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How The Multiplayer Works In Brütal Legend

Wondering how Double Fine does online action? Watch this.

Oct. 1 2009

Posted by: Brad

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Brütal Legend

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@nail1080 said:

" Multi player will be dead a week after release "

You're totally right, and can definately see this being another "the darkness or dark sector' in multi player regards (Nevermind that the main reason multiplayer didn't work in those games or any for that matter was the immense lag, even with a 'green' connect.)
But I mean cmon, it's only NOW double is telling us all about this supposed 'multi player' I mean seriously how long could they have had to work on this when the single players already going to be soooo very POLISHED and amazing. O wait, that's right, multiplayer was finished 2-3 years ago. The game started as multiplayer so it could be completely perfected and balanced and there's three pages full of people hyped for this. So hmmmm let's review-
 
 1)lag free 2) fun/balanced 3) and WE KNOW at least 20 people from giantbomb on there. Doesn't sound very dead to me... sorry nail you can't keep us down. Even TLAD isn't dead, if you wait long enough and most people HATE gta multiplayer. There's a reason for that. It's just not... great. RUn around get shield, get weapon, take some bitches, die, repeat. Well crap, looks like you might actually be wrong for once nailhead. I'm shocked. IM SO FUCKING SHOCKED, and you've always been my god little naily.
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@kingclaw said:
"so, its some kind of RTS? meh "

You've obviously never played Giants. Game's looking insanely cool, the Ironheade clan is a little meh, but the two others looks very creative and cool :D
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Edited By Shadow

It's already Rocktober.  Not too long now.

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Edited By yogetoutdaway

lol zeus is narrating?
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@darkjester74 said:
" This is where the game loses me...I am completely uninterested in RTSs.  However, the SP demo really sold me so I am still going to be picking this up!  :) "
sucks. maybe check your shit before you buy?? because even the SP has these rts elements. So yeah sucks man, too bad
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@Kilnik said:

" @giyanks22 said:

" @Kilnik said:

" You know, I like Rocktober, but I like F*ckvember a whole lot better... "

Lol...Same here...Dragon Age, Modern Warfare 2, and Assassins Creed 2. "
All of which are on my "to buy" list. Including the aforementioned  Brüt...
"
not me... but good job, listing three of this holiday seasons most generic pieces of crap you could  that you can be sure every 10 year old will have (courtesy of their mommy). And wow fuckvember... ingenious. um rock and ock... not uck. Idiot.
 
Oh and *edit* are any of those games made by Tim Schafer?
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Edited By Progman9000

For some reason, this part of the game seems way more interesting to me than the single player.

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The multipayer mode is pretty much sacrifice! I loved sacrifice -- about time someone made something like it. I'm sure shiny will be properly impressed when this ships. Looks great.

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Hmm the multiplayer kinda reminds me of Freedom Fighters from last gen....and that game was AWESOME. Let's hope logic follows through on this one.

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@Zaapp1 said:
" @Hoshnasi: The main hero has demon wings, I wouldn't assume goth make-up was a sign of evil. "
Sooooo.... What you're saying here is that you don't know the answer to my question.
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This is where the game loses me...I am completely uninterested in RTSs.  However, the SP demo really sold me so I am still going to be picking this up!  :)

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Edited By TheFrostedGamer

The mulitplayer looks like it could be fun. Like some have already assumed, it's probably going to depend a lot on how easily you can micro-manage. And of course no RTS is complete without units that are extra fun to use. It's a weird game - I think many wanted something other than RTS from this game, but it's also evident that a lot of quality work went into it. So I want to give it props for that.

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Why does it only say Xbox Live at the end? It's on PSN too.

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@MuzykMann said:

" @TheHBK said:

" no. just no.  This is why you fail Mr Schaefer. "
Your insightful analysis of the material provided, the examples you provided, and the sound reasoning you used to come to your conclusion have convinced me that your statement must be valid. *thumbs up* "
You Sir have the wit of a sharpened american lad in the prime of his youth. Huzah!. (insult sword fighting anyone?)
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looks really interesting, aand the demo is awesome as hell...

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@TheHBK said:
" no. just no.  This is why you fail Mr Schaefer. "
Your insightful analysis of the material provided, the examples you provided, and the sound reasoning you used to come to your conclusion have convinced me that your statement must be valid. *thumbs up*
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@TheHBK:
Whereas South Park is amazingly good...
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This game looks like it's going to be the shit!!
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Now that they've actually explained this it makes a lot more sense to me. Perhaps Double Fine should have been a bit more forthcoming a little earlier. Their reticence has eroded some of the natural goodwill they began with.

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no. just no.  This is why you fail Mr Schaefer.

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While I really hope the single player does well, I mean thats the main thing right?, I hope the Multiplayer works out fine as well. Its such a creative idea but extremely easy to mess up.

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I can't waaaaaaait!

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@R3Qui4M said:
" The Narrator is Zues from God of War  "
Neat.
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Multi player will be dead a week after release

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@Hoshnasi: The main hero has demon wings, I wouldn't assume goth make-up was a sign of evil.
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Do. Want. Even. More.

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Seeing plenty of Sacrifice influence, which is far from a bad thing.

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Awesome, will wait 6 months for it to halve in price, like everything.

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@giyanks22 said:

" @Kilnik said:

" You know, I like Rocktober, but I like F*ckvember a whole lot better... "

Lol...Same here...Dragon Age, Modern Warfare 2, and Assassins Creed 2. "
All of which are on my "to buy" list. Including the aforementioned  Brüt...
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The Narrator is Zeus from God of War 

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@Zeik said:
" @kingclaw said:
" so, its some kind of RTS? meh "
The multi-player is, yes, the main game is a lot more than that. "

I usually don't like RTS games but for some reason the concept of this part of the game seems interesting to me.
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Saying how the game has been in development since 2005, and it started off as a multiplayer only game, I'm sure plenty of time has been put into both modes.

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Not sure if this needed multiplayer.  Would have preferred more time put into the single.

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Seeing Brutal Legend originally was meant as a pure multiplayer game I have high hopes for it. Reminds me much about Sacrifice, which was a sweet game back in the day!
 
Shaping up to become more awesome than I earlier had anticipated.

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Multiplayer looks like it could be a fun distraction, but I dunno how well it'll really play.

I'm on the fence.

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reminds me of Sacrifice and that game was awesome, the only RTS I've ever actually completed

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love the announcer

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A for originality.

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This game is going to ROCK
 
*Pun intended*

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Looks interesting.

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Nice

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So happy this game looks creative in both the writing AND the gameplay departments.  Would have been super easy for them to go generic GoW clone with funny writing, but it looks like they went the extra mile.  Good for them.

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@kingclaw said:
" so, its some kind of RTS? meh "
MEH yourself. 
 
And I find it funny how they ignore the PS3. 
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i dunno about the multiplayer but the demo makes the single player look awesome.

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this looks alot better then how I pictured the multiplayer

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@Kilnik said:
" You know, I like Rocktober, but I like F*ckvember a whole lot better... "
Lol...Same here...Dragon Age, Modern Warfare 2, and Assassins Creed 2.
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Not really a fan of what I am seeing of the mutliplayer, the single player is a different story though.

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This game is just plain awesome.

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Maybe spoiler:
 
Is the chick from the demo going to end up being a bady?  It looks likes she is the leader of the the team emo. Also there is a zoomed in picture of her at the end of the demo looking pretty baddy.