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* [[Complacent Gaming Syndrome]]: The multiplayer has a handful of infamous exploits. During release, players would "Baron Spam," creating over a dozen Fire Barons and wiping out opponents in a short amount of time, driving away frustrated players. Double Fine responded by making several nerfs to Ironheade, which was very effective...until players started cheating the leaderboards by consistently disconnecting if they started losing or simply if they got matched up with someone who beat them in the past. Then there's Car Spam, Soul Kisser Spam, Grave Digger Spam, Infinite Combos, or players just trying to collect achievements.
* [[Crazy Awesome]]: [[Tim Schafer]].
** Also, the game itself. It gives you achievements for throwing hedgehogs at an [[
* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: Given the source material, it's impossible not to have a couple.
** The moment just after Eddie defeats the first boss, wailing a guitar solo on his axe. {{spoiler|And repeated again when he does the same to Doviculus.}}
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** Subverted because this is a game set in a world without critics to badmouth any specific genre. Any Metal in this game, that is not said to be awful in game, [[Word of God|is an affectionate nod to its genre]]. Rob Halford even said, "[Lionwhyte] is a cross-section of everything I know and love in Heavy Metal music.".
* [[Disappointing Last Level]]: While the actual quality of the game stays high throughout, after Lionwhyte's palace, the story moves at an almost uncontrollably fast pace. See [[Cosmic Deadline]].
* [[Dude, Not Funny]]:
{{quote| '''Eddie:''' ''I've got an idea. How bout' you take off your fucking diaper, lay down you little baby foo foo and GO DO YOUR FUCKING JOB NOW?''<br />
'''Mangus:''' ''Hey. Not cool! I wear this thing so I don't have to stop the bus to take a leak!'' }}
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* [[If I Can't Have You]]: Bobby Kotick to Double Fine. Double Fine's suit argued that after a failed attempt to jettison the entire [[Brutal Legend]] game and change it from an Action/RTS to a [[Guitar Hero]] game, he canceled [[Brutal Legend]] so [[Guitar Hero]] would have no competition. When Double Fine republished with [[Electronic Arts]] and made a big showing, Activision sued to claim it back. A year later, [[Guitar Hero]]: Warriors of Rock came out, and appears to be what he wanted [[Brutal Legend]] to become, and the reviews don't like the game, and see it as a ripoff.
* [[Internet Backdraft]]: The Stage Battles.
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* [[It Was His Sled]]: {{spoiler|Ophelia leads the Drowning Doom.}}
* [[It Will Never Catch On]]: Activision and EA's attitude toward the Stage Battles.
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* [[Scrappy Mechanic]]: The Summon Flag. Like a Rally Point in [[Starcraft]], a special guitar solo creates a rally point that you can set on the ground for allies, or keep on your back so fresh units will come to you. But losing track of this flag is an easy way to cost you a match, even for the pros.
* [[Screwed By the Network]]: EA refuses to drop the money to make the patches created by [[Double Fine]] available to the public, including the desperately requested PS3 patch to stop crashing. Players who complain to EA have received copies of different games for free. [[Brutal Legend]] is not included in EA's Games on Demand on Xbox Live, or in any of its sales. They are working hard to pretend their relationship with [[Double Fine]] never happened.
* [[So Bad
* [[Tainted By the Preview|Tained By The Demo]]: [[Tim Schafer]] talked about nothing but the stage battles and the multiplayer. [[Electronic Arts]] talked about nothing but the story, [[Jack Black]], and the single player, and nothing about the gameplay. The demo was only the first five minutes of the whole game. Guess whose message got to players. (Hint: Not the guy who made the game.)
* [[That One Attack]]: [[Fan Nickname|The Buzzsaw,]] a pseudo-infinite combo discovered after Double Fine's big balance patch. It can allow one player to endlessly wail on the other, scoring an easy kill and undermining the idea that the combat is about [[The Power of Friendship|combining Buffs with Double Teams]], rather than lone combos. A source of frustration of casual players.
* [[Too Good to Last]]: A sequel was planned that was going to include much of the stuff that was cut from the first time due to time and budget constraints. However, when sales of ''[[Brutal Legend]]'' were not as high as EA was hoping the plans for a sequel were scrapped.
* [[What Were You Thinking?]]: Both Vivendi and EA had a near complete media blackout on the Stage Battles and multiplayer, the part [[Tim Schafer]] wanted people to like the most, and that Double Fine worked on for over double the time it took to make the Single Player part. EA got a half-completed game for cheap, and had the potential to make a very long game with good multiplayer support instead, '''EA rushed the single player through and spent millions advertising it with a single player focus when the multiplayer was the real focus.''' If EA had just let [[Tim Schafer]] talk about his game, not only would [[Internet Backlash]] be avoided, they would have saved millions of dollars.
** Although EA performed focus tests and found the Stage Battles to be a lot of fun, when word was finally released on the Stage Battles, EA was asking journalists to call it "Action Strategy," just so the phrase "RTS" could be avoided.
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