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Honestly, I've never really gotten all the love for Soule. His TA soundtrack was pretty good, I suppose, but it seems like a lot of his stuff is boring as hell. For every game soundtrack he's involved in I think I actually like about a quarter of the music or less. Also the guy they have composing is the guy who did the Supreme Commander music, which I thought was pretty decent if a little boring compared to Forest green.
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I just put down $50 because this seems to be one of the kinds of RTS's I'll utterly adore. Just like TA, Spring and SupCom. Orbital drops here I come 
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Sep 13, 2012 05:25
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Giggily posted:Honestly, I've never really gotten all the love for Soule. His TA soundtrack was pretty good, I suppose, but it seems like a lot of his stuff is boring as hell. For every game soundtrack he's involved in I think I actually like about a quarter of the music or less.
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Sep 13, 2012 05:29
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$1,799.004 I think Galactic war is a thing.
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Sep 13, 2012 05:44
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It is now.
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Sep 13, 2012 06:15
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Sep 13, 2012 06:29
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Baloogan posted:It is now. I shook hands with that man, before he was a giant planet sized head. Stretch goal $3,000,000 Scathis Planets 
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Sep 13, 2012 06:49
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Any speculation on when they will release the first alpha?
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Sep 13, 2012 07:03
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sarmhan posted:Uh, the Supreme Commander music was Soule as well- one of the big reasons people want him is that he's a significant part of the experience people had with TA and SC. Jeremy Soule is WAAAAY more high profile and expensive now than he was in his TA days. They simply can't afford him, there is no way. When you're working with a $2 million budget, you're forced to pinch pennies. That means going with the reliable in-house guy over the extravagant and expensive option.
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Sep 13, 2012 07:10
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Baloogan posted:It is now. Planetary documentary...is that like the review you get at the end of Civ 4?
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Sep 13, 2012 07:12
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Just Offscreen posted:Planetary documentary...is that like the review you get at the end of Civ 4? No, it's a documentary film they want to make about the creation of the game.
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Sep 13, 2012 07:17
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Just Offscreen posted:Planetary documentary...is that like the review you get at the end of Civ 4? No, it's not. But now that you mention it, I wish it would be! Having a 'historical progress' kind of map at the end of such a type of game is always really satisfying.
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Sep 13, 2012 07:30
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Even as someone that works in film, I have to say it seems pretty stupid to spend a chunk of your budget making a documentary about your game. Surely a second faction, a single-player campaign, professional beta-testers, proprietary license fees (like for physics coding or netcode?)...or anything that would actually make the game better would be, uhm, better?
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Sep 13, 2012 11:45
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Wingless posted:Even as someone that works in film, I have to say it seems pretty stupid to spend a chunk of your budget making a documentary about your game. Surely a second faction, a single-player campaign, professional beta-testers, proprietary license fees (like for physics coding or netcode?)...or anything that would actually make the game better would be, uhm, better? I dunno. From a marketing perspective I would think it's an investment actually, considering it's important to get content out there that people want to see if they want to convert them to customers, they are still selling this game after all. It's especially important from an engagement perspective as well, they've just asked for goodwill from gamers to get their project started. You've got to be able to return the favour by showing them what you're doing with all their money, otherwise the Kickstarter well will start to dry up for future projects.
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Sep 13, 2012 12:04
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So I just realized that the miniatures I'm supposed to get are unpainted. This makes me sad, because I am a horrible painter. I might as well just dunk them in a solid color and get it over with.
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Sep 13, 2012 16:52
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sarmhan posted:Uh, the Supreme Commander music was Soule as well- one of the big reasons people want him is that he's a significant part of the experience people had with TA and SC. Oh. Well, the only SupCom song I actually really liked was its theme. I just got a mod that played the TA OST in game instead. I actually liked the trailer music way more than anything on the SupCom OST, too. Wingless posted:Even as someone that works in film, I have to say it seems pretty stupid to spend a chunk of your budget making a documentary about your game. Surely a second faction, a single-player campaign, professional beta-testers, proprietary license fees (like for physics coding or netcode?)...or anything that would actually make the game better would be, uhm, better? The entire idea of the stretch goal is that all that is already paid for. Most people don't want a second faction, Galactic War is our single player campaign, and I'm sure actual beta testers and liscence fees were included in the base 900k.
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Maluco Marinero posted:I dunno. From a marketing perspective I would think it's an investment actually, considering it's important to get content out there that people want to see if they want to convert them to customers, they are still selling this game after all. "So, the first thing we did was to buy a swimming pool for the office, to boost morale. Then, we poured the rest of the money into it and made like Scrooge McDuck."
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Stalkerr posted:So I just realized that the miniatures I'm supposed to get are unpainted. This makes me sad, because I am a horrible painter. I might as well just dunk them in a solid color and get it over with.
