023 - Settling the (Musical) Score
A news heavy show this week, with a tactical diversion into talking about game music (and music in general).
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Hosts:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:19:00 - Recap
- Tarragon
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- Project Spark x2
- Elite Dangerous
- NERO
- Rare Replay
- Games update: Pixel Piracy, Unravel, Sniper Elite 3, Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, State of Decay: Year One, Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek
- Crandy
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- Geometry Wars
- Saints Row 2 DE
- Quake 4
- Ghostbusters
- DOOM
- Grind Hero 360
- Project Spark x2
- Fream
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- Project Spark
- Rayman Legends
- Geometry Wars, joined the 5/12 club to equal Crandy
0:35:52 - News
1:15:07 - Listener Feedback
- Do or do not; there is no try
- Burnah Bros
- Tatey and Proux re: Day One Xbox Ones
- LordChabelo13: Dory DLC adding achievements to Disney Infinity
- KinectKid33: All about MIDI macros for Guitar Hero and Rock Band
- Arsenic 17: Gamerscore hunting a declining hobby?
- The Nyghty: What’s your “out of this world” passion? Fream is Zombies …
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- Tarragon: psychological supernatural horror, e.g. Paranormal Activity
- Crandy: dystopia
- NBA Kirkland and JStryker416: best and worst endings in games
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- Madeyepadeye: How much is too much for a game?
- R56CooperS11: Lootcrate?
- Ozbundyboy: Woodchucks?
2:26:41- Feature Content: Music
- AC/DC gym music
- Fream likes Punk and Ska and Insane Clown Posse
- Tarragon likes everything and nothing
- Crandy is close to the metal and Vaporwave
- Game Soundtracks:
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- Tarragon:
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- Halo - IGN Unfiltered with Marty O’Donnell
- Quake (Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails)
- C64 composers: Martin Galway, Rob Hubbard, JCH, Jeroen Tel
- Portal 2
- Silent Hill
- Sword & Sworcery
- Machinarium
- Late addition: AirMech Arena by Front Line Assembly
- Crandy
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- Dead Rising Mall Music
- Bioshock
- Syndicate
- Saints Row
- Killer Instinct
- Party Hard
- Tetris for CDi
- Earthworm Jim
- Sonic CD
- Game Informer Podcast about game music
- Brandon:
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- Dr Mario
- Tetris
- Life Is Strange
- Guile’s Theme Goes With Anything
- Soundtrack of popular songs vs a score
- The Flame in the Flood
- Fallout
2:51:17 - Shovelware Cemetery
2:58:03 - Knobs & Discos
- Forza 3 servers are back?
2:58:44 - Backwards Compatibility
3:00:23 - Zombie News Corner
3:08:52 - Outro
All audio production and podcast backend support provided by Tarragon Allen.
Songs and sounds that have been used in the show:
Glossary of Xbox Gamerscore and achievement jargon and terms