After splitting off from Microsoft within the aftermath of the controversial Xbox ‘reset’, Double Fine Productions introduced a brand new Kickstarter Campaign for “Amnesia Fortnight 2026, Indie Reboot”.
This challenge will characteristic classes the place the builders get collectively to pitch concepts that can ultimately be became prototypes for brand new video games (of which 4 will probably be chosen by the Kickstarter backers).
What’s most attention-grabbing about this challenge is that Double Fine Productions will lastly begin growing Brütal Legend 2 if it hits a stretch objective of $100,000,000.
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If you hadn’t heard of the unique Brütal Legend, it was a 2009 action-adventure recreation the place you play as Eddie Riggs (performed by Jack Black), a roadie on a quest to save lots of the world from monsters referred to as the Tainted Coil by blowing their minds with Heavy Metal.
It was a flawed however pleasing Xbox 360 recreation that paid loving homage to all issues heavy steel whereas taking gamers on a wild experience the place they roasted their brains with guitar solos, led armies in pseudo-real-time technique battles, and explored lands that appeared like heavy steel album covers come to life.
I’ve needed a big-budget Xbox sequel to Brütal Legend for years that might construct upon the hidden potential of its heavy metal-themed universe, and I hoped it might lastly occur after experiencing how superior Psychonauts 2 was.
Alas, Double Fine Productions was by no means given the inexperienced mild and finances by Microsoft to make Brütal Legend and spent the remainder of its tenure underneath Microsoft making smaller-scale video games like Kiln and Keeper, and, as Tim Schafer himself puts it, “forced to make propaganda pieces to support our parent companies.”
Hopefully, now that Double Fine Productions has regained independence and if enough people pitch in towards the Kickstarter, we’ll finally see Brütal Legend 2 become a reality and see the awesome potential of its predecessor fully realized with next-gen Xbox hardware.
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