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BRÜTAL LEGEND official thread of umlauts and schaferian awesomeness
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nelsonroyale
Member
The last Battle is brutally cheap on Brutal...I mean I built up a huge army destroyed, the towers, and then AI attacks me with a massive wave of enemies....the AI has no tactics beyond magically creating creating huge armies while possessing near zero resources
nelsonroyale
Member
Dave1988 said:
Cheers, but my prob is the massive attack after I killed the second tower. I may just drop the difficulty down to normal, enjoyed the ride, but kind of want to finish it up tonight
Buckethead
Banned
Build 4 sets of headbangers and take the towers (LB, press right on d-pad).nelsonroyale said:
You should get all of them before they even come to get you. Hopefully you have the High Voltage strings by now, they come in handy to dispense anyone you see by foot.
Build your stage until Rock Crusher and use it forever. You'll probably have to build 2 because it'll get destroyed after the bridge, but yeah.
Worked like a charm for me. But yeah, cheap ass fight.
Awesome interview with Tim Schafer at http://fidgit.com/archives/2009/11/tim_schafer_on_the_finer_point.php
There are some spoilers though!
There are some spoilers though!
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Deleted member 30609
Unconfirmed Member
thanks for posting this, it was an awesome readdavimon said:
Buckethead
Banned
Soul Sucking. Only use axe when out of lightning though.Dave1988 said:
well, i just finished it. bloody loved it, filled to the brim with heavy metal atmosphere and goodies like that. i even actually liked the character-strategy elements, much to my own surprise. now i just gotta go and explore that whole world, so much more stuff to collect! :lol
UpperCaseN
Member
anyone experience freezing during cutscenes when playing this on 360? Happened to me about 10 min into the game, dashboard wouldn't come up, couldn't turn the controller off either, had to power cycle the console. loaded my save file, happened again just a few min later, each time it was transitioning into a cutscene. I did a quick google search and one guy said his 360 RRoD'ed the next day, anyone?
edit: I skipped the cutscene by mashing buttons, but it just froze on me anyway during the first driving sequence. this is annoying
edit: I skipped the cutscene by mashing buttons, but it just froze on me anyway during the first driving sequence. this is annoying
Buckethead
Banned
Gryphter said:
Strange. My system seemed like it was running a little harder and has lagged a bit, but never froze like that.
I just spit-shined the disc and never had a problem after.
LocoMrPollock
Banned
levious said:
There's no way 2 maps could be in an update or 108kb. Fucking EA.
UpperCaseN
Member
Buckethead said:
hmm. I have a brand new copy, I took the shrink wrap off just before playing. It happens everytime now, no longer during a cutscene but during the driving sequence. I'll either get a gray snow effect (like a cable tv channel you don't get) or you'll see the game, with some gray snowy lines going up and down.
360 is only a year old and I think it's a Falcon. Think I should exchange the game for another copy? I still have the receipt
edit: yep, red ringed just now. I guess the power of metal and rock was too much for my console to handle
jaundicejuice
Member
I'm glad that I've stuck with the game, I've definitely grown to enjoy the experience the longer I've played it. I've done about 70% of the single player, while there's a lot to like about this game--the character designs, the overall aesthetic of the world, the idea of the game, the sound track, rolling through the hills with the Deuce blaring Deadly Sinner while I shoot or mow down whatever is in my way--the stage battles kind of kill it for me. I think I get them pretty well, at least well enough to work my way through the single player without much problem. I mix up using guitar solo's, creating units, gathering resources, defending and attacking with friendly units, directly engaging enemy units, using Call of the Wild for free friendly units in battles, buffing my squads, pulling out a Face Melter here and there. There's just something haphazard and kind of clumsy about the stage battles that just doesn't gel with me.
Also I feel like a giant tool because I've just realized that you just need Pyro to free the bound serpents. All this time I thought you needed a specific solo to free them. Yeah, I should have read EA's ghetto black and white five page leaflet of a manual sooner.
Also I feel like a giant tool because I've just realized that you just need Pyro to free the bound serpents. All this time I thought you needed a specific solo to free them. Yeah, I should have read EA's ghetto black and white five page leaflet of a manual sooner.
nelsonroyale
Member
Finished it and enjoyed it..
Fantastic overall aesthetic...some of the gameplay mechanics were a bit basic and tactics in rts were sometimes non-existant, but the overall package is streamlined and fun
Fantastic overall aesthetic...some of the gameplay mechanics were a bit basic and tactics in rts were sometimes non-existant, but the overall package is streamlined and fun
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Deleted member 30609
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this was probably just a strategy to get people to reexamine the multiplayer. Blame MS for making them charge for it.LocoMrPollock said:
jaundicejuice
Member
If you don't like the stage battles why would you play a mode based entirely around that concept? I haven't examined the multiplayer in the first place, given that it's based around the aspect of the game that I enjoy the least, seems rather unlikely two maps--which are only free for the first two weeks, Sony will be charging for them just like Microsoft is currently--would change that.
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Deleted member 30609
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you think that someone playing the single player game and then hearing about multiplayer DLC and, as a result, ends up thinking "oh, I should really check out that multiplayer mode" is out of the realm of possibility?
momolicious
Member
still curious how the game sold, shouldnt we know soon
jaundicejuice
Member
Wow, what the fuck is with this final stage battle.
Jive Turkey
Unconfirmed Member
So has anybody gotten the Beastmaster achievement/trophy? I can't seem to paralyze tollusks or hextadons.
