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Games / Re: Our Favorite Downloadable Games

« on: September 01, 2007, 01:48:12 pm »

I didn't really enjoy the game, well, it was ejoyable, but way too short....then I discovered the expansion packs. :p

A strange dream is far longer and really amazing. Can't wait to finish it and complete the rest of the levels.

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Games / Re: Our Favorite Downloadable Games

« on: August 31, 2007, 10:09:20 am »

Knytt Stories is out!

And boy is it great.  I'm in love.

OMG OMG OMG!!!! Downloading now, this came as a total surprise to me. Thank you! (And thank me for looking up this thread again)

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Off-Topic / Re: What kind of soundwaves do you listen to?

« on: July 21, 2007, 08:45:38 pm »

Nah, it's Frederick "Toots" Hibbert. The Maytals were/are a really excellent band that straddled the period where ska metamorphosed into reggae; their material has elements of both.

You might find this interesting, if you've not seen it already.

Yeah saw that. Didn't finish watching it though, so thanks for the reminder. Watched it now.

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Off-Topic / Re: What kind of soundwaves do you listen to?

« on: July 15, 2007, 06:47:06 pm »

Acch I've been avoiding this topic for ages because it takes so friggin' long to pick a decent cross-section of my musical tastes, but I'm quite drunk and this'll kill some time. Some favourite artists might be a good way to do it; Against Me!, Mclusky, Aphex Twin, Venetian Snares, Buc 65, Zombieflesheater, the Smiths, Clutch, Discount, Squarepusher, Toots and the Maytals, DJ Vadim, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, Four Tet, NWA, Boris, Quasimoto, Lamb...all kinds of things. Lots of really frantic breakcore and raggacore when I'm working (Bong-Ra, Shitmat, Knifehandchop; the combination activates my Photoshop devil-hands that can blaze through anything in no time flat), Yann Tiersen or SUNN0))) when I'm reading. Lots of unsorted chiptunes stuff, live scratch DJ sets and rap battles, odds and sods of electronica experiments my friends have sent me to appraise. My life improved immeasurably when I started listening to stuff other than white dudes playing guitars.

Portrait of a Cigarette by Discount is my favourite song ever. I found it on an otherwise unremarkable punk sampler about five years ago, and I must've listened to it a good thousand times since. It's only about a minute and a half long and I've been known to put it on four or five times in a row and not get bored of it.

Dream Theater are a prog metal band, I do not see what's so difficult to pigeonhole.

Nice to see a fellow snaresman lover! I was just listening to Four Tet but decided to change it for Vsnares when I saw your post. One of my favourite artists.  Also like SunnO)) (got black one, white one and white two) and Yann Tiersen, although I've only got the soundtrack for Amelie by him. Is that Toots Tielemans, Toots and the Maytals?
Checking out some stuff in your post now, like Shitmat and Bong-Ra(fellow countryman, ) I don't know half of the bands and artists you mentioned...

To the people who were looking for happy metal, check out Finntroll!

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Games / Re: Games We've Loved...

« on: March 27, 2007, 12:22:24 pm »

OoT is not retro, it only came out last year.

 

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General / Re: Trailer praising/stomping thread

« on: March 24, 2007, 08:18:36 pm »

Hmm, the beginning is far too reminiscent of soft porn with the voice and the first notes (ta-da taa daa). The rest of the musis was good though, and I like what I saw. It's just that voice acting in games in general is horrible. This reminded me a bit of that.

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Off-Topic / Re: What kind of soundwaves do you listen to?

« on: March 24, 2007, 08:04:43 pm »

I never listen to lyrics, couple of exceptions here and there though. I just don't like guitar wanking.

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Off-Topic / Re: What kind of soundwaves do you listen to?

« on: March 24, 2007, 11:58:58 am »

Dragonforce?

How very cheesy. 

