Meh. Battle theme was all that mattered
Sample dat shit ASAP
And yes. Versus is for sure what we have been waiting for. I’m sure with upgrades and lvl ups it will get way more complex/faster
RPGs could use more Jazz honestly. All that orchestrated horns and strings are starting to blend together and sound mad fucking generic. Nothing wrong with trying to experiment with different genres of music. In fact it’s welcome considering how generic JRPGs are in general anymore.
as somebody that has played classical music on several instruments before, if classical music sounds “generic” then thats the fault of the composer IMO.
rpg’s being generic nowadays is the fault of the companies that come out with them. its not the genre itself IMO.
like in some sort of club scene in a town or something (in ff versus 13, for example)…jazz could fit that particular club in that particular town…but during map screens/overworld screens, battles, etc.? hell na. just my opinion, tho and i understand where you’re coming from when you mention experimenting with music within a game.
i still feel like capcom should go back to rap like 3s in some of the newer games such as ssfIVae, mvc3, etc.
i do not feel like experimentation should go in any new ff. sorry but they’ve done enough experimenting IMO and its all the way bad and has been since 10.
Jazz rap worked in Persona
too much of these new ff’s is not “ff” IMO.
no airships? extra linear gameplay without any illusion of a break (i.e. towns)?
lack of exploration because of corridor gameplay? oh, until 90% of the game is done (pulse).
not needing to buy equipment or even level it up until damn near the end?
lack of recurring enemies from the series?
not needing to buy or use items at all?
no longer turn based? (to be fair, most ppl hate turn based games now)
and now they wanna put jazz in??? smh. thats kinda how i felt about ff XIII. its fine if they wanna put jazz in persona. i don’t play that series at all but if it fits in that series, cool…but IMHO in ff games, jazz doesn’t fit. again, perhaps its the scenario used, as far as XIII, but i’m trying to hear classical music in my ff games.
I just really appreciated hearing something completely different from the usual big orchestral symphonic music. It’s not that the scores are generic and bad cuz a lot of them aren’t, it’s that they all fall into the same genre and thus it starts to get boring cuz, despite the quality it’s still all the same fucking shit. It’s all big, epic sweeping orchestral music. It’s the same as how I really don;t ever care to play as a spirited youth from a small town who answers the call to destiny. A lot of people have done this character well but fuck it, it’s been done so much that I just don’t find it compelling or interesting anymore. It’s tired. Something different was nice.
Now not saying XIII’s Jazz is anything to write home about it just was a nice change of pace, was new and unexpected and felt fresh within it’s Genre. I enjoyed it.
Capcom should definitely try Rap, Jazz, and House music again. I really like 2nd Impact and 3rd Strikes Sound Tracks.
Edit: I’ll agree that there is a tone of things about XIII that don’t feel FF at all but the music isn’t one of them. It’s still grand, it’s still sweeping, it’s still huge, it’s just a different style. I actually really appreciated a lot of the changes they made to the battle system I just don’t think they where quite there yet with nailing the system and so it falls short. Other things like mad corridors until Pulse, Lack of Items, Lack of equipment, NO TOWNS, these are just flat out dumb decisions and flaws.
I’m kinda down for no controllable airship/world map as long as its good (X, X-2). XIII just did it weird.
In Versus you get all that jazz back. Plus a whip.
Using different genre would be refreshing, for example Nier used lots of choir (I think it was teens choir from Europe? Some tracks are sing with fictional language even) and the result was very good. Other genres would work too. Main thing is that most tracks in FF XIII just doesn’t fit, it wasn’t because it was Jazz, it was because of the tracks themselves.
But music taste is kinda like food, it is rather persona sometimes. Great…now you got me to talk about food and music…
Note to self: Booking table with the restaurant that have live Jazz band playing this weekend!
the car is ill. honestly, fk a ship, i’m tryna drive around town slow and pick up bitches gta style lol. its like a concept 2032 maybach or something.
(i still want the ship tho lol)
No offense to anyone who likes it. It is just that I do not really post on any other forums and feel the need to say this…
FFXIII was worthless fucking sack of shit that required me to press forward and X for eight hours in hopes that the tutorial will end sometime soon and allow me to get to the overworld and choose my party members. If this game were a person, I would smile if I heard that it’s child died.
Giving lightning a fucking Sepiroth just reminds me how little this series has to offer me these days.
Thanks for listening.
Hahaha that car is sick. I was thinking the same thing. It does look like a Maybach or even a Morgan.
LMAO
Noctis: Bitch! I’m rolling in the Chocobo Class, got kilos of elixers, and gil up the ass but you’re STILL not down with it! casts Flare on a ho
i concur!
noctis: to driver ey, pull over here, son
driver: nods
window goes down noctis sticks his hand out of the window and motions for the female to come over
noctis: ey lemme talk to you for a min. look, i’m a prince, i got like 5 condos on 5 diff beaches and this is a concept maybach you never saw in ya life. gimmie the panties now.
**female: **says nothing, just hops in
female’s friends on the corner: all 6 of them wet
edit
or you could fly down in the spaceship, the back opens and the maybach comes out and THEN you pull up to the females on the corner, lol. we need a rockstar x square game already.
I’m still playing through FFXIII…I can understand the hate on it but I’m enjoying it so far. Hope is annoying as hell though and Vanille is just…weird…
Just finished XIII on Sunday… story didn’t do much for me but I actually liked the music and combat system. Also, the linearity of the game and the weapon/equipment system wasn’t good either. I’d still buy XIII-2 and Versus XIII though, as long as it comes out on 360.
I’d pick up any FF just to try it out. They’ve been working on Versus for so long, I can taste how good it’s gonna be.
If Versus ends up being ass…then I think I wont look at games the same
What is Versus? I want to hope against hope but so far, X is the last Final Fantasy that I have enjoyed. Everyone that seems to dislike XIII looks forward to Versus. There is so little info on it.
Looking forward to XIII-2, Versus and Type-0. I can understand why most folks didn’t like XIII, but it seems blown way out of proportion. I loved XIII, and if XIII-2 truly does exceed it in every possible way then I can’t wait.
After all, there aren’t many ways to exceed no sidequests, linear level design and some of the most disappointing writing in a Final Fantasy since SNES translations.
This is Versus. Looks amazing in my humble opinion.