Why do so many people almost exclusively listen to anime and video game soundtracks?

Why do so many people almost exclusively listen to anime and video game soundtracks?

What is wrong with these guys?

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Maybe they just like anime and video game soundtracks?

>Surprise, surprise... At first I thought, RADIOHEAD? Well that's a nice japanese band. But as I checked on Google, I was jaw-dropped at the results and I was like, THEY'RE FROM FUCKING ENGLAND?

Taste is random and arbitrary, it's the same reason people here don't listen to ICP. No point in forcing yourself to do something you don't enjoy.

because anime or video games are their main hobby

What anime is this?

I get it, but it's just a little bit sad.

That music is stipulated, made on contract, and made specifically to sync with visuals or gameplay, and in general is just a poor pastiche of what music can actually achieve. Obviously you have Morricone, John Carpenter etc, but you guys know exactly what demographic I'm talking about.

It's from the Gunsmith Cats OVA

It's just how it is. They don't care much because their real interest is video games or anime, and everything else is an aside. If I didn't stop enjoying both of those things a long time ago I might have been the same way.

>but you guys know exactly what demographic I'm talking about

And you're posting on this site.

Kudos hypocrite.

obviously because they don't care as much as you do.

I had a period in my teens when I listened exclusively to vidya OST.

Glad I grew out of that.

>I get it, but it's just a little bit sad
I see where you are coming from, but in my experience most people who do this are only going through a phase. I know this guy who only listened to game soundtrack for a month. He would said stuff like, "You gotta hear this, this is just the best". However, he eventually grew out of it.

How do I reconcile this, though? I have so much invested in music that it's difficult not to scoff at those kinds of people. I can still get on with them just fine, mostly, but that judgement is always there.

Could you mention any examples of guys with this issue?

surely everyone knows "that guy" who listens to nothing but the halo and quake soundtracks

I have never met someone like this and I have a lot of nerdy friends

take some time off of Sup Forums because this place has clearly poisoned your social skills.

take a look at this guy, holy fuck, how can 1 (one) guy care so much about what other people do, holy jesus. A 4channer looking down on people for enjoying anime related stuff, is this what it looks like when cognitive dissonance approaches singularity?

I am going to go ahead and assume you are trolling with some premium bait OP, thx for the laugh.

25 and over half the stuff I listen to is J-Pop (which includes anime OST's ofc) and 2hu (re)mixes. Too bad I don't care about your insecurities enough to change my taste.

>What is wrong with these guys?
pic very much related

Radiohead were in an anime soundtrack, so if you like them, you technically like anime soundtracks too OP. How does it feel?

weebo culture
whiteness
gayism acceptance
fatness
sedentarism
poptism cultural
japan-usa culture re-appropriation
faggot ethos

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>look at all those anime fags
gr8b8r88/8

Not much worse than liking Radiohead, regardless.

I agree, I listen to azn music because I have had enough of the degenerate acceptance in western music. Even in azn music it is starting, but is a hell of a lot less.

desu I kind of did this until I was like 14
I didn't really know how to find new music so I just listened to tunes I liked from other medium's I frequently enjoyed

Although I think its pretty sad when adults are doing this I can kind of understand why its the case.

Stop being such an autist.

People like and are invested in different things. Just because you like something more than someone else does not mean everyone should share your exact same investment.

Life is meaningless, just do what you like, man.

>people liking genres i dont wahhh
this is how old people feel. like they dont understand the world anymore.

These are called people with no real interests or hobbies.

I think it is sadder when an adult listens to "proper" music (Sup Forums approved WW1 shantytown dindu Jazz for instance) pretending to like it because he is worried about what a bunch of Sup Forums fags might think of him if he admitted to enjoying Miku.

my little brother does that, i think that's hilarious, he'll grow up

Because enjoying obscure "good" music is a "real interesting hobby".

From a normies perspective Sup Forums's music taste is as sad as Sup Forums's music taste.

