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    Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch (PS3) Discussion Thread

    in General Discussion

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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.

    Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time ReMix Project - On Hold

    in Projects

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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.

    ;)

    So i got a ps3...what do i do with it?

    in General Discussion

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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 Xenogears

    You'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.

    So i got a ps3...what do i do with it?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    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.

    OCRA-0040 - Final Fantasy VI: Balance and Ruin

    in Album Reviews & Comments

    Posted

    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 :puppyeyes:

    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.

    OCRA-0040 - Final Fantasy VI: Balance and Ruin

    in Album Reviews & Comments

    Posted

    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."

    Teminus Est (Epic Orchestral)

    in Post Your Original Music!

    Posted

    Sounds to me like you're trying to use brass for everything, when you can totally use strings for some parts if you have them. ;)

    Sounds to me like I have no idea what the hell I am doing! :P As usual I am stumbling in the dark. Sometimes I wish I went to music school instead of all this saving-the-world bullshit...

    Thanks for the feedback you guys. I wish I understood how to fix half of it...

    FF6 Balance & Ruin Kickstarter RELAUNCHED (and FUNDED)!

    in Announcements

    Posted

    The trailer was epic! But since it's getting a praise overload from other people already, I'll balance the scales by saying that I actually didn't find some of the songs chosen for it to be that interesting.

    Now I love the big production and everything, the songs didn't sound bad... But I wish there had been more emphasis on the most iconic themes.

    I missed Setzer's theme, overworld themes(the Terra theme was there, though), Cyan's theme, Shadow's theme etc. I may be alone on this one, but I'm a fanboy and wanted more of the epic character themes! :( I'm sure it'll be worth the wait when the whole thing comes out, though.

    Ps. A question for someone who worked on the album, is the Coin Song in there? It's a terrible mistake to think that it's just a lame copy of Edgar's theme, I mean, it has a beautiful soul of it's own... Surely it's been remixed?

    Oooooh you'll get Shadow's theme, alright.

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