Brutal Legend PC could be expanded if sales support it

One of the good things about Double Fine self-publishing the PC edition of Brutal Legend is that Tim Schafer's company can work on the heavy metal hack-o-RTS as much as they please without seeking publisher approval. On the downside, they will need approval from your American dollars to do so. Schafer has a list of additions the gang would like to work on, but it'll depend on how well it sales.

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One of the good things about Double Fine self-publishing the PC edition of Brutal Legend is that Tim Schafer's company can work on the heavy metal hack-o-RTS as much as they please without seeking publisher approval. On the downside, they will need approval from your American dollars to do so. Schafer has a list of additions the gang would like to work on, but it'll depend on how well it sales.

Schafer told Rock, Paper, Shotgun he "would love to" add more, saying that Double Fine has a "wishlist" of features it wanted to add, both from making this version and the console original. "But since we are a small developer publishing it ourselves, we have to go with the best version we can make and then hope it's successful so we can add more."

Schafer's keen to add new multiplayer modes, make Lionwhyte a playable faction, introduce new factions which were originally planned but never made it into the game, and make a few tweaks "to give you more feedback about what your units are doing." Things like that. But it depends on you.

"Depending on how much money we make, we can keep going with that."

Brutal Legend comes to PC next Tuesday, February 26. You can pre-order it with a 25% discount for $14.99, which nets you some kvlt Team Fortress 2 items as a bonus.

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    February 20, 2013 12:00 PM

    Alice O'Connor posted a new article, Brutal Legend PC could be expanded if sales support it.

    One of the good things about Double Fine self-publishing the PC edition of Brutal Legend is that Tim Schafer's company can work on the heavy metal hack-o-RTS as much as they please without seeking publisher approval. On the downside, they will need approval from your American dollars to do so. Schafer has a list of additions the gang would like to work on, but it'll depend on how well it sales.

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      February 20, 2013 12:04 PM

      Does this expansion plan contain a bullet point for "making it not suck"?

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        February 20, 2013 12:08 PM

        It's actually a great game and is in fact you who does the sucking.

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        February 20, 2013 12:14 PM

        Whatever I had a blast playing that game. It felt awesome driving around with heavy metal cranked on the radio. Yeah the rts parts weren't great but people are a lot piss and moan more about them then how bad they actually were.

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          February 20, 2013 1:30 PM

          no they were fucking awful

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      February 20, 2013 12:13 PM

      Eh... So he wants to expand the RTS stuff everyone hates? Isn't that like an incentive to NOT buy this? Tim Schafer is wasted on that.

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      February 20, 2013 12:14 PM

      It's frankly amazing to me that there's a current story about...Brutal Legend? Really?

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        February 20, 2013 12:15 PM

        Can we get something tomorrow about Deltaforce: Blackhawk Down?

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        February 20, 2013 12:16 PM

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        February 20, 2013 12:17 PM

        Why is it hard to comprehend? They're about to release the PC version on Steam.

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        February 20, 2013 12:44 PM

        OK, I retract my amazement. I thought It'd always been out on PC.

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      February 20, 2013 12:16 PM

      I am pretty pumped to play this since I skipped it... price point is right anyway!

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      February 20, 2013 1:03 PM

      Wow what rad news, I really hope it is. Bet it will get good sales, I wonder if they upped the textures or anything else I hope so.

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      February 20, 2013 1:09 PM

      I'd pay good money for the third act of the campaign.

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      February 20, 2013 1:24 PM

      Didn't like the game but I've already bought the game on steam. Double Fine ownz me.

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      February 20, 2013 1:31 PM

      I really liked it until it went RTS.

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        February 20, 2013 1:48 PM

        I'm so glad it went RTS. I loved Sacrifice and Brutal Legend would have been so fucking boring if it just stayed like the first level of the game.

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          February 20, 2013 1:53 PM

          well it had a fleshed-out action mechanic but then they barely do anything useful with that. I'd rather they made 'dungeon' type things to platform in at least. It feels like the RTS was at the expense of other stuff.

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