OverClocked ReMix releases Xenogears fan tribute compilation
by Griffin McElroy 
{ Oct 20th 2009 at 1:00AM }
The album, which the group has been working on since 2006, comes in two parts: "Humans," which focuses on natural sounds and acoustic instruments, and "Gears," which features electronic instruments and darker selections from the soundtrack. It's the group's most impressive endeavor to date -- and at the low, low price of free, you've got no reason to avoid it.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Cheezeman3000 @ Oct 20th 2009 1:12AM
Ehhhh I've been listening to it for the past 30 mins and so far the "human" side is not very impressive. Sounds like a bunch of people with expensive samples who don't know how to mix or produce anything properly. And many of the arrangements are poorly crafted on top of that. :(
Still, there's also some good stuff in here, at least worth a download since it's free.
Frostblade10 @ Oct 20th 2009 1:20AM
Is it better than playing the game? No? Okay.
*continues playing Xenogears*
josearoldan @ Oct 20th 2009 7:30AM
NOTHING is better than playing the game!
Lurkero @ Oct 20th 2009 10:06AM
Maybe half of the CD is intentionally bad, just like only Disc 1 of Xenogears is worth playing. (I can't be the only one that didn't like the direction of disc 2)
Sarge @ Oct 20th 2009 1:40PM
That's going to happen in any fan remix scene. But we get crappy music regularly even in mainstream albums that you pay for, so why should this be any different?
Anyway, not everyone is going to like everything on OCRemix. But I guarantee you there's something worth listening to. It's usually best to find some of your favorite remixers, and listen to their stuff. But always stay open to newbies, there's some great stuff out there.
If you're looking to rock out, start with Sixto Sounds. He's got some OCRemix submissions, and most of his stuff is on his website.
http://sixtosounds.com
NinjaJesus @ Oct 20th 2009 1:32AM
Now if they could re-release the game on the XBLA or the US PSN (Wishful thinking I know...) everyone would win...
Draken Stark @ Oct 20th 2009 4:30AM
I know a few people who would be very interested if Xenogears were available on any of the current platforms (excluding the PS2). I would also hope for something better than the PS1 emulation on PSN. Honestly I'd think they could add some anti aliasing when a game is zoomed in. For example FFVII on the PSP can't be that taxing on the system to exclude some kind of graphical enhancement, be it optional or not.
CH3BURASHKA @ Oct 20th 2009 1:41AM
Words cannot describe the awesomeness of OCRemix as a whole. There's stuff on almost anything you want (even a crazy remix of the Max Payne theme! Go check it out, it's weird). The best stuff by far, in my opinion, is the Team ICO remixes for obvious reasons. Shame that there's only a couple of them though.
If you're a gamer, you MUST visit OCRemix and stock the f*ck up on some tunes.
Cheezeman3000 @ Oct 20th 2009 1:54AM
There is considerable truth to this comment. Also, the gears half of this release is considerably better than the human half.
Husher @ Oct 20th 2009 1:46AM
It's funny I was just on their site the other day. I was wondering if people were still submitting new work or not. Thanks for the update. gears is tight.
ocremix and 8bitpeople are my fav free music sites.
dphizzle @ Oct 20th 2009 2:09AM
oh Xenogears, how i loved your 30-45 mins of dungeon crawl/random battling and your hour and a half of reading the all text cut scene.
IGLAW @ Oct 20th 2009 2:09AM
Ehhhhhhhh...
Has been my reaction to pretty much everything I've heard off OCR in the last 3 years.
Kokomadeta @ Oct 20th 2009 2:26AM
I couldn't agree more.
Meh @ Oct 20th 2009 2:14PM
This.
nekofrog @ Oct 20th 2009 9:11PM
Guess you never heard any of my stuff, then.
Kokomadeta @ Oct 20th 2009 2:26AM
I've completely given up on OCR. It got too big and popular, all of the music started sounding the same, and the people were jerks.
