(05-12-2014, 11:51 PM)Zyrusticae Wrote: Music is just one of those things that's ridiculously subject to taste, like most kinds of art. Just like how some folks can't stand anything even remotely influenced by traditional Japanese animation while others (like myself) are actively repulsed by a lot of traditional American animation.
Speaking of music, listening to more of Wildstar's stuff, it's actually kind of weird how incongruous it is with the game's more comedic tone. I mean, if you listen to the track that plays at 9:24:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyW1oABtnew#t=564
It really sounds like it belongs to an entirely different game. Very odd. Cool, but odd. Hmmm.
I think, to be fair, the game isn't really a comedy. Â It's an action game that doesn't take itself too seriously. Â I'd almost describe the tone as very much like one of the older PS1 or N64 3d platformers from back in the day, or an early afternoon cartoon from the heyday of Cartoon Network. Â Or maybe one of those action movies in the 80s or 90s. Â It's not a comedic story or a parody; playing the exiles story...
Things like that give the game an overall serious tone. Â It's just that it isn't quite so serious as most games, so the story as I've understood it is played a lot like an action movie. Â Serious things happen, but people can still drop one-liners and there are moments of comic effect that take the piss out of itself. Â If there's one thing that really attracts me to the game, it's that tone. Â I was kind of worried that there'd be a lot of zany comic action. Â Instead, I'm literally exploding things with a sword sometimes.
Which is HILARIOUS, but not necessarily comedy.
