Meh, presentation can be good. Sometimes it's good to have something that doesn't require much though after a tough day and I just want to veg before bedtime. (Hence the reason I still have had the hardest time starting Homeworld: DoK, because the few moments of free time I have I really can't get the energy up for a RTS game.)
I am told it is a very easy version of solitaire and the presentation is the only notable thing about it but ymmv
Yeah, it's a particular (British?) version of Solitaire that is, like, ridiculously easy compared to the MS standard version I'm more familiar with; it's even easier than Freecell.
Your cards get special abilities which make it even easier (at least, some do; some randomize things which can go either way).
It's really slick, though, and the music is great, and it's not a bad way to spend a couple of minutes to be told what a Very Good Spy Master (TM) you are.
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Re: the Solitaire Conspiracy, the variant of Solitaire they use for the game (a British version called "Streets and Alleys") is easy, but the game patched in a challenge mode where instead of random levels, you get a set of predetermined puzzles and a fairly unforgiving number of turns in which to solve them. I think it's pretty great now. I've had to sharpen up my play considerably and use the cards' special powers in much smarter ways now and I still often fail or just barely squeak out a win. It's in a good place now, especially for ten bucks or whatever it costs.
They keep making music they don't use in any significant capacity in the game. It would probably help if playing the game didn't involve spending 99.9% of your time on the same handful of maps with the same music from the launch version of the game, grinding for resources or managing dumb mobile game timer mechanics.
Yeah, most of their really interesting tracks are the one off character/event singles that they seemingly release out of nowhere, which then only get used in one or two cutscenes in game. I do like the battle bgm for this recent event though:
They keep making music they don't use in any significant capacity in the game. It would probably help if playing the game didn't involve spending 99.9% of your time on the same handful of maps with the same music from the launch version of the game, grinding for resources or managing dumb mobile game timer mechanics.
OTOH, at least all that grinding is basically just push a button and come back later. I usually have the sound off anyways for all that.
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Here's one that I suspect most people here won't have heard: the intro/theme from Interplay's Lord of the Rings, part 1 from the early 90s. I spent way too long, like an hour, looking for this old tune on a whim tonight. There are a decent number of uploads of the SNES version of this game, and it's the same tune, but with totally different (and imo much weaker) instrumentation.
I found this game on the shelves at Software, Etc in the mall like a month after I'd started reading the books and I BEGGED my dad to buy it for me and he did, and we took it back to my granddad's computer (we lived with my dad's folks at the time) and it ran! ...Sort of. I could listen to this tune and watch the intro (in glorious CGA, so everyone was purple), and then the game would crash upon loading. A couple of years later, having moved into our own place, we got it running on my dad's PC and I just ate shit constantly because it was a completely opaque CRPG and I was 12. I don't think I ever got much past Hobbiton.
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I was bored and stuck at home one day in the rain this week so I decided to make a giant youtube playlist of every piece of videogame music I can remember liking and it's like 500 songs in rough chronological order
I tried to keep to a few simple rules like not using soundtrack music (otherwise half the playlist would be GTA Vice City radio station songs) and no preexisting songs I was aware of (so no, like, renditions of the Star Wars theme since that's kind of cheating) but I did allow myself exceptions if it was a song I learned of through video games, so the Spy Hunter version of "Peter Gunn" is on here as well as "M4 part 2" from Mass Effect
also it had to be a song i legitimately remembered and sought out, no going through soundtracks of games I played once and going "ooh that's neat" because again, that's cheating. so you'll see a lot of stuff where there are 5-10 songs from one game because I played a lot of that game and they're burned into my memory
edit: the embed only includes the first 200 lol. you'll have to click through if you want to see the whole list and judge me accordingly
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Yeah, it's a particular (British?) version of Solitaire that is, like, ridiculously easy compared to the MS standard version I'm more familiar with; it's even easier than Freecell.
Your cards get special abilities which make it even easier (at least, some do; some randomize things which can go either way).
It's really slick, though, and the music is great, and it's not a bad way to spend a couple of minutes to be told what a Very Good Spy Master (TM) you are.
Plus the character bios are neat.
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So kind of like Sequence and DDR?
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Arknights music: still good
Also love when they randomly go full buttrock, like for the upcoming CC event:
I fucking hate how much I love this song
OTOH, at least all that grinding is basically just push a button and come back later. I usually have the sound off anyways for all that.
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this game is terrible and the chorus of this song is kind of catchy
I found this game on the shelves at Software, Etc in the mall like a month after I'd started reading the books and I BEGGED my dad to buy it for me and he did, and we took it back to my granddad's computer (we lived with my dad's folks at the time) and it ran! ...Sort of. I could listen to this tune and watch the intro (in glorious CGA, so everyone was purple), and then the game would crash upon loading. A couple of years later, having moved into our own place, we got it running on my dad's PC and I just ate shit constantly because it was a completely opaque CRPG and I was 12. I don't think I ever got much past Hobbiton.
the a/b swap between in/out of combat in Murasasa was great and this is probably the strongest pair theme
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Buster Rabbit is sad
Anyway here's Vidya Wonderwall
Woah... That brings back memories
how many "mars, bringer of war" knockoff video game songs can we find anyway
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So we have that to look forward to
I tried to keep to a few simple rules like not using soundtrack music (otherwise half the playlist would be GTA Vice City radio station songs) and no preexisting songs I was aware of (so no, like, renditions of the Star Wars theme since that's kind of cheating) but I did allow myself exceptions if it was a song I learned of through video games, so the Spy Hunter version of "Peter Gunn" is on here as well as "M4 part 2" from Mass Effect
also it had to be a song i legitimately remembered and sought out, no going through soundtracks of games I played once and going "ooh that's neat" because again, that's cheating. so you'll see a lot of stuff where there are 5-10 songs from one game because I played a lot of that game and they're burned into my memory
edit: the embed only includes the first 200 lol. you'll have to click through if you want to see the whole list and judge me accordingly