Nick Parker

The Wario levels have a BGM that's the best music in the game!

Well it's not like they just have finished copies of the game just sitting in an attic.

I don't know how much that'll catch on unless major players such as Microsoft decide to adopt a similar model in the future. But gaming subscription services (assuming that it's a different thing), I can see that becoming the primary model of gaming. I don't know if that would benefit developers, or make things even worse. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.eurogamer.net/amp/2019-07-05-xbox-game-pass-developers What would concern me is if it puts pressure on developers to create longer, more nebulous gaming experiences.

I wanna say it was confirmed he wasn't...I don't think he had much to do with that one.

Does this mean we'll actually get a Pikmin 4?

Oh huh, it's still in early access: https://www.amazon.com/luna/landing-page

Well there is Amazon Luna that started up a few months ago. I had no idea it existed until my friend told me he's interviewing for a spot on their team this week. He was told it's a very small team at the moment, and they're really trying to build it up.

@Edmilson So I'm talking yo a Brazilian girl right now, and she dropped a bombshell on me. I need you to confirm or deny...give it to me straight........... ....is White Chicks considered a classic comedy film in Brazil?

@KK Were you able to get it sorted?

I meant the Josh Groban performance, haha.

Thanks for the clarification. I recognize that I was conflating the two, but I don't want to put words in your mouth by misremembering which scores you think earn that place. True, but I consider these channeled in a way that feel very fresh, where the sum far exceeds the parts. I see this a la Star Wars and Close Encounters, with their precedents found in multiple scores such as Black Sunday and Family Plot.

Keyword "heard", not "listened" I admit my ears have largely glossed this tune over since I was a teen. This thread has been so crucial in making me actually listen to this again! I also find it inspiring that over half a century, just about, Williams never truly became complacent with even his most famous composition, always thinking of new ways to try and improve the piece.

Speaking of Star Wars, Battlefront 2 is now free on Epic Store.

Admittedly, I've never listened to the vocal versions, as my first exposure to the score was from the one-disc Oscar promo that I received as a gift. Similar to croc, I love the OST as a tone poem, and when I listen to it--cannonballing into the Thor pool here--I don't care about what thematic strands are omitted from it, or if X theme isn't introduced in an "introductory" way. Hell, I'm fine with thinking a theme in the score is just a one-off idea because that's how it's portrayed in the album. I'm grateful all the music was released--one of my few score expansions--but practically every time I want to listen to the score, I go with the OST. Opening up with bangers such as The Mecha World and Abandoned in the Woods just can't be beat. As to your second paragraph, I find your use of the word "conventional" here to be odd. I've seen you give effusive praise to a number of scores that I would put in the "conventional" category, or at least how I'm assuming you mean it. This isn't a diss on you, I just don't see how this excludes AI from the runnings where some of these other scores presumably aren't. As has been said multiple times before by many people, AI hits a spiritual resonance that I hear very, very seldomly in the medium...hell, probably a good chunk of music in general.

As someone who thinks AI is one of the greatest scores ever written, it's immensely easy for me to imagine why he eschewed so much of that. A lot of those early cues are on the static and portentous side.

Giacchino at least has some semblance of personal identity.

Yeah, I'd love to get remicrowaved oatmeal stir-mush of Williams' original scores.

Those microtransactions provide a service for us, the consu--players!

Huh, well that's the worst idea a conspiracy theorist can have, isn't it, to lay all their cards down with a specific, tangible event. Way too easy for the jig to be up.

Jesus! Probably just some fan bitching. EA has always put the players before profit.

Did you ever play the third one? I'm thinking about picking it up for the co-op.

Wait, what did I miss?