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[Moss.]

4 DAYS.

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[pacdiggity]

big eh

[EvilM00s]

Ohmygodohmygodohmygod

[Moss.]

big eh

You're right, let's just keep releasing pokemon games over and over again. Who needs fresh and original ideas?

[Sophist]

This lady doesn't know how to hold a sword


but the game looks pretty rad, bastion was fun and immersive

[Moss.]

The lady is just a singer, suddenly thrown in to an impossible position, she's never had any reason to hold a sword before.

[Ser zacheatscrackers]

I loved Bastion to death, so I'm really excited for this. The soundtrack sounds just as great as I'd expect.

[Moss.]

I think I heard some neat adaptive music ideas when they showed the tech demo. Like, I think one of the premises of the game that you learn early on (mild spoilers ahead) is that the singer (main character) loses her voice. The battles consist of real time action, and there's this "freeze time, plan your moves, and press a button to execute" mode. What I heard in the tech demo, the music is playing and it's all fast and tense, but when you enter "plan you action" mode, the music changes to this slow, lounge singer-y type thing ... and you can hear the main character singing. Which really struck me. She loses her voice, but when you're planning your moves, in other words "in your head," you can hear her voice. Because we all hear our voices in our head, right? It was really profound to me for some reason, and sounded beautiful.

And a step further than that, I think I heard that the two songs were playing at the same time, actually as ONE song, but certain layers of the music were active at one point, and not at another. Like all that adaptive music stuff I've bored you all to death with before (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geFpTqvaIJQ).


So there's lots of reasons I'm excited for this. If Bastion is anything to go by, the story will be excellent. The art direction is absolutely superb. The music is excellent, as well. The gameplay looked pretty cool. But if the studio actually went ahead and did some neat technical stuff with the music, like adaptive music techniques, then I may lose my goddamn mind over this game. But even if they don't, I'm sure I'm still going to love it.

Fingers crossed.

[Ser zacheatscrackers]

I think I heard some neat adaptive music ideas when they showed the tech demo. Like, I think one of the premises of the game that you learn early on (mild spoilers ahead) is that the singer (main character) loses her voice. The battles consist of real time action, and there's this "freeze time, plan your moves, and press a button to execute" mode. What I heard in the tech demo, the music is playing and it's all fast and tense, but when you enter "plan you action" mode, the music changes to this slow, lounge singer-y type thing ... and you can hear the main character singing. Which really struck me. She loses her voice, but when you're planning your moves, in other words "in your head," you can hear her voice. Because we all hear our voices in our head, right? It was really profound to me for some reason, and sounded beautiful.

Hah, that's actually really clever. Gotta love it when developers throw in interesting details like that.

My fingers are crossed as well, this is some really promising-looking stuff.

[pacdiggity]

big eh

You're right, let's just keep releasing pokemon games over and over again. Who needs fresh and original ideas?

thanks for expressing my opinion for me

[Moss.]

TWO DAYS!

[pacdiggity]

no but actually i am annoyed that you decided that that's what i meant. the trailer did not interest me much and i didn't seem to find bastion quite as amazing as everyone else did.
for the record, the most recent pokemon game i've played is emerald (aside from like half an hour in diamond before i gave up because i was bored) and i'm excited about the gen 3 remakes because why the fuck shouldn't i be allowed to be. i understand the hypocrisy insinuated here, yes, but i don't see how i'm expected to make a big hype ruckus for 50 seconds of laid-back music and pretty pictures and 40 seconds of confusing gameplay footage with a husky voice saying words that don't mean anything to me played over it.

like come on, i'm not doing anything criminal here. the trailer didn't draw me in. i don't know much about the game, so i'm not going to claim i'm making an informed opinion. all i'm working with here is what the trailer showed me, and that was an isometric walking-around simulator with what promises to be an involved story. i understand that you find something to be passionate about and incredibly promising in this game. i just don't. yet, at least.

sorry for hijacking your hype thread, i'll leave now.

[Moss.]

It would have been nice if you decided to articulate that so intelligently and completely in the first place, instead of just saying "big eh."  Nobody "expected" anything of you. If you weren't into it, you could have just kept your mouth shut and left. But you didn't. You came in, and fired, so I fired back. And actually, no, you didn't even say "big eh." It was "big eh" with no punctuation. You couldn't have possibly put any less effort in to conveying your opinion, but you decided to come in and convey it anyway. Because according to you, making a thread about a game I'm excited for means you need to be excited for it, too. Better get your opinion in so everyone knows it. But better do it in a way that shows no effort or any intelligent thought or argument.


I've played pokemon games. I've never been in to them. I think they're boring, and just re-hash tired old gameplay. Do you see me in your Pokemon thread? No, you don't.


Goodbye, then.

[Sophist]

medium eh

[EvilM00s]

Arlen! Pac! You are both naughty boys! Now I have to chain you up in the get-along cage until you both apologize... Like you mean it!

[firerain]

too much assfrustration in this thread for me

[Moss.]

Alright, everybody just calm down.

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1.5 days!

[Jules]

[Acolyte]

Arlen I think you're an alright guy, but you're kind of a dick about your opinions.

:justsaiyan:


As for the game, I'm with pac. Looks like it could be cool I guess. I'm not seeing anything super impressive, but it's interesting.

[Moss.]

I respect opinions when they're intelligently voiced. I don't respect trolls that come in to a thread and just say "big eh" and nothing else, and I won't put up with that bullshit. If that makes me a dick, then I'm proud to be a dick.



For the record, you're not with Pac. You actually expressed your opinion in a respectful and thoughtful way. I have no problem with that.

[Acolyte]

Pacman wasn't "trolling" you. It wasn't a personal attack. Chill out bro. :\

[Moss.]

I never considered it a personal attack. I just simply don't like people like that.

[firerain]

chill out and move with it babe

[Moss.]

The easiest way to "move with it" would be to stop bringing it back up. You weren't even involved, you don't need to get the last word in.

[firerain]

look guy

you don't tell me

i'll decide.