E5The MinnMax Show - Half-Life: Alyx, Visiting Valve, 2019's Best Game Music
The MinnMax Show
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🗓️ 28 November 2019
⏱️ 163 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! We have a very special episode this week as we're joined by music expert/podcaster Emily Reese to talk about her journey to Valve to play Half-Life: Alyx and record podcasts with the audio team. We also couldn't ask for a better guest to join us in raking our favorite video game tracks from 2019, you can check out the timestamps below if you miss the name of the song. We also talk a bit about MinnMax's first community meetup that will be on December 9th at 8pm at Bauhaus Brew Labs in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Then we're joined by Jeff Marchiafava to answer a mountain of wonderful questions from the Patreon community.
Learn more about Emily Reese's podcast/Patreon here - https://www.patreon.com/Level Or you can watch our video profile on her from Game Informer here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jzUQcwFFQY
To jump to a particular point in the discussion, check out the time stamps below.
4:20 - Visiting Valve 11:20 - Half-Life: Alyx 25:30 - The MinnMax meetup on 12/9/19 at Bauhaus Brew Labs 28:50 - Our favorite game music tracks from 2019 29:20 - Control - Poets of the Gods' Take Control 31:15 - Kingdom Hearts III - Mount Olympus (Field) 35:00 - Borderlands 3 - Main Menu 38:00 - Fire Emblem: Three Houses - Main Theme 42:29 - Vane - Metamorphosis 45:15 - Heaven's Vault - Under the Eye of Kibenya 47:28 - Pokémon Sword and Shield - Gym Leader Battle Music 50:30 - Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes - Mansion 52:50 - Cadence of Hyrule - Windmill 57:12 - 11-11: Memories Retold - Harry's Voyage 59:00 - The Outer Worlds - Main Menu Theme 1:05:00 - Death Stranding - Low Roar's Don't Be So Serious 1:10:00 - Sayonara Wild Hearts - Mine 1:12:45 - Ace Combat 7 - Charge Assault 1:19:57 - Thanks to our biggest supporters 1:24:19 - Questions/comments from Patreon 2:35:30 - Get A Load Of This
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Sir real Vasquez, Kyle Hilliard. |
| 0:17.0 | Hi. |
| 0:18.0 | And Emily Reese. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome Emily. Why thank you? |
| 0:21.0 | Let's see, Emily Reese, if you're a huge fan of Game Informer, I'm talking like Deep Cut |
| 0:26.3 | fan back in 2011 or early 2012, I made like a video all about your show that you had for NPR at the time, Minnesota |
| 0:36.1 | Public Radio, called Top Score. |
| 0:38.0 | And I filmed you playing Skyrim. |
| 0:40.4 | Yes. |
| 0:41.4 | Yes. |
| 0:42.4 | You were going to interview somebody who has since been cancelled, I believe in culture, but then end up being about like the soundtrack to Dragon Age? Is that what it was? Something like that. I think I think so. That's funny. I can't actually recall exactly which interview you were of there observing that's so funny was it enonser? He was in |
| 0:59.5 | Inanser. Yep. It was yeah. Well, there you go. There we go. |
| 1:03.0 | I love that guy. |
| 1:04.0 | But you're the world's foremost expert, I will just declare you on video game music. |
| 1:07.0 | Specifically, |
| 1:08.0 | orchestra video game music. |
| 1:09.0 | Strongly disagree. |
| 1:11.0 | But I wholeheartedly disagree but I appreciate that I feel honored |
| 1:17.0 | even though you're really wrong. |
| 1:20.3 | Who you think is the is the expert on video game music? Who's that? Who is the expert on video game music. |
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