Electronic Arts and Double Fine are still using Jack Black to promote Brutal Legend, a totally-not-an-RTS released earlier this October. In fact, this afternoon, another Brutal Thoughts commentary starring the rubber-faced musician hit the wire.
We have no problem with either of these parties utilizing Black’s star power, or even pushing the product after its fall release, but this particular video reeks of old: in it, Black tells the game owner how to cope with multiplayer jerks and predicts that Brutal Legend will have a “massive” (x5) online following.
Right, well, the video is available in the header. But before you leave, those of you that own the game, chime in and tell us how often you take Brutal Legend online. We like to know these things. For research purposes, of course.
I would love to take Brutal Legend online if it wasn't for the fact that it tells me I have "firewall issues" that I get on absolutely no other game whatsoever. So, uh, thanks game?
Great story, but the game play was really lacking, I had no desire to take it online after finishing it. In fact, after finishing I decided to go back and try to finish up a bunch of side quests, but got bored of doing that about 5 minutes in and haven't touched the game since.
...Wait is this a new video? It seems like pre-release material.
As far as online goes, i've played, i think, 4 matches. In fact, the first thing i did when i got the game (on release week) was take it online. It took about 5 minutes to find a match and the host eventually just dropped. Left a bad taste in my mouth.
After finishing the game i tried to play online again. Match making was still just as bad but people stayed till the end. Tainted coil was nigh indestructible so everyone was playing them online (3 of the 3 people i vs'd), which killed my interest in it all together.
After seeing this video i just tried to boot the game up and find a match, its been a few minutes now and i still havn't found a game.
Anyway, if BL is still at the 30-ish dollar price range in the immediate future, then I'll probably give it a look. I liked the demo, but it's not the highest priority in my gaming back log.
I'm in for the single player once this gets a fat price drop. I enjoyed the demo, but couldn't pull the trigger to spend 60 beans on this one.. not with MW2 and New Super Mario coming out within weeks of the release.
I just got the game, and the single player is pretty great. Figuring on finishing it before going online, so none for me yet.
However, I had read that your stats are sometimes wiped due to a bug, thereby making the "Win 50 online matches" nigh impossible without boosting for that trophy/achievement. Unless that's been fixed, I don't see the multiplayer lasting at all. Which is a shame.
Never. I was kinda disapointed by what they did with it waaaaayyyy too much RTS near the middle and end of the game. The driving fun, shooting fun, hack and slash fun. RTS boring and clunky and this is what they decided to make into the online mode. I loved the music and the concept but somewhere in developement they grasped the entirely wrong end of the entirely wrong stick and dumped way to mmuch of the least enjoyable part of the game in there and skipped some potentially interesting parts of the story to make the user do 2 RTS battles at the end with the second being against a group that was not even remotely fleshed out properly.
TLDR way to much was put into the RTS parts including the online to make me ever want to take the game online
Never did take this one online. As a matter of fact, after beating it, I don't believe I've played it again.
It had massive potential, good voice acting, and an awesome fucking soundtrack. Unfortunately, the gameplay didn't deliver, and never warranted online play or even a second play through.
I considered it. But after playing around briefly with the npc battles on the multiplayer part I decided not too. Mostly because the game was a tad disappointing as it was and the multiplayer seemed nothing special.
I have the PS3 version, and it seems to be buggier than the Xbox...it's hard to find people in ranked matches at all, and there is apparently a bug which randomly wipes people's stats.
Despite that, there's a lot of help from players, assisting people to get the multiplayer trophies. Good people.
I played the singleplayer completely before going online, and dragged it out as long as I could...best story in a game I've come across in ages. I actually quite like the RTS-lite gameplay, once I got the hang of it. It's tougher online with lag etc....hopefully it'll get a patch when the new DLC comes out (presumably, some new trophies have appeared anyway).
Never, I tried to play online on the launch week and every time I tried (which was only 3) I couldn't find a match. I asked a couple of RLF on my friends list to play and they had no interest, so I have yet to play mulitplayer.
I actually played through the entire game single player first, and then I was excited to check out multiplayer, but nothing.
The video is kind of bittersweet in a way, much like my time playing Brutal Legend was. The hack and slash bits were amazing, and if the game were simply a repetitive hack and slasher with vehicle elements, I would have regarded it as an amazing experience. But the RTS bits (which caused me to cry out HERESY more than once) really hurt the experience for me, and the fact that they're really pushing this RTS-only multiplayer mode really bothers me. I have never in my life come across a game that I simultaneously love and hate with as much passion as Brutal Legend.
We'll probably see more of Jack when they announce the upcoming DLC that seems to consist of both single player gameplay & new multiplayer maps, possibly with a new faction :O
Don't believe me? Check the trophy list on your own console (ps3 that is)!
I bought the game at release. I haven't quite finished the single player portion, and I'm having a hard time going back to it knowing that all I have 3 are 3 RTS battles. I have not taken it online, and I probably won't.
