Fishy

It's come to my attention magfest is just before the deadline. We'll see how much of an issue it is, I don't want to push it back far (or ideally at all). So I'll probably do a five 30 second samples for the Christmas present. Give me the five you want to hear most and (unless they're better left unheard for surprise reasons) I'll try and include them.

Ok fine have some real advice. If you save a bunch of individual patches with different detonator settings and then load them within your first patch you can get around that.

I aim to please. Seriously though that program is terrifying. I made a wavetable synth in Max once. Every single sound from this is from my synth, check it: http://fishy.escariot.net/public/CainDemoAfrica.wav

Congrats guys! Awesome gig.

I cannot help, but I want express my deepest empathy for your Max troubles. Been there. Done that. Never going back.

Fiiiiiiiiiiine. *Runs away*

I seem to have struck a nerve. I didn't try to suggest that sandboxes are better games. That WOULD be dumb, which is why I didn't do it. I've done an extensive comparison of FFX and FF13 and how they are fundamentally both very linear games, but X feels like an exploration whereas XIII feels like a corridor. You can have a linear experience that is crafted to feel like exploration and it is fantastic. See portal, half-life, earlier FF games etc. No one can convince me that the linearity in XIII was the good kind of crafted linearity, it's painfully obvious it was thrown together (see below). Fair-enough, but we like some degree of control. Even FF12 let you specifically choose how your auto-battle acted through gambits, and for that matter how your non-controlled allies acted. FFX is a game hampered by translation. FFXIII is a game hampered by having no director for most of it's development. Have you ever noticed that the plot is basically short conversations at the start and end of every area, with nothing to do with the area they are in? It's because the dev team were just instructed to make tons of beautiful levels (which they did admirably) and they just connected them end on end and threw a plot at it. It's pretty well documented, just google it. It's also the reason FFXIII-2 exists. They made too many levels and didn't want to waste them. Not kidding. You're probably right, but standards are higher now so it's fairly irrelevant.

It really did get better once you got to pulse, but that was no excuse for the shockingly linear shit-show that was the first half of that game. It was like the most boring, whiny, soulless and tedious soul trapped in the most attractive women in the world. I gave it a chance and occasionally lost my breath, but was ultimately disappointed in myself for not realizing how unhappy I was sooner.

Excellent choices! Spoily comments below. I got: Minor Swing So What Great Balls Man with Harmonica Breathe You Only Live Twice Rappers Delight XYZ Our House Schism Under The Bridge Changes Man with Harmonica I got entirely because muse play it live, lol. I was trying to figure out if it was from Inception or not for a while. Props for including django/floyd

*auto-battle* *auto-battle* *auto-battle* *auto-battle* *auto-battle* *auto-battle* *auto-battle* *auto-battle* omg stagger - didn't finish it *auto-battle* *auto-battle* *auto-battle* *auto-battle* *auto-battle* *auto-battle*

...the hell enix... You literally have no idea why people enjoyed the earlier games do you?

1. Keep this to an absolute minimum. One off passages sure but if it's super obvious the exact song you're imitating for a large chunk of time then you're paying just as much tribute to the non-vg song, which is not what we're about. But for example of ok use, I sometimes copy drum parts from Dream Theater songs, but never for more then 8 bars or so. 2. Again it cannot form a large part of your remix. 10-15% at the most. This is a video game arrangement community, not a mashup one.

So I finished the main game quest yesterday... Or at least I think I did... I still can't tell.

Christmas present?

This. Very nice voice.

Here's the last one, slightly short version of aire tam break: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHVXGjtsJN0

Aw shiiiii, live Fishy video! (Cheers lidawg) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE2qVDmJ5lE

Generally epic! The setting was completely different to what I was expecting. Way less 'panelly' then any previous panels I've seen, basically set us up like it was a music set. Which was fine because we played a few songs which went ok so far as I can tell. The trivia for prizes went very well as mentioned. They eventually got every question right without help, including an obscure cave story one. I spoke to the organisers afterwards and they said they would definitely be interested in us playing a series of mini-sets over a few hours between us next time! That's gotta speak for itself. And obviously meeting dose guys was awesome. Also briefly met James but not sure where he got to after the panel.

Mokram wins. I vote for the revised two.

No worries. Like I amended with an edit just before you quoted this - it was my fault for not voicing my point properly. You were right to point out the fallacy, but it was one that was carelessly implied by my rushed argument and not what I was trying to imply. I do love this forum. It is definitely one of the more reasonable collections of video game enthusiasts.

You missed my point a bit. I was oversimplifying your comparison on purpose. We do have an educational element of course. That isn't however the point of the site, and is a missed opportunity for proper advertisement of the mission statement in a clearer format that everyone will get. Yes the fact other designs exist is objective evidence of your point. But Will is objective evidence that not everyone gets the joke. People either get it or they don't, there is no difference. The only debate is the ratio of those people, and that is opinion until someone proves it (and neither of us are able to). (Also I'm aware of the fallacy you point out, and that is my fault for not phrasing it properly - but the point I just made properly stands i think). Just fyi that last line could be construed as patronising, but eh. I can take it. (EDIT: this sounds douchey on reflection, I'm not being serious here just to clarify)

We aren't a University. If you don't know what OCR is, you will be mislead by this t-shirt. Terrible marketing for official merch. Sorry but you can't say I'm projecting my opinion of 'people don't get the joke' and then counter it with 'people do get the joke'. They're both opinions. Agree to disagree and all that.

Agree totally there. Great to see the statement but it could be on a far more useful design.