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"Quick Look" - Brutal Legend

Tim Schafer himself gives you the business for 17 straight minutes.

Jul. 3 2009

Posted by: Brad

In This Episode:

Brütal Legend

Tim Schafer

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Edited By saddlebrown

Meh. Might be worth it for the comedy, but it seems like this game should just be linear. It just doesn't look like it would benefit from being open-world.

I'm definitely more interested now than before this video, but man, I still just don't know about this game.

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Edited By Crono

Game looks fun and the graphics are sweet.  I can't wait to rock this game!

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Edited By Brontes_Muse

Totally exceeded my expectation. It looks awesome.

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Edited By Out_On_Bail

Damn I am excited for this.  They should just rename it to 100% Badass.  Thanks for the sneak peak, I can't wait!

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@whatisdelicious said:
" Meh. Might be worth it for the comedy, but it seems like this game should just be linear. It just doesn't look like it would benefit from being open-world.I'm definitely more interested now than before this video, but man, I still just don't know about this game. "
You probably haven't played psychonauts.
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Edited By kraznor

That was most enjoyable. Can't wait for this game. Hope there is a special Brutal Legend podcast with Tim Schafer when the game comes out. Make it so.

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@whatisdelicious: It is. I don't know it the demo gets there, but it is.
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Fucking dope. I want this game.

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Edited By imayellowfellow

does anyone know how long this game will be?

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Edited By blair

The car lacks proper impact mechanics. 

That's sort of annoying when you crash into a group of dudes

and two of them animate like they've been hit even though they all did.

Or they don't even get hurt when you run into a group of enemies.

They slide around without taking damage... not good.

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@Guerrilla_Mason said:
"Really kind of takes away some of the funny when he says everything is going to be funny. "

yes. i hate when people do that
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Edited By dethfish

I'm drooling over this fucking game right now.

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Edited By sjschmidt93

This game will be like infamous I think... looks good, but not really amazing. But it turns out it really is amazing.

And this game will have the best soundtrack evar!

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Edited By SolidEyeSystem

Rocktober indeed.

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Edited By maxszy

WOW! Yeah, absolutely can't wait for this!

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Edited By FuzzYLemoN

This actually looks... extremely awesome. I'm now interested.

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Edited By Lydian_Sel

I believe this will be my first Tim Schafer game.


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Edited By okuzy

looks pretty awesome

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Edited By MeatSim

Wow Jack Black is pretty good in this not annoying at all.

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Edited By kallistosprom

i agree what happened to impact machanics? oh well looks fun and nice music. I'm sold :)

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this game seems to be pretty hilarious

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Edited By Dirty_Harry

BLACK SABBAAAAAAAAAAAATH!!!!!

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Edited By Ineedaname

Combat looks uninteresting though =(

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Edited By PTZen

Great stuff! Cant wait for it to come out

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Edited By Titl

i love the soundtrack, so cool!

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Edited By Aeterna

"Uhh... whoever is playing needs to pick up the axe already"

Haha. +1

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Edited By benderunit22

Gotta hand it to Tim Schafer, the guy knows how to make games funny.

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Edited By morden2261

That just sold me.

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Edited By JoeyIA

I enjoyed that Quick Look.

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Edited By BD_Mr_Bubbles

Awesome stuff,

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Edited By ponyslayer

Decapitation!!!!
quick look sold me, looks great

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Edited By Lotan

You know alot of people comment with mems like, "day one" and "must have" or "want now", and I usually think those are pretty stupid comments.  but.....


Wow!  I must have this on day one,  but I want it now!
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Edited By wrecks

sold.

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Edited By Xeiphyer

Man this game looks great, I'm glad they are getting this game a lot of attention because I probably would have never checked it out normally. Also I can't believe how extremely funny this game looks, I laughed 6 or 7 times during the quick look, thats pretty damn good!

Truly this is the age of funny videogames.

I am really looking forward to this game, and everyone who has been able to play the pre-release builds have said that the game is way better than it looks. I really want to see the open world elements and I hear theres some strategy stuff too!

I really liked the pace of the beginning, lots of bosses and random crazyness going on, had a really good pace.

Also tim schaefer is a champ. He is awesome at making funny videogames and was very awesome to listen to in this :P

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Edited By Vinny_Says

"children of the grave"...I'm sold!

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Edited By lacke

I watched about 1 min of this trailer and I'm sold. So far, the only pieces of info I've gotten about this game has been from the podcast. Complete media block about this game from now on because I like the beauty of "discovering" a game myself once and a while.

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Edited By halfameatball

Wow, I really want this game...now!

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Edited By Yobalt

This game looks amazing. Can't wait for October!

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Edited By MachoFantastico

Game looks great! Must buy!

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Edited By orgunuk

Looks great, especially for an alpha build!


Daaaaaay-aaah onnnnneeeee-ah
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Edited By smokepants

Seems pretty rough. The combat doesn't seem to be anywhere in the same league as Ninja Gaiden or even God of War. It's more like... Legend of Zelda or Fable. Pretty tame and uninteresting. The driving looks like it has issues as well.

Also, an audio pet peeve of mine is when no effort is made to match VO with the context. It doesn't sound like he's standing atop a mountain of skulls fighting off demons when he delivers his lines, it sounds like he's in a little room with foam-padded walls, sipping a latte.

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Edited By Lazyaza

Fucking epic. Must play iiiiit!

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Edited By strangeling

I trust Tim Schafer when he says this is going to be awesome.

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Edited By max3000

DECAPITATIOOOONNNNN!

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Edited By flame_retardant

wow, this looks way better than i thought it would. Before watching i didnt know what the hype was about but this looks like a decent purchase

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Edited By Xeiphyer
@SmokePants: Dude keep in mind it doesn't come out for quite a while. Don't judge a game so harshly before it comes out =P
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Edited By Kolonel_Kool

Tim makes great games.  I'm not completely sold on it.  Watching a game isn't playing a game though.  The art direction almost makes it look last gen, which doesn't concern me too much. After all, I play games because they are fun, not because they are pretty.  At least it doesn't look broken.  I may be sold by a good demo, but without getting my hands on it I just can't be sure.  Looks like it could be fun.

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Edited By Tordah

Haha, that was awesome. I've been skeptical to this game since I first heard of it but now I'm convinced it'll be great.

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Edited By aaox

Defend thine self!

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Edited By Jimbo

The dialogue seems excellent, but you know how Ryan felt about Chris Klein?  That's exactly how I feel every time Jack Black opens his mouth.  I don't want to, I just can't help it.

Definitely still a few issues to work on before release - there's a camera problem fighting the worm thing and a framerate crash when he's driving the car.  The transitions between game and cutscene need some work too.

Anybody recognise the hot rod?  It's almost identical to the one in Grim Fandango (right down to the 8 ball shift).  I'm surprised they can do that, but maybe that means we'll be able to get the bike from Full Throttle?  Maybe?