Posts by Lace Sabatons

What's Charly Circuis? I've never even heard of that.

So, I'll make no bones about this: I'm an unrepentant, rabid Dan Harmon fan. If he has something to say I want to listen to it.

But his 2012 talk at the XOXO festival is of particular interest:

I found it again just now while going through some of my youtube favorites. I'd be interested to hear anyone's thoughts, but mostly I just think it's something that we could all benefit from thinking about.

As with so many things, I think the Internet has largely solved the problems posed by the '90s and '00s.

The music that gets promoted in the mainstream is still pretty manufactured. But who cares? Now I can listen to a bunch of bands who made themselves popular through the internet. The means of artistic production have returned to the people.

Definitely one of my favorite video games of all time.

The trailer for the new one makes me wish I had a WiiU. It looks like a straight-up remake in parts, with elements of the never-released "Starfox 2"

You reckless, hotlinking fiend! You'll damn us all!

That's a lovely picture of Shiek. I like art where it looks like something is happening, rather than all the static "character portraits" you tend to see.

Well "Sardonic Pickle" has no results on Steam, so I assume that's not the name you use there, bruh.

Ho shit! I forgot about that song. That's some seriously masterful composing right there. The overworld theme is also really solid:

Contra! I never played it on an NES myself, but I was a huge fan of Contra III on the SNES, so when I learned about emulators Contra was one of the first games I played. And damn if the music in this game isn't energetic as fuck:

I would definitely say it's better to build up to this game with less complex / more well polished strategy games. The time I spent playing Civ V helped me to understand the style of gameplay a lot better.

The Super Mario Brothers Super Show doesn't really hold up at all. If you ever wanna go back and watch cartoons from your childhood, there are much better choices than that. It's a curious relic of the early years of the video game resurgence. But it's not fun to watch.

So if Link is going to have a last name, with Zelda?

Come to think of it, is Ganon the only character in the series whose ever had a last name?

Just another tool of bourgeois oppression, comrade.

I actually just got a pretty good lead on a job at an oldschool game Arcade. I've got an interview tomorrow. Hopefully I get it, because if I don't start bringing in some money, I'm probably going to have to move. Which would really suck, cuz I like my house.

X is the last FF game I enjoyed. Coincidentally, I think X has possibly the strongest mechanics in the series, and the weakest narrative.

@Link I think we could do with a few more dirty games, really. =P

WHUT WHUT?

I begin to wonder if you and I are even the same species of human. How many testicles do you have? Is it one? I feel like it might be one.

In seriousness, I think there's an interesting discussion to be had here. But at this point you and I are way off topic. Lets take this somewhere else.

http://forums.zeldacavern.com/index.php?thre…s-in-music.171/

@Sardonic Pickle and I are having a really dumb argument.

I contest that the music of '60s-'80s was generally good, after which music got shitty. He contests that something "went wrong" in the '80s, and that the '90s "saved" music for awhile before it went bad again in the '00s.

I should disclaim that as a general rule, I don't like music that much. I have my opinions to be sure, but I don't put much weight behind them.

So, @Sardonic Pickle. Praytell, what is redeeming about the music of the '90s? Can you give me some examples that don't fit my aforementioned generalization of "overpolished corporate mush?"

Ya'll're on shrooms motherfucker! The music of the '80s was the last gasp of the musical renaissance that was the '60s and '70s. Metal and punk rock really came into their own during that decade.

The '90s are the dark days, where every piece of popular music was over-polished corporate mush.

Unfortunately, by the time I got around to playing IX for the first time, I think I'd past the point in my life where I could fall in love with Final Fantasy games. I only got about halfway through it before I gave up.

As a general rule, I think they're pretty mediocre games, from a mechanical perspective. They have amazing, interesting narratives. But narrative just doesn't draw me in the way it did when I was a youth.

Still, I should take another crack at IX.

It's a mocking way to refer to someone crying, usually over something stupid. (Baw, your class was nerfed in the latest patch, QQ moar nub). Two Qs next to each other look like a pair of eyes with tears coming down them.

Someday, we'll do away with that sort of reward point nonsense, during the glorious worker's revolution.

The HD Remake on steam is a pretty solid port. It's not some annoying cutscenes, but I think the bosses are actually much more interesting than in the original.

I'm surprised none of us have posted this yet:

I've got a weird relationship with Kirby's Dreamland on the NES. I barely remember anything about it, I don't know where it came from, but I'm pretty sure I had a copy of it when I was a kid. I'm also pretty sure I beat it, and it might be the very first game I ever beat. But I actually have no idea.

FF7 is a terrible game. It's also one of my favorite games of all time.

Though I don't think I played it until IX was out.

TREMBLE BEFORE MY MIGHTY SCORE. =P

This is actually consistent from when the game was new. The cartridge itself is 17 or 18 years old, and still has all the original save data. But that top score in particular only happened within the last year or so.