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  1. 13 hours ago, Quintus said:

    They'll survive but their model will be very different. Because they will be a multiformat software company. 

     

    I agree. If the Switch fails, and I'm not say it will, I think they're destined to start putting software on other systems. 

  2. The conference didn't really do anything for me. Mario and Zelda looked great, but of course they did. And even if all the first part games are great, which they probably will be, it's not enough for me to want to get the console. I need third party support, and the hardware looks like it'll have some detrimental limitations. 

  3. 8 hours ago, Disco Stu said:

     

    See, I've been thinking that Luke will probably die in 8.  Probably sacrificing himself like Kenobi.

     

    I wasn't expecting anyone to die in VIII after having Han go in VII, fulfilling the mentor role who gets killed ala Kenobi and Qui-Gon in Episode I. It always happens during the first part of a trilogy. But now it's up in the air. I could see Leia dying in VIII. If they change some things around it could be the cleanest, best way to close up that character's arc without having to do any questionable CG gimmickery. 

  4. 15 hours ago, crocodile said:

    So anyone tried The Last Guardian?

     

    Karol

     

    I have. As a big fan of Team Ico's other two games I was looking forward to it for many (many) years. And I think despite its frustrations, some intentional and others not, I found it to be an ultimately rewarding experience. If you're a fan of Ico and/or Shadow of the Colossus I'd definitely recommend it, but it falls more on the Ico side of design and requires a lot of patience to get the most out of it. 

     

    The score is phenomenal. 

     

  5. The unused choral version of the original track is a bit much for me, personally. Especially considering its companion piece, "You Are the Pan", is so heavily choral anyway.I

     

    This is a really lovely arrangement. I too miss the extended brass interlude but the greater complexities in the orchestration kind of make up for it. I do prefer the theme as it exists in the OST, though. The fifth note being extended has never quite sit right with me. The original is more simplistic. 

  6. As far as books go, Cormac McCarthy's The Road probably had the biggest impact. I read it in my senior year of high school and it completely shattered what I understood book writing was. Here was something that had no character names, no chapter markings, little punctuation. Even the supposed prerequisites of storytelling like exposition seemed barely present. The method made it all about the prose, the power of the words, in a way I had never experienced. It was a kind of revelation and it set in me a renewed affinity for language the medium as a whole. 

  7. 14 hours ago, Romão said:

    There are some wonderful moments in Hook that I would consider restrained. The first half of Remembering Childhood and Farewell Neverland

     

    Yeah. They are relatively few, but there are smaller moments of intimacy peppered through the score. And moments that are more ominous or more elegiac. It's very restrained in the early scenes in the film, appropriately becoming larger once entering Neverland. 

  8. In the first half of the year, I went to the theater quite often for me, much more than I normally do. It was a little more than monthly, nearly ten times in total. Since then I've only been a couple times, and there are only a few movies coming out in the rest of the year that I anticipate I'll see in the theater. I do really enjoy going, but it does tend to be expensive and can be difficult to coordinate. 

  9. 2 hours ago, Will said:

    For some reason the Imperial March, at least in its album arrangement (I'm not familiar enough with the score so maybe there are some other cooler performances) hasn't really clicked with me (except in the AOTC finale). I hear people raving about it all the time but I've never been able to really enjoy it. And actually Yoda's theme and the love theme have never truly clicked either. Actually, that has happened at least a few times with JW: where I'm not a huge fan of some of the themes but there are many really cool smaller moments. Another example of this is TPM. I absolutely adore the score but I'm not a huge fan of Anakin's theme or DOTF. 

     

    That's odd. That is probably the worst statement of the theme in the series for me. Really should not have been there that early. 

  10. 12 hours ago, Jay said:

    Gonna try to finish up Link Between Worlds and Chrono Trigger this weekend, maybe start Wind Waker

     

    That is one exemplary lineup. Chrono Trigger is one of those few games that I'd consider to be essentially flawless. 

  11. I'm a fan of Giacchino and I'm looking forward to what he does, but it is disappointing to me that Desplat's gone. I feel like I can expect what a Giacchino Star Wars score would sound like, but a Desplat Star Wars score would've been something harder to predict. The prospect of that was exciting, and it seemed inevitable that Giacchino would come around anyway. 

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