/vr/ - Retro Games

Is that Pewdiepie?

>>3616609
looks like doctor xavier

>>3616608
DUDE
ARPEGGIOS
LMAO

Gee, I don't know...

>>3616608
Literally who?

>>3616608
>dude I got some sick arpeggios and some prog schlock that totally doesn't fit the mood or context of your soon to be forgotten game
exec:
Just fuck my shit up

>>3616608
Ryu Umemoto
Hitoshi Sakamoto
Whoever did Sunsoft's stuff
1990s Namco soundteam

>>3616635
Weeaboo.

>>3616617
>>3616631
Literally what's wrong with arpeggios?

>composers must be opposed
what's funny is some want to oppose someone like matt furniss to koshiro or follin, but furniss favorite tracks are from koshiro or follin...

Follin is based, so is koshiro, so is furniss, so is huelsbeck, so is jesper kyd...

>>3616643
His songs are nothing but them. Gets repetitive.

>>3616608
Who is that? I only know names, not faces.

Follin made a lot of great stuff, but also some pretty unlistenable ones.

>>3616636
>weeaboos on 4chan
Ayyyylmaooo
Sorry nobody gives a shit about western composers fàm.
Say, when your favorite western vidya composer get a fully orchestrated, sold out world tour dedicated to his works, you can make a thread about it.

>>3616651
This T.B.H.

>>3616645
Besides Koshiro, literally who(s)?
I'm guessing you're Eurotrash? Amiga and GEMS all day, right?

>>3616747
Calm down autismo, anon didn't refute your claims, he just called out a Weeb. Coulda thrown a bone to Hasslehoff or Kyd to avoid the label.

>>3616608
Whoever did this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm1UfN9zBgc

>>3616750
>literally who?

>3616750
typical clueless basher (ツ)
no (you) for you

>>3616772
>>3616775
>getting this triggered because nobody recognizers your favorite shitty composers
WwWwWwWWwwwwWwww

Ben Daglish untouchable

>>3616608
Hiroshi Okubo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9gUBWdpKV4

>>3616651
How are they repetitive? How is playing simple slow notes like most NES games do less repetitive?

>>3616608

>>3616608
>Keygen Arpeggin
>based

>>3616608
.

>>3616608

>>3616635
Pretty diverse and great pick of composers.

>>3616608

Favorite Tim Follin songs?
Mine's Dolphin's Intrigue and the Beach song from Plok.

Not sure if Future Tactics is /vr/, but that game has one of my favorite soundtracks.

>>3617225
https://youtu.be/g5ctRrsPexs

>>3617180
>plagiarizing music
>based

>>3616608
Is he as much of a dick as he looks in that pic?

>>3616645
>Follin
His Plok soundtrack is stunning to this day. Supposedly Miyamoto himself hearing it initially refused to believe that it's coming straight outta an SNES.

>>3616635
>Ryu Umemoto
Don't forget his buddy, Ryu Takami
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZsETdpmvR0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNjuygK7lA0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T_kCLS5WDE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TLSO8aGZw8&t=3m24s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2CLq8mUdcM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXTYkxSh4zI

>>3616608
That is not Jun Senoue
Also Ippo and Gaki-chan who did Phantasy Star 4
Also Zuntata

>>3617218
Mah nigga. Dunn is god tier.

>Ctrl+F
>no Michael Giacchino

Really? The guy is a multi award winner, including Grammys, Emmys, etc.

@3617347
>being influenced by the music you listen to
>plagiarizing
No (You) for you.

>>3617189
>>3616608
I prefer McAlby and Barry Leitch. Leitch is brilliant to this day.
https://soundcloud.com/barryleitch/father-johns-live-theme-winter-version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_-YuZ_46kI

>>3617512
>The guy is a multi award winner, including Grammys, Emmys, etc
Sounds like he does uninteresting mainstream.
Oh wait, he did Maui Mallard? Love that soundtrack!

>>3617716
>I prefer McAlby
But anon, Gonzalez IS McAlby.

>>3617347
>>3617652

>>3617347
plagiarizing music is based you brainwashed pig

>>3617716
>Sounds like he does uninteresting mainstream.

I'm aware that hipsters aren't into mainstream or winning stuff, but the guy is pretty based.

>>3617373
>Ryu Takami
>doesn't post Groundseed
DELET

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1xUyaLU24c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLgqQLrw7p4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stJhhhCDTAg

>>3617356
>supposedly Miyamoto
Sure kid, sure.

>>3617445
>Zuntata
My nigga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am144km8Rb0
>dat sawtooth at the end

>>3617512
>multi award winner! guyz he's good really!! l-look he's got an Emmy!
Putrid, middle-of-the-road slop, t.b.h.

