Not sure how many video game fans there are here. But this game sounds pretty fun, and Tim Schafer has made some awesome games in the past (Lots of Lucasarts SCUMM driven games, Psyconauts - which I must get around to playing).
But the reason I bought this up was the soundtrack…
Stigmata and Thieves are featured - as are a few KMFDM and Prong songs…
Now if only I could afford a… god what is this, 7th Gen? Console…
how bout a link? you know lazy and all!
Late,
grmpysmrf
I was very skeptical at first. Not a fan at all of Jack Black. But after playing the very incredibly short demo, it seems like it could have potential and do quite well for itself. I don’t think i’ll be jumping for it when it first comes out, but I may get it eventually.
I’d rather Uncharted 2.
this game will be awesome. the title screen menu’s alone are better than alot of games this year. (for those without demo access, the title menus and such as real hands handliong an album, complete with folding out and taking the record out to examine it. pretty awesome.
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/gc-09-brutal-legend/54351
you can get psyconauts off of xbox live as an originals download.
don’t’ forget they were gonna get dio to play the villian but he was busy so they got tim curry. awesome.
Releases like this one make me wish I was a console gamer! Sounds like a cool enough premise and having Tim Schaeffer as designer can only help. Grim Fandango was a great game.
Is Psychonauts or any of his others even on consoles? Under the impression that they were PC.
Psychonauts was on PS2 and Xbox.
Original Secret of Monkey Island was on Sega CD if that counts? [laugh]
Grim Fandango, ahh, I found my game discs for that recently, I haven’t played it since it first came out I should give it another go, loved all those lucasarts adventure games, glad Telltale Games has - somewhat - picked up where they left off.
Grim Fandango was great. I was an Infocom and Sierra game junkie in the 80s. Lucas Arts made some good ones too (Loom, Monkey Island, Maniac Mansion, etc.) but Zork and the Quest line of games were my favorites.
West of House
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.
Not many people today can appreciate the fun of having to use your imagination to paint the scenes in the Infocom games. Sierra games were like interactive comic books. Good times.
oh god i remember the text based games… my 4 year old mind got very angry at those sometimes… having to draw a god damned map just to figure out where you are/went/came from.
psychonaughts cme out for the pc as well.
Grim Fandango was great. I was an Infocom and Sierra game junkie in the 80s. Lucas Arts made some good ones too (Loom, Monkey Island, Maniac Mansion, etc.) but Zork and the Quest line of games were my favorites.
West of House
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.
Not many people today can appreciate the fun of having to use your imagination to paint the scenes in the Infocom games. Sierra games were like interactive comic books. Good times.
I know what you mean, I am from the generation that grew up with graphical games, but still loved some of those text based adventures (although have not played one for many years). ALthough the ones that didn’t give you parsers were sometimes irritating.
Never played the text based Zorks, I think I played one of the graphic ones from the 90s and found it incredibly difficult so kinda gave up on it (maybe it was Myst actually… hmm).
i was a huge huge sierra and lucasarts fan. I still have all the original boxes to all the quest games and every lucasarts game up until around the time of jedi knight 2 when they turned to all star wars games. (i cream a bit thinking or the ebay money I could get for those babies) The earlier games were SOOOO much more fun then the text games, the only pain was trying to figure out the proper word for some stuff , (is it a box chest, etc.) and stupid shit like trying to get shit typed fast enough before you got killed (like in kings quest or police quest). Lucasarts took that out of the adventure games and i think was a godsend for that. It was a much more comedic group on the whole. Sierra had funny, like in quest for glory spacequest, and larry games, but lucasarts tended to be much more lighthearted and focused on the game and gameply. not the threat of dying and having forgotten to save.
It’s just a shame after andango things turned into a graphic oriented industry as opposed to a gameplay oriented industry. Big beautiful flashy games with very little filler. Like monkey island 4 had all that empty space, yet a huge graphic enviorment.
I’d compare it to giving a drummer just a 4 piece and saying write a song, as opposed to using neil pierts kit. Both can be utalized to make great music (games) but I think the less you have kinda focuses you on being more inventive and creative. And honestly adventure games aren’t supposed to be graphics card demo’s. there’s a balance that was lost, mixed in with the expanding industry’s growth and amount of money dumped into games and the returns didn’t add up and it’s only now that we’re getting good mainstream companies releasing adventure games after years of them mostly being fan made, done for the love of it in spare time things.
uhm end ramble
oh yeah my point this will be out for the pc don’t worry… even if it’s a year later. or you can always just check the torrent sites for emulaters for whatever system and then download the game
and that tim was one of the guys with ron gilbert that really shaped what lucasarts’ adventure game style was.
a fun site for keeping up with the whole lucas gang is the international house of mojo at http://www.mixnmojo.com/
Anyone pick this up? Hearing that it’s basically an RTS. I like those games a good bit, but I guess just a little disappointed after just expecting
a straight up hack n’ slack.
Prolly picking it up before work. Have already ran through uncharted… Will beat that by tonight, I reckon.
sometime this weekend i’ll get it. how was uncharted?
game looks kinda cheesy but fun at the same time. I’m really surprised KMFDM is on the soundtrack. If it comes out for PC I might try it, but I lost track on all these video game consoles after PS2 and the gamecube.
sometime this weekend i’ll get it. how was uncharted?
much better than the first. And I thought the first was great. They added a whole new stealth element to it. And being the metal gear fan that I am, absolutely loved it.
Picked up brutal legend this morning. I figure i’ll start tonight
after I finish uncharted.
game looks kinda cheesy but fun at the same time. I’m really surprised KMFDM is on the soundtrack. If it comes out for PC I might try it, but I lost track on all these video game consoles after PS2 and the gamecube.
Gamecube was awesome,still have mine, and original xbox, nothing later though. Must get my GC modded before they get completely obsolete.
Brutal Legend is RTS? I got the impression it was hack and slash too
Must get my GC modded before they get completely obsolete.
What does a modded game cube do? I don’t think they’ll go obsolete, the Wii plays Gcube games…
Late,
grmpysmrf
i’ve gotten throgh the first area i guess you coudl say, and i had to use squad commands to post dudes to defend one area whilst i defended another, so i can see where this may be leading. dialogue is fucking hilarious though.
Safe to say I suck at this. Fooling around with some of the secondary missions, and sometimes fail miserably. I’m one of those guys who wouldn’t mind getting all of the upgrades, etc. But i’m really struggling with “attack and protect your troops”. The others seem like a breeze compared to these. But it’s certainly an RTS in it’s own way.