So, what are some good soundtracks? Your favourite vidya composers?
I unironically enjoyed FFXIII for its soundtrack and became fan of Hamauzu's style and work.
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Dylan Myers
Pretty much any album Shoji Meguro works on is guaranteed to be great
Noah Mitchell
Drakengard has a unique experimental soundtrack. youtube.com
Brayden Martinez
Love him. Actually I'm pretty much into anything that has a jazzy touch and I've always quite enjoyed Persona / SMT. I'm eager to listen the upcoming SMT for switch.
Really, really nice. Also spot-on for my tastes. I don't know much from Mr. Sano and I have to play Drakengard now.
I knew and loved Drakengard III music from Keiichi Okabe. The Final song was quite impressive with rhytmic gamelan ensemble, traditional gagaku addition and rythmic changes. The percussion section was damn lit too.
I have to add an evergreen interest for Sakimoto. I recently picked up Crimson Shroud and wasn't disappointed at all.
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Brayden Fisher
>FFXIII soundtrack
Ethan Taylor
Not even OP, the soundtrack is pretty good, the game itself is bad.
Brody Garcia
OP here. Yeah, that's the point.
I liked the art direction, creature and world design as well, to be honest. The game itself was a mess.
The soundtrack is exceptional to me, tho.
Nascent Requiem has to be my favourite battle theme ever.
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I also personally think that Nobuo Uematsu, with some exceptions (FFII, FFIII, FFVI and Yoko Shimomura are generally overrated, though good and competent as they are. But that is completely subjective.
Kumi Tanioka, on the other hand, is another forgotten composer for SEnix that deserved a lot more recognition.
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Jonathan Flores
Will there ever be a better soundtrack?
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Grayson Bennett
Ryan Young
13-2 ost is maybe better
Juan Parker
ANYTHING with Daisuke Ishiwatari's name on it.
Mick Gordon, Michael McCann, Lord and Savior Kenji Yamamoto. Koji Kondo and Yuka Kitamura.
Christian Long
There's such good OST's in games, they're wonderful.
>Fire Emblem Awakening/Fate/PoR/RD/Echoes
>Blazeblue Chronophantasm
>Guilty Gear Xrd
>Persona and SMT series
>Metal Gear Rising
>TWEWY
>FFXIII
>Cuphead
>Nier Gestalt/Automata
>Bloodborne
>Bravely Default
>Trauma Center series (Second Opinion and New Blood especially)
>Catherine
>Danganronpa series
>Dark/Demon's Soul's hub world themes
>Donkey Kong Country Returns/Tropical Freeze
>FF Type-0
>FFXV
>gravity rush
>Katawa Shoujo
>kingdom hearts series
>Mother 3
>Pokemon X/Y
>Super Meat Boy
>They Bleed Pixels
>UNIEL
>Xenoblade Chronicles
it's all fucking gold, though FFXV is mostly shit I put it on the list because the good tracks are absolutely amazing. Anything else you guys recommend?
Jackson Bell
>Koji Kondo
Some of his work is alright, but he's seriously overrated.
Carson Perez
>Post Djeeta
>Don't mention Granblue's OST
shameful display
Landon Walker
Norihiko Hibino's work on MGS2 is solid, and it kinda redeems the hollywood hack that they hired for god knows what reason.
Zachary Jackson
its just a picture of a cute anime girl to me
Nicholas Long
All SaGa games have superb soundtracks.
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Jason Gomez
dumb fucking squidposter
Nathaniel Gonzalez
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You're missing out on some good stuff from Uematsu himself then.
Cooper Hall
>I'm eager to listen the upcoming SMT for switch.
That's not gonna be jazzy at all, since it'll be Ryota Koduka not Shoji Meguro, and if the reveal trailer is anything to go by he'll be picking up where he left off with SMT IV. Not at all a bad thing, since SMT IV had an amazing OST.
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Wyatt Lopez
OP here. I have to say that I thought for year that my apreciation for Kondo was mainly because of such great and iconic games he worked on. I'm a huge Zelda fan for instance, so I thought myself as quite biased. I have to say that I recently came to the conclusion that he indeed is an exceptional composer with a talent for iconic motifs and a distinctive style, as well as having a sort of experimental vein.
So, I came to terms with my bias and decided to accept Kondo as a great composer.
But, to be honest, I think I have a positive and enthusiastic attitude for a lot of composers, so my opinion is quite irrelevant
That's a good list. Fire Emblem ha some neat battle themes. Desire Below, from Fates is one of my favourites:
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Check FFXIV as well, it has some nice surprises and touches here and there and quite a "melting pot" style, with lots of influences. Here's a piece with some gamelan influences as well as vocals and stuff
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You may look into Kirby series as well, there's some serious magic going on there if you ask me
John King
Ys 8's OST is better desu
>these are literally regular field themes
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Joshua Phillips
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Most of Daisuke Ishiwatari's stuff tho I actually prefer him when his stuff doesn't sound like generic Guilty Gear buttrock:
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Soken did some great stuff for Primals and Raid Bosses in FFXIV: youtube.com
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Levi Turner
I see, my bad. I didn't really catch up with official news for SMT after the trailer reveal. By the way, he did an excellent work with SMT IV as you said
Jason Cruz
Pic related.
Charles Sullivan
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All versions of Apocalypsis are bretty good
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Gilgamesh if he was in Nier
Isaiah Harris
>Every time End of Struggle starts up
Bentley Rogers
Uematsu is overrated as hell anyway, but if you say it's good then I'll give it a listen user.
I'm not saying he isn't a talented composer, as he certainly is, but I can't help but feel that people know him more for his work on older iconic games, like you said, and as a result they just assume his new works will be of similar status. Not like he matter much though, as he's taking a backseat now for the new guys.
