STARSBarry
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In but a few hours a man who is known for selling out will be wheeled on stage, stand before you beaming with a fake smile, a fake smile paid for by Doritos and Mountain Dew, look you in the eye and lie to you.
what will this lie be? what will this thinly veiled knowing smirk hide?
he will stand on stage and announce that one of these titles has the best soundtrack and score of the late 2022 - 2023 period
Naturally he already knows this to be false, but how does he know it to be untrue? after all its just opinion, different people like different things right? In the same way you can have the correct opinions such as "racism is bad" you can have incorrect ones too. This is obviously an incorrect opinion, worse its not even factual, it is scientifically incorrect because the factually correct choice is
Released in late November 2022 (and therefor ineligible for last years GOTY) this... broken lumbering GaaS game released to near universal indifference. Reviews at the time state over monetised and underdelivered, it was by all accounts a bad game.
However despite this two things stood out, and was mentioned in every single review, Art Direction and Soundtrack. This game while hampered by the suits trying to milk every player for as much green as possible left the parts that could not be sold off piecemeal alone, and they shine like the light of the Astronomican in the grim darkness that is Darktide.
Where the fuck is it? It wasn't even nominated, have all the judges gone deaf from masturbating too loudly to Breath of the Wilds full priced expansion? Who knows, but there wrong.
let me explain, while some of the above have maybe enough memorable tracks to count how many hands a triple amputee has, Darktide is created by the BAFTA award winning composer Jesper Kyd, back when you could win one as a strait white man. Hes been working on games since 1993, and has worked on such series as
MDK
Messiah
Hitman
Unreal Tournament
Borderlands
Darksiders
Assassins Creed
and of course Fatsharks prior title Vermintide
But late last year he managed to slam down the Elden Ring of soundtracks onto an otherwise unremarkable title, and its just the stupidest thing ever to not see it above the likes of Zelda, Alan Wake and Baldurs Gate III (I love you Baldurs Gate III but your music is just great, not genre defining like the rest of you) the list is just a "games which people have played" list, rather than gaming's very best of the year.
so for the uninitiated what does Darktide sound like? well like this.
and of two days ago (because new maps need new unique themes)
The whole game is full of these. What makes all these truly special in that because its a video game each one is weaved in as more intense versions and ebbs depending on the action on screen, if the AI director throws more hordes at you its going to up the intensity of the music until the slaughter the last heretic on screen, this creates those "hero moments" that designers look for in titles, but multiple times per run, and I cant really think of another game that manages this based almost purely on a soundtrack, its doing all the heavy lifting. As a visual aid of what this sounds/looks like please see the video below.
I have a true love hate relationship with this game and its all down to the art teams, both sound the art direction are on point, voice acting too, it elevates a game that is just like one of the most mediocre GaaS titles released in recent years to feel more than it is, it elevates it into something I cant stop playing even though the end game loop and engagement traps annoy me constantly, and not seeing it on a show meant to celebrate the very best the genre has to offer is just wrong.
I'm interested to know if anyone else (outside of best score and music as that's obviously Darktide) has found a lack of a title a glaring issue in some of the other categories, like the people nominating these aren't even trying or playing games outside of the main stream.
what will this lie be? what will this thinly veiled knowing smirk hide?
he will stand on stage and announce that one of these titles has the best soundtrack and score of the late 2022 - 2023 period
Naturally he already knows this to be false, but how does he know it to be untrue? after all its just opinion, different people like different things right? In the same way you can have the correct opinions such as "racism is bad" you can have incorrect ones too. This is obviously an incorrect opinion, worse its not even factual, it is scientifically incorrect because the factually correct choice is
Released in late November 2022 (and therefor ineligible for last years GOTY) this... broken lumbering GaaS game released to near universal indifference. Reviews at the time state over monetised and underdelivered, it was by all accounts a bad game.
However despite this two things stood out, and was mentioned in every single review, Art Direction and Soundtrack. This game while hampered by the suits trying to milk every player for as much green as possible left the parts that could not be sold off piecemeal alone, and they shine like the light of the Astronomican in the grim darkness that is Darktide.
Where the fuck is it? It wasn't even nominated, have all the judges gone deaf from masturbating too loudly to Breath of the Wilds full priced expansion? Who knows, but there wrong.
let me explain, while some of the above have maybe enough memorable tracks to count how many hands a triple amputee has, Darktide is created by the BAFTA award winning composer Jesper Kyd, back when you could win one as a strait white man. Hes been working on games since 1993, and has worked on such series as
MDK
Messiah
Hitman
Unreal Tournament
Borderlands
Darksiders
Assassins Creed
and of course Fatsharks prior title Vermintide
But late last year he managed to slam down the Elden Ring of soundtracks onto an otherwise unremarkable title, and its just the stupidest thing ever to not see it above the likes of Zelda, Alan Wake and Baldurs Gate III (I love you Baldurs Gate III but your music is just great, not genre defining like the rest of you) the list is just a "games which people have played" list, rather than gaming's very best of the year.
so for the uninitiated what does Darktide sound like? well like this.
and of two days ago (because new maps need new unique themes)
The whole game is full of these. What makes all these truly special in that because its a video game each one is weaved in as more intense versions and ebbs depending on the action on screen, if the AI director throws more hordes at you its going to up the intensity of the music until the slaughter the last heretic on screen, this creates those "hero moments" that designers look for in titles, but multiple times per run, and I cant really think of another game that manages this based almost purely on a soundtrack, its doing all the heavy lifting. As a visual aid of what this sounds/looks like please see the video below.
I have a true love hate relationship with this game and its all down to the art teams, both sound the art direction are on point, voice acting too, it elevates a game that is just like one of the most mediocre GaaS titles released in recent years to feel more than it is, it elevates it into something I cant stop playing even though the end game loop and engagement traps annoy me constantly, and not seeing it on a show meant to celebrate the very best the genre has to offer is just wrong.
I'm interested to know if anyone else (outside of best score and music as that's obviously Darktide) has found a lack of a title a glaring issue in some of the other categories, like the people nominating these aren't even trying or playing games outside of the main stream.
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