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Anonymous Fri Dec 6 16:17:19 2013 No.1251881 [DELETED]

So I was wondering why the music of the 16 bit area is so memorable and epic in many cases, especially the SNES music. With 8 sounds simultaneously the music is always quite simple, its MIDI-quality so technically spoken, you can't say its music of high quality. But I'm pretty sure, everybody can sum the "Light World" Theme of "Legend of Zelda", the "Corneria Theme" of Star Fox, the Boss theme of "Secret of Mana" and even the tunes of more unknown games Like "PLOK" stuck in your head for ages and gives you goosebumps.
I won't say it's just nostalgia. I've played Chrono Trigger for the first time recently and holy hell, Frogs Theme gives me the chills and is memorable as fuck.

Yeah, so why seems the music of the 16-bit era be so much "more" than the video game music nowadays?

Any suggestions?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 6 16:18:18 2013 No.1251884 >>1251881 >sum I meant hum, of course.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 6 16:20:18 2013 No.1251893 >>1251881 I wish video game composers would step up and stop writing boring shit for every game.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 6 16:20:18 2013 No.1251895 When you only have a few sounds to work with the melody has to stand out. Technical constrains make people more creative across the board really.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 6 16:21:48 2013 No.1251897 Because its catchy pop music, not boring wannabe cinema music.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 6 16:27:18 2013 No.1251914 >>1251895 Yeah, I think thats a good point. The music back in the 16-bit area was the major sound source you got. Today, its often just backgroundmusic to underline the mood in a subtle way.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 6 16:27:48 2013 No.1251917 >>1251897 this, although the "modern wannabes" can still be good God of War 3 had a pretty amazing score for its tracks hell, even the shitfest that was LAIR had an amazing soundtrack if you are into classical music

Anonymous Fri Dec 6 16:30:48 2013 No.1251920

>>1251897
Not everything back in the days was pop music. Mystic Quest Legend had a hardrock soundtrack and you can't say that most of the sad themes in the RPGs like Terranigma, Illusion of Gaia or Chrono Trigger are "poppy". The function was the same as with the cinema music: underlining the mood.

And besides, some movies have a great memorable soundtrack, like LoTR, Pirates of the Carribean or -of course - Star Wars

Anonymous Fri Dec 6 16:50:48 2013 No.1251951

>>1251881
Because games from the 8 and 16 bit eras had to rely on catchier loops and hooks instead of a full orchestra to fit the rapidly shifting mood of modern games.
You got roughly a minute to create a tune that had to be looped for however long the level played, so it had to be something that players wouldn't mind hearing over and over.
Hell, many simple bleeps and bloops from NES games still sound better than the fully orchestrated soundtracks from current gen games. Some examples:

Batman - Stage 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giJPhqRVGbo

Journey to Silius - Stage 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwn-9IiO3MM

Silver Surfer - BGM 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGNSHNf-nlU

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 6 17:01:48 2013 No.1251986 >>1251881 >especially the SNES music Do you really have to bring this bullshit into the discussion? Genesis had tons of great sounding games. Stop being retarded.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 6 17:08:40 2013 No.1252010 Chiptunes just work well for video games, when you think of vgm you think of chip tunes. Every thing is all orchestral or prerecorded now and it's not as nice.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 6 17:11:11 2013 No.1252016 >>1251986 This, it's funny how many ignorant "gamers" there are on /vr/.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 6 17:14:10 2013 No.1252035 >>1251986 I stopped reading OP's post after that part.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 6 17:16:10 2013 No.1252040 >>1251986 Who said it didn't? Don't you think you're being a little defensive?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 6 17:18:10 2013 No.1252048 >>1252040 OP clearly implied it didn't.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 6 17:20:10 2013 No.1252056 >>1252048 He didn't mention it at all, most likely because he's unfamiliar with it. You're taking umbrage over nothing.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 6 17:21:10 2013 No.1252058 It really depends on your tastes. If you're into the synth sound of that period it's great. If not it's not. I have nothing against either sound. Even 8 bit. Tell me Mario Bros would have been better with an FM sound chip.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 6 17:23:40 2013 No.1252059 >>1252058 Sure, it would have.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 6 17:28:40 2013 No.1252076 >>1252056 Of course he's unfamiliar with it. That's all the more reason not to say "especially the SNES music" as if those systems he doesn't know anything about didn't sound as good.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 6 17:32:40 2013 No.1252083 >>1252076 He said the music of the 16-bit era (including the genesis) was memorable and epic, which is exactly what you think as well. But sure throw a fit because the word especially wasn't appended to your liking.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 6 17:33:10 2013 No.1252089 >>1251986 Is there anything more impressive on the genesis than Batman and Robin's soundtrack? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n_eHN-ArK8

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 6 17:33:10 2013 No.1252090 Orchestral music all tends to just fade into the background, that's kind of its purpose. You can still have music that stands out, though. Pretty sure most gamers could recognize, say, One Winged Angel.

