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Um, yeah, okay, thanks. :\ Oh and for you guys saying that those verses are referring to people killing each other, you're wrong. Those verses are about Judgement Day. You know, the end of the world when everyone dies and we're all judged? Pretty sure the Bible has some pretty specific descriptions of what happens on Judgement Day too. It's not a deathchant about killing people. :\ Do you really want verses about the end of the world in a game like Little Big Planet? Come on. And here's the reason Muslims don't want it in there: they're using sacred text to make something "sound cool." They're stripping the meaning away and just using it to make the song sound "exotic." It's a phrase; it means something. The objection isn't "OMG VIDEO GAMES ARE THE GREAT SATAN AND MUST BE CONDEMNED TO THE HELLFIRES!!" The objection is "Hey, this is from a religious text that means something, and we're trying to protect that because we care about it." There are plenty of ways you can make something sound exotic without going straight to quoting the Qu'ran. There's a great deal of secular Arabic vocal sampling that can be used for that kind of thing. Yeah, the game got delayed, and that sucks, but don't start insulting the entire population of Muslims in the world just because a PS3 game is coming out a few weeks later. If you do, I will ban you, because you are the great Satan. Edit: and before anyone gets on my case, no I will not ban you.

Ubersaw Mayhem!!

Keep in mind he registered in 2002 as well; phpBB might have done things differently.

It's been out on DS in the US for a couple of months now...

I've heard fantastic things about this game.

No, it's not.

Oh Jesus H. Crispies, can't you just answer the fucking question without starting a discussion of semantics?! B. One hit deaths. Absolutely ridiculous.

Why wouldn't you want to play all of it?

Actually read what you quoted. They want the gamers to treat them as expansions; Blizzard is approaching them as stand-alone games, in terms of how much content they're going to have. Plus the releases are going to be spaced out by a year each. These aren't being released simultaneously. It's not Pokémon Terran, Pokémon Zerg, and Pokémon Protoss here.

Everywhere I've seen this game mentioned, save for IGN's article, have all referred to the release plan as the initial release and two expansions. Anything else seems to stem from what IGN said.

IGN's article is inaccurate and short on details. Read this: http://kotaku.com/5062018/starcraft-ii-lead-producer-on-the-split-single-player-campaign

If you're talking about original music composed by you in a supposed 'video game style,' post that in the Non-Remixes forum. If you're talking about original tracks from video games, like posting up Final Fantasy soundtracks for download, then don't do that. We don't allow it here. It's a bannable offense.

Yes they are.

I dunno. How did Brood War work? I don't play SC, btw.

No real specifics, Larry. My complaint is basically an overall critique on the approach. I didn't vote on Ken's posted remixes, and while they are good compositions, I personally feel they suffer from the same issues (although I am only one judge). I also pointed out these issues in Ken's last submission as well. Ken, let me be very clear about one thing in particular: you're a good arranger, and very few people on OCR can approach an arrangement with the kind of classical/chamber-music sensibilities like you can. My frustration comes from the fact that you're essentially sending us what amounts to MIDI files run through GPO with little to no attention given to humanization and sound design. OCR isn't a sheet music site; it's not a MIDI site. It's a site for produced music. You're writing chamber music; I have a reasonable expectation that it should sound like people playing it. There needs to be expression in the performance. Only you can bring that to the music; GPO won't add that for you. A lot of your sustained strings and very flat, dynamically speaking. The only change in dynamics I can even recall is the decrescendo at the very end of the song. Everything has this sort of "wall-of-sound" quality; big blocks of sustained chords that don't do much. That might sound fine when you have an actual group of real people playing the song because they can bring a degree of expression to even sustained notes through dynamics, accenting, vibrato, and all that other nice stuff, but your computer won't do that until you actually take the time to use your samples to create a performance. Humanization is so important when it comes to the kind of music you're writing. You can't get away with this kind of thing when you write with a classical approach. It just sounds fake.

Abadoss, you really can't get away with just using Finale and GPO. This composition is fine, but like your previous works, it's not a production. You have to make this sound like a performance. It's terribly flat and mechanical. There's little to no humanization going on in the sequencing. It's also dry and the soundscape has no depth. Just notating the piece and letting the computer play it back for you isn't enough. This needs some actual production. I don't think Finale is cutting it for you. You have to step it up to an actual DAW, not a notation program. I'm not that familiar with Finale, but I don't really think it has the humanization and production tools you need to take your music to the next level. I use FLStudio, but that doesn't use staff notation. Maybe another judge can recommend something more up your alley. Until then, NO(resub)

We're thinking about maybe allowing users limited space to upload WIPs here, directly to the forums, but we need to keep bandwidth in mind. As for streaming, most bbcode I've seen for mp3s allow you to just list a URL for streaming, similar to how you embed an image. So I could technically stream from darkesword.com if I wanted to.

To put it another way: Why just make lots of money (PS3 version) when you can make more than lots of money (Wii version)?

Gonna lock this. You already tried and failed to make your point before. No point in resurrecting a thread in order to rehash your tired, flawed arguments.

Link redirection from clicking a post? No thank you. There's way too much potential for abuse with that kind of thing. Plus I'm not even sure vB could do that. I will look into embedding MP3s

Awesome news, but I'm just jumping in here for the obligatory public service announcement. No posting links to ROMs. No asking for where to get ROMs. No hinting at using other means of communication to exchange information about ROMs. Keep it off the boards.

Thread renaming was possible in phpBB. It's not a default feature of vB for regular users. It was a very useful feature everywhere and I was sad to see it go. The problem is that vB stores Thread Titles separately from Post Titles, whereas phpBB just uses the Post Title of the first post as the Thread Title. Not really sure how to give permissions to normal users to change titles for only their own threads.

I drew a picture of Tails. I'll send it to Bleck.

Nice delurk. Yep. The official press release for SoM mentions "1-3 Players." And Nohbody, PotS is right. It's called ethics and having morals. People pay for SNES games on the Wii because they want to buy them. Or are you suggesting/advocating piracy on the forums? Be very careful about that.