Paco, you can take my sweet sweet orange picking job any day. <3

It's actually Dio, who's also supposed to be in the game (and incidentally was also in the Tenacious D movie.) The song is Black Sabbath's "The Mob Rules".

While the subject matter isn't something that I'm particularly close to, I have no objections against it, and it's Tim Schafer so it's impossible to not care. The game looks good, but at this point I'm wondering if they're going to do the same mistake as in Psychonauts where the actual gameplay was too far behind the designs. Didn't seem to me like it's much more than mashing the axe-swing button and occasionally throwing some magic spells with the guitar.

Also a bit disappointing that it hasn't been announced for the PC, but looking at some other recent games like BioShock, Gears of War, Assassin's Creed and even Guitar Hero III, I think a decent PC port released somewhere down the line is more than possible.

Yeah, it's not like it's coming out tomorrow or anything, and I don't remember Psychonauts being available for PC at first either. I'm prepared for the game in any case. It will be mine to own!

It was released simultaneously on Xbox and PC, the PS2 version came a few months later. I can only imagine that not releasing Brütal Legend on PC (at first, at least) has something to do with piracy, considering the low sales numbers of Psychonauts.

The people who say Psychonauts didn't have good gameplay are seriously misguided, unless they're referring solely to the Meat Circus.

The Meat Circus was the place that I wanted to kill whoever designed the evil side wall grid climbing area. It was the most odd and infuriatingly difficult bit I've ever done in my life. But oh man you do feel you've accomplished something once you've gotten past it. Everything before it was gravy and controlled fine.

Huh, I always thought the PC version came out later. I didn't really hear much about the PC version. It was always XBOX and PS2 version coming later. Well, I suppose piracy was an issue then. We'll have to wait and see. And honestly any anti-piracy programs on the PC means it will automatically be pirated by me. I don't tolerate root-kits or any of that nonsense on my machine. I'll tolerate STEAM at most and that is all. Which means one of these days I'll get around to downloading Bioshock illegally.

Here look at something related and interesting!

Double Fine Projects!

BRUTAL LEGEND and, oh, some Psychonauts thing coming soon too. Huh.

As I said on Kotaku, that coming soon with Psychonauts in the background might just be a placeholder graphic that they use for all their coming soon stuff. It would be really nice if it was for a Psychonats sequel though. =)

The really maddening part is that there was a sick mercy to that part. Every time you fell and landed in the water, it would just start you over back at the bottom rather than dock you a life. So you could just keep doing it over and over and over and over without penalty. Not that unlimited lives meant that doing it 400 times was any less annoying.

I'm inclined to agree, though. The gameplay in Psychonauts was, at best, mediocre. You just shot things and then went on your way, jumping from platform to platform. The only reason the game didn't suck is because the gameplay was de-emphasized in favor of exploring the levels anyway. Bosses were just annoying speedbumps, even though the blueprint tank was a wonder to behold.

I know it's a sickly late bump but, I didn't want to start a new thread anyway.

New trailer was released on Eurogamer late last month. It's still about 7-8 months away though. :(

Another bump.

OXM posted new info about a month ago regarding new details about the game. Now that EA has picked up the game for publishing, Schafer sat down with OXM and gave a few more details about this game, including that Robert Halford (of Judas Priest fame) will be voicing the General Lionwhyte; leader of the Tainted Coil demon army. This game is looking more metal every time I read new stuff on it. :rock:

I'm really hoping that the screens released so far are deliberately underwhelming, because most of it looks pretty uninspired. I mean, compare the screenshots to that first piece of concept art Acer posted. If you want to capture those smoky touches of Frank Frazetta in-game, the first step is not to make everything shiny! The characters end up looking like action figures.

However, that trailer does show off some cool designs (the worm thing, the tower) that actually get at the craziness of the album covers Schafer was supposedly inspired by, so I'm hoping the game has plenty more of that up its sleeve.

Gamespot interviewed "the legendary" Tim Schafer at the Double Fine studios last week. Bunch of new artwork, screens and concept renders are also there.

Check it out.

Brutal Legend now has a release date, and in a rather freaky coincidence it'll apparently be hitting store shelves two years to the day since this thread was started, October 13th.

[ source ]

Another Tim Schafer interview video in two parts. NATAS! NATAS!

Brutal Legend Video Game, Tim Schafer Interview Part I | Game Trailers & Videos | GameTrailers.com

Brutal Legend Video Game, Tim Schafer Interview Part II | Game Trailers & Videos | GameTrailers.com

dunno im not digging it.. Schafer doing an action game... seems pushed. Oh well i should not doubt Schafer, dude knows what he's doing.

For those intersted, GameSpot's latest impressions have been detected. Image of the infamous Gen. Lionwhyte included.

Paco. Did you see this? Brace yourself now.

Activison is suing Double Fine to Stop the release of Brutal Legend

In short of things;

- Vivendi merged with Activision
- Activison dropped Brutal Legend
- Double Fine looked for publisher, according to sources of Variety, Activison tried to block that process
- Double Fine sings up with EA Partners
- Activision sues Double Fine to stop release of Brutal Legend

And the reason? Oh it had garnered plenty of attention at E3 that now Activison wants a piece of that pie. :\

Oh its just not "sequel" worthy enough is why they dropped it? Just disgusting.

Ridiculous. They dropped it, so it should be tough titties for them.

I wonder if they'll try to do the same with Atari over Ghostbusters...

What I'm exactly wondering is how Activision even intends to hold up in court without getting laughed at by everyone inside.

If they gave up all legal rights to the game, they can't do anything about it, and as a company they should know better than to try something so frivolous as this. It's a bad move definitely on their part both from a financial and reputation standpoint.

They might still have the right for the name or the script or some other detail like that. I think this might lead up to how much money EA wants to throw Activisions way...

The E3 trailer is awesome, btw. I'm guessing EA had a hand in getting all that legend celebrity endorsement, but it's still rad.

Rocktober can't come soon enough.

Dio's no longer providing voice work for the game. Apparently they decided the next best person is Tim Curry.

I... What.

I am completely fine with this. Tim Curry is much cooler than Dio.