<![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> I used to like FFTL a few years back when Sonny was still with them. I'd like to think I've grown up since then.

Nosignalinput

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> meh - cross promotion of a dried up metalcore band that has outlived any semblance of importance - with a boxing game?

Their marketing team really is behind the times. Latching onto what was cool with pre-teens 6 years ago isn't going to push units.

Also - they are not post-hardcore. Fugazi is post-hardcore.

robo-magic

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> @Americo: Hah! Big LOL, good one.

But yeah this is pretty average news. Skimming through I saw the words "EA record Label" & "unique marketing opportunities" and just totally spaced out.

Dr Terror

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> I get to beat up some emos without getting arrested?

This game can count one more sale from me.

SPni

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> @HaydenTenno: I just got my copy of The Alchemy Index Volume 3 & 4 today and it is great. Ive listened to it about 3 times today, while driving to and from work & it gets better each time i listen to it.

MURDERFACE

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> Wow EA has made the jump from shitty generic rap music on boxing games to shitty generic rock music on boxing games. Unless i can beat the shit out of FFTL using Mike Tyson then i would consider getting this game.

MURDERFACE

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> @I Spit On Your Comments:

Sonny Moore made the poplar.

Blinklink11

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> @terraform: very true...you need to be in a hardcore band to be able to call yourself post-hardcore.

@残心: umm..gonna have to say i dont agree. when they lump all of the music in the world into their nice neat musical packets fugazi is poured into the post-hardcore packet while RoS and Embrace are the first "emo" bands that most of the girl pant wearing, swooped hair, white belt having puds try to emulate.

inkycap

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> @el_rezzo: Open minded people will love their new sound, but more close minded people will brush it off and cling to the past. Artist in the Ambulance was a step back for Thrice. Their work before and after has surpassed that album.

HaydenTenno

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> Great marketing idea, they lost a few members and have a pretty different sound now to their first 2 albums. I like the new album, first 2 tracks are great but it is pretty spotty.@adamonfire: Agree that Artist in the Ambulance is their best album, it may seem similar to a hundred other bands out there but it is near perfect. Haven't really gotten into their past 2 albums, Vheissu was a very slow burn as well.

el_rezzo

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> @terraform: You're very, very mistaken. If anything, Fugazi is considered one of the founders of the emo genre, along with Rites of Spring, Embrace, etc.

残心

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> Hahahahaha. If this game had been released in 2004, this might have been a relevant cross-promotion. Now? Dear god EA, at least try to keep up.

残心

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> FFTL is one of the better bands that have appeared in the recent flood of emo-screamo nobody loves me cause my pants fit 3 sizes too small bands. Nothing great though. Here's hoping EA can infuse the boxing style of Fight Night Round 3 with the classic arcade silly style of Punch Out. If they can pull it off they got a sale. Till then then I'm gonna go pierce my lip with a safety pin and put on my second coat of eyeliner :P

Soul_Jaded

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> @adamonfire: Vheissu was a great album. It's the first album where they really matured and showed that they were capable of much more.

Dustin's throat vocals were alright, but they were grouped in with every other screamo act out there and if they would have stayed the course with that kind of musical style, then they would've washed away with most other screamo bands. Dustin writes great lyrics and it was always a shame to see him have to use those beautiful lyrics with that kind of musical style.

You can tell they're doing what they love now. They've matured as people and musicians. Boohoo to all the scene kids in their hiphuggers.

Also, Fire is much better heavier stuff than their previous work. It's got an Isis vibe to it.

HaydenTenno

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> 1. Never heard of them.
2. EA picked four skinny white guys to feature in a boxing game?
3. Holy shit, their music sucks (after previewing all of their albums in iTunes).

benmonkey

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> A band called From First To Last should promote Mario Kart.

WatchAndWarrant

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> @I Spit On Your Comments:

@inkycap:

Cheers. I used to listen to a bit of Fugazi, I thought they were 'Hardcore', hence my surprise that the music had moved onto 'Post-Hardcore'. It's not my favouritest genre, hence my ignorance. (Hell, I don't know nearly enough about the genres I really like!)

Related to the article, it's good to see EA haven't lost their touch when it comes to shameless cross-promotions, bad game ideas or rubbish soundtracks.
Hopefully they'll include all of EA's corporate executives so that I can knock seven shades of shit out of them too (In a digital sense that is, I'm a lover not a fighter).

mrrobsa

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> I can't wait to beat the shit out of these guys.

Natpalm

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> "I saw from first to last in concert (they opened for Every Time I Die)"

This is not even a joke, I guess? Wow... cause it does sound hilarious!

AmsterdamSun

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> "FaceBreaker is the beginning of a classic new EA franchise"

How is something a classic if it's not even out yet?

