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We totally saw the ball drop.
Now we're totally cripples.
Happy New Year, and maybe more on this later.
Nerd alert!
Sorry for those of you expecting a real post. I just wanted to get one thing off my mind for now. I doubt this is going to help with that! This is about a video game, and the usage of music in it. If that's not your thing, I'm sorry.
With all the Metal Gear Solid 4 hype going on, I just have to vent about MGS3, its excellent predecessor. Not about the game, but about the theme song called 'Snake Eater'. I seem to be one of the very, very few who recognized a James Bond intro theme song in there. Googling it, I found that more people drew the James Bond comparison to the game itself rather than the music.
Just watch and listen to the intro movie and imagine you're watching the newest Bond movie which is 'Snake Eater'. It does everything a bond intro movie needs to do. What with the silhouettes, dramatic brass music, singing woman backed by a jazzy orchestra and psychedelic background images, all the while showing images suggesting the possibility of things you're still going to experience during the game itself. The only comment on this I could find on the first two Google result pages tells us that the video is "James Bond-like". It's not James Bond-like; it IS James Bond, only with a Metal Gear theme. It even has that final chord!
Why is there noone drawing this comparison?
These are the things that keep me up. They really do.
Youtube link: Click here
Edit: on the Youtube page, there's actually a comment from someone who totally gets it. User Briannefarious07 says it like it is: "Nice song but Hideo [game director] is so gonna get sued by 007 for stealing his song."
Tomorrow I'm going to pick up Grand Theft Auto IV. It's a game, but man does it ever look great. Not only the way it looks and sounds, but also the lore they've created for the city and the story is so complete.
Just now I was taking a test on the website, a test to indicate how much I knew about Liberty City. I haven't even finished it, because I couldn't get past question 1. Not because it was difficult. No, I got the correct answer the first try, but just because it baffles me so much. This is funny stuff. It's saying something while being funny.
Q: Why did Europeans move to Liberty City?
Correct answer: The Dutch wanted a new place to sell weed and women.
That's just amazing.
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