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The worst game music of the generation.
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LilWayneSuckz
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I know I'm probably in the minority here but the Crysis 2 theme by Hans Zimmer really got grating when you're waiting for the multiplayer match to start and it's playing in the background on a loop for 20+ minutes
http://youtu.be/Iy4iQvJo24U
http://youtu.be/Iy4iQvJo24U
Robot Pants
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This was probably the #1 thing I hated about the game. So surprised at the love it got on GAF. just an absolutely awful song
astroturfing
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i have to admit, this was a guilty pleasure of mine
for some reason it fit a trailer really well (EU release trailer or something, i forget), flowed awesomely with what was on screen.SatelliteOfLove
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It was also the only "dungeon" area you revisited. Many, many times.
Everything about that game is either 110% awesome or 110% shit, it is WIERD.
Blasphemy I say!
Robin64
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Sonic 3 had a great final boss theme.
So what the HELL did they do to it in Sonic Chronicles?
Yes, it's been posted, but it needs repeating. This is the Worst Music.
I'm wondering if something went wrong with the music in Sonic Chronicles, like technically, if it's using all the wrong instruments or something, because NOBODY would compose that shite.
So what the HELL did they do to it in Sonic Chronicles?
Yes, it's been posted, but it needs repeating. This is the Worst Music.
I'm wondering if something went wrong with the music in Sonic Chronicles, like technically, if it's using all the wrong instruments or something, because NOBODY would compose that shite.
I can get behind this
such total, absolute shit. I think I would have been able to overlook some of my issues with the game if it it had a good soundtrack. the potential was there... could you imagine some dank Tekken/SF mash-ups and remixes? instead we got some really lazy trash.
ClivePwned
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Music is incredibly subjective. I think we've realised this.
It's weird how this thread is mainly Japanese games. Mainly because you can still take risks with games music in Japan compared to play it safe generic non-melodic drones a lot of games get lumbered with.
Melodic music, when not handled well, can go from "great" to "fucking fill-my-ears-with a-caulking-gun-full-of-lava-bad" in about 10 minutes. Variety of the track, length before it loops back, bad planning and bad decisions can all affect the score. Also, non-musical people like producers can often screw things up by asking for inappropriate types of music.
also having "Bah, Bah" doesn't help.
But I like the fact that some developers will let the musicians take chances. Even if they don't always get it right.
And holy fuck at Deadly Premonition- that IS the Overworld from Super Mario World
It's weird how this thread is mainly Japanese games. Mainly because you can still take risks with games music in Japan compared to play it safe generic non-melodic drones a lot of games get lumbered with.
Melodic music, when not handled well, can go from "great" to "fucking fill-my-ears-with a-caulking-gun-full-of-lava-bad" in about 10 minutes. Variety of the track, length before it loops back, bad planning and bad decisions can all affect the score. Also, non-musical people like producers can often screw things up by asking for inappropriate types of music.
also having "Bah, Bah" doesn't help.
But I like the fact that some developers will let the musicians take chances. Even if they don't always get it right.
And holy fuck at Deadly Premonition- that IS the Overworld from Super Mario World
My problem with SF4 is that we didn't actually get the character-specific themes unless it was in a "rival" right. I attribute this of course to the lack of actual character-specific stages, which is something I would like to see a return to in, I dunno, EVERY FIGHTING GAME OUT THERE. Character specific stages at least give each of the characters a teeny little more depth, and I can't imagine something like a background takes an incredible amount of budget money to create even in today's fighting game landscape.
That said, I do like SF4's music as a whole, and even liked the first version of the game's theme (being an EXILE fan many years ago didn't hurt)... I still like the character select music from the first game the best.
PeregrinSe7en
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well then this post confirms rising has a bad soundtrack, along with being a bad game in itself
Just_myles
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QisTopTier said:Worst game music of the generation <---- is the theme of the topic.
Here let me help you with a good example
Saying an entire ost is the worst when there are good tracks in it and there are clearly way way worst things out there that came out in that generation is silly.
It's like me saying the BBCP OST is garbage when I only don't like Rachel and Noel's themes. Then again you are typically overly negative about things so that's probably just that shining through
No, the entire soundtrack is horrible. It does sound like horrible remixes of older games, at times it sounds worse than that. Any and all attempts at anything original is terrible. There is not one decent track on this game.
I guess a lot of the younger set are into that kind of sound(?). I just find it plain bad, I am not even going into the games themselves; which I will give some credit too, definitely not the worst SF game, just has the worst soundtrack ever, of all time, ever, ever, permanently.. I mean honestly, it's not even MvC2 bad, at least that soundtrack was catchy.
I seriously don't understand how they could have dropped in quality so bad from 3S, hell, even CvS2(which at least has 2 pretty good distinct tracks that we all know).
I just can't express how much I hate this soundtrack, and just.... I wish I could show you.
qualitydisc
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Unfortunately he did. Featuring the singer from Deep Purple. Uematsu has always had a lot of unabashed prog rock influences in his music but ..... Nobuo plz. not like this.
