The Crush (Pacific Rim)
I wanna hear that roarin sound, when I walk I will shake the ground.
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I wanna hear that roarin sound, when I walk I will shake the ground.
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Miracle of Sound: The Crush (Pacific Rim)
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First off, that was awesome!
Energizing as hell. The moment it started out with that boom, I knew it was gonna be good
I also really liked the metal guitar bit in the middle/late middle. Nothing says fuck yeah like metal does.
Secondly, How the hell do you put out so many songs so fast? Beneath the Black Flag just came out, along with the GTA IV and Planescape Torment song. You're a monster. XD
Energizing as hell. The moment it started out with that boom, I knew it was gonna be good
I also really liked the metal guitar bit in the middle/late middle. Nothing says fuck yeah like metal does.
Secondly, How the hell do you put out so many songs so fast? Beneath the Black Flag just came out, along with the GTA IV and Planescape Torment song. You're a monster. XD
Awesome song for an awesome movie. I have to go see it again in theaters before it's pulled from screening.
Insomnia + obsessive, compulsive personality + work addiction + constant desire to create = lots of outputT0ad 0f Truth said:First off, that was awesome!
Energizing as hell. The moment it started out with that boom, I knew it was gonna be good
I also really liked the metal guitar bit in the middle/late middle. Nothing says fuck yeah like metal does.
Secondly, How the hell do you put out so many songs so fast? Beneath the Black Flag just came out, along with the GTA IV and Planescape Torment song. You're a monster. XD
Another amazing one, Gav! I was already getting pumped up from the first few notes!
Please do this one at the Expo!
Please do this one at the Expo!
Okay, this managed to wash the bad taste of The Worst Of Us out of my mouth. I no longer mentally associate Miracle of Sound with being surrounded by a culture of parenting that apparently thinksMiracleOfSound said:
Committing Genocide in order to Prevent Jesus is a Good Thing To Be Proud Of as long as the Jesus in question is a 12 year old girl.
Each artist's page is linked on the song page on bandcamp: http://miracleofsound.bandcamp.com/track/the-crushVectorZero said:
Alyona Maksimova is the most regular one, she works fast and does amazing stuff. Alfred Khamidullin does the Level album covers and Zack Finrock does the more cartoony ones like Niko It's Your Cousin!
I think you missed the entire point of both that song and the game. You also might want to add spoiler tags to your post.WarpZone said:
Pray tell. Please explain to me, with as many spoiler tags as you feel appropriate, what the point of the game was and what the point of your song was. Here's exactly what I took away from the game and why:MiracleOfSound said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_figure
The Last of Us is a game in which you play as a washed up old man inexplicably still in action-movie-hero physical condition in his 50's. His daughter was killed by not-zombies. After the not-zombie apocalypse, the guy is hired to escort a 12 year old girl who reminds him of his daughter to resistence members who plan to use her immunity to the not-zombie plague to synthesize a cure.
In the penultimate level of the game, the guy talks about all the cool shit they're gonna do after the world is saved, while the girl acts depressed and morose, like she's humoring the guy and she knows perfectly well that creating the cure will kill her. I liken this to Jesus because, more broadly, the idea of a single human being voluntarily choosing to lay down their life for the good of all humanity is one of our oldest and most potent literary tropes. I do not mean to imply that the girl is literally some sort of embodiment of the christian Jesus figure, only that metaphorically she is a "Christ Figure" because she's sacrificing her life to Save Everybody.
A friend of mine who is more burned out on zombie literature than me referred to this apparent twist as "Zombie Plot #6." Apparently it's right up there with "Man is the Real Monster" and "Our Zombies Are Fast" as staples of the genre. I didn't see it coming, but I sure recognized it during that last slog to the compound.
So anyway, then Dad of The Year finds out that extracting the cure will kill her. And PLOT TWIST, he murders everybody! You are not given a moral choice to choose whether or not to kill everyone in your path to "save" her. Which in this case, means she gets to live maybe another 2 or 3 years hiding out in the boonies in a not-zombie-infested wasteland full of rapists, murderers, and cannibals.
She asks why she is still alive. The man lies to her and says they had lots of test subjects just like her, and they were killing them off for research as fast as they can, but it wasn't doing any good.
She doesn't believe him. It's right there in the look on her face.
The end.
In the penultimate level of the game, the guy talks about all the cool shit they're gonna do after the world is saved, while the girl acts depressed and morose, like she's humoring the guy and she knows perfectly well that creating the cure will kill her. I liken this to Jesus because, more broadly, the idea of a single human being voluntarily choosing to lay down their life for the good of all humanity is one of our oldest and most potent literary tropes. I do not mean to imply that the girl is literally some sort of embodiment of the christian Jesus figure, only that metaphorically she is a "Christ Figure" because she's sacrificing her life to Save Everybody.
