Well, well, well.
And there I thought PB67 is just dead and the follow up game has been ghosted. I have to say the end of PB67 did not help raise my enthusiasm for playing in an MP again, but I promised to play in this game and will try to make the best of it. After all this is still a diplo game and might turn out interesting. What are you saying the player, with whom you can have the best chat has left and turned mapmaker. Well shit, this might turn out to be the most boring diplo game looking at rest of mutes in this. Maybe I'm lucky and Mjmd is my neighbor. At least he is talkative.
Another reason why I'm still very annoyed about the ending of PB67 is that I had a lot of fun with posting those music clips. I still don't know how to continue with that after I used up a good chunk of my collection of songs. Well if I'm not mistaken we will use the same snake pick/civ/leader combo as in PB67 and the same starting screenshot, so I may just not have to report about all the early stuff as much. For those that do not know what I'm talking about with music here is what I wrote in PB67:
The reporting in PB59 was very enjoyable for me so I will keep it that way. Meaning:
The song
https://ericbuchholz.bandcamp.com/track/...n-market-2
Music: Eric Buchholz - Zelda: Ocarina of Time "Castle Town Market"
Eric Buchholz dropped this all around amazing album back in 2017. It consists mostly of songs from the Legend of Zelda series, but as you will find out later (it's not the last song I will promote) Eric also mixes in a lot of other music mainly from famous japanese animated movies.
The song here is from Ocarina of Time specifically the Castle Town theme when you enter Hyrule for the first time as a child. The original theme is very peaceful and cheerful, which is very fitting at that moment of the plot and the game overall. But what Eric manages here is to make this theme very more grandios and majestic fitting for a town with a majestic castle in the backdrop. Just listen to the beginning and you get a feel for what I mean. Still Eric keeps us grounded to the original theme even here if you listen to the bells at first and then the string. After this big opening we return to a very pure rendition of the theme at 0:40 on the flutes, but not for long as this is a town worthy of a king. So we return to the pomp and glory at 1:12 with the addition of brass, which culminates in the finale at 1:50 when the strings return in full. I also really love what Eric is doing behind the main theme like for example in the brass section at 0:19 or 1:50 or in the strings right at the beginning. All in all an excellent arrangement. I love arrangements that manage to bring something new to the table and do not just blindly transpose the song to an orchestra.
You can buy this song directly from bandcamp. Now I hate to bring this up here, but I better should before the beginning of the game. This album is sold by Materia Collective. I've brought a lot of great music in the past, but as I learned preparing for this PB, there is a bigger scandal around Materia Collective. Apparently they weren't paying their artists promptly or at all. This led some of the artist to remove their music from Materia Collective and Materia Community. We lost some great albums that way and I hope they will return some day in some form. Going back to this song and album, I contacted Eric and he assured me that it is fine to buy the music from bandcamp and that he gets his money.
So now you know what you can expect. I will try to fit the music to what happens during the turn to add some immersion. As for the naming theme I will go into a similar direction as with the songs. I will name each city after some famous video game composers and do a little write up about the person.
Other then that expect the usual stuff from me.
Password
Bookmarks
And there I thought PB67 is just dead and the follow up game has been ghosted. I have to say the end of PB67 did not help raise my enthusiasm for playing in an MP again, but I promised to play in this game and will try to make the best of it. After all this is still a diplo game and might turn out interesting. What are you saying the player, with whom you can have the best chat has left and turned mapmaker. Well shit, this might turn out to be the most boring diplo game looking at rest of mutes in this. Maybe I'm lucky and Mjmd is my neighbor. At least he is talkative.
Another reason why I'm still very annoyed about the ending of PB67 is that I had a lot of fun with posting those music clips. I still don't know how to continue with that after I used up a good chunk of my collection of songs. Well if I'm not mistaken we will use the same snake pick/civ/leader combo as in PB67 and the same starting screenshot, so I may just not have to report about all the early stuff as much. For those that do not know what I'm talking about with music here is what I wrote in PB67:
The reporting in PB59 was very enjoyable for me so I will keep it that way. Meaning:
- I won't report every single turn
- Same crazy micro managment spreadsheet
- (Almost) no sims: I will actually run almost no sims this game, because my spreadsheet can replace them fully. I remember back in PB52 I stopped running sims about T50 or so, but I used my spreadsheet up to T110 or so. Expect more of that.
- C&D: This is very tedious for me and the benefit is smaller. Even if we play with score I won't bother with this analysis.
- Of course this being a diplo thread I will attempt to write down the important diplo stuff down as best as possible.
The song
https://ericbuchholz.bandcamp.com/track/...n-market-2
Music: Eric Buchholz - Zelda: Ocarina of Time "Castle Town Market"
Eric Buchholz dropped this all around amazing album back in 2017. It consists mostly of songs from the Legend of Zelda series, but as you will find out later (it's not the last song I will promote) Eric also mixes in a lot of other music mainly from famous japanese animated movies.
The song here is from Ocarina of Time specifically the Castle Town theme when you enter Hyrule for the first time as a child. The original theme is very peaceful and cheerful, which is very fitting at that moment of the plot and the game overall. But what Eric manages here is to make this theme very more grandios and majestic fitting for a town with a majestic castle in the backdrop. Just listen to the beginning and you get a feel for what I mean. Still Eric keeps us grounded to the original theme even here if you listen to the bells at first and then the string. After this big opening we return to a very pure rendition of the theme at 0:40 on the flutes, but not for long as this is a town worthy of a king. So we return to the pomp and glory at 1:12 with the addition of brass, which culminates in the finale at 1:50 when the strings return in full. I also really love what Eric is doing behind the main theme like for example in the brass section at 0:19 or 1:50 or in the strings right at the beginning. All in all an excellent arrangement. I love arrangements that manage to bring something new to the table and do not just blindly transpose the song to an orchestra.
You can buy this song directly from bandcamp. Now I hate to bring this up here, but I better should before the beginning of the game. This album is sold by Materia Collective. I've brought a lot of great music in the past, but as I learned preparing for this PB, there is a bigger scandal around Materia Collective. Apparently they weren't paying their artists promptly or at all. This led some of the artist to remove their music from Materia Collective and Materia Community. We lost some great albums that way and I hope they will return some day in some form. Going back to this song and album, I contacted Eric and he assured me that it is fine to buy the music from bandcamp and that he gets his money.
So now you know what you can expect. I will try to fit the music to what happens during the turn to add some immersion. As for the naming theme I will go into a similar direction as with the songs. I will name each city after some famous video game composers and do a little write up about the person.
Other then that expect the usual stuff from me.
Password
Bookmarks
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