>>3616608
If you slanted his eyes a bit more, he could pass for a member of S.S.T.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjVofpXGM5c

>>3617347
>plagiarized
>never a case against him
>libel, copyright, nothing
GG, anon

>>3618959
So when Led Zeppelin clearly plagiarises a song and get away with it scot free because muh lawyery, that doesn't mean they're not plagiarising, right?

>>3618959
Are you dense? Japan doesn't care about copyright laws.

>that time when Tim raped the 2A03 chip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2l9O4ZLRhw

>>3619105
>Are you dense? Japan doesn't care about copyright laws.

http://www.kanzenshuu.com/features/kenji-yamamoto-retrospective/

>>3619105
They do, it just varies on how individuals enforce it, and various groups have some loose guidelines on "How to not make me go HULK SMASH on you".

>>3616608
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJAfIpAzaPE

>>3616608
Nope he is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_YdjYf29Ko

>>3619206
Japan doesn't have to respect US copyright. Look it up.

>>3618989
>Led Zeppelin
>Plagiaring
Go for it Famicom

>>3618947
That saw >>3619105
tooth is fucking legendary.

>>3619189
Christ what a fucking mess of an ost. Typical Follin cacophony.

>>3619271
>>3619236
>>3617512
>>3617716
>>3617218
>>3617190
>>3617189
>The literal who's? of Videogame soundtracks

>>3619105
go to
>>3619206
BTFO
T
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>>3620290
Seems fitting for a game where the only theme is "rad kid in random land"

>>3616608
This guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn22dxKCoI4

>>3620525
Man, that bridge at 2:56 is smooth as butter.

No Koji Kondo? Come on /vr/

>>3620294
You must be 18+ to post here.

>>3620541
Butter Bridge?

>>3617189
Yea I love this guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnzHTkRLcE4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9I5UbaPOS0

>>3620525
Iori's tracks were always best in 90s KoF games.

>>3620621
Age has nothing to do with those composers lack of notoriety.

>>3620815
paul romero is pretty well known

I put my hope in the Kirkhope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQNAVqW1shA

>Not retro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbXXTsdSGVk

>>3620815
If you had lived the 8-16 bits era, you'd also know who whittaker, gonzalez and dunn are.

>>3620876
David Wise > Grant

>>3620876
Grant was a party animal

>>3616608
Schubert > Paul Romero > Hiroshi Miyauchi > Hirokazu Ando > Jun Ishikawa > Strauss II > DEKU > Ken Nakagawa > Pachelbel > Tonnor > Jirurun > Bach > Robert Euvino > Rick Wakeman > Jeremy Soule > Tamayo Kawamoto > Jun Maeda > Beethoven > Grieg > Chopin > Debussy > Hirokazu Tanaka > Shinji Orito > Konami Kuheika > Tomoko Sasaki > Vaughn Williams > Glenn Stafford > Richard Jacques > Masato Nakamura > Koji Kondo > Hiroki Kikuta > Yoko Kanno > Brahms > Chris Hulsbeck > Kenji Ito > Tsukasa Masuko> Falcom sound team > Jeff Lynne > Yoko Shimomura > Tokuhiko Uwabo > Sibelius > Mozart > Tchaikovsky > Ravel > Hitoshi Sakimoto > Tatsuyuki Maeda > Naofumi Hataya> Masafumi Ogata > Hisayoshi Ogura > Yasuaki Fujita aka BunBun > Masashi Hamauzu > Magome Togoshi > Hitoshi Sakamoto > 70s Genesis > King Crimson > Yasunori Mitsuda > Capcom sound team > Nobuo Uematsu > Koichi Sugiyama > Gentle Giant > Mikiya Katakura > Kevin Schilder > Bobby Prince > Jethro Tull > Daisuke Ishiwatari > Masanori Hikichi > Miyoko Takaoka > Brad Buxer > Yuzo Koshiro > Alexander Brandon > Tim Follin > Emerson, Lake & Palmer > Takanori Arisawa > Rush > Masaru Setsumaru > Motoi Sakuraba > Frank Klepacki > Shade > ZUN > Vivaldi

>>3620892
>If you had lived the 8-16 bits era, you'd also know who gonzalez is

Doubt that. I mean, I wish he were well known, because he is the best, but just isn't.

>>3621224
>Pachelbel > Bach
>Koji Kondo > Chris Hulsbeck
This is heresy.

>>3621321
Seriously, Bach slays Pachelbel. I mean come on.

