Video Games Live

[Soulless Toast]

A bunch of us from the In-Game Chat crew are going on a road-trip to see Video Games Live tomorrow.
Have you been? Thoughts? And is the pre-show "festival" worth going to or should you just show up for the concert?

[fitbabits]

I really want to go to one of these... I trust you'll be taking pictures and letting everyone know how awesome it was?

[OrigamiPanther]

I haven't been to the Video Games Live concert, but I went to one of the Play! ones a couple years ago when they were at Wolftrap. In summation: it can't come back this way soon enough. I was in a big group with my friends from grade school and their significant others and that kind of a group outting is the best scenario, imo, for something like this. The second best part was the audience reaction. People cheering and humming along with the songs. I'm guessing the venue you'll be going to will be inside in a concert hall? If it ever comes back your way to an outside locale, I definitely recommend going. Bring a picnic and enjoy.

[atrus20]

I've been wanting to go to VGL for a long time now. This needs to come to either Baltimore or Philly soon!

[CES]

I went to see VGL a few months back when they stopped off in Glasgow and I can quite honestly say it's brilliant. Hearing all those blips, beeps and MIDI music from games you grew up with being played with a full orchestra and choir is just something else.

Also, go to the pre-show and post-show. They usually have loads of composers to speak to (I got to meet one of the brains behind Mass Effect's soundtrack)

Edit: Get pictures, Get video, Get whatever media you can get from the show, VGL allows you to record the shows (with proper credit of course)

[rinichanraar]

I went a couple of months ago in San Francisco at the Nob Hill Masonic Center.

It was pretty cool overall. The orchestra played a lot of great music, and the video game pianist was there (Martin Leung, I think?), and he was awesome.

I think my least favorite thing about it was Tommy Tallarico. He talked way too much.

There was a Guitar Hero contest that was going on before the show, and I was going to enter, but I decided against it because we were running out of time, and they were playing on Medium, so it ended up pretty much being that whoever got closest to perfect won, and I thought that was kind of boring. (Longest sentence ever.) I thought it would've been more fun to play (and watch) if they'd put it on Expert or something. I mean, it was a contest, after all.

[Church42]

Good show, though I think they can cut out the "Let's put a t-shirt on a guy to represent the ship in space invaders and give him a buzzer to shoot at the aliens in Space Invaders as they come down the screen" portion of the show.

[Heretic Machine]

UltraNeko on Youtube has been posting some videos of their performance at E4.

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You can find the rest in her channel; she has a playlist with all of the videos.

[Soulless Toast]

We're going to talk about this tomorrow during our show, we had mixed reactions from the group. And sadly, photography was not allowed.

[rinichanraar]

We're going to talk about this tomorrow during our show, we had mixed reactions from the group. And sadly, photography was not allowed.

Wow, no photos? Weird. When I went, no one regulated anything. I literally took like three videos and quite a few pictures.

[pseudopseudo]

I went when VGL was in Vegas last summer - I loved it. Especially since we got a one-time performance of the Command & Conquer series music from the team that created it - that was intense. I'd agree with rini on Tommy Tallarico. He does talk too damn much during the show. I mean, at least he's got a little charisma, and he tries to get the crowd into it - but at times he tries TOO hard.

Also, hearing "One Winged Angel" live is something everyone needs to experience.

I wouldn't recommend the pre-show, though. The one here was mostly full of little kids/teenagers being bratty. All the lines were full up of 'em, and really... there didn't seem to be too much of a reason to be there that early.

[Dave]

We're going to talk about this tomorrow during our show, we had mixed reactions from the group. And sadly, photography was not allowed.

I might have to see if I can't sit in on the show tomorrow night and listen in on this, live and in person.