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Meer/Ohr - Shogun's Heroes - Hard To Please Adventurer/Treasure Hunter/Frog Witch I'll tell you what it is and what it's not Post-alternative psychedelic space rock JRPGs, FTGs, STGs, platformers, classics I'm just here to stop talking back to the TV

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Bickershaw has great versions of Truckin', China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Playing In The Band, Dark Star > Drums > The Other One, Sugar Magnolia > Turn On Your Lovelight > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Not Fade Away, which is extraordinary and could otherwise be spread over 3 shows.

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Barton Hall and Old Ren Faire Ground have significantly less packed setlists, but the belovedness and consistently #1 rank of the songs pushes them to the top. 5/8/1977 would be #1 if only for Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain, then there's Dancin' In The Streets, Morning Dew, Not Fade Away...

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1) 5/8/1977 Barton Hall, Cornell 2) 8/27/1972 Old Ren. Faire Grounds 3) 9/21/1972 The Spectrum 4) 5/7/1972 Bickershaw Fest 5) 4/26/1972 Jahrhunderthalle 6) 9/3/1977 Raceway Park 7) 5/22/1977 Sportatorium 8) 9/10/1991 Madison Square Garden 9) 3/29/1990 Nassau Coliseum 10) 2/28/1969 Fillmore West

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Not surprising anyone are the fantastic Barton Hall and Old Ren Faire, but The Spectrum and Bickershaw Fest rank higher than I'd guess. Jahrhundert, Raceway Park, and Sportatorium feel fairly appropriate. Branford Marsalis on MSG/Nassau makes those stand out more. And I'm glad Fillmore West made it.

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I'm so disappointed when, right at the moment of a song that's supposed to be the most rocking, they drop all the drums out. My ear wants to hear kick, snare and cymbal going the fuck off with the main melody for a song like this, not some dubstep echo of a beat. Sounds good but shot in the foot.

Evil Empire Studio@evilempirestudio.bsky.social

🩸THE TEARS ARE HERE. 🩸 You know that feeling when a game melody hits your ears and you instantly know it’s going to stay with you forever? That’s Bloody Tears. And soon you’ll hear it in the game. We wanted to go beyond a tribute and tell Rose’s story through these unforgettable notes.

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Anyway, here are 10 of my favorite covers in the last 6.8333 years. Jeremy kinda lets me riff however I want with a topic and has only given me notes twice. It always feels like I'm treating myself when I get to do one, and I hope my excitement for each game comes across.

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The only real way to play Daytona USA in 2026 is in a bygone arcade in an ancient resort town in a sit-down cabinet where the monitor is washed out from decades of salt air blowing in from the nearby ocean...

Time Extension@timeextension.com

Dev Behind AI-Assisted Daytona USA PC Port Says They Didn't Intend To Hide Claude's Involvement

timeextension.comDev Behind AI-Assisted Daytona USA PC Port Says They Didn't Intend To Hide Claude's InvolvementUpdate: "It is a very useful tool"
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Like 15 minutes isn't enough to judge a game, but I can say that I stopped playing in order to start Order of Ecclesia again, and that Bloodstained gives a much better first impression than this does. Stage 1 music doesn't work. It feels like an action-adventure-platformer inspired by Castlevania.

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Psycho Soldier respect came in! Hear it, feel it, live it!

youtu.beThe King of Fighters '94 Arranged Soundtrack (AST) 09- Psycho Soldier (Psycho Soldier Team, China)YouTube video by Matsuyama61
Derrick Bitner@bitnerd.gvg.io

The results and discussion of the Top 10 Video Game Soundtracks of 1987 is now live! In such a stacked year, what comes out on top? Watch and discover some truly classic gaming music with me, @jon.gvg.io, and @ash.gvg.io: youtu.be/Hln-m1PFxz0?...

youtu.beThe Top 10 Video Game Soundtracks of 1987...According to You!YouTube video by GVG
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Everything from Super Mario Bros to Super Metroid was an interative step of woah this is amazing, so it's hard to put a pin other than SMB, but I can remember the moment of life I committed to gaming and dropped other hobbies was after Chrono Trigger and waiting in a frenzy for Final Fantasy VII.

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50 years of punk rock bias against the Grateful Dead, 'cause some man named Stinkfoot said all songs should be 2 minutes about eating paste by The Dementoids, well we're long past that now but they're still being treated like not an important part of 20th century music history, it's tiring.

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If you make games, make a bespoke indie game for someone's birthday. It could basically be Chase The Chuck Wagon but if they like games it'll flip their gourd. If you're a musician, record a birthday song, interpolate the melody into the person's favorite genre; pretend to be their favorite singer.

Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social

As a weekly visitor of both my local farmers market and game/hobby/tcg stores....a CD version or business card with steam code (if feasible?) would ABSOLUTELY work And it wouldn't be any more out of place than things like crafts as both were home made. Better than GenAI animal coasters and shirts

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quid = what hoc = refers to a specific object est = is coleum = the obscene version of testiculus, implies not only the object but the swearing ("the fuck"), in accusative declension rerum = thing [c.f. Lucretius' De rerum natura "On the nature of things"] viridis = green

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This what the lyrics of Grateful Dead's "Franklin's Tower" are referring to. The titular tower is a poetic metaphor for the dam, commissioned as it was by Benjamin Franklin's nephew Greg, and "roll away the dew" is a double-entendre for both the held-back river water and the end of summer humidity.

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In my Ravenous elation I've picked up Metroid Prime 4 again. I'm sorry to say I do not think this is a good game™. If it gets good, it's taking its time. I'm glad to have it rather than not, it is better® than Other M, but marred by too many issues, and Miles being a Samus gleeb is not at the top.

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The music is great, but the sound design excellent. It heightens the tension and plays with it smartly. I may not want a laser beam sound in a song where I know enemies are going to pop out of nowhere; it's pushing buttons and knows it. The game is trying to be a brightly colored Doom 3 at times.

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In my Ravenous elation I've picked up Metroid Prime 4 again. I'm sorry to say I do not think this is a good game™. If it gets good, it's taking its time. I'm glad to have it rather than not, it is better® than Other M, but marred by too many issues, and Miles being a Samus gleeb is not at the top.

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Having played several hours more, I'll revise this opinion to Metroid Prime 4 is a good game, not great, not bad. It takes longer to do things than I expected but in the whole scope some things aren't so bad. The person who said it's a Wii U nailed it and under those expectations it's pretty good.

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I think this just means he spent a lot of time on the job talking to an AI girlfriend chatbot, got called out by his superior, tried claiming it was for "ideation" and had to stick by that claim for documentation and the production process, and it's spun wildly out of control.

lex luddy needs a nap@lexluddy.xyz

Some more Gamescom reporting from me. When pushed to elaborate on what using Generative AI "as part of the ideation process" meant for those unfamiliar with the process, the Crazy Taxi series creator told me, "Today I would like to talk about Crazy Taxi: World Tour, and the time is limited."

shacknews.comCrazy Taxi series creator does not want to discuss what World Tour's AI usage entailsWhen pushed for details, Kenji Kanno stated, 'Today I would like to talk about Crazy Taxi: World Tour and the time is limited.'
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In my Ravenous elation I've picked up Metroid Prime 4 again. I'm sorry to say I do not think this is a good game™. If it gets good, it's taking its time. I'm glad to have it rather than not, it is better® than Other M, but marred by too many issues, and Miles being a Samus gleeb is not at the top.

Secret Seashell 🐚🌸🐬
@secretseashell.bsky.social

In my Ravenous elation I've picked up Metroid Prime 4 again. I'm sorry to say I do not think this is a good game™. If it gets good, it's taking its time. I'm glad to have it rather than not, it is better® than Other M, but marred by too many issues, and Miles being a Samus gleeb is not at the top.

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I'm only several hours again, maybe this gets better. It's programmed well, technically proficient, and it is More Metroid Prime©, but the scope, flow, and design of the game was obviously rushed out. It's too bad. I don't know that they could've done better with it given the development history.

Secret Seashell 🐚🌸🐬
@secretseashell.bsky.social

In my Ravenous elation I've picked up Metroid Prime 4 again. I'm sorry to say I do not think this is a good game™. If it gets good, it's taking its time. I'm glad to have it rather than not, it is better® than Other M, but marred by too many issues, and Miles being a Samus gleeb is not at the top.

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Fury Green is pretty and a good starting zone, Volt Forge is also a cool scene and the way you go through the level is great. I'm now at Flare Pool, and to go from the pace slamming into the wall after Volt Forge to just getting a sprocket now go all the way back through the desert is such a nasty.

Secret Seashell 🐚🌸🐬
@secretseashell.bsky.social

In my Ravenous elation I've picked up Metroid Prime 4 again. I'm sorry to say I do not think this is a good game™. If it gets good, it's taking its time. I'm glad to have it rather than not, it is better® than Other M, but marred by too many issues, and Miles being a Samus gleeb is not at the top.

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Most of all is Sol Valley, a vast expanse of practically nothing, with the actual levels being completely inorganically the corners of the map. This could've passed on Metroid 64 but not today. It is entirely too far of anything away with no visual interest and the music being paywalled* is vicious.