I recently started playing GTAV again and sometimes I’ll get in my car and let the radio stations play while I do house stuff. Favorite stations are the 80s one with Kenny Loggins, and West Coast Classics and Rock Radio.
Just like the other commenter, the Outer Wilds main motif (travelers) makes me emotional because of how good the game was. Disco Elysium also has had an amazing soundtrack, with the main BGM faintly using sounds from the final song, which made it really cathartic for me.
Ultrakill deserves a lot of praise, especially for the P-2 music (youtu.be/MG5L-1pI8bI). It works perfectly for how intense the level is, and it’s absolutely nuts that the game still manages to up the ante after you’ve perfected every single other level. I’ve listened to this type of music quite often before, but I’ve never felt it in my blood and muscles before playing that level.
When judged on the music alone though, Hotline Miami (1) and Furi have to take the cake. Both soundtracks are just iconic, and easily stand out on their own.
This post was originally going to be titled “How does music discovery on Apple Music compare to Spotify these days?” but I want to make it more broad....
Mostly YouTube Music - the recommendation features are much better than spotify’s (and it has much better UX). Also regular YouTube suggestions, but I only get jazz and kexp recordings from there.
I used to have a shared playlist with a friend where we’d casually add any cool tracks we’d discover, which was a weird small motivator to discover new music on my own (so that I could show off). Sadly, that person is not a friend anymore, so the playlist is dead.
I thought of an username made up of shortening my first and last name when I was like twelve, and I just kept it. It’s unique, unpronounceable, and long enough so I can claim it literally anywhere.
I absolutely, really, hate that this gets spun around as “keeping a cat inside is cruel” or “my kitty is innocent” or whatever.
“Don’t let your cats outside because it’s dangerous for them!!”. No, it’s really not. The cat IS the danger. The hedgehogs, the birds, the polecats, all other small to medium mammals are terrorized by your cat. The actual medium sized predators are forced out of their territories, because they actually have to live on the food they catch, and don’t just hunt for fun.
I really don’t care if it’s cruel to the cat if it’s kept from killing hundreds of animals over the course of its life. But it’s always about the “cute little uwu kitties”.
And the idea of a neighborhood cat is somehow normalized. It’s normal to see a cat on the street for some reason. They’re “cute”, and every neighborhood has at least one. Awesome.
You might think I’m irrationally angry about this. But the fact is, that cats kill billions of birds [1] in the U.S yearly. Do you know how much a billion is? It’s almost unimaginable.
But it’s somehow normal. And I come across as a cat hater when I mention this to people who let their cats outside.
I wish I could like cats, and I did use to. But now, they’re just a symbol of death for me.
[1] www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380 (I’m aware that ~70% are caused by un-owned cats, but how many cat ladies supporting them are in your neighborhood?)
Cats are an environmental disaster and if you let your cat roam outside or feed wild cats, you're just a bad person and directly responsible for hundreds of bird deaths.
Right now, I’m playing the early access version of Baldurs Gate 3. I’m getting ready to put it down (frustrated: BG3 has the potential to be good, but without controller support, I’m getting really frustrated with the UI. ) and switch to Yakuza Like a Dragon....
Over the year I've finished Outer Wilds, Hades, PikuNiku, the second Ori game, and have been slowly getting through Elden Ring. Next is probably Tunic, but idk if it's worth my time after playing through the first 2 hours.
Nowadays I can't use any other controller than the deck, so I sometimes link it with the pc just for that - I just can't live without the gyro and the back buttons
3D 3rd person platforming. Any flavour of it. It consistently either sucks (souls games) or is just plain boring (the uncharted series). I'm sure there are some games where it's done reasonably well (probably some sonic or mario game), but I've never seen that.
I should probably go to bed at this point. I typed up a short story of my arduous attempts at defending an outpost in the STALKER modpack GAMMA and how my game crashed when I turned in the quest. Sent off that post and woe-is-me, the entire text didn't get submitted and I didn't have it saved in copy-paste. It's just so...
Gaming wise it's probably the best period I've had. I've finished a lot of smaller games, found absolute gems such as Outer Wilds (+ the perfect DLC) and Devil Daggers, P-ranked my way through Ultrakill and I'm slowly going through Elden Ring, which is just so awful on many fronts, that I don't think I'll be playing any other soulslikes ever. I've got a nice long rant about it brewing inside me.
Celeste got a massive, high quality community map pack recently, so I'm slowly chipping away at the maps, and I finally found a "main game" that I'll probably be playing forever - Trackmania.
I don't think I'll be running out of stuff to play anytime soon.
With the advances in gaming on Linux in recent years, it is so tempting to switch full time. I would absolutely love to, but I am a Game Pass Ultimate subscriber and it is where I play a lot of my games on PC. I know you can use the cloud version, but I cannot stomach streaming games in their current state, so it is a no go. A...
Gaming works well for most Steam games, but if you go out of Steam it can be less nice. I've been linux-only for around two years now, and there's been only a handful of games that I wanted to play that wouldn't run on linux (but there's only a handful of online games I play so ymmv)
What’s one of your favorite game soundtracks?
I recently started playing GTAV again and sometimes I’ll get in my car and let the radio stations play while I do house stuff. Favorite stations are the 80s one with Kenny Loggins, and West Coast Classics and Rock Radio.
How do you discover music?
This post was originally going to be titled “How does music discovery on Apple Music compare to Spotify these days?” but I want to make it more broad....
What's the story behind your username?
And did you choose decent one this time or Rimjob_stew one?
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What petty hill will you die on?
For me I say that a truck with a cab longer than its bed is not a truck, but an SUV with an overgrown bumper.
GOOD games with female protagonists?
yes, i know, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice and horizon zero dawn exist, and id rather i dont know them, so what else you got?
How many steam deck folks are here and what are you playing?
Right now, I’m playing the early access version of Baldurs Gate 3. I’m getting ready to put it down (frustrated: BG3 has the potential to be good, but without controller support, I’m getting really frustrated with the UI. ) and switch to Yakuza Like a Dragon....
What are some of your LEAST favorite game mechanics?
The other thread about favorite mechanics is great, so let's also do the opposite: what are some of your most hated mechanics?
How are you feeling right now (gaming-wise)?
I should probably go to bed at this point. I typed up a short story of my arduous attempts at defending an outpost in the STALKER modpack GAMMA and how my game crashed when I turned in the quest. Sent off that post and woe-is-me, the entire text didn't get submitted and I didn't have it saved in copy-paste. It's just so...
Close to switching to a Linux distro full time.
With the advances in gaming on Linux in recent years, it is so tempting to switch full time. I would absolutely love to, but I am a Game Pass Ultimate subscriber and it is where I play a lot of my games on PC. I know you can use the cloud version, but I cannot stomach streaming games in their current state, so it is a no go. A...
Suggestions for slightly older AAA games for Steam Deck?
Recently finished Bioshock, Spec-Ops: The Line and Nier Automata (not so old, but played really well)....