Why is "video game music" often overlooked? Pic related is a masterpiece, and obviously not the only example

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Why is "video game music" often overlooked? Pic related is a masterpiece, and obviously not the only example

Grayson Edwards

Why is "video game music" often overlooked? Pic related is a masterpiece, and obviously not the only example.

January 22, 2018 - 21:55

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Hudson Harris

Because it's just intended to sound good. Very rarely does video game music have a message that it's trying to convey and as such cannot be discussed in the same way that most other forms of music can be.

January 22, 2018 - 22:01

Christopher Cooper

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January 22, 2018 - 22:02

Hunter Foster

>what is pop
>what is ambient

January 22, 2018 - 22:02

Zachary Gray

massage my ass mother fucker

January 22, 2018 - 22:17

Jordan Flores

Because Sup Forums is more concerned with image than quality, and it's embarrassing to admit to listening to video game music

January 22, 2018 - 22:20

Samuel Morris

Just as irrelevant as video game music

January 22, 2018 - 22:20

Charles Phillips

I don't think video games have that stigma anymore.
Also, it's the same rule as always: if you're good looking, you can be listening to any kind of cheesy or quirky shit and girls will think you're cool and original.
If you're bad looking you will be a laughable nerd, whether you listen to video game music or p4k's top 10 bullshit.

Anyway, as far as video game soundtracks go, many of them were composed by famous artists.
You have Sonic 1 and 2 which were composed by Nakamura from the legendary J-pop band Dreams Come True, Mother 1 and 2 composed by Keiichi Suzuki of one of Japan's most prominent new wave/art rock band Moonriders, and Ghost in the Shell on PS1 has an amazing soundtrack of pure techno (mostly german techno), produced by Japan's techno god Takkyu Ishino and including all original tracks by veteran techno producers like Westbam, Scan X, Hardfloor.
The Mario games themselves have a lot of great spins and twists on ragtime music which makes them interesting.

Thinking video game music can't be appreciated on its own is a kind of disconnected opinion.

January 22, 2018 - 22:40

Cooper Butler

Michael Jackson even did music for one of the Sonic games (can't remember which) but it was later scrapped/reworked. Some of the songs sound just like MJ songs that were later released. Saw a video on youtube about it some time ago.

January 22, 2018 - 23:56

Austin Perry

Sonic 3 & Knuckles. Yeah Michael was supposed to be the composer, but it was actually his music crew (who also composed and arranged/produced stuff for him). And yeah, the ending song of Sonic 3 is actually a faster version of Stranger in Moscow, and Sonic 3 came out before the song.

January 23, 2018 - 00:10

Brandon Morris

An actually intelligent and articulate post on Sup Forums?

Never thought I'd see the day.

January 23, 2018 - 00:11

Adam Reed

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January 23, 2018 - 00:14

Noah Wood

A major problem is that game music is constrained in ways that generally make it worse. It's done on a tight schedule, made to support some external narrative, and often with some shitty sound hardware. For the ones that were made by known artists, they're not generally among their best works.

January 23, 2018 - 00:15

Michael Clark

>vydia OST thread goyze?

January 23, 2018 - 00:17

Aiden Bailey

(so what's your favorite video game music then?)
mine is the original halo... so pure

January 23, 2018 - 00:22

Charles Turner

youtube.com/watch?v=I8vaCrVIR-Q

January 23, 2018 - 00:24

James Cox

yep

January 23, 2018 - 00:25

Lincoln Adams

It really depends on the game. Just like regular music records, some are good, some are bad.
I think the title track of GitS is one of the best tracks by Takkyu Ishino, and he's got a lot of good shit, but that one is just amazing.
Anyway the point was that thinking video game music can't be good or worth of praise is outdated and just plain wrong.

January 23, 2018 - 00:26

Nathan Morgan

youtube.com/watch?v=_b9qdyUAEa4

January 23, 2018 - 00:28

Evan Evans

youtube.com/watch?v=iws7KejE6n4

youtube.com/watch?v=X1U9W6O4pIg

youtube.com/watch?v=AHtpNj7goQM

youtube.com/watch?v=l1p0bLkNGa0

January 23, 2018 - 00:33

Luis Edwards

youtube.com/watch?v=P0HQEhe8er0

January 23, 2018 - 00:37

Isaiah Sullivan

>Anyway the point was that thinking video game music can't be good or worth of praise is outdated and just plain wrong.
Yeah but it's like film scores or music for commercials or TV. It's by definition subservient to some other medium, so it can't really take advantage of the full range of what music can be. Some library music is still killer though.

January 23, 2018 - 00:38

Camden Young

>mfw only one game had a soundtrack worth a damn last year

January 23, 2018 - 00:40

Camden Anderson

(there are a couple games that break this argument though)
youtube.com/watch?v=I5mgFmb0IxQ

January 23, 2018 - 00:41

Luis Lewis

ITT: Fucking retards

January 23, 2018 - 00:41

Jason Gray

I'm surprised this is considered overlooked, the DKC soundtrack is amazing