If you are into (heavy) metal, play this game. Run around as "Roadie" Jack Black, meet Rob Halford and Lemmy and do the FACE MELTAAA. Awesome.

And still no mp on GOG. Yay...

Hm, already own this game here, on Humble and on some other, forbidden digital distribution platform ;). It's strange game, one may even rephrase words from Tenacious' D song Tribute, cause, well, this is more the tribute rather than a game :). But it seems synergy works in case of this game, all types of missions are more or less "meh" (stage battles are like very watered down Sacrifice, "open world" feels kinda empty - game really could use more places like beach party, racing missions are horrible because of lack of any driving mechanics and Fletus actually cheats, fighting missions - it's the only game that allows blocking without any need for one), but the game turns out as something between good and very good. The real problem is that it seems like finished in haste, at some point it starts to lack in diversity of optional missions, some great looking areas are used at best as places to hide buried metals/dragon statues/whatever, final battle is kinda disappointing and often glitches occur (like getting stuck in the ground or invisible walls).

Still, I'd recommend this game to any metalhead and maybe people who don't dislike rock and metal, it's fun to play anyway (though it has zero replayability value - I've started second playthrough on brutal difficulty and stopped playing somewhere around "Tour of Destruction" mission), if only for looking for all those easter eggs and rock/metal references.

Oh yeah, tried multiplayer on s-platform, every fight ended with desync error at some point, seems like network code is broken, so there's no reason to regret that GOG version lacks this mode.

Adored this game, but about 2/3 of the way in my save file got corrupted and I was pretty much SOL.

Back up your saves.

Who thought this would be a good idea?

Seriously, I don't understand what the attraction of something called "shredding" would be. Isn't it expensive to keep replacing headphones once they are shred to bits?

(In all serious, I don't get how people can stand to listen to heavy metal; it's way too noisy.)

Don't know man, they must be aliens of something... Seriously, just listen to whatever pleases you and don't be concerned about people's music tastes. Unless you're my neighbor. For that, i'm sorry. :P

Haven't beaten the game yet, but the only thing I don't like so far are the boss battles where you gotta build towers and whatnot. I guess it's RTS, but at the same time, not sure I would call it that.

The driving could be better, but it's a lot easier with a controller.


Having said that, the hilarious story and the music make up for the negatives.

8 years ago, Tim Schafer dropped one of the most infuriating bait-and-switch games on everyone and it still annoys me to think about it.

Except that I am not a man, so please don't call me one. (Did you forget to check my forum title?)

P. S. Would you mind if I were to blast 4'33" out of my house or car?

Edit: Why is this post "low rated"?

English language isn't my native language but i was taught that the word man can mean both adult male as well as a human person (not gender specific). According to a Wikipedia article i just read, "The term "man" (from Proto-Germanic *mannaz or *manwaz "man, person") and words derived from it can designate any or even all of the human race regardless of their sex or age" (*) so it looks like my teachers were right. Therefore, even if i had checked your title before posting, the result would have been the same. Not sure if you were somehow offended by my post (it looks to me like you did, even though i can't find a solid reason for that) but if you did, then you shouldn't; i didn't mean any harm. But enough with the boring linguistic stuff, i'm here to talk about games. And heavy metal. Preferably both. ;)

As for blasting 4'33", be my guest but i'd kindly prefer it to be mr Zappa's version as all the others make my tinnitus worse. Thanks! :)

* source: [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_(word]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_(word[/url])

edit: tried to fix source link, still doesn't show right -- whatever...

The thing is, the word "man" nis pretty much never used for a specific person whose gender is known to not be male. It is sometimes used to refer to an abstract person whose gender isn't know (I disagree with this usage), but it still has specifically male connotations. and reinforces the whole "male by default" aspect of the language which I do find to be problematic.

Anyway, I am asking you to please not use the term "man" when addressing or referring to me. If you don't mean any harm, I request that you abide by this request.

Anyway, two other questions:

1. Is heavy metal music? I would argue "no".
2. Is 4'33" music? I could argue "no", but my reasoning would be completely different from the above case.
3. Why is my previous post "low rated"? What did I do in that post that is a problem? (I don't see any issue with it.)

Now if someone could take the rts out of this action game, that'd be great.

Okay, I'll bite the bait. Just passing through, haven't been here in a while.

I'd say one of the reasons was probably because your post partially went way off-topic. Another reason would be the off-topic being about the use of a specific word of what was essentially an idiom (thereby taken out of context), and then used that off-topic as an excuse for seeking an offense where there was obviously no offense intended (much like the sensationalism curated by journalism).

It doesn't surprise me when a post with off-topic banter that is also uninteresting for the conversation gets marked for being hidden out of the way of the person who read it. Combining on-topic and off-topic in the same post can create an unnecessarily tainted post, and I would understand such a post getting hidden out of the way of more pertinent posts, too.

Personally, I think of the rating as about appreciation the post, as for me it's not about appreciating who did the posting. That's especially so since a post is then hidden from my own view when I've marked the post with "-", and always shown to me when I've marked a post with "+" regardless of its total rating. So in general, I mark posts to always hide them from my view, or to ensure it stays in view regardless of rating. For all I know every post on the World Wide Web is from a Turing bot, for I haven't met every person who has ever posted.

Maybe occasionally start your own "play on words" threads, or maybe "what each word means to me at this point in time" threads? There seems to me to be a lot of language lovers here that appreciate the nuances of communication, though that tends to mean being open to interpretation for making sense of what's being communicated rather than insisting on correctness or wrongness of word usage or structure. Of course it doesn't have to mean that, you could state in your own thread that want to insist on applying the concept of right/wrong to language use, though you might want to also clarify how to coordinate that with censorship, with personal expression, and with the development of new ideas.

Oh, and by the way, as for myself I have hidden all forum titles and all avatars in this forum by means of a cascading style sheet. It wouldn't surprise me to find out other people do, too, perhaps by other means. All I notice of the member info of any post is an arbitrary forum name, the date registered, and a supposed location. As such, maybe be mindful of chiding the posts of other people for not meeting up with your expectations of what should have been known about you from such arbitrary information. That's just one more way to come across as seeking personal offense, especially by turning casual conversation into fighting words.

Personally, I would prefer it if they would take the heavy metal out of the game. WIth the heavy metal, this is not a game I will even consider playing.

(Of course, I don't see that happening, since it seems to be the selling point of the game; it is, however, a dealbreaker to me.)