I used to share this opinion. But I gradually and begrudgingly accepted Hamauzu's talent. "Besaid Island," "Blinded By Light," and "The Promise" all top-notch. Granted he doesn't write music as CONSISTENTLY amazing as Uematsu does (and really, who does?).
Also his solo CD "Vielen Dank" is lovely.
hustlepunch
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I must say that alot of this music is just bad music taste, but still music.. and you feel that atleast the ones making them are musicans (to some extent;-) ...even Crazy Bus;-).
BUT Sonic Chronicles just doesnt feel like music made by a musician at all....
BUT Sonic Chronicles just doesnt feel like music made by a musician at all....
hustlepunch
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Couldnt agree more! There are so many games that you just dont even remember music as part of the experience anymore. Its all atmosphere or cinema 100 times a dozen orchestreal tracks. Games with standout original music makes me remember the games in a completly different way, with a much brighter, better memory of the game.
Solid Samus
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wow, what the fuck. That absolutely could not have been intentional.
Omg yes that song is so fucking bad.
Garcia
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What in the name of. . . >_<
Jive Turkey
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You ass. Now I can't unhear that lyric.
Garcia
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Holy fucking shit. One of the best boss themes placed in one of the worst places ever. A typing game with such an epic song!? Imagine that theme in a regular Pokemon game.
Great tune.
Solid Samus
Banned
Pokemon spinoffs generally have surprisingly nifty, catchy music
Way back in the day and all the way til Gen 4 my favorite Pokemon themes didn't even belong to a mainline game
Imakuni?
Ronald's Theme
Bluecondor
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IMO, developers that include pop music take a risk in that the songs do not necessarily fit the action/theme of the game.
GTA (particularly Vice City) has always been a great example of how to include pop music, because the 80s songs generally feel authentic in the game environment of Miami in the 1980s.
The worst for me is actually the current version of Madden Football (Madden 25). For some reason, the songs that play in the stadiums have literally nothing to do with what is going on in the game at the time. It is a mindless random mix of 15 second snippets of AC/DC's "Thunderstruck," White Stripe's "7 Nation Army", Black Eyed Peas "Boom Boom Pow" and 2 or 3 generic sports anthems that just pop up randomly all throughout the game.
GTA (particularly Vice City) has always been a great example of how to include pop music, because the 80s songs generally feel authentic in the game environment of Miami in the 1980s.
The worst for me is actually the current version of Madden Football (Madden 25). For some reason, the songs that play in the stadiums have literally nothing to do with what is going on in the game at the time. It is a mindless random mix of 15 second snippets of AC/DC's "Thunderstruck," White Stripe's "7 Nation Army", Black Eyed Peas "Boom Boom Pow" and 2 or 3 generic sports anthems that just pop up randomly all throughout the game.
Sounds like being at a real football game, then. Actually, Seven Nation Army seems to be usually played by the band.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FUbIBZLpVI
Foltest's Camp at Night from Witcher 2. I can't really explain what I don't like about it, probably how it tries to be this big epic song with all its cymbal crashing and the dirgy dum-dum-DUMDUMDUMDUM melody at the end.
Foltest's Camp at Night from Witcher 2. I can't really explain what I don't like about it, probably how it tries to be this big epic song with all its cymbal crashing and the dirgy dum-dum-DUMDUMDUMDUM melody at the end.
Bluecondor
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It would be like a real football game if they played it either to celebrate tough defensive plays or to fire up the crowd. Instead, it just plays in an endless loop along with Thunderstruck and a few others. Thus - it adds absolutely nothing to the atmosphere or realism of the game.
NaughtyPrawn
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For some reasons I find terrible music absolutely hilarious. The worse it is the more it makes me laugh. I'm loving this thread
The12thGripper
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UnrealEck
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I wouldn't say better or worse. Both are incredibly bad. The Sonic one sucks but I mean you can listen to it. The birthday cake one and crazy bus are just really annoying to listen to especially with that woman yelling.
Just skimming through the replies and I see a few people actually liked Birthday Cake. I understand people have different tastes but it is a woman with a horrible screetching voice yelling. I don't know how people can like that. Is it the lyrics you find funny or do you actually like the sound of her 'singing'?
OMFG. That shit was ear-splitting. I thought my neighbour was sawing some wood, and I was about to go outside to tell him to shut the fuck up, but I realised it was the game. Holy cow if I ever play the game again, I'm muting my TV.
Have you never heard any sort of punk music before? Screeching and yelling isn't automatically horrible. It has interesting texture and pitch and can service music in completely different and unique ways. I personally love the vocals in Birthday Cake, and it has nothing to do with the lyrics or thinking the sound is comedic.
Some people just appreciate different thinks in a vocal performance. Take this song for example. I can't get over how good the vocals sound to me, but if you don't like stuff that sounds like strained, screeching howls, it'll probably just sound like horrible yelling.
I understand that people are probably accustomed to music that's purely harmonic, but dissonance can be just as enjoyable in it's own way. There's a whole other side of the spectrum you're missing out on otherwise.
RealDeadOne
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Metroid: Other M for me. Music has always been one of the best parts of the already fantastic Metroid series, and they stripped it all down to almost nothing.