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'... I didn’t really play it... 3/5' YOU are the problem with video game journalism.

too because it's correct where I live. Everyone in .au pronounces the L sound, we also say the 'out' sound in router. It wouldn't surprise me if oobisoft did some market reasearch into 'oobi vs you-bi' and American linguistic preferences.

Wow what bold imagery for a futuristic city, imagine the girth of those buildings standing tall, brave and hard against the virgin sky

The standard response to you're criticism of halo wars is [in the voice of an anal retentive], 'erm it's about strategy not tactics'. I personally find that kind of flaccid wit like being savaged by a wet towel, pretty much the same feeling I get playing any WarCraft style game. Dawn of war was particularly bad! It explicitly tells you what to build, where to go, even just gives you units you will need outright, enemy guys just stand still or run straight at you, even the boss things get stuck on turrets and buildings. There has to be a middle ground, games simple enough to pick up in a few minutes but complex (as opposed to just really annoyingly complicated) to make some challenging and interesting game play, because that is part of the whole collage of fun. I heard somewhere it's called 'transparent complexity'? idk. You mentioned Myth! Yay that’s a fun rts!

You can open up the tracks in Milky tracker and modplug and see who wrote them and a few short messages. To me Deus Ex music was disapointing, tracks just lurched into into each other and sometimes played patterns starting with silence so the music would drop out.

Like a MOD? A cunning retro plan! There is just one tiny insignificant flaw, it's a helluva lot more work than just hiring the city's orchestra for a few hours to play your score and it's hard to make tracked samples sound real. Knowing nothing about how it works I wonder if the upshot of mpeg7 structured audio is anything along the lines of "letting you just pull out a 'drum' or 'trumpet' object from a track."

Thanks for reminding me how freaking weird Genisis music was.

time vortex!

Nice to hear some nostalgia lovin for "scene" chiptunes, some of those guys are nuttas with a keyboard! On a sad note, about 6 months ago I stumbled across an article about mainstream chiptune plagiarism - often the original artist doesn’t have the leverage to enforce their ownership. A recent high profile and surprisingly blatant example; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Timbaland_plagiarism_controversy It's a bitter pill to swallow when large labels and artists cry crocodile tears over copyright infringement.