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[R0nn]

So, I was just listening to this track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_NqFgYJWn8

And I was thinking how well it would fit as a jRPG boss battle theme for example. The build up, the sudden shift in arrangement, the fast driving drumbeat, the slight break in the middle part, it's great!

Any other songs you can think of that would fit great for a videogame?

 

[Mediking]

Alotta underground rappers have songs that would totally fit in a fighter, racing and even a JRPG!

 

[disappeared]

Sound Defects - Take Out

 

[Fat4all]

back when I used to make shitty youtube music videos I thought about stuff like this way too much

now a days I usually just enjoy music separately and don't think too hard about where to fit it

 

[disappeared]

back when I used to make shitty youtube music videos I thought about stuff like this way too much

now a days I usually just enjoy music separately and don't think too hard about where to fit it

Sometimes you can't help it though. You start building scripts in your head. Or visuals. Screenwriting maybe. I dunno. Good music always goes with good pictures.

 

[Fat4all]

Sometimes you can't though. You start building scripts in your head. Or visuals. Screenwriting maybe. I dunno. Good music always goes with good pictures.

I usually just connect themes over albums, or in some cases, over discographies.

Trying to make a music video over music I love does the artist a slight disservice I feel.

 

[Acquiescence]

Been listening to Boards of Canada a lot lately. So much of their music is so evocative that I wish someone would take it and, somehow, base an entire game around it. Same with Vangelis and Susumu Yokota. There's something about intensely atmospheric electronic music that makes me want to explore it in a physical way.

 

[disappeared]

Trying to make a music video over music I love does the artist a slight disservice I feel.

yeah. I do agree it imposes on the original artists' intent.

Still though, it can be fun sometimes taking a song and imagining a narrative. I'm not talking youtube AMVs or that shit but just building a little story based off the lyrics.

 

[Fat4all]

yeah. I do agree it imposes on the original artists' intent.

At the same time, that's just my own personal thing. If others want to throw in their own interpretation then go ahead.

Monkey Rag wouldn't exist otherwise.

 

[purseowner]

I want Gorillaz to do the OST for Persona 6.

 

[Ravek]

I really think symphonic death metal would work during certain parts of the Kingdom Hearts games. Seriously.

 

[Golnei]

If you put the main theme from The Room in a Kingdom Hearts game, I doubt anyone would consider it out of place.

 

[disappeared]

At the same time, that's just my own personal thing. If others want to throw in their own interpretation then go ahead.

Monkey Rag wouldn't exist otherwise.

That's amazing. Thank you for linking that!

 

[Platy]

Marimbas are the chiptune of classical music so any classical music with heavy use of it feels very game like

For example :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXeB-waZbPk

 

[nekkid]

TRON Legacy OST.

Although that's cheating a little.

 

[Prurient]

Wardruna are great when running around Skyrim.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA38ffX1AHo

 

[Pusherman]

If EA ever decides to make another Mass Effect they should ask the dude that did the Westworld soundtrack to do the music because just listen to this shit.

And I want the last 30 seconds of Atari by Hiatus Kaiyote to be used as a Pokemon battle theme somewhere.

 

[Sebastiano]

Alestorm's music for a crazy pirate game made by PlatinumGames and Ubisoft.

Dance with the Dead plus Scandroid for a futuristic BTA open world in Tokyo.

 

[Savantcore]

I've always thought that Emerson, Lake and Palmer would make great Final Fantasy battle music.

 

[Currygan]

Dragonforce - Through the fire and flames

 

[SolVanderlyn]

You know the annoying space palace in Persona 5?

This music is the same thing but way better

 

[-shadow-]

Vangelis - Blade Runner seems like it would fit pretty much perfect in Deus Ex Human Revolution. Not really surprising, but still.

 

[R0nn]

Marimbas are the chiptune of classical music so any classical music with heavy use of it feels very game like

For example :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXeB-waZbPk

Great example. Reminds me mostly of FF8 and BG&E.

If EA ever decides to make another Mass Effect they should ask the dude that did the Westworld soundtrack to do the music because just listen to this shit.

Yeeess, very good example. I was thinking the same thing while watching the show.

I've always thought that Emerson, Lake and Palmer would make great Final Fantasy battle music.

Wasn't ELP a big inspiration for Uematsu anyway?

 

[Ran rp]

Soma - Hollow Earth. The whole album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nqzjPfKyyw

 

[Nicky Ali]

https://youtu.be/AEB6ibtdPZc

A lot of people have been saying that the opening riff in Hard Times by Paramore sounds like it could belong in a Crash Bandicoot game

 

[King Tubby]

I listen to a lot of hip hop instrumentals and ambient/downtempo mood music and I can see a lot of songs fitting into certain types of soundtrack.

For example I think you could make a dark RPG with a soundtrack produced entirely of El-P beats

 

[Masagiwa]

Sci-Fi Game Reveal Trailer Material I think Celldweller has already done some music for video games before if I'm not wrong.

 

[Takyon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2S6Kjqi5vk&index=4&list=PLAXtxlmxaeof9dBuuzXE9DUzoCEljxF6Q
Stevie Wonder - Contusion.
Would fit right in with Mario Kart 8's soundtrack.

