Shoshin on 22/2/2001 at 18:42
So I tend to play my games with the soundtrack off, as I find music to be instrusive to the type of immersive gameplay that I like.
As I was playing through the Hong Kong area, I went into that nightclub (the name escapes me) and all these NPCs were swaying around in a weird way. It took me a little while to figure out they were dancing to music that I'd turned off.
This happened in Paris, though of course I wasn't confused this time.
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http://www.ttlg.com/forums/ubb/smile.gifSo it seems to me that music that is a part of the environment that you are in (like techno music in a nightclub) should be different from the score. In other words, I think that, even though I'd turned down the music, music should have been playing in the nightclubs since it was a part of the world and not a soundtrack.
Forsythe on 23/2/2001 at 01:01
Hmm.. I can see why you'd say that, but try it on the flipside; I turn music down low because my hearing's not great and I want to hear voices better. If I enter there and the club's music volume is the same as the voice/sfx volume, I can't hear worth squat.
davpod on 24/2/2001 at 10:11
Hmmm... I don't think they dance any better with the music on. They're still crap.
Shoshin on 24/2/2001 at 18:48
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Originally posted by davpod:
Hmmm... I don't think they dance any better with the music on. They're still crap.What, ISA didn't have a choreographer?!?
They dance exactly the same of course, whether the music is on or not, but the cognitive dissonance of going into the Lucky Money club (thanks moocow) and seeing all these NPC's swaying oddly about gave me an interesting few minutes.
Agent Monkeysee on 24/2/2001 at 23:32
*Monkeysee makes a note to use the phrase "cognitive dissonance" more often*
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buglunch on 25/2/2001 at 10:09
Could they program game soundtrack to auto-fade when you near in-game music sources and auto-up when you leave or is this too hard?
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Darkstalker on 25/2/2001 at 15:46
A couple clips from my pistol usually makes them dance more lively.
PsiBGrat on 27/2/2001 at 12:26
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Originally posted by davpod:
Hmmm... I don't think they dance any better with the music on. They're still crap.The realism is too much. The NPC's sway out of time with the music, they do the same (boring) move over and over (as if they are trying to scratch their colon with 'what gets kept there').
If only the tracks had $h!t lyrics, it would be perfect...
Verak on 27/2/2001 at 15:45
"Thanks for getting me in."
