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I think the thing here is that poetry is all about stress patterns, and rhyming is an "easy" way to find two words that usually share the same stress pattern.

I can definitely think of a few punk bands that don't even try to be 'poetic', and it works really well as "political essays with punk backing tracks" or whatever too, so even that's not a necessity for me, but I think most lyrics, even when they don't rhyme, tend to be written with some stress pattern in mind.

While not quite a space game, the Pyro-GX from Descent comes to mind too. Given that we see it fly in space in cutscenes (and in some sections of Descent 3), I guess it qualifies as a space ship too, though most of its use is within asteroid mining facilities and moons and stuff.

Immediately thought of this when I saw the thread title, happy to see it had already been mentioned!

Drew played it on an UPF 8 years ago, in case you need convincing (same episode as Dog's Life!!):

Not sure they're actually a favorite, but the first that came to mind were Doom's end credits that go through all the enemies including their death animations (when you press the "fire" key).

I wouldn't trust a Windows store app with anything, but according to the actual listed minimum requirements both my 5 year old PC and the one described in the OP should be perfectly fine.

Given how unreliable Microsoft's universal app stuff is, I sure hope they'll be relying less on it in 11 than in 8 and 10.

In that old thread I posted about Descent introducing me to Skinny Puppy and Neuromancer to Devo, but one pretty significant game I forgot back then was Wing Commander Prophecy, which introduced me to Front 242 (via a cover of Headhunter and the side-project Cobalt 60 who had two songs in the game - Darwin Was Right and the titular Prophecy) and Juno Reactor (Komit).

Happy birthday Quake! So many fantastic mods came out of that game, always loved the Ace Combat-ish AirQuake, though obviously Team Fortress and Rocket Arena were the most popular.

@shindig: I think it tries to evoke Vanishing Point's open landscapes in particular ... but even then, that was an incredibly colorful movie, so it really doesn't hit that mark for me either.

Yeah, it's an odd choice to make it black & white, while color film dominated the 70s, and pretty much all the movies it's evoking where particularly notable due to their use of color.

The aesthetic would've made more sense if they were going for 50s car movies like the original Fast and the Furious, Rebel Without a Cause or all those Hot Rod movies.