassault, but with heavy customization.

fragglefart

My thought process went like this: Ooo! Double Fine - with robots? This could be cool, man. Oh I see it's like a mecha-Brutal Legend or MNC-EDF type crossover...

ALL

MY

DICKS

:shock:

sassfactor4

I for one welcome our new robot overlords.

Fawst

Off topic:

The Dude With Herpes wrote: »

This looks awesome.

Also, saying "M$" should be an infractiable offense.

It's two-thousand-eleven for fucks sake.

I'd like to point out that in 2010 I had to pay for content in L4D2 on the 360 that was given freely on the PC. It's still a valid moniker.

On topic:

That video is 100% not what I was expecting when I clicked on this thread. This game is 100% bought now because of that video.

Cantido

Chicks! Dig! GI-ANT-ROBOTS!

I'm not gonna lie, my knee-jerk reaction was that Double Fine finally gave in to making a shooter. :P

Olivaw

I am demanding this come to PC or PS3

Malechai

Looks like Brutal Legend with robots and shooting. Wish it was comming out on PC or PS3 too.

Diamond

Published by MS, supposedly. So good luck on PC, and don't even hope for a PS3 version.

But it looks great, and I want more mech games!

Linespider5

This looks pretty awesome.

Can't say I care for the look of the aliens, though. More of that neon-candy plastic insect stuff. It looks downright weird and out of place compared to the rest of the art assets.

Custom Special

So good. Mechassault was my original xbox live bread and butter. Lookin good.

Dartboy

Mechassault was pretty cool, so this should be too.

AdditionalPylons

Double Fine has to stop making all this great downloadable games and not releasing them on the pc.

Cantido

They repeatedly say it's not up to them.

Double Fine QA wrote:

As a developer we do not have final say in the sku plan for our games. That is the decision of the person investing the money, i.e. the publisher. We have much of the technology in place to produce PC versions of all these games, but there is still some more work required to make them shippable and that costs money. So far, our publishers have not elected to fund that work. Not because they hate PC Gamers, but because they don't see enough financial reward. Double Fine does care about PC Gamers, and we always push for a PC version, and will continue to do so in the future. If we ever get super stinking rich here, with enough money to fund PC versions of our games, then we will go back and make them ourselves! Oh man, wouldn't that be cool?

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Hells.

Yes.

Der Waffle Mous

The style reminds me of Ring of Red.

randombattle

In my experience Double Fine is double fine at making games so this will be somewhere in the range of single to double fine.

Joe Camacho MKII

Cantido wrote: »

They repeatedly say it's not up to them.

Double Fine QA wrote:

As a developer we do not have final say in the sku plan for our games. That is the decision of the person investing the money, i.e. the publisher. We have much of the technology in place to produce PC versions of all these games, but there is still some more work required to make them shippable and that costs money. So far, our publishers have not elected to fund that work. Not because they hate PC Gamers, but because they don't see enough financial reward. Double Fine does care about PC Gamers, and we always push for a PC version, and will continue to do so in the future. If we ever get super stinking rich here, with enough money to fund PC versions of our games, then we will go back and make them ourselves! Oh man, wouldn't that be cool?

... So, in order for them to publish it for PC, they need my monies, but I can't give them my monies because they can't publish for PC.. This is melting my mind!

I so want this game for PC, specially for Steam. This game looks awesome!

Cantido

Joe Camacho MKII wrote: »

... So, in order for them to publish it for PC, they need my monies, but I can't give them my monies because they can't publish for PC.. This is melting my mind!

I so want this game for PC, specially for Steam. This game looks awesome!

Just do what Tim Schafer says with Psychonauts:

timoflegend wrote:

Pirate the game, the buy a t-shirt

Tycho wrote:

I can tell you, however, that Trenched is fucking badical. This is something I actually know. I don't know how things progressed to the point where you can have Double Fine create a whole universe for you every couple Goddamned months, but it's a world I will consent to live in.

Klyka

Holy fuck, how does Double Fine manage to pump out one shit hot game idea after another?

Cantido

Klyka wrote: »

Holy fuck, how does Double Fine manage to pump out one shit hot game idea after another?

It started off as a team exercise...

