| Helios said: No. Other than, you know, ZREO, and OCRemix having more Zelda remixes than Mega Man arrangements (quite a feat, I'd say), I don't think the number of online mixes is indicative of a franchise's musical quality or popularity. And could you people stop yapping about midi? It's not indicative of musical quality! It's just another tool at the composers disposal, and games like Super Mario Galaxy make wonderful use of it. I suspect the kind of dynamic music than can only be created with midi will only become more poular as time goes on... |
Well, first of all, I should have said that I don't care about OCRemix. I was mostly talking about the people from DOD (Dwelling of Duels), cause they're the truth (haha, in a way). But yeah, I know that the Internet indicates nothing about a game's popularity... but I never hear people humming Zelda tunes in the bus either! 
Second of all, I never said that using .midi files make a song bad. It surely will never be as good as orchestral music though, and there's no way around it. Sound cards will never produce the same guitar sounds compared to the real instrument for example. Sure I'm always disappointed to hear midi songs when we have games like Star Fox Assault, Gears of War and Modern Warfare 2 with amazing orchestral music. Gears of War and Modern Warfare 2's music is dynamic while being orchestrated and it's actually REALLY GOOD, how's that? I admit there are exceptions like Super Mario Galaxy. That game's soundtrack is great!
Third of all, I hardly have any Nintendo songs in my top video game soundtrack lists because no, they don't always use the format well compared to other companies that arrived around the same time as them, especially on the NES. Heck, even their second parties usually make better music than their internal studios! I can list A BUNCH of NES game soundtracks that beat Zelda's, Mario's, etc. Just a tip: Konami and Capcom are gods when we're talking about 8-bit 16-bit music.
@ pokeclaudel: Are you saying that I said that people don't recognize the theme? Because find where I said that in my previous posts. And you're quite saying what I'm saying about the midi thing...! And I'm also the one that said that it fits the western train theme... lol! o_O
Random game thought :
Why is Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 getting so much hate? We finally get a real game and they're not even satisfied... I'm starting to hate the gaming community so f****** much...
