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Sept. 30, 2009
  • @Suicrat said: " @Ice_Cold_Rayman said: " @Brunchies: This is true, it happened with Psychonauts, and I wouldn't be surprised if it happened with this game. "There's a key difference, Brutal Legend isn't being marketed by Majesco.  I think this game will sell just fine. "Yes, this game has more things going for it (EA publishing it, lots of celebrity), which is why it will definitely sell more than Psychonauts.  But ...
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Sept. 29, 2009
  • @Brunchies: This is true, it happened with Psychonauts, and I wouldn't be surprised if it happened with this game.
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  •  As a longtime gamer, i've played my share of demos that were good and bad, with the final product not always matching up. I'm sure everyone has had the experience of getting hyped for a game, buying it, and being thoroughly disappointed. Thus, I always hedge my expectations even after playing a good demo. Cautious optimism, as opposed to going crazy on either end of the spectrum, is something I ...
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  • @MrKlorox said: " I wonder if they'll land licensed signature guitars for DLC. As much as I hate microtransactions, I would TOTALLY buy a Dimebag Darrell guitar for Eddie (and better yet also usable as a prop for my XBL avatar). "If those guitars had sweet solos and different powers, and if they were priced right, i'd get them.
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  • Ice_Cold_Rayman has signed on for the first time in ages. Damn my slow computer
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Dec. 24, 2008
  • Cheapoz said: "Did anyone come up with an inventive way to beat Grunty in that challenge? All my current planes and helicopters were no match, so I made the following...A huge cage with an open bottom made of super poles, on top, foldy propellers and weapons that all faced into the cage, and at the back a few jets to go forward, and upward.When the stage begins, I hit the ...
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  • Ice_Cold_Rayman had a submission approved for Super Smash Bros. Melee for a total of 2,789 points.
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  • Ice_Cold_Rayman replied to the topic Andrew Ryan is awesome! in the BioShock board.
    Hamz said: "Andrew Ryan is up there in my top 10 favourite characters in a game of all time, not an easy feat to achieve. Great character, would have liked to see more of him developed in the Bioshock 2 game but from the looks of it i doubt we will. Pity really." I agree. But yeah, golf club to the head kinda clashes with him appearing in the next ...
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Nov. 13, 2008
Added by Ice_Cold_Rayman on Sept. 29, 2009

 As a longtime gamer, i've played my share of demos that were good and bad, with the final product not always matching up. I'm sure everyone has had the experience of getting hyped for a game, buying it, and being thoroughly disappointed. Thus, I always hedge my expectations even after playing a good demo. Cautious optimism, as opposed to going crazy on either end of the spectrum, is something I partake in. That's why i'm not annointing Brutal Legend as GOTY or saying that it can do no wrong, as some have. I will say however, that it has me more excited for a game than I have been in some time.
 
Of all the things a good demo should do (clear up concerns about the game, give you a glimpse of the final product), the chief concern should be to get you hyped for the game. It succeeded masterfully in that respect.  As a lover of metal, I can see having loads of fun driving The Druid Plow, running over bad guys with Judas Priest's "The Hellion/Electric Eye" blaring in the background. But even if I wasn't extremely excited about the heavy metal overtones, the demo still would have been enjoyable, as it seems to be a fundamentally sound action (and RTS, though that part is not in the demo) game. I'm still waiting to see what this big, expansive world will be like, and minor gripes such as framerate are out there. These are things that can be cleared up in the final product though.
 
Short of curing cancer, I don't think there's anything Brutal Legend could do that would garner it more praise than the demo already has. I am certainly not the 1st or even 50,000th person to talk good about it. But it bears repeating, as in this world of sequels, sequels, and more sequels, truly original games aren't as easy to find. Good, original games even more so. It's games like these that need to be supported. I sincerely hope that it turns out to be as good as the demo is and that Tim Schafer and Double Fine get the credit they deserve. But even if you're turned off by the mere mention of axes (battle and musical), give the demo for Brutal Legend a try. It may open your eyes to a whole new, demon-infested, world.
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