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I didn't realize you could not have embeds. Fair enough, I've labeled all my links in my last post. Everyone deserves to experience Spontaneous Bootay.
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:SA indie game recommendations are consistently top-tier. I owe a lot of my personal enjoyment of the medium to y'all. I finished Norco and am tits deep in Case of the Golden Idol since yesterday.
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having just turned on embeds to see what it's like, it gets kinda overwhelming when everyone's posting 3+ videos per post, but that could just be a me thing. also pretty sure that This Way Madness Lies is gonna be in my GOTY list for 2023 
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I mentioned this earworm in my Fallout 3 writeup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CURNBsE8TZQ This track playing the moment you leave Thanalan and step into Ul'dah hits so hard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4UOPAOB0kg And I already posted the Mirror's Edge song but I'm posting it again cause IT'S SO loving GOOD I'M TELLING YOU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUXyoyuJZ8Y
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Rarity posted:This track playing the moment you leave Thanalan and step into Ul'dah hits so hard gently caress I need to go back to Eorzea
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Jay Rust posted:Post ur favourite 2022 game music!! Shoulda given Judgement a better write up, game owns bones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcbR3TKN5Dc Comedy option https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-59sWasI98
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Rarity posted:gently caress I need to go back to Eorzea  I also need to go back to eorzea... it's the holidays and i need whatever cosmetic gear they have this year edit: oh no i missed yesterday's last opportunity to get the starlight steed mount... i can get the glamours for heavensturn (new years) at least 
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Jan 2, 2023 09:17
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Jan 2, 2023 10:11
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Couple of games that showed up in this year's thread that are missing music rep. Two of Everything, from Immortality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SAukYw7Wc0 The Child You Were, from I Was a Teenage Exocolonist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_tiKhfqFds and while Elden Ring has already had rep, this is the real best song on its soundtrack other than the title theme, for feels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak--6xU7CLk lmao just remembered The Quarry came out this year, and I played it and enjoyed it but it has like... barely showed up in this thread at all. Thorn In My Side, from The Quarry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwVp49uwHgk
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Not from my GOTY list, but since I watched VideoGames play FFX and its on their list, it reminded me of one of my favourite pieces of gaming music ever written: Final Fantasy X OST - Mount Gagazet https://youtu.be/1susdDMvCq4 It plays as Yuna is literally and figuratively climbing a mountain to her death. Very evocative and poignant. And something that was on my list: Horizon: Forbidden West OST - Aloy's Theme https://youtu.be/0FllnTkXATI Lovely track, I like the juxtaposition of the female human voice with mechanical instrumentation that evokes the grinding of machinery - a little on the nose but a) it works and b) what else were they going to do? Reminds me a bit of the theme for Dragon Age: Origins, which isn't a bad thing.
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Jan 2, 2023 10:49
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Rarity posted:gently caress I need to go back to Eorzea Yes, yes you do
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vSifdQ07qo Signalis - Turned Around (no real spoilers, it's almost one of the earliest tracks you'll encounter) Well, either that or Emptiness from the same game  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKlAHqsiG1w RoyalScion fucked around with this message at 11:31 on Jan 2, 2023 |
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:the soundtrack in Forbidden West is incredible One neat thing about the Base music is that after each major quest (Aether, Beta, Poseidon, Demeter), some new musical element from that part of the storyline is incorporated into the track, so that by lategame you have this very lush instrumentation until the final mission where it gets stripped back down again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt81snYJQME exquisite tea fucked around with this message at 12:11 on Jan 2, 2023 |
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exquisite tea posted:One neat thing about the Base music is that after each major quest (Aether, Beta, Poseidon, Demeter), some new musical element from that part of the storyline is incorporated into the track, so that by lategame you have this very lush instrumentation until the final mission where it gets stripped back down again. Yeah, I really appreciated that the music is both modular/adaptive to the moment and yet the emotional swell always comes at exactly the right time to lead into some simple and very pretty acoustic arrangement. I also loved that that they mixed even more electronic motifs into the main tracks. It's just awesome stuff.
