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  1. 16 hours ago, WorkNoFun said:

    Weird, all of sudden I'm getting flash backs to when me and my buddy Chris skipped class to play N64. Thanks for this release and those fun memories.

    Just wanted to say...

    I love that you use the classic gamepro rating face for your profile pic.

    Congrats on the album release. Some great stuff here. 

  2. 4 hours ago, Devsman said:

    I could never put my finger on exactly why, but it sounds kinda sad to me.

    Not like weepy sad, but more like, a little bittersweet or something.

    Anyone agree?

    oh, I thought you were going to point out that the first section of the music is all root position chords leading to a long run of parallel 5ths.   While more recent piano renditions of the piece fix this problem, generally, parallel 5ths and octaves are to be avoided in western and western influenced music. So yea, it sounds a bit "sad" in that regard.  XD

    but you mean actually sad. Like emotion sad. Gotcha. 

    I agree that Green Hill Zone is definitely more intimate and melancholy. Dare I say even slightly lugubrious and wistful, but that's what made the game stand out further from the competition.  Nakamura was a great fit for the first two games and even though i'm loving jun senoue's work i was always secretly bummed out that Sega never brought Nakamura back in during the Sonic Adventure days.  It would have been glorious imo after that whole thing with Michael Jackson, his sound team, and Sonic 3.  

     

  3. 17 hours ago, Daylectorbr said:

    I think for me the way the story unfolded was the thing I loved most about W3. I'm a open world fan through and through but with games like the elder scrolls and fallout franchise I enjoyed playing them for the freedom but didn't find the story to engaging. Where as W3 had me hook line and sinker. Felt like I was watching a Netflix series or reading a great book where I just had to play for 10min longer because I wanted to see what would happen. And character wise I feel it's the only game where I felt connected. Finding Ciri was actually a happy moment, not just a mission to be finished, like finding Shaun in fallout 4. The characters just felt real.

    Sorry for derailing the topic into a witcher 3 appreciation thread.  :]  but it is getting released in 2021 for next gen consoles so I guess it still applies.  

    Playing 1 and 2 from way back in the day left a lot to be desired after having played Elder Scrolls and all of that.  The games had their charm but felt underdeveloped. Witcher 3 was nailed so completely and had so much work put into it that the CEO of CDPR looked like his soul had left his body after it's release.  

    https://images.app.goo.gl/hbLC48son8kL1hju7

  4. 1 and 2 are very imperfect games. 1 crashes a lot too or at least that was the chief complaint when i played it many years ago.The OST for it is fantastic though. 2 you are going to need eye surgery after trying to read the text in that game for 30 hours. Even at it's best setting the text is unreadably small but there may be a mod for it now. 

    3 has plenty of character development along with along with everything you need to know about the world so you can jump right in with that one.  There are Easter eggs for fans of the series of course but they aren't deal breakers for any of the various plots in the game. 

    Only thing I would chide 3 over is not doing nearly enough with the elven anti-human "terrorists" known as the Scoia'tael.  The books have a lot that revolves around them and games 1 and 2 refer to them often. That's about it for criticism tough. 

    Good stuff.  

  5. Hey everyone just wanted to give you all a heads up that my first commercial track is being released today on all platforms.  It's a melodic deathmetal instrumental with inspiration from Synthwave and Darkwave genres of which i've developed an obsession over for the past few years. I'm using this track to test the waters and if it does well enough i'll have an entire album of similar material to finish up and release.   

    at 7PM EST i'm doing a listening party "live show" to debut the music video on my youtube channel so come by if you would like to check out what blasting 80 hours into After Effects looks like. Enjoy!

     

  6. 4 hours ago, Geoffrey Taucer said:

    I have not, how is it?

    Life changing.  If you like Horizon which was a very very good game, there is much more of what made horizon good in The Witcher 3.   Horizon is better than 95% of all games but The Witcher 3 is in that last 5%.  CDPR also had a hand in assisting with the development of Horizon.  

    Only thing I would give Horizon over The Witcher 3 would be that the ranged combat felt better and the combat overall was less demanding.  The Witcher 3 has no problem killing you off until you figure out what you need to do though it's not nearly as bad as games like Sekiro. So if you enjoyed Horizon you should definitely also enjoy The Witcher 3 and vice versa.  

  7. Did this years ago and someone, who i still have no idea who it was, sent me a single pack of guitar strings...

    However those strings were my first pack of Ernie Ball Cobalt strings which I use exclusively on my ESP now because they are absolutely amazing. So thanks anonymous benefactor because now they are the gift that I keep on giving... to myself. 

    So what the hell i'll sign up again. 

  8. On 9/20/2020 at 5:00 PM, TheVideoGamer said:

    I'm so glad they're are people out there with great interest in uncommon games. 

    Ditto.  I gotta listen to the remixes that were posted here.

    Always loved the valis series.  Didnt play the SNES version a whole lot until much later but I did get to play the Genesis versions early on.  Eventually I was able to play the superior Turbografx versions and loved the series all over again.  Fun Factoid Valis II was Tenpei Sato's first game (at least I think it was) that he scored along with a few other composers and Sato would eventually go on to do the music for Disgaea. 

    Sadly the series was sold off to an erogame developer many years ago and they left very little to the imagination in all possible uses of the phrase. :/ Still, appreciate that there are people here who are familiar with the games most have forgotten. Cheers. 

  9. Nice interpretation.  Makes me want to put on a strobe, stair at the wall, and veg out. 

    0:57 lead is too quiet IMO.  I like areas where you can enjoy the groove but there is clearly a melody that is a strain to hear.  Make the lead at the section take up just as much as everything else that carries the melody in your mix and you will have it. 

     

  10. If Composer Cloud isn't working for you it definitely would be worth it to see what you need to do to get it fixed.  I've been using EWCC now for 4 years and have never run into these issues between Sonar and Studio1. Then again I never update PLAY unless it's actually worth it to do so. 

    I'll concur with DJP on Komplete.  I only just made the purchase for Komplete Ultimate during the sale this summer and wish i did it years ago.  I could have been using Massive, FM8 and Absynth back when they were popular :/ Really though having a full version of Komplete lets you get a lot of great or or obscure instruments from smaller companies for relatively cheap.

    As the sale is currently over, If you don't feel like dropping a ton of money on Komplete Ultimate and would rather make smaller purchases over time you can always join the good folks over at r/audioproductiondeals.  Warning that this sub WILL give you gear acquisition syndrome.   

     

     

  11. First thought was that it was from one of the 30 dozen or so F2P Asian themed MMO's that were coming out between 2004 and 2009. Hero Online, Jade Dynasty, DOMO, Etc.  I can't find the specific track but it's not too far off in instrumentation from the OST for Perfect World International City of Raging Tides expansion though the mix on the OST is very different from your example so i might be wrong.  At the very least if your friend likes that style of music then the entire PWI OST is a great listen. 

     

     

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