>>3621051
this, Kirkhope is horribly overrated. Most of his music (if not all) are generic and very forgettable

>>3621224
>Rick Wakeman
>Jeff Lynne
>Rush

>>3617512
The soundtrack to Medal of Honor: Frontline blew me away back in the day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM-H4CqOuLw

>>3620525
While I prefer 95's version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk2mBSt7NsA
97 is still hot fire. SNK in the 90s was just hitting on all cylinders, right up there with Sandog and Namco's soundteam.

>>3616635
Probably the best and most diverse listing so far.

>>3621385
It's just so generic and run-of-the-mill. The kind of stuff you've heard so much before that it just doesn't register or engage with the listener.
>>3621901
I was initially going to post 95', but I really liked 97's bridge.

>>3621901
Furthermore, that switch over to classic Jazz at 3:04 still gives me gooseflesh.

>>3620892
I did and I never heard of these guys.
Koshiro was big back then, same with Kondo. Heard of Sakamoto and Kyd's stuff as well and of course Uematsu was a given.
Gonzalez did what? A couple no-count GBC games? Please.

>>3621321
In the case of Bach, yes.
Kondo, however, wrecks Hulsbeck.

>>3616608
Mitsuda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnKNwBVG5Yw

>>3621912
>Gonzalez did what? A couple no-count GBC games? Please.
20 you dipshit.
Yet still. David Whittaker, Jonathan Dunn and Barry Leitch? Never heard of these. Definitely underage, most likely a weab too.

>ctrl+f namiki
>0 results
well gotta fix that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYIhEHJt_jE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5NME4QextM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDu-kApNHJ8

>>3621919
>not posting his magnum opus OST

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ1BIrnDm1c

>>3621224
>Vivaldi last
>he doesn't like the Four Seasons
Pleb.

>>3617356
>One rumor states that Shigeru Miyamoto heard Plok's opening theme and couldn't believe it was coming out of an unmodified SNES.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/AwesomeMusic/TimAndGeoffFollin

>We were actually very close to signing the game up directly with Nintendo as publisher. Mr Miyamoto told us that currently (when we showed them the alpha version) the game was the third best platform game after Mario and Sonic, but if they worked with us on finishing it he would help us make it the second best, after Mario. Unfortunately the Nintendo deal didn't happen, so I guess the Tradewest deal was a sort of back-up plan.

http://www.retrocollect.com/Articles/interview-ste-pickford-co-developer-of-plok.html

>>3618940
Yes, Miyamoto. See >>3623085.

Toshiharu Yamanishi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLDBwMusg4o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQnxpkQ-BVg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEXZUqZ1Gwo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm6dsP_o85A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ERzTFv8iyM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q5febEtO1A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-WaUmwb31Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LmOMrkB6rc

>>3617225

Time Trax intro

>>3623550
Technosoft sound team were fm wizards.
TF4 was their ultimate showoff of their mastery, and it wasn't even an end-of-life MD game. The only little complain I have is that they didn't reserve a sound channel for sound effects.

>>3623090
>>3623085

The rumor about Miyamoto and the Plok soundtrack seems to have come from Software Creations people visiting Nintendo's HQ. Nintendo's excuse for dropping Plok was that they were working on a similar game (probably Yoshi's Island), To me, this sounds like Nintendo being too polite to tell their business partners that their game sucks.

>>3624037
>To me, this sounds like Nintendo being too polite to tell their business partners that their game sucks.
Aren't the Japs known for being avoidant?

>>3623785
Its a shame that Technosoft fizzled out. I wish they could have released a few more arcade games with fm music.

>>3618949
>literally one of the most successful composers in the world
>middle-of-the-road

>>3616608

>>3621324
>Pachelbel
His entire canon consists of... Canon.

>ctrl+f
>takenobu mitsuyoshi
>0 results

Poor taste, all of you.

>>3625123
Will he come back for the new Daytona game, I wonder?

>>3617180

my nigga

>having my Model 1 Genesis hooked up to my brother's stereo system with 12" subs
>playing Streets of Rage 2

Holy shit it rocked

>>3616631
>>3617225
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEUJd8iQiOE

krek

>>3616608
Reminds me of a mate of mine.

>>3624037
Nintendo just ripped off a bunch of Plok mechanics (shooting enemies with loose extremities, character obtaining vehicles from presents) and put it into Yoshi's Island (shooting enemies with eggs, character morphing into vehicles obtained from bubbles) which was released two years later. They just grabbed ideas that they found interesting and then said "fuck the britbongs and their game".

>>3626302
Nintendo also stole the concept of a 3D platformer from Argonaut Games

>>3626302

This is like shitting on the original Sonic because Mario came out before it.

