old manatee
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I tried to play that second one but it really upset my cat.
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The worst game music of the generation.
- Thread starter H2Yo
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I tried to play that second one but it really upset my cat.
PirateKing
Junior Member
I don't feel good after hearing that. Augh.
Also, Alone In The Dark music on X360 gave me nightmares. It took me so long to forget what it actually sounds like so I'm not going to find what it was.
darkpaladinmfc
Member
Robot Pants
Member
Yea that battle music got really lame after awhile. It was pretty bad to begin with
Edit: I take it all back
These two are god awful.
Easily the most bland, uninspired soundtrack this generation. Totally contrasts Gen 5.
EDIT: Yeah, Sonic Chronicles had some really bad music. I probably misread the OP when he said "generation" as well and assumed "this generation". My bad if this is the case.
Both those gens have the some of the worst soundtracks yet. Gen 6 has the champs theme and a few others with the rest of it being passable but nothing special
Gen 5 had Corles theme and the B/W1 credits and maybe one or two more? A few fall into the "passable but nothing special" catagory but The rest is trash filled with Flourishing on top of an uninteresting underlying melody
Wow that is terrible.
Meanwhile with the same hardware, this was made.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDUaJTl1hZc
Sounds like someone's murdering a dinosaur in slow motion.
Zabant
Member
MGR has Best Worst music, the way it's lyrics beat you over the head with it's themes is cringeworthy and hilarious.
VIOLENCE BREEDS VIOLENCE.
themagicalkitsune
Member
TriAceJP
Member
This reminds me of Cheetah Men on the NES.
Spring-Loaded
Member
If you pay close attention to the way it makes you feel, the awesomeness that washes over you is the music manipulating your cringe, redirecting it like lightning attacks in Avatar: The Last Airbender
Solid Samus
Banned
Easily the most bland, uninspired soundtrack this generation. Totally contrasts Gen 5.
EDIT: Yeah, Sonic Chronicles had some really bad music. I probably misread the OP when he said "generation" as well and assumed "this generation". My bad if this is the case.
You're crazy. Gen 6's music isn't the most incredible but it's damn good across the board. Fewer standouts than Gen 5 sure but also fewer instances of songs that are legitimately awful, and also fewer ADHD inspired guitar riffs backed by a billion noises ALL AT ONCE
It also had this nifty thing I haven't heard in Pokémon themes in nearly half a decade, it's awesome, it's called "some semblance of thematic consistency"
Hahaha the harmonica sounds like a dying animal. What in the world. ahahaha
PsychoNotes
Neo Member
That's too bad, Birthday Cake is an awesome ass song. Loved whenever it came up in the game.
SatoAilDarko
Member
Different tastes. Even over a decade later I really like that song. Best game soundtrack.
Ravensmash
Member
I kind of like it, has a nice feel to it.
old manatee
Banned
Cibo Matto rules.
Zabant
Member
Would you turn down the radio love? I'm tryin' to get to sleep
Whatever. Cibo Matto's fantastic. Sega cut out the best lines from the song for JSRF, though.
canty think of many truly horrendous soundtracks this gen, well, not on the magnitude of Hunt for Red October (nes) or the Dog song from SH2....probably the Cole Train Rap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k4X2PfgRb0#t=54
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k4X2PfgRb0#t=54
A Serious Man
Member
My personal vote goes to this trash: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D5ty--wZcc
That song plays on a loop for hours in the Isengard zones. I usually play LotRO with the music on because most of it is pretty good but after 10+ hours of enduring that shit I had to turn it off. I can't explain why I didn't turn it off sooner.
Nah.
That song plays on a loop for hours in the Isengard zones. I usually play LotRO with the music on because most of it is pretty good but after 10+ hours of enduring that shit I had to turn it off. I can't explain why I didn't turn it off sooner.
Nah.
SatelliteOfLove
Member
Three notes. Three notes is all it takes to put you in mental, emotional, and physical agony.
Go home, Mr. Blackmore, you are drunk!
Go home, Mr. Blackmore, you are drunk!
You and I are not friends anymore.
(For the uninitiated, it's the kind of song that would have made Doge go wow)
Omg, I never heard this before but I love it. I'm not kidding. This is so funny it's good! Hahaha.
Shadow Hog
Member
I don't think I can ever top "Nocturne", but I always thought Phantom Hourglass's music was underwhelming. What's the music for walking around outdoors on the various islands in the game? This ten-second ditty. Seriously? Seriously.