I doubt it since you apparently didn't.

I think it's sad that you care this much what other people do in their free time.

Is there really no worth in your life that you gain superiority from you place in your imaginary music caste system.

i think you are projectig or just angry about something, i don't listen to anime and video game soundtracks m8 i'm sorry

Nor are you over 18, srry m8.

autism

>193
>vlc
ITT an Sup Forums crossposter goes all out for (you)'s, too bad most of the bait goes over the average Sup Forums poster's head.

>exclusively listen to anime and video game soundtracks
>exclusively
People dont actually do this right. That shit aint right.

People can listen to whatever they want, but the people who listen to touhou and pony fanmixes all day (I know dar too many) and try to pass it off as "really into music" need a reality check.

There are 7 billion people in the world, of course there's at least one guy that does this

Not exclusively, but I listen to a lot of J-Pop/rock which invariably means I listen to a lot of anime soundtracks. A lot of anime OST are just regular songs that use the anime as an advertising platform (newsflash; most anime serves as advertisement). then there are a bunch of anime OST that get made on request y already well established bands/groups. So there is no real "anime music" as such.

Since this thread has been bait trash from the start I'ma just start posting shitty /jp/ music.

youtube.com/watch?v=z4h1waY17UA

I also have a lot of J-pop and a lot of videogames soundtrack but they represent around 20% of my music library

>the sun is rising
>time to go to bed
too accurate.

Well then Im posting not so shitty Jp music

youtu.be/a24La_WQMco

What riles me is when people 'into' video game music try and discuss it or assert that it's just as good/worthwhile as actual music.

>actual music
Be careful, stay here too long and you might tur into n actual living, breathing meme.

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Look at all those sad people having fun, I hate fun.

>MFW i exclusively listen to soothing/calm anime OST's while doing housework/dishes/cooking which is on par with any piano / folk music

That's the only time i listen to them, but damn if its not a higher level of comfy

>people ITT will try to tell you this isn't great.
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We're not really talking about someone with particular tastes in music, we're talking about someone who isn't really interested in music at all

Don't people understand that variety is the spice of life

>Don't people understand that variety is the spice of life
>People don't enjoy life the way I enjoy life
So much for understanding the essence of your own post. Never change Sup Forums, never change.

Video game music is inherently shit because its made to be listened to in a video game. You literally can't say it compares.

All the FF scores are objectively better music than 99% of popsongs.

Ballet music is inherently shit because its made to be listened to during a ballet. You literally can't say it compares.

Jazz music is inherently shit because its made to be listened to by niggers in the dumps feeling sorry for themselves. You literally can't say it compares.

Ballet music is meant to enhance the consumers artistic experience, video game music is meant to enhance the players button tapping experience.

Bad posts.

Point me towards the greatest video game music and there will be a reason that it isn't as good as the Western canon, or indeed any definitive list of the 'best albums of all time' or whatever.

It's a joke. Literally a parody of 'proper' music, made to work alongside shooting demons in the face. You'll get some generic chugging metal riff so a player can go "hell yeah metal" and carry on shooting things. It doesn't work beyond that, and it wasn't even meant to in the first place.

so what about actual scores that were only adapted to fit a game? are they bad because they were commissioned

>'proper' music
Still trying to become a walking talking meme I see,

They're good if they're well made, they're shit if they're shit (which chances are they will be.) But if it wasn't originally meant to be vidya music it's not vidya music.

Curious as to what this is referencing

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Guess it's time to bin all my Mussorgsky music.

I think maybe you misunderstood my post. There are better and worse ways to enjoy life. I never said otherwise.

Enjoying a variety of things = better
Not doing it = worse

>people who don't live like I do lead a worse life
Still missing the essence of your own post, how one person can be so profoundly thick is beyond me.

its just melody with no depth. you don't have to think about it.

You don't get it, those people who don't listen to music choose so because they can't give a fuck about it. It's like why I don't watch anime or TV. Sure there's tons of it out there, but when I try any I know instantly it's not my thing and would rather get back to what I like. That's variety.

