Kotaku 
Enter your username and password.
Denver, 8:17 AM
Wed Nov 25
53 posts in the last 24 hours
Tip us:
Editor-In-Chief:
Brian Crecente
| AIM | Twitter
Deputy Editor:
Stephen Totilo
| AIM | Twitter
Senior Editor:
Michael McWhertor
| AIM | Twitter
Senior Contributing Editor, Japan:
Brian Ashcraft
| AIM | Twitter
Contributing Editor, East Coast:
Michael Fahey
| AIM | Twitter
Contributing Editor, Oceania:
Luke Plunkett
| AIM | Twitter
Contributing Editor, Weekends:
Owen Good
| AIM | Twitter
Correspondent, San Francisco:
AJ Glasser
| AIM | Twitter
Columnist:
Leigh Alexander
Columnist:
Tim Rogers
Original material is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution.
03/22/09
Yeah...you won that battle Hetfield. HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA
03/22/09
03/22/09
03/23/09
03/23/09
They've just make it part of the character model and animation. Have segments move to particular locations each frame. Pretty simple, no physics involved.
03/22/09
03/22/09
03/22/09
Am I the only one who likes their new stuff as well as the classics? (St. Anger doesn't count... blech.)
Also, before the inevitable wave of backlash rains down upon me, I'm not trying to get into a debate here. Arguments on subjective topics are pointless.
03/22/09
03/22/09
03/22/09
Then again, as people get older, their tastes change, so they may generally stop liking the music they used to love..
03/22/09
03/22/09
You are not alone on that.
@Blyr is playing PS:P:
Bingo.
03/22/09
I see where you're coming from, too. While I disagree that their lyrics have taken a dip in quality, I do agree that they'll likely never hit the brilliance of songs like "One" again. (Yeah, I know "One" was based on a novel, but the song is just as powerful.)
And while I'm most likely alone in thinking this, I find "Unforgiven II" to be chock full of subtle depth. When Hetfield sings "She'll be there when I'm gone, dead sure she'll be there", the way he says it with such uncertainty speaks volumes, and could probably fill an album on it's own.
Eh, I'll stop rambling now. I just REALLY love that song. :p
03/22/09
I've actually struggled a lot to figure out what's bugged me about Metallica over the past however many years for that simple reason of not wanting to be one of those guys. I don't think I feel the emotion in their music anymore. The anger and indignation in songs like Blackened or Ride the Lightning couldn't help but speak to you.
Although you're right, and from what I've heard, the Memory Remains is a very notable exception for me.
03/22/09
As for the anger in Oldtallica, that's never really been a drawing point for me. I'm more a fan of their slower songs. (That's actually true of all of the bands I like. I like the hard stuff, but I'll take a ballad over a headbang any day.)
03/22/09
@Señor Vorpal Kickass'o: I think their lyrics suffer from the fact that, when you're rich and get whatever you want in life, it's kind of hard to be genuinely pissed off.
I think Dee Snider said it best: "I clearly remember sitting poolside [by the] million-dollar house, trying to write the lyrics for the next teen angst-filled anthem and going, 'I'm not pissed off. What am I [going to] complain about?'"
- source
03/22/09
If you are of the sheepish mind that 'money buys happiness', then I suppose.
03/22/09
03/24/09
Most bums are not sad because they are bums and poor, they have more emotional imbalances which makes them bums, and giving them money wont change that for them.
They feel a disconnect from society. And money does nothing to change that, but connect them even more to something they dont want to be connected to.
And sometimes, I cant blame them.
03/22/09
03/22/09
PS it's called taste. Every person's is a bit different. Don't take it personally, and maybe cull the violence just a bit.
03/22/09
the part where he equated Metallica's derivative garbage to "real music" made me giggle. Hey, 20 years ago called, they said, "Retire."
03/22/09
Ah yes, the internet music critics, they are almost as bad as console fanboys ... almost.
03/22/09
"Yeah, I thought it would be easy. It was. 100% on my first go on Expert."
I gotta believe that the finger agility you get when playing real guitar leads to some bonus in the plastic instrument world.
03/22/09
03/23/09
03/22/09
Games DID get me interested in music, but it was shit like Uematsu's brilliant Wagnerian opera-styled work on Final Fantasy VI that did it, not Guitar Hero bullshit.
03/22/09
03/22/09
I like Rock Band, but I don't pretend it's what got me interested in music. It's just a game. And besides, I'm a ska fan, and until that genre gets some respect, I'm growing increasingly 'meh' on the prospect of ever buying another one.
Guitar Hero, the Activision releases at least, can eat a dick.
03/22/09
Still, if you played Crisis Core and didn't get a nostolgic feeling when you heard the "Anxious Hearts" remix, you're dead inside. And yes, I'm aware it wasn't Uematsu.
Also love Aoi Yoshiki's work on Drakengard.
Yoko Shimomura's work on Kingdom Hearts was absolutely brilliant. Right up there with Uematsu.
These guys opened me up to classical music, in all honesty. I was just starting to play guitar when I first played VII. Learning to play these songs properly enlightened me to range and tonal qualities that I didn't even know existed.
Soon, I was surrounding myself with Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Paganini and such.
So yeah, in a way, games got me into certain forms of music.
But not mainstream shit. That's all over the place already. Not that I have anything against these guys - I actually like many bands featured on Guitar Hero / Rock Band.
03/22/09
Uematsu's old works were each special in their own way; it always surprises me how well he can work off of his own material, or use someone else as inspiration, a la the Wagnerian tones of the FFVI soundtrack.
I'm actually getting to be a bit of a Yoko Shimomura fan in recent years though, her work has matured so much since she composed Street Fighter II and Super Mario RPG, I like to replay the Kingdom Hearts games sometimes just to hear her best pieces.
03/20/09
03/20/09
Learn to build a real cabinet!
03/20/09
03/20/09
03/20/09
03/20/09
Guitar mode varies on how the number of years and money entered.
03/20/09
03/20/09
Comment of the Week, right there.
Can I get a 'Ohhhhhhhhh SNAP'?
03/20/09
03/20/09
I'm not sure he's ever done that.
03/20/09
I loved that illusion...