A friend of mine who is more burned out on zombie literature than me referred to this apparent twist as "Zombie Plot #6." Apparently it's right up there with "Man is the Real Monster" and "Our Zombies Are Fast" as staples of the genre. I didn't see it coming, but I sure recognized it during that last slog to the compound.
So anyway, then Dad of The Year finds out that extracting the cure will kill her. And PLOT TWIST, he murders everybody! You are not given a moral choice to choose whether or not to kill everyone in your path to "save" her. Which in this case, means she gets to live maybe another 2 or 3 years hiding out in the boonies in a not-zombie-infested wasteland full of rapists, murderers, and cannibals.
She asks why she is still alive. The man lies to her and says they had lots of test subjects just like her, and they were killing them off for research as fast as they can, but it wasn't doing any good.
She doesn't believe him. It's right there in the look on her face.
The end.
That's the story of the game, and that's the reason I don't like the game. But the critical reaction to the game just makes me want to cry. People are acting like "Oh, they made this great game about Fatherhood! It explores all these dad themes! THE FEELS!" I want to shake these guys and go "No, you idiots. It's not a game about fatherhood. It's a game about permitting the genocide of the entire human race to continue unchecked." It's a game about some jackass deciding that some 12 year old who is NOT his daughter, genetically or legally, is not allowed to do the most important thing any human being in the game's universe will ever do, all because he can't get over his personal baggage.
As far as I could tell, the purpose of your song was the same as all those reviews of the game: "Yay! Dad tropes! This game rocks and its message should be taken at face value!" If that was not the intent of your song, please explain exactly what you were going for, because that's what I got out of it.
No, the point of the game was,WarpZone said:
Joel was a shitty person
let daughterly love over-ride all of your senses?
That's also what the song is about. The 'best' of us doesn't mean the most ethical or good-natured. It very clearly asks in the chorus: what you would give up of your ethics and morals in order to be the best survivor. It also refers to Ellie's wish to
sacrifice herself which would make her 'the best of us' on an moral level.
Presuming the content of a story glorifies the behavior of its characters is a dangerous attitude and it's what leads to stupid stuff like Iron Maiden getting branded as satanists in the 80s or people thinking videogame violence influences real life violence.
If this is how you consume art, I recommend never watching Game Of Thrones... you might blow up.
That was pretty awesome!
I like that you could have easily gone the route of just copying Tom Morello's pretty iconic guitar style (he worked with Ramin Djawadi on the OST) but didn't.
I like that you could have easily gone the route of just copying Tom Morello's pretty iconic guitar style (he worked with Ramin Djawadi on the OST) but didn't.
Well apparently we did both get exactly the same message out of the game, if the point of the game is as you say. But then why is everyone online cheerleading about the game and how great the ending is? I'm not seeing any introspection. I'm not seeing anyone going "I would do something totally different in that situation" or "this game needs multiple endings." I just see people lapping it up and cheering about "hidden bands of content" that "hit you right in the gut, if you're a parent." In other words, "You'd do the same, if it was your kid." "If you were a parent, you'd understand."MiracleOfSound said:
If you're right and the game was actually MEANT to be questioned, dissected, picked apart and disagreed with, why isn't anyone but me saying it? It can't JUST be to avoid spoilers. Yahtzee's the only one I've heard say anything negative about the story, and to him it was just that he couldn't follow the plot or find a reason to care. He wasn't offended by Joel's choices or character. Just confused. Kinda bemused, like, "Okay but where's my reason to like the protagonist?"
Why did you couch the actual meaning of your song in lyrics that can be so easily confused with a literal reading of the events of the game, presented from Joel's side?
Anyway... If I did a song about The Last Of Us, it'd be much more straightforwardly condemning Joel. Actually... I already posted some lyrics in the The Best Of Us thread. I don't know if anyone saw them. They were the last post on the day when a new Miracle of Sound dropped, so I think they probably got ignored. IMHO they work best as a driving Metal song, with the Joel-sympathetic parts all emo and sad and seemingly sincere, and the really anti-Joel parts getting rougher and louder and angrier. Final line sadly spoken, not sang, while the last few guitar chords die off.
Sorry I don't consume media properly. Also, sorry that when 100% of media critics review that media and seem to take it at face value and not question it, I assume they're taking it at face value and not questioning it. How silly of me. That pattern of media consumption has probably put all sorts of bad ideas into my head, like the idea that Yahtzee doesn't like quicktime events because he's always saying he doesn't like quicktime events. It's insidious, these fallacies of mine!
The main riff was certainly influenced by the OST but yeah, did my own thing with the restguitarsniper said: