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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• Brandon Fream aka "Freamwhole" - TrueAchievements - Xbox
• Tarragon Allen aka "zzUrbanSpaceman" - TrueAchievements - Xbox
• Randy aka "Crandy" - TrueAchievements - Xbox
• Jo aka "angelsk" - TrueAchievements - Xbox
• Damien aka "Spazpol" - TrueAchievements - Xbox

0:00:00 - Intro

• Achievement sponsor: Louder Than Bombs and Eternity from Rock Band: Green Day
• Special thanks to Oddworld X of Hydro Thunder Hurricane fame
• Crandy’s Mug: SF Alumni
• Fonts: Compacta, Comic Sans, Helvetica
• Tarragon’s Helvetica T-Shirt
• A Sound of Thunder movie - thanks ThrashForever and BlueThunder7398
• King Kong Remake?
• Threelock in Threes! is Tarragon’s 300k achievement
• Smoke & Mirrors stream? For Tarragon’s 333k - thanks @JackVGS
• Fream’s Dark Souls streams
• Australia sourcing games and currency codes available via zzUrbanSpaceman
• BALROG update - for you McLovinLegend
• Community Show - thanks SinicideIII, Madeyepadeye, Big Ell

0:19:00 - Recap

• Tarragon
• • 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
• • Geometry Wars
  • Saints Row 2 DE
  • Quake 4
  • Ghostbusters
  • DOOM
  • Grind Hero 360
  • Project Spark x2
• Fream
• • Project Spark
  • Rayman Legends
  • Geometry Wars, joined the 5/12 club to equal Crandy

0:35:52 - News

• Project Spark
• • Hub world is flaky, get the 2 hub achievements ASAP
  • Sashamorning: XP brain for levelling up characters
  • Forum thanks milestone can be spammed for 13k Spark XP
  • Windows 8 version of Community Surfer requirements are different
• OG Recycled Gamertags
• Off-region Games with Gold
• • Support Engineer transcript
  • Accessing off region games with gold article
• Batman: Return to Arkham July 29th
• Assassin’s Creed movie pre-order bonuses
• Mighty No. 9 might be happening?!
• Battlefield ONE pitch was initially rejected
• Unravel 2 Announced
• EA Access free to gold members during E3
• Talk of other publishers joining EA Access
• E3 predictions
• • Free MP for silver members
  • Slim X1
  • VR bundle
  • • Zuckerberg and VR
• Retailers trying to stay ahead of digital
• Elite Dangerous Horizons releasing June 3

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 …
• • Tarragon: psychological supernatural horror, e.g. Paranormal Activity
  • Crandy: dystopia
• NBA Kirkland and JStryker416: best and worst endings in games
• • Limbo ending theories
• 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:
• • Tarragon:
  • • 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
  • • 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:
  • • 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

• Hero Defense by Happy Tuesday

2:58:03 - Knobs & Discos

• Forza 3 servers are back?

2:58:44 - Backwards Compatibility

• Call of Duty: Black Ops

3:00:23 - Zombie News Corner

• Resident Evil 7 to be announced at E3?
• Techland making two new games, Dying Light 2?
• Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 - Trouble in Zombopolis

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:

• "Jive Bot", “Tally Screen” (x2), “Dalmation Station (It Gets Better Mix)” by Jake Kaufman from the games Mighty Switch Force! 1 and 2, developed and published by WayForward Technologies
• Epic Voice Announcements by RJBANKSWA

 

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