Recently Fire Emblem has been hitting it out of the park with it's compositions, and it's gotten to the point of where I'm more excited for the OST than the actual game. I had forgotten about Desire Below since I haven't played Revelations and usually stick to the songs from the sides I've played. Pretty sure Past Below is another great one too from the Revelations route. Which is your favorite from Fates and Awakening, and why? Try to shy away from Son't say her name as it's everyone's favorite IMO. It'd pick Justice RIP/We'd best prepare for battle, just to be safe. Justice RIP sounds so heartful to me, I can't help but like it, and the latter is just perfect for pre-battle.
For FFXIV I can't get into the OST. I've listened to it before here and there, but I just can't enjoy, I've no idea why. The tracks seem good, but there's something about them that feels off, I'm not too sure what though.
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5/5 best new Blazblue theme easily.
Lucas Clark
muh nig
Brayden Bell
since there's been some talk about FFXIV's soundtrack I'll just leave the most underrated track in the game here.
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Christopher Gomez
Good soundtracks:
>Valkyria Chronicles
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>Ground Control 2
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>All Etrian Odyssey games, particularly 4
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Aaron Mitchell
Jesper Kyd, especially Darksiders 2.
Asher Roberts
There's a lack of Ace Combat in this thread:
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Wyatt Powell
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles by Kumi Tanioka. this is what a 10/10 OST sounds like.
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>Departure at 11:18
>Twilight in Dreamland at 17:01
>Promised Grace at 44:30
>Amidatti and Eleonor Too at 41:00
fuck they need to remaster this shit for the switch.
Parker Thompson
Shadow Hearts 2 has a great OST imo, also a pretty good game with great characters
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Jayden Clark
>I'm eager to listen the upcoming SMT for switch.
Speaking of SMT, first game had some awesome tracks. Ginza is still one of my favourites:
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Daniel Campbell
I know, damn. Told about her a while ago: I wonder what Ms. Tanioka is doing atm. I know she arranged Gods bound by rules for NieR Piano Collections, but not much more.
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I just hope to hear her back soon.
A new Crystal Chronicles game could be just great, given chance. Switch offers some nice co-op accessibility (that would prevent the serious issues I had while playing FFCC for GameCube, with all the cables and GBAs).
Just imagine that: a more intimate CC game much alike the first one, with high-fantasy setting and ethnic elements, a solid and more varied 2p co-op with joycons and an open exploration, with the same diary / travel / open storytelling.
That will never happen, but - damn. Would that be great for Switch.
Logan Gray
Literally a perfect fir for the Switch, but Square would find a way to fuck it up, no doubt. Shame.
>tfw you have all the GBA shit required and your friends don't want to play it
JUST
Joseph Watson
Jonathan Reed
>That will never happen
I know and it hurts.
Tanioka is awesome, I love what she created for the first CC. And EoT had a really good soundtrack too!
Angel Ortiz
Yeah, I feel quite the same indeed.
Fire Emblem is truly interesting. Awakening and Fates, even the Valentia remake were graced by a marvelous soundtrack.
Past Below is from a DLC actually, Hidden Truths.
It's really hard to pick up some specific soundtracks from Fates, as I really approved the whole soundtrack, especially the battle themes, with complex rythm changes and time signatures.
I can tell for sure that I loved how Aqua's theme is treated as a leitmotif and gets often reinvented and rearranged to fit different battles and situations, always with great imagination and complex harmonizations.
As I have some sort of taste for cacophony or complex, over-rich tonal harmonies, this one striked me a lot while playing (there's even a subtle line of bagpipe that is just madness).
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Seems almost something Gyorgy Ligeti could come up with the piano chords and all the strange accents:
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Of course the "End of All" arrangement for the final battle is excellent.
Past Light also has an exquisite japanese feeling while staying a march and adopting some really nice harmonic progression and was a big surprise early on.
Evan Evans
Since many tracks from DoD are based on classical composition, does someone happen to know which one was sampled for this one?
Aiden Perez
Those opening lectures.
I remember when I first got to Mount Vellenge and, to my surprise, there was no fairytale, consideration or lesson to be told, but:
"Dear Mother..."
I still get S H I V E R S
Levi Edwards
>I will write again.
>tfw most of the caravans that made it this far did not write again
Jason Anderson
>that one village whose caravan never returned
>that letter by the tree stump
Wyatt Johnson
>tfw I just enjoy the music can't understand the technical terms
C-could you timestamp examples of the stuff you mentioned? Like the rhythm changes/time signature/tonal harmonies. Pick a song and maybe point it out. P-please
Henry Hernandez
Not him, but there's a reasonably easy to hear time signature change in Alight (Storm) at about 1:24. It changes from 4/4 to 3/4, then back to 4/4 just before the loop at 2:39.
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Other tracks do more complex fuckery, like Fantastical Feast:
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Ian Phillips
>that one village whose caravan never returned
>that letter by the tree stump
NO NO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Jace Jones
>"Dear Mother..."
Oh God man I didn't came here to FEEL.
Yeah Vellenge felt like a one-way trip to me, I thought that I would never return from there, especially after the final battle.
Camden Wilson
I think I can hear it, yeah. Anything else you can give examples of? I'd like to know more about music, but with work and school I've no idea where to start with this, and it feels silly to want to know more just because of muh video game music.
Luke Wood
Fuck no, the soundtrack in DD is totally mediocre.
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Chase King
I wouldn't say mediocre at all, but the title screen (for older versions) is enjoyed only ironically and the music is pretty fucking short.
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Jayden Thomas
There's nothing classical in that one that I can recognize. Post any others you want me to try and identify
Levi Flores
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>that tempo change which usually kicks in around about when he starts using his miasma attack