BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO
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Everyone loves this song lol
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Wait, people didn't like Marvel vs Capcom 2 soundtrack when it came out?
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fatty
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The cheesy jazz soundtrack doesn't fit at all with the fighting theme. Just listened to the clock tower stage, seems like something played over a department store sound system or in an elevator.
I can't stand the main theme of Third Strike. Sounds like cats are being tortured in the beginning, music is then pretty good but then the rapping starts and I just turn it off.
I can't stand the main theme of Third Strike. Sounds like cats are being tortured in the beginning, music is then pretty good but then the rapping starts and I just turn it off.
BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO
Junior Member
3rd strike? Nyc jazzy stage?
That and the brazil stage might be the best things ever.
Also gill's 2nd impact theme.
MvC2 ost is dope.
Most people I knew hated it or ignored it. It didn't really fit in with the game when you were familiar with the music they had been using in the previous games in the series. It seemed like people on the internet disliked the soundtrack as well except for a couple that gave it a fair shot. (Years later I became one of those people that came to love the jazzy tunes.) Then there came an ironic appreciation for tracks like the character select screen track. I'm sure that ironic appreciation turned into real appreciation in some people. So nowadays you have way more people who enjoy the soundtrack than the original target audience did 13 years ago.
BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO
Junior Member
It's REALLY strange, but I also think that's its greatest quality.
Capcom was very creative in their soundtracks that time. It started with the - AMAZING - SFZ3 soundtrack, and continued through CvsSNK1, 2 and MvC2. All these games have such unique soundtracks! Love all of them (well, I don't love CvSNK1 soundtrack, but some songs are incredible!)
The worst (big) fighting game OST is, by far, KOF 2001 (and SNKvC, oh god that is horrible). I hate those games because their soundtrackst, can't play at all.
About MvC3: I don't think the remixes are good as SFIV ones, but I really like some songs like She Hulk's Theme
Capcom was very creative in their soundtracks that time. It started with the - AMAZING - SFZ3 soundtrack, and continued through CvsSNK1, 2 and MvC2. All these games have such unique soundtracks! Love all of them (well, I don't love CvSNK1 soundtrack, but some songs are incredible!)
The worst (big) fighting game OST is, by far, KOF 2001 (and SNKvC, oh god that is horrible). I hate those games because their soundtrackst, can't play at all.
About MvC3: I don't think the remixes are good as SFIV ones, but I really like some songs like She Hulk's Theme
MvC3's soundtrack was okay. The original/new music themes for the new characters were really well done (She-Hulk, Galactus, Thor) but I can't say I liked the remixes for most of the Marvel or even the Capcom characters. They were okay but I'm used to better music from Capcom tbh.
Also KK Stark (nickname for Iron Man theme, since it honestly sounds like a KK Animal Crossing song) was so bad it was good.
Yeah the original/new music was great but the remixes, not so much. I love Dr. Strange's theme, though Nova, Hawkeye and Ghost Rider themes were really good too.
She-Hulk, Nova, and Hawkeye are definitely some of my favorites. Dante's is practically a one-to-one conversation from DMC3. Vergil's is close, as well. Wesker's, too.
Perhaps on a more controversial level, I like Ryu's and Phoenix Wright's a lot.
CrazyTank940
Member
MvC2 has such a good OST man, dat swamp stage easily being my favorite
When I originally got MvC2 for the Dreamcast and some friends came over to play it, the one guy who was most vehemently in favor of muting the music was the biggest jazz aficionado I know. The OST has become loved over time because it's so damned ridiculous that it has some charm in how bad it is. Taken on its own it's really pretty embarrassing music. Saying that disliking MvC2's soundtrack is an indication of disliking jazz is like saying the same about someone who dislikes Kenny G.
The continue theme was awesome.
Rest of it? Being far removed from having to listen to it for hours on end does it some favors, but at the time, fuck.
Rest of it? Being far removed from having to listen to it for hours on end does it some favors, but at the time, fuck.
SirBukkake
Member
Love that soundtrack! My favorite was the carnival theme.
