Why do Japanese games have such better music than western games?

[Michael Clark]

Why do Japanese games have such better music than western games?

youtube.com/watch?v=CKOM3lNFajE

[Parker Kelly]

Just music? Japan has better stories that often don't take themselves too seriously.
Also better gameplay in general, better length, better variety of designs and enviroments, better voice acting and better settings.
It's not better in graphic quality or immersion, I'll give you that.
The West tries too hard to distance themselves from Japan while bringing samey shit all the time.
Did you watch E3? All western shit was shooters, open world boredom, with realistic graphics set in modern times or futuristic shit, with VERY few exceptions.

Regardless, I like this one youtube.com/watch?v=I82d6NBRFjA

[Ayden Young]

American video game music is descended from Hollywood, Japanese video game music draws from a somewhat larger pool

[Juan Adams]

Pretty much this.

[Charles Torres]

Lower standards probably, awful shite gets through but so does the avant-garde tracks you wouldn't find anywhere else
youtube.com/watch?v=rjS4dFToVSQ

[Camden Ortiz]

its probably cause you have no taste

[Xavier Powell]

The west is creatively bankrupt. I wish the USA would die already. Fucks think they own the world.

[Dylan Price]

>have to pick between god awful buttrock, garbage synth, or shitty mall orchestral
wrpgs and jrpgs were a mistake

[Nathaniel Sanchez]

One makes games, the other tries to mimic Hollywood.

[Ethan Lopez]

Explain this, then:
youtube.com/watch?v=85AB1p6wpaY

[Eli Thomas]

That's a great tune

[Dominic Gutierrez]

>g-guys we want more pay that based on sales
>m-muh voice and restrictive nda
With the increasing cost of making games, i am not surprised companies playing it safe.

[Brody Morales]

This is the real answer, all others are meme comments

[Christian Mitchell]

Japanese soundtracks feel attached to the environments of games. There's just something beautiful about them.

youtu.be/T0zKypqi3wo

[Chase Cox]

Didn't your parents teach you to not generalize?

[Juan Lopez]

Post more good japnese vidya music

[Gabriel Roberts]

Radiant Historia is such a good game. Shimomura outdid herself with the soundtrack as well

Here's another one good one youtu.be/emossz8J_kM

youtu.be/SKI8RFr0Ec8
youtu.be/Q_e8abf_Tds

[Hudson Lee]

youtube.com/watch?v=qmandi2nKi4

[Andrew Long]

youtube.com/watch?v=vGjwXI0n5-I

[Chase Howard]

youtube.com/watch?v=YMKskuvJTcs

youtube.com/watch?v=3V9zxXN1rx0

youtube.com/watch?v=ALbVEmzY5S4

[Joshua Russell]

youtube.com/watch?v=KukSVxgsQkg

please excuse that it's a 2017 meme game

[Mason Torres]

My favorite of the year

[Nathaniel Robinson]

all shit

here's how it's done, weebshits:
youtube.com/watch?v=pTi7LrXxbOI

[Angel Walker]

DELET THIS
FUCKIG WEEEBS
REEEEEEEEE
WEST IS BEST BASED EA

[Ian Sanchez]

Japanese people have a very disciplined culture. That helps.

[Easton Jackson]

They don't. You either don't play enough "Western" (what the fuck does this even mean) games or you strawman every "Western" game as shit like Life is Strange. Point is either way you're a biased weeb who needs to play more western titles.

youtube.com/watch?v=02yditXnQZw
youtube.com/watch?v=jgQQMZUjMGY
youtube.com/watch?v=yWh9l8RSkPk
youtube.com/watch?v=i_0G6WPuss4
youtube.com/watch?v=lsxhy_9iijg
youtube.com/watch?v=h38zN_vF_dQ
youtube.com/watch?v=3rBqXMao65E&t=474s

[Owen Thomas]

youtube.com/watch?v=FdU8oqCbvzo&t=20s

[Alexander Rivera]

youtube.com/watch?v=MgK_OfW7nl4
youtube.com/watch?v=BRosMyUkQ3g
youtube.com/watch?v=kWIb__zYrzg

Halo has a great OST, I don't think anyone will deny that.

[Nathan Morgan]

I think most people on Sup Forums just generalize any game made by white people as Western. Even though countries like Poland and Russia are clearly not Western or white

[Jaxson Sullivan]

youtu.be/s7nC_4ailwI

This song could never appear in a big-budget American game. Publishers try to sweep anything creative under the rug.

[Aiden Baker]

youtube.com/watch?v=OTNfuztCMgM

[Connor Carter]

youtube.com/watch?v=x20AFkjaZqo
youtube.com/watch?v=US9Moa3upTY
youtube.com/watch?v=FmBxsPhfo7c
youtube.com/watch?v=l_N_MQUAouY
go fuck yourself

[David Adams]

>youtube.com/watch?v=kWIb__zYrzg
This one is a great example of how to use build up and then make it explode.

