Is having a good soundtrack as important for a game as it used to be?

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Soleron said:

Mummelmann said:
This is becoming quite rare though, I'm not sure what the composers are doing differently now as opposed to when I grew up or maybe its just me having changed?

Game music is more ambient now and has fewer strong melodies. This might create 'atmosphere' but the tracks aren't catchy enough to remember or inspire emotion. It is also more like pop music because that's what they think we want.

When music was '8-bit', you couldn't do ambience and you had to have a tune in order to stand out.

 

I think that was mainly bacause simple tunes are more easily remembered and are more easear to listen, modern music tends to be related to orchestrated music or to make the atmosphere, both arent easy to remember or to catch the melody as old vg music.

Example: FF12 had a very good soundtrack but most people dont like it because it wasnt memorable enought.