My Musical Gaming Life

Today, as my final blog post, I’m going to be talking about a music genre. This is going to be about “Synthwave”! Synth wave was a popular genre back in the 1970s and also came back in the early 2000s to 2010. This music genre has a very retro theme to it that I love.

How did I learn about synthwave? Well, I have a certain passion for listening to certain songs, then listening to their remixes, and some of which were synthwave. Another reason why I love synthwave is the usual retro, vibrant color theme that they have!

I have a few more reasons why I like these retro backgrounds. It has this very neon vibe and there are cool cars in the background. There is usually a neon orange or pink-looking sun in the background. I also really like the effects that they use for the retro effect.

According to the text from this article.

“Synthwave (also called outrun, retrowave, or futuresynth) is an electronic music microgenre that is based predominantly on the music associated with action, science-fiction, and horror film soundtracks of the 1980s. Other influences are drawn from the decade’s art and video games. Synthwave musicians often espouse nostalgia for 1980s culture and attempt to capture the era’s atmosphere and celebrate it. The genre developed in the mid-to-late 2000s through French house producers, as well as younger artists who were inspired by the 2002 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Other reference points included composers John Carpenter, Jean-Michel Jarre, Vangelis (especially his score for the 1982 film Blade Runner), and Tangerine Dream. Synthwave reached wider popularity after being featured in the soundtracks of the 2011 film Drive (which included some of the genre’s best-known songs), the 2012 videogame Hotline Miami, the 2017 film Thor: Ragnarok, and the Netflix series Stranger Things.”

Movies such as Stranger Things and the 2017 film Thor: Ragnarok have these very interesting music genres that go unheard of. This is a microgenre, meaning it consists of more than just one thing. Synthwave is a mix between action, sci-fi, and horror film. This microgenre does go by many other names, here are some that were listed above. outrun, retrowave, or futuresynth.

The last thing I want to talk about today is the ending of this blog. I’m going to be ending off by talking about Rap, Country, Rock, Pop, and all other main genres. I thought this would be nice if I gave my opinion on the main genres.

My opinion about these music genres is going to be very straightforward and blunt. The first is going to be about Rap. The whole rap genre is interesting in its way. People can make music based on their feelings. I like it, but it’s just not my personal favorite. Next is Country, I don’t like country, and I’m sorry for everybody that takes offense to this, but I work at cracker barrel and I don’t want to hear it anymore. Next up is Rock, I think rock is pretty decent, it’s been around for a long period and I grew up around rock, so I think it’s decent. Pop! Pop is one of my favorite genres. The majority of pop comes from rock and other genres.

Well, this is my final blog post for me. I can’t wait to walk across the stage.

Goodbye, Everyone!

I’m going to talk about rim world. RimWorld is a sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Inspired by Dwarf Fortress, Firefly, and Dune. You begin with three survivors of a shipwreck on a distant world. Manage colonists’ moods, needs, wounds, illnesses, and addictions.

Link to the Rimworld description: here

“RimWorld follows three survivors from a crashed space liner as they build a colony on a frontier world at the rim of known space. Inspired by the space western vibe of Firefly, the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, and the epic scale of Dune and Warhammer 40,000.”

“Manage colonists’ moods, needs, individual wounds, and illnesses. Engage in small-team tactical gunplay. Fashion structures, weapons, and apparel from metal, wood, stone, cloth, or futuristic materials. Fight pirate raiders, hostile tribes, rampaging animals, giant tunneling insects, and ancient killing machines.”

“You can tame and train cute pets, productive farm animals, and deadly attack beasts. Watch colonists develop relationships with family members, lovers, and spouses. Discover a new generated world each time you play. Build colonies in the desert, jungle, tundra, and more. Manage quirky colonists with unique backstories, traits, and skills. Learn to play easily with the help of an intelligent and unobtrusive AI tutor.”

“This game is for Windows, Mac, and Linux. RimWorld is developed by Tynan Sylvester and Ludeon Studios, and they’ve been improving it since its first public release on November 4, 2013.”

