At the start of his presentation, Double Fine founder and ex-Lucasarts legend Tim Schafer says he's been wanting to make this game ever since he was 14 years old and he bought his first heavy metal album.
He says he can clearly recall laying eyes on the cover art, which was all fires and demons and epic warriors on motorbikes, and thinking it would be a lot of fun to base a game on that. He says that meeting a roadie for Megadeth a few years later (someone who was the inspiration for Day of the Tentacle's Hoagie character) further convinced him that a game based on heavy metal mythology would be totally awesome.
Decades later, it turns out that Tim Schafer wasn't wrong; Brütal Legend indeed looks to be as awesome as the young Schafer hoped.
Prepare to headbang your way into glory with these metal-infused games. You'll find yourself flipping your hair in pure excitement.
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The world of Brutal Legend looks like something a 14 year-old metal head would draw on their notebook while not paying attention.
Liked the aesthetic, tone, humor, and action combat.
Didn't care for the RTS elements.
Never cared to finish it.
Yeah they marketed the game like it was a Heavy Metal GTA-ish adventure. And at the beginning of the game that's what it was. The game fell apart when the half-baked RTS stuff came in. I'd be interested in a reboot or sequel, but just go full action adventure and ditch the RTS. There really is something there with the Heavy Metal theme.
PS360 gen was special, then again it was still the mid 2000s. Everything went to shite in the teens
I think that was the breaker for Doublefine's creative ambitions and their mixing of genres (which was getting kinda stale). It was a nice to look at but it was more of a tribute to the many things Tim loves, was influenced by and has great admiration for....but the forced RTS stuff was like a drinking buddy's "great idea" that never should have come to light. The game seemed a lot more vast, but it ended pretty quickly too. And Jack Black. As much as I don't care for him as an actor (annoying and requires constant attention), this was absolutely made with him in mind and it worked. I mean come on, Tenacious D? For as Metal as this game was trying to be, even comically, it did little more than meow.
