So yeah. I just came back from Video Games Live in NYC. It was fun. I suppose all of the typical music was played. There was a bunch of expected gamer behavior. The concert itself had a selections from Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, Mario, Zelda, Mass Effect, Halo, Diablo, Warcraft, Castlevania, Megaman, Chrono Trigger and some dabblings of other titles of which I cannot recall right now. It feels like I'm missing one or two. The performers were extremely talented with a featured pianist (
) and flutist (youtube video which I cannot find now). There was small Guitar Hero: Aerosmith interlude with the winner of the Guitar Hero competition before the concert. I can't say that I was completely impressed with him. (That could have been me!) Anyway, OCR got a tiny, hardly noticeable plug when giving him his prize. The challenge was to beat Aerosmith's Sweet Emotion on Hard/Expert with over 200k points, by the way. It was definitely something cool and interactive to bring to the show. The best selection to me was probably between Megaman or Warcraft. I think that if they had any Street Fighter music in there, that would probably be my personal favorite. But the Megaman and Warcraft bits picked the right songs and meshed them together in a good way. Chrono Trigger wasn't done as well as it could be, sadly. For the top requested game music, I think a better arrangement/mash up could been written.
The concert was in the Beacon Theater. The acoustics were really good and the lighting was really awesome as well. It's decked out in gold gilt and griffins and all that sort of stuff. Apparently, a lot of the people in the audience were return members from the previous showing last year. If it really is an annual thing, we should maybe perhaps get an OCR thing together then?