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Retr0gamer wrote: »I think they shouldn't do One Winged Angel next year. I'd go crazy if they played the full 20 minutes of Dancing Mad from FFVI
One Winged Angel was definitely one of the weaker segments. Better songs they can draw from the series for sure. Even from FFVII, there are much more iconic songs. I'd love to hear an orchestral version of Fight On! May never happen, but it would be so much fun (plus Tommy could go nuts on the guitar).0 -
Retr0gamer wrote: »As for Shenmue, I've a bit of bad news. The rights they have for the music are up this year so if they don't get them renewed we might not hear it.
Nnnnnnnnoooooooooooooooooooooooo
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In terms of variety I would say it was more or less the same as the showing I saw in London last year, which was the 3rd time they've played in London. I'd imagine they're always going to play the crowdpleasers and certain segments like Mario, Zelda and Halo probably feature in every show they do.
They just couldn't please everyone in 2 and 1/2 hours (without doing seperate console/pc/retro/modern performances) so they have to aim for songs that they know will mean something to a majority of the audience. I know I have a wishlist that's a mile long and I imagine everyone else here does too.
Mario fan or not, it was pretty amazing to be part of a large crowd singing in unison to the Mario theme 0 -
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Disappointed with the visual representation of the Square songs (especially OWA), but the music itself was superb.
I too would love Dancing Mad, mebbe the 13 minute Black Mages version. If they played Liberi Fatali next year I'd go mad
Highlight for me was the WoW theme.
Delighted that they played some Chrono Trigger stuff as well, seeing as I was screaming it at Martin when they were taking requests 0 -
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Hmm, from what I can remember there was a retro medley, Kingdom Hearts orchestrated version of simple and clean, Warcraft medley, Chrono Trigger/ Cross Medley, Mario medley, Zelda medley, Sonic medley, Megaman medley, Castlevania medley, One winged Angel, Martin Leung did requests, played some of the mario music and did some wonderful versions of a load of Final fantasy songs, Halo main theme, the guitar hero section. Can't remember if I'm missing anything.
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erikwetbeard wrote: »What do you mean ''miserable git'':mad:
I think he meant "cooly nonchalant".
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Yeah definitely, I saw the early show and was really inspired by his extreme enthusiasm and enjoyment of what he was doing, especially toward the end with the guitar pieces (which I didn't expect to like so much, but absolutely loved them!Brilliant show. You can really see that Tommy Tallarico's enjoying himself. (I would be too, the lucky bugger, rocking out along to Megaman. Does it get any better?!)). I honestly had a tear in my eye (not for the first time), thinking "just look what you can do with a little bit of passion for something you really like, guiding your life" and kind of feeling guilty for not being as driven and wasting my days watching old Simpsons episodes etc. 
I mean, if you're gonna waste a day flicking channels on TV, at least stick a decent game in the PS2 and do something cool!
Yep, loved the Sonic medley too, and was really floored by the quality of the kind of jazzy bits from (iirc) Sonic 2 and 3 - what an amazing smooth sound it was.Great to see them play Chrono Trigger. I was convinced they were going to play Castlevania at that point. Got quite a shock! :eek: Shame there was go game footage!
Metroid was also brilliant.
Only down points were Halo (The choir were amazing though) and World of Warcraft. Don't really care too much for Starcraft either.
But yeah, all round great show. Martin Leung is an animal!
Edit\ forgot to include the Sonic 1 medley. Brilliant! Got a lump in me throat. Kept it together though... :pac:
Probably my favourite bit was Metroid, it was so well arranged, right from the electronic incidental music at the start which got my hair standing on end and I knew it was going to be brilliant.
I laughed when the two gamers brought onstage to try Space Invaders and Guitar Hero both were young men with long hair
As soon as I saw the second guy I was like . o O ( Ah, but of course! )
Loved Martin Leung as well, and as a pianist myself I was well impressed with his performance - not just a fast-playing gimmick, he really does have a great musical brain and an excellent touch on the instrument.
What would I like to have heard that wasn't in the show? Probably some stuff from Donkey Kong Country (Coral Capers played by a live orchestra would probably cause a sensory overload and mental breakdown, but it would be worth it), maybe some Street Fighter 2, an arrangement of Sly Spy Secret Agent on the C64 (ok, maybe that's a bit much to ask for, but listen to iiiiiiit!) and more from Final Fantasy 5/6/8/10/12 (never played the odd-numbered games beyond 5 for some reason, although I listened to the OST for 7 and 9 and wasn't very moved and thus wasn't much into OWA), maybe something from the Ultima RPGs (6, 7, 8 are good). Tekken could work too - there are some spectacular short and sweet tunes in Tekken 3, 4, 5 and Tag.
