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ghost notes are nice but if you want to see everything it pales in comparison to trackers. the flexibility of FL's patterns are great though, I've even written entire songs in one pattern

reason actually would be incredible if they replaced the horrible sequencing interface with an impulse tracker clone I haven't really used reaper for any significant amount of time but I'd also recommend it if you're looking for something on the cheap, it seems to get nothing but praise from everyone that uses it and it's free. I'm in kinda the same boat as suzu in regards to FL actually, it does everything I need it to and it's hard to move to something else with how invested in it I am, but if I could start over I'd probably be using another program and this sentiment seems to be growing with every new release(the auto zoom piano roll that won't stay on the non-auto zoom mode in FL10 is awful, what was gol thinking?)

they have a totally different design philosophy, reason is a closed system where the props try to provide every tool you'll need while FL is expandable with VSTs and can be used as a plugin itself - but you'll need to expand as many of the bundled generators and effects are...questionable. people make great music with both of them, it just comes down to which one works better for you

like all kids that have no idea wtf they're doing with music, I downloaded FL studio one day in 2005 and started tinkering around. when I first started I just made it my goal to learn new things and use composition to practice them, like I'd try to write each new song in a new scale or meter that I hadn't used before or thought I could use work with. all of my songs were impromptu, kind of one hour compoish as I was using the FL demo that doesn't allow you to save. shortly after this I also took to analyzing other peoples work more, I downloaded a lot of MIDI's and tried to pick them apart. I also downloaded modplug and started doing the same with modules but it would be another few months before I attempted to track anything. eventually I got to the point where I wanted to learn modplug, being sick of FL's demo restrictions and not having any money, so I just sat down and wrote 4 really shitty pseudo chiptunes one night. some time after switching to modplug I found out about psycle which was a similar tracker but with a machine interface similar to that of buzz, and started using that as my main tool. although I did wind up buying FL once I got out of high school and got a job I think it was helpful that I got a few different perspectives, and being able to watch other peoples mods was great. the tracker scene was already dying by this time and I always wished I had gotten into it earlier in life, I loved how with modules you had the whole guts of the song rather than just the end audio seeking more consistent practice I started a weekly OHC in 2007 that at it's beginning was basically a kwakfest ripoff(all MIDI). my bro kaxon wound up doing the file hosting and organizing for this because I am lazy and useless. interest in this died out about a year later, and eventually I just made an account here after avoiding it forever(wanted to change my artist handle first but I never thought of anything so I just stuck with this goofy name) pretty much I've found compoing and viewing other peoples project files to be really useful, and reading a lot and integrating what I've read immediately after

RTS games tend to be pretty difficult to watch, as enthusiastic as korean announcers can be about it...a lot of it is that they can be slow to start and have a build up phase where something like FPS or fighting games goes right into the action it's also good that they generally have similar concepts and gameplay, like I don't play SFIV but I watch it sometimes and I can still see a lot of the zoning, reads, baits etc. another fighting game will come along and be the next big thing pretty quickly maybe but I can still watch that too even while missing a lot of the specific game knowledge, and this is even more true of FPS games.

has anyone really said that video games literally shouldn't be using words? I've heard no cutscenes before but damn I think it can work well either way, I love me some movie gear solid and final fantasy as much as anyone else, but I also love more minimalist games like ICO or metroid. don't see how anyone can say "games SHOULD be [one narrow minded thing here]" bastion is amazing! best game I've played in a really long time, and the narrator might be the best video game VA I've heard

any good shmups on steam? quickly scanning the topic most recommendations seem to be older games, foreign(need to erm, "acquire" through other channels), or XBLA(don't have a 360)

retro studios is nintendo's best dev team by far at this point I second this motion

most definitely, DKC mostly got hyped for being the first game to use pre-rendered 3D graphics. it's an excellent game, but that helped its marketability graphics are just more of a problem now because the cost of being on top graphically is greater than it's ever been, the budgets for AAA games these days are ridiculous

anything with multiplayer is potentially enjoyable even if it's kind of a shitty game as long as you have the right people to play it with this is pretty much the basis of most MMOs