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Deleted member 30609
Unconfirmed Member
you just need to shock them heaps. consider using the standard guitar if your current one is taking too much damage.Jive Turkey said:
Jive Turkey
Unconfirmed Member
Flynn said:
Yeah I've tried all the strings and I just end up killing them.Rez said:you just need to shock them heaps. consider using the standard guitar if your current one is taking too much damage.
I was hoping there was a trick to it.Jive Turkey said:Yeah I've tried all the strings and I just end up killing them.
If I remember correctly, I got it after beating all the hunter missions and riding beasts that were willingly summoned with the Call of the Wild solo. That might be more time consuming than doing it with guitar stuns, but it's an alternative.
Buckethead
Banned
Jive Turkey said:
Just revert back to the original strings and you should be fine.
Note: You have to be at the Hextadon's ass to ride it.
Just beat this game the other day. Definitely walked away disappointed...I wasn't a fan of any of the RTS stuff. The game had great style, I enjoyed some of the comedy and all the use of music and metal in general. I just really hated the RTS stuff..played through on Brutal on my first playthrough and found a couple of the battles to be really frustrating.
Natakuu said:
Well, I mean, you can't really complain about difficulty when you play for the first time on hard. That's just something you should expect.
Also, my only complaint about the stage battles is that they only appeared in the main story.
I think if they had made some stage battle side missions people would have learned them faster and enjoyed them more.
It just felt really cheap at times. Perhaps it was just because I was frustrated at the time but it seemed like the computer was really good at creating full armies out of nowhere. I didn't always feel like I was losing to a 'legit' strategy, just a cheap computer.Rickard said:
Buckethead
Banned
Personally I loved the game, but I wish that the gameplay elements were more cohesive.
For example for the stage battles put more emphasis on using your hack n' slashing and the deuce. In addition, I would rather that it have a Borderlands style Co-Op system for the main quest rather than multiplayer.
Instead of being an RTS in a section, a driving game in a section, and a hack n' slash at a section, I wish they were melded together. The controls for the RTS stuff didn't help.
But still an excellent game, but the campaign is the bread and butter. Especially with the online issues for multi.
So yeah, Schaf, buy a copy of Jak II and III and put your style and metal and awesome writing over it.
For example for the stage battles put more emphasis on using your hack n' slashing and the deuce. In addition, I would rather that it have a Borderlands style Co-Op system for the main quest rather than multiplayer.
Instead of being an RTS in a section, a driving game in a section, and a hack n' slash at a section, I wish they were melded together. The controls for the RTS stuff didn't help.
But still an excellent game, but the campaign is the bread and butter. Especially with the online issues for multi.
So yeah, Schaf, buy a copy of Jak II and III and put your style and metal and awesome writing over it.
Jive Turkey
Unconfirmed Member
I've ridden every animal with Call of the Wild. No joy.Aske said:
For riding the wild Hextadon's, you have to quickly run up behind them, do a heap of lightning (I usually do about 4 or 5), and either hope the ride command shows up or keep shocking them until it does. A burst of lightning seems to stun things easier rather than pacing them worrying about killing them.
For the ride every animal achievement, every single rideable creature in the game is presented to you with the kill creatures quest line, with the exception of two, the porcupines and the winged weeper things. Needless to say, not every rideable creature will pop up using the Call of the Wild solo, although some of the Drowning Doom area creatures might if you play Call of the Wild in their area.
For the ride every animal achievement, every single rideable creature in the game is presented to you with the kill creatures quest line, with the exception of two, the porcupines and the winged weeper things. Needless to say, not every rideable creature will pop up using the Call of the Wild solo, although some of the Drowning Doom area creatures might if you play Call of the Wild in their area.
Duh, I finished the secondary objectives this morning (fuck the hunter), hoping that it would give me something or, at the very least, unlock something on this fucking marker that stayed on the freeway since I finished the main quest.
I hate when games make you finish them at 100 % just for the sake of doing so, and mirroring a reward without giving it is worse
I know that it's not for this game only, and it's still a good game to me. At least, It made me want to finish it, quite rare these days.
I hate when games make you finish them at 100 % just for the sake of doing so, and mirroring a reward without giving it is worse
I know that it's not for this game only, and it's still a good game to me. At least, It made me want to finish it, quite rare these days.
What I'd like to see next game:
- Biggest world, longer story.
- Remove multiplayer and put the effort into single player.
- Maybe have a level up system for Eddie so there can be a bit more depth in the gameplay.
- Work on all aspects of gameplay, even remove a part(RTS, open world ect) so it's not a jack-of-all-trades.
- More fleshed out characters.
- Side missions that mean something.
How'd it sell anyway? Are the numbers around anywhere yet?
- Biggest world, longer story.
- Remove multiplayer and put the effort into single player.
- Maybe have a level up system for Eddie so there can be a bit more depth in the gameplay.
- Work on all aspects of gameplay, even remove a part(RTS, open world ect) so it's not a jack-of-all-trades.
- More fleshed out characters.
- Side missions that mean something.
How'd it sell anyway? Are the numbers around anywhere yet?
G.O.O. said:Duh, I finished the secondary objectives this morning (fuck the hunter), hoping that it would give me something or, at the very least, unlock something on this fucking marker that stayed on the freeway since I finished the main quest.
I hate when games make you finish them at 100 % just for the sake of doing so, and mirroring a reward without giving it is worse
I know that it's not for this game only, and it's still a good game to me. At least, It made me want to finish it, quite rare these days.
You actually get a reward for finishing all the races and hunting quests. Go to the stonehenge thingy where you first found the hunter. He should give you a reward. It is not marked, though.
shrinkingviolet
Neo Member
jaundicejuice said:
The end of Psychonauts was toolishly hard as well. I don't think I've ever been so close to throwing a controller at the wall.