Need the thread continue?

So you're telling me that after listening to a soundtrack over and over that you remember the music?  

Yeah, I figured. Thought I'd attempt a meaningful response just out of boredom. I do agree, I also think the problem is not completely due to decline in quality so much as a decline in music-centric or heavily-musically-bolstered games.

And that's why I specified that I remember where each song is from in the game.  If the only reason I rememberred the songs in general was because I listen to them alot (which could easily be said for songs people remember from older games), then I would just remember the songs and not what dungeon they are from.  Obviously I remember them from the game and not just from listening to them as background music.

Look you having terrible taste has nothing to do with it.

I don't really understand the point.  For every one game here that we've mentioned, there have been at least 10-20 other games with totally awful or unmemorable music in past generations.  Do you remember the soundtrack of World Cup for the NES?  Brandish for the SNES?  Jet Force Gemini for the N64?  No?  Well that's because all generations have tons of games with mediocre music.  However we remember the best music, the stuff we love the most, and then we compare all of that from 3+ generations to a single incomplete generation and wonder where all the good music is.

I'm going to just have faith that Dragon Quest IX has awesome music, Dragon Quest's almost always do and VIII's was superb.

"Les Enfants Terrible" is generally assumed to be about the clones of Big Boss, but only because people don't know that "Enfants" is also part of an obscure Celtic dialect, roughly translating to "Soriku's taste in video games music"

That's right, Soriku

Your taste is so bad it nearly started a nuclear war three or four different times

Yeah, I skimmed and resultingly misinterpreted Torillian's post. So I'll just reiterate a point I made later in the thread: it's not so much a decline in the quality of music in games as the decline of the prevalence of music in games. So there are a lot more games on the market that do not expend a very large budget on music. I'd also assume that 9/10 developers, if given the choice, would spend more time on eye-popping graphics than a top-notch soundtrack.

I never claimed that the previous generations had unanimously great music, my original point was that the median quality of videogame music seems to have slipped a bit. That's far from inarguable, but I think it's valid enough to discuss.

Okay, end of meandering ruminations.

Play Shadow of The Colossus easily the best videogame Soundtrack I've heard