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Started Grapple Dog. Gameplay is superb but I started skipping the cutscenes before even getting to 1-1 lmao
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Oh hey if I play the Kaito files I can vote for Judgement again this year  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5KPFrciwk4
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Jan 2, 2023 14:41
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Did anyone post the Kirby "looking at my cool statue collection" music yet? Because that's a banger.
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bewilderment posted:The Child You Were, from I Was a Teenage Exocolonist 
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Guess I'll post the most earwormy tune I had last year. Arknights - Fading Sky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_6Qxb0Iiuw So Arknights is a gacha game, but it's also a strategy sorta-tower defense game. Every 3 months or so they throw out an event called Contingency Contract that's basically a big map with a string of mobs and a boss or two from a past event, and it has customisable difficulty in that you can turn on certain conditions like increased enemy stats, decreased unit stats, banning certain classes of unit, etc. It also always comes with a new battle theme just for that map which is almost always a bop. This tune's just the one that I love the most because its beat drops pretty much right as the bosses hit your frontline of units and you have to start executing the nuke phase of things. An incredibly perfectly timed drop that really enhances how you feel while executing your strategy.
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Fix posted:I finished Norco and am tits deep in Case of the Golden Idol since yesterday. You’re kicking off the year on such a good note
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Everything loads so much faster with embeds off. I will never turn them on. 
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 As I get older, I find less and less enjoyment from AAA games that seem to just do the same thing except 'bigger, louder, more mechanically advanced', and have been playing more indie stuff. Games that have a nice story or atmosphere. One game that really got me was Far: Changing Tides. It's a side-scrolling light puzzle game that doesn't really do anything new or exciting but it reeks of soul and atmosphere. It is set in a post-apocalyptic world that doesn't make the mistake that many other games in this setting do, that is concern itself with what happened. The apocalypse has happened and you just live in it. There is no dialogue. None is needed and there is just the hint that there is someone, somewhere far away you are scheduled/intended to find/meet/rejoin. So you leave aside your lovely flooded abode and set off into the unknown and you will let no barrier stop you as you sail through a ruined water-flooded landscape. It has simple puzzles, has zero replayability, and is probably very low in a dollar/hour sense but it is a game that I remember and will probably remember for a while.  The Edge Runner update was the update that made me finally complete the game I spent 1200 CAD for an RTX 3080 for. The gameplay remains kinda janky, like many other CDPR games, but whoever is in charge of the story direction there is still top-notch. They somehow always manage to make characters that manage to find the sweet spot between 'soulless NPC quest giver bot' and 'overly dramatic to the point of unbelievable drama queen'. I don't know how they do it but the characters feel kinda real in the movie sense. Do all the side quests, the fake people you meet are interesting and when they call you up to help them with their quests, you genuinely feel like going out of your way to see it done.  The last entry is another game that did something for me no other game really did before. A CRPG that gives you a castle/fief/kingdom......and actually has it mean something to the story and gameplay. I installed this puppy after it collected dust in my Humble Bundle catalog for years due to mixed reviews and was surprised. So many times a CRPG just hands you property as a quest reward and other than it spitting out some additional side content, it rarely does much else. The rest of the time, you are still just a grubby homeless hobo that wields a sword or fireballs and it has no bearing on the story or how people react to you in game. Kingmaker changes that. The throughline of the story is you managing the petty kingdom that you won in the opening chapter of the game. The Kingdom management and town building mini-game is admittedly jank, as is the D&D Pathfinder ruleset and wierd difficulty spikes in the game. But drat it if you don't feel like your RPG character has made it when petitioners come up to your throne room, bow and petition you with problems. Most of it is handled through the aforementioned janky minigame but occasionally, your adventuring roots mean you have to assemble your party (who double as court advisors) and stamp out kingdom-threatening issues yourself (the main storyline). It also fixes the sometimes strange dissonance with the main quest vs side quest issues some CRPG has. Since the kingdom threats (which are connected to each other plot-wise) occur in waves, there is downtime where you get to sort out these side quests without feeling weird helping some dude while the universe is about to end. Strange year. My 3 favourite games played consist of 2 deeply flawed mechanical games that nail the feel and atmosphere right and one low value artsy game that has an incredible soul to it.
