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The story is great because it's told in the most flexible way possible. It doesn't show long cutscenes that if we don't care about "pray" there is a skip button (I'm looking at you Metal Gear...). Heck if we don't care about the story we don't have to do anything and it won't rear it's head. Its non-interruptive and won't take us out of the game. If we do care about the story we can search and make assumptions because it stimulates gamer's creative thinking process. Because you are only given snippets of what happened that only fuels our curiosity. The story is told in an addict inducing way. We never get enough to sustain us and if it interests us we are always searching for more. Everyone wins this way except for the instant gratification crowd.

Thanks for the review. It is a very strange song for sure and everything you said about it is true. The second source always ruins my arrangement too. Any tips on what kind of mindset I should have when incorporating both themes? After making both songs match keys I'm at a loss as to how to go about successfully integrating the two. It's always been a problem for me. I just looked at the source track link I sent in from Audicity and it says it is 2 channel at 44100 kHz with some wierd mono tracks at (1:28 to 2:09) also in 44100 kHz. The bass is way too loud from 1:28 to 2:09. Something must be messed up in my project.

Honestly Bloodbourne is more comparable to Demon's Souls. Miyazaki might be planning to repeat history and start a "Blood" series spiritual successor that FROM completely owns, As long as the Dark Series combat is customizable and not watered down it should make for a better experience. Next up is ensuring the boss fights are truly unique which is becoming an increasingly difficult task. I've always tackled first time boss fights much like I would bosses in megaman games. Start the battle then stay back and observe the patterns until I think I can successfully land blows without getting hurt. The framerate being 60FPS is a huge help for reacting quicker and seeing attack windups beforehand in order to dodge. Prepare To Die edition on the computer is only 30FPS and is much harder because of the lowered framerate.

Bloodbourne like most spiritual sequels / likenesses to similar games has improvements and short comings when making comparisons. Personally I enjoy the difficulty of the game. If it was easy I wouldn't have a desire to play it as it wouldn't challenge me. In that regard I feel achievement systems in games are pointless as it is a personal thing that is different concerning every player. If developers took achievements seriously then I wouldn't have a beef with them. The "You beat the tutorial" and "You killed your first goomba" achievements aren't that... "achievements". Achievements need to be wow moments for hard to pull off feats like not getting hit at all in a game. I also solo the games bosses at least once as I do enjoy hanging out and chatting with friends. Darks Souls 2 > Bloodbourne list ----------------------------------------- 1) More weapon and fighting style variance. (You aren't forced to always roll evade. Dual wield. Mix and match dual wield weapons You can use a shield if desired.) I'm positive Miyazaki will add a ton more weapons and variety in sequels to Bloodbourne. He has the engine built and graphic assets already made meaning more time for new weapons and balancing in future sequels. 2) Better magic system. Equip any combination of magic you want (Iron King crown is great too. Broken but great). 3) Pvp? Just kidding. Ive never pvp'd or co-oped in bloodborne so I can't comment here. I will lament the failings of DS2 though. Epic soul memory failure here. People like hanging out and messing around with friends. Games get boring eventually but other human interaction can drastically prolong the life of any game. A perfect Pvp system would be nice but dedicated servers require money to upkeep. I don't like paying monthly fees for things. Pvp will never be fair if lag exists. Lag will always exist (I miss those local co-op / and head to head goldeneye / timesplitters 2 / smash bros melee days). Bloodbourne > Dark Souls 2 list ----------------------------------------- 1) Better graphics (Victorean theme is wonderful and improved cloth physics look great) 2) Seemlessly fluid controls. 3) Cool weapon transformations (Sheaths are back again!). 4) Weak randomly generated dungeons with predictable map layouts. At least they have them but they could have taken notes from the Dark Cloud games on better randomness. The alternate rune placement on found weapons doesn't feel like enough incentive to keep going through these things. 5) Gems as replacement to enchanting. I could go either way on this but I will say sorting inventories and deleting inferior gems is a negative for this game. Its the same shortcoming that the Borderlands games have. 6) Interconnected world layout like DkS1 is well done. DkS2..... well the lava castle at the top of the poisoned windmill area kinda takes you aback... Just my stream of thought on the Miyazaki franchise wars.

