>RTS sections are just okay >the story loses focus towards the end >no mini-map with release
>but you can drive a flame-spewing, lightning bolt-shooting hotrod around a map that looks like Frank Frazetta designed it >Ozzy fucking Osborne is your upgrade merchant >Rob Halford, Lita Ford and fucking Lemmy are supporting characters >the final boss is Tim fucking Curry playing an S&M Satan >mid-game has you smashing emos with a flaming battle axe while your guitar shoots electricity >one achievment requires you to hijack a boar/motorbike on one end of the map, and crash it into a lake on the other end >it's actually genuinely funny at moments >DAT FUCKING SOUNDTRACK: youtube.com/watch?v=xVU6o7xg_Lo
Holy balls, why did people constantly say this was a bad game? What sort of dry bastards plays something like that and doesn't crack a smile?
What other games got a similar treatment? You know, games that might be a bit technically underwhelming but are really cathartically fun all the same?
I don't like metal. All metal sounds the same. Just a continuous diarrhea of electric guitar.
Connor Carter
Here's your problem OP.
Asher Jones
Because it's two gameplay components are mediocre, you need to like and be into metal to get the references and need to like Jack Black. Its a very niche game, so why act surprised when no one likes it?
Lucas Howard
I really liked this game. Shame nobody played it.
Jaxson Lee
Don't forget the game was sold as a hack and slash long before and most people didn't even know it was a rts.
Adrian Nelson
the forced rts elements tanked it
Matthew Evans
They should have just kept with the hack and slash, they really shot themselves in the foot by adding the RTS part.
Liam Campbell
>RTS sections are absolute garbage >openworld is pointless and tedious to explore since you can't even fucking jump >hack-and-slash gameplay is boring and repetitive
>game is held up simply by its style and humour
If you like your stylish games, Brutal Legend is okay to play once, but if you like your games with good gameplay, Brutal Legend is just awful.
Andrew Baker
>adding the RTS part Brutal Legend started out as a 3D RTS game like Sacrifice, Giants Citizen Kabuto, and Battlezone 98. DoubleFine even had some people who worked on Sacrifice and Giants working on it. It's just too bad they had to consolize the shit out of it and we all know how well RTS games work on consoles. DoubleFine had to add in hack-and-slash stuff just to appease its previous publisher Activision and new publisher EA.
Parker Lewis
I maxed out the ingame play timer just driving around in the postgame listening to the soundtrack. >never got to play a single online match
Samuel Cruz
FEEL THE PAIN FROM THE JACKAL'S WRATH DANCE IN FLAMES FOR THE FINAL QUEST HEAR THE GHOST OF VIOLENCE FEAR THE GOD OF DETRIMENT
Ryan Morales
I got this game because it sounded like Sacrifice but it wasn't anywhere near as fun as Sacrifice.
Robert Martin
There are a lot of miserable bastards browsing this place.
Jaxon Cox
What I don't get are the people who think that Brutal Legend should have been a pure action game when all the hack and slash stuff is all really basic and unsatisfying.
Wyatt Watson
>played the game with the bleeps off at first >the dialogue felt really tryhard and juvenile >turn on bleeps >it's suddenly hilarious I don't even understand how this works man
Brayden Brown
>Dialogue felt really tryhard
what did he mean by this ?
Connor Rodriguez
Are you mental?
Liam Parker
bleeps are funnier, plain and simple
Carter Allen
Because it gets boring as fuck as soon as the RTS elements are revealed
Austin Kelly
im planning on playing this for the first time soon, hopefully in 4k if its well optimized enough. jack black annoys me to no end, but this seems to be his greatest gift to the world. they may never be a sequel, but i hope there is another headbangers ball game eventually. i might also follow it with my first vtmb playthrough since its october.
Jose Wilson
Pretty much this. Metal is probably the most abysmal form of music.
Dylan Peterson
LE EPIC METAL XDDDD
Luis Reyes
It really should have just been a hack n' slash. It even makes a lot more thematic sense than making an RTS heavy metal game. Are strategy games really what you think of when you think of metal? I know it's Double Fine and they wanted to do something creative and unique, but they fucked it up either way.
And yet the hack n' slash stuff (along with the driving, open world and turret missions) were still significantly more entertaining than the terrible RTS battles. They were honestly just tedious and boring, and only got worse as the game progressed. And besides, if they had scrapped the RTS stuff entirely, they could have poured their effort into improving the actual fun parts of the game. This was so close to be a really awesome game if they had just made it a combination of open world driving and beat em' up action (think Sleeping Dogs).
Jaxon Parker
>Ozzy fucking Osborne is your upgrade merchant >Rob Halford, Lita Ford and fucking Lemmy are supporting characters
This was probably the biggest waste of money in video game history. How many normies even cared about Osborne or Lemmy, let alone knew a single Judas priest or runaway's song? They could have gotten sound-a-likes for chump change and retained the same effect as far as the vast majority of players were concerned.
>Brutal Legend started out as a 3D RTS game
When you look at how the RTS gameplay works on a fundamental level (e.g. stages and audio equipment), it was always going to be a disaster whether it got consolised or not. If anything the consolisation and forced hack and slash probably ended up making the RTS segments playable compared to how bad they would have been. The fact that they green-lit a extremely niche, difficult to pull off genre like 3d rts, while already having a reputation for mediocre, poorly planned gameplay is pretty surprising, but the fact that they then went ahead with a massive budget for it and then proceeded to blow that budget out... well, it just goes to show how stupid Shafer and Activision really were.
Jace Nelson
Actually from a music theory perspective it's superior to most genres. That being said, this is a matter of opinion, so I will leave it at: You probably have shit taste too.
Isaiah Sanders
My taste in music is horrid but I don't go around like metal fags who listen to the same screeching bullshit acting indignant whenever someone calls my music awful. Maybe the only way to enjoy metal is to have your head up your ass.
Nolan Hernandez
The way you describe it shows your unfamiliarity with the genre and subgenres. Also, your experiences with a small handful of metal fans isn't representative of millions of people. Thanks.
Lincoln White
It's like Deadly Premonition: for some the charm is enough, for others it isn't.
Ryan Anderson
>Metal fans >Millions of people
Anthony Young
Oh please link some high tier quality metal to educate us please. I'm sure you can write a thesis on the minute differences between each shit song you obnoxious twat.
Ayden Watson
Being scandinavian, i were surrounded by "metalheads" during my teens. There is no group as cringy as them. Ugly, smelly, unfunny and skinny yet thinks they're some ultra badasses. Most of them ditched the black and turned into Sup Forumsacks though. Probably took Man O' War seriously.
Sebastian Brooks
Your lack of exposure is showing :D Go listen to rihanna or whatever normies jam out to.
Angel Peterson
I downright adore this game. some of the most fun I've just driving around looking for sidequests, listening to music. plus all the monsters in the game were based off album covers, helped them stand apart from the generic stock of fantasy monsters
This. I personally didn't enjoy DP much, and i've tried 4 times over the couple of years of getting into it. But it just doesn't do it for me.
But i can 100% understand why people with a far bigger preference for b-class "acting" and twin peaks, two things i don't enjoy, love it. I can see the merit the game has for what it is.
