- Location
- The Hague
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Controversial gaming opinion: video games are good.
Pictured below, the child from Omelas:
In the context of 80s video games, "playing the main motif from Chopin's Marche Funèbre when you die" is hardly worth mentioning as an attribute
I had forgotten about that game. This is old knowledge at this point and you have reminded me of it.
Interactive buddy. It's not quite twenty years old.
Yes.
Like a ton of games will put lyrics on their biggest or best tracks
While absolute bangers, those are fight music. A lot of background music should probably be more called downtime music in games because we aren't going to just put it down and watch unless it's a Kojima game. Like if you're in the menus or in the hub area.What counts as background music here? Because Metal Gear Revengeance has some bangar songs with lyrics during its fights.
Yeah but I'm talking lyric background music beyond chanting and big fights, like for the whole game. Cassette Beasts soundtrack has full actual songs constantly playing in the background pretty much no matter what your doing in game.
...Well... this is a take.
Well, not exactly erasing but rather approaching from a different angle by bringing emphasis on Yasuke himself rather than Nobunaga's role in him becoming a Samurai....Well... this is a take.
And like, even assuming it's correct, going and erasing one of the single most important individuals in Japanese History is uhhhhh... not good.
Like, talk about cultural appropriation.
Honestly, I'm a fan of Hollywood classics, and I prefer a soundtrack with fewer songs.More games should have background music with lyrics, I've only played one game that had them - Cassette beasts and it really really added to the games atmosphere.
On the other handI have now seen like ten different versions of How That Yasuke Thing Really Worked, For Reals that were all nominally from Japanese sources.
... Still, it really does sound like a non-trivial number of Japanese people are not super thrilled by that trailer.
-Morgan.