Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Thunderfoot" data-source="post: 3982699" data-attributes="member: 34175">Yeah, I LOVE his stuff when it comes to gaming.&nbsp; Classical, or modern composed music, such as Enya (when she isn't singing in English) or even some modern music set to instrumental production (such as Apocalyptica) can have a much greater effect, because the music is the catalyst and not the lyrical content.&nbsp; As all gamers should recognize, the player's imagination can lead to greater depth of fear and loathing if one is given only the barest of hints as to what really lies beneath the surface.&nbsp; &nbsp; <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious&nbsp; &nbsp; :]" data-shortname=":]" /> To all others, while I agree most of these songs have sad feelings attached to them, would they still be sad if you didn't concentrate on the lyrics (of course the instrumental pieces don't count).&nbsp; My point being, if you have to concentrate on the lyrics for the piece to be sad, how are you concentrating on the game and what's going on?&nbsp; I'm not saying you can't but for me hearing &quot;Cat's in the Cradle&quot; or other modern song issuing forth from a supposed fantasy monster is about as jarring as hearing the heavy metal sound track behind &quot;Lady Hawke&quot;.&nbsp; Though, good by itself, completely inappropriate for the setting.&nbsp; But as in all things YMMV. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thunderfoot, post: 3982699, member: 34175"] Yeah, I [I]LOVE[/I] his stuff when it comes to gaming. Classical, or modern composed music, such as Enya (when she isn't singing in English) or even some modern music set to instrumental production (such as Apocalyptica) can have a much greater effect, because the music is the catalyst and not the lyrical content. As all gamers should recognize, the player's imagination can lead to greater depth of fear and loathing if one is given only the barest of hints as to what really lies beneath the surface. :] To all others, while I agree most of these songs have sad feelings attached to them, would they still be sad if you didn't concentrate on the lyrics (of course the instrumental pieces don't count). My point being, if you have to concentrate on the lyrics for the piece to be sad, how are you concentrating on the game and what's going on? I'm not saying you can't but for me hearing "Cat's in the Cradle" or other modern song issuing forth from a supposed fantasy monster is about as jarring as hearing the heavy metal sound track behind "Lady Hawke". Though, good by itself, completely inappropriate for the setting. But as in all things YMMV. :) [/QUOTE]

Verification