I've always felt "take off your rose tinted nostalgia goggles" is an intellectually lazy argument for people that aren't willing to seriously look at the differences between games now and then. there's so many "classics" that I've seen this argument tossed at that I've played 10 years after release for the first time and still wound up loving them, it really just seems like a lame copout to me. game development costs are definitely a driving factor in this, cutting edge graphics sell and making a game with those goals costs money. there are more adventurous games out there still, you're just more likely to find them for $5-20 on steam or XBLA than for $60 on display at a local retailer. this isn't really unique to RPGs or even video games either, everything ultimately gets mutated at least a little in hopes of reaching a wider audience - frequently pissing off the people who liked what it was to begin with

it's a JRPG but FFXII is a perfect example of this, yasumi matsuno eventually walked out on the game and quit the company because they kept making him change the game to be more marketable. there's still creative games coming out, you just generally aren't getting them from studios that are already well established. for bigger companies appealing to the widest possible audience is the main objective, and while making something that most people will like is feasible, making something most people will love isn't likely.

I've been playing a lot of morrowind in the past week but I can't say I would ever use it as a great example of an RPG, as far as storytelling goes at least. it's too easy(preferable even) to lose track of the main story and just go off doing random things, it's appeal to me is more in its sandbox nature. but I would agree that it hits on a deeper level than oblivion, the world of vvardenfell is endlessly immersive

virt's presentation on FM synthesis is also pretty beast, just note that some of the internet links he mentions don't exist anymore

the included help file was all I ever really used...and I visit IL's forums a lot, sometimes you can randomly find good advice on the forums there.

tidus being a whiny bitch does allow jecht to be even better, though "you'll cry, you're gonna cry, you always cry. see, you're crying!"

I thought FFXIII had sold relatively well? never saw any data but it seemed like a lot of people were getting it XIV failing was entirely forseeable, challenging WoW for the big budget MMO market has never boded well for anyone.

in most cases I'd be all on board the "why don't they just make new games?" bandwagon but...it's square, I can't say I have any faith left that they can make new games that I'll like still FFX is already a fairly modern game, it only makes sense to do a basic HD port, maybe a few extra features(new game+!), but I can't see a full remake being justified to begin with

maybe it should be FFVII or FFVIII or something but good choice anyway, FFX being the last great game square put out before canning sakaguchi and driving matsumoto to insanity by making squeenixes marketing department the uncredited executive producer of FFXII. if I had any interest in the vita I'd get this

using a limiter on the master is a good idea to save not only your speakers but also potentially your ears. I have TLS pocket limiter(excellent freebie) at the end of my master chain on my default template. it's there as a last line of defense though, when mixing you don't want too much compression on the master unless you're intentionally going for that "protools shat out a brick" sound

FFT and CC are very underloved, CC is probably my favorite mitsuda soundtrack. can't say it's surprising since the games themselves are less popular(not that they should be), but it is kinda disappointing when you see yet another zeal remix and no ones touched half of chrono cross' soundtrack

bug fix + harmor update has been out for a day or two and it still does it can't wait for the "graphic keyboard has become obsolete and will not appear in future versions of FL studio" message in FL11

I bought chrono cross solely because I loved the soundtrack, I also got into silent hill pretty much because of akira yamaoka. I generally won't play games I dislike just because I like the music but in that sense it definitely has inspired me to play games before and I agree, no matter how overrated you might think the soundtracks of final fantasy or zelda are, they're underrated compared to...pretty much everything outside of video games.

I just try to remix from games I like...aside from that I guess there are some soundtracks that just don't invite remixing to me, like I love age of empires II and its soundtrack is great but I would probably never try to remix it, there's just not that much I'd want to change with it

they release update patches that you can find on looptalk too, so it's not like you'll have to reinstall and reconfigure everything for a minor update like that either