Tim Schafer wanted to "compete" with classic D&D CRPGs like Icewind Dale by cranking up the fantasy in Brutal Legend: "Let's really exaggerate it"
Double Fine's open-world genre-blender came from two unlikely sources
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Brutal Legendis one of the oddest big budget games maybe ever because it’s such a wild mish-mash of ideas. It’s an open-world action game. It’s a top-down RTS. It’s a classic Double Fine comedy. It’s a heavy metal dreamscape. But part of that DNA actually came from classic CRPGs, which the studio wanted to crank up to absurd levels.
To celebrate 15 years since Brutal Legend’s original release, developer Double Fine recently published aretrospective blogabout the game’s conception, development, and, err, legacy, delving into everything from its genre mash-up to Jack Black’s eventual involvement. But one interesting tidbit comes from Brutal Legend’s unexpected connection to old-school high fantasy RPGs like Icewind Dale and Neverwinter Nights.
Director and studio founder Tim Schafer shared that he first …
