It’s OK. I understand if you don’t know who Tim Schafer is. Let me educate you into his world of greatness.
Tim Schafer. He created some of those wonderful games you may not have heard off above (and more including Day of the Tentacle and Manic Mansion!). The games he gets involved with end up being funny, fantastic, completely underrated (see Grim Fandango and Psychonauts especially) and he has a wonderful reputation in the gaming industry. He’s also a funny guy to boot and quite down to earth about not only his but games in general as well. Simply put… he is a legend in the world of gaming, and this week, he has his next epic Brutal Legend coming out for PS3 and X360, a game I’ve been anticipating with a huge amount of expectancy for a long, long time. It’s finally here!
I just wanted to write up a quick entry regarding the man because his games have gone under the radar too many times. Grim Fandango is my favourite PC game I’ve ever played, or at least tied with Monkey Island series (hey who co-wrote them I wonder?) but so very few people have even heard of the game which is an absolute shambles! If I could as all of you readers to do one thing this year, it would be to go out and find a copy of this game online for a few pennies or something and play it. It’s such a charmingly funny yet addictively brilliant adventure game set in the world of the afterlife that probably makes no sense yet once you get into it’s wonderfully dark yet witty and well-written story, you’ll realise just how sad it is that the game has been ignored for some long. It is truly magnificent!
Furthermore, Schafer’s last release (and yet first game with Double Fine Productions, whom he found and still owns) was the just-as-brilliant Psychonauts, an adventure game based in a world of psychic abilities filled with fantastic characters, varied settings from area to area and just a stupidly under bought game by the general gaming consumer. The genera reception is that even though it got such wildly excellent acclaim from inside the industry, gamers just did not buy it. Why?! I should really mention that Psychonauts is now available on the Xbox Originals service if you own an Xbox 360…
But yes, I can’t begin to tell you how excited I am for Brutal Legend. Having played the demo last week, and again after that, and again for a few more times, just that small snippet alone sent my excitement values into overdrive. It plays great, it looks superb, it oozes charisma and personality with it’s characters (Jack Black is perfect for the game, love him or hate him) and I really do hope it succeeds because if there’s something Mr Schafer deserves, it’s a big hit of a game. I’ll end this with the man himself explaining just what Brutal Legend is…
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