Nice! I’m not a composer, but I just started playing with LMMS the other week and thought it was cool and intuitive—even encouraged me to finally pull the trigger on that Kurzweil keyboard with midi support I’ve been eyeing for some time! I bookmarked this and will take a look at OpenMPT and Furnace too.
Open source FTW ✊
Hmm… sure, but I feel like “reviews are subjective” gets used as an excuse to give low-effort reviews a pass too often.
Like, I understand if a Steam reviewer writes whatever because they’re just a user, but I cannot justify using the same scale to judge a professional reviewer.
I understand a game may not be a reviewer’s cup of tea, but if this stops them from engaging with the game’s systems and attempting to provide insight through their review then I think it’s fair to judge they haven’t done their job well.
Like, if someone hires me to do a job, and I accept, I cannot go “Oh, I’m gonna do half of it because the rest isn’t my cup of tea. Sorry.” No, I’ll do the job and maybe complain about it afterwards, which IMO, is exactly what reviewers should do—example: “I beat the boss, but the fight sucked because X, Y, and Z.”
I think there should be standards, otherwise you get reviewers unfairly judging games they barely played like in the infamous God Hand review.
In case anyone forgot: this game was nominated for Best Fighting Game twice at the TGAs and still failed 😂 Both times ahead of far more deserving candidates—further evidence a good chunk of these awards is promotional crap.
Odd take in this context. The last game in this trilogy was released almost 20 years ago—if they’re not gonna remaster this, what are remasters for exactly?