Demon's Souls, Immortals Fenyx Rising, AC: Valhalla, Twin Mirror, Morbid: The Seven Acolytes, our gaming Queen's Gambits, your emails, and more!
The gang chats about their gaming Queen's Gambits.
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00:01:20 Demon's Souls
00:06:36 Immortals Fenyx Rising
00:13:12 Assassin's Creed: Valhalla
00:20:10 Twin Mirror
00:27:20 Morbid: The Seven Acolytes
00:35:37 Our Gaming Queen's Gambits
00:44:50 Your Emails
"Womb!" "NOPE!"
I wish you guys would stop encouraging him.
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Soundtracks punching above their weight: Brutal Legend did, for me. I'd drive the car around, blasting the tunes. Often, when I got to my destination, instead of jumping out and starting the mission, I'd just hang, to hear the rest of the song. It also rounded out my metal knowledge, getting me into Budgie and Girlschool.
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Randomly, the day before I listened to this, I realized that the soundtrack to Disco Elysium (which I really like) was done by a band I'd never heard of, British Sea Power. Went down a Youtube rabbithole and they're good, albeit a touch dad-rock.
You've never known true joy until you've shaken a lich stick at someone.
I loved hearing Shawn talk about Tecmo Super Bowl as his Queen's Gambit game. That brought me right back to junior year of college, where I regularly played this game with the guy who lived next to me. For a while, I would routinely beat him; then, he upped his game and I won maybe 60% of our games. But even then, there was something about our rivalry where I'd have the uncanny ability to get in his head and predict exactly what play he was going to call, over and over again.
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I am kicking myself for not mentioning Wasteland 3 in terms of soundtracks that punch above their weight. That game creates cinematic moments out of the least cinematic combat system in games (turn-based.)
(Don't get me wrong - I love turn-based combat - it is, generally speaking, a system genre that encourages really interesting decisions and one I generally prefer over RTwP... but it is decidedly uncinematic most of the time.)
LastSuprise: Destroyer of Wallets would be an excellent tag and/or third handle for you.
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I only have heard or song or two by them. But "To Get to Sleep" is a nice and calming rock (or Dad-Rock, I will take that) song.
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