... I always thought the soundtrack sounded like jazzy Mega Man music
... I always thought the soundtrack sounded like jazzy Mega Man music
Nobody to drryyyyy your eyes
Listening to the MvC2 soundtrack is akin to being stuck on a elevator going nowhere. Easily the worst fighting game soundtrack Capcom has ever produced.
tiggerkiddo
Member
Great...just the meer mention of I'm Gonna Take you for a Ride...has that darn song playing in my head again...it's too catchy!
secretanchitman
Member
It's a good soundtrack. Short but good.
I wanna take you for a ride is obviously the highlight, but the Network Mode and stage music are pretty good as well.
I wanna take you for a ride is obviously the highlight, but the Network Mode and stage music are pretty good as well.
The Spoony Hou
Member
I love the soundtrack, I just don't think it fits the game.
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
Banned
I still dont like it.
It feels out of place
Marvel 1>>>>>>>>>>>>>Marvel 3>>>>>>Marvel 2.
gutter_trash
Banned
it is the worst fighting game OST ever
Poltergust
Member
I honestly can't think of a worse soundtrack for a fighting game.
It would have possibly been good outside of MvC2, but it's so jarring to hear smooth jazz while beating the stuffing out of your opponent. I really don't like it at all.
Also, awful character select music. Thank goodness for the updated one in UMvC3.
It would have possibly been good outside of MvC2, but it's so jarring to hear smooth jazz while beating the stuffing out of your opponent. I really don't like it at all.
Also, awful character select music. Thank goodness for the updated one in UMvC3.
Prophane33
Member
Well, thanks OP for making me feel ancient. Regardless, when the game came out on Dreamcast it was my first experience with the game (I never saw an arcade version till maybe 5 years ago) and I remember finding the soundtrack bizarre. I believe I described it as "grocery store music". I didn't really dislike it, I just didn't feel it fit with the game. Once the XBLA re-release came out, I found myself enjoying the music in a nostalgic way. It's not something that I'd own the OST for, but I can't imagine MvC2 without the jazzy soundtrack.
goldenpp72
Member
I liked it, it didn't seem fully appropriate but then again, I did consider the game wacky on its own so the fact the OST was also didn't hurt it for me.
LeMaximilian
Alligator F*ck House
In regards to the OP
Yes. Compared to Capcom's previous fighting game soundtracks, the term 'boring elevator music' was greatly used around the early 2000's. As time went on tho, it grew on most people and is one of the more loved fighting game OST's around.
Yes. Compared to Capcom's previous fighting game soundtracks, the term 'boring elevator music' was greatly used around the early 2000's. As time went on tho, it grew on most people and is one of the more loved fighting game OST's around.
enigmatic_alex44
Whenever a game uses "middleware," I expect mediocrity. Just see how poor TLOU looks.
the MvC2 soundtrack was and still is one of my favorites in a game ever! So much so that I play it on my computer/youtube even when not playing the game.
shaowebb
Member
This really sums it up. It was a big WTF and didn't fit in with its era, but the soundtrack just sort of stuck around because it was honestly a good soundtrack if out of place for its era. It got better as folks grew out of fad themes to style fighter OST's on and tried to enjoy it on its own merit instead of basing its worth by demanding it sound like other fighting game tracks of its time.
Back in the day I was muting it too and the take you for a ride loop on character select drove me nuts. Now I let it rock and get into it because nostalgia and because not every soundtrack has to be Guilty Gear for me anymore.
DukeTogo1300
Member
I still hate it. The CPS-2 VS games had a consistent style to their OST's, I loved them.
There were a lot of little things I didn't like going to the NAOMI platform, and that huge cast just wasn't enough to sway me, awesome as it was.
There were a lot of little things I didn't like going to the NAOMI platform, and that huge cast just wasn't enough to sway me, awesome as it was.
A Pretty Panda
fuckin' called it, man
Used it for the bgm when I played through Arkham City.
Nikkuthulu
Member
Everyone I knew hated it when the game came out. Heck, I remember people doing everything they could to make their own custom OSTs to replace that game's soundtrack. Somewhere along the line people seem to have liked it more, accepted it, or just like it for one reason or another. Personally despite one or two good tracks I didn't like it, but I can't remember anything other then Gonna Take you for a Ride which, I still don't like.
nice one
I'm one of those who don't.