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Controversial gaming opinion: video games are good.
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People are talking about steampunk or dieselpunk computers and I'm just sitting here wanting a biopunk PC 
You say that now but the viruses you can catch with that kind of thing are killers.People are talking about steampunk or dieselpunk computers and I'm just sitting here wanting a biopunk PC
Moonfeather
"We solidify ourselves everyday."
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- Neverland
Music is very important, a good soundtrack can up game's rating by ten points.
I don't have a hard drive, just a couple of rainman teenagers who memorize numbers really fast who I pay by letting them play Fortnite when I'm outPeople are talking about steampunk or dieselpunk computers and I'm just sitting here wanting a biopunk PC
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- secret base
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So that's why I get sniped from across the entire map every single time. You should feel ashamed for what you did
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- Singapore
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I remember once hearing some discussion of MMOs go "nobody plays MMOs for the music", which was obviously an invitation for me to interject myself into the conversation to go "but FFXIV though".
And then they said "well, Final Fantasy is the exception, because Final Fantasy", which felt like kind of a cop-out.
(I had a long, long list of examples from FFXIV, but that was more or less just gushing over the game I love, which might be a bit overwhelming for a single post in an unrelated thread like this.)
Reveen
Castro-Trudeauist
I mean, yeah. The most successful MMO of all time doesn't blast players with epic pr ambient orchestral fantasy music at every turn for a reason, right?
I'm sure the musicians and composers are only paid becausr Blizzard just really likes music.
This is why gaming is doomed. Because gamers themselves don't fucking understand games and what makes them good.
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Don't ask me; these were indeed WoW players, who claimed to mute the WoW BGM at the earliest opportunity and put on their own music.
I didn't comment on WoW music because I don't actually have that much experience in what WoW soundtracks are like in-game (as opposed to their cinematics and cutscenes).
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Forward and back and forward and back and(ry
I admit that I do prefer FFXIV's soundtrack to WoW's so far because as far as I've heard WoW, it seems to be kind of stuck on Epic Orchestral and Ominous Choral soundtracks, which does get old after a while. FFXIV has variety.
Maybe WoW gets better in later expansions, but I'm not there yet.
serra2
Himouto! Sylvanas-chan
I think the Raid music is better in FF, but the questing music is much more hit or miss. Which matches the gameplay reasonably well; WoW's non raiding stuff is light years ahead of FF but FF does really good dance step raids (although not much outside that mold).
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Good King Moggle Mog? Although I suppose you can technically dance to that too.
I was more looking for something like Agent of Inquiry or Seven Hundred And Seventy Seven Whiskers, to be honest.
I'm talking mechanics there; "dance steps" is a particular type of encounter design where it's functionally testing your ability to move in a certain pattern (while doing your rotation) with the occasional randomness only being a branch in the pattern. WoW is much more freeform in terms of pattern but largely because you can't do the same sort of thing with 20 people.
ZerbanDaGreat
Daemon Noble of D E M O G R A P H I C S
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Jesus Christ that's next-level and, more to the point, if KH3 were to have a secret superboss against King Moggle Mog where that played it would instantaneously become Game of the Year all years.
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Actually, the original piece of music Good King Moggle Mog is a remix of is older than Nightmare Before Christmas. The similarities are, at first, coincidental, and then most likely a nod to that coincidental similarity.
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Yeah, it's supposed to be a minor key rendition of the Moogle theme, originally from FFV, but then for some reason the rhythm really got close to This Is Halloween.
It's one of the two "are you sure you didn't accidentally get 'inspired' by something else" pieces from FFXIV. The other one is this boss theme, which got some accusations of plagiarism from Powerman 5000, but apparently according to the composer (Soken), he was just going for the most generic metal he could think of, which is probably some sort of unintentional commentary.
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Railyn
fluffy
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You just linked back to the Namazu beast tribe song again. I'm assuming that wasn't intentional.
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You just linked back to the Namazu beast tribe song again. I'm assuming that wasn't intentional.
Fixed. I have no idea why my copy-and-paste seems to work inconsistently. Not the first time, too.
Ivar
Dark Reaper
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Changing the result of throws in secret from the players in order to let them win or lose is bad. It just destroys the illusion of fair play and overdoing for me and usually I throw the game in which it happens. I adhere to the same rules when I am a game presenter. I certainly talk about desktop role-playing games. In computer it's all different, it's easier to create an illusion, although when the secret mechanics reveals the results are the same.
Mechanical
Initiate Action: Buzz
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- Somewhere Strange
It's generally bad to make players lose if they should win, yeah. But the primary role of a GM is to make a good story, really, and if bumping the occasional dice roll into a success makes the story better, I'm all for it.
If the illusion is broken, then yes, that's bad, because its robs the feeling of beating the odds and triumphing in an unlikely situation. A GM falsifying things should be used rarely, but it certainly should be considered a tool in the arsenal.
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- America in all but name
Rule 4 - Please do not advocate illegal piracy, low-key insult other users in the thread, and disrupt the thread, all at the same time. I mean, it's sort of impressive to manage to do all those together at once, but please don't do it.
I believe that anyone who spends money on video games instead of just pirating them like a sane human being cannot be called an adult.
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Yeah, it's not like pirating is detrimental to the entire industry or something. Besides, we all know developers make video games for the sheer joy of it and not because they want to get paid. In fact, I'm pretty sure they actively hate getting paid, so they must support piracy, too.
Hykal94
Orange Estus Kitteh
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Any adult who pirates games that can easily be bought is a supreme asshole.