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So Xenoverse's main theme is a Metallica cover...

Post by Supa Saiya-Jin Tullece » Wed Feb 25, 2015 3:56 pm

I still don't have the full game, so I'm not sure if this has changed, but during the beta Xenoverse's main theme is literally just Metallica's No Leaf Clover. Am I late to this party or is this new?

I mean, can we get anything original anymore?

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Re: So Xenoverse's main theme is a Metallica cover...

Post by Lord Beerus » Wed Feb 25, 2015 4:26 pm

Holy shit. I never noticed that. :shock:

I guess you can throw this into the Yamamoto rip off thread because, guess what, he composed this theme. Shocking isn't it? :P

And just to clarify, it wasn't made specially for the game, it was just a temporary stock track from long library of video game music composed by Yamamoto.

You should check out Xenoverse's official soundtrack though. It is fucking awesome! :thumbup:

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Re: So Xenoverse's main theme is a Metallica cover...

Post by Shiyonasan » Wed Feb 25, 2015 4:29 pm

The interesting thing is that the Xenoverse beta's main theme is just an unused song from Burst Limit's soundtrack:

http://www.kanzenshuu.com/forum/viewtop ... er#p588955
DBZAOTA482 wrote:Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit Soundtrack #32:

http://picosong.com/33Kf


Metallica - No Leaf Clover:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tCEJLX6cG4
After researching it a little, it seems that, for at least the beta, many of the tracks from Burst Limit were reused or used for the first time.

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Re: So Xenoverse's main theme is a Metallica cover...

Post by Ajay » Wed Feb 25, 2015 4:33 pm

I am beyond amazed that Yamamoto's music is being used anywhere anymore.

Surely these companies are aware of the scandal? Nobody should be touching his work with a ten-foot pole if they want to cover themselves in the longrun.
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Re: So Xenoverse's main theme is a Metallica cover...

Post by Dyno » Wed Feb 25, 2015 4:47 pm

Lord Beerus wrote:You should check out Xenoverse's official soundtrack though. It is fucking awesome! :thumbup:
Would you mind to link me to the soundtracks of the game?

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Re: So Xenoverse's main theme is a Metallica cover...

Post by Sshadow5001 » Wed Feb 25, 2015 5:30 pm

That's just....I mean it's not even near soundy-likey...it's the same freaking song.

It sounds awesome though.
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Re: So Xenoverse's main theme is a Metallica cover...

Post by Lord Beerus » Wed Feb 25, 2015 6:21 pm

Dyno wrote:
Lord Beerus wrote:You should check out Xenoverse's official soundtrack though. It is fucking awesome! :thumbup:
Would you mind to link me to the soundtracks of the game?
The complete Xenoverse soundtrack

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Re: So Xenoverse's main theme is a Metallica cover...

Post by kei17 » Wed Feb 25, 2015 11:36 pm

AjayLikesGaming wrote:I am beyond amazed that Yamamoto's music is being used anywhere anymore.

Surely these companies are aware of the scandal? Nobody should be touching his work with a ten-foot pole if they want to cover themselves in the longrun.
Maybe Yamamoto resigned his rights to his past work and Namco Bandai could use it for free. Also, considering that they did release a 3DS port of Super Butoden 2 with Yamamoto's music left as-is only in Japan, what they're afraid of must be being spotted by the original right holders in the West, so they might have thought a closed beta release would be still safe. There's a possibility that Dimps were just not aware of the risk and reused their old stuff from their library, though.

Anyway, they should avoid any risk by shutting out any pieces of music composed by Yamamoto.

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Re: So Xenoverse's main theme is a Metallica cover...

Post by ThunderPX » Thu Feb 26, 2015 5:20 pm

I'm not sure the Super Butouden 2 re-release means anything... I've seen other games where well-known music rights issues weren't a problem for emulated re-releases like the Virtual Console. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 has some rather infamous rights issues, but the only time the music was changed was when they actually ported the code to PC instead of emulating it.
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Re: So Xenoverse's main theme is a Metallica cover...

Post by Black_Liger » Fri Feb 27, 2015 1:39 am

There's not a single track in the release of Xenoverse that is from Yamamoto, Dimps only used his score in the network test and replaced it with the correct score once the game was released, however the yamamoto files from the network test are still in the game files.
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Re: So Xenoverse's main theme is a Metallica cover...

Post by MCDaveG » Sat Mar 14, 2015 5:57 am

What??? On PS4, there plays the Chala Head Chala from Flow and not this particular track!!
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Re: So Xenoverse's main theme is a Metallica cover...

Post by Ajay » Sat Mar 14, 2015 10:53 am

MCDaveG wrote:What??? On PS4, there plays the Chala Head Chala from Flow and not this particular track!!
From the very first post:
"during the beta Xenoverse's main theme is literally just Metallica's No Leaf Clover"
This was from the network test. Every version has HEAD CHA-LA for the final release.
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