It's been a while since I played so I might be misremembering but I'm pretty sure he did Tooth and Tail and I'm pretty sure I enjoyed the music there

the game is simplistic and unfinished, but it provided a perfect breeding ground for modders to clean up the unfinished content and populate the universe with creatures and places.

It has a controversial development anyway, from what I remember most of the game art was made by interns who were promised payment and positions and got neither

@Aielman15@lemmy.world also people would compare Starbound to Terraria. Among the two, from what I know (yet to play the latter 😬), on a very basic definition, they're similar, yes, but Terraria is the adventure-focused one, while Starbound goes more for a sandbox and exploration experience.

@Aielman15@lemmy.world I didn't follow the game when it went from beta to 1.0, but having played the beta later (builds are still downloadable on Steam if you know the right IDs to point to Valve's SteamCMD), I can understand the complaints. The game felt to me more adventure-focused previously, but then it shifted into a more general exploration/sandbox game, expanding but simplifying several aspects and ditching a lot of the plot in the process.

Also the developers never officially said the updates were over, and 1.4.x feels like it tries to bring back a bit of that adventure loop. But after 1.0, updates slowed until the game felt abandoned. And at least up to some 3 years ago iirc, the developers would say on the official Discord groups that they were waiting for news on a supposed console release before resuming updates to the PC versions, to make feature parity easier.

However, at least in my opinion, it's still a decent game well worth the time and money spent, and it does feel like a complete game. I'd recommend it, specially with how cheap it goes on sales. And if you want to check out older builds if you get it on Steam, feel free to check this tutorial (amusingly and unironically using Starbound as the example). GOG version iirc is only available from 1.0 onward.

Lastly, there's a community for it here on the fediverse if you'd wish to follow: !starbound@lemmy.ml

I keep hearing of Starbound but public opinion on the game seems to be divided. I've heard the game in beta/early access was better that it is now?

I wasn't particularly interested tbh, so I didn't dig deeper, but this OST slaps and the name's cool, so it piqued my curiosity lol

How's the game?

I could never really get into the game itself, but always liked the OST :)

As a kid I thought this game was so cool! I never did buy it though. Just kept renting it and only finished it when I was older.

So good.

Don't really have the time for that particular nostalgia trip at the moment. The world is burning and the landlord is giving me hell. 🫠

Loved this game. Might have the worst ending to any videogame ever, though.

You should try the game with an emulator because it's a great and delirious platformer on the Genesis.

Anton is such an incredible developer and human being. He's been so incredibly dedicated and focused on his vision for the game, while also being so open, transparent, and communicative about its development process. And, of course, he's so good at embracing the sillier side of things without it ever feeling fake or forced.

I only learned of the game just last year, but seeing videos on it was the last push I needed to commit to getting a VR headset, and it has captured, by far, the vast majority of my total VR playtime.

Wonderful.

Seeing clips of that $20 game got me to buy a Vive kit to try out VR. Then I built a second PC just for VR gaming. Upgraded to the Index controllers and headset when they were released. So far I have 753 hours in H3VR and it's still fantastic. Will definitely check out the second one whenever that comes out but my heart will probably always belong to the original.

Alexander Brandon is probably my most listened to artist. I've listened to the Unreal Tournament soundtrack, in full, about once every 1-2 weeks at work, for almost 8 years now.

I've had it on my wish list since it came out, I think this will be the sale that I finally pick it up. (This is going to break my three year long "no Steam purchases" streak...)

Small world, I was also listening to it on my way to my side gig!

Came here to mention bomb rush cyber funk. Apparently they got the same composer from jet set radio to do the soundtrack

Xbox emulation is much better than it was but there's still only a small percentage of the library that's perfectly playable.

Luckily JSRF is one of the few lucky titles that works without issue.

I played the shit out of JSRF on Xbox. I remember before the game even released listening obsessively to Fly Like A Butterfly on my Rio One mp3 player that I found on some shit like napster or audiogalaxy or kazaa, after I heard that BANGER of a track in a launch trailer.

Definitely worth trying to emulate! I think I got it to work a year or two ago, prolly still have the iso and bios files somewhere.

But I also highly recommend checking out Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, a much more recent spiritual successor. It's a dogdamn masterpiece and Hideki Naganuma has a few tracks in it too!

I love this game and it's soundtrack.

Playing it on an Emulator that can upscale it to 4k is awesome.

Also, be sure to check out JSRF's spiritual successor Bomb Rush Cyberfunk (currently on 50% sale) and it's soundtrack.

I also randomly started listening to JSR soundtrack today! (Not future) Weird

An absolute legend in the gaming industry. RIP.

Exactly. I usually hate listening to music at work, but somehow playing this feels right.

Nice. Honestly the game deserves all the fans. It's just as unique as the soundtrack.

Yes. Yes it is. I occasionally play the soundtrack while I'm working and it hits just right.