XPRTNovice
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I'm kind of with Thin Crust. I used to tell people at the end of the day, "Alright - Imma go pick heavy things up and put them back down again." I find weight lifting and the gym in general to be a time vampire. Soul Splint - I'm glad you like that amount of prep work, but that becomes like 3 hours out of my day. I only have 5 hours to myself after an average work day, which is mostly going to get consumed with playing with my daughter, eating dinner, and trying to push my writing/music/voiceover career forward.
That, and, like Thin Crust, I am just bored by the whole idea of the gym. I would much rather do Parkour on Sundays (which is awesome), play ultimate frisbee, or wrestle. Wrestling was the best workout I've ever had in my life AND I got to throw people. Seriously, how is lifting weights better than throwing people?
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Damn this is a good community to scout for this kind of music. Unfortunately it's way outside my expertise. Good luck!
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Good luck with this ZQ!
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Hey guys,
The FFVII web series project kickstarter has launched!
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Fiddle De Chocobo, FF7
"Not the Taxi You Whistled For" by XPRTNovice
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I always retag albums as "OCRemix", otherwise my mp3 player would be a complete mess.
I actually do the same thing. Then if a song really catches my I ear I always go back and look up the artist.
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You're a team a need several months to pay a simple 200 bucks, are you 13 yrs old ?
Get serious.
There were a million polite ways to say what you said.
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For me, this is the first time I've seen this thread, and will be consuming shortly.
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This is a weird comment, maybe, but I think one of the most powerful silences I've ever heard is at 4:28. Gives me chills every time.
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I just started this yesterday, and, honestly, until I read zircon's mini review below I was ready to put it down after the first 30 minutes. I am so story-focused, and I felt like I was being set up for a ham-fisted plot with hammy acting and other types of pork that I can't find words for. It seems that video games in an "anime" style take the worst parts of anime storytelling and make them the standard instead of trying to build on good foundations.
BUT! I am going to continue and see what makes this zircon's "best JRPG" of recent age. I will resume being opinionated and right about everything after maybe 10 hours of play.
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Hey guys, I just finished remixing 4 tracks for this proj--
please hold off on submitting/creating anything particularly for the project until further notice!But I have tracks and I h--
PLEASE EVERYONE HOLD OFF ON THIS PROJECT UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
But can I still submi--
At least for now, hold off on throwing anything together for this project. You'll hear an update from me or Theo soon.Okay, well, Imma start a new OoT track and send it to you.
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And who doesn't like Joe's magical touch.
Aaaaand we have the most awkward line of the day, ladies and gentlemen!
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This thread is cool. I've been recycling old games forever because I can't seem to get into newer games for the PS3. I even started my own "to play" list.
Nothing that completely breaks the flow of the game like XenogearsYou're talking about the "Sitting in the chair explanation" sequence on Disc 2? I remember getting bored there, despite the fact that the parts of the story it was unveiling at that point were incredible.
I'm going to second Tales of Xillia. When I heard it was going to have an english release, I pre-ordered it. Over a year later, I only have about a month to go until I finally get my hands on it. If you like Tales games, get Tales of Graces F. Like the standard Tales game the male protagonist and his female love interest are boring and forgettable, but the supporting cast more than makes up for it.I've tried twice to play different Tales games. Abyss (ps3) and Symphonia (GC? I forget), but it felt too immature for me with stilted anime-style dialog and characters I couldn't connect with. Maybe I'm just getting old; can someone who is 28 really relate to those games anymore? I'm not sure. I seem to have no issues playing other old JRPGs though. One of these days maybe I'll muscle through one of them and have a whole-game perspective. If I were to play one of them that might whet my appetite and give me a good point of reference, would you recommend one?
EDIT: lol, I also found this about Toyko Jungle: "Ellie Gibson, writing for Eurogamer, gave Tokyo Jungle a 9/10, describing it as "basically Grand Theft Auto with lions." and calling it "a celebration of classic games, with their ridiculous plots, repetitive tasks, excessive violence and all. It pulls off the impressive and nigh-on impossible trick of being an original homage. Also it lets you set a giraffe on a bear."[7]"
I actually want to play this game now.
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Thank you! Unfortunately Google hasn't been good to me on this one
And I have actually tried sampling off some of the David Attenborough shows on Netflix but the audio is always a bit buzzy.
I'll keep hunting I guess.
tried freesound.org?
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I actually opened up a list of PS3 exclusives to see what they actually were...I have no good sense of that sort of thing.
- Heavy Rain. Yes. People hate, but I thought this game was awesome. Definitely an experience.
- Demon Souls. People love this game, but I don't know why. I got kind of bored at the lack of a plot. I hear it's really hard though.
and I'll definitely throw in a nod to MGS 4.
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What do you like to play? If you want a sort of strange RPG experience you might try Eternal Sonata (loosely based on the life and death of Chopin).
I can't think of too many PS3 exclusives that I really enjoyed...
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Wow man. I'm glad our site as a whole could make something that had this much of a connection to you. Seriously, thanks for sharing.
Yeah...kind of makes music worth it.
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I use Cubase exclusively. But, a famous composer/sound engineer once said that the best DAW is the one you know. Becoming proficient at any DAW is what really makes it good; the rest, to me, are kind of semantics.
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As an owner of this excellent bundle, I heartily recommend it as being worth every penny.
Seconded...
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Oh god, if Balance and Ruin was only one cohesive concept album, I never would have made it! Who wants to listen to 5 hours of weird clarinet arrangements? They would have told me "You're DIFFERENT and that makes you BAD." and it would have been grade school all over again
I think I get what Mini-Me is saying, even though I disagree for an album of this length. But, that's precisely one of the reasons that I very rarely flip on Humans+Gears. I looooooovvveee Xenogears. It's seriously my favorite game ever. But I'm not real big into the style of music that was chosen for that album, so I almost never listen to it with the exception of Vampire Hunter Dan's track. The VGM community is a niche already; making a sub-niche of X style of music - especially with an album this large, appealing to so many people - would have been a mistake, in my humble opinion.
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Well it's funny. I actually finished the track and submitted it, and zircon had the wav. It was supposed to be a solo track. I showed it to him just because i thought he would find it hilarious, and 20 minutes later he hit me up with an mp3 of him jamming a line of clarinet over one bit and it was like shiiiiiiiiiiiiit this needs to happen, so we redid it and gave it to zircon.
Yeah, definitely a conversation I never thought I'd have.
"Hey, you know what would sound good in this prog metal? Clarinet."
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In awe of Trauermarsch.
REALLY an awful song to listen to while you are trying to work on your own orchestration skills. It's like standing at the bottom of a six-thousand step staircase.
But yes, absolutely amazing piece.
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This is one of my absolute favorites. Wow.
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wow! thanks for the link. I am on a very long journey away from idiotsville, and this will definitely help.
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Weird idea: have you thought about listening to audiobooks instead? I used to do that a lot. Non-fiction. So, each day I was at the gym doing my best to fight a battle against gravity, I was actually learning something and improving myself mentally. I can give you recommendations if you're interested in certain topics.