meist3r

Well, I've heard the question several times now and I got three points that make lots of sense to me but I can't prove that any of those are responsible for them NOT being in the game.

1.) Activision holds all the music rights in the digital/games market because of their Guitar Hero license and given the struggle about Brütal Legend they probably wouldn't give them up or only for unbelievable amounts of money.
2.) The game's soundtrack is mainly comprised of 70s classic metal and stuff that plays into the category in terms of sound and atmosphere. So far Metallica haven't written anything particularly "epic" (in terms of dragons and lightning etc) afaik.

In my personal opinion I like that Metallica isn't in the game. They have taken some ridiculous positions in recent years and other than that I really can't think of one of their songs that would actually fit the mood of the game.

@Space: Then you've never had a car in a contractors garage for "full service" I've never seen more expensive gas than on those bills. Granted I've mostly seen them on the bills for corporate cars that have a service contract but nonetheless. To alter analogy it's like a dealer refusing to sell you a car if you don't promise to get all his spare parts from him.

A store that sells games and systems needs to sell anything they can to stay in business. To not sell an upcoming console is just stupid to me. No matter how they do it their business will have impacts even more. At least they could sell some Go's and maybe lure customers back to buy something else too. Accessories maybe. But the way they're doing it now they'll go any place else anyhow.

Oh ... my ... fucking ... god ...

This is distilled awesome, I was afraid my screen would crack from all that condensed awesome I just saw. If they would finally make up their mind if the demo comes out tomorrow or if just the pre-order people get it I could sleep tonight.

Can't wait to get my hands on this. This is Double Fine quality at it's finest.

Tim Schafer ... I bow down before you ... I am not worthy. All I can offer you is my money ... and my soul.

Wow so they complain that they will make less revenue if the sell the thing but not the games but their solution is to not make ANY revenue from the device at all. Good luck with that logic.

When was the last time a car dealer refused to sell me a car because he wouldn't be the one filling up the tank everytime?

The proper answer would have been:

"How about building something to replace it then? Oh wait, we tried ... can't get a Windows Mobile to be usable to save our lives. Entirely my fault."

Oh great, here we go again. Could someone over in the US start bombing Gamestops for a change? I'm not saying go hurt people but I'd really love to see some of these cesspits of evil go up in the cleansing flames of redemption.

This whole "early demo access" is a farce and the worst case of marketing gone bad. People said it about a gazillion times already ... demos are meant to give you an impression of what you are about to buy not of what you already bought blindsighted.

Then again, maybe this is just jealousy speaking since I live in one of the many many countries that aren't infested with Gamestops, where I can't pay 5 bucks for a game that I actually did pre-order as soon as it was listed and probably will have to shell out extra cash for a guitar texture anyway.

Brütal Legend will be awesome, EA marketing ... industry standard fail.

I bought my first 360 Elite second hand and that one had it's gfx chip replaced before I got it for picture errors, no general Hw failure though. I've been playing it a couple of hours every day for the last three months and so far no problems. I just hope it stays that way. Once I'm done with Brutal Legend the thing just as well die.

I for one bought one because the PS3 is even more expensive and has a worse software lineup so far. Main reason was I wanted a gaming solution without spending a billion dollars on PC hardware upgrades.

That's why.

I find it very interesting that they bragged about their in-house developed Wii tech which then fell flat on it's face when push came to shove (I'm still waiting to see them work their way out of that hype disaster with their two upcoming titles) and that they chose to license a graphics engine that evidently produces drastically different results on PS3 and Xbox 360. Ask a few people about the textures and such in Ghostbusters on PS3 and you know what I mean. To me, this is a strange move.

Full Auto Assault rifles against Roman soldiers with spears? Sounds like fun.