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Posted July 23, 2013
For those about to ROCK, we salute you!

Brütal Legend, an epic heavy metal tale of one exceptional roadie's way to rocking godhood in the timeless realm of thundering power chords, is available 33% off on GOG.com for Windows and Mac OS X. That's only $9.99 for the first week.

Eddie Riggs wasn't a roadie. He was the roadie. The best there ever was. That thing they say about him, that the elder gods of rock themselves called upon him to embody the spirit of heavy metal, that's probably true. So, how he ended up building stages and carrying guitars for the worst band of nu-emo-rap-metal posers, remains a mystery. They also say, however, that once horned angels leave a mark on a man's soul, he is destined for great things. Terrible, but great. That's why Eddie didn't stay confused long, when by ancient magic he was dragged straight into the middle of the hellish metal realm. With heart full of thunder, head full of raging riffs, and hands full of double-bladed battle axe, he rushed to meet the epic adventure, and probably violently knock out some of its teeth. This is his story: the tale of how the elder realm of rock was changed forever to remain the same.

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Brütal Legend is a mixture of an action-RPG of the hack and slash pedigree, spiked with a serving of real-time strategy unit command. Most importantly, though, it's a tribute to all things heavy metal. It visits many iconic motifs of the true rock aesthetics and sports over a hundred heavy metal hymns from rocking giants as Judas Priest, Motörhead, Black Sabbath, Manowar, and Slayer, among others, in its exceptional in-game soundtrack. The main character is voiced by the Hollywood's hardest rocker Jack Black, and the inhabitants of the elder realm speak with the voices of legends such as Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy Kilmister, Rob Halford, and--as the demonic über-villain--Tim Curry. Hell, this game even has Wil Wheaton! That explosive mixture of amazing artists, epic music, brilliant story, and bloody action-packed gameplay was conceived and developed by Tim Schafer and his insanely creative and creatively insane Double Fine team. If you're passionate about any of the mentioned elements, you will instantly fall in love with this awe-inspiring game!

Set off on the highway to hell and pick your heavy metal destiny while the blazing thunders of rock blaze through your skull in Brütal Legend, for only $9.99 on GOG.com. The 33% off offer lasts until Tuesday, July 29, at 9:59AM GMT.

Important notice:
This DRM-free version of the game does not support multi-player features due to circumstances beyond our control.
Post edited July 23, 2013 by G-Doc
Posted July 23, 2013
No soundtrack?! :|
Posted July 23, 2013
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Gonchi: Nice release, though not something I'm particularly interested in. Was kind of hoping today's release would be The Raven, apparently it's for sale everywhere except GOG.
The Raven will appear on GOG once all episodes have been released. Let me dig up the reference.

Edit: Post here by Nordic Games.
Post edited July 23, 2013 by JMich
Posted July 23, 2013
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JMich: A network framework isn't an easy thing to code. It does take ~6 months to be properly functioning, and during that time you still need to pay everyone. So much as I or you may dislike it, using an existing framework does make sense, both financially and timewise. It's more or less the same reason developers use existing engines instead of making their own, especially if all functionalities they may want to use already exists.

And unless you start your work knowing what you will have to support, adding said functionality later is a pain.
And? GOG should outright reject a game if it's missing multiplayer which is present on Steam.
Posted July 23, 2013
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Crosmando: And? GOG should outright reject a game if it's missing multiplayer which is present on Steam.
Why? You have an excellent game with a tacked on multiplayer that GOG can release without the tacked on. Do you get the game without the extra baggage or refuse it because it doesn't have the extra baggage?

Let me ask the same about Spec Ops: The Line. If GOG had the option to release it here without the multiplayer, should it release it or not?

Edit: Ignore the part about tacked on multiplayer on Brutal Legend. jamyskis informs me that the multiplayer is quite entertaining and doesn't feel tacked on. So we do get an excellent single player experience and miss the multiplayer part of it. I still personally think that Brutal Legend is a single player game only, but it would have been nice for Double Fine to have added the LAN option. GOG still shouldn't have rejected this game for lacking multiplayer though.
Post edited July 23, 2013 by JMich
Posted July 23, 2013
Never cared for the multi in this game but IMO they should lower the price a bit.
Posted July 23, 2013
Bit of a meh release since it was already in a Humble Bundle, so if you wanted it you probably already have it. It's a great game if you like heavy metal \m/ . But I'd rather see some of the classic stuff DotEmu have had released for ages like Chicago 1930, The Sting!, Commandos: Strike Force or their adventure games what haven't made it here yet but are available everywhere else. If possible :D
Posted July 23, 2013
A bit short on extras. I'd expect at least the manual and possibly soundtrack.
Post edited July 23, 2013 by VIPERs
Posted July 23, 2013
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JMich: Why? You have an excellent game with a tacked on multiplayer that GOG can release without the tacked on. Do you get the game without the extra baggage or refuse it because it doesn't have the extra baggage?

