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Video Games Live, a laywoman's review.

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Posted 30 October 2008 - 06:43 PM

As you all know, I went to Video Games Live last night. This is my review of it.

Ok, we filed into the gorgeous 2 century old Orpheum theater in Downtown Vancouver at around 6:45. There were displays a plenty. A Razer booth that gave away cheep LED blinky necklaces, a "Singstar" competition, a guitar hero contest *I'll get into more detail in a bit, because it is relevant to the whole review..trust me* and drawing for an 80 gig PS3. I would have seen all the booths if I weren't surrounded by the entire virgin population of the city of Vancouver. Oh don't worry, there were non virgins there, since they dragged their absolutely bored out of their skull girlfriends with them. (Or they might have been high priced escorts who knows).

Well there was a bunch of cosplaying nerds there....of course, since there was to be a costume contest at the beginning of the show. Most notably was Chelle and the weighted companion cube, Solid Snake, Fagballs and Dr. Liara T'Soni (who won the competition by the way since she obviously put in an insane amount of effort into her costume) and a Splicer or some wierd nurse from Silent Hill, hard to tell anyway.

As we waited for the show to start they decided to play this little music video: http://www.youtube.c...h?v=189QSTKC5no which resulted in much laughter as you watched Sephiroth dance like Napoleon Dynamite complete with Vote for Pedro shirt...

All in all the whole show was astounding. (You could move the cosplaying gits and fat virgin nerds to the back of your mind it was that good) The lighting was incredible, the visuals were absolutely stunning, and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra did not miss a beat with their performance, despite the shenanigans going on around them. (During the Metal Gear Solid bit, a guy came out in a box, and had a "guard" following him around and lit up the little exclaimation point attached to his back, that's an example)

The Set list for last night was:
- Arcade Medley (Pong to Tetris)
- Metal Gear Solid
- God of War
- Civilization IV
- Legend of Zelda
- Metroid
- Super Mario Bros
- World of Warcraft tongue.gif
- Kingdom Hearts
- Halo
- One Winged Angel (FF7)
- Castlevania

And there was this wonderful Pianist (Ms Liu) who was an absolute crazy on the piano. Tickling out A Final Fantasy medley, and then a Super Mario bros medley. She went absolutely crazy during the Super Mario Bros. that woman's fingers could fly....was amazing to watch.

Of course being a Sephiroth Fan girl (dodges tomatoes) my hair stood on end during the Encore when they played One Winged Angel, then Castlevania.

All in all the whole show was absolutely wonderful. I got eyed up by the drooling virgin masses who probably have never seen a real woman in their entire life, other than their mum's, but no one said boo to me. Well I did talk to one charming fellow who mentioned mudkips.

Oh yes about the Guitar Hero contest, see the winner went up on stage to play a song to win a bag full of swag and stuff. Well, it was this 14 year old kid. They wanted him to play "Sweet Emotion" from the Aerosmith game, on hard. He needed to get 175k points to win the swag. Well, he was a cocky little bugger and said "No, I'll play it on EXPERT!!!!" well, the kid only got like 172k or so but because he was cocky and chose expert, he got the swag anyway.

And if you care to see my ugly mug feel free to click here: http://img528.images...hpim1832hw8.jpg

So yes, if it's in your neck of the woods eventually I fully encourage you to go see it. YES EVEN YOU YAHTZEE!!!!


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Posted 30 October 2008 - 10:32 PM

for some reason cant find an edit button.

anyway here's another game they played on stage

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=9XVb49pYmF0

poor dude
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Posted 31 October 2008 - 07:23 PM

hmm, doesn't sound TOO exiting. Still, you had fun? no fat bullies around? goody gumdrops.
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Posted 01 November 2008 - 11:41 AM

Seriously, I wanna go to see Video Games Live more than anything. Whoever decided to combine orchestral music and video games pretty much owns the key to my wallet.

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Posted 01 November 2008 - 11:53 AM

QUOTE (Spann @ Nov 1 2008, 11:41 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Seriously, I wanna go to see Video Games Live more than anything. Whoever decided to combine orchestral music and video games pretty much owns the key to my wallet.


Then give your wallet key to the guy who composed the music to Halo.

He's the one who came up with it.

Incidentally, he's short. shorter than Trent Reznor acctually...
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Posted 01 November 2008 - 01:13 PM

QUOTE (pandora114 @ Nov 1 2008, 05:53 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Then give your wallet key to the guy who composed the music to Halo.

He's the one who came up with it.

Wait wait wait, I know for a fact that Dragon Quest was the first to have sparked a symphonic version of the soundtrack back in 1986.

Or are we just talking about the whole event? Those have definitely been around for a looong long time in Japan before coming over to the west as well.

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Posted 01 November 2008 - 01:37 PM

QUOTE (Gobbler @ Nov 1 2008, 01:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Wait wait wait, I know for a fact that Dragon Quest was the first to have sparked a symphonic version of the soundtrack back in 1986.

Or are we just talking about the whole event? Those have definitely been around for a looong long time in Japan before coming over to the west as well.



The whole event...he was the first to do it in the western world.

like producing a show like this...he came up with the concept here.
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Posted 01 November 2008 - 01:45 PM

QUOTE (pandora114 @ Nov 1 2008, 07:37 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
The whole event...he was the first to do it in the western world.

like producing a show like this...he came up with the concept here.

"Here" is the key word. Gobbler ninja'd me, but the nips have been doing this long before us gaijin roundeyes. Credit where it's due, that's what I'm sayin', I don't think it's to be considered that much of an innovation to copycat something that works in another country.
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Posted 01 November 2008 - 01:45 PM

Edit: Ah who cares...

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Posted 01 November 2008 - 06:41 PM

Sounds like you had a good time. And wow but you do look good in that dress. Now, you see how much better you felt instead of if you wore jeans and a sweater?
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