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Sabel posted:Need more video games that resemble old fantasy art that isn't grimdark D&D poo poo. Mass Effect had a good thing going with the Syd Mead and we need more stuff like that. Too bad the mass effect series gameplay revolved mostly around being cover based shootmans with boring guns. (Aside from a few fun powers and a couple of the superweapons being crazy freaky.) Not to say they couldn't have guns, just that there was an opportunity for more cool use of science and psychic stuff than what they had. This was originally grown out of the work bioware did on the KOTOR games, but there was no 'elegent and better than a blaster' lightsaber type weapon for gunless psi-soldier troops, nor was there an option for the spockish or doctor who ish science-favoring types who would want to end battles using clever physics & matter manipulation tools or something. I like the idea of a future where methods of old warfare - including guns - wind up phased out, and where battles are more like science-manipulated rubicks cubes you have to solve. Spacedad fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Dec 29, 2013 |
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Spacedad posted:Too bad the mass effect series gameplay revolved mostly around being cover based shootmans with boring guns. (Aside from a few fun powers and a couple of the superweapons being crazy freaky.) Not to say they couldn't have guns, just that there was an opportunity for more cool use of science and psychic stuff than what they had. This was originally grown out of the work bioware did on the KOTOR games, but there was no 'elegent and better than a blaster' lightsaber type weapon for gunless psi-soldier troops, nor was there an option for the spockish or doctor who ish science-favoring types who would want to end battles using clever physics & matter manipulation tools or something. I like the idea of a future where methods of old warfare - including guns - wind up phased out, and where battles are more like science-manipulated rubicks cubes you have to solve.
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Sabel posted:I want to play what was described in the codex. What was described in the codex? (Never read.)
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It's called retrowave because when someone tells me they like this poo poo, I turn away and wave goodbye. Seriously, though a lot of this stuff is really fun and it can be empowering to feel like walking to work or driving to the gym is being soundtracked by Vangelis.
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Spacedad posted:What was described in the codex? (Never read.)
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Sabel posted:All the better ideas from sci-fi that have already been effectively mined by other space games of different genres and especially that Chris Roberts space game that won't ever come out and looks like vaporware scam trash to sucker nerds like us Not even the ideas for that game look all that interesting. Maybe I just haven't seen enough but it pretty much just looks like a dogfighting game with spatial continuity between walking around the hanger, boarding your ship and shooting dudes in space.
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by the way, for the poster on the previous page who complained about there being no singing in this genre, you should check out Le Cassette http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOw0nottvI0&list=FL3nu6IwYoKKMtdvBas6qSfQ&index=6
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I thought I was the only one who liked this poo poo, you guys are awesome.
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Tighclops posted:I thought I was the only one who liked this poo poo, you guys are awesome.
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Sabel posted:Is there a name for that kind of dreamy, more optimistic space age stuff that evokes thoughts of interstellar space travel and not dystopian cyberpunk There was a network of music blogs circa 2007-2010 that posted a lot of the contemporary tracks listed here (often alongside "new rave" like Justice etc.) and also a lot of older stuff which they labeled "space disco." and was more in the vein of what you're talking about. I don't have the old links handy but theres a genre name at least.
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Cyril Sneer posted:its just called "retro wave" dummy. It's New Wave of New Wave, silly. or possibly New Wave of New Wave of New Wave since New Wave of New Wave was more of a mid 90's thing.
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Watch Drive.
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Iron Prince posted:i like this music but i still wish you were banned and this thread was gassed
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Ghost Head posted:by the way, for the poster on the previous page who complained about there being no singing in this genre, you should check out Le Cassette Perturbator's last album "Sexualizer" had nothing but vocal tracks.
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Can I just post all my bookmarks itt? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beZIdlS3hJw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yg8dtxRaZY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnWahrA8Md8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1rr_-ZA4wM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b7cj4zWiyo E: Zenith Nadir posted:that perturbator album is my most listened to album of 2013, for better or worse. good poo poo  Spacedad posted:Yes and that is my point. You pretty much have to manually sort through it yourself - it's like an online version of the experience of leafing through record albums and finding something that in spite of its shortcomings appeals to you personally somehow. You can do that with music in general, but it's particularly fun for me with new retro wave given how well the music style meshes with my interest in video games. 
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FreudianSlippers posted:It's New Wave of New Wave, silly.
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I was gonna hate on this thread because some of the music is not like the stuff I listen to, but I can't hate on that kn1ght song and future fantasy art. Pulp sci fi is best sci fi.    
