Eino Keskitalo

There's this feature: http://ocremix.org/forums/tags.php?tag=ska But not all the threads are tagged. Tracks with LuIzA involved have a good chance of including ska elements in it. One not mentioned is Materia Junkie. You might also like this one. Not sure if it really fits at all to the genre criteria, but it came to mind. --Eino

Yup, it's great to hear how well this project has progressed! The soundtrack is full of great stuff (I was practically introduced to it via this project thread.. yup. Looking forwards to the finished album! --Eino

They added two more items to $10 and over tier (Hotline Miami EP and POP:ME1), and also added seven more days to the counter. The $10 tier bonus list: Hotline Miami: The Takedown EP POP:ME1 Joypad Records EP Skyrim: Main Theme cover by Lindsey Stirling and Peter Hollens Kanto Symphony EP Adventures in Pixels Jottobots I thought the previous GMB's $10 tier rewards were such a horn o' plenty, that this ones looked quite pale in comparison (though the main offering was very good). Now it's starting to sound much more like it. Of course, that's just comparing it to previous bundles.. it's all way worth more than $10. Not that I could give more than $1 this time, quite sadly. Check it out folks, it's good stuff. --Eino

Having just replied to a Kickstarter thread and started another in succession , I think a collected thread is a great idea. Thanks for doing the moderating! --Eino

Here's one that's just a couple of thousand short and a few hours to go - one I'd really like to see get made. Hero-U from the designers of Quest for Glory.. I played and enjoyed QfG1 (the VGA version), and this sounds like a game with great potential. Please support it (and quick) if you're a QfG fan! edit: yessss, successfully backed! --Eino

Love love LOVE those tiny tiny sprites. Colour me hyped - hope the Kickstarter goes well! I'm probably too broke to contribute myself, but there's still a month left so perhaps. Oh, and the bleepy bloops sound nice on the background too. --Eino

I'm surprised there's no thread yet for Game Music Bundle 4. Spelunky, Retro City Rampage, Indie Game: The Movie, Dear Esther and Shoot Many Robots for the $1 tier. And that's pretty much what I had on my bank account. --Eino

Interesting game pick, and the tune is quite good, you could do a lot with this one. --Eino

Voted! I'm happy I found the time to do that. (: --Eino

Picking up a four-year old track to redo? I like that I hope I can find time to give it a listen! --Eino

I've been ill, so unfortunately no track from me this round. I did have a start, and I usually submit whatever I have, but I didn't get any source included yet. --Eino

Hey cool, good luck with the Kickstarter! I just very recently happened to buy Superfrog from GOG.com, and enjoyed the ice level theme from the soundtrack. What would be the deadline, it's not mentioned as far as I can see? --Eino

I have a start! MindWanderer, recording vocals is kind of hard.. even if you have singing experience, singing properly to the microphone takes practice, as does doing decent takes.. it's pretty unforgiving. And hearing your recorded voice is always weird. It's been a long time since I tried to record, or was recorded, but I seem to recall compression being an essential effect/processing tool, at least I couldn't sing at an even volume for even a single phrase. --Eino

Pleased to see my Windows->DOS correction suggestions in the known issues list! Good work on the torrents, I look forward to start listening to the old ones in the order of their release. --Eino

Silicon & Synapse games good? (The Lost Vikings, Rock & Roll Racing) --Eino

Good to see a resurrection! --Eino

FWIW I'm doing fine on Linux with Renoise. Not sure if I'd really recommend it either though. Also I still have a huge list of things to sort out, such as trying to use Windows plugins with a wrapper, or using any external hardware. But, I didn't want to get Windows just to make music and I'm pretty comfortable with Renoise in Linux as it turns out. Fairly off-topic but there we go. Much more importantly, welcome and good luck, hope you can make a track to submit! It's always great to have new participants. --Eino

Coincidentally, there's a Shadowgate Kickstarter going on. With becket007 scoring it. Nice pick. --Eino

I quite enjoyed Toilet Goat's track, and after listening to the source, I was even more impressed. Nothing wrong with the original, but the new piece had a good drive. Especially the melody was made to work in a really uplifting manner, it felt really exciting in the reworking. --Eino

Holy chrysalid, a UFO: Enemy Unknown mix! *jots this down on the to-listen list* --Eino

Bumping after 2+ years. edit: Links checked and fixed. --Eino

I just finished and submitted a UNATCO mix myself, so I'm looking forward to a chance to take a listen! --Eino

Mmmm, Shining Force.. that's pretty much just ordinary grinding though, isn't it? I do have to agree that Shining Forces are sadly a bit too easy. If the battles had e.g. a turn limit, you would have to fight aggressively. As it is, you can pretty much take your time to cheese the too-passive AI. OTOH, if you lost a fight, the way you keep the exp gained and can just go battle again, gives it a sort of a self-adjusting difficulty level. They're great games, just rather relaxed on the challenge department. SF2 had a difficulty choice in the beginning though, I never tried that. I just recently played through Shining Force Gaidens 2 & 3 - definitely recommended if you haven't played them. Shining Force CD of course is Gaidens 1 & 2 + additional content - haven't played that myself. Anyway, the US version of Gaiden 2 has, for some strange reason, ridiculously powerful Blaze/Freeze L2+ spells. The radius is increased, as is the damage. Your spellcasters can wipe out several enemies on their own. OTOH, that also goes for enemy spellcasters. I think it was actually quite a fun game, increasing the difficulty, and also making the casters more important, real glass cannons for your party. Never got the hang of psychic abilities in X-COM, but you're right about the Ethereals. Especially when played Right (no loading upon failure!), I pretty much left the Ethereals alone (unless I needed to capture their leader) and tried to get the game completed before they completely swarmed the place. Having them attack your base was sUpEr fUn.. (the best game ever, by the way) --Eino

Cool thread! I'm pretty sure there's a kazillion examples. I'm usually disappointed to find overkill techniques, I can't keep myself from using them but they tend to kill the challenge and a lot of the enjoyment from the games. SotN seemed to have a lot of items that break the balance (or just make it a bit too easy): the weapons that let you fire projectiles with the hadoken move, the mana-regenerating (or was it doubling) amulet, the acid mist transformation.. I also remember using the basilard as a weapon for a very long stretch since it was possible to rapid-fire lots of damage with it. No need to use the slower weapons. --Eino