WHAT ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW?

The soundtrack from Warcraft 2 was so good that they reused it in both World of Warcraft and Hearthstone, so it's not just you.

Some newer games have some really damn good songs too, of course. But there's definitely a strong tendency in newer games to mostly have music that is part of the background, and feels more like ambiance than a theme song. A lot of the time, ambient background sounds are actually all you get, and there's no music at all for large stretches of the game. This is due partly to the prevalence of voice chat in games, which I understand, but it happens in single-player games too. It's a little hard for me to figure out why massive-budget single-player games like Dark Souls, Assassin's Creed, Skyrim, Shadow of Mordor and Batman: Arkham Thingy don't have good music playing all the time.

In World of Warcraft, you can change this, but by default, music only plays about 25% of the time and the rest of the time there's silence. It'll start playing a song several minutes after you enter an area, play it once, and then wait about ten minutes quietly before starting it over again. Like, what? What? Since then I've noticed that many other games do the same thing, but without a togglable setting. I don't get it.

Then there are these GTAs and they use the real world's music.
Overall It got boring. For example if you compare Jasper Kyd's old megadrive sounds of Batman and Robin or Red Zone's soundtrack with his current creations, these newcomers show some lack of personality.

So apparently, freedom of speech is a "centrist" ideology now. Heh; I've heard worse, I just find odd to see that here. But come to think of it. That's really nothing new/shocking when you put it next to: "words/ideas/games are problematic/harmful/get people killed" which are very popular beliefs around here... on a creative community, of all places... for god knows what reason.... But that begs the question. Is the average rmn denizen becoming more, would you say... "radical"? ;) Ah! "Progress".

In other news. Poor LockeZ, he gets so misunderstood. Sometimes I just want to hug him and make games with him forever. <3

author=alterego
So apparently, freedom of speech is a "centrist" ideology now. Heh; I've heard worse, I just find odd to see that here. But come to think of it. That's really nothing new/shocking when you put it next to: "words/ideas/games are problematic/harmful/get people killed" which are very popular beliefs around here... on a creative community, of all places... for god knows what reason.... But that begs the question. Is the average rmn denizen becoming more, would you say... "radical"? ;) Ah! "Progress".

Well, I mean, words, ideas, and games can all dramatically influence people and the way they act. All media and communication can. Heck, I think that's a core principle of creation and creativity - if the stuff we made didn't affect people, why would we bother?

Honestly, was there an issue with the FF7 topic that I missed completely? Because I've seen a few people complain about it but didn't see anything in it where I read that was bad. Maybe I missed something? I haven't got time nor inclination to re-read the whole damn thing though.

If it's about the outstanding negativity towards the remake, I can totally understand getting tired of it. As far as I'm concerned, we won't know anything until information is released and, based on how the info that was released during FF13's making stacked up to the real game, not even then.

author=LockeZ
Some newer games have some really damn good songs too, of course. But there's definitely a strong tendency in newer games to mostly have music that is part of the background, and feels more like ambiance than a theme song. A lot of the time, ambient background sounds are actually all you get, and there's no music at all for large stretches of the game. This is due partly to the prevalence of voice chat in games, which I understand, but it happens in single-player games too. It's a little hard for me to figure out why massive-budget single-player games like Dark Souls, Assassin's Creed, Skyrim, Shadow of Mordor and Batman: Arkham Thingy don't have good music playing all the time.

I don't think it's so much for voice chat as it is being able to hear the enemies and such. I hear FPS fanatics talk about surround sound setups all the time and how much easier it makes it to not get snuck up on. Given how "stealth" has been a mandatory checkbox for a while now, I suppose it's only natural that there's no music during neutral situations. Beyond that, I'm pretty sure the reasoning is just following the cinema/immersion angle.

I totally agree that we should let people create and say what they want. If the leader of the KKK wants to write a manifesto, let him. But, intrinsic value or not, I definitely retain my right to criticize it and recommend others against reading it. Libraries retain the freedom to not keep a copy of it. Amazon retains the freedom not to sell it. That's them using their own right to free speech. I assume it's the same reason RMN chooses not to host obscenely ludicrous games, like the one where you molest people for points, or whatever.

Other things I'm thinking: man, writing dialog is hard :P

author=Liberty
I just try to hope for at least one thing done better than the original. At least we can be sure that the translation will be better... I say but then I remember FF13-2 which was complete bullshit and why the fuck were they thinking?! ugh ugh ugh

When I first heard there was a remake bandwagon, I jumped on it for maybe...15 or 20 minutes, and then as I thought about it, I realized, you know what? 90 percent of all remakes suck 10 pound sweaty donkey balls. I don't want a remake. I want a remaster with updated graphics. Steam sells an HD remaster of FFVII. No updated graphics, but it looks really sharp and it's a much better translation. When I saw that my favorite mistranslation, "This guy are sick," had been fixed, I kind of missed it. I'm really very pleased with what I got off of Steam. It was well worth it. I wouldn't have bought it except that my PS2 has a problem in its disc tray, I didn't want to mess up my discs, and really missed playing FFVII. Also, I know that if I ever want to, I can add the Tifa bootleg patch to get updated character sprites, though I probably won't.

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