Tim Schafer broke up the Brutal Legend team into groups, each led by one of his four aces (Tasha Harris, Lee Petty, Nathan Martz, and Brad Muir) and they got two weeks to make the best game they could.

After EA canceled Brutal Legend 2 in favor of more guns and more brown (and even canceling patch updates), Double Fine was at risk of going out of business. In a final saving throw, Tim Schafer pitched those two-week demos to real publishers. Out of a miracle, all four were signed by publishers.

1. Tasha Harris (Brutal Legend animator) made Costume Quest. THQ picked it up.
2. Lee Petty (BL Artist) made Stacking. THQ also picked this up.
3. Nathan Martz made a Kinect game inspired by Sesame Street. Then Sesame Street Workshop actually called him...
4. Brad Muir (lead designer) made Trenched. Microsoft picked it up.

Tim Schafer has been great about making sure these folks get the spotlight. This next game is Brad Muir, so I'm super exited for Trenched. He's the guy who PM'd Kor and me about improving the stage battles, then one month later, produced a balance patch that went above and beyond fans expectations, so I know he can do no wrong.

Ninja Snarl P

Yeah, Double Fine is actually working as a cluster of teams dealing with different projects right now. Apparently, poor Schafer really got his heart stomped on with the whole Brutal Legend debacle and decided to try something different for development. Rather than shooting for one big-budget title at a time, he changed things up to make quality low-budget titles, but make more of them.

I really hope he makes a big profit off of the idea. Style certainly trumps graphical fidelity and Schafer is one stylin' dude. I'd rather have cool, memorable games wrapped around neat concepts and stylish art design than fifty billion extra polygons anyway.

Olivaw

Downloadable stuff really is perfect for Double Fine, considering how they don't have to risk all their time and money on one of their crazy ideas that might not be successful

Like, you know, Psychonauts or Brutal Legend

I just wish this would come out on a platform I owned...

tofu

Pretty sure this is gonna be summer of arcade because of the exclusivity

Maybe it'll hit PC at some point

Forar

They put this on Steam and I'll snag it. They had me at giant robots and co-op multiplayer.

darleysam

I really hope this strategy has worked out financially for them so they can keep it up, because they've been on a roll with quality games and I want it to continue.

Cantido

For those who missed it, the game has been shown in detail. It's a freaky cross between Brutal Legend and Monday Night Combat. You fight monsters atop a giant robot while building defensive towers and collecting loot to make customizable bots.

The game is very 4-player co-op focused, as well as single player. No competitive equivalent to MNC unfortunately. Instead, the Blitz Mode equivalent is much more elaborate, with it's own ranking system.

Also, since everyone is in a totally fuck-off giant robot, every player is capable of dishing out the dakka. It's up to the team to communicate and work together, shooting and tending to the turrets. I call turret duty. I love my BL units and my MNC turrets. I give them priority, that's my playstyle.

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Trenched at PAX

Igpx407

I cannot wait to spend money on this game. I may have to upgrade to Xbox Live Gold so I can get my multiplayer on.

Cantido

Well I'm exited to play this with my Brutal Legend and MNC friends.

Fizban140

I hope this is like Mechassault, I played that game more than anything else on the xbox by far.

fragglefart

Yeah basically this looks like everything I like in a Friday night co-op game. Cannot wait, so glad it's getting into the Summer thing so plenty folks will buy it.

anoffday

Double Fine is awesome. This is a day one purchase for sure.

Custom Special

Fizban140 wrote: »

I hope this is like Mechassault, I played that game more than anything else on the xbox by far.

I LOVED Mechassault. It was all the joy of mechs, but such a simple way to play it. So much more arcade action style than sim-style.
So good.

Cantido

Custom Special wrote: »

Fizban140 wrote: »

I hope this is like Mechassault, I played that game more than anything else on the xbox by far.

I LOVED Mechassault. It was all the joy of mechs, but such a simple way to play it. So much more arcade action style than sim-style.
So good.

Well I loved Mechwarrior back in the day when i had a PC that could actually play things. I never understood who the real bad guy was at the time because my first game was Mercenaries, and you fight the clans. Then I went back and got the first game, and you play as the clans.

It's a shame FASA went under. I love the mech games and Crimson Skies game. I'm sure Brad Muir's gonna talk about Battletech, ultimately.