What are you people playing at?! The RTS elements are wonderful in this game. It's an Action RTS. The only RTS I play. Battlezone 1 and 2, Sacrifice, Natural Selection, these are all good examples. Brutal Legend revives the genre, and people flip out "This is an RTS and therefore automatically bad run awaaaaaay!"
Would the game have honestly been better if it were more like Nintey Nine Nights? Because that's exactly what BL would be if it removed the amazing RTS elements.
I play this game's multiplayer more than Call of Duty. And I wrote a MP guide online to help other players. The trick to enjoying it...is to TRY it. This game's multiplayer has a steep learning curve, leading you to bigger and more epic battles online. It has all the strategy of an RTS game with the intensity of an Action game, and it's so seamless there isn't even a HUD.
I wished Halo Wars took this route, where if I build a Scorpion, I get to ride around in it, I can exit and let the AI take over while I walk on foot, or if it blows up, I can build another.
"lol RTS" is not grounds that Brutal Legend is a bad game. This is my GOTY.
I actually tried the multiplayer for the first time this weekend, just one round. I got smoked, but I got the Schafer achievement which is really all I wanted.
My roommate and I beat the game within the first week of release and neither of us have touched the game since. There just isn't enough replay value in the game and the "RTS" segments weren't awe-inspiring enough to want to play that and only that online.
I've played through the story maybe 4 times. Haven't ungagged all my dragons yet, probably wont find the remaining 56 that I don't have. Haven't played online yet, I enjoy battling the computer though. Probably wont go online.
Played the game through once, regretted getting hyped over it to begin with, cried a little, never touched the online. I haven't traded in a game for quite a few years(being a collector) but I think I might just do it this weekend.
Hahahaha....real good video.
I'm online in Brutal Legend at least 2-3 times a week. About 100 Wins / 50 Losses. Mostly with Drowning Doom & Tainted Coil. The RTS part of the game is it's best part if u ask me.
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10:30 PM on 11.30.2009
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Cue a few very unhappy Friday Night Fighters.
Well I never played BL online. I did want to play multiplayer split-screen but it wasn't available. :/
The single player is easily one of the best to come out this year though. God that game was fucking awesome.
As far as online goes, i've played, i think, 4 matches. In fact, the first thing i did when i got the game (on release week) was take it online. It took about 5 minutes to find a match and the host eventually just dropped. Left a bad taste in my mouth.
After finishing the game i tried to play online again. Match making was still just as bad but people stayed till the end. Tainted coil was nigh indestructible so everyone was playing them online (3 of the 3 people i vs'd), which killed my interest in it all together.
After seeing this video i just tried to boot the game up and find a match, its been a few minutes now and i still havn't found a game.
Anyway, if BL is still at the 30-ish dollar price range in the immediate future, then I'll probably give it a look. I liked the demo, but it's not the highest priority in my gaming back log.
However, I had read that your stats are sometimes wiped due to a bug, thereby making the "Win 50 online matches" nigh impossible without boosting for that trophy/achievement. Unless that's been fixed, I don't see the multiplayer lasting at all. Which is a shame.
At least I downloaded the DLC while it was free.
TLDR way to much was put into the RTS parts including the online to make me ever want to take the game online
It had massive potential, good voice acting, and an awesome fucking soundtrack. Unfortunately, the gameplay didn't deliver, and never warranted online play or even a second play through.
Despite that, there's a lot of help from players, assisting people to get the multiplayer trophies. Good people.
I played the singleplayer completely before going online, and dragged it out as long as I could...best story in a game I've come across in ages. I actually quite like the RTS-lite gameplay, once I got the hang of it. It's tougher online with lag etc....hopefully it'll get a patch when the new DLC comes out (presumably, some new trophies have appeared anyway).
I actually played through the entire game single player first, and then I was excited to check out multiplayer, but nothing.
Don't believe me? Check the trophy list on your own console (ps3 that is)!
Would the game have honestly been better if it were more like Nintey Nine Nights? Because that's exactly what BL would be if it removed the amazing RTS elements.
I play this game's multiplayer more than Call of Duty. And I wrote a MP guide online to help other players. The trick to enjoying it...is to TRY it. This game's multiplayer has a steep learning curve, leading you to bigger and more epic battles online. It has all the strategy of an RTS game with the intensity of an Action game, and it's so seamless there isn't even a HUD.
I wished Halo Wars took this route, where if I build a Scorpion, I get to ride around in it, I can exit and let the AI take over while I walk on foot, or if it blows up, I can build another.
"lol RTS" is not grounds that Brutal Legend is a bad game. This is my GOTY.
We've considered trading the game in.
But I do like the rts sections, a lot.
And then I played against the computer on easy to get an achievement.
Haven't touched the game since, it was nowhere near worth the money I spent on it.
I'm online in Brutal Legend at least 2-3 times a week. About 100 Wins / 50 Losses. Mostly with Drowning Doom & Tainted Coil. The RTS part of the game is it's best part if u ask me.