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Post by Hobbit on Mar 24, 2021 21:16:25 GMT -5
Day 23 - Underrated music - Lord of the Rings Online - Evendim
I have hundreds of hours in this MMO, and usually when I hit a depressive episode. However, because the game has a small playerbase in comparison to other MMOs and other multiplayer games I'm counting this as underrated. Evendim is probably my favorite area in the game with some phenomenal history, questlines, and locations. The whole area is based around the Wardens of Annuminas, guards of the ancient city where the Rangers and Dunedain first held out against the forces of Angmar. The music is quiet and the acoustic guitar situates for a relaxing walk around a beautiful body of water surrounded by ancient ruins of the Rangers of Old.
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Post by Hobbit on Mar 24, 2021 21:17:42 GMT -5
Day 24 - Music stuck in your head - Friday Night Funkin' - Fresh
"Deh, bop, beep-beep bop, dee ka wuh weh wuh way tok"
"Deh, bop, beep-beep bop, dee ka wuh weh wuh way tok"
"Bee boo dee koo skedah, bee buh-too taa paa"
"Bee boo bee koo skedah, dee buh-doo taa paa"
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Post by hairtoday on Mar 24, 2021 22:31:37 GMT -5
Day 24- Music You Constantly Have Stuck In Your Head: Hiveswap Act 2- Ticket to Ride: Rusty
This song is a catchy beat presented in a bunch of different ways. That's all. It's the sort of music you can let loop for a while and focus on something else.
Send help.
I can't listen to this without humming along, or tapping my fingers, or walking in time with some part of it. I'm pretty sure I've strained my neck bobbing my head along to the tune more than once. Be careful with this one.
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Post by Patch on Mar 24, 2021 22:43:19 GMT -5
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Post by thedudeguy on Mar 24, 2021 22:57:52 GMT -5
Day 23: Underrated music
Goddamn Live A Live, you really deserve a remaster on the Switch.
An anthology of unrelated stories each written and given art by different manga artists.
Each chapter offers a wholly different experience, but there is an underlying theme to the game that comes together.
On the topic of themes, the music does tend to change from chapter but there is on huge constant, the boss theme.
Megalomania is a bit of a weak loop, but it still is frenetic enough to work with the short nature of Live a Live battles.
This also was supposed to be what Toby Fox wanted to use for the final boss battle in his infamous Halloween Hack, but due to limitations of Earthbound hacking and the sound engine of the game, he had to make another song on the fly, Megalovania.
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Post by thedudeguy on Mar 24, 2021 23:04:37 GMT -5
Day 24: Music you constantly have stuck in your head.
Let's be honest, I have almost half of this soundtrack stuck in my head.
Give me a remake of this in the vein of Octopath Traveler. 7th Saga is known for being the hardest RPG on the SNES. Though mainly because the Clown Shoes translating the game broke the leveling system while programming the game. They nerfed the stat gains while forgetting to rebalance the enemies, meaning the difficulty curve has more cliffs than an Alaskan Glacier.
To rub salt in the wounds, you have competing NPCs who will level up alongside you, but the programmers forgot to nerf their stat gains while they aren't party members.
The soundtrack itself is haunting in all of the right ways. It takes advantage of the SNES's softer sound fonts and it gives the overworld a very lonely and daunting feeling, and the towns come off as feeling rather warm and inviting. While there are no real bangers, this is a soundtrack that is good to just chill out to.
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Post by thedudeguy on Mar 24, 2021 23:12:57 GMT -5
Day 25: Music that get's you pumped
Sure Saints Row lives in GTA's shadow.
Sure it's got a whole bunch of jokes that are aging as well a bottle of skim milk.
Sure, the PC ports are almost as jank as an FPS made by three Ukranian's in a tool shack.
But when it's firing on all cylinders, it can be golden.
While this is a licensed track, it is still used at such an amazing moment that it's worthy of this slot.
You have just taken on an army task force created to take out your gang as well as a gang of violent luchadores out to raze the entire city. After busting heads you are told that the Luchadore leader is about to flee in a jet and the Army has Kidnapped two of your comrades as well as Mayor Burt Reynolds.
This song kicks on, and while you COULD go after Killbane, you know the only choice is to head out to save your friends, all while the is blasting.
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Post by hairtoday on Mar 25, 2021 15:23:17 GMT -5
Day 25- Music That Gets You Pumped: Iconoclasts- Descent(Impact Crater)
Iconoclasts is a neat little Metroidvania with an interesting story to tell. Without going into spoilers, the final dungeon of the game is the Impact Crater- a short run of combat encounters and platforming to lead into the final boss. Though simple, it makes a nice place to decompress from the PLOT that just unfolded and focus you on your final objective. The music that plays over the area is plodding and methodical. Keep putting one foot in front of the other, take those last steps one at a time, and remember what got you here.
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Post by Morphimus on Mar 25, 2021 17:32:06 GMT -5
Day 25 Music that gets you pumped Mighty Switch Force - Got2BAStar www.youtube.com/watch?v=15vZ7aGbb7IBasically the entire Mighty Switch Force soundtrack gets me pumped. I've never even played the game, the music is just so good.
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Post by Patch on Mar 26, 2021 0:01:39 GMT -5
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Post by Patch on Mar 26, 2021 20:05:57 GMT -5
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Post by hairtoday on Mar 26, 2021 21:24:35 GMT -5
Day 26- Music You Like From a Game You Haven't Played: Killer Instinct- Back To Rise
The new KI is worth picking up on sale just for the soundtrack. Getting in this late in its lifecycle is pretty intimidating, but it's a chance to pick up the music on the cheap.
Back To Rise is a character song about a redemption story and hitting really hard. It's really good. Not much else to say.
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Post by thedudeguy on Mar 26, 2021 23:47:24 GMT -5
Day 26: Music from a game you've never played
As amazing as the series is, I have never actually gotten through a playthrough of any of the Monkey Island games.
Lucasart Games had fantastic adventure games with amazing soundtracks, however the issue is that you needed the proper hardware.
You could listen to variations made for a pc speaker, or a more robust Soundblaster MIDI version, but if you were truly fortunate you could enjoy the Roland-MT version.
Shit, early pc gaming was a nightmare, you could have so many different versions of a game just depending on the hardware you were running.
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Post by thedudeguy on Mar 27, 2021 0:02:17 GMT -5
Day 27: Music from a handheld game.
This still count's because my last Rhythm Heaven song was from Fever on the Wii.
The series has a lot of great songs, but some are better while you're playing. However some of the remixes offer some great J-Pop.
It's amazing that they fit this onto the original game on the GBA, and even on the old hardware it doesn't sound too bad! This is the uncompressed version with better guitars, but it still slaps on a GBA.
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Post by Patch on Mar 27, 2021 12:47:49 GMT -5
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