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Picture taken at: The Iron Hill Brewery

Reminds me of:  Fallout 3

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While I was searching around in Barnes & Noble for something to read, I came across this one book in particular.  The first thought that popped into my head instantly was:

"Why is there a Chocobo picking on Mario on his day off?"

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Everyday or so since I was young I would walk out in backyard, go swim in the pool, sit on the swing outside, anything really, I would always walk by my fence: And every time I walk up to this fence, I can't help but examine the neat little tops that come off.  For some odd reason, they reminded me of some other object from a game I used to play on my PC. Ladies and gentleman:
 This:
 
 Reminds me of This:
 
 I don't know why but I am reminded of Dirk the Daring's helmet from Dragon's Lair.

 Relevance:    Who knows? Maybe it's just me, but it will make you think about it.

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This time it will be a movie comparison. I'm going to make this very clear, ready?

And yes, I played Rhapsody a long time ago and am not ashamed of it.

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Okay Okay, so bear with me on this one, I got a song for you to listen to.



Yes this is Emotion's "Best of My Love".  Yes, you continue to wonder how this is game related...well every time I hear that song. 


This would be the song "Life's A Beach" from Breath of Fire III.
This is when you enter the Port Town of Rhapala.

 Now why is that?  Can you hear it?  Am I crazy? Maybe I just played the game too much. (that would be very very true.)

So let's experiment to get to the bottom of this:
I made the Best of My Love song a little faster to match the Rhapala song's tempo to find the connection, didn't do too much: 


My conclusion is it is all about the bass.


It might be in a different key, but they are very similar to each other and the bass really backs up the whole of the song.  And it's because of that I constantly think about that game.

End Result:
  It's a Longshot.

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So far, I'm going to play it as I see it, upon watching a TV series, it struck me to list the games I wanted to play as I watch it. Currently, I finally got around to watching Spartacus. Here is the list of games I wanted to play while watching: 1. Colosseum: Road to Freedom for Playstation 2, that became Gladiator Begins for PSP.

If they combined any UFC game's mechanics with a lot of the good ideas from Colosseum, and backed it with a the theatrics and story ideas from Spartacus, it would make an even better game than it already is.   This proud game that I believe in doesn't get noticed enough.  The Playstation 2 version had much more depth than the PSP, it inspired training and roleplaying with your character.  How I would play is if my character fell and died instead of being wounded, I would start over with a new character.  There was much weight to the character's life, and many chances to never see him again. This game matches the TV series quite well. 2. God of War, respectively.  Mostly due to the "graphic violence". 3. If you happen to watch it as well (or again, is isn't new), you might find that the blood or the graphical blood they show look very similar to the Dragon Age Series. Gotta love the blood dragon. I was going to say Capcom's Shadow of Rome....but there's something about it that doesn't strike me the same as the ones mentioned above.  Fun though, nonetheless. That should do for now. Relevance: Hit and Miss, I'd say.  Colosseum is without a doubt the closest, but I am quite bias with my decision.  I'll let you be the judge.

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You ever go somewhere, look at something or even experience a moment that makes you say "Hey, I remember this sort of thing happening in a game...wait! Where are you going? Come back! I want to talk about it!"  Well....maybe that was just me but I love connecting all sorts of things in life to games, be it movies, moments, other games and of course sounds effects and music.

Let's say we get things started:

I noticed something a while back that I will now type up today.

There is a song in Grandia called "Snow Town Raynu" which has an interesting theme to it, give it a listen, at least twenty seconds:


Now listen to Vampire: The Masquerade Redemption's "Pub Theme":


Hear anything similar?
Let's have more fun with it shall we? Here I lined it up it so the matching parts play at the same time:




And last but not least, a fun mix and match, I call it the "Pub Raynu Mix":



 Relevance Meter:

 






Bullseye I'd say, both examples match up pretty well.

Summing Up The Past Posts

A while back, I started the whole "Everything Reminds Me of Videogames" on a blogging site with my group of friends.  To make things easier, I'm going to move them all here onto this webpage and repost them, thus continuing those particular posts all here.
But hey, don't forget to check out our website and blog, there's all sorts of things happening over there!

Blog:
http://www.rocketpowereddragon.com/inprogress/

Website:
http://www.rocketpowereddragon.com/

Cheers!

Welcome

Greetings All!


After much hibernation from the world, I will attempt to start up and successfully use a functional blog for all to read and enjoy (hopefully).  My topics?  Well, its going to be a scrap of all sorts of things.  But for the most part, it's going to be about videogames, audio, videogame audio, and the world we live in as a game in itself...which is starting to become how I view the world and connect it to everything I hear.


Enjoy!