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Double Fine Wants You To Get Trenched

Tim Schafer's downloadable blitzkrieg rages on without prejudice!

Mar. 2 2011

Posted by: Brad

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Edited By crusader8463

Shame they only make games for consoles. Looked like it would have been a fun game for $5-$10.

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Edited By xpgamer7

I'm up for anything double fine puts out at this point. They're just that good.

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Edited By BBQBram

Customizable mechs? Sold. Oh hey it's a Double Fine game to boot.

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Bafflement and joy, the twin heads of the Double Fine bee

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Edited By kratier

delayed release for ps3 = no purchase, 

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Edited By RichieJohn

This looks great. I for one loved everything about Brutal Legend apart from the length.  More gameplay that might resemble that is great.
Double Fine still haven't made a bad game as far as I'm concerned. I won't get 'Once upon a Monster' as I've got no plans to get Kinect. But anything else they announce I'll eat up.

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Edited By Cerogravian

This is love.

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Double Fine= Awesomness 
 
One of the few developers left who are not afraid to innovate and make new IP's 

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The greatest move Double Fine ever made, going download only.  

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Edited By buhssuht

damn double fine, you're on fire

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@Daveyo520 said:
" I really want this. "
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Edited By ptys

Such a... Microsoft title, ehhhh!

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@kratier said:
"delayed release for ps3 = no purchase,  "

For someone with a green name, that seems like a really weird thing to say. 
 
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You had me at "Mobile Trench".

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Edited By penguindust

So it's a mech game and is there some RTS in there too as you set gun emplacements?  Well, it also seems to have so co-op, so maybe that will be interesting.  I don't know.  It's been a good long time since I played a decent mech game but I do recall that half the fun is destroying other mechs, not glowy bugs.  I'll withhold judgment until more is known. 

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Mechs + Double Fine = Awesome

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@pwnasaurus:  Oh, yeah right... wrong character pull, right voice actor (since he did Gordon, Amadeus Arkham, Warden Sharp AND Louie Green [the guard in the hoodie you can talk to right after getting into the "open world" for the first time] - that's what I get for posting from memory when I should have been asleep)...
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Edited By RoadCrewWorkerer

So it's a third person mech 4 player coop tower defense game? Sure as hell ain't no Psychonauts.

Also, xbox exclusive? Well, there goes my wish of giving you money, double fine. 

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we had stacking and now it's trenched! I'm just curious what's coming up next

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Edited By Sambambo

No mans land into Real mans land?
 
I was pretty much sold, but that line made it a 100% purchase.
 
I loved Costume Quest (hopefully the fries glitch will be fixed soon) and Stacking is my GOTY so far! Gotta love Double Fine.

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Edited By Tesla

This looks rather fun.

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You had me at "Double Fine" and "Aliens".

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Take my fucking money right now, Double Fine. Just do it. 
 
And also have my babies. All of them.

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Geeze, Doublefine really ain't messin around.

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@RedDragon123 said:
"One of the few developers left who are not afraid to innovate and make new IP's  "
Innovate? Mechs have been around for decades.
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that line at the end was perfect

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@JakeTaylor: Judging by their emphasis on upgrading, turrets, and defense, I'd say it looks a lot more like a co-op tower defense game.
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Double fine wants to be all the downloads.

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@ryn said:
" You had me at "Mobile Trench". "
Yes indeed
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A Double Fine mech game? Greatest idea ever.

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Good

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Edited By rjaylee

Hmmm curious to know if this is an arcade release or if it's a disc. I'd have to assume arcade, but it almost looks as if it could be a disc game.

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looks pretty solid.
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@Terjay said:
" @RedDragon123 said:
"One of the few developers left who are not afraid to innovate and make new IP's  "
Innovate? Mechs have been around for decades. "
I think he meant in reference to this being a completely new IP.  
Besides how many WWI Mech Alien Invasion games have you played?
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Edited By nick_verissimo

This sort of looks like it'll be the Brutal Legend gameplay, which didn't work for me, so I'll probably pass.

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Edited By fox01313

Compared to the past things done by Double Fine, this one seems a little more generic. Maybe there's some future footage shown that has that quirky humor that's in the other games they've done.

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Games do not have to be funny to be imaginative and different.

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Edited By hyperfludd

Soo....XBLA exclusive? Bummer.

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I don't get it. If you can move around as a giant Mech, why would you ever want to trench it?

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Edited By Sharpshooter

This is what I love about Double Fine, they keep coming up with original stuff. Its never just some generic throw away IP that anyone could come up with. They may take some normal pieces (e.g. Turn based combat, open world exploration, third person platforming) but they wrap it all up in original concepts, settings and stories. 
  
I mean what other company could come up with an idea like "the mobile trench brigade" or a world populated by Russian stacking dolls or kids with the power to make Halloween costumes real or a world based around heavy metal music. No one but the brilliant, creative and imaginative minds at Double Fine.

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looks fun. i will surely give it a shot. love costume quest. didnt care much for stacking.

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So let me get this straight. 
 
Double fine, is making their own brand of mechwarrior where you fight Aliens in World War 1? 
 

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Looks like a variation on tower defense games.  
Microsoft Games publishing...oh joy. 

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Hah, I love the concept of "mobile trench warfare".

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Edited By StealthRaptor

I'll play it if I can use my Steel Battalion controller.

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Just when I thought Double Fine was on a cool indie vibed hot streak..

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@Zereta said:

" Take my fucking money right now, Double Fine. Just do it.  And also have my babies. All of them. "

This! It just needs a brilliant/mad scientist Doogie Howser and it will be perfect!
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Edited By XcL

Trailer started .. oh no a RTS by double fine why ?? then OMG it's a mech game I'm in day one. 

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It looks like Chromehounds with personality. I'm in!

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Edited By proggykins

This game. It does not look interesting to me.