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Sep 13, 2012 17:46
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Lprsti99 posted:"So, the first thing we did was to buy a swimming pool for the office, to boost morale. Then, we poured the rest of the money into it and made like Scrooge McDuck." I'm almost certain that, if this were a kickstarter, it would get funded. It really hits the novelty factor.
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They're doing some livestream thing: http://www.twitch.tv/uberchannel edit: I guess it's mostly over now, welp! edit edit: or not who knows! Kaboobi fucked around with this message at 23:31 on Sep 13, 2012 |
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Sep 13, 2012 23:09
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Looks like they might just hit the Orchestral stretch yet!
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Sep 14, 2012 00:24
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rear end-Haggis posted:Looks like they might just hit the Orchestral stretch yet! I think they probably already have, when you add in the Paypal donations.
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Shorter Than Some posted:I think they probably already have, when you add in the Paypal donations. poo poo, you may be right. This is seriously going to be a massive timesink for me once it hits.
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Sep 14, 2012 00:43
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Sep 14, 2012 04:04
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They're definitely gonna hit 2M, 2.1M may be tight though.
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Sep 14, 2012 04:14
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I feel like this game's already going to have everything I could have wanted. All the extra planets, death stars, a procedurally generated single/multi campaign. Getting to hear a full blown orchestra ramp up as your rocket strapped asteroid careens into the enemy's homeworld is just icing on the cake.
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Sep 14, 2012 05:06
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Welp 2M hit I wonder how much they have in paypal... as thay may be enough to hit the last goal if the main kickstarter amount doesnt.
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Sep 14, 2012 05:56
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They've hit 2mil, 14 hours to go and they're already 12k towards 2.1mil so I'd say they might just make it, especially given the probable Paypal money. This is pretty exciting and should ensure they can make a really polished game.
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Can't decide if alpha is worth it. The SupCom Alpha was almost ridiculously unplayable. Although the launch version of SupCom really felt like a beta and had major issues so....
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:Jeremy Soule is WAAAAY more high profile and expensive now than he was in his TA days. They simply can't afford him, there is no way. When you're working with a $2 million budget, you're forced to pinch pennies. That means going with the reliable in-house guy over the extravagant and expensive option. Not only that but he sucks. He didn't conduct the orchestra or direct anything for TA, he only wrote the music and then someone else actualized it. The SupCom soundtrack was not even a real orchestra and was generally mediocre. Oblivion was pretty unremarkable too. Soule is all tapped out  I can already tell you I like the music in the PA trailer better than literally everything Soule did for SupCom. So let this new guy loving SHINE with his real orchestra. gently caress Soule. bradsh fucked around with this message at 08:34 on Sep 14, 2012 |
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Sep 14, 2012 08:26
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Alpha versions are almost guaranteed to make you not want to touch a game until release, FWIW.
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bradsh posted:Soule is all tapped out Counterpoint: some of the music he did for Guild Wars 2 is flat out amazing. I do like the trailer music though, so as long as the music in game is similarly good, I'll be happy.
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I kind of wish they would look up Tim Wright or CoLD SToRAGE or whatever he goes by to do this, his soundtrack to the original Colony Wars seems like it would fit right in this sort of thing. I've never played TA or whatever so I'm not real familiar with the music but CW's soundtrack has a definite grand-scale warfare feel to it. I'm sure updated to the modern day with a real orchestra it would be unbelievable. for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SPZgyJCgHw&t=40s or sort of downtempo exploration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3VOj77QI4w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohHeYyJzhVE Keep in mind that this came out in like 96 so it has a bit of a 90's patina to it.
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Sep 14, 2012 10:08
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Get the guy from Freedom Fighters and Red Alert.
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Jesper Kyd (Freedom Fighters, Hitman, Assassin's Creed) might be the only guy out there more expensive than Jeremy Soule. He's also about a hundred times better though, so the best thing to do is make it a 3 million dollar stretch goal and hope for a miracle.
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Sep 14, 2012 10:25
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I'm impartial to Paul Ruskay, Basil Poledouris would be great too, in my opinion.
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Sep 14, 2012 11:44
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They just reached Planetary Documentary through kickstarter funds alone with 5 hours to go. It should be fun to watch at some point.
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Sep 14, 2012 15:10
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If anyone wants to save $5, the $15 tier is opening every few minutes as folks up their pledges to a higher tier.
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Sep 14, 2012 15:10
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As a note: They also mentioned multiple times that the game will be more expensive after the kickstarter, I'm guessing a $30 release price.
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Thoom posted:Counterpoint: some of the music he did for Guild Wars 2 is flat out amazing. And some of the other music he did for it sounds almost identical to Oblivion. In fact that was the first thing I thought when I first heard the music in the game. Dude has his moments (the one you linked is good), but overall he's a pretty serious hack and I kind of dread whenever I find out he's making the music for a game.
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