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He did a fantastic job even with the arrangements. Goodness knows I can't stop listening to his rendition of the Light World dungeon theme; it's so lush.

Totally forgot to pop back in for this! In case whoever got me hasn't already bough their gift yet, I don't have a Steam wishlist (because I've already got TOO MANY Steam games), but I do have a Backloggery list that's pretty up to date with what I own, in case someone wanted to buy me a cheap game and wanted to make sure I didn't already own it. I've also got an old Amazon wishlist. T-shirt size is large. Honestly, I'm pretty open to whatever, though if you plan on sending food items, I'm not much of a fan of any type of gum or candy, minus chocolate.

Hey, as a reminder to everyone, Kizyr posted a breakdown of the National Harbor way back in this thread, and the Harbor itself hasn't seen many major additions in the past year, so it's still pretty accurate. If you want to figure out in advance what the best options for food are, make sure to take a look.

Mentioned this on Facebook directly to Drew, but I'll repeat it here: Drew and Jordan are IDIOTS. But they're the good kind of idiots. <3

I'm only about 2/3 of the way through, but the whole thing so far has been quality gold. This is gonna be on repeat on my playlist for a long time to come, I can tell. Kudos to everyone involved for excellent work!

I'm coming to despise that cave system in Death Mountain you need to use to reach Rosso (Lynels in the Light World, wtf?), but holy crap, even as annoying as falling off those super high floating platforms are, waiting for Link drop for 10 to 15 seconds until he finally hits the lava waaaaaaaaayyyyyy down there is amusing to watch every time. Especially with the 3D cranked all the way up.

It's not. As I mentioned a few pages back, I had my settings way down and didn't normalize it per audio levels of, well, normal music. It's supposed to be much much louder. All I can really suggest at this point is to ask folks to turn their volume up. Sorry!

Aivi & Surasshu's original CD was so totally brilliant, and this is just equally brilliant in every way, and WHY ARE YOU PEOPLE SO GREAT, UGH

ohhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHH SNAP (happy birthday!)

http://www.winamp.com/media-player/en - There's a large message on the top of pretty much every download page at winamp.com about the upcoming shutdown. The message isn't on their front page though, for extra confusion.

It's still accurate as of the last time Phonetic Hero and Unununium last spoke up in this thread about their rooms, so I can't say for certain. That said, IIRC, Phonetic Hero already had a bunch of folks, while Unununium only has two people in his room at the moment and is definitely looking for more, so consider hitting him up.

I'll let others give their suggestions (I'm most fond of the PS1 games, but I agree with Swifthom that they haven't aged well), but I wanted to tackle this bit. A few games in the series individually have their own sequels and prequels: 4 has a sequel, 10 has a sequel, 12 falls in line with several other games that take place in its shared universe, 7 has a buttload of prequels and sequels. But in all of those cases involving a mainline number, said number will be in the sequel's name too, i.e. Final Fantasy X-2. If you're just looking at the straight mainline numbers only, all 14 are their own things, unconnected to any others. And even in the cases of games like 7 and 12 that have technical prequels, you can still fully understand 7 and 12 without needing to have played any other games. tl;dr = If it's a main number game and doesn't have a "-2" at the end, you can play it and understand it without having to worry about connections to any other game. It'll make sense on its own just fine.

I appreciate the honesty man. I knew submitting it that it suffered from some serious problems that I wouldn't really be able to fix without an overhaul, not helped by putting this together at basically the last minute. At that point, I was just satisfied that I at least got something in and that it wasn't the most horrible thing in the world. I will note the quietness was unintended. That was a result of me being a relative n00b at mixing with modern DAWs as opposed to using notation software for making GM MIDIs as I used to, and not thinking to normalize my track compared to volume levels in most other music. It's supposed to be significantly louder. Since it's far too late to resubmit, I'd just advise people to turn up the volume on their MP3 players for the time being. *shrug*

I've been trying to think all the way back to the first VGM that honestly made me listen for extended periods of time, even going as far as loading the game's sound test, and it's probably Richard Jacques' Saturn OST for Sonic 3D Blast. Rusty Ruin Act 1, especially, struck me as an amazingly atmospheric song that made me sit up and take notice. I'd obviously listened to plenty before that as I started gaming with Super Mario Bros. 1 and have fond memories of the Sonic series and Shining Force II on Genesis as well as Sonic CD, but Saturn S3DB is where the paradigm shifted for me.

I was gonna pull an all-nighter to finish the bulk of mine, but I'm already pretty happy with where it's going. I don't think it'll take more than another hour or two before I'm satisfied with it, at least prior to some final tweaking and EQing that I'll save for tomorrow morning.

I did this in 2011 but missed out last year, and that was kind of disappointing. So count me in again!

Just have ALL OF OCR escort you everywhere; it'd be a hilarious sight.

I'd also like to note that I had nothing to do with this album (beyond super minor input on the disc art as I was sitting beside DarkeSword and rnn as they worked a few weekends ago) and rated it 5-star because I think it's flippin' awesome.

5-stars and reviews from me on all three sites, but iTunes and CD Baby are taking their sweet time. Amazon put mine up within 2 minutes flat.

My first compo! Hopefully I don't suck. 1. Freya (FF9 - " ")2. NORG (FF8 - " ")3. Cait Sith (FF7 - " ")

Hey, they already play OC ReMixes over the loud speakers in the Nintendo Store in NYC. Dream big!

Frank Cifaldi (natch) has been tweeting about that one. Definitely looks like the kind of project that deserves to get funded, especially considering that dude's been letting everyone use his photography to date for free, all over Wikipedia as well as press articles about consoles and handhelds and the like.

Amy, it's kind of scary how you wouldn't be around here at all (or shoot, I would've never gotten to know you as a personal friend) if not for that crazy series of coincidences. As far as getting involved in the community, that first happened in 2007 with the OCR meetup in DC for Video Games Live. People were going, I had just moved to the area, and I figured I'd go and meet all the cool people. Made friends out of all the ReMixers and site staff in the DC/VA/MD area as a result, and the last six years have been extra awesome entirely because of that. But finding out about the site itself? I actually used to read THE COMIC, and just started following along with the music site when it branched off. I'm pretty old hat.

Did you try to book your rooms through the Gaylord itself or through MAG's internal link to the Gaylord's site? I remember Velocifero running into this same problem a few weeks ago, but he was trying to book straight through the Gaylord, and when he did it through the MAG link, there were still rooms left. (I'd test, but I don't want to double-book)

According to DarkeSword talking my ear off about this game in the past, playing Ninja Storm 2 and this game are actually better than watching the anime, because the video quality is far, far more consistent, but it uses the same voice actors. It also does more story than the anime has, less filler, and Masashi Kishimoto's actually involved in the game's writing.