Plus many of those remixes are just terrible. Trance mixes suck and they're just lazy ways of remixing songs. Be creative for a change.
Rocks @ Oct 20th 2009 7:38AM
when i first heard of OCR, i thought it would be awesome... video games, remixes, woo hoo....
then i realized a good majority of it is crap, and the cream of the crop is mediocre at best.
dark_inchworm (stronger than never, ever before) @ Oct 20th 2009 10:47AM
They put out a few catchy tunes back in the day - Mazedude probably being my favorite remixer. Not so much lately. Also, their forums are indeed overrun with douchebags. Makes Joystiq look like a daycare.
Dopple Boppler @ Oct 20th 2009 2:34AM
I don't know if any project OCR ever does will be able to top Relics of the Chozo or Kong in Concert.
Blank-Mage @ Oct 20th 2009 3:42AM
I'm more interested in Xenosaga, having learned three of its songs on the piano.
(I love making people think I'm deeper than I actually am.)
Zorque @ Oct 20th 2009 6:14AM
And yet they're still jerks who banned an entire subforum of awesome people and cheered about it.
dark_inchworm (stronger than never, ever before) @ Oct 20th 2009 10:49AM
?
Care to explain?
Massmass @ Oct 20th 2009 6:39AM
Chrono Cross was Mitsuda's best game soundtrack for me. Everything he has worked on has its gems but I loved almost everything in Chrono Cross. Although, it took me a second play through to enjoy it even more.
Then again I'm one of the rare few that enjoyed the game itself since I got over it as a "sequel" to trigger and love it for what it was not what it should have been in terms of the trigger universe.
AwesomeTown @ Oct 20th 2009 12:30PM
I am right there with you.
acefondu @ Oct 20th 2009 8:38AM
I love Mitsuda's work, no question. And Xenogears is my favorite game of all time. But I've never been a fan of remixes. Remixes to me are always worse than the original.
You shall be as gods @ Oct 20th 2009 11:56AM
You are a cool person.
Worsel @ Oct 20th 2009 8:57AM
"I remixed a remix, it was back to normal."
Mitch Hedberg
Aerothorn @ Oct 20th 2009 9:23AM
Xenogears, eh. Not a *bad* game but my god, the save system was ridiculous towards the end. "Let's make them do two hours of difficult boss battles, and if they die, they can DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN." That's leaving alone issues with the plot, too.
xtremeholymuffin @ Oct 21st 2009 3:26AM
HEY NOW
I think the plot is the last thing that people had issues with...
Fo0dNippl3 @ Oct 20th 2009 9:56AM
Man, I always get bummed out reading people's reactions to OCReMix projects outside the site. I always love them and then I go to places like Joystiq or other forums and people always crap all over them. What a shame, too, because most of the people at OCR are great musicians.
I've never played Xenogears but I might give this a listen because I do like OCR.
Terence @ Oct 20th 2009 11:07AM
An "accompaniment" to the Chrono games? Mitsuda did almost all of it himself. He worked so hard that he got sick and Uematsu had to do a few for CT. Uematsu's work is the accompaniment.
emperorzeroxx @ Oct 20th 2009 11:21AM
Pretty cool remixes, I too wish that Xenogears would finally be released on psn in usa.
dj17nario @ Oct 20th 2009 1:19PM
This tribute album is soooooo awesome. To anyone who thinks it's meh or sucks: you suck. kthxbye
Timett @ Oct 20th 2009 2:09PM
My favorite OCRemix release is the Chrono Symphonic album. It's Chrono Trigger's music imagined as if it were scoring a Chrono Trigger movie. They did a really good job.
I actually really like what I've heard of this Xenogears album so far too. Keep it up OCRemix!
Powerlord @ Oct 20th 2009 2:49PM
I like some of the remixers on OCR (I play TF2 with a bunch of them on OCR's TF2 server (ocrtf2.com:27015)), but... I usually just prefer the music directly from the game. Particularly for those games from the Playstation era and newer.