[Easton Lee]

>UT
Fuck yeah my dude, probably the greatest multiplayer game of all time. Arena shooters are by far and large the best video game genre. Most games can't get the music to match the gameplay as good as they do. Weebs can go fuck themselves

youtube.com/watch?v=02yditXnQZw
youtube.com/watch?v=wbn_dH9nz6o
youtube.com/watch?v=ALBKFB28E0M
youtube.com/watch?v=VJT0Xh5ZrOg

[Nathan Gray]

P5 will go down as one of the best vidya OSTs, even compared to the other Persona games

youtu.be/lcE4-6QGgpc
youtu.be/uA0nSkSxA3E
youtu.be/eFVj0Z6ahcI

[Robert Lewis]

How can weebs compete?

youtube.com/watch?v=3-G15kCJNvk
youtube.com/watch?v=lmlCudR3JPk
youtube.com/watch?v=1JEueGdQ5yQ
youtube.com/watch?v=1_XmY09uRJ4

[Gabriel Long]

Also I put HM there because what else is it? I think it's most close to a arena shooter.

[Juan Ramirez]

Old Japanese vidya music > Modern Japanese vidya music

youtube.com/watch?v=dlNOZ1D6zgY
youtube.com/watch?v=lBEvtA4Uuwk
youtube.com/watch?v=BlheABMmKTw

[Ethan Flores]

This sounds like some shitty vocaloid music, why the fuck do I like it?

[William Ross]

>How can weebs compete?
with one song
youtube.com/watch?v=nZ6ABV_Q9qU

[Isaiah Parker]

How can weebs compete?
>PARTY ROCKERS IN THE HOUSE TONIGHT

[Carter Nguyen]

...

[Gavin Reyes]

yawn

[Cooper Powell]

>Game set in 2011
>PARTY ROCK IS IN THE HOUSE TONIGHT

[Evan Adams]

Same reason as why they have better character design : striving for beauty, not following some ridiculous ideology (in the west case : political correctness)

[Austin Sullivan]

Are you ironic memeing?

That sounds like a mediocre FFXIV dungeon theme.

[Henry Brown]

I WANNA SCREAM
AND SHOUT
AND LET IT ALL OUT

[Jordan Stewart]

this
youtube.com/watch?v=9LQsYxRTjPg
youtube.com/watch?v=IKQR8_sK4Mk
youtube.com/watch?v=WRKCFBVAy0A

[Levi Collins]

This is just a rearrangement of the old Nier soundtrack. How lazy.

[Isaiah Collins]

>first minute is fucking 10/10 and then immediately shits itself
Why does this occur in all nip songs? Posting good western music.

youtube.com/watch?v=JSqVbywt9kw
youtube.com/watch?v=Uxg5W5wKvLE
youtube.com/watch?v=S41XFYRX6Bs
youtube.com/watch?v=IaE20aXxCz4
youtube.com/watch?v=FSVHx23ByhM
youtube.com/watch?v=cr3ViZXl5Ws

[Oliver Thomas]

youtube.com/watch?v=rolLe7il3Zs

[Logan Fisher]

>muh atmospheric shit

boring

[Lucas Morris]

YOOOOO
youtube.com/watch?v=_APb6rEOWmE

[Asher Brooks]

youtube.com/watch?v=9FZ-12a3dTI

[Brandon Bell]

youtube.com/watch?v=kG22JL4RRTI
youtube.com/watch?v=sQPDe1mU31s

[Aaron Rodriguez]

japs high on american burgers.

youtube.com/watch?v=2dPaVk4G1jg

youtube.com/watch?v=OR5GnRQAOO8

youtube.com/watch?v=ZYAPgPH9hsI

[Dylan Rodriguez]

Because
Fuck you
You know the answer
All western music is safe
They don't want to offend anybody
Same shit in western movies

[Mason Cook]

>open 'Western' link
>MUH SWEEPING ORCHESTRAL STRINGS
>immediately close tab

EVERY
FUCKING
TIME

Please post something that doesn't sound like Hans Zimmer crapped it out for a high school music project

[Ethan Roberts]

youtube.com/watch?v=kN_LvY97Rco

[Jose Kelly]

You know they sub-contracted the Revengeance soundtrack to an American composer, right?

[Ian Wilson]

kek

[Owen Ramirez]

Because video game music composition is taken more seriously in Japan, simply put. I also think Japan does top-40-esque pop songwriting arguably better than the West.

[Logan Davis]

i did not.

[David Sanchez]

>open Japanese link
>ears are immediately raped by a thousand instruments and girls screaming at once

youtube.com/watch?v=FnogL42dEL4
youtube.com/watch?v=O8jJJXgNLo4
youtube.com/watch?v=-ROXEo0YD10
youtube.com/watch?v=VPUp2PiCYBY
youtube.com/watch?v=6-pUXTUXfeM
youtube.com/watch?v=ZK0FZb1E6Do&t=554s
youtube.com/watch?v=UthQ2gR1bU4
youtube.com/watch?v=a6BbvCC0VI0

[Andrew Hill]

Weebs objectively have the worst taste in everything.

[Ryan Barnes]

>DOOM 2016

Stop user, I can only get so erect.