Yoshi's Island's shooting mechanic is both more useful and more fun. Its vehicles help the player instead of screwing them over. The camera is less zoomed out, the movement physics have more depth, the levels have more variety, and I even think the music is better (nobody gives a fuck about Plok's soundtrack other than "Beach").

Even Ste Pickford admitted that YI was better.

>>3626302

This is like shitting on Super Mario Bros. because Pac-Land exists.

Yoshi's Island's shooting mechanic is both more useful and more fun. Its vehicles help the player instead of screwing them over. The camera is less zoomed out, the movement physics have more depth, the levels have more variety, and does anyone really give a shit about Plok's soundtrack besides "Beach"?

Even Ste Pickford admitted that YI was better.

>>3616608
Based on what?

>>3620892
I have but I was busy playing the fucking video games rather than being obsessed with whoever made some shitty soundtracks of blips and blops.

>>3627147
I love Akrillic

>>3626302
Hatin' because nobody gives a shit about Plok.
Sad

>>3624182
Everybody eats at Mc Donald's as well.

>>3624037
Japs are really polite like that.
>>3623085
>TVtropes as a source
WEW LAD

>>3627184
>nobody gives a shit about Plok.

Yea right. That's why over 300 physical Plok comic books were sold already.

>>3627184
Btw the only thing Plok needed was a publisher who wouldn't have jewed away a battery-backed save memory the game much needed, and some six more months of development time to polish the game and even out the difficulty curve a bit. Then it surely would have become the big hit it always deserved to be.

>>3627147
You can't compare Nintendo's development resources to those of some two dudes from England. Obviously Nintendo refined the ideas and they could have easily afforded to give their game any polish it needed (not to mention they didn't have to beg anyone for a save RAM on the cart), but it's apparent that Plok is most likely where they got the ideas in the first place.

>>3627147
>Even Ste Pickford admitted that YI was better.
I used to post on a forum where these Pickfords posted. I knew they did games but I never knew they did Plok.

Not that I liked Plok.

>>3627192
>>TVtropes as a source
>WEW LAD

k

http://www.gamesradar.com/game-music-of-the-day-a-surefire-cure-for-the-monday-blues/

>Rumor has it that when Shigeru Miyamoto first heard Plok's theme song, he didn't believe it was coming from a regular SNES and that the composer must have installed a modified audio chip. If true, his shock is understandable – this sounds more like a big band jam session than a 16-bit computer file.

>>3627459
It was quite popular in Germany for some reason. Interestingly enough, virtually all the level/location names and also some character names were completely changed.

Cotton Island -> Pota Pota
Acrillic -> Famosa
Legacy Island -> Nostalgia
Bobbins Brothers -> Pogo-Brueder (Pogo Brothers)
Womack Spider -> Ekeltyp (Disgusting Guy)

>>3627470
I suppose baumwolle island loses its punchiness.

>>3627470
Rockyfella -> Dr. Faustus (I guess this one was inspired by the part where you fight Rockyfella as a boss right before the Fleapit - his major attack are fists, and "Faust" means "fist" in German).

>>3616608
matt uelmen is best

>>3621919
>Mitsuda: what kinda battle theme u want?
>Square: just fuck my shit up

OST is pretty based otherwise, though.

>>3630724
>hating on Gale
Nigga you gay.

.

Toshiya Yamanaka (山中季哉)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p93Ik729Qg
sorry for the shit youtube rip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCmPvXCvRic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1gvwkqlMAQ

Shinji Hosoe

90% of tim follin's music is him essentially stealing from progressive rock. Gets kinda boring after the novelty wears off, not much in the way of variety or mood pieces. His later work in the early 00's is neater.

Kenichi Hiirata is a much less celebrated (and much less pretentiously celebrated) for his work. He mostly focused on a single game series, but the music he gave the series was both fun and iconic. It's catchy, cute, intense when it needs to be, and successfully delivers on various moods. It capitalized on new hardware and withstood numerous remixes and different types of instrumentation. It's music that is truly flexible, unlike Follin's.

If you haven't listened to the music for the Cotton games, I'd suggest checking out pretty much every version of the Fantastic Night Dreams soundtrack. Yes, even the Java phone port's music. Check out Panorama Cotton's sick YM2612 songs that captialized on the winding fm synth possible with it, as well as the powerful bass it could deliver, Cotton 2 on the Saturn's wild soundtrack that takes advantage of all 32 channels available, and lastly Cotton Rainbow's music on the dreamcast, which is a purely upbeat affair where even the final boss track has an incredibly cheery quality to it that will give you a tune to whistle for months on end.

>>3623785
Hall and Oates must have been on that team.