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Do you like video game music?

DAISHIDAISHI
edited May 2012 in General Chat
Opinions on game music? I'm not asking your favorite albums but something broader. Eras, genres. Chip music, like 80s style Mario Bros? Or more recent stuff that's full orchestral?

I've been thinking about reopening my internet radio broadcast so was just wondering.

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  • RetroVortexRetroVortex
    edited May 2012
    Yes. I do.

    Chiptunes, metal, orchestral, jazz band, music like what Shatter had...

    You name it, I probably would like it!
    As long as its well made and sounds good. I'll like it.
  • Darth MarsdenDarth Marsden
    edited May 2012
    Yeah, I enjoy all sorts of video game music. I'm particularly fond of stuff from RPGs, that's normally epic and sweeping, which'll get me feeling good.

    Conversely, some good ol' chiptune tracks are pretty good too. As long as they're not boringly slow. I've found that with a lot of chiptune albums, they always seem to be really slow-paced and dull.

    I actually did an experiment with a couple of tracks - namely, I sped them up 100%. They actually sounded much better to me! I guess that's just the way I'm coded or something. Hey ho.
  • WarpSpeedWarpSpeed
    edited May 2012
    I love real music, like the kind Jared Emerson-Johnson makes, or the orchestral music from Return To Zork.

    Otherwise, it's a mixed bag. Kind of like saying, "Do you like music?" without any other clarifying remarks about what kind of music. Good music contributes to the mood of the game. Bad music just repeats itself no matter what you're doing, unless it's something like Tetris, where you're only doing one thing for the whole game.
  • AlcoremortisAlcoremortis
    edited May 2012
    Hells yeah. I like both the orchestral stuff and chip, though for different reasons. The orchestral is more fun to listen to, but I've been far more successful in transposing chip music to piano. The exception being Trine, which is pretty much the only "orchestral type" that I've been able to get down to two hands.
  • JenniferJennifer Moderator
    edited May 2012
    I enjoy all kinds of video game music, but I admit I have a preference for orchestral. I do enjoy really well done synthesized music like Michael Land's Tales of Monkey Island score.

    That said, I don't mind chiptunes either. I have the NES and SNES Mario songs that came on the soundtrack CD with Super Mario All-Stars Wii on my WinAmp playlist.
  • DAISHIDAISHI
    edited May 2012
    Alright. I'm seriously thinking of starting my broadcasts up again. I used to like playing various music from games and considering I have 80 gigs of just game music, I think it wouldn't hurt to start it up.
  • Debbie82Debbie82
    edited May 2012
    Ditto for Darth Marsden. :)
  • der_ketzerder_ketzer
    edited May 2012
    I like old Chiptune (Megaman 2) and the newer electronic ans sometimes chiptunesque (Super Meat Boy) music in videogames. But if you give me a full blown orchestral score like in Diablo 3 all you do is bore me.
    All video game music is welcome as long as it is memoirable (and orchestral scores fail at that 99% of the time).

    Favourite videogamescore of 2011: Frozen Synapse
  • IcedhopeIcedhope
    edited May 2012
    I think my favorite score so far this year is Max Payne 3. It's techy, with noir, and a lot of drum beats.
  • JedExodusJedExodus
    edited May 2012
    I've no preference, just music that suits its purpose.

    Clint Mansell did some really nice stuff in ME3, really good use of acoustic and digital instruments. There's more emphasis on humanity in the music in three, with the pianos and strings and orchestral parts, whilst the synths and reaper calls represent the galactic side of the struggle.
  • der_ketzerder_ketzer
    edited May 2012
    JedExodus wrote: »
    I've no preference, just music that suits its purpose.

    Clint Mansell did some really nice stuff in ME3, really good use of acoustic and digital instruments.
    A sham that you had to link this crap they use to manipulate you through music though.
  • JedExodusJedExodus
    edited May 2012
    der_ketzer wrote: »
    A sham that you had to link this crap they use to manipulate you through music though.

    Track's actually crap, we've all been indoctrinated.
  • der_ketzerder_ketzer
    edited May 2012
    Not me. I would like the trtack if it hadn't been used for that scene that also had been used in the trailer to shock us by showing the reapers kill children. It just made me angry...
    Also it was used in every MassEffect3's ending sucks video ever. Even Angry Joe did it.
  • JedExodusJedExodus
    edited May 2012
    der_ketzer wrote: »
    Not me. I would like the trtack if it hadn't been used for that scene that also had been used in the trailer to shock us by showing the reapers kill children. It just made me angry...
    Also it was used in every MassEffect3's ending sucks video ever. Even Angry Joe did it.

    I can't begrudge the track for a lot of questionable decisions EA made. The childs death shocked me in no way whatsoever because whilst avoiding the trailers for spoilers was easy, avoiding the outraged chatter was a lot harder.

    If AngryJoe stuck his hand in the fire would you? No, hopefully you'd push the rest of him in afterwards, lock the stove door and kick back in your badass gingerbread house.
  • MusicallyInspiredMusicallyInspired
    edited May 2012
    Absolutely love game soundtracks. No so many that are out today in AAA games, but a few indie games have great soundtracks. I especially like the older MIDI and MOD music. Chiptunes are great as well. It's just more interesting. I'm not into the Hollywood style backdrop music from like Call of Duty or anything like that. No depth to it, really.
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