The meet and greet was a nice idea indeed, I made sure to blow a trifling tenner on the CD and get it signed by the three lads who seemed really nice (although Sting Malcolm McDowell the conductor looked exhausted).
My GF said the tickets were too expensive and that I should go on my own, but I spent about half the show feeling so sorry that I didn't bring her anyway - I can honestly say it was the best concert I've gone to, ever. Very much looking forward to the next one! 0 -
awesome show. had a blast. was at the 3.30 one and was a ruddy good time. Megaman was probably the best bit of the show for me, metroid too. i was an idiot though and i could have easily requested martin leung to do duck tales - moon but had a brain fart and went out of my head >< (was sitting near the front and tommy could easily see me so it wouldnt have been hard).
only thing i would want added would be F-Zero music. sure there are random tracks and stuff but they are going for the biggies. very impressive though.
had dinner with 2 of the musicians after before they had to go on at 8. they didnt really have much rehearsal time at all but you have to remember that these are pro musicians and they are bloody good. i think it was only for one day they rehearsed or something and then they did a practice on the day itself. the 2 ppl i had dinner with are both massive gamers, in fact one of them has even been to the wcg lan before 0 -
Yep, loved the Sonic medley too, and was really floored by the quality of the kind of jazzy bits from (iirc) Sonic 2 and 3 - what an amazing smooth sound it was.
all the songs are from sonic 1, in fact the medley is in the game over the ending credits:
which slightly disapointed me as sonic 2 and sonic 3 have some of the best songs in the series.0 -
Ah right; I heard some of the tunes in a TAS of Sonic 3 IIRC, didn't know they came from the original game. Yeah, more would have been nice thenBlitzKrieg wrote: »all the songs are from sonic 1, in fact the medley is in the game over the ending credits:
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which slightly disapointed me as sonic 2 and sonic 3 have some of the best songs in the series. 0 -
I really enjoyed the night, they played some of my favourites and seeing some fellow Boardsies was good too. I was surprised by how good the God of War part was, especially when the soloist came out. The Sonic medley was the most nostagic for me - although I hadn't a clue what most of the games past the 16-bit ones were. Snowboarding down a street, wtf? The Chrono medley was very well done, it was great seeing the first chair violin stand up and kicking some ass. Watching the World of Warcraft medley made me think of the Lord of the Rings. Whist I enjoyed One Winged Angel, I agree it is overused but as such a popular crowdpleaser I wonder if they always finish with it. I enjoyed the Zelda part too... even though I've never played a Zelda game.
I think my suggestion of a character from some obscure RPG totally would have worked.BlitzKrieg wrote: »Had a quick discussion with other boardsies and there were numerous suggestions for what to pass me off as.
The final fantasy segment on the piano was a bit weird because I expected more reaction from the crowd, but everyone was silent even when he was playing really popular final fantasy songs.
I was surprised to hear so many requests for FFVIII at the part where Tommy was taking requests for Martin. There wasn't a peep out of them during the piano medley - then again, I was pretty much silent during that part as I was hanging on every note. Maybe they were too. Glad to hear some Terra'a Theme and a snippet of Tifa's theme in the medley. The end with the fanfare was awesome.
I wasn't counting on looking up and seeing you standing up about 8 people down from me on the same row.Burning Eclipse wrote: »I really enjoyed the night, and pictochat with johnny_ultimate, o1s1n and GothPunk. Then very briefly seeing Retr0 and BlitzKrieg at the end of the night when Mr. K joked about how awesome MGS4 was!! That was a good laugh alright.
I would love an RTS medley, I enjoyed the Starcraft 2 piece but I would have loved the original games music, I suppose they couldn't have done it as most of the soundtrack is atmospheric electric guitar parts with loads of effects. A medley with in Dune, TA, C&C, Red Alert and Starcraft would be all kinds of awesome.Great show! Really enjoyed all the pieces and I thought that the meet-and-greet was a nice touch. Missed many games growing up as a PC Gamer (but I was aware of them); was nice to catch the music. Would like some Total Annihilation pieces - as far as I can recall, it was the first game that I really paid attention to the music.0 -
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