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jarrod on 29 March 2010

Awesome. Hopefully this opens the door for more 3rd party N64 greats (Mischief Makers, Bangai-O, Goemon, RE2, Rayman 2, etc, etc).



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dtewi on 29 March 2010
Khuutra said:

Now, some of you may not knonw this, but Ogre Battle 64 is awesome. It's easily - easily - my favorite RPG from that generation. It has its problems, and its system is nearly impenetrable in places, but for what it is? There's nothing better. Nothing.

Even better than FF9?



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Khuutra on 29 March 2010
dtewi said:
Khuutra said:

Now, some of you may not knonw this, but Ogre Battle 64 is awesome. It's easily - easily - my favorite RPG from that generation. It has its problems, and its system is nearly impenetrable in places, but for what it is? There's nothing better. Nothing.

Even better than FF9?

I liked it better than FF9, yeah.

Translation isn't nearly as good, nor the music, but I liked it better than FF9.



Metallicube on 29 March 2010

I am tempted to buy this.. I actually owned this game way back in the day on the N64 but ultimately sold it because I got my ass kicked and had trouble figuring out the game. But when I did know what I was doing, it really was quite fun looking back.



Tayne on 29 March 2010

I loved this game back in the day! I will be purchasing next time I'm on the Wii Shop Channel!




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Ari_Gold on 29 March 2010

well done virtual console, first rondo of blood, and then ogre battle 64, color me impressed.



billywilly on 29 March 2010

Finally a 3rd party N64 game on VC.



Kenology on 30 March 2010
Khuutra said:
dtewi said:
Khuutra said:

Now, some of you may not knonw this, but Ogre Battle 64 is awesome. It's easily - easily - my favorite RPG from that generation. It has its problems, and its system is nearly impenetrable in places, but for what it is? There's nothing better. Nothing.

Even better than FF9?

I liked it better than FF9, yeah.

Translation isn't nearly as good, nor the music, but I liked it better than FF9.

Now, wait a minute..!



Khuutra on 30 March 2010
Kenology said:
Khuutra said:

I liked it better than FF9, yeah.

Translation isn't nearly as good, nor the music, but I liked it better than FF9.

Now, wait a minute..!

Now I don't mean to say that Ogre Battle 64 doesn't have awesome music! It does. It really does. In fact, its standard battle theme is probably  my favorite of all time:

But the game's melodies are not as prominent as those in FF9, and I know dtewi wouldn't like them as much. Personally I may like them beter, but I was trying to speak to what I expected dtewi's tastes would be.

Gotta get that Platinum in GoW3.... then I'll start up my battle with Ogres.



Kenology on 30 March 2010

Ok, you get a pass for liking "Decisive", that' one of Iwata's greatest compositions!

There are only two beefs I have with the soundtrack:

1). The ratio in which certain pieces are used. The best overworld themes ("Over the World" and "The Bloody World") are only used once each, while the MotBQ holdovers ("Revolt" and "Accretion Disk") are run deep into the ground.

2). There are too many MotBQ and LuCT leftovers!  Hayato Matsuo did a great job writing original material.  Iwata himself didn't contribute too much new stuff and ALL of Sakimoto's pieces were throwbacks.  It would've been nice to have all new tracks or have the old ones arranged.  (This is the same criticism I have with Majora's Mask soundtrack)

Overall though, I think this was one of the best 5th gen soundtracks.  They sure don't score 'em like they used to!