I messed up mine too so don't worry. Wrist slaps for the two of us

The naming consistency is phenomenal. So which people did it correctly? Are the braces with X2 the proper way to name?

What aspects of it make it your favorite game? Personally it's not my favorite X game but it has the coolest and probably most balanced sigma fight in the series. Not too hard or easy. It's Zero's best game and I felt they did a great job on the fluidity of his movesets. Which game had those nightmare DNA things that slowly moved toward and erased needy robots (your power ups)? X6 right (my least favorite)? Just from a gameplay perspective X6 really destroyed my adventurous spirit. If I saw one of those things moving I always tried to save their victims or went for the speediest suicide run ever for another chance at saving them. Oh yeah, thanks for hosting these competitions yearly Shariq. They are a great idea.

Which reminds me did they ever produce and release megaman powered up 2? Always wanted to go trough the game with each robot masters powers from mm2.

Seems like we are getting one song from each game so far. Go Mega Max... Go I can honestly say I only enjoyed playing X4 as Zero. The giant leg art style alteration was a major turn off for me from the SNES games.

Shariq, could you edit the file extensions for the three examples on your first post to indicate "wav"? It clashes a bit with the no MP3 rule right above them an might make it easier on you because less people might accidentally submit MP3 songs.

Thanks! And thanks to everyone for the suggestions about the industrial drum kit libraries. Song subbed. Not my best by any means, but you know one week + life... yeah... I'll have to do proper justice to this sigma level later for sure.

https://www.esper.net/publicirc.php Set channel to ocremix. If I'm wrong then someone else will correct this.

Anyone have any good recommendations on industrial drum kit sound libraries? I think that is the style I want. Below is a music link that has the drum feel I'd like. https://soundcloud.com/wizaz-1/legend-of-legaia-mist-generator-fortress-2

Darren Smith - Dopplergangers MMMDop (Slash Beast in Doppler Stage 1 [X3]) Red Shifting Drift (Boomer Kawanger in Doppler Stage 1 [X3]) Is é mo aingeal imithe (Flame Stag in Doppler Stage 1 [X3])

Did I... did I just get rick rolled by Tuberz?

I found a useful site for chord and scale references. Chords and Scales Is round 3's song in F# natural minor? (F# G# A B C# D E)

Woohoo! You are awesome Shariq. That theme rocks!

I quite enjoy the creative reimagining of titles. I'd love to hear some from others in this thread (not the voting one) Hungover Heifer. Meleoron Mansion (Hunter X Hunter). Cocaine. (Subtle Ivan. Very subtle)

Darren Smith - Dopplergangers My Beerly Beerloved (Blizzard Buffalo in Palace Ground [X]) Firefly (Shining Hotarunicus in Palace Ground [X]) Rolling (Frost Walrus in Palace Ground [X])

Thanks for the sigmature Darke / rnn. It has a nice bit Dungeon II style to it. I think Yami is going to remix this week. It's still tentative but leaning that way.

No worries.

I was going for an amorphous wireframe / virus sigma shape on the left. His insignia is distorted on the right. Sorry you didn't understand what it was. I thought it was fairly straight forward and better than copying all the standard capcom art that usually takes place.

Darke, I made a sigmature template for everyone unless you already have something else in mind.I didn't steal anything from deviant art or anything either. Please let me know and if approved I can make more for everyone or they can use the template and make their own. The dropbox link is below. Paint.Net Sigmature File https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/110617565/Music/SFRG%202015/Signature/Sig.pdn Sincerely, Darren

Lol I'd just memorized toxic's theme too I think it was in d# harmonic minor if that helps YoshiBlade

I stumbled upon this guitarist who played the entire sound track for X2. Get hyped