OverClocked ReMix releases Xenogears fan tribute compilation

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.

Now if they could re-release the game on the XBLA or the US PSN (Wishful thinking I know...) everyone would win...

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.

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.

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.

Ehhhhhhhh...

Has been my reaction to pretty much everything I've heard off OCR in the last 3 years.

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.

I don't know if any project OCR ever does will be able to top Relics of the Chozo or Kong in Concert.

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.)

And yet they're still jerks who banned an entire subforum of awesome people and cheered about it.

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.

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.

"I remixed a remix, it was back to normal."
Mitch Hedberg

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.

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.

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.

Pretty cool remixes, I too wish that Xenogears would finally be released on psn in usa.

This tribute album is soooooo awesome. To anyone who thinks it's meh or sucks: you suck. kthxbye

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Oh? Then let's hear the "truth", since you, as a judge, are such an unbiased source yourself.