Let me ask the same about Spec Ops: The Line. If GOG had the option to release it here without the multiplayer, should it release it or not?
Actually, Brütal Legend is one of the very few games whose multiplayer I wouldn't describe as "tacked-on". It was rather entertaining.

Aside from that, DF failed to provide any kind of LAN support, which was a bit of a fuck-up. The only way to play multiplayer was through Steamworks. Many games that use Steamworks for matchmaking still have some kind of LAN support that will run in offline mode. Hell, even Valve's own games allow LAN play (including CS:GO).
Post edited July 23, 2013 by jamyskis
Posted July 23, 2013
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jamyskis: Actually, Brütal Legend is one of the very few games whose multiplayer I wouldn't describe as "tacked-on". It was rather entertaining.
Hm, allow me to apologize in that case. Haven't played multiplayer and I do generally avoid it, so I jumped to conclusions. Allow me to edit my previous post.

Thank you for correcting me.
Posted July 23, 2013
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Gonchi: Nice release, though not something I'm particularly interested in. Was kind of hoping today's release would be The Raven, apparently it's for sale everywhere except GOG.
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JMich: The Raven will appear on GOG once all episodes have been released. Let me dig up the reference.

Edit: Post here by Nordic Games.
Thanks JMich, will wait patiently, well at least try:)
Posted July 23, 2013
You could rip multiplayer out of most games and I wouldn't notice, except the downloads would finish quicker :D
Posted July 23, 2013
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JMich: Why? You have an excellent game with a tacked on multiplayer that GOG can release without the tacked on. Do you get the game without the extra baggage or refuse it because it doesn't have the extra baggage?

Let me ask the same about Spec Ops: The Line. If GOG had the option to release it here without the multiplayer, should it release it or not?
Lol, "extra baggage", it's a GAMEPLAY FEATURE which has been cut out. I don't play multiplayer but I can still recognize that it's a feature and that taking it out makes that version gimped.
Let me ask the same about Spec Ops: The Line. If GOG had the option to release it here without the multiplayer, should it release it or not?
No, of course not. Do you think GOG should get in the business of selling inferior versions of Steam games now? How would you feel if the GOG version of Neverwinter Nights had multiplayer cut out, or Baldur's Gate had the co-op TCP/IP function cut-out? Whether anyone uses those features or not, they are still features and cutting them makes that version of the game inferior.

(Also, supporting fraudulent Kickscammer companies like DF who waste people's money)

What I think GOG should be doing is what they do best, old games in DOSBox or ScummVM, or early Windows games. Instead of console ports of new games with features cut out because of DRM'ed Steamtardworks multiplayer. People keep talking about how Steam is in a better distribution position because they can support multiplayer for indies, well the solution for GOG is obvious, stop focusing on games with multiplayer shit and stick to good old single-player games (or SP games with old-style TCP/IP).

Anyway, seems to me like GOG is going down the toilet anyways.
Posted July 23, 2013
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JMich: Hm, allow me to apologize in that case. Haven't played multiplayer and I do generally avoid it, so I jumped to conclusions. Allow me to edit my previous post.

Thank you for correcting me.
Well, I wouldn't call it 'correcting'. It's obviously a matter of taste :)

That being said, I've encountered very little in the way of general sentiment that the BL multiplayer was unnecessarily tacked-on, unlike games such as Spec Ops: The Line, Max Payne 3 and Tomb Raider (TR's and MP3's multiplayer was the very definition of tacked-on, and made absolutely no sense within the wider context of the game).
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Dzsono: You could rip multiplayer out of most games and I wouldn't notice, except the downloads would finish quicker :D
It's a matter of principle, I don't like MP either.
Posted July 23, 2013
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Gonchi: Nice release, though not something I'm particularly interested in. Was kind of hoping today's release would be The Raven, apparently it's for sale everywhere except GOG.
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JMich: The Raven will appear on GOG once all episodes have been released. Let me dig up the reference.

Edit: Post here by Nordic Games.
Ah, excellent. What's the reasoning behind GOG's reluctance to put all three episodes up for pre-order, though? Isn't that something the community voted in favour of?
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