Brutal Legend Catch All

I pretty much just bought it for the TF2 items. *sigh*

Pre-ordered with soundtrack. I played through the game on the 360 when it first came out and really enjoyed it.

I've never been a metalhead, but I'm gaining more appreciation for the genre as I get older. Brutal Legend exposed me to some great stuff that I would never have heard otherwise and contributed a bunch of songs to my permanent playlist.

Pre-ordered.

Never thought I would get to play this, very psyched. Pre-ordered!

Where can you find what's on the soundtrack? I can't find any details.

Poppinfresh wrote:

Where can you find what's on the soundtrack? I can't find any details.

Everything is the same as the console version, so all 107 licensed songs are in the game. The separate soundtrack (original, unlicensed songs) is also the same 20 songs.

I wonder how long it will take hacker-type people to extract all the songs in the game into MP3s.

tboon wrote:

I wonder how long it will take hacker-type people to extract all the songs in the game into MP3s.

A lot less time than for them to torrent them all right now and then distribute them as a single .zip?

ccesarano wrote:
tboon wrote:

I wonder how long it will take hacker-type people to extract all the songs in the game into MP3s.

A lot less time than for them to torrent them all right now and then distribute them as a single .zip?

Yep, mission already complete.

All this chatter over the PC release urged me to dig out my 360 copy which I never seemed to give a chance beyond the first hour or so. Not sure if I got distracted at the time or what as I'm a big Schafer fan and an even bigger '80s Metalhead.

A couple hours with it last night had me wondering why I dropped it so quickly the first time around.

Aaron D. wrote:

All this chatter over the PC release urged me to dig out my 360 copy which I never seemed to give a chance beyond the first hour or so. Not sure if I got distracted at the time or what as I'm a big Schafer fan and an even bigger '80s Metalhead.

A couple hours with it last night had me wondering why I dropped it so quickly the first time around.

Did you get to the part where it turns into a sort of Action-RTS?

I did.

Looking back, I think that's one thing that turned me off the first time. Perhaps more so because it was all the (negative) talk on the web/podcasts at the time.

I made sure to start a new game on Easy this time to help with my distaste for RTS. The story/art design/voice talent and most importantly, music selection, seem worth the effort at the moment.

re: the much panned RTS elements, I watched a video of the Double Fine team playing multiplayer a while back, and it really opened up my eyes to how to play it to really cut down on the head aches that those parts can induce.

Basically, it pays to be really aggressive with your 'leader' character and harass the opponent's leader to keep them from spawning troops/getting fans etc.

I discovered that I enjoyed the game a lot more if I just turned down the difficulty on the RTS levels to Easy, and then turned it back up again to Normal (or whatever I had it on) afterward. I loved the rest of the game.

nel e nel wrote:

re: the much panned RTS elements, I watched a video of the Double Fine team playing multiplayer a while back, and it really opened up my eyes to how to play it to really cut down on the head aches that those parts can induce.

Basically, it pays to be really aggressive with your 'leader' character and harass the opponent's leader to keep them from spawning troops/getting fans etc.

Yeah, a friend of mine that used to play online constantly trashed me pretty quick when I went up against him, but he said I did well simply because my first move against him was to facemelt his first set of forces. I evidently did better than most opponents simply because I was always jumping in and trashing what units of his I could.

There's also something to be said of properly knowing how to Double-Team. The Fire Barons can be pretty cheap if you can control them well enough to make a decent circle in a short amount of time. This is something I am not good at.

It would be awesome if they released this with standard-ish PC RTS controls. Doubtful but it would be awesome.

ccesarano wrote:
nel e nel wrote:

re: the much panned RTS elements, I watched a video of the Double Fine team playing multiplayer a while back, and it really opened up my eyes to how to play it to really cut down on the head aches that those parts can induce.

Basically, it pays to be really aggressive with your 'leader' character and harass the opponent's leader to keep them from spawning troops/getting fans etc.

Yeah, a friend of mine that used to play online constantly trashed me pretty quick when I went up against him, but he said I did well simply because my first move against him was to facemelt his first set of forces. I evidently did better than most opponents simply because I was always jumping in and trashing what units of his I could.

There's also something to be said of properly knowing how to Double-Team. The Fire Barons can be pretty cheap if you can control them well enough to make a decent circle in a short amount of time. This is something I am not good at.

