Gaming

wanderlust

Weird wake fact: Red Dead Redemption turned me onto the satisfying sound of horse hooves on wooden bridges in open world games. A seemingly unimportant sound effect that, for me, reveals much about that world.

This comes up often in gaming: there are many virtual horses, many more virtual bridges, and they often meet.

And when good meets board, I listen.

My favorites, in no specific order:

RDR1 and RDR2
Ghost of Tsushima
Witcher III
Breath of the Wild

I think Ghost of Tsushima probably has it beat. That game's visual and sound design was probably the best I've ever seen.

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Did you ever play Sekiro? Man that game was so fucking hard, but so fucking rewarding at the same time. One that I will definitely never forget. I spent probably 100 hours fighting Genishiro - like the 4th boss before the game finally clicked for me.

It's tough to beat RDR2's obsession with all things horse physics and sound but, yeah, Tsushima had a wonderful sound scape and olde world style.