Bigred's Video Game Thread

[Renton]

One winged angel is one of my least favorite of Uematsu's songs. The FF7 soundtrack is otherwise incredible, of course. FF9 soundtrack is good, but I think FF6/FF7/FF8 are better. If I had to pick I'd say that FF6 is my favorite. FF4 is great too. A few of the FF4 songs are played by major orchestras currently, which is pretty god damn amazing when you consider that the original songs are 8 bit audio and rarely >30 seconds long.

I think the Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, and Xenogears soundtracks are at least slightly better than any of the Final Fantasy soundtracks, though. Mitsuda's weakness seems to be volume. Uematsu can just crank out four hours of masterpiece-level music on a deadline. Mitsuda got so stressed out over Chrono Trigger that he had to be hospitalized with ulcers.

[kingnat]

Xenogears

I think this game got brought up at one other point, but I feel like it was so flipping epic in story. Battles got extremely monotonous, but there was nothing like the thrill of getting a new attack and i liked how you could pace beating the shit out of your enemies. I also feel like this was a game my buddy had in college and I can't recall (except for one or two times) it being mentioned by anyone as being an epic game. FF is practically part of common culture and I find it odd that Xenogears, at least from what I've seen, is so obscure by comparison.