I mean, yeah, technically this is the actual "overworld" theme, although I'd expect the music to still be decent when I'm not off sailing on the ocean.
Incidentally, I didn't care much for Phantom Hourglass at all, but the soundtrack still sticks out in my mind as a real sore point. I know Spirit Tracks is sooooo much better in this regard, although still forcing Link to use a vehicle to get from area to area was enough for me to not try it out; was too burned out on that with PH. So glad ALBW ditched all that stuff.
I mean, yeah, technically this is the actual "overworld" theme, although I'd expect the music to still be decent when I'm not off sailing on the ocean.
Incidentally, I didn't care much for Phantom Hourglass at all, but the soundtrack still sticks out in my mind as a real sore point. I know Spirit Tracks is sooooo much better in this regard, although still forcing Link to use a vehicle to get from area to area was enough for me to not try it out; was too burned out on that with PH. So glad ALBW ditched all that stuff.
Clearly this should've been playing, anyway
shaowebb
Member
Worst ever music? Crazy bus hands down. And just for added punishment here is crazy bus dubbed with the FF10 Tidus laugh on loop.
Welcome to what hell sounds like.
Welcome to what hell sounds like.
Isn't there another version that plays for the majority of the game? This is only for the beginning I believe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwALJbXha8U
Shadow Hog
Member
Oh, and this is what passes for "comedy" music in Time and Eternity.
I could excuse it if it were some amateur composer that didn't know what he was doing, but this is Yuzo goddamn Koshiro. The man puts out Actraiser and Streets of Rage, but this is what we get? (Then again, he did put out SoR3, too.)
I could excuse it if it were some amateur composer that didn't know what he was doing, but this is Yuzo goddamn Koshiro. The man puts out Actraiser and Streets of Rage, but this is what we get? (Then again, he did put out SoR3, too.)
XANDER CAGE
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Green Mamba
Member
In contrast to the series pedigree, Other M is pretty bad in this regard. Minus the themes it lifts from other Metroid games (which you could probably count on one hand) the music consists of incredibly generic and bland "cinematic" style music and genuinely terrible cacophonous shit like the Space Pirate fighting theme.
Funnily enough, this is another area we can fault Sakamoto on, as he rejected earlier takes on it that were more traditionally Metroid.
Funnily enough, this is another area we can fault Sakamoto on, as he rejected earlier takes on it that were more traditionally Metroid.
Zabant
Member
Oh god, i'd become religious just on the off chance if that's what hell sounds like.
Imagine that shit for eternity *shudders*
Wasn't there a space NES game that was equally as terrible?
Edit: OH GOD HERE IT IS
R_thanatos
Member
Well actually the comedy theme fit the mismatched situation most of the time.
The comic moments are forced and akward , born of goofy situations and this theme does the job pretty well at point that out.
Zabant
Member
Well, it's certainly making me laugh.
XANDER CAGE
Member
That doesn't make the music good. Lots of things try to be funny and aren't.
shaowebb
Member
I have issued a restraining order preventing anyone who says MGR in any way, shape, or form from coming within 200 meters of platinum games.
Rock is underrepresented, let me have the music I like for a change.
EDIT: To the people saying rock/metal in general, what in the name of christ do you even listen to? Metal is all that is good, especially some tasty power metal, with hard rock being it's right hand man.
Rock is underrepresented, let me have the music I like for a change.
EDIT: To the people saying rock/metal in general, what in the name of christ do you even listen to? Metal is all that is good, especially some tasty power metal, with hard rock being it's right hand man.
NHarmonic.
Member
Talking about worst songs, "My Hands" in FFXIII is far better than the "New World" Shit in XIII-2. Really, at least it wasn't as anticlimatic
(yeah, serah fucking dying there with that shit playing in the background, doesn't helps)
The battles were so short that I'd only hear that starting part and it would get really grating
Zabant
Member
Only half serious right? nobody is that ignorant.
That's understandable for early in the game, but the second song that usually plays is a lot better.
More like highly pretentious.
I don't think highly of other genres, bar electronic (depends on the style, I hate dubstep) and classical.
Zabant
Member
Look as a genre metal is fine.
It's implementation in games however is usually so ham handed.
remember this?
MaximoffZero
Banned
You and I would not get along.
Also, since some people already mentioned bad music from other generations, I would like to remind everyone that this exists.