Aerothorn on 13/2/2012 at 04:42
Quote Posted by EvaUnit02
Anyway I find this thread is fucking pointless until the game is actually announced. So Double Fine exceeded their target by a shitload more money, that's awesome, but there's nothing of real significance to discuss.
Wrong, wrong, and wrong. This is - to the best of my knowledge - the first time an established "traditional" developer has funded a game entirely through kickstarter. It is news, and will be news even if the game is horrible. It is indicative of the changing role of publishers and is a poke in the eye for those who said that there was no way a new graphic adventure title could ever be funded.
Mind you, those people are idiots, because they've been being funded for years, but still.
Fafhrd on 13/2/2012 at 06:45
Quote Posted by icemann
Surprised no`one has mentioned the possible Psychonauts sequel by Tim Schafer and the guy behind Minecraft (after the guy from Minecraft offered to finance it).
Unlikely to actually happen. Schafer's estimated budget for Psychonauts 2 at $20 million. I'm sure Notch is willing to kick in one or two million, and the guy who funded the PC ports of Costume Quest and Stacking will probably also kick in a lot, but there will still be a gap of (at a guess) 10 million or so that needs to come from somewhere. And I don't think they'll be able to Kickstarter
that much for it.
henke on 13/2/2012 at 06:52
Quote Posted by dethtoll
No it wasn't. It's a shrine to everything wrong with metal. ... there's an incredible amount of bands doing new, amazing things and they tend to get pushed aside for not being "br0000tul" enough
I don't know if you realize this but Brutal Legend is kind of a parody of the whole heavy metal mythology thing. The dragons, and motorbikes, and being stuck in the 70's thing that you dislike. I like a lot of the new stuff as well but I don't think it'd fit in a game like this. Not cheesy enough.
For the record I liked Brutal Legend. The gameplay wasn't always great but the story and the characters were fantastic. Kinda like Psychonauts in that way.
june gloom on 13/2/2012 at 09:25
Wrong decade, more stuck in the '90s. Metal disappeared into its own asshole around 1995; up to that point there was still plenty of innovation, but around the mid 90s everyone started rallying around the idea that "nu-metal" was going to destroy everything they held dear, and the music and culture more or less congealed as a response. Progress was very slow; most of the "hot new bands" that came on the scene every year or so were pretty derivative and continue to be. Not that this wasn't a problem in the 80s, mind, with the glam invasion et al. but not to the same extent, mostly because the culture had only gotten its head up its ass, it hadn't gone the rest of the way in.
The problem with parodies of metal is that metal has become practically a parody of itself, and the scenesters gobble up stuff like Metalocalypse and use it as a banner to justify dressing/acting like douchebags and listening to the same god damn death metal band under a hundred different names.
Malf on 13/2/2012 at 09:36
Quote Posted by dethtoll
Where's the bands like Cult of Luna or Isis or Neurosis or Rosetta? Russian Circles getting featured in Dead Space 2 was a real treat; I want to see these guys getting more mainstream coverage, because they deserve it. We need some real talent in a culture increasingly being shaped by pretentious art majors.
Just to point out, I haven't heard of a single one of those bands, which probably means they found fame in the last 10-15 years or can be considered fringe alternative at best. A lot of Brutal Legend's music was meant to be more like NWOBHM and its contemporaries, personifying that late Seventies / early Eighties sound. I would say the more obvious omissions were Iron Maiden and Metallica, but I'm guessing those were absent due to lack of willing on behalf of the bands concerned.
With that in mind, I thought the soundtrack was pretty good and more modern stuff would have stood out like a sore thumb.
Come on dethy, that's like me saying "Where's Wolfsbane / Alice Donut / Ministry?". All favourites of mine, but not really suiting the theme.
henke on 13/2/2012 at 09:41
Ok deth, I can see how Brutal Legend might not appeal to someone for whom metal is such Serious Business.
june gloom on 13/2/2012 at 09:56
well god forbid I have something i'm passionate about and knowledgeable about
jesus fucking christ
henke on 13/2/2012 at 11:15
Relax. I don't necessarily think it's a bad thing. But it does mean that you're a bit too close to the subject matter to be objective about the game though. You get all hung up on what it could be rather than what it is.
Thirith on 13/2/2012 at 11:25
I only played Brütal Legend about a year after it came out, after having read all the lukewarm to negative reviews. Probably the best way to play it - a) I knew it was an action game/RTS hybrid, b) I knew that as a game it was flawed and c) it was considerably cheaper. As it was, I enjoyed it a lot - as with Psychonauts, the game has its share of problems but it's got heaps of style and personality, and the gameplay is pleasant enough.
Also, similarly to Eddie Murphy I find Jack Black easier to tolerate as a voice actor than in person.
