Proving that most corporate executives know jacksh*t about anything, Tim Schafer has revealed that when he started pitching Brütal Legend many years ago, the bigwigs in charge wanted the game to be based upon country or hip-hop music. According to the game creator, had Guitar Hero not happened, we may have been talking about Def Jam Legend right now.
"When we were first pitching Brütal Legend," explains Schafer, "it was before the first Guitar Hero game was announced and we were like, 'There’s this game in a heavy metal world,' [and they said], 'We like the game, but could we change it to be a hip-hop game, or maybe country music?'
"There’s nothing against that music, but it doesn’t have a lore of heavy metal, in terms of a certain kind of mythology that leads to epic, medieval battles. After Guitar Hero came out and [Black Sabbath's] Iron Man was one of the first songs on it, it seemed to expose a whole new generation to that kind of music.
"So by the time we were pitching the game for a second time there was a lot more interest in it being exactly what it is, which is a brutal heavy metal action-adventure."
I love how executives always seem to think hip-hop is the answer to everything. Just goes to show you how hard it is for a unique and original idea to get anywhere in a world where people want to put 50 Cent into everything and make all forms of entertainment look and sound exactly the same.
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2:20 PM on 05.06.2009
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Hopefully, everyone will forget that Shaolin Style ever happened.
I WIN! But at such a terrible cost... :-(
just because i could.
Naturally it's in Schafer's interests to create the game he wants to create. Props to him for sticking to his guns on this, but I don't really think these are dumb executives who are out to make everything the same.
The fact is, heavy metal was not all that popular in the new millenium before the Guitar Hero games took off.
So in reality, the fact that this game is being made now, in an age of renewed interest in heavy metal brought about by Guitar Hero, it could be argued that this game fits neatly into a sea of sameness that is today's entertainment. A fantasy-themed hip hop adventure could be viewed as the more unique and cutting edge idea.
This is what happens when you put 60 year old businessmen in charge of a company manufacturing products for people half their age.
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WTIH THOSE FUCKING IDIOTS
BUGHHHHH IM GONNA BE SICK TO MY STOMACH
Remember the first 50 Cent game, the awful one that sold millions of copies?
Now can you really blame execs who want to make a dollar for wanting a hip hop game a couple years back?
On a side note though, thank God it never happened. Can't wait to play Brutal Legend in all it's metal glory.
wow, that is really fucking sad
Hip-hop Legend...that's the dumbest fucking thing I've heard all day.
Yeah I'm happy they went rock because I'm doing the other possibilities in my head, and I'm not enjoying what I'm hearing.
It'd be like Afro Samurai, only the game would tons better.
I could drool over the thought over a samurai/rap experience that's like Samurai Champloo or Afro Samurai.
Drool, goddamnit...
Um no one said it would have been called that, you just came up with it.
While I think the metal theme is the way to go, I think a hip hop fantasy adventure could work as well. If you're talking mainstream hip hop, forget it. However something in a similar vein to [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVht5GaRe6Q]Wave Twisters[/url] could work.
Also, country? WTF are they thinking?!
I'm sorry, but yall fucking suck.
I can guarantee that this game ill be one of the best this year. Guarantee it. If you don't pick it up, you'll be missing out.
And really, you can't blame execs for wanting to make money. They saw what was hot at the moment, and wanted to capitalize on it. If they have to ignore creative ideas to get the job done, then that's what they'll do. Props to Tim Schafer for sticking it out and still making this game, even when other said it wouldn't work.
The execs go where the money is.
Not sure what the hell they were thinking Country... But a Brutal Legend featuring Willie Nelson would be sweet :D
Or, it could be that you've built a up completely unrealistic stereotype around a genre of music and the individuals who choose to listen to it.
I love independent hip-hop, because it displays an intelligence and love of elocution that most other music is lacking. It also challenges racial and ethnic stereotypes.
Obviously, you're right though. Hip Hop is complete garbage, because your assumptions are obviously grounded in fact.
Now METAL, it's just all-out, raw power. You're riding a chariot through a storm, summoning demons from the wind, all while gods of thunder are cracking the earth as you charge into battle. It's the Charlie Sheen of music, just winning all the time.