HorrorScope wrote on Nov 21, 2017, 01:12:
Highlight of the game is the beginning. Teasing you with Children of the Grave bass line for a good while and then you pick up the axe, and the the song kicks in. Perfect direction, something you don't see often in gaming, the build up and timing.

Yeah the Demo really sets up high expectations. Actually, the whole build-up to the first boss sets up high expectations and then the game rushes once past that.

Still, Tim Curry as Doviculous is awesome.

HoSpanky wrote on Nov 20, 2017, 23:31:
The game is HEAVILY front-loaded on awesome, and the story gets less "fun" and all serious as it goes on. I played through to the end, and it's alright. But if you've never, ever played it, play at least the first couple hours, it's a riot.

Apparently the game is only about 50% as long as they originally wanted it to be. If it had sold better it would have had a sequel I guess.

I enjoyed the f*ck out of it for what it was. The RTS game sucked. It was admitted that the whole strategy was to spawn a throng of dudes and go attack with the throng.

However, the art design, voice acting, soundtrack, driving, and beat-em-up portion of the game was absolutely top notch.

The game I think plays better with a controller than keyboard & mouse. I've owned the game on PC for a while and it just never played quite as well with K&M.

Loved the game, right up until the game turned into the RTS it really is. Not sure why Double Fine literally hid the fact that the game is an RTS most of the time, but whatever. It was years ago, I got over it lol Still, pretty fun game and I recommend it, especially if you are a metal head or like rock.

Mordecai Walfish wrote on Nov 21, 2017, 01:29:

HoSpanky wrote on Nov 20, 2017, 23:31:
The game is HEAVILY front-loaded on awesome, and the story gets less "fun" and all serious as it goes on.

Could say the same about a lot of Jack Black movies too, still love 'em though =)

Hey now, Tenacious D was evenly terrible from beginning to end

Naw, who am I kidding, I love that movie.

Like every PC game Double Fine put out though, they just randomly stopped patching it. Still has a couple of visual and other bugs they were "going to fix" but poof, didn't.

HoSpanky wrote on Nov 20, 2017, 23:31:
The game is HEAVILY front-loaded on awesome, and the story gets less "fun" and all serious as it goes on.

Could say the same about a lot of Jack Black movies too, still love 'em though =)

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Highlight of the game is the beginning. Teasing you with Children of the Grave bass line for a good while and then you pick up the axe, and the the song kicks in. Perfect direction, something you don't see often in gaming, the build up and timing.

The game is HEAVILY front-loaded on awesome, and the story gets less "fun" and all serious as it goes on. I played through to the end, and it's alright. But if you've never, ever played it, play at least the first couple hours, it's a riot.

Being an old metal head from days of yore, always meant to play this but never bought it. This works

Yeah, I never got past the 5-hour mark, although it seemed it was starting to really open up, I just had different priorities. Might be too far gone to go back now, but I remember being thoroughly impressed by the soundtrack, voice-acting, and general spunk.

I played this on the 360 a long time ago. Really cool game. I never got around to completing it, maybe now I will.

Such a great and terrible game! Great vo and soundtrack. Loved it.