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Words Of Wisdom on 08 June 2009
Torillian said:
In general I would agree but I think there are still some extremely unique and memorable soundtracks out there such as Persona 4, TWEWY, and to a lesser extent Valkyria Chronicles.

Although I'm not sure if this apparent decrease in the quality of soundtracks is real or if it is just perceived because you only remember the best of the best from the past and you are comparing that to music in general of today.

Persona 4 had nothing memorable.  Valkyria had very nice music, but nothing memorable.

I will say that Disgaea 3's OST is a step down from Disgaea 1 and 2.  Although, I am heavily biased as I consider Sinful Rose to be one of the best songs to ever come out of the Disgaea series.  It's pretty amazing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkJB2TrIeG4



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blaydcor on 08 June 2009
Khuutra said:


It's about knowing where to look, just like it's always been about knowing where to look.

Surprises I forgot to cite the Fire Emblem games, they usually have pretty damn good soundtracks. The best songs are always amazing, while the worst ones are never worse than simply generic.



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Torillian on 08 June 2009
Khuutra said:
Soriku said:

That's true...but I still know what's good and what isn't :P

...You can't agree that context is necessary to appreciate a soundtrack and then claim that you know what's good anyway!

I believe he agrees that you need context to know when a soundtrack is truly amazing, but without it you can still tell if a soundtrack is shit or not.  Like the one for Blue Dragon, poor Naz couldn't even finish the game because of the boss music in that.



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Veggie on 08 June 2009

Metroid Prime 3, Super Mario Galaxy, Halo 3, Twilight Princess and World of Warcraft all have amazing music.



Khuutra on 08 June 2009

I think we can all agree that this gen's soundtracks will have a deficiency of awesome until we get an F-Zero.



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Torillian on 08 June 2009
Words Of Wisdom said:
Torillian said:
In general I would agree but I think there are still some extremely unique and memorable soundtracks out there such as Persona 4, TWEWY, and to a lesser extent Valkyria Chronicles.

Although I'm not sure if this apparent decrease in the quality of soundtracks is real or if it is just perceived because you only remember the best of the best from the past and you are comparing that to music in general of today.

Persona 4 had nothing memorable.  Valkyria had very nice music, but nothing memorable.

I will say that Disgaea 3's OST is a step down from Disgaea 1 and 2.  Although, I am heavily biased as I consider Sinful Rose to be one of the best songs to ever come out of the Disgaea series.  It's pretty amazing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkJB2TrIeG4

It's fine if you don't think Persona 4 had memorable music, but I do and I love having it in the background while I play skate 2, I can tell you specifically where each song is from while I listen to it as well.



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Mr Khan on 08 June 2009

It seems to be something that the Japanese developers excel at, at least. Their studios seem to have the best on-staff composers.

 

Western studios can win in this department too, it just seems that the Japanese game music composers are their own seperate entity



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bardicverse on 08 June 2009

Two words - 50 Cent.



blaydcor on 08 June 2009
Torillian said:
In general I would agree but I think there are still some extremely unique and memorable soundtracks out there such as Persona 4, TWEWY, and to a lesser extent Valkyria Chronicles.

Although I'm not sure if this apparent decrease in the quality of soundtracks is real or if it is just perceived because you only remember the best of the best from the past and you are comparing that to music in general of today.

I think that music is one thing that is, for the most part, unaffected by nostalgia. If anything I reject/dislike music I enjoyed when I was younger because I've heard it too many times, have developed more sophisticated musical tastes, etc. Part of the problem is no doubt my recent gamer-apathy; I haven't played nearly as many games recently as I used to.

I guess what I'm really trying to express is frustration with the overall drop in music quality, not the lack of isolated gems with great soundtracks.



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Torillian on 08 June 2009
blaydcor said:
Torillian said:
In general I would agree but I think there are still some extremely unique and memorable soundtracks out there such as Persona 4, TWEWY, and to a lesser extent Valkyria Chronicles.

Although I'm not sure if this apparent decrease in the quality of soundtracks is real or if it is just perceived because you only remember the best of the best from the past and you are comparing that to music in general of today.

I think that music is one thing that is, for the most part, unaffected by nostalgia. If anything I reject/dislike music I enjoyed when I was younger because I've heard it too many times, have developed more sophisticated musical tastes, etc. Part of the problem is no doubt my recent gamer-apathy; I haven't played nearly as many games recently as I used to.

I guess what I'm really trying to express is frustration with the overall drop in music quality, not the lack of isolated gems with great soundtracks.

Just to be clear, I wasn't meaning you specifically when I put the "you" in my statement.  Just that in general when people see a decline in quality sometimes it is percieved because of how they remember things.



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