>They're good if they're well made, they're shit if they're shit (which chances are they will be.) But if it wasn't originally meant to be vidya music it's not vidya music.
>Something is good if, and only if, I say so
Reminder that any compositions by non classical Germanic composers is degenerate dreck.

I KNOW
I KNOW I'VE LET YOU DOWN

I'VE BEEN A FOOL TO MYSELF

fuck. off.

>pony fanmixes
>know too many

You desperately need to re-evaluate your social circles lad

So many assumptions. You can like whatever music you like, but if the music is literally just aimless "powerful" sounds without anything musically interesting going on, it's not good music. Few people who listen to vidya OSTs care about the context of the music, the sole attraction is "I heard it while I shot that faggot in Battlefield."

I THOUGHT I COULD LIVE FOR NO ONE ELSE.

*content of the music.

>So many assumptions
>follows it up by nothing but assumptions
Is anyone in this thread worth talking to?

This wasn't written for a video game.

Maybe you guys misunderstand me. The hypothetical person I'm objecting to ONLY is interested in anime and video games, and no other things in life.

I don't think that's a great approach when compared to someone who is more well-rounded in their interests. This shouldn't be controversial.

>BF
>music during MP gameplay
Oh, I see, you're just talking out of your ass.

No, I understand you fully, it is you who are confused and self contradictory, seemingly without even being aware of it.

That's literally how some people are. I only care about music.

I seriously can't understand how anyone can enjoy anime. I tried watching stuff like Cowboy Bebop and Akira which was okay, but everything else just felt like an insult to my intelligence. How could someone, a grown man no less, watch a show about a bunch of high school girls doing absolutely nothing? On top of that, how could a grown man watch 5 of those kinds of shows in a given season?

>backpedaling with "new rules"
Yes, no need to remind me I am on Sup Forums, I am well aware.

because they want to be in that group of people who obsess over video games and anime.

that's literally it. they want to fit in with their lame ass group of people who play video games and watch anime at an unhealthy level to where they have no life.

...

How so?

I agree that it's how some people are, why else would i have made the observation in the first place?

Colourful and loud bait. I didn't realize fly-fishing was popular here.

If vidya osts were good people would discuss the musical content more than the game it came from, and people who bever played them would listen. Neither of them is true.

And by people worth talking to do you mean people who agree with you?

Why is video game music always so shit, though? Is there actually a genuine reason? I'm curious.

People always say that it's okay to listen to as standalone music, even outside its original context, because it's still creative in some way. But why is it always so goddamn bad? I've never seen anyone who listens to it actually have interesting taste in anything artistic.

Then what's the point of that observation? They're enjoying what they enjoy.

>And by people worth talking to do you mean people who agree with you
I mean people who can make a sound argument, i.e. someone unlike you.

(Those are actually some of the more lowbrow anime, desu)

because they know not many people care nor are paying attention. although i disagree that it's all bad.

ergo proxy has paranoid android as its' ending.

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Yeah but what they're enjoying is shit.

You haven't responded to any of my arguments or raised any yourself. Only a strawman and a few sarcastic statements.

To you. They derive pleasure from it, and that's the foundation for every person's taste. It's pointless to debate about it.

It's a very simple point, which I made here: It's nothing horrifically bad if someone has a limited set of interests. I just think having a diverse set of interests tends to lead to a richer, more fulfilling life.

Sorry this rankles you guys so much!

Yeah, that seems true. It's always an afterthought.

I've really yet to hear something truly outstanding made specifically for a video game. Do you have anything in mind?

>How so?
You talk about variety being the best thing in life, but then exclude groups based on arbitrary rules. Which is it to be? The people who are "only" into xyz are as much part of a group filled with variety as the people who only enjoy variety. If you were to take your way of thinking to the extreme the "best" and most various society would be one in which everyone enjoyed everything, which would in fact be the opposite of variety.