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Posted by: Tanegar Sep 24 2010, 07:46 PM

I just ordered all four of http://www.dragonforce.com/'s albums because I heard "Through the Fire and Flames" while playing Brütal Legend and found it unspeakably awesome. Anybody have a similar experience, where a game referenced a work in another medium and inspired you to check it out?

Posted by: pbangarth Sep 24 2010, 10:20 PM

This has happened to me with movies and TV shows, but not with a game, as far as I can recall.

Posted by: Kagetenshi Sep 24 2010, 10:29 PM

I found an appreciation for the work of GOBELINS from several of their shorts being included as "what's playing on a nearby TV" in Heavy Rain.

~J

Posted by: nylanfs Sep 25 2010, 12:50 PM

I found the band Nightwish from the user created Gridstream radio station that started for Anarchy Online. That count

Posted by: Mr. Mage Sep 25 2010, 05:10 PM

I found http://www.pyrats.net/movie.html before playing Heavy Rain, but when I played, it seemed top be the only tv show in existence...

I don't think a game has ever influenced me to purchase a different pie e of media (other than more games) unless said game is directly related to the other media...i.e. perhaps Rock Band makes me want to find a particular band that was on the game (music game leading to music purchase...no brainer) or maybe the game is based on a book/movie. I DO often find that media within a game is something that I already like/have seen/listened to. Like in my Heavy Rain example or like in Brutal Legend, where I already listen to a lot of the songs on there...

I guess I'm just a few steps ahead of the game makers

Posted by: KarmaInferno Sep 26 2010, 04:41 AM

As an aside...

Trying to play a DragonForce song on Rock Band is downright murder on the fingers.



-k

Posted by: Dumori Sep 26 2010, 12:13 PM

S.T.A.L.K.E.R made my hunt down Firelake tracks. After dirge for the planet got stuck in my head for weeks. Am a bigish fan I know I'm one of the few big English fans.

Posted by: Maxwell Silverhammer Sep 28 2010, 10:13 PM

I discovered http://www.blind-guardian.com/ While playing the Sacred RPG on Xbox 360 last year. The band actually had its own quest where you went and helped the members get their instruments back. you were then treated to a full motion animated Rock video in-game of the song the bang wrote for the game. That was really cool I have since bought several of their old albums. Great Rock band.

Oh, and the trailer for Gears of War did make me go buy the single "Mad World" from the Donnie Darko soundtrack.

Posted by: Mäx Sep 29 2010, 10:27 AM

Warhammer 40k:Dawn of War, got me really intrested with the world. Now days i own a stack of novels taking place there.

Posted by: pbangarth Sep 29 2010, 02:27 PM

Yes, come to think of it, SR got me to read a lot of SR novels... despite the fact that many of those novels were very poorly written and/or edited.

Posted by: Kagetenshi Sep 29 2010, 03:24 PM

There are, IIRC, three or four television sets you can watch during the game. Each one has a different GOBELINS short looping endlessly.

~J

Posted by: Wounded Ronin Sep 29 2010, 08:45 PM

Every time I listen to classic rock/folk music about the Vietnam War it makes me go back and play Jagged Alliance 2 and Vietcong.

Posted by: Tanegar Sep 30 2010, 01:26 AM

That's a good impulse. Trust that impulse.

Man, what I wouldn't give for a new Jagged Alliance game. I wonder if I could get Silent Storm to run under Vista...

Posted by: Wounded Ronin Sep 30 2010, 02:32 AM

Oh, here's an example of exposure to other media through gaming.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCPL3DJ72tM

It's gaming...it's VCD...it's both!