[News] Distant Worlds - new Final Fantasy concert series

FFXII music sucks ass anyway (even though the opening and ending themes were great orchestrations by Matsuo), has no emotion.

Ticket bought. \o I'll be there, like every time. This will be so much fun.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Distant Worlds in Stockholm's Konserthuset was by a million miles the best vgm concert I've ever been to (it was my third). No crappy compositions or dull arrangements of Halo or old Amiga music I personally don't care for in particular. I go for the emotion rush, and Uematsu's music gives just that to me. I grew up with his music and the games that came as a side bonus to his music (heh), so it's only natural. And The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is one of (if not the) best orchestra I've witnessed live.

Of course I could write down a "dream concert" of my own that would of course include music outside of Final Fantasy too, but DW is currently the best thing the vgm world has to offer to me these days in terms of live concerts (VGL and Play! are both a bit multi-faced and all-praising to me).

Or I could just arrange my own concert where the orchestra would play just what I want.

Anyway, I approve of the Distant Worlds, so awesome. <3 And the recording done by TRSPO sold at the venues is by far the best orchestral arrangement/performance cd I've heard inside the vgm circles.

Originally Posted by Tommy Tallarico

I perosonally believe it's an absolute travesty that some game concerts out there are changing people $125 - $150 to meet game composers. I can see if the industry was established so much that tens of thousands of people were selling out every show... then obviously you would need to somehow limit the number of people willing to attend the meet & greet (although when we played VGL at the Hollywood Bowl twice to over 11,000 people... we didn't).

I agree. Even though the charge was only 25 USD in Distant Worlds, I didn't plan on paying to see Nobuo Uematsu (since I've already met him in a more "intimate" surrounding than a cold, impersonal, paid-for meet&greet could ever offer). It's outrageous, but there are (a lot of) stupid enough people to pay for it. And the concert organizers sure could use every extra penny they get from cd sales and other collateral stuff.

The free meet&greet with Yamaoka & co earlier this year was great. How come Arnie gave up on that. =/

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by seanne

Does that mean you picked it up? :rolleyes: I'd love to take a listen to it, but for some reason it seems you can't order it from the official site yet.

I picked up three. Let's see if we can work something out. ;)

The first print was completely sold out during the half-time pause of the concert, so maybe that's why it's unorderable. =D

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.