My wife (a doctor) once told me music has some soft of positive effect on patients with Alzheimer's disease - the one where you slowly lose your memories and other terrible consequences - and she says it's because music reaches some special area of the brain, or something to that effect. That got me thinking on how important music is for our lives. Specifically: video game music. Music is important because it elicits memories. Sure, every now and then there's a particular ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Av8flSjmMc Hello! Let’s all tread together the treacherous path of the final day of the work week joined by some great music! Warning: Perhaps too late, but this post contains spoilers for the ending battle of the 3.0 patch - just in case you haven't finished that yet. If there is one aspect of Heavensward that has not disappointed at all then it has got to be the music department. Today I wanted to feature a song ...
After a bunch of months that felt like a special circle of hell where everything you see is Living Liquid (aka Jigglybutt) twerking at you, Final Fantasy XIV's first big patch of the expansion launched yesterday: As Goes Light, So Goes Darkness. And it feels awesome. At the moment I've only cleared the main scenario quests and the new 24-man raid (which in XIV means a not-that-hard ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbO66QPIFlc Hello! Let’s all tread together the treacherous path of the final day of the work week joined by some great music! Greetings, friends! I give up! I couldn't help but make this Music Friday Warcraft themed. Unless you've been living under a rock, you have surely heard Blizzard released the intro cinematic for World of Warcraft's next expansion: Legion. As usual, Blizz's cinematic team did a fantastic job! Here's the ...
I had a worrying thought the other day while reading the usual group of tweets or Reddit posts from people that are "quitting" Final Fantasy XIV because of this five-month gap we have right now between the launch of Heavensward (the game's first expansion) and the first main patch (3.1, coming next week). It's important to note that this gap breaks the traditional three-month separation between patches that XIV had during its first year (of A Realm Reborn at least) and it's a direct ...