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Games / Re: Our Favorite Downloadable Games

« on: March 22, 2007, 04:25:14 pm »

Did the spiders scare you too? (I ashamed to say, the pink one did)

I think the best parts are when the music kicks in when you've climbed the tower and jump from cloud to cloud, the creepy world with the man coming out of the house and the part with the broken bridge.
I love it when you encounter these characters who do not speak at all. I believe that's the best thing the developer could have done, after all you're from another planet, how are you going to commuicate? Instead they just let you be and mind their own business, adding to the great stranded on a strange planet and just discovering all these wonderful locations feeling. So very nice.

Don't know about a secret world, but there could be hidden unlockables like mini games. Don't know if that is in this game or WADF.

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Games / Re: Our Favorite Downloadable Games

« on: March 21, 2007, 01:59:04 pm »

It's lovely, best way to describe it I think. I downloaded Knytt at around midnight and finished two hours later, wanting to play it immediately aftwards. At 2:30 I went to bed though, but I think I have finished it about 3 times.

I still have not found all the secrets, only two false walls. I heard there were special upgrades to be found?

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Games / Re: Our Favorite Downloadable Games

« on: March 20, 2007, 05:47:58 pm »

Wow, my first post on this obviously growing forum.
I just got hooked on Within A Deep Forest and played it to the end in one sitting. I recommend it.

Great! More people need to try out Within a Deep Forest. Have you played his latest game, Knytt? Don't know if you'll like it as it is less about precise platforming than WADF is. It does have some great atmospheric scenes helped by the sporadic music.

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Games / Re: What game made you afraid?

« on: March 17, 2007, 06:44:50 pm »

Resident Evil 4 recently did it for me, even when playing on easy. (I'm not that good at it)
I had never played a RE game before, and I only played this when it was dark with the volume turned up. Some real jump moments in there, without giving anything away for those who have not played it yet.

Spiders in games are usually scary for me, except for the ones in Twilight Princess, they sucked. The pink spider(!) in Knytt was scarier for gods sake!

Playing Quake3 against a friend of mine is quite scary too, with Instagib enabled and carrying the flag, some tense moments.

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Games / Re: Our Favorite Downloadable Games

« on: March 16, 2007, 10:23:52 am »

http://knytt.ni2.se/

Knytt is a very atmospheric game, where I think the developers intention was to make a game after he had composed the music, or it was this one:

http://withinadeepforest.ni2.se/

More of a game if you will than Knytt, you play a bouncing ball and explore a world, getting new balls with different abilities as you progress. Really great game, with some cool physics. I'm not going to ruin what kind of balls you're going to get though, but it's all quite clever, and it has some Superb level design, without getting complicated.(just smart)

(Both freeware, without ads)

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Games / Re: Games We've Loved...

« on: March 16, 2007, 10:17:16 am »

I don't think this one has been mentioned before.
What a game, in every respect. At the time this came out, I was into Dungeons & Dragons, the game where you roleplay a character in a group with books and lots of stats...but it's all in your head(except for the books). Seeing Baldur's Gate for the first time was a jaw dropping experience for me, as for the first time I could actually see with my eyes what I had seen in my head all that time. When I first played the game, well, I had never played anything so immersive before, it was amazing I'm telling you! The music, the different outcomes to different actions...and then finding out how the game played by adopting another play style, like making an evil character, or a thief, or a wizard or all of those combined!
Never have I started up and played through a game so many times, and I think I have never enjoyed a game so much as this.

Other games I enjoyed thoroughly: Legend of Zelda: A link to the past and Link's awakening, Metroid Prime, Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat and Secret of Mana.

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General / Re: Wii

« on: March 15, 2007, 12:29:42 pm »

Obviously, you'd have to make it playable with the wii remote. Everybody with a wii has a wii remote, but not everybody has a classic controller.  You know, maybe it would be better if you could offer it on the wii/xbox360/ps3 network, but also as an extra game bundled with one of the great games coming out for each of these consoles. That way you would reach the biggest audience(together with pc of course), but I'm not sure if it would work as those companies would probably demand exclusivity for their systems, which would suck.
Although exclusivity usually helps selling more of your product, I think.

Either way, I will buy it for pc so I'm not really fussed about this game being available on Wii, personally.