Song of Da Day: Zombies on Your Lawn – Plants Vs Zombies
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The video kicks ass too! A great song for a surprisingly remarkable game (yep, i even finished it… a casual game… the shock, the horrrrroor!!!)
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
6Seems to me like this game might be genuinely scary in a more immersive way. I really like the touch of the breathing and stuff (would work great with a rumbling gamepad simulating heart beatsĀ :D ). The thing that might take me out in some of these games is how there might be an obvious thing to do that you’re just not allowed: like say pick up a bit of wood or something or a stone to throw. Sure enough i do agree you should be shown that it’s useless, BUT at least you didn’t feel it was forbidden. It’s the old “why do i run around for an hour to find a key too a wooden door when i have a rocket launcher?” issue with games :P
Song of Da Day: The Fight – Prince of Persia
1Happy to propose the song of the day :D
This one’s from the Sands of Time – love how it’s so energetic, perfectly fit for battles and yet it has a clear oriental feeling that adds to the atmosphere of the game!
Song of Da Day: Bee Jam Blues – Guitaroo Man
3Let it not be said that I never played music games! Well, actually my sister Dana did most of the hard work of unlocking new songs (and brilliant and original and each different and funny videos)… but this is one of the songs I really got into and was good at (yes, there was a choir of frogs singing! :D )
10 days left!
1Only 10 more days until the list of the secret santas is closed. Do you really wanna risk being off it and not get to make somebody’s Christmas night and in turn not get to get a lil surprise? Join the party here:
Song of Da Day: Baba Yetu – Civilization 4
0I generally dislike words in songs, but since i can’t understand these and overall it seems very powerful I shall propose this one for today! Anybody else wanna join me in choosing songs of the day… like tomorrow or whenever u remember a good game song?
Console Wars Stats
4Now if i understand this right this image should constantly update itself so you may wanna check back to this post if you’re interested how things progress. Will PS3 ever catch up to Xbox360? Will they ever catch up to Wii? Will Wii beet the records set in sales by PS2 (147.6 million (as of November 2010). Make your prediction!
Song of Da Day: Shared Dig – Unreal
0Another song by Alexander Brandon. I’ve fallen asleep countless times on this one as I would have it playing all night (among other similar ones) it to inspire my dreams and hoping that my subconscious or some voodoo like that would pick up on this style of music. Why? For the same reason I had awesome dreams on it: this is music with a story, and it also helps that in my mind it directly connects to visual memories of places in the game.
Song of Da Day: Laboratory level – Jazz the JackRabbit
0A hard to forget song if you’ve ever split screen deathmatched or raced on it with silly cute rabbit noises :D I’m so very happy I found the text: “Alexander Brandon”. I’m a huge fan of this guy. It’s one of those handful of people that I somehow felt had a big impact on my life and over the years I kept trying to track him down but he disappeared. So here’s what I know: he was part of Straylight productions, a group that made brilliant music for Unreal. I think they later split up and each probably became big in their way. I think i found some traces of them on last.fm. Other games in which you can get a taste of their brilliant work are Crusader: No Regret & Jazz (2?). I remember I was staring impressed in a time when under Marius’s tutelage i was learning about making music on trackers such as Fasttracker/Madtracker/Ittracker (modtracker?) … and i was amazed how he would use amazingly many challenge to simulate on low machines complex sound effects, make true stereo depth stuff, and generally manage to create out of looping simple stuff that took lil memory and cpu music that sounded original and non-repetitive.
Handheld saturation, console boom?
0http://www.gametrailers.com/video/episode-142-pach-attack/708041
I think Pachter is making some very serious points in that first questions. Also i’m excited about the predicted boom & the expansion of the market.