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Something I wanted to ask: what did you all think of Hotline Miami? I think it fits into this movement pretty well but i didn't like that the portrait art was done in that deliberately crude "DIY" style that seems to be common in indie games. I think the feel of the game was diminished a little by trying to reconcile that with the neon palette and synth music that game was using to try and evoke the 80s. It would be better if the portrait art was a little crisper with more contrast and dramatic shading. That said, the soundtrack was totally amazing. I loved almost every song but Miami Disco was easily the best http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRtxavxTmiY
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Ghost Head posted:Something I wanted to ask: what did you all think of Hotline Miami? On the other hand, this was/is pure awesome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dofacvjRkc Nubile Hillock posted:I was gonna hate on this thread because some of the music is not like the stuff I listen to, but I can't hate on that kn1ght song and future fantasy art. Pulp sci fi is best sci fi. Tin Tim fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Dec 30, 2013 |
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I went back in history to find this thread and grab some new music, so why not bring it back like the genre suggests. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVUo4W4XFiI I discovered Danger alongside Kavinsky and Justice, now I'm waiting for him (or her idk) to become a household name as well (and deservedly so) Spacedad posted:The draw of new retro wave for me is the idea that technology in filmmaking and games (as well as music production) has caught up with the cyberpunk ideas of the past. We basically *can* make those weird 'future games' we would see in 80s movies now. We *can* make amateur movies with surprisingly good digital special effects. We *can* create animated films with the visual techniques of the past but realized in the fidelity and attention to detail of today. This music video, and Justice's other work, trend lightly towards 70s dystopia and disco but I like what you're saying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxu248aD6PY Toadvine fucked around with this message at 19:24 on Jan 5, 2014 |
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Tin Tim posted:Great soundtrack, but I also didn't really feel the pixely look they went for. The colors were good, just the style fell flat for me. I had some fun with the game, but it wasn't groundbreaking. It's from the https://www.darkroastedblend.com series on Japanese pop sci fi. Just search sci fi and you'll get a ton of stuff. They have a lot of USSR/Japanese sci fi art and it's just as amazing as it sounds.
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Your Dead Gay Son posted:Watch Drive. No don't! Its a goddam bad movie
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Hi, does this video fit in this thread? I don't think I've seen it posted in these yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJVQJ4-n_cA
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Sabel posted:Hi, does this video fit in this thread? I don't think I've seen it posted in these yet. Is this thread about horrible 80s movies? I really can't remember.
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Toadvine posted:This music video, and Justice's other work, trend lightly towards 70s dystopia and disco but I like what you're saying. Man, you can't put up Justice without putting this ode to branding graphics from the 80s, including the HBO "Starship" and Stephen J. Cannell... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiDsLRQg_g4
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im confused....is this actually music from the 1980s, or music from 2010s made to sound like it's from the 1980s?
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The video for Bruno Mars - Locked Out of Heaven is really bad because they've got a bunch of obvious digital effects trying to make it look like a bootleg VHS from the 80s but it obviously doesn't. They could have just got an actual VCR and made 3rd, 4th, 5th-gen copies of itself. (EP mode)IzzyFnStradlin posted:im confused....is this actually music from the 1980s, or music from 2010s made to sound like it's from the 1980s? Al Cowens fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Jan 5, 2014 |
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Young Freud posted:Man, you can't put up Justice without putting this ode to branding graphics from the 80s, including the HBO "Starship" and Stephen J. Cannell... This might as well be required reading itt (the visual elements anyway, not so much the tune) More Danger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f2g1Hqpp8Q Toadvine fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Jan 5, 2014 |
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Perturbator is a fuckin' weirdo Just thought I would bring this to light
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Also if you download anything from the new retro wave bandcamp, do NOT actually pay any money for it, the new retro wave guy running it is an rear end in a top hat who puts those tracks in compilations usually without the artist's knowledge and he keeps any money that comes in for himself
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zombi's pretty sweet but they haven't put out anything in the past couple years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQIwRyX0ASk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc00hVomuIw
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Bilal posted:Perturbator is a fuckin' weirdo Dude, you've seen the cover of Sexualizer? And his next album Dangerous Days, right? They are both 
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There are literally hundreds of people making this type of music but nobody ever posts anything that's not kavinsky or perturbator. Here's a list of good artists: Cobra Copter Bestrack Vincenzo Salvia Navigateur Carpenter Brut Dance with the Dead Le Matos Chaconne Garth Knight Palm Highway Chase Highway Superstar Sellorekt LA Dreams ForeignBlade Andy Fink Gost Glass Mirrors Protector 101 Dallas Campbell Niky Nine Seipa Rain Sword Amazing Police Flash Arnold Action Jackson Compilerbau Alexaandre that's all off the top of my head and there's tons more I'm forgetting and I'm not even including all the vaporwave artists with all the weird characters and Japanese letters in their names. Follow maniacsynth on Youtube, he posts waaaaay more stuff than NRW guy.
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Sabel posted:Hi, does this video fit in this thread? I don't think I've seen it posted in these yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiojdDs8wwk Le Matos has already been mentioned I think, but I'll do it again because they have great tracks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3VPlgsPjDY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkH-xzXKqUc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3t12rTeq5Q  Bilal posted:There are literally hundreds of people making this type of music but nobody ever posts anything that's not kavinsky or perturbator. Here's a list of good artists:
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These are great. Thanks for posting, Tin Tim and Bilal. I'm still going to like Perturbator's music even if he posts NWS hentai on facebook tho
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGSSgequjaE This is a p good genre of music. gently caress I wish I could find another track like this. various cheeses fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Jan 5, 2014 |
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Sabel posted:I'm still going to like Perturbator's music even if he posts NWS hentai on facebook tho Here's something a bit softer with lyrics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGAJzraCbPQ Kristine is a pretty good singer and I would make love to her voice
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Bilal posted:There are literally hundreds of people making this type of music but nobody ever posts anything that's not kavinsky or perturbator. Here's a list of good artists:
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IzzyFnStradlin posted:Which of these artists have vocals? I can't stand instrumental pop music. I need vocals. Thanks. Check out Dana Jean Phoenix, Miranda Carey, and the aforementioned Kristine and Sunglasses Kid.
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Like with the \/\/17{|-| |-|/\|_|5555 and aquapunklol fads before it, some of this music is okay, in a low-effort sorta way, but the bullshit made-up nerd "movement" surrounding it is essentially the worst poo poo ever. Welp, see ya
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