Also, EA Trax and such are all a bunch of garbage. Whatever happened to original game music? EA is really taking gaming to terrible places.

burpingcat

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> Also, loved how you slipped in 'Brand New' there; subtle reference to a much better band.

Pariah

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> I listened to FFTL a long, long time ago. Some of you that have not heard of them and are around my age (22) may be interested (or completely the other direction) to know Wes Borland was in the band for some time.... not anymore, though. Obviously.

@I Spit On Your Comments: Much better than I & II, which I don't even bother listening to.

@HaydenTenno: "I'm glad they stopped the pop/punk/screamo garbage, because now they can show their true talent." What the HELL are you talking about? I really hope you're not referring to 'The Artist in the Ambulance', which I consider their best all-around album by far. Even Vheissu has some amazing hard stuff on it, I think that's their bread and butter - Dustin being able to go back and forth between his throat and singing vocals, similar to Howard Jones of Killswitch Engage.

adamonfire

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> @juliopalio: I usually respect peoples opinion on music but holy shit man you have no taste.

As for this band, I can hardly see the difference between them and every other modern pop rock band: whoreing themselves out shamelessly.

Pariah

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> @Uzumaki_Kiba: It's very easy to explain post-hardcore.

Hardcore: Minor Threat
Post-Hardcore: Fugazi.

End of lesson.

terraform

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> Okay... I don't even know what type of music "Post-Hardcore" refers to. And I've never heard of these guys.

But seriously, they deserve an award for outstanding achievement in the field of selling the fuck out. I mean.. That's some hardcore selling out. Or maybe it's post-hardcore. I forget.

Uzumaki_Kiba

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> ... a) Since when does an emo-rock band qualify as a "good sountrack". Especially to a boxing game.

b) Why does EA have the most horrible music-licensing department....

AuraHACK

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> LOL at considering these guys post hard-core. What a joke.

Hate to jump @I Spit On Your Comments: Its crap.

juliopalio

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> Um, who?

BStu

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> I haven't heard of a band selling out to this extent. I mean it is cool if you like video games and want to put some of your music in them but releasing new songs in game, forcing your fans to buy a 40 dollar game over a 15 dollar record. Then subjecting people to watching you play video games and footage at the show they paid to see... really?

I don't want to besmirch anyone who has found a way to get paid to make their art, but this seems excessive. Even the inherent invitation to punch the band in the face is a bad idea. Their manager must have been asleep at the wheel.

Uglyshoe

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> My old band played with these dudes a couple times. God they were sloppy live. Didn't understand the buzz then...still don't understand the appeal.

ThisCharmingMan

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> @AppleTamer:
no game from EA could be that good


balaamsafe

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> Talk about selling out. They couldn't pick a band with talent? Sucks too, since I was really looking forward to playing this game.

AnotherGamer

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> I suppose I'm in the minority as a FFTL fan, not a rabid fan mind you. But... um... FFTL + boxing!?

And I would agree post hardcore is not the best description of them, I would have put them in 'screamo' territory although their new Sonny less album definitely veers more towards pop/punk.

RudeAnimat0r

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> @I Spit On Your Comments: Amazing. Thrice and grown and matured for the better. One side is completely folk stuff, like Dustin's solo album, while the other side is just very uplifting. I'm glad they stopped the pop/punk/screamo garbage, because now they can show their true talent.

HaydenTenno

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> Talk about selling out... geez

dj_fantastica

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> @I Spit On Your Comments: Awful. I wish I didn't listen to it.

I wish Grade was still around, one of the best live acts I've seen.

HavveK

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> Yay! I will get to punch From First To Last

AppleTamer

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> ...who?

zaky

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> 5 minutes ago I had no idea who FFTL or Chiodos were. After reading the comments and sampling through iTunes, I now hate all of you.

Lixie

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> @murph: Move to Mexico...its open season on emo kids

[www.nme.com]

inkycap

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> Most of these people are probably sad because Matt Good beat them in WoW. :P

LandMineLandSnake

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> fftl USED to be posthardcore... till they realized there was gold in them there pop/punk hills

Galivanting

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> awesome! we get to beat up the emo kids with no repercussions!

murph

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> Post-hardcore? ROFL

This band is the epitome of awful fake pop punk dressed up in black hair dye and crappy girl jeans.

WingZero987

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> FFTL isnt the same ever since sonny left, but it would be funny seeing matt kicking dereks ass.

DavidFoundation

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> @HaydenTenno: Grade is cool. How is the 2nd half of the Thrice album? Vol. 3 & 4?