My opinion about the game is…

This game is amazing, I play this game for countless hours and still have fun. It’s very relentless on the harder difficulties and it makes you feel like you can’t succeed. There is an end goal to this game, and it is to make a ship and take it to the stars. Beware this takes a long time and the more money, people, buildings, etc you have the worse the raids will be. Raids don’t always have to be a bad thing, because you can either wait them out or somehow kill them to get a weapon finally. There are different challenges that this game features such as One where you start alone with no clothes and no weapons. This makes life very challenging since the weather is a thing to worry about, raids are another, you don’t start with a lot of food, and you don’t start with building materials. The fact that you don’t spawn in with anything is terrible because that means no raids, and as I said previously, raids can be a good thing. You get weapons and clothes from the raiders which are perfect. There is another challenge you can do where you start by yourself, but you have robots to help you. This one is fun and unique because robots are new to the game.

Today I’m going to be talking about another musical Friday thing. Today’s music is going to be about a certain song cover called David Guetta & Bebe Rexha’s – I’m good. I originally thought this song was just a copy and paste of the original song called, I’m blue by Eiffel 65. You can probably see why I thought this was a copy and paste because the titles were so similar it had to have been a copy of it. After that, I considered listening to the song and it was pretty decent. I loved the one by Eiffel 65 and the one by David Guetta & Bebe Rexha, the best part about this song is that it uses the same style that Eiffel 65 used. This song makes me feel happier when I listen to it and if I get bored with it I could listen to the other one and vice versa.

Now I’m going to talk about which one is my personal favorite. One of them is nostalgic, the other is new, one is made by one person, and the other is made by two. I’m going to say at the end of this which one is better.

Nostalgic songs are better in my opinion. They remind me of a time when video games and music were so much better. I wish we could go back to those times and live in them again because those times were my favorite.

Newer things, however, really bring back some old vibes and some new beats. There is a new-ish genre out there called Phonk. I like this new genre and it goes by many names which I’ll go over in a different blog.

One person versus two

I feel like having two people is a lot better than one. Starting with the first reason, two people, double the production. Having one person create a song, could be challenging, but I feel like you’ll get rewarded for more because you are by yourself.

Okay, the time has come to the voting part, and I’m going to be real honest with you, they are both really good. So, I’m just going to say, Both have won!

Hades is a very fun and very addicting rouge game. It takes a lot of time and skill to actually progress far into the game it’s self. I myself am only and the second boss out of four. Though Hades only has four boss arenas, there is tremendous variety within every battle. Players will find some opponents easier to defeat than others, but every single one is a tremendous showcase of great design. Hades is a rogue-like dungeon crawler in which you defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash your way out of the Underworld of Greek myth.

I think it combines the best aspects of our previous games, including the fast-paced action of Bastion, the rich atmosphere and depth of Transistor, and the character-driven storytelling of Pyre. It’s never the same experience twice: Each time you play, you’ll combine the divine might of various Olympian gods with your own in new ways, brave a wide variety of different challenges, and unravel more of the story featuring our award-winning art, audio, and narrative. You may play for not just dozens of hours, but hundreds of hours, while still discovering new character builds and story events.

After that little description from the games wiki found here! I’m sorry if you get a lot of ads, it is a fan made wiki. So everything that’s on there is taken with a grain of salt.

I love this game because it’s a hack and slash type game, with a perfect mix of items, artifact, and character progression. You can also interact with the gods with a special item and they can give you a gift depending on the friendship you have with them! My favorite item is the “Chaos Egg”. At least i think that’s what it’s called. The egg allows you to enter these portals that would usually take a lot of health to enter and if you know anything about rouge games, health is the most important, followed by items. These portals contain a guy named “Chaos” and he basically give you a choice of three boons, all with their own temporary debuffs. Some could make you slower but give you more money and darkness afterwards, Which is really nice.

Hello! Welcome to another thing I’m going to try and do. It’s kind of similar to Rouge-like Mondays, but it’s for music! Today’s music is going to be from a game’s soundtrack, otherwise known as OST(Original Sound Track). It is used as a battle theme for one of the characters. The Song is called “Bury The Light” and It’s from the game called “Devil May Cry 5”. I’ll go over Devil May Cry 5 in a different post. I love a lot of things about the song, and I’m going to be listing most of them.

