>>6
You dick, I'm listening to SoE right now.
You're also wrong about aquired taste, people have often asked me what it was I would be listening to even when they knew it was all digital and not performed.
I have to agree with you though, orchestrations are ass, at the very most, videogame music can be played by a band, but a full fucking orchestra full of people who have absolutely no passion for the art of it is both overkill and a monumental failure.
>>7
You've also never ever heard it in your life, how are you supposed to like it if you have no idea what it is? Oh you say you have the sound on NOW? Hey buddy, no one ever said the music was good now, try playing what you were before with the sound on this time.
>>10
You should take note of the fact that many people who once composed for releases (and it perhaps shouldn't have to be said, but in case it's too much for one to infer, many of these individuals have put together some of the most legendary stuff ever heard with electronically interactive entertainment) no longer do any more and haven't for years. Why Soule himself seems to only compose for western rpgs/mmos that I will never bother to touch for the fact of what kind of games they are, as such I'll never hear what he's even doing, but from what I was told on the matter, he has toned down considerably since his work on spc.
>>1
Consider these facts
1) They play more videogames than we do, we do not get even half of the releases they do, they have always had more selection in videogames to begin with than we have ever ever had unless you really want to try and talk about atari but even then, by the time the MSX showed up they had plenty to listen to, oh and not only that but they had much better composition and composers working on the msx, you know, the whole japanese thing, they kinda...like music and all, and coupled with their love for technology and electronics...well it's obvious what the result of that turned out to be, or at least it should be obvious, if it isn't I must implore you to go educate yourself.
2)They play videogames more often and in larger numbers (proportionally) than anywhere in the world really, coupled with point 1, it is vastly easier to run into or know someone who has also experienced that which is contained within the videogames, more discussion in real time is possible, the appreciation has a greater potential to turn into a thriving community like science fiction fandom over here. With more people exhanging experiences with the matter of the topic of discussion and being able to weigh their findings and opinions against each other, the added level of involvement and interactivity makes it become much more interesting of a thing, progressing from an enthusiasm by oneself into an active hobby. As of right now here, and possibly for as long as this country is around, there will never be anything near that level of appreciation or community for the like minded here.
3)The vast and overwhelming majority of the people who supply the music that is heard originates from their country, of course, here it is different because of point 1 again, if we got all of japan's releases it would be different, but as it stands, nowadays American mainstream music industry stuff is what populates the audio of videogames sold here, not even American composers, which is of course, quite unfortunate and makes us look pretty incapable in the regrd of providing soundtracks. Though, perhaps we are. One thing to note is that, perhaps it isn't easy for your average Ameropean to own up to appreciating 100% digital music pieced together by some random and more often than not anonymous japanese dude. Perhaps if there were in fact more capable English speaking composers whose works are featured in current date published games, then it may be possible that the appreciation for the audio inside games to grow more than it does now, but I honestly never think that it could ever grow to something as big in these parts as in Japan. The biggest reason for this is the fact that not only do the people who do it live there, but it seems that every now and then they actually get together and perform there, and I'm not talking PLay! Music whatever with an x random most heard of guys lineup to get certain fanboys/fresh to the genre people excited, I'm talking people who have actually had some pretty heavy and intensive stuff featured within a game. I wont name too many names, but I will mention the fact of how hilarious I think it is that if you mention oh gee are to a random guy HERE, they'll never know what the hell you're talking about (unless you by sheer luck have run into a person who has actually heard music in their lives) but if you so much as utter two syllables of Nobu chances are some one or five helpless individuals will get all excited and depending on just how cred they are shout one winged whatever or dancing yawn and go one for an hour or so on just that one song and about how he's the greatest ever. Yeah I heard it once, I was totally enthralled and all that until I went back to some more intriguing music but boy it was sure great for those 3 minutes that I forgot I had something I'd been meaning to get through. This brings us to the final time sto...I mean point.
4)Americans are fags, through and through. They have no fucking idea about anything, rugby is football, football is soccer, listen to anything a teacher or education ministry facility tells you, follow whatever the status quo is and the status quo is certainly not listen to you some digital audio action, no portable 'music players' play any of the real formats besides the psp the ds and possibly the gamepark handhelds, everything else is mp3 or some other ridiculously bloated format only. THanks apple/creative/faggot corpos, I totally listen to mp3 and it's the format all my shit it is as I love to have to pull megs at a time over my connection just to listen to a total of like 5 songs after a half an hour of sitting on a slow ass peer to peer network, what are native format rips? Where the fuck was I, well also I will also mention now, even though it doesn't necessarily relate to the main idea, but the CD arrangements/'orchestrations' are usually never sold here unless its nobuo/kondo/uhhhh whoever composes mgs/etc and even then, those are plentiful right? Hell, everysingle Japanese printed CD isn't printed anymore so it isn't really like the listening of the stuff is that big over there either, but at the very least they at some point
GET compilations every now and then. One way to tie it in to this matter is what I suppose to be the belief of thos ein charge of producing these CDs, obviously, they would never expect the market in America to even touch any of the CDs if they put them on the shelvs, so why ever bother? As such, content is always readily and easily available for the curious and experimental listener browsing music store X right? It is rather a vicious circle, but however, thanks to the internet, I cn live with the fact of it, since it is easy to get what I'm looking for and it doesn't have ot take up a CD slot or my bandwidth, and this is the work of mostly Americans who actually do appreciate the art so to say all Americans are the pits isn't entirely true, it is just that, obviously the sad retarded majority including everyone whose face I have ever seen sucks shit sage.
To wrap it up, there's one more thing about point 4 I'd like to address.
Look at what sells in the mainstream music market, now come back to me and tell me you expect the people who listen to...THAT to be able to ever have the capacity for appreciation for the music I or possibly we listen to, EVER. They're tasteless, they're hopeless, they're utterly artless, and they'd really be better off dead.