Double Fine and EA Partners have released a new official trailer for their upcoming, mind-melting heavy metal inspired action adventure game, Brütal Legend, featuring a host of voice talent, including Jack Black as the game's protagonist, Eddie Riggs.
Prepare to headbang your way into glory with these metal-infused games. You'll find yourself flipping your hair in pure excitement.
The Humble Day of the Devs Bundle 2022 just launched. It includes sixteen items including Psychonauts, Brutal Legend, Broken Age, and more.
The world of Brutal Legend looks like something a 14 year-old metal head would draw on their notebook while not paying attention.
Liked the aesthetic, tone, humor, and action combat.
Didn't care for the RTS elements.
Never cared to finish it.
Yeah they marketed the game like it was a Heavy Metal GTA-ish adventure. And at the beginning of the game that's what it was. The game fell apart when the half-baked RTS stuff came in. I'd be interested in a reboot or sequel, but just go full action adventure and ditch the RTS. There really is something there with the Heavy Metal theme.
PS360 gen was special, then again it was still the mid 2000s. Everything went to shite in the teens
I think that was the breaker for Doublefine's creative ambitions and their mixing of genres (which was getting kinda stale). It was a nice to look at but it was more of a tribute to the many things Tim loves, was influenced by and has great admiration for....but the forced RTS stuff was like a drinking buddy's "great idea" that never should have come to light. The game seemed a lot more vast, but it ended pretty quickly too. And Jack Black. As much as I don't care for him as an actor (annoying and requires constant attention), this was absolutely made with him in mind and it worked. I mean come on, Tenacious D? For as Metal as this game was trying to be, even comically, it did little more than meow.
Jack Black? Ugh. I can't stand him in movies. I would only imagine I would absolutely hate him in a video game.
really care about this game?
I mean, yeah, so Jack Black voices the game's protagonist. Cool, I guess. Also, the main weapon is a guitar. Pretty creative, I suppose.
While I love me some guitar (Slash and Jimi Hendrix ftw!), I just can't find it in me to get excited for a game in which you have to pluck stings to off enemies...and it's hard for me to say this 'cuz I love EA /s.
This type of game might have worked for me if they instead chose Adam Jones from Tool as the protagonist. Even still, the game would have to become much darker and surreal in atmosphere. By "surreal", I mean some funky, psychedelic stuff. Like, the development team has to be on some really funky acid trips to come up with game's content and story.
Just imagine starting out your quest in the war-torn vagina of a colossal goat-pig as your guitar riffs to the lyrics of "Lateralus" causes the demon hobbit nuns to involuntarily reverse-defecate the nitroglycerin that is interspersed among the plenteous inverted rainbows. During this "reverse-defecation" the demon hobbit nuns vomit microwaves that "excite" the surrounding vaginal tissues and produces light that will guide your path to the perpetual hole that is surrounded by marshmallow lakes and milk mountains.
Only when falling in the perpetual hole can you age and finally escape this nightmare that won't allow you to die. But here's the catch, you naturally fall upwards, which actually causes you to become younger until the point that you become a sperm and are eventually reborn inside that same goat-pig (back to square one). You can only fall downwards through the infinite loop by periodically utilizing wormholes to gather marshmallows from the aforementioned marshmallow lakes. For you can only fall downwards by ingesting marshmallows.