Live Brutal Legend Q&A today!

By Robert Purchese Published 2 July, 2009

Tim Schafer on air from 4pm BST.

Brutal Legend creator Tim Schafer will be answering your questions live on Eurogamer today, 2nd July, at 4pm (UK time).

Tim Schafer! Wow!

You'll be able to submit questions via a moderator to Mr Schafer, whose answers will appear magically on the same page. We'll start stockpiling questions an hour before the off.

Tim Schafer has pedigree. He spent over 10 years at LucasArts, where he and Dave Grossman did the bulk of the Monkey Island writing under Ron Gilbert's direction. Schafer and Grossman then went on to design Day of the Tentacle, before Schafer went solo on Full Throttle and the fantastic Grim Fandago.

(Dave Grossman is remaking Monkey Island as an episodic series for Telltale Games, by the way. We published an interview with him last week.)

Schafer left LucasArts to form Double Fine productions in 2000. First out of the stable gate was Psychonauts, which won Eurogamer's Game of the Year Award for 2005. Schafer and Double Fine's next project is Brutal Legend, hence the excitement.

Brutal Legend is an open-world action game that follows Eddie Riggs - the best roadie in the world - on his journey back to the fantastical Age of Metal: a world created from a thousand old metal albums and Schafer's life-long passion for rock. It's no wonder a project with such personality has attracted Jack Black, Ozzy Osbourne and Tim Curry.

After a shaky start under publisher Vivendi (now Activision Blizzard), Brutal Legend now heads heads to a 16th October launch on PS3 and 360 courtesy of EA. And the silence has finally broken, as our April preview shows. We've seen plenty more screenshots and videos recently, too.

But there's still a long way to go, and still plenty we don't know. Until later, we hope.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (14) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • AphoticCosmos #1 3 years ago

    Tim Schafer for the win!

    Brutal Legend came out of nowhere to look pretty damn good at E3. This should be interesting :)

  • Brianstorm #2 3 years ago

    Would be interesting to get his view on the folks at activision.....

  • dsmx #3 3 years ago

    It would be interesting hearing his views on the monkey island games returning.

  • Blerk #4 3 years ago

    Ooh! Someone who I can actually think of some questions for!

  • giant_frying_pan #5 3 years ago

    Yes, I'm going to try and come up with some ''special'' questions* for this. Nothing but the best for Schafer!


    *only for the Eurogamer mod to ignore them :(

  • keme #6 3 years ago

    Quick! Someone ask him how brutal this game's going to be on a scale from Guns'n Roses to Slayer.

  • morgothemighty #7 3 years ago

    excellent, another fine catch for the eurogamer interviewer, only for stupid arse questions to get picked instead of decent ones that actually relate to the game or developer - "so, what's your favourite cheese" - inspired (insert rolling eyes smiley - just - about - here.)

  • Hunam #8 3 years ago

    The battlefield questions were mostly ok, it got lost a bit in the middle but it got back on track towards the end.

  • dsmx #9 3 years ago

    A PC port would be nice as it's published by EA it's almost inevitable that it will appear on the PC at some point.

    Still his views on monkey island games returning, how he feels about adventure games in general starting to reappear once again and How he feels about the whole activision/EA legal stuff surrounding his game will be interesting to hear.

  • Hunam #10 3 years ago

    I think it normally boils down to grown men asking him for secks.

  • OrgasmicMutton #11 3 years ago

    Ih ope he's wearing an "Ask me about Psychonauts 2" badge.i'd love to know if there is even a possibility of a sequel.

  • Kiigan #12 3 years ago

    Could someone punch him for that "Meat Circus" level in Psychonauts please?

    Then hug him for Grim Fandango.

  • TruWari3r #13 3 years ago

    Yes, totally agree. Milkman's conspiracy best level ever but the meat circus ~almost~ ruined the entire game for me, it's that bad with the camera and gameplay changes.

  • TruWari3r #14 3 years ago

    So where do we ask the questions? It's an hour before tip-off now right?

    Q: Is BL definitely coming out October 16th or is there a slight chance legal mumbo jumbo delays the publishing of the game?

    Q: Is there any chance at multiplayer skins in BL of previous games (Fandango, Milkman, LeChuck, Purple tentacle lol)

    Q: Will there be any co-op?

    Q: What would be the motivation to play the single player again and again?

    Q What are your thoughts on the Meat Circus level?