Malf on 24/10/2009 at 23:10
I'm playing this in between Demon's Souls sessions, and I've yet to be bowled over.
Yeah, sure, the setting's cool, the music's great, and the attention to detail is fantastic, but it feels a bit hollow.
And also, Tim Schaefer's comments about the game being made for consoles? Well I can't help but feel that the RTS sections would have been a fuck-sight better with a mouse and keyboard. As it stands, the controls in these sections are completely abysmal. It's all very counter-intuitive and over-complicated, and the horribly limited view of the battlefield just compounds the frustration.
This game is a missed opportunity.
thefonz on 25/10/2009 at 07:43
I don't think the game is a missed opportunity, it sets out to be a fun game above all else but here are a few acme-powered-comments-o-matic:
1) very very easy game, even on Brutal
2) agreed on the RTS elements, it is extremely complicated in the heat of battle to organise an sort of accurate defense or attack and all I seem to end up doing is flying above the battlefield, building lots of dudes and gals, sending them to each waypoint then ocassionaly flying down, unleashing a facemelter. repeat. its not exactlly "tactical" but then again i dont know what i was expecting.
3) last night i finally beat Lionheart and the bit after that when you are flying through the ruins of his castle on the Deuce with Dragonforce blasting out was thrilling while being chased by a big fuck off monster.
4) psychonauts was a much better game.
5) it is funny in places, but lol all the time, it is not
6) i'm playing through it because i feel like as a metal and rock fan i have to and don't get me wrong, it is a blast and in no way am i taking it seriously but yes it is a hollow experience and i think this would have been easily fixed if they simplified the RTS element and didnt try to make it a "true" RTS, ramp up the difficulty a bit too
7) graphics, Jack Black, animations, sound, effects all as have been said are gorgeous, as is the overall presentation.
:thumb:
Malf on 25/10/2009 at 08:31
Wait, did you just say that Jack Black is gorgeous?
:p
thefonz on 25/10/2009 at 08:34
Quote Posted by Malf
Wait, did you just say that Jack Black is gorgeous?
:p
Yes - he's a fine, athletic build of a man.
Sulphur on 25/10/2009 at 08:56
Yep, yep yep. While i can't imagine Black in a dark satin evening gown with a wavy perm and flashy ear-rings and pumps (uh well so I can, but nevermind), he's a gorgeous person in person as Tenacious D videos can attest, so dreamy cool. Lovely voice too. not at all like Whitney Houston, and if you're not Whitney Houston that's a couple million pluses for you right there.
I'd get Brutal Legend, but I can't find it anywhere, which is really odd. Shoulda pre-ordered the sumbitch, but I never usually do that unless the game's awesomeness is a guaranteed, palpable thing set in stone, like the Ten Commandments before Moses went all angry kung-fu SMASH on 'em and told the people to go bitchfuck themselves.
Speaking of awesomeness being set in stone, there's Uncharted 2. Everybody really just needs to go play it because it's so much better than Uncharted 1 and everything else out there right now it's not even funny. Better than Indiana Jones. Well maybe not Raiders, but it's at least on par, and better than everything else. Cross my heart.
I don't really care if you buy it or rent it or steal it, if you've been holding out, just go play it. It's awesomeness untold.
Aja on 25/10/2009 at 09:02
So far this thread's opinions of Brutal Legend mostly align with my own. I don't really know what to make of the game—I was scared by the claimed 6-hour length into spending more time exploring and doing sidequests, leaving the main plot mostly untouched. So now I'm a few stage battles in, and while I did find them confusing as hell I still am kinda hoping that as everything progresses it'll start to make more sense. But at the same time I don't wanna progress too much just in case the game does decide to be suddenly too short. Abrupt endings are the worst.
I don't regret buying Brutal Legend at all—the presentation and art style (especially the art style) are worth the admission price—but as far as Psychonauts is concerned, I wouldn't even make the comparison.
MorbusG on 25/10/2009 at 11:02
Quote Posted by thefonz
1) very very easy game, even on Brutal
Except the final RTS-battle, which I thought was almost MeatCircus-hard ie. brütally difficult.
Aerothorn on 25/10/2009 at 12:31
Quote Posted by dethtoll
Old-school country (i.e. the shit worth listening to) or fuckin' Honkytonk Badonkadonk?
Oh god. I worked in a thrift store this summer that played this computer-run pop-country station, and I almost smashed the boombox the 12th time I heard Honkytonk Badonkadonk.
foldy on 25/10/2009 at 14:09
Quote Posted by MorbusG
Except the final RTS-battle, which I thought was almost MeatCircus-hard ie. brütally difficult.
No way. Without giving any level-specific details away, all I had to do was have a squad of troops defend the center of the battlefield, and me and muh rock crusher bombarded the two targets. It was cake.
MorbusG on 25/10/2009 at 14:51
^on brutal difficulty?