Firstly, even if you’re not a fan of the rock genre, you’ll probably still like it! It has a perfect mix of pop and rock, which there is a new genre that has been recently introduced into the world called Pop-Rock, It’s a nice mix between the two!

Second, if you like long songs! Well this song is incredibly lengthy, with an astonishing nine minutes! Third, the song has an actual meaning. If you play the game or have seen someone play the game; If you listen to the lyrics such as “there’s no coming home”, in the game the brother gets separated, and one was left in the house while it was on fire the other was missing.

The mother tried to save the one that was inside the burning house. Another lyric that is very important to the story of the game is, “Born in flames, I have been blessed”, this line shows that this brother “Vergil” was trapped in flames, or in his words, “born in flames”. This song is Vergil’s battle theme, or in other words, a song that starts during the start of a battle. That’s about all I will say right now; I don’t really want to spoil the game that much, the game and the music that goes along with the game are insane.

I’m going to be starting a new thing called rouge-like Mondays. Every Monday I’ll describe a rouge-like game. First I’m going to talk about the rouge-like genre itself. “Rogue-like (or rogue-like) is a sub-genre of role-playing computer games traditionally characterized by a dungeon crawl through procedural generated levels, turn-based game play, grid-based movement, and permanent death of the player character. Most rogue-likes are based on a high fantasy narrative, reflecting their influence from tabletop role playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons”. Information from Wikipedia, I know this might be incorrect information, but it seems true from my experience with rouge-like games. Anyway, to start this Monday we’ll be talking about, Risk of Rain 2, this game has many of items that will improve your chances of survival. It also has equipment that has its own personal slot that it goes in, it can be activated with a button, and that’s when it well do what it’s suppose to do and go on cool-down depending on how powerful it is. They recently added a dlc, or add-ons to the game. A add-on is something that add-on to your game, without the games the add-ons cannot function. The add-on adds in some new items, survivors, and a game-mode. The item tier called “void items” when picked up will consume the normal counterpart, further growing it’s power. For instance, an item called Lens-maker glasses increase your critical strike chance, while the void version has a very low chance to insta kill non-boss enemies. Risk of Rain 2 is a roguelike third-person shooter developed by Hopoo Games and published by Gearbox Publishing. A sequel to 2013’s Risk of Rain, it was released in early access for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in 2019 before fully releasing in August 2020 with a release for Stadia coming a month later. Players control a survivor who is stranded on an alien planet. To survive, they navigate through various environments, killing monsters and looting chests to collect items that boost their offensive and defensive capabilities. Over time, the game’s difficulty increases, spawning more powerful and dangerous creatures. The game supports up to four players in online multiplayer. The game received generally positive reviews upon release. Here’s some extra information about the game found here.

The song I’m going to talk about in this post is Heat Waves. “Heat Waves” helped me through a lot during COVID. If I didn’t have music I would go insane. It also helped me during depression, helped with my homework, and a lot of other things. The song was made on June 29, 2020, during the year COVID was keeping us inside all the time. As the guy walks down the empty streets of London, people stare at him through the windows. This represented what COVID has put us through, with staying inside, staying away from people, and isolating ourselves. Like I said before, this song helped me get through some dark patches in my life. I love this song, the people in it have amazing vocals, amazing music, and amazing everything! The music video shows a guy lugging around a bunch of televisions with him, and at the end of the video, it shows him setting the televisions up and his friends appearing on the screens. Also at the end, it shows him playing in an empty theater, and then the doors close with posters laid about saying “Sold out”; The tickets being sold out is probably because of COVID The song is mostly about love; the following lyrics show that this song is made mostly of love “sometimes, all I think about is you late nights in the middle of June heat waves been faking me out can’t make you happier now.” “Usually I put something on TV so we never think about you and me.” These lyrics describe COVID a lot. COVID affects people’s relationships a lot because they have to isolate or they get very sick with COVID. So he is in a relationship with someone, but he can’t hang out with them. This song probably has helped you through a rough life too! So in conclusion, the song is very helpful with rough patches, helpful with breakups, and more!