 

[Budi]

Many tracks from Buckethead would be a great fit I think. He has actually done some video game music, for Twisted Metal as an example.

His discography is absolutely insane and I'm not going to look for the absolute best fits, but here are some examples

Buckethead - For Mom For a lovely stroll in your peaceful hometown in some RPG maybe.

Buckethead - Nun Chuka Kata For battle!

Or maybe something from his ambient catalog Death Cube K - Maps of imposible worlds

Eventually, there's nothing in music this guy couldn't do.

Sound Defects - Take Out

Never heard of this, I dig it! Reminded me of Ratatat, their music would also fit in games actually. Ratatat - Loud Pipes

 

[foppy79]

I don't know why my brain has done this, but the chorus to Kanye's Lost in the world has stuck out to me as the MC theme in Persona 5. It fits, but it's a weird correlation for me to make.

Spoiler

I would also dig the shit outta it as a boss theme.

 

[Airola]

The opening of Megadeth's Dystopia could be in a Mega Man game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrV61ATP3Ec

I've always thought that Emerson, Lake and Palmer would make great Final Fantasy battle music.

That reminds me quite a bit like the final boss theme in Final Fantasy 6 :O

 

[viewtiful_dru]

this is sort of the premise of JSRL (though some of the tracks are actually from the game)

 

[SOME-MIST]

Definitely Sithu Aye.

https://youtu.be/MyVJQEAjn9U

He illustrates his jazz fusion/prog metal riffing with anime stories lol. I might go see him open for Haken later this year.

 

[Platy]

The opening of Megadeth's Dystopia could be in a Mega Man game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrV61ATP3Ec

Lots of prog metal would.... there is a music on Dream Theater last cds that is SUPER megaman X but I can't remember the name =(

 

[MemoryHumanity]

I always thought CHVRCHES - Science/Visions would make a badass End Credits theme for a Mass Effect game.

https://youtu.be/K9JTayC7vJI

Dat synth from 3:00.

 

[chicnstu]

Every time I hear the Always Sunny opening I think of Dragon Quest.

https://youtu.be/idoYCVLh2qI

 

[UncleSporky]

https://youtu.be/AEB6ibtdPZc

A lot of people have been saying that the opening riff in Hard Times by Paramore sounds like it could belong in a Crash Bandicoot game

Paramore's Ain't It Fun is 100% Hydrocity Zone from Sonic 3 (easiest to hear the connection in this remix). In general a lot of their music sounds game-like.

 

[CircusOfClouds]

Enya would fit well in a skyrim like game

 

[Easy_D]

I've always thought that Emerson, Lake and Palmer would make great Final Fantasy battle music.

Wouldn't surprise me if they're a direct source of inspiration for Uematsu, the man loves his 70s prog . This track in particular feels very Dancing Mad, hearing some Birth of a God in there too.

Edit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2S6Kjqi5vk&index=4&list=PLAXtxlmxaeof9dBuuzXE9DUzoCEljxF6Q
Stevie Wonder - Contusion.
Would fit right in with Mario Kart 8's soundtrack.

Haha, this reminds me of this lovely Stevie Wonder/Skullgirls mashup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bubl0BEF_g so I guess Stevie Wonder music works well in a fighting game too

 

[Grettir_the_Swole]

The entire Outrun Album by Kavinsky would match perfectly with an 80's-inspired racing title. The first thing I thought of when I heard the first track was, "Holy shit, this would be excellent main menu music."

 

[Necron]

I always thought Steve Hackett's acoustic stuff would fit well within a traditional Final Fantasy game like IX.

 

[Phu]

This totally not Persona song.

 

[Thatanas]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V10J_K8Qrg

Reminds me of Danganronpa for some reason.

 

[Alebrije]

For persona 5

https://youtu.be/kJQP7kiw5Fk

 

[LordKasual]

Situation:

Final Fantasy XIV -- Leviathian EX Primal Fight

Song:

The Kraken, Hans Zimmer

It just works. It even kind of starts off the same as the actual BGM.

Someone needs to mod this into the game and have it transition with the phase changes :V

 

[Magnus]

Older Nightwish already sounds like a Castlevania title sometimes. Metal in general belongs in games.

https://youtu.be/tqEHRTr1ouo

 

[Ydelnae]

Persona 6 - Rainy Evenings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBPw0l26L58

Persona 6 - Summer Evenings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W374tWnsk70

Persona 6 - After School

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a79Y7Mbqx1I

Persona 6 - Battle Theme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_zD5-ij7So

Carly Rae's last album is practically what Persona 5's OST would have been if they have followed the sound from P3/P4. She's huge in Japan, so Atlus should try to get her to collaborate for some tracks with Meguro.

 

[PtM]

Linkin Park's Breaking the Habit always sounded like Mega Man to me.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

Lady Paddington by Happy Fado

Sounds like some kind of eerie futuristic factory in an oldschool JRPG. It wouldn't be out of place in a Chrono game.

 

[mrplaid]

I've always thought Blackjack from Tortoise would make for perfect JRPG boss fight music.

https://youtu.be/ZObhSazvffA