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MikeC posted:Strange year. My 3 favourite games played consist of 2 deeply flawed mechanical games that nail the feel and atmosphere right and one low value artsy game that has an incredible soul to it. Hell yeah, real-deal thread content in the pre-7th divide! I'm with you on 2077 and Kingmaker, so I just wishlisted Far (which I'd not heard of before).
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ShakeZula posted:This thread has convinced me to buy Inscryption, Pentiment, and Citizen Sleeper, so good job thread! I get that but on the plus side that's potentially more amazing games for you to try out! Shoutout to those who mentioned Game Pass, I finally checked it out and for $1CAD I have a month to play Citizen Sleeper, Norco, Pentiment, Signalis, and have 40+ games I could see potentially getting around to at some point. Even at the $12CAD/mo price point it's a pretty great deal if you're interested in enough of their local catalogue, my understanding is multiplayer is limited to those who also are on game pass unfortunately.
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xoFcitcrA posted:Hell yeah, real-deal thread content in the pre-7th divide! It is on Xbox gamepass. They have intro offers for like 1 dollar or something (see above post) so you can play it effectively for 1 dollar and you get to check out the best subscription service in gaming right now. As I said, zero replay value unless you want to go back and listen to the music. They somehow manage to do a lot with zero dialogue. Like your lovely boat putts along and as you solve puzzles, you scavenge fuel and parts from places you realize used to be inhabited by people who just tried their best but didn't loving make it.
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Based on the lists I don't think too many people got a chance to play Melatonin so I'll rep it some more, this is the song to the level where I realized the game was magical https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyV36jCBkCY Just vibin' ShakeZula posted:This thread has convinced me to buy Inscryption, Pentiment, and Citizen Sleeper, so good job thread! As an aside, rope kid has been tweeting about how much he's been liking Citizen Sleeper... makes me feel good to see forums GOTY candidates lifting each other up lol
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Yeah I saw rope kid talk about citizen sleeper and thanks to him, this thread, as well as coverage from other places (giant bomb, waypoint). I might get this sometime down the line. Just hard to find time. So many good games!
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Levin posted:Even at the $12CAD/mo price point it's a pretty great deal if you're interested in enough of their local catalogue, my understanding is multiplayer is limited to those who also are on game pass unfortunately. Usually depends on the game, I've been able to play most with Steam friends but yeah some games have different lobbies for each platform.
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Rarity posted:And I already posted the Mirror's Edge song but I'm posting it again cause IT'S SO loving GOOD I'M TELLING YOU Girl it's SUCH a loving great song, incredible boost to the game's general vibes and I remember it immediately hooked me
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Ms Adequate posted:Girl it's SUCH a loving great song, incredible boost to the game's general vibes and I remember it immediately hooked me It's very funny that two big games with vocal themes titled "Still Alive" came out in the same year
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Did ropekid not post a list? That’s a bad goon
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Rope Kid was banned from the thread for attempting to influence people into voting for Pentiment
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Ms Adequate posted:Girl it's SUCH a loving great song, incredible boost to the game's general vibes and I remember it immediately hooked me Still Alive is a classic. Sort of related but the Catalyst soundtrack is perhaps my all time favorite game ost and it's 5 hours long lmao https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaqzZiF8CH8
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Rarity posted:If Pentiment wins hopefully rope kid will show to accept his award personally If?  Naturally I'm assuming that Elden Ring will be miraculously struck by a bolt of lightning and killed seconds before the announcement of the winners!
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