Hello again! This will be my second game post for my blogs! I’m going to get right into the game. Project Zomboid is a top down zombie game. The main goal in the game is to Survive, Murder zombies, and Thrive. You have a lot of things to keep track of since it is the world’s current hardest mmo zombie survival game. First you have to deal with the basic needs of food, and thirst ; not only that, but you have to survive the elements, keep your health up to date, keep your weight in check, and survive in the disastrous weather climate. The offers many skills to help along the way such as, carpentry, metalworking, mechanics, tailoring, electrical and much more. You also have passive skills such as Fitness and Strength which both will go up depending on what you do will increase the rate it will go up. You also have Agility which consist of sprinting, light footed, nimble, and sneaking. You also have skills with firearms such as aiming and reloading. You have combat skills which are axe, long blunt, short blunt, long blade, short blade, spear and maintenance. Maintenance is a skill that goes up the more you use your weapons, they will increase in durability meaning your weapons will last much longer. First aid is a skill that goes up when you heal yourself from wounds, it takes a little bit of time to level up, but it will be worth it because you will recover from injuries quicker than usual.

Hello! Welcome to my very first Music Blog post! Today I’m going to talk about a pop song called “Queen Of Broken Hearts.” Beware that this song contains Explicit lyrics; If you do not like swearing or anything like that here is a Safe For Work version. This song relates to our lives as humans, as black says in the song, “I’m the queen of broken hearts” which possibly relates to him breaking people’s hearts or his heart getting broken multiple times. Another part of the song is “you need to chill girl, don’t play me I’m too far gone, you can’t save me and I don’t care, SWEAR hate me,” maybe he is talking about his girlfriend cheating on him and now she trying to get him back, but he is “too far gone.”

My thoughts about this song are, it’s a very good song to listen to after a breakup. Breakups aren’t easy to go through, so listen to music and others find other means of forgetting them. This song will help you get in a better mood for the day. The lyrics fit in with our society very well. Talking about breakups, drug addictions, and lots of other things.

So in conclusion, everyone has those times where you want to forget someone or something for a little while, and that’s okay! If you’re ever feeling down, listen to music! It might only be a temporary fix to life problems, but if it gets you through the week, go for it!

Hello, and welcome to my first blog!

I’m going to talk about a game that I love to play, Titanfall 2! Titanfall 2 is a fun Player vs Player vs Entity, Player vs Player, or Player vs Entity. You start out as a pilot running around hunting for people and over time you will get a thing called a “Titan”. If you don’t know what a titan is let me give you a brief description about them. You have seven different titans ; You have Ion, Scorch, Northstar, Ronin, Tone, Legion, and Monarch.

Ion has cool lasers and an energy bar you have to monitor at all times for maximum damage output. Scorch is a really good tank titan, he uses fire(or thermite to be specific) to hurt enemies and burn enemies. Next up is, Northstar! Northstar has a really nice weapon advantage, he uses a plasma rail gun to snipe enemies. Ronin is a shotgun and sword wielding beast! You also have a blink to move faster and phase through people. Tone is similar to Northstar except they use an explosive 40mm weapon. He used to have a thing called a quad rocket that would obviously shoot rockets out. Legion has a heavy machine gun that holds at least 100 to 150 ammo in it, and he is very tanky to fight against. Monarch is an insane titan, they have a smg that provides increased mobility, and they have the ability to have multiple different cores. Cores are things you gain if you get points or it just increases over time. They could shoot double the rocket you’ll normally be able to, have arc rounds that do more damage, make it so your electric smoke does more damage, or even make your weapon shoot faster the longer you hold it down.

You also have 7 different pilot abilities! Cloak, Pulse Blade, Grapple, Stim, A-Wall, Phase Shift, & Holo Pilot. Cloak makes you less visible and able to blend into your environment more. Pulse Blade is doubled as a throwing weapon and a sonar tool. Grapple can fly around with a grappling hook, Stim can move faster and heal faster. A-Wall places a one way wall, one side blocks bullets and the other amplifies the damage for your bullets. Phase Shift is very similar to the titan Ronin, they can Phase Shift. Holo Pilot can clone themselves and distract.