10 years later And this is still the best videogame music had to offer.
Instead of trying to imitate Hans Zimmer/John Williams/Enya, instead of being where D-list metal hid out, why wasn't videogame music the place to try out something genuinely new?
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What exactly do you want?
i want le kenye west
Yeah I want to know as well. I get Nier did some interesting stuff, but I'd like to see more examples or something.
Can someone please tell me the appeal to the NieR osts? I listen to it and I don't see the hype
>dah veedeeoh mewzick froom dah popyewlur gaymms R bad
Can someone please tell me the appel of chocolate? I eat it a lot and i don't see the hype
What's wrong with this?
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>implying it wasn't topped by Ace Combat 7
>implying it wasn't topped by Kid Icarus Uprising
They're all well made, with catchy tunes, and fake languages that are catchy. They make for good background music.
I remember when I played Nier, the songs would be stuck in my head constantly until about a week after I completed the game.
I was in the same situation as you until I played the game. They blend very well with whatever is happening and play at very key moments that make you associate that song with those moments. Like just hearing the different versions of the City Ruins music takes me back to those exact moments when it first played.
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10/10 elder god tier underrated ost
Just because you have shit taste in music doesn't mean everyone else does. I like Nier's ost too but there has been lots of good video game soundtracks in the last 10 years.
These are all great stop being a faggot
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Guilty gear has a fucking great metal ost, fuck you op.
broooo, love the VtMR soundtrack. my picks...
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Why do fighting games have such amazing osts? It's almost seems like it's a requirement.
Wrong pic OP.
>videogame music
>uninspired compared to every other medium
lmao, literally the opposite is true.
this is the best vidya album, dunno what OP was thinking lmfao
People who play video games are usually numb to art so they just want pleasing garbage
Okay what the fuck do you fucking mongoloids mean when you say 'trying something new'? What fucking ultimate accomplishment do you want from your soundtracks?
You fucklechucks spout this autistic fucking nonsense about music either being 'uninspired' or 'unoriginal'. In case you didn't realise, 'trying something new' means going outside of the mainstream which is virtually everything so unless you actually want your AAA video game experience backed by Passenger of Shit then your words are worth as much shit as the music you actually like. You fucking pseudo retards say this shit and then instead of actually talking about music you say jack shit about anything beyond basically fishing for some cunt to come along with some YouTube links for something to try listening to.
But okay sure, you clearly know so much more about music than everybody else because you like every other retard out there discovered that mainstream media can have mediocre and forgettable soundtracks when the Avengers 2012 came out and all you pseudo YouTube essay making brainlet cunts decided that you thought you were so intelligent when you thought this shit. That same site has a billion fucking ways you can find the more 'unique' soundtracks but instead you fucktards desperately try to seem high brow by posting what is already accepted as great by the wider public on a fucking basket weaving forum.
>Why is videogame music so uninspired compared to every other medium?
It's not.
>10 years later And this is still the best videogame music had to offer.
Oh, the levels of stupid in this post. Both showing how limited your knowledge of video game music is, and you thinking video games only go back 10 years.
>Instead of trying to imitate Hans Zimmer/John Williams/Enya, instead of being where D-list metal hid out, why wasn't videogame music the place to try out something genuinely new?
Listen to more music, you idiot. It's Hollywood who has become generic. While you have video games doing crazy experimental shit western artists would never do.
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Not to mention how video games were forced to do unique things back in earlier generations, because they had to use MIDI chips. Oh wait, you don't know anything from before 10 years ago...
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Sure sounds like John Williams...
I feel the same with 80% of Uematsu's work. It's... okay. But nothing amazing.
Command Duty Officer, play “Daredevil”
Funny how SH2 blows both NieR games out of the water in terms of music and writing.
Off brand Boards of Canada, try again
>nyc hub rap
While I like the music, it's not the absolute best thing I've ever heard. I theorize that so many people gush over it because it sounds unique to them. They don't recognize the classical music that inspired it.
Uematsu is an extreme. His songs are either 10/10 fucking amazing or they're forgettable. Not much of a middle ground. And I attribute this to him trying to write so much music for each game. He admitted that he had multiple burn outs and mental brteakdowns because of such a high workload on Final Fantasy VI, VII and VIII. And if you notice, all the stuff he's done since FFX, he only writes about 1/3 or less of the music for those games. Sometimes only just one song, like with Final Fantasy XIV and the Ah! Megami sama movie.
Michiru Yamane
i am the hunter
i am the hunter
you are the food
It's fairly easy to reference they old standbys from the SE family or konami or arcsys or whatever known names, so I was trying to think of modern day "indie" games that have done some great music, and I'm having a fairly hard time. I can think of a few games with one or two good pieces, but nothing stand out overall.
In terms of doing something unique though, like op asked for, the one game that came to mind was dead cells, while not really stand out, the character of the music is fairly unique for vidya. Admittedly it's not a new style of music in the absolute, but it's something different.
Lisa is pretty unique but yeah, indies have pretty shit music nowadays
>music is incredibly atmospheric
>also used to establish tense and action moments when an enemy is attacking.
In case you haven't noticed, Yas Forums users subsist on shitting and putting down basically everything that's popular or well liked to make their own tastes and opinions feel elevated because what media they consoom is the only thing they have. I honestly used to be this way to until I realized I was a joyless hypocritical faggot, and nobody fucking cares what you do or don't like.
>inb4 some faggot strawmans with the RLM consume products don't ask question image
You are 100% correct. Nier does have great music, but the writing has always been wildly overstated.
Some of Go Shiina's stuff from like a decade ago was pretty interesting for video game music.
>posts nier
>complains vidya music hasn't done anything new
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Writing but not music. SH2 is good but isn't distinct like NieR is
What about Nier makes you think its the best?
>Not posting the original vidya canto
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You have got to be kidding me. Listen to more music, retard.
You are a humongous retard. Nowadays videogame soundtracks are made by people who actually studied music, instead of the absolute garbage made by retards and ghetto niggers you can hear on the radio.
drakengard 1 ost > power gap > nier ost
Uematsu has plenty of okay songs.
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why are you asking why background music is uninspired. Also ROTT/duke3d and DKC trilogy probably are the apex of VG music
The remake fucked with that aspect so much. The sound design and music was such an important part of Abe's Oddysee
Because you're playing mainstream AAA shit and that shit can only emulate Hollywood movies which have generic uninspired tracks because they're low rent money printing machines.
>he hasn't played Evergrace 1 and 2
lmao loser, you don't know shit about videogame music
>implying there aren't serious jams in video games
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The soundtracks for some games are the reason why they are what they are. See: Skyrim.
some of them are catchy but it's mostly because it captures the atmosphere of the environment really well. which is why most video game music sounds shallow or incomplete, it's supposed to add to the game not function on it's own
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Play the Death Stranding and Persona 5.
AMAZING music.
Stop playing generic AAA trash.
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Masashi Hamauzu kinda shits all over Uematsu IMO. has albums that are easy to listen to out of context. I can listen to the FFX or Musashiden II album just lounging around the house. I think people hype Uematsu purely out of nostalgia. I mean, Uematsu is a great composer, but Hamauzu is just straight up better, and gets shadowed in popularity.
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I was careful to pick songs where Hamauzu had the sole credit. He's just better the better FF composer.
It's the other way around for me. I can listen to 6-9 music without a problem, but most ff10 tracks bore me.