Metal Reviews

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_6NvlXPzZE

This has to be the best song of the year. I've listened to it so many times, but it still gives me chills.

This too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRSdOY8d8CE

Fucked Up- Twice Born
Kayo Dot-Right Hand Is The One I Want
Gregor Samsa- Jeroen Van Aken
Metallica- All Nightmare Long
Fleet Foxes- Blue Ridge Mountains
Protest The Hero- Sequoia Throne
Deathspell Omega- Chaining The Katechon
Manilla Road- Blood Eagle
Bon Iver- Skinny Love
Venetian Snares- Bebikukorica Nigiri
Have A Nice Life- The Future
The Mars Volta- Ilyena
Of Montreal- St Exquisite's Confessions
Opeth- The Lotus Eater
Satyricon- Black Crow On A Tombstone
Thrice-Moving Mountains
Port O'Brien-I Woke Up Today

I'll leave you to speculate what girly pop singles I was too embarrassed to include.

Scar Symmetry - Fear Catalyst, would be my all time favorite song of the year.

Almah: Torn
Amberian Dawn: River of Tuoni
Amon Amarth: The Hero, Guardians of Asgard
Angeldark: Wolf, Rain, Venom X
Apocalyptica: S.O.S. (Anything But Love)
Ayreon: Waking Dreams
Benedictum: Steel Rain
Blaze Bayley: The Man Who Would Not Die
Byzantine: The Gift of Discernment, Expansion and Collapse
Chris Caffery: I'm Sorry, I Won't Know
Communic: Raven's Cry
Coronatus: In Silence
Cradle of Filth: The Death of Love, Darkness Incarnate
Crematory: When Darkness Falls, Left The Ground, Alone, Pray
Cynic: The Unknown Guest
Def Leppard: Go
Disturbed: Inside The Fire
Draconian: Not Breathing, Seasons Apart
Edenbridge: Shadowplay
Eluveitie: Inis Mona
Hollenthon: Sons of Perdition
In Mourning: The Black Lodge
In This Moment: Forever
John 5: Sounds of Impalement
Judas Priest: Prophecy
Katra: Beast Within
Keep of Kalessin: Ascendant
Martriden: A Season In Hell
Mercenary: Embrace The Nothing, Isolation
Metallica: My Apocalypse, All Nightmare Long
Moonspell: Scorpion Flower, Dreamless
Motley Crue: Saints of Los Angeles, Motherfucker of the Year
Motorhead: When The Eagle Screams
Opeth: Porcelain Heart
Pain: Follow Me
Pyramaze: The Year of the Phoenix, The Highland
Scar Symmetry: Quantumleaper, Ghost Prototype I
Sister Sin: One Out of Ten, All Systems Go, On Parole
Testament: More Than Meets The Eye
Textures: Laments of an Icarus
Unsun: Whipers, On The Edge
Warrel Dane: Brother, When We Pray, Lucretia My Reflection
Whitesnake: Good To Be Bad, Can You Hear The Wind Blow

Anathema - Everything, One Last Goodbye (Acoustic Version)
Conifer - Cruciform Empennage
Decrepit Birth - Diminishing Between Worlds, Reflection of Emotions, The Living Doorway
Eibon - Asleep and Threatening, Staring at the Abyss
Ekpyrosis - Mensch Aus Gold
Esoteric - Circle
Mgla - Groza I
Opeth - Burden, Coil, Porcelain Heart
Pyramaze - Year of the Phoenix, Ghost Light
Sigur Ros - Festival
Thrice - Broken Lungs, Child of Dust, Silver Wings
Zero Hour - The Temple Within

I'm pretty sure I'm forgetting some.

Edguy - The Pride Of Creation
Edguy - Speedhoven

(Tinnitus Sanctus has really grown on me over the past two weeks)

Opeth - The Lotus Eater
Opeth - Heir Apparent

I wasn't in a discovery mood this whole year thanks to work and these were the only ones I could remember.

Don't feel much like making a list, but this is the best song of last year.

Jon Oliva's Pain - Walk Upon The Water

I discovered Jude Cole's awesome song "Back to school" from the movie, does that count? IOt's 20 years old, but its so simple, its genius.

Sweet song although the final boss in FFIX made no sense lol

Everyone says that, but I figured it out the first time through. It was basically the other side of the Iifa Tree. I can't remember the precise details, but I do remember the Soulcage boss from disc 2 saying that he was only one part of the Iifa Tree. When the final boss came, I remember connecting the dots between what he said and what the other one said.

Yeah. Something like that. God, I'm a nerd.

damnit now i want to play that game again. although i do agree that the final boss didn't really make sense... it was like "oh hay you killed Kujo now this random huge mofo gonna fuck you up"

Although I love FFIX, I must say that Necron was a pussy.

KUJA SHOULD'VE BEEN THE FINAL BOSS.

You all suck.

Necron owned your pussy asses and you know it.

What's the deal with the Final Fantasy games? I can't see how people play them for their "role"playing aspect as there is none. All you do is press a button to get through the dialogues and you can't do anything to change their outcome. And the combat system, choose an attack, then wait, then repeat, is utterly bollocks as well. Not to mention the random encounters which is just god awful game design.

So, how can you bare through a whole game of FF?

he totally did. i had to defeat Kujo in a way so that all my heroes's special event (i forget what it was called... turned them super badass) bars were almost full when he died so that they could all go into it when i fought Necron. only way i could beat him :\

I agree.

srsly, though, there are a lot of games you can't change the outcomes to. Even if you can get a different ending, you only do so by fulfilling a few shallow criteria, so that's a dumb thing to complain about.

And you can't expect big action from a Final Fantasy game, because that's not what you play it for. If you want big action, play Tekken or something, which I could say is "utterly bollocks" as well, because all you do is memorize useless combos and mash buttons. And the random encounters can be a bit annoying, but they're a neccesary evil. How else are you gonna level up? There's nothing god awful about that.

I can play through them because I love them. Like I said, it's not at all about big action, it's a lot more about a gripping story, likeable characters, and that "epic sense" than anything. I just get wrapped up in them more than most other games I've played. So far I've beat I, II, VII, IX, and X, and I'm working on IV, VI, and VIII... I've got V and III... so I can play through pretty much all of them... at least all the ones I want to.

Also, Nobuo Uematsu is amazing. He's a bona fide musical hero of mine.

My team was all level 90+ when I fought Necron, so I didn't have that much trouble. I have a tendency to obsessively get everything possible in the FF games, and to level up to ridiculous proportions.

Wrong discussion in the wrong section. There's a thread for video games, remember?

I enjoyed 4 and 6 for about a month and they were amazing. I made it to the final boss in 4 but during 6 about 3/4 of the way my rom fucked up.