I just listened to it. I heard the first few seconds and thought it couldn't get worse. Then I heard the death metal. What the hell?
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FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 |OT| Change the Future
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I just listened to it. I heard the first few seconds and thought it couldn't get worse. Then I heard the death metal. What the hell?
Go_Ly_Dow
Member
What. The. Fuck.
My thoughts exactly.
Holy shit, lol.
ZephyrFate
Banned
That's fucking awesome. Hahahaha.
PumpkinPie
Banned
You're not being serious, are you?
brandonh83
Banned
It's okay to hate something. Especially this!
I don't believe she sang for this game at all, however she is collaborating with Hamauzu for their group IMERUAT, so if you want more goodness that is her voice and Hamauzu's music collaborated, check out the single. They're working on a full album too, so there will be plenty of her voice to go around.
They released it on iTunes in early July worldwide, but until they did that, it was only available at their concerts in Europe.
This, for me, is the like that one Kirby remix in Brawl, which is to say I think it's dumb, but it's so awesome because it's very well done for what it is.
Electivirus
Member
At least it's not the only Chocobo theme in the game. The other two are quite awesome, in fact.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
I'm in denial... FFXIII-2 will be perfection!
-Pyromaniac-
Member
what in the mother of fucks
You can just erase a couple of tracks from your mind yoshi. It won't affect the game too much. However, I can't say the same thing for the reviews side.
ZephyrFate
Banned
Yeah, I think heavy metal is fucking awesome.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
Thank goodness there are others.
I don't know about you but I do not want that song playing in any part of the game. especially when I'm racing my chocobos.
Well, Origa (why does she call herself that? It's オリガ in Japanese but plain old Olga in Russian...) is another of my favorites, so I'm looking forward to hearing her too!
brandonh83
Banned
heavy metal is fine or whatever but my god man, did you hear those lyrics... that singing...
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
FUCK the reviews, it's probably going to get around 7s or something
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Where are you guys listening to the soundtrack? I want to hear the terrible Chocobo theme too!
Edit: LOL! What the hell is that? I'm dying...
Oh God, let's just get Jun Senoue and Crush 40 to arrange the Chocobo theme once... :lol
The only advantage Sovereign Fist has over Highwind is that it has a slightly shorter animation. Fang is a powerhouse, so Highwind is preferred over Sovereign Fist, unless you want to try your luck with a weapon that has Paper Tiger on it.
I think the only battles I found Snow useful for in postgame were...
-Mission 51 against Atticus, where the original strategy is to let him be a punching bag, but that isn't very exciting. My exciting strategy doesn't involve Snow at all, lol. (This fight is pretty fun with a Fang/Hope/Sazh party since you have to keep on your toes. Including Vanille would be too easy since she can double as a Jammer. Having one Jammer increases difficulty.)
-Mission 64 against Vercingetorix, where the original strategy is to cast Poison on the boss every around between his healing phase and then stay in a Tri-Defender Optima for most of the battle using Vanille/Snow/Fang. Again, this isn't very fun, and it's more satisfying with a Vanille/Light/Fang party. Or even a Hope/Sazh/Fang party.
-Any battle against a Shaolong Gui when teaching yourself how to take them down. He's good to tank it out while trying to figure out the speeds at which you should have him start casting Daze, and have the other attack. But after that, I just used Sazh to Daze the enemy because Sazh's casting speeds are really slow, and they sync up really well with Lightning and Fang's attack speeds and animations. The Long Guis, I like switching between Sazh, Vanille and Snow, but I mostly stuck with a Fang/Light/Vanille party for those ones.
Edit:
-That one mission in Titan's Trials where you have to use Tri-Attacker to take down the enemies in, like, 5-10 seconds.
I don't have a problem with using Snow as a "safe" tank in battle in early postgame, but other characters proved that they were more useful than he. Snow isn't much of a hero after all, is he?
Sitting through long attacks were another thing that bugged me in FFXIII's battle system. They clashed with one of the basic principles of the system to me. I like pretty spell effects sometimes, and I like going for style over substance sometimes (see: my enjoyment for Sonic Colours' Terminal Velocity level even though it doesn't have anything to do with platforming or showing off skill), but not if they're going to take forever or get in the way of a plan I've set into motion already. That's the type of style I dislike, and I sincerely hope that SE has learned from that and doesn't implement a ton of lengthy animations in FFXIII-2 since the goal is to be as efficient and speedy as possible.
The animations that really irritated me in FFXIII were those animations that Vanille and Hope have for when they get knocked down and then they have to stand up. They take so long to pick themselves up, turn around (for Hope), and then "animate" to show they're ok/they've recovered. No, just no. I understand it might be to show realism, but it wastes so much time. Get knocked down and get back up ASAP, I don't need these other animations taking up precious melee time. This is a videogame with a strong emphasis on speed, efficiency and precision, after all.
As much as I love using Fang during battle since she's so awesome with nearly every class, I just had to stop her from using her fifth or sixth attack because the finisher takes up too much time, and I can be using that for something else. I didn't start using Lightning much until I wanted to go through the Turtles as quickly as possible. Actually, I took her out of my party as soon as I could in Chapter 11, lol.
And another thing I really disliked was my support characters (healers, enhancers, jammers) staying very close to a Provoking Defender. That's just wonderful if the Defender is about to be hit by an AoE attack, isn't it? It seems like they've fixed this in FFXIII-2 since I see what looks like to be formation settings in the Optima selection screen, so I hope I won't have this problem again.
I'm a little wary about the QTEs and the monster abilities taking up time in FFXIII-2. Will that pause the battle clock, or will it be included in the overall time? If it's the latter, I might go with my original plan of just using Serah and Noel, and monsters if it's an emergency.
Edit: LOL! What the hell is that? I'm dying...
Exactly. Snow's role in battle is to essentially be bait, be support or play the role of "punching" bag. He is there to be a tank. In that manner, he's quite useful. But when you're selecting someone for melee and physical attacking, choose Lightning or Fang instead. In fact, Fang is just a superior version of Snow. She packs more power, and in a system that's designed around placing speed as a priority as opposed to party actions, power and fast animation speeds are your best friends.
The only advantage Sovereign Fist has over Highwind is that it has a slightly shorter animation. Fang is a powerhouse, so Highwind is preferred over Sovereign Fist, unless you want to try your luck with a weapon that has Paper Tiger on it.
I think the only battles I found Snow useful for in postgame were...
-Mission 51 against Atticus, where the original strategy is to let him be a punching bag, but that isn't very exciting. My exciting strategy doesn't involve Snow at all, lol. (This fight is pretty fun with a Fang/Hope/Sazh party since you have to keep on your toes. Including Vanille would be too easy since she can double as a Jammer. Having one Jammer increases difficulty.)
-Mission 64 against Vercingetorix, where the original strategy is to cast Poison on the boss every around between his healing phase and then stay in a Tri-Defender Optima for most of the battle using Vanille/Snow/Fang. Again, this isn't very fun, and it's more satisfying with a Vanille/Light/Fang party. Or even a Hope/Sazh/Fang party.
-Any battle against a Shaolong Gui when teaching yourself how to take them down. He's good to tank it out while trying to figure out the speeds at which you should have him start casting Daze, and have the other attack. But after that, I just used Sazh to Daze the enemy because Sazh's casting speeds are really slow, and they sync up really well with Lightning and Fang's attack speeds and animations. The Long Guis, I like switching between Sazh, Vanille and Snow, but I mostly stuck with a Fang/Light/Vanille party for those ones.
Edit:
-That one mission in Titan's Trials where you have to use Tri-Attacker to take down the enemies in, like, 5-10 seconds.
I don't have a problem with using Snow as a "safe" tank in battle in early postgame, but other characters proved that they were more useful than he. Snow isn't much of a hero after all, is he?
The animations in Final Fantasy XIII drove me nuts sometimes because some of them were too slow for my liking and didn't seem very efficient. That's why I became interested a little in FFXIII-2's battle system when the camera didn't take so long to pan over the leader character during a primary Optima Shift. It also appears that--at least with Noel--the animations to pose in order to signal an Optima Shift are shorter. I hope this is the case in normal battles.
Sitting through long attacks were another thing that bugged me in FFXIII's battle system. They clashed with one of the basic principles of the system to me. I like pretty spell effects sometimes, and I like going for style over substance sometimes (see: my enjoyment for Sonic Colours' Terminal Velocity level even though it doesn't have anything to do with platforming or showing off skill), but not if they're going to take forever or get in the way of a plan I've set into motion already. That's the type of style I dislike, and I sincerely hope that SE has learned from that and doesn't implement a ton of lengthy animations in FFXIII-2 since the goal is to be as efficient and speedy as possible.
The animations that really irritated me in FFXIII were those animations that Vanille and Hope have for when they get knocked down and then they have to stand up. They take so long to pick themselves up, turn around (for Hope), and then "animate" to show they're ok/they've recovered. No, just no. I understand it might be to show realism, but it wastes so much time. Get knocked down and get back up ASAP, I don't need these other animations taking up precious melee time. This is a videogame with a strong emphasis on speed, efficiency and precision, after all.
As much as I love using Fang during battle since she's so awesome with nearly every class, I just had to stop her from using her fifth or sixth attack because the finisher takes up too much time, and I can be using that for something else. I didn't start using Lightning much until I wanted to go through the Turtles as quickly as possible. Actually, I took her out of my party as soon as I could in Chapter 11, lol.
And another thing I really disliked was my support characters (healers, enhancers, jammers) staying very close to a Provoking Defender. That's just wonderful if the Defender is about to be hit by an AoE attack, isn't it? It seems like they've fixed this in FFXIII-2 since I see what looks like to be formation settings in the Optima selection screen, so I hope I won't have this problem again.
I'm a little wary about the QTEs and the monster abilities taking up time in FFXIII-2. Will that pause the battle clock, or will it be included in the overall time? If it's the latter, I might go with my original plan of just using Serah and Noel, and monsters if it's an emergency.
FUCK the reviews, it's probably going to get around 7s or something
I actually doubt it. I think it'll do around the same if not better.
Go_Ly_Dow
Member
Uematsu can clearly do much more with a guitar at his disposal: (FFXIV)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eCGggrUksY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MSudwkp_bk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eCGggrUksY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MSudwkp_bk
ZephyrFate
Banned
It's okay, hating on a genre of music is a thing you'll move past.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Hahaha Chocobo Metal rules....
I'm so happy I have a very diverse taste in music for this FF release.... if I was a traditional jRPG classical music nerd, I'd probably be tearing my hair out right now.
I'm so happy I have a very diverse taste in music for this FF release.... if I was a traditional jRPG classical music nerd, I'd probably be tearing my hair out right now.
I definitely dislike the genre. What I'm worried about is how this song will mesh with the game. I haven't played the game but I have a feeling this song will not go very well with it.
I bought the Battle Tracks CD from 2011 Distant Worlds Chicago, and it was totally worth all the money. The guitar in there is great as is the work on them. His old-rocker style is just nice, and I like that period of his life he's going through right now.
Mizuta on the other hand is an actual bass guitarist in a band though, if that means anything.
Electivirus
Member
Now that I think about it, aside from XIII's, I've never been fond of the Chocobo theme. That melody is just so grating. >_>
ZephyrFate
Banned
There's so many different kinds of music in this game I don't think it really matters at this point about 'meshing'.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
It's always been kind of a "joke song", hasn't it? Kinda like the UFO endings in Silent Hill games
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Let's hope!
ZephyrFate
Banned
It's always been kind of a "joke song", hasn't it? Kinda like the UFO endings in Silent Hill games
FFIX's Chocobo theme is one of the best songs in the series.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
You know, the instrumentation wasn't bad. I was enjoying it... until the vocals kicked in.
Now I think it's hilarious. I think I'm warming up to it. Edit: Oh man, now I kind of like it.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
If you don't want Metal music in FF, that ship sailed a decade ago with FFX's Otherworld.
FateBreaker
Member
Are the lyrics really saying, "you think you can ride this chocobo"? Ha. Hahhahahahahaha.
ZephyrFate
Banned
I know! This is gonna be so fucking hilarious to race chocobos to.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Where's the dubstep track?......... come on..........
It should be a remix of the FF main theme just for added trollololololol.
It should be a remix of the FF main theme just for added trollololololol.
Electivirus
Member
Okay, Xanadu has the best music ever. So friggin' 80s. xD
ZephyrFate
Banned
This is sounding by far to be the most diverse FF soundtrack yet. I'm psyched.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
Is there's is ever a VIII remake I want this.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Electivirus
Member
Win or Lose, which I assume is related to the casino. Also an arrangement of Xanadu. Omg have my babies, Mizuta.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
I have to run off, but let me say this...
Arrange this a little better, put it in a Sonic game using the OPN2/YM2612 and we have an awesome new Zone theme.
Yeah, that's also what I was thinking too, since Sonic 3 had Michael Jackson's "HEY", "COME ON" and "GO" all over the place. :lolBocoDragon said:
Tizoc
Member
Yeah, Snow is really pretty good as a Sentinel but the other characters surpass him in ther COM and RAV department.
At least has good Syn and Sab moves.
The only problem with Fang as a Commando is that her final attack is very long so I tend to just stop her from attacking before she does it.
At least has good Syn and Sab moves.
The only problem with Fang as a Commando is that her final attack is very long so I tend to just stop her from attacking before she does it.
Electivirus
Member
I don't think I've used Snow since I got the ability to change party members. >.>