The VGA Awards were also the best day for EA to release a new trailer of Brütal Legend. Clearly the game is not going to win prizes technically, but with Tim Schafer at the helm there is no doubt the story and dialogs are going to be highly entertaining.
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But honestly, after Fandango, Throttle and especially P-nauts, Schafer could show me a trailer of him clipping his nails and I'd have a money order ready for him.
The fire-breathing tiger/dragon thing he was riding DID look like it rocked, fair enough . . .
I want this game now and hope that Tim gets the praise he deserves. He makes excellent games which nowadays end up in discount bin in nanoseconds even though they rock. Maybe, just maybe this is for a more mainstream taste with that magic Schafer Touch (TM) still there.
EDIT: I would love to see that Nail Clipping game. Email Tim. Maybe he'll develop something from that idea.
Jack Black and a Tim shafer game.. what's not to like?
Jack Black, and a videogame. Can't go wrong. Tsunami Shitstorm!!!
I won't make the same mistake with Psychonauts by buying a Schafer game years after it comes out. Day 1, baby.
Dialogue at the end was just awesome.
Schafer is god.
"Jack Black, and a videogame. Can't go wrong. Tsunami Shitstorm!!!"
. . . and Lemmy, and Rob Halford, and apparently a metric buttload of other pure awesomeness . . . and that scares the poo out of me now.
The more I think about it, every single project I can think of that combined masterful individual players under the logical-sounding theory that "if you multiply the number of talented people by X then the result will be X better" always seems to fail miserably.
"We've got Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Roy Orbison, Jeff Lynne, and Tom Petty in one Band! How could it not be the best selling album ever?"
"Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsy Russel and Richard Pryor remake one of the greatest and most beloved moveis of all time as a comedy musical!! My god we're geniuses!!"
"Waitaminute -- you got Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty doing a Bob Hope / Bing Crosby style road musical?!? Perfect!!"
"That's right Bob, we have the greatest dance-man in film, Gean freakin' Kelly, and the hottest pop singer in the world to do a musical. Gold I tell you!! Even got a gold-printing name, just listen . . . Xanadu! We'll be rich!!!"
and so forth. I'm starting to scare myself about this now. Schaffer always just wanders in with an amazing gem of greatness and it's just there -- I don't think every other game he's made, worked on or even played combined received this much hype and attention.
I still will buy this without reservation, and even if it suxxors I'll consider the $60 an apology for all the jerks that didn't support P-nauts (I could die happy if the sequel got made) . . . but I'm starting to get a growing feeling that whatever spark of amazing he sems to have won't be able to do its thing with all this surrounding him
ESPECIALLY now that EA are the Godfathers to this baby. Granted, they've acted in a stunningly open-minded and artistically supportive and nurturing manner these last 12 months . . . and I think this was one of the worst performing years they've had, sales-wise. Are they going to lean on him to make changes that make it more homegenized? Can he stick by his art, refusing to make it palatable for everybody . . . and risk another bomb? What did Psychonauts do, 100K in sales? Lots riding on this for him and Double-fine.
Allright, I'm clearly losing my mind over a friggin trailer to an unreleased video game. Time to stop. Sorry for the slow public descent into schitzophrenia.
. . . *sniff* . . . I wanna play Psychonauts 2 . . . we were gonna go be cool agents and everything . . .
/can't add anything else
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Er, just one?
This game, judging by this trailer, won't change that it seems...looks terrible.
This game, judging by this trailer, won't change that it seems...looks terrible.
If you don't like charming and wierd . . . how about funny? I'm trying to think of any other developer that actually makes games that are laugh-out-loud funny (and not for fart jokes), and nothing close comes to mind. Games like DotT and FT might be too limited by their technological era (point-and-click was Da Bomb back in the day, but so were 2400 baud modems you didn't have to clip the handset to), but Psychonauts you can pick up for 10$ or less at a game store, or download on XBL Marketplace if you have a 360 -- and is a damn funny and inventive platformer.
Probably the best trailer I've seen in terms of trying to touch all the bases:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md_8uDtbffQ
I'm sure his games are great and all, but this trailer shows nothing promising at all imo, and no matter how funny it is or the fact that Jack Black (yuck) is featured in it will change that.