Why does no one in the US recognize Video Game Music as a legitimate form of music? Compare to Japan where even the most obscure game can't get away from having a classical orchestra rendition, vocals, or techno remix.
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Anonymous2006-01-07 16:30 (sage)
Video game music rocked until they tried to make it sound like their environments rather than sound good with their environments. For reasons like this, Cave story has a superb sound track, while many other modern games have soundtracks you can barely even call soundtracks.
I still have a hard time figuring out where they all went wrong like that.
Oh, and then there's my last pet peeve, games with crappy MTV music in them. Holy shit, I play video games expecting a tune that I can remember and enjoy, not a tune that I've been trying to get out of my head for months. And allowing games to have MP3s and crap played over them ala xbox seems to be more of a cover up to the crappy modern game music problem rather than a remedy. It will only make it worse when developers assume nobody is listening to their music as is. :<