Something amazing just hit me.

Quick google search tells me otherwise. Google has anti-fraud checks in place that look at videos that suddenly get a huge number of views, but other than that 1 click = 1 view. In fact, the different results I looked up all said that youtube has never official revealed how they count views.

Popular relative to what? I couldn't go up to a stranger and expect them to recognize the name Nobuo Uematsu, but I could rely on them knowing of Justin Bieber

 

Why would I have a debate with someone who says "you have nice paragraphs there but you are wrong". You are pretty much stomping around at the notion of someone saying "idk dude, that might not be right". Because you call it fact do we all just drop what we are doing and call it a day? I don't know, that seems like a load of bullshit to me.

I can say he isn't popular in a larger group of people with a bigger sample size, and I would be not be wrong because that's what I've been saying since the start of it. All I was trying to do was mention that there might be another side to this and not turn it into a pissing contest. I regret replying to this at all, damn dude.

 

nobuo uematsu is gonna remembered for a long time whether y'all like it or not. final fantasy is one of the most popular video game franchises of all time. as long as people still talk about those games, which they will, people will talk about nobuo uematsu because his music is essentially synonymous with it.

 

We're not even talking about that anymore.

 

Because I didn't care to debate something that's fact. He's popular. He sells out tickets to concerts where he performs game music set up by a company that's dying. You could pull the pop music thing like Hatok which isn't even fair because Uematsu is a composer- his work is tied to products, not him. I'm sure more people know the Star Wars theme than they do John Williams. Or we could examine your entire argument about increasing the sample size and how it is outrageous too. Let's pretend Youtube is 1:1, even though we've both stated it's not, for the sake of example. If we increase the sample size enough, then FIVE SEVENTHS of the world's population HAVEN'T HEARD Gangnam Style? Pfft, not popular because it doesn't make a majority. It's asinine. I don't care how well you word your debate, the entire point of your debate is lost when you realize how ludicrous you're being. If we expand the sample size enough for pizza, I'm sure we can make people who buy pizza come off as a minority. Would you say that's unpopular? No, it'd be dumb and factually wrong. Gagnam Style was so popular it was a freakin' Super Bowl commercial. Likewise, Final Fantasy is so renown that insanely popular shows like Robot Chicken can devote a skit to it without having to worry about excluding a portion of their audience. It's not a debate if you're just denying facts and I have to show why they're facts. We can't have a debate about what time it is.

EDIT: Just googled to make sure. Your argument is the literal definition of the "moving goal posts" fallacy.

 

Can we all just say this motherfucker is right and move on? Jesus shit.

 

It's funny that one person in here is like I WANNA DEBATE LET ME DEBATE YOU and another is like JUST TELL THE IDIOT HE'S RIGHT SO HE CAN GET HIS DAILY EGO STROKE and I side more with the "let's move on" side. This isn't fun for me either[DOUBLEPOST=1404382193][/DOUBLEPOST]Didn't see this:

Anything over 301 is when it stops being one click = one view.. That's why popular videos stop after 301 if they get to 301 quickly. 301 is when the fraud awareness checks and implements the unique view to the video.

 

But I was doing that anyway >:3

 

Their perviness could actually elevate this thread.

 

Spoiler

I don't know if this counts, but here's a FFIX CD. The booklet is in Japanese but the entire cover jacket is in English. A few years ago when my brother and I were looking for it, HMV told us we could order it from them.

 

Is that an actual English release...? Or did they just obtain it?

I'm legit curious, dude. I'd like to know the exposure of these releases, ya know?

 

I dunno man, there are still people who don't know who JIMI HENDRIX is.

 

http://store.na.square-enix.com/store/sqenixus/en_US/list/ThemeID.29853700/categoryID.16257200

 

I already checked there, but all those are after the practice of releasing OSTs stateside became common. Most of them are even very recently released so I don't know what to make of it

 

Thoughts on the popularity of video game music aside, I really doubt Uematsu will be remembered "centuries after his death" or even decades outside of the video game community. I don't think video game music will always like that. Hell, I think the Uematsu of the next generation or two will end up more famous after his/her death. I'd theorize that society would be at a stage at that point where video game composers will have that kind of exposure, scope, and fame. Whether or not Uematsu should is irrelevant to me, I just don't see society being at the point right now where he's going to be remembered anywhere near the extent of Beethoven or Mozart for composing video game music.

 

One of the guys that I sat next to at the Uematsu panel I was at had a Final Fantasy III OST with FFVI music on it that he ordered from a catalog. Considering FFVI was released stateside as FFIII, there you go.

 

Best evidence

 

i was trying to find a gif of the amazing spider man hitting someone but i dont think one exists. im sorry spam zone. i have failed you and this thread.

 

But that movie did hit someone.

Fans of good film making.