Comments on: Video – The entire Brutal Legend demo

By: reask

reask — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:01:35 +0000

Pity about that cos it is funny as hell dialogue wise.
I will give it a blast later anyway.

By: Dr.Ghettoblaster

Dr.Ghettoblaster — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:38:58 +0000

Like the story and presentation, very fresh/unique. Gameplay is stale as shit though and seems almost last gen to me. Sorry, that’s what I got out of the demo. Jack Black always cracks my shit up though.

By: NiceFellow

NiceFellow — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:54:52 +0000

Yeah, reask, played it today. The style, look, jokes, etc. are all great, but I was surprised how uninvolving the gameplay was – just seemed like bashing on button would get you through with no skill.

Of course, I’m sure it get’s harder, but I just didn’t feel there was a lot of room to get really ‘skilled’ at the game, if you know what I mean.

Love the concept though.

By: reask

reask — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:47:34 +0000

Just gotten the bleep on my download so will know better later.
you played it nicefellow?
I just looked at the vid and thought it looked very original.
I will know soon enough.
Mind you I was a bit surprised that Pat was not getting slaughtered.
You should check out his chronicles of riddick one.
Worth its weight in gold.

Sorry Pat.

By: NiceFellow

NiceFellow — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:42:42 +0000

Great dialogue
Great style
Great idea
Average gameplay and choppy animation

Bugger.

I know it’s Heavy Metal, but is the whole thing going to be a button masher with cool cutscenes or is there going to be any Grim Fandango style wit and depth? I’m guessing not.

By: reask

reask — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:57:26 +0000

That game looks deadly.
The dialogue is a hoot.
definitely downloading later.
Was that you playing it Pat.
I was going to add that the graphics are excellent but then again what would you expect.
It was the 360 version.

By: Gekidami

Gekidami — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:21:06 +0000

I meant ‘tinny’ not ‘tiny’.

But yeah i had them all on max anyway, it shouldnt really affect the quality. I’ve noticed someone else point it out to on the Official PS3 Forums.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:17:36 +0000

You can alter the volume of the effects, voices and music individually. Did you try that?

By: Gekidami

Gekidami — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:10:30 +0000

PS3, the voice and music are perfect but the sfx sound ‘tinny’.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:08:33 +0000

It does have a slightly ‘last-gen’ feeling to it at times, and there were a few bits of slow-down in the demo which I hope are ironed out by the final version. But I’ll be quite happy to forgive most of those issues because it’s just that bit different from most of the other stuff out there.

Didn’t notice any issues with the sound though, Geki. Were you playing 360 or PS3?

By: Gekidami

Gekidami — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:59:39 +0000

I agree, it’ll be interesting to see how this does in review, it has alot going for it but the gameplay is quite frankly crap -playable but still crap. And as they say; ‘Gameplay > Everything else’ right?

From what i’ve seen the game is about a 7/10 right now.

EDIT: Also, whats up with the terrible sfx sound? Its all low quality.

By: JonFE

JonFE — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:50:29 +0000

Well, I played the demo too and I feel somewhat disappointed. Don’t get me wrong: the story, the setting, the humour, the music are all there; I just wish some game mechanics will be improved in the final game.

For example, the fighting animation and controls are not as smooth or flowing as I would like. Now, I was not expecting Ninja Gaiden’s levels of complexity or a huge array of different moves and combos. But I can’t help being spoiled by Batman’s excellent fighting, which manages to be both attractive and easy to pull off.

I’ve got the game on pre-order and I’m not going to change that. But as the disclaimer goes, I hope the demo is not representative of the final product.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:25:17 +0000

Played the demo last night and really liked it. Will buy!

By: trivi4l

trivi4l — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:09:45 +0000

I loved the demo day one purchase however couldn’t fully enjoy it because my girlfriend called me and said I need to see her parents next week. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU-

By: The Hindle

The Hindle — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:32:18 +0000

Looks such a cool game, this and Uncharted 2 on same day god im gonna be skint

By: Johnny Cullen

Johnny Cullen — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:21:36 +0000

Need to DL the demo once MAG is finished

By: Stephany Nunneley

Stephany Nunneley — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:13:06 +0000

Wow. Metalriffic. Day one as planned.

By: patty mayonaise

patty mayonaise — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:32:29 +0000

I have deliberately avoided reading about this game in the hope that it turned out to be awesome. Same as batman, avoided reading about that like the plauge. good to hear such strong positive comments though Pat.

By: freedoms_stain

freedoms_stain — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:32:23 +0000

Liked the Butter-face line.

And Children Of The Grave makes a badass battle tune.

By: Patrick Garratt

Patrick Garratt — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:46:10 +0000

Loved it. All of it. Day one.

By: Phoenixblight

Phoenixblight — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:45:42 +0000

Great demo. I am tempted to get it just gives the feeling of Army of Dead with a fusion of Heavy Metal. Then Jack Black who is very funny.

“Dont you feel like you were supposed to be born at an earlier time?”

“You mean the 70s?”

“Nah, like the early 70s”