General Music Thread aka WUT D'YA LISTEN TO?
Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2020 9:10 pm
Had a discussion with a thought, how game industry is pretty much toothless and almost always playing safe in regards to music in soundtracks. "Game composers", they always adapt music to "teh game standards", which not only means to make it usable withing gameplay, but also... They often never have balls to use the most juicy, the most uncompromising. With rare exceptions, of course, like Mick Gordon's DooM'16 score (though it will disappoint metalheads due to lack of not only solos and melodies, but also composition, lol) or Streets of Rage 3.
In my impression, even niche game genres are much less radical, much less marginal than niche/subculture music genres. Even if both are combo of being "teh author's vision" and "for sale, actually" products. In games, even if they attempt to bring some to table, it's almost always some distilled version, that is lacking. Also all that "keyboard guitars rock" many game ost often use. And how actual techno is rare to encounter. And heavymetal, though we had a separate thread on it (tl'dr it was mostly pce shmups and some musous). Proper drumnbass was in old ape escape and bomberman games , and jazz is mostly in KOF and Detective Saburo...
Anyway, nevermind, and i'll just open this thread with some music that will melt average gamers' brain, KEK.
Ok, if vids above only give ya headsick, something with melody i also have to post.
In my impression, even niche game genres are much less radical, much less marginal than niche/subculture music genres. Even if both are combo of being "teh author's vision" and "for sale, actually" products. In games, even if they attempt to bring some to table, it's almost always some distilled version, that is lacking. Also all that "keyboard guitars rock" many game ost often use. And how actual techno is rare to encounter. And heavymetal, though we had a separate thread on it (tl'dr it was mostly pce shmups and some musous). Proper drumnbass was in old ape escape and bomberman games , and jazz is mostly in KOF and Detective Saburo...
Anyway, nevermind, and i'll just open this thread with some music that will melt average gamers' brain, KEK.
Ok, if vids above only give ya headsick, something with melody i also have to post.