[Anthony Long]

west masterpieces

>inb4 undertale is shit.

youtube.com/watch?v=7WDFUcjWARU

youtube.com/watch?v=pcamjcoRmrQ

youtube.com/watch?v=B2jVbSI9H4o

youtube.com/watch?v=BEWOTdVnnZ8

[David Lewis]

>mfw weebs hate this game but the people they idolize love it

[Jackson White]

youtube.com/watch?v=sk-9ihcy2R8
youtube.com/watch?v=tl363Wh4ghU
youtube.com/watch?v=vHeuR_bC9GM
youtube.com/watch?v=znkBQOvDLeg

[Gavin Morris]

Good thing western music outside videogames is eons above japanese music
weebshits eternally btfo

[Josiah Hughes]

>muh strings

youtube.com/watch?v=t97u9qmgwN0

that 90s new age synth aesthetic tho

[Austin Anderson]

>Good thing western music outside videogames is eons above japanese music
lol
youtube.com/watch?v=bREC4gvH5Gw

[Luis Young]

>starts with Spider Dance

A man of taste, I see

[Jaxson Carter]

To be fair though does Japan even produce music? Aside from shitty 15 year old boy band pop

[Brayden Long]

lmao
youtube.com/watch?v=Ct6BUPvE2sM

[Xavier Phillips]

oh shit, are we doing non-vidya music now

youtube.com/watch?v=vUS4aQv0woU

[William Turner]

>BU-BUT IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY!
Aside from video games and anime has Japan contributed anything to the world culturally?

[Colton Jackson]

>To be fair though does Japan even produce music?
One of the largest and most varied music scenes in the world actually.

youtube.com/watch?v=co5gy_2uOEY
youtube.com/watch?v=IaFA7EUYnxI

[Jacob Morgan]

Akira Kurosawa?

[Colton Miller]

Japan just cares more about the music in games in general.

Even to the point that during the 8 bit era.
Sega Master system had a Music addon.
And many Famicom games had extra hardware in the cart to add better music.

youtube.com/watch?v=7v9339JUK3U

[Landon Gray]

the real question is why do japs make better games in general. or, at least, why they make more games worth playing (even if they are often heavily flawed)

id wager that its partially because developing for portables encourages game design which is a little more out there rather than just retreading the same shit. even their dudebro games (monhun, pokemon, mario) are far more imaginative than the west.

i think this also fits because before the 7th gen i think the west had a much better showing. something about the xbox really just fucked everything up, and we also unfortunately lost blizz and valve on pc soon after.

[Adrian Ortiz]

Apart from their notable contributions to medical science, electronics, cinematography, robotics and horology?

[Ethan Jackson]

>culturally

[Andrew Fisher]

sounds like generic post and alt rock to me

[Eli Moore]

Japanese martial arts.
Most of the world learns martial arts the Japanese way.

[Lincoln Torres]

youtube.com/watch?v=vsVH9CqrTeA
youtube.com/watch?v=FyqKNmIl_k4

[Hunter Phillips]

>inspired on Touhou and Earthbound
youtube.com/watch?v=VIop055eJhU

[Ethan Myers]

Western games are trying to be Hollywood.
Hollywood are trying to bore us all to death.

[Jack Jenkins]

why doesnt korea make good vidya? china has horrible copyright law, had a ban on consoles until recently, and a heavily censored media.

whats koreas excuse? they stopped executing people on the streets well over 30 years ago now. make some fucking video games for national pride, will ya?

[Nicholas Young]

Some of the most horrendous shit I've ever had the pain to listen to. Jesus christ why can't Japs into non video game music?

[Christopher Powell]

All pale in comparison to european cultural and scientific achievements

[Kayden Cook]

Undertale took pretty much everything from Japanese games, including the musical style.

[Connor Rogers]

>2000+10+7
>can't into eclectic bubblegum noisegrind pop

plebe

[Luis Sanders]

not bad for a single country

[Colton White]

Last 2 western games I managed to seriously enjoy were Red Dead Redemption and Ass Creed Black Flag, probably because those have the more realistic pirate and Old West settings that I think are harder for Japan to emulate, while coming naturally to western devs. Love One Piece but I don't think the games are the pirating simulator that Black Flag gives me. First couple hours of playing skyrim are a bit magical as well, most japanese games won't usually give you the freedom to fuck off and do whatever you want to a town and its people like that. I just think both sides have their strengths and weaknesses that they could learn from each other. BotW is a good example of jap devs learning from the west and trying new things in a popular genre.

[Cooper Taylor]

Somebody post the melt banana copypasta

[Jack Foster]

youtube.com/watch?v=4ckR822Wu4k

youtube.com/watch?v=6JapDyUwAu8

youtube.com/watch?v=JIE94pn4iJs

youtube.com/watch?v=7wHVXaQRuFU

youtube.com/watch?v=mpqct1zMqTE

[David Torres]

The remixes are always better with Touhou.
youtube.com/watch?v=vAzGynpOmIc

[Juan Ward]

iirc, they have an extremely strict and expensive ratings board which must be used in order to publish anything, squashing any form of game production that isn't grindy cash shop based MMO games.
Plus Koreans can't make anything good anyway.

[Christopher Stewart]

At least post a good one that's actually a remix
youtube.com/watch?v=WraWs2qMgdY