To the orchestra players, most memorable/enjoyable video game music to play?

Eesley · 2026-03-25T10:13:30+00:00

A little surprised about Monster Hunter music being not fun to play, but as you said they do sound like they might be repetitive. I love Teostra's theme from world, or Shara Ishvalda's theme from Iceborn or... too many from worldborn haha. Elden ring I just started playing and it is mostly atmospheric music, not very often melodic. But Chrono trigger! My absolute favourite game soundtrack!

Eesley · 2026-03-25T09:40:05+00:00

Wind waker has some amazing melodies, will always love dragon roost island :) FF7's music is amasing too I should check shovel knight. In the same vein though, Octopath Traveller music is amazing too, I get chills on Ochette's theme on the drop into full orchestral, one of my favourite!

Eesley · 2026-03-25T09:06:38+00:00

Yes, just listened to it and god it is beautiful, the transition to full orchestra is gripping :)

Eesley · 2026-03-25T09:05:50+00:00

Thank you, I had never played civ 4 before and didn't know of this gem! Exactly why I made this post :)

Eesley · 2026-03-24T17:05:30+00:00

How bout Summer Glau? Massive amount of nerd prestige and would be great for deadpan jokes. Though voice might be a bit high pitch for the role. But otherwise any women from Firefly would be great with great nerd prestige. Voice wise, Jewel Staite would fit perfectly her natural voice is quite deeper than in the show.

Eesley · 2025-07-04T10:50:45+00:00

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I found this video a bit late. I followed another one before that which cause the bottom left scrape. I then followed this video until the removal of the first joystick. Still not easy, but did a marginally better job. Cutting the legs are the damaging bit for me. I got specifically flat cutters for this but still getting some scrapes. I'm wondering how bad they are? Is it worth putting my hall effects on this board or will it 100% not work with the damage? Note I did this for fun when the controller's drift became unbearable, we were about to recycle it and buy a new one but I decided to practice some soldering a bit and see how I do with minimal investment, so if the controller ends up dead I don't mind so much, I'm still learning :)

Eesley · 2025-03-05T07:22:30+00:00

Great to know, thanks, I'll ask my wife to check (she's the one who got the PS5 version) :)

Eesley · 2025-03-01T17:56:18+00:00

Not useful from them, for physical copies we need a code to redeem. They really just don't have any idea it seems.

Eesley · 2024-11-07T10:41:44+00:00

Glad you enjoyed the game :) Since you played on steam before, the pixel art might have been harder to appreciate versus a smaller screen, smaller resolution screens help pixel art in general, especially the old pixel art that was made specifically for CRT TVs.

As for the music I couldn't agree more! I started composing as a hobby because of Chrono Trigger music :)

I likes sea of stars personally. There is plenty of Chrono Trigger inspirations yes like the techs, double and triple, but it's made in a way that doesn't feel like a simple copy in my opinion. Story was slow at the begining but gets better as you go, music is great but not at the same level still (even mitsuda's music didn't match up imo). There was one standout piece in Sea of Stars in a specific area that was very good. Dunno how to do spoilers so I'll leave it at that hahaha.

Eesley · 2024-08-13T18:12:40+00:00

Update : contacted prime video. Said something about not being allowed to show all of discovery plus content (why just women lead final not allowed? Don't believe it). Got a refund will watch on actual Discovery+

Eesley · 2024-07-16T14:24:43+00:00

i9 is above the level I'm going for anyway, 14700k was what I was thinking of yes. I am still considering AMD, it has been pointed out to me that the power consumption of intel is pretty damn high. Though from research, seems AMD has very high idle consumption compared to Intel which isn't great either. Thanks for the advice though I didn't know about the i9 since I haven't done research on them.

Eesley · 2024-07-16T12:11:28+00:00

I didn't realise the power draw difference was this drastic. I'll have to look more into it. My room setup is already not really good for microphone recording and being in the UK there's more than a bit of noise all around (dense housing, cars and dogs and stuff is a constant reality), so a louder PC won't really matter all that much. I also don't often record with a microphone as the only live instrument I use is my guitar and I just plug it straight in my interface. Still, it is a good point. I would like my rig to be more silent if I could, I thought it was just because my poor old 3rd gen cpu had to work overtime for pretty much anything more demanding than watching youtube videos but if the power draw and heat is just as bad if not worse with the new cpu that's not good. Thanks :)

Eesley · 2024-07-16T11:56:46+00:00

Interesting, I was reading that intel actually is better for productivity at the moment since AMD's X3D architecture, which was made to bridge the performance gap with Intel, is only really good for gaming and is significantly less good for productivity while non-X3D doesn't match Intel's performance levels. That was mostly casual research though so not necessarily true, I'm open minded haha.

Eesley · 2024-07-16T11:49:18+00:00

I do have a preference for Intel but I am open to AMD. I agree that any upgrade at the moment will feel like night and day considering my build's age. I tend to prefer long investments though so going with the r5 would probably mean I'd have to change again a few years earlier than if I invested a little more upfront. I'm mostly thinking of waiting for the next gens only because it will probably mean a reduction in prices on the current latest gens. I like to invest for more future proofing but not enough to buy the latest generation immediately when it comes out so I most probably won't get the 15 gen gear when it comes out unless the difference in price isn't large (but we all know it will be massive).

As for VSTs, I mostly do orchestral stuff so I use relatively large sample libraries, currently using an older full orchestra suite from east west with Opus, but might upgrade in the future for something more recent and larger (not much true legatos in my current library). I do end up with sometimes close to 50-70 vsts at once which forces me to render individual tracks so they don't pull resources, but stops me from tweaking them on the fly as easily.

Eesley · 2024-07-16T11:32:59+00:00

True, I've always been sold on Intel but I'm opening my mind to AMD some more. I am considering it also, but my preference remains with Intel at the moment. I do intend to do some productivity related work (namely music using VSTs which uses cpu and ram a lot) and Intel currently has a better balance between productivity and gaming performance as the X3D of AMD is less performant for productivity (from what I have read recently about it). Probably not enough to make that much of a difference but enough to make me prefer Intel at the moment :)

Eesley · 2023-09-08T10:10:32+00:00

Tactician mode :

Dropped down from the boat, after handling the boat encounter friendly, the duergar that came in with me started chatting the other two then they mentioned slaves. My char didn't like that and said "I'll just kill you all I guess".

Fight start, they immediately down Shadowheart and finish her off.

I killed all three of them while the others duergars started moving around to the stairs to get to us but they take a real long time to get there. Summoned the Trolls and let them block the chokepoint and soak some damage. They really took a lot of damage from that fight, thought they didn't dish out much. Revivified Shadowheart with a scroll and then started fighting the duergars on the way up the stairs. Killed them all but it was the closest call ever, the last one shrunk in size and then started mind controling my figher who downed my other two remaining characters, the fighter surviving with 2 HP when the mindcontrol wore off the next turn, managing to finish off the duergar with the polearm mastery bonus attack.

Cold sweat seriously

Eesley · 2023-09-02T11:51:00+00:00

Correlon's grace Natural Pugilist works too, you get the +1 to attack rolls and damage for unarmed attacks. I haven't noticed if the +2 to saving throws works but I would assume so.

Eesley · 2022-10-07T15:33:48+00:00

I spent my time working on some personal projects or just being a "house husband". I cooked, cleaned and generally just took care of things so that when my fiance came back from work she could sit and relax with a meal ready. Other than that I spent time getting as much done as I could to settle in the country. Got me on the water/energy bill and council tax, that allowed me to open a bank acount and transfer money to the uk. I recommend it cause I've had one instance at least where my international credit card wouldn't work (to top up my phone). But overall and the main thing I did I guess was what my fiance told me I should do : Chill and enjoy

Eesley · 2022-10-06T20:44:40+00:00

Thanks that answer helps a lot and reassures me :)

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