• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
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    27 days ago

    That’s because the ads on GTA radio are just comedy bits. If ads on real radio were just clips of standup comedians, I wouldn’t complain about 'em. 🤷‍♂️

    Also, is the DJ David Cross voices for KULT FM the same character he voices in San Andreas? 🤔

    • Darkmuch@lemmy.world
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      27 days ago

      All the stations are such over the top parodies. Real world people saying dumb shit isn’t funny, it’s sad.

    • TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world
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      27 days ago

      Patrice o Neal having a character in wktt gta4 radio is one of my faves. Those were so funny at the time

    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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      27 days ago

      My main radio station I listen to is publicly funded so there’s no ads. It does however have a show with 2 comedians doing social and political commentary with deadpan delivery. Sadly just one episode per week.

      There’s also a hangover show with other comedians but I don’t find it as funny recently. Greatest hits include things like a morning exercise routine that concludes with moving yourself just enough to grab a beverage and resume drinking.

        • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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          27 days ago

          Nope, different country. Unfortunately, the show is in Estonian so unless you speak it, I don’t think it’ll make any sense to you.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      27 days ago

      If ads on real radio were just clips of standup comedians, I wouldn’t complain about 'em. 🤷‍♂️

      Unless they were all by annoying hacks 😉

  • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
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    27 days ago

    Burnout Paradise had a really awesome soundtrack, too. Driving games always pay for the bangers, and it must be a lot of fun to write fake news and whatnot for interstitials.

  • killea@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    Seconding Fallout for OWR and ConelRad, and Saints Row, but also my newfound love Cyberpunk 2077.

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
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      27 days ago

      Maybe a bit niche, and I haven’t played in a while, but the piped in bar music at stations for Elite Dangerous was incredible. It did not have to be that diverse and immersive, but their sound team doesn’t do anything less than 100%.

  • SneakyWeasel@lemmy.caEnglish
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    27 days ago

    How do you like to eat your rusty browns ring donuts?

    Some of the radios in vice city were so funny. I still listen to them today at work

  • 1D10@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    The only music station I listen to is one run by the students in a liberal art college near me, on a good day it has a range of something like 10 miles. There is almost no talking except station ID notices and everything they play is music I like.

    I’m a 50 year old goat farmer with “scene girl” taste in music.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
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      27 days ago

      I know what Fallout’s radio lacks that would make it so much better: An in-world talk show. Like, the songs are great and all but they’re not unique to the game since they used licensed stuff. I like the DJ segments, tho. But I mean… All we get is a few seconds of Three Dog, or Mr. Las Vegas, or Travis here and there (depending on the game).

      Imagine a GTA style talk radio station, but in the Fallout universe. Maybe the host gets a raider to talk to that inevitably ends with the raider shooting up the studio. Or a hick wastelander trying to show off his 3 headed brahmin because he doesn’t understand how radio works.

      • DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world
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        27 days ago

        I’ve actually fancied a real podcast in real time during gameplay. A podcast that specifically talks about things relevant to the game itself so it doesn’t feel made up.

      • kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        27 days ago

        Fallout 4 had this, with the host remarking on things that happened in game. You could find and interact with the host in the diamond city, he could even die IIRC