Legendary Thinks Outside "The Box," Hits Pre-Release

Spark Unlimited's new game Legendary has shed its extra title text, released a new developer trailer, and is headed to a pre-order near you. Hopefully this game is a recovery from Spark's last foray into gaming with their somewhat-less-than-stellar Turning Point: Fall of Liberty. "Legendary sound fun - Pandora's Box is opened, and this series of vast, destructive beasts are unleashed, and reluctant antihero and art thief, Charles Deckard, finds himself having to fight it all. What to think?! I say: forgive and assume the best. Because I would rather a world where the game with giant golems and rabid werewolves, with griffins soaring in the sky while vast mythological beasts knock down skyscrapers, be excellent."

I always want a new cool game but...

[Corpuscavernosa]

reluctant antihero and art thief

Really?

It sounds like what we have here...

[brouski]

is Hudson Hawk Vs. The Monsters.

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[elrous0]

Not to worry. In an original twist he starts out the game with amnesia and slowly discovers as the game progresses that he's the chosen one who must save humanity.

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[Evanisincontrol]

Not to worry. In an original twist he starts out the game with amnesia and slowly discovers as the game progresses that he's the chosen one who must save humanity.

But not before coincidentally running into his dream girl (who has freakishly large breasts), who will at first be cold to him but will warm up to him as they journey together through a series of wackey-but-dangerous adventures. She will ultimately sacrifice herself to save him/someone, which will put the hero in a great position to not only save humanity, but also exact personal vengeance as well (and make it look cool at the same time!).

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[elrous0]

I just hope they don't run into a horrible bad guy, who is uber-powerful but instead of confronting them directly sends his progressively stronger minions after them one-by-one until finally showing up himself for a huge final battle.

Oh...

[andrewd18]

this series of vast, destructive beasts are unleashed

Oh, the huge manatee!

Seriously, though... the grammar in that story submission makes me want to cry.

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[philspear]

"Rabid werewolves?" Really now, as if being a werewolf wasn't bad enough, you also have rabies? That's just unfair! Not to mention that rabies would only cause the werewolves to be much shorter-lived.

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[KDR_11k]

Oh, the huge manatee!

It would probably make for a much better hero than 90% of the videogame characters out there.

Legendary

[Kamineko]

Legendary Thinks Outside "The Box"?

Legendary what...? LEGENDARY WHAT?

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[martin_henry]

Legendary Game in a Box...outside 'the box'

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[DeskLazer]

RTFA. it used to be called Legendary: The Box. clever pun to remove the extraneous name and have a storyline that appears to be 'cool.' and also to work "pandora's box" into the description [letting demons out of the box].

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[eviloverlordx]

Because I would rather a world where the game with the giant golems and rabid werewolves, with griffins soaring in the sky while vast mythological beasts known down skyscrapers, be excellent."

It's like chumming the water.

some of the worst writing I've seen in a while

[gEvil (beta)]

Because I would rather a world where the game with the giant golems and rabid werewolves, with griffins soaring in the sky while vast mythological beasts known down skyscrapers, be excellent.

Nuff said.

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[martin_henry]

Try reading that out loud! It makes my brain hurt... High school graduates should be able to write better than that.

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[sxeraverx]

Actually, that's perfectly correct grammar, assuming 'known' was a typo and was supposed to be 'knock' (a perfectly valid assumption). </-Wpedantic>

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[Goaway]

No, not even close.

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[Haeleth]

OP said "worst writing", not "worst grammar". It's stylistically dreadful, regardless of whether or not it's grammatically correct. (Which I don't think it is.)

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[Repton]

Grammar looks fine to me. "Rather ... be ..." is more or less equivalent to "prefer ... to be ...". e.g. "We're getting a new webserver. They're telling me to get Red Hat, but I would rather it run debian." This sentence is basically the same, just with a big noun phrase and a big subordinate clause (I think that's the term) shoved in the middle.

(whether it's good writing is another question, of course..)

Worry less about the gameplay....

[martin_henry]

...and more about whether the game will play.

That's right, it's Games for Windows.

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[Kamokazi]

As opposed to Games for Linuz? C'mon, even OSX has better games available.

Even the developers thought the title was stupid.

[MR.Mic]

I am working on a UT3 modding project [moddb.com] with one of the environment artists that worked on Legendary.
From what he tells me, pretty much everyone on team that wasn't in management thought the extra title was stupid.

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[Wiarumas]

If the business model sucks, how can they ever expect to produce anything of quality? ...especially in a supposedly creative environment.

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[MortimerV]

I think the gp is referring to the title "Legendary: The Box" (referring to Pandora's Box) which they eventually shortened to "Legendary".

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[MR.Mic]

Yes, that's correct.
I didn't realize that my post could have been confused like that until I read it again.

What kind of art thief?

[Tryle]

He's an art thief? So he torrents music?

That's not thinking outside the box...

[Channard]

.. that's thinking inside the same box that contains all the other moody reluctant anti-heroes. For crying out loud, can't we just have someone who's happy to wade in and kick arse without moping about it? Where's Serious Sam when we need him?

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[Amphetam1ne]

He's busy circle-straffing an infinite number of generic mobs accross an infinite number of generic arenas.

somewhat-less-than-stellar??

[Clovis42]

Hopefully this game is a recovery from Spark's last foray into gaming with their somewhat-less-than-stellar Turning Point: Fall of Liberty.

No, TP:LOF was very-much-less-than-awful. The opening cutscene is interesting, but then you start moving around and shooting. After that it becomes an extremely generic shooter with Nazis and bugs. BTW, why is this a story? What is news about a run-of-the-mill (yay hyphens!) game being released? And why am I commenting on it??

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[Datamonstar]

While you're an ass... I've noticed in my very own forays into perfect grammar that hyphens are quite contagious. I would demonstrate, but the effect only occurs if attempted subconsciously.

Charles Deckard...Cain?

[Chris Mattern]

"Hello, my friend! Stay awhile, and listen!"

revolutionary

[CaptainOblivion]

"it-it's unique, it hasn't been done yet." hey guys, I have an idea nobody's tried before: a game where you -wait for it- shoot monsters! but wait- to make it completely original, we'll bring ancient mythology in, because it's totally new!

If only this game had NPH

[c0mmanderb0nd]

Sadly I think this game would be better if they tied in Barney from "How I Met Your Mother". But I guess they didn't want to pay NPH the high $$$ he is making off DR whats his faces blog mystery.