Yeah, I tried to find that video because it was really fun (it was Tim and the gang just hanging out at Double Fine on bean bags rooting for two of the developers playing against each other), and one guy was fiddling around with spawning troops, and the other guy's first move was to fly all the way across the map and kill the other guy, preventing him from spawning more troops, and giving him just enough of a window to claim some fan geysers and start really ramping up his troop spawns.

It would be awesome if you could trade in a console copy for a license. I don't think I can talk myself into buying this game a third time.

Heh, I just spotted this on Steam, and was popping in to say, "Hey, wow, check it out!" But you guys are way ahead of me.

This game is too short. It's a weird hybrid RTS kind of thing. And it is, nonetheless, unreasonably cool, and absolutely worth fifteen bucks.

(This game was badly mismarketed, and that's why people didn't like it. It is actually quite good. I just wish it had had more exploration of that excellent world.)

Malor wrote:

I just wish it had had more exploration of that excellent world.

+∞

MeatMan wrote:
Malor wrote:

I just wish it had had more exploration of that excellent world.

+∞

Whoa, how did you do that sideways eight?

If you're not smiling through the car chase/escape from General Lionwhyte's palace, there's something objectively wrong with you.

MeatMan wrote:
Malor wrote:

I just wish it had had more exploration of that excellent world.

+∞

Spot on. The game ended too abrubtly, but was great while it lasted.

SallyNasty wrote:
MeatMan wrote:
Malor wrote:

I just wish it had had more exploration of that excellent world.

+∞

Spot on. The game ended too abrubtly, but was great while it lasted.

Erring on the side of spoilering things, since there might be some fresh PC players reading through...

Spoiler:

I think the pacing was spot on through the Lionwhyte section, got a bit fast during the Drowning Pool section, then abruptly ended too abruptly with a boss fight against Doviculus and Tainted Coil. I wish each of the three armies got as much time as Lionwhyte's.

Having said that, it's still one of my most memorable gaming experiences of the past few years. I'd love for Schafer to return to that world at some point.

Man, they've got a lot of polish work to get it ready for the 26th. The multiplayer demo that installs now is unstable and doesn't work right, just wandering around the menus.

Why I say that:

On initial start, the Brutal Legend logo is in the wrong aspect ratio;
It crashed when I mouse-clicked on Start without having a controller plugged in;
Adjustments to the sound levels do not stick.

And I haven't even tried to play the actual game.

With a bit more playing, the game itself seems fine, I guess it's just cosmetic stuff on the menu that's not correct yet.

Rezzy wrote:

It would be awesome if you could trade in a console copy for a license. I don't think I can talk myself into buying this game a third time.

I cherish my Xbox copy, even though I wanted a lot more exploration, and a lot less RTS. With this "Original Soundtrack" bundle, does that include every song? I'm in for sure if that's the case, I tried getting a few MP3 bundles with horrible, butchered versions that were all over the place quality-wise, so I'd love a full soundtrack that's legit.

I wonder how many shiny bells and whistles will come with the PC version. I guess it's still only DX9 so probably not expecting a big leap other than resolution and some crazy AA/Super-Sampling to clean up the image.

Great game - I doubt we'll see anything like it again (or for a very long time). That's why I was sad when it ended - and was really hoping the world was expanded upon

Swat wrote:

With this "Original Soundtrack" bundle, does that include every song?

MeatMan wrote:
Poppinfresh wrote:

Where can you find what's on the soundtrack? I can't find any details.

Everything is the same as the console version, so all 107 licensed songs are in the game. The separate soundtrack (original, unlicensed songs) is also the same 20 songs.

They've stated before that releasing a soundtrack with all 107 songs is a nightmare concept, because it requires completely different negotiations than simply including the music in the game. Probably would result in a soundtrack that is way too expensive to consider selling.

Bonus_Eruptus wrote:

If you're not smiling through the car chase/escape from General Lionwhyte's palace, there's something objectively wrong with you.

As someone who is hugely into power metal, hearing Dragonforce is plenty reason not to be smiling. But that's also because I can be a pretentious asshole sometimes and the brief popular stint that band got pissed me off.

Heh, that's one of the good parts about not knowing the metal scene at all -- I can just enjoy a genre I don't usually listen to, with zero idea of what I "should" or "shouldn't" like. I can just take each track one at a time, without context.

Sometimes, ignorance really is bliss.