Powerlord @ Oct 20th 2009 2:51PM
And to those who know me: yes, I realize that makes me a hypocrite. Because I'm *that* Powerlord --> http://www.vgmusic.com/
Nguyen @ Oct 20th 2009 3:26PM
I'm enjoying the Human disc so far. the arranged symphonies take the melodies i know and love and put a new perspective on them. for those who enjoy symphonies and video game music this is a treat. of course it's got nothing on Creid, but that's because that album came from Yasunori himself. still this is nicely done.
all the naysayers sound like they have a bone to pick with OCRemix, so maybe you all should overlook that. i've never heard of them before, so try approaching the selection that way.
Nguyen @ Oct 20th 2009 4:23PM
Ok, I have to amend my comment after hearing "In Joy and Sorrow" by Oinkness. The Human disc does have its... peculiarities. It's kinda.. weird. Right idea, wrong person to sing it, I guess.
Timett @ Oct 20th 2009 6:51PM
I dislike Creid. Too many songs on that album with vocals and I always hate when they slap lyrics over VG music that I already know and love.
Spirit-of @ Oct 20th 2009 4:22PM
It's not terrible by any stretch.
It's kind of like the game, a little too over ambitious in spots, but worth the time.
nekofrog @ Oct 20th 2009 9:13PM
I should have bothered to do something for this project, but all the decent tracks were taken by the time I noticed it.
As compensation to my loving fans, here is my first remix ever, which happens to be Xenogears and FUCKING METAL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CUplfVlCiE
I would prefer you ignore that it exists because it is not very good. My later stuff is much better, but oh well.
Meh @ Oct 21st 2009 10:42AM
Way better than the whole goddamn album.
Seriously, when I first listened to some tracks I thought I've paid too much.
Zorque @ Oct 21st 2009 3:35AM
It's been a few years, so I'd forgotten a lot of the story, but now that I think about it, it actually gets worse. DJPretzel, the site's owner, decided to add a huge sidebar to the entire web-site. It added a bunch of extraneous links that stretched the page, and added a lot of whitespace. Pretty much everyone complained about it, and rather than removing it he banned a lot of them from the forums. At the time, the Unmoderated subforum was more of a community, and had members that had been around longer than most of the come-and-go members in General Discussion. Since they were more well-known, they were singled out, and some people waned to "do something about" Unmod.
Their judging panel, who approve or deny submissions, were for some reason given moderator powers on the forums. One of them, ZIrcon, got his girlfriend Pixietricks on the panel (nepotism is awesome!), and she started having an influence on the site that some members didn't like. I was pretty ambiguous on her, up until anyone that criticized her (constructively or not) started getting banned. Of course, the more people that got banned, the more people started to backlash against her, causing (you guessed it) more people to be banned.
Eventually, at an event one year in which all the judges and DJPretzel were present, a fan of the site who happened to have posted in Unmod all of 2 or 3 times was also at the event taking pictures (of the whole event, not just the judges). They somehow got it into their heads that heads that he was "spying" on them, and when he made a thread posting the pictures. His intention was just to show what was going on at the event, but he got banned for the thread. Huge backlash, everybody gets mad, a lot of people get banned, and later that night DJPretzel deleted the subforum and childishly hosted a video of them cheering as he clicked the delete button.
After that I've never bothered to check back in on the site, and I refuse to support anything they do when they treat their fans like that. It's a shame that such talented people are also so arrogant and infantile.
Meh @ Oct 22nd 2009 9:17AM
lol, awesome drama.
Shariq Ansari @ Oct 22nd 2009 11:07AM
That's a pretty twisted, biased view of what actually happened.
Zorque @ Oct 22nd 2009 7:20PM
Oh? Then let's hear the "truth", since you, as a judge, are such an unbiased source yourself.
Zorque @ Oct 22nd 2009 7:37PM
(damn comment system)