I Spit On Your Comments

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> @inkycap: I should of known someone would come in here and say different. It all depends on how one looks at it really. But FFTL I wouldn't really consider post hardcore either, definitly in the wave of pop/punk genre that adds the dark goth area with some screams.

I Spit On Your Comments

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> Do kids today even know that selling out used to be a bad thing?

MizzouPhan

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> Facebreaker = Ready to Rumble 3 (for the Wii). I'll pass.

medeasin

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> @inkycap: Don't forget Grade!

HaydenTenno

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> This just sounds stupid. EA once again focusing on shit that doesn't matter rather than making better games.

Silverbackne

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> @I Spit On Your Comments: Farther back than that...Fugazi can be considered post-hardcore along with Quicksand and other bands that had members that played in "hardcore" bands...these FFTL tools not post hardcore...more like my first pop punk band with tight clothing...

inkycap

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> Well, they certainly look like an intolerable pack of whining merde-fuckers. I'm guessing their music is earnest, yet sharply cynical? Their influences range from The Beatles to Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds? The bassist has a side project that he describes as "an experimental metal-fusion art project?"

etho

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> I have no idea who these guys and I don't care. Why put them as playable characters in the game?

What the fuck does this have to do with boxing? CARTOON boxing even?

I fucking hate EA with a passion.

Sundermania

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> @mrrobsa: Post Hardcore has been around since 1999~2001.

I Spit On Your Comments

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> post hardcore? more like post sellout.

I'm not one to usually call out bands for 'selling out' but geeze this is bad.

harlock_JDS

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> @Chrysalis: It came out like 5 days ago...

Anyways, I love FFTL, but seriously Matt Good is kinda tall and skinny, not really a boxer, and so are Travis, Matt, and Derek. Or is it going to be more like Def Jam where they stack on 10 layers of clothing?

two cans tied together and thrown down the street to wake up the surrounding neighbors with a loud annoying noise

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> Seeing "from first to last" made me immediately think of mario kart. I'm still hopeful for FaceBreaker.

Wolfers

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> @Americo: lawlz, you win.

D Mitsuki

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> FFTL? More like FTL.

Americo

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> Does this mean we can actually punch them in the face?

Chicken_Dippers

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> @liquid_kore: Viral is anything that is spread like word of mouth over the net waves.

Even still... This smells of selling out here. :(

huginn

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> these guys look exactly like the dildos that i pictured when i heard about this...

nice job guys, this game will probably be much better using dual analog sticks rather than wii controllers.

TP/\C SHKR

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> @HaydenTenno: gotta love Dillinger, even though they might be a little too chaotic for regular consumption ;p

I saw from first to last in concert (they opened for Every Time I Die), and they were just god-awful; I'd even settle for Trivium in this game. Way too whiny, it's amazing that they landed this gig. It's not that hard to find good metal out there.

Maht

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> There's a post-hardcore now?
*sigh* I'm getting old...
(mrrobsa is 23)

mrrobsa

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> @Vibhorsir: Chiodos, another band that got popular and I didn't see it coming.

@HaydenTenno: Hell yeah, DEP = greatness. If only they would have DEP and Avenged Sevenfold so they can battle it out.

I Spit On Your Comments

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> Ugh, this kind of shoving-a-promotion-in-your-face tactic really puts me off. At least when Ready 2 Rumble did cameos in it's sequel of they did it with humor and dignity.

Gagaman

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> first to last r nub posers ^^ no ty

igl

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> To bad from first to last sucks since they lost Sonny.

SofaKingHI

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> FaceBreaker needs more Dillinger Escape Plan and less From First To Last. EA, are you listening?

HaydenTenno

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> Really like the band (their most recent album not including the one coming out), but I'm not sure what to think of this. How does their music fit in with a cartoony boxing game?

Chrysalis

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> If they put some Chiodos in the game, than that would move some copies.

Vibhorsir

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> The problem with Facebreaker news is it isn't Fight Night Round 4 news

Len Bias Cocaine Surplus

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> I actually like From First To Last but I really don't know if this makes sense. At all.

Guitaratomik

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> Haha, I used to listen to them when Sonny was the vocalist. Awful band. What a dumb kid I was. :(

HaydenTenno

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> I'd never associate the band with bashing in faces cuz I hate buying EA games! :)

dalejrfanfreak

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> I remember this band when they were emerging on their scene. Not that they are horrible, but I put them in the category of not knowing/understanding how they got popular.

I Spit On Your Comments

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> This is pretty interesting. As a fan of FFTL, I don't think this will make want to buy this game more than with my current interest.

Vibhorsir

]]> <![CDATA[EA's FaceBreaker Moves From First To Last]]> I dont think it counts as a viral video if you announce it beofre they are even popular...

liquid_kore

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