WTF is wrong with game soundtracks?

[Awexsome]

So long as Marty O' Donnel draws breath your argument is invalid.

 

[snappydog]

I think most game soundtracks are actually astoundingly meritorious artistically. HOWEVER. That isn't to say that I like all of the songs on every soundtrack that were or weren't written specially for the game. Usually if a game inculdes a track that wasn't written with the game in mind, ie an existing song by a band, I won't like it as much as the OST.

 

[itsausernamewhatofit]

I can think of many great game soundtracks...

Spoiler: Blacker than a moonless night, hotter and more bitter than hell itself... that is coffee.

Spoiler: What about you, Jack? What's it going to be? Loyalty to your country, or loyalty to me?

 

[DoPo]

Spoiler: Just like this

Just like this

However children only see the dolphins there. Or usually at least.

I had to look SOOO hard to actually see those dolphins. What does that say about me?

I don't know. I'm not a psychologist.

Does it make you feel better that I didn't see the dolphins for at least 2-3 minutes the first time I saw it? I was 14, by the way.

I actually am a psychologist and I still can't see the dolphins

Well, how does that make you feel? Can you then tell us about your relationship with your mother?

amidoingitright

 

[DoomyMcDoom]

Spoiler: Just like this

Just like this

However children only see the dolphins there. Or usually at least.

I had to look SOOO hard to actually see those dolphins. What does that say about me?

Even looking really hard, I still can't see dolphins... what dolphins?

 

[gigastar]

I think some peeps have misunderstood what I was getting at. Metropolis Street Racer (hints in the title) is a Racing game that focuses on making the player feel great since they are winning a race and performing sweet drifts and sweet jumps and other ?sweet? car related things... not a romance game or a Japanese visual novel but a RACING game and after hearing the tracks on Fuse a number of times, don't seem to mesh well into a racing soundtrack. As for Sonic Adventure 2 and the ?Give up the emerald or die, I don't love you? line, its not really the tone of the song or even the style, its more the ?Baby's first Gangsta Rap? subtext given by the fact the line states ?hand it over or DIE? when its featured in a game that centers on a blue hedgehog and his neon woodland entourage that seems weird.

So you want good examples that are from true games?

Spoiler: Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (2D Fighter)

Spoiler: Monster Hunter (Action RPG/Hack & Slash)

Spoiler: Ace Combat (Flight Simulation)

Spoiler: God Hand (3D beat em up) and Okami (RPG)

I think thats more than a few examples of how theres nothing wrong with game soundtracks... in modern times at least. By the way its no coincidence that most of theese games are from Capcom. Say what you like about thier storywriting, their soundtrack departments know thier stuff.

In all seriousness you came to the table with a game as old as i am, in a time where Japanese games often suffered translation errors.

And if you ever need to look for the creme de la creme of music in games ever again, i reccomend you bookmark this page [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/AwesomeMusic/VideoGames].

[sub]Sheesh, i really need to calm down when i get to a music topic thread.[/sub]

 

[JoesshittyOs]

Have you played any big release within the passed... 4 months?

 

[Lunar Templar]

Asura's Wrath has the best soundtracks I heard in so many years

quoted for truth

OT: really, THAT'S your argument? the weak lyrics from a bad game. nothing is wrong with game sound tracks, anybody on this thread could fill page upon page full of tracks from games they like. besides, using a sonic game as a base line for anything is stupid at best

 

[Yoshemo]

Spoiler: Just like this

Just like this

However children only see the dolphins there. Or usually at least.

I had to look SOOO hard to actually see those dolphins. What does that say about me?

I don't know. I'm not a psychologist.

Does it make you feel better that I didn't see the dolphins for at least 2-3 minutes the first time I saw it? I was 14, by the way.

I actually am a psychologist and I still can't see the dolphins

Well, how does that make you feel? Can you then tell us about your relationship with your mother?

amidoingitright

lol not even close

 

[dessertmonkeyjk]

Depends on the game I think. What do you usually hear in a rap song?

 

[anthony87]

Depends on the game I think. What do you usually hear in a rap song?

The Knuckles levels in Sonic Adventure apparently. Thing is...the music in the Knuckles levels is shite.

City Escape is where it's at!

 

[kortin]

The Knuckles levels in Sonic Adventure apparently. Thing is...the music in the Knuckles levels is shite.

City Escape is where it's at!

Rolling around at the speed of sound. Got places to go, gotta follow my rainbow!
Love that song so much.

OT:

Spoiler: I'm upset it took this long for Touhou Music to be posted

Touhou music is amazing. Absolutely love it all. And if you don't like the original, I can almost guarantee you there's a remix out there that you'll love. There are so many good OSTs out there, it's not even funny. Bastion had an amazing OST. Serious Sam 3, REALLY good OST. Deus Ex: Human Revolution as well. Open your eyes OP.

 

[targren]

The Knuckles levels in Sonic Adventure apparently. Thing is...the music in the Knuckles levels is shite.

City Escape is where it's at!

That game would have been so much better without all that other crap, if it was just more levels like City Escape.

 

[DioWallachia]

Here is my solid counter argument:

YES! Iji is amazing!
Can also be used as a counter argument for saying that gamemaker games are bad.

OT

EDIT: Forgot how to work youtube videos.

Fixed for you.

But where is that thing you say that Gamemaker games are bad? Never heard of it before unless you mean the fact that the IJI author cant make this game to be available for Xbox Arcade and WII because there is no compatibility for Gamemaker.
That is fucking terrible, because IJI is my favorite game out of all the games i have played, it managed to top Legacy of Kain in term of awesome + manly tears and i am a Misantrope Supreme that shoulnt be caring for another human being but here is IJI for me to proove me wrong. If i were Bizzaro Yathzee IJI will probably be my Dizzy World and Legacy of Kain would be my Prince of Persia.........in fact, PoP and LoK games are similar in a way.

Mmm........someone was taking notes from each other.

 

[Proverbial Jon]

Soundtracks are only getting better, OP.

Damn, that's another Mass Effect soundtrack I'll be buying then.