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What do YOU want the next OT title to be?

  • A Peaceful Life in Satan City

    Votes: 125 43.3%
  • Bro-ohs Before Ho-ohs

    Votes: 17 5.9%
  • Anime In The Streets, Hentai In The Sheets

    Votes: 113 39.1%
  • Grip It & Rip It

    Votes: 14 4.8%
  • Ban Francisco

    Votes: 20 6.9%

  • Total voters
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Bought The Messenger on PC, played for around an hour...

Not liking it, sorry. Feels floaty, and am not a fan of the soundtrack so far.

Devolver is the publisher that peaked the earliest. Nothing has topped that original Hotline Miami for me.
 
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Why isn't Spiderman an X-Men anyway.

Too good to be with the other mutants?
If it helps, he was a special unlockable character in X-Men Mutant Academy 2, making him an honorary mutant. Also Mutant Academy 2 will surely be tested for science right?
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I don't know what the given reason is, or if there is one, but what drives me nuts about the Dragon Quest midi music is that you can spend a couple hundred bucks and get a suite of software instruments that sounds like something approaching a real orchestra and would fool less discerning ears, not to mention all the professional tier software that's out there. No soundtrack should be sounding like that in 2018, unless you just want it to for some inane reason.

I mean, it seems like it more or is just because Sugiyama wants it to?

there's probably a questionably "phoning it in" component, but my understanding is he also absolutely does just want people to go to his concerts and buy the orchestral soundtracks because he makes all that money

I'm sure using MIDI to begin with is a nostalgia thing but

as someone whose prior DQ experience is uhhhh Rocket Slime, it's gonna be weird

The DQXI soundtrack had me so annoyed I bought the PC version hoping someone will mod it out to put the orchestral versions in.

it looks like the orchestral soundtrack has several songs from the game combined into one track without distinctly cutting between them, so they'll need to be edited into different songs somehow, and there's also reused songs from older games that may have their own orchestral versions that'll have to be sourced

so it might happen but it's not gonna be a smooth experience, at least at first

Is Pat Baer gonna be on the Beastcast?

I sorta assumed that would be the case and that they recorded it yesterday due to PAX travel, but I have 0 idea if that's actually true
 

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the part in donut county when
trash king starts texting you back and then doesn't
and then BK is like "okay haha nm!" is some of the realest shit in videogames all year
 

Jubbe

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I watched Spider-Man 2 again the other day and can confirm it is still the best superhero movie.
 

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isn't there literally an edgier version he could consume instead too

but maybe that's not animated
 

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Err what Eminem have you been listening to for the party 10 years.

Monster is one of my all-time favourite Eminem singles. In fact TMMLP 2 was one of my favourite rap albums of recent years. It was also critically very well received, for what that's worth.

Sure, he's had more misses than hits since Encore but to reduce Eminem to 'early 00s edginess' is way too extreme. He's a near universal pick as a top five rapper of all-time. Top ten at absolute worst.
 
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Name a better rapper than Eminem

No it's not 69 or Aubrey

Kendrick Lemar is seriously talented but something about his nassally voice makes him sound like a sinister grandad on most of his songs, to me.

I think with the way rap has structurally and lyrically evolved so fast over the last 30 years it's hard to really compare artists like Grandmaster Flash or old LL Cool J with even Biggie or Tupac, let alone the sort of complex rhyming schemes of an Eminem or Lemar, not to get to real or nothin'.

Edit: This Vox video does a great job explaining how rap has changed over the years:

 

Jubbe

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The Marshal Mathers LP is a genuine masterpiece, but I'm with Whippy that I have no interest in anything Eminem has done since The Eminem Show basically.

However his verse on Caterpillar might be my favourite verse of the year.
 

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Eminem is good when he's not trying to spam shock value or corny jokes.

So therefore he has no good albums, despite his great technical skill and a few really good tracks.
 

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Eminem is the greatest storyteller rap has ever seen. I think when he's gone people will look back and realise just how good he is and how unique his ability to tell a story while filling it with interesting and complex rhymes is.

Lose Yourself is quite literally the best rap song ever committed to tape IMHO.

He's my favourite rapper of all-time and would be my personal pick for the best of all-time too.
 

lacer

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Nah, when you have Eminem you're liable to end up with a good song. Venom deserves Papa Roach.
lmao fuck was thinking the exact same thing. tattoo "CUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES" on jared letos forehead and show a scene of Tom Hardy using Rockstar as laundry detergent and it's still on brand
 

jambo

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Are you all talking about Eminem because he just put his new album out or is this some weird coincidence?
 

Jubbe

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Eminem is the greatest storyteller rap has ever seen. I think when he's gone people will look back and realise just how good he is and how unique his ability to tell a story while filling it with interesting and complex rhymes is.

Lose Yourself is quite literally the best rap song ever committed to tape IMHO.

He's my favourite rapper of all-time and would be my personal pick for the best of all-time too.

The opening verse on Lose Yourself is fucking incredible. Every single bar is full of internal and external multi-syllabic rhymes, while at the same time it tells a very clear story.
 

deepFlaw

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what else can we summon into existence

whippy, what historical wives are you trying to pull for
 

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it's 'coincidental' in the sense that everyone was busy making fun of the terrible snippet track that he put out for Venom yesterday at the same time he dropped this thing
 

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I'm one of those basic people that loves Lose Yourself and Stan but am not much of a fan of his other stuff. When he tells a story, he's great.
 

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I mean I started talking about it because we were talking about Spiderman and I brought it up because today he said he was doing a song for venom.
 

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I 100% believe that they're recording the Shenmue 2 ER right now. It's only a matter of time.
 

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I'm one of those basic people that loves Lose Yourself and Stan but am not much of a fan of his other stuff. When he tells a story, he's great.
his material that was coming out between 97-02 was really impressive. the stretch from his horrorcore shit on the Slim Shady EP til the drugged out madness of Marshall Mathers LP is pretty impressive - really clever wordplay and flow, and he manages to channel his voice into something that sounds cutting instead of grating
 
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