Journey soundtrack nominated for a Grammy!

[Hapimeses]

Soleron said:

Hapimeses said:
It's got no chance, but I do like that the gaming industry is being taken (semi) seriously like this. After all, some of the gaming studios' musical output clearly rivals mainstream media, but that's rarely, if ever, recognised.

Game soundtracks pretty much crush film soundtracks as standalone things. Film soundtracks have a handful of short motifs, game soundtracks can have over a hundred unique songs. They're also much more memorable than the ambience of most films.

Absolutely. After all, a movie lasts for only a couple or so hours at most, where a game may be anything from 6 hours to, well, potentially hundreds. Different media require different supporting music options, obviously. Games, as you say, frequently have significantly longer, deeper, more complicated soundtracks than movies, but I wouldn't say they are necessarily better. That depends upon the composers at hand.