Anonymous Fri Dec 6 17:55:11 2013 No.1252153

>>1252083
It's not that it "wasn't appended to my liking", it's that it was used at all.
I'd be just as annoyed if he said "especially the Genesis music". It's just a statement that does not need to be there full of dumb favoritism that no one wants to see.

>>1252089
I think Gauntlet IV, Mega Turrican, and the unreleased Time Trax might be more impressive.

>Gauntlet IV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOagvSmosBg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WKKH6OAyS8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brUFB5z1i7E

>Mega Turrican
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdY4EKAcW4Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYHNvYSgEAA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vboVIs18Hg

>Time Trax
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LGINgpP6jw

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 6 21:11:15 2013 No.1252621 >>1251920 first 3 megaman X games had awesome rock (heh) soundtracks

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 6 21:26:02 2013 No.1252645 File: 856 KB, 2592x1944, 1385340414795.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Because Japanese composers. It's always the Japanese composers.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 6 21:30:02 2013 No.1252660 >>1252645 >Cowboy Bebop at his computer.jpg

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 6 21:36:02 2013 No.1252679 >>1252645 Why can't reporters into research?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 6 21:56:50 2013 No.1252730 >>1252645 >asian man plays crazy television game

Anonymous Fri Dec 6 22:44:23 2013 No.1252820

It was composed to sound good when looped and repeated again and again. Tracks has specific structure with almost no introduction and conclusion - they whole consist of culmination.
So brain, which is repetitive things process them as "good".
Nah, disregard that, that music was just awesome.

Anonymous Fri Dec 6 23:17:55 2013 No.1252883

>>1252153
Vapor Trail is up there too. The clarity is top notch for a genesis game, too bad there's only one good song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG1c2U4ld2Y

Have you heard the the Super Nintendo version of that turrican 1-1 song. Holeee shit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6gW975XDwA

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 6 23:28:55 2013 No.1252907 playstaion actually had a worse sound card than the snes i know that. i think people forgot that sound/music is important in gaming. there's no way you can compare the music of FF7 to the music of FF6 or CT for example.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 6 23:31:25 2013 No.1252914 >>1252907 FF7 has a better OST than anything on the SNES. It suits the game perfectly, Aeris theme is one of the most moving songs ever composed for a game.

Anonymous Fri Dec 6 23:33:25 2013 No.1252917

>>1251881
> its MIDI-quality so technically spoken
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJIvbwBmY1g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNAFQuTmaVc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7LS7fo59zE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX8SVQgc5N0

Please, tell me more about how midi sounds.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 6 23:36:55 2013 No.1252931 >>1252914 Yeah, good point. I'm sure no soundtrack on the SNES suited its respective game perfectly.

Anonymous Fri Dec 6 23:50:57 2013 No.1252970

>>1251951
>Because games from the 8 and 16 bit eras had to rely on catchier loops and hooks instead of a full orchestra to fit the rapidly shifting mood of modern games.
Or they could rely on essentially emulating orchestrated music.
http://youtu.be/sLpjPht5mvg?t=1h14m34s

Orchestrated music can be looped and have hooks too. It's usually better when it at least develops more impactful themes that way.

Remember how everyone remembers the latter half of Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor "Quasi una fantasia", Op. 27, No. 2? Oh that's right no one really cares because it wasn't as thematic and well composed as the first half.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tr0otuiQuU

Everyone can identify the first movement, no one even cares about the next two and that happens to a lot of classical music.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 6 23:55:57 2013 No.1252976 >>1252970 >no one even cares about the next two Second movement, maybe, but the third? Absolutely not, that's the best part of the entire song.

Anonymous Sat Dec 7 00:05:57 2013 No.1252991

Sorry, but I don't think 16-bit is inherently better in the slightest.
If I were to list off my favorite 10 or 15 game soundtracks, I honestly don't think any of them would be from 16-bit, or even 8-bit games, even though a large chunk of my favorite games are 16-bit.
...unless you count Sonic CD, which I wouldn't, since the arguments for 16-bit being better is usually all about creativity within strict limitations, or not being capable of generic orchestral sound, neither of which applies to CD audio.

Maybe this is it:
The brain likes stuff it's familiar with more than stuff it isn't, but new material is obviously needed to keep interest.
16-bit music has both of these qualities.
As different as the music in games like Star Fox and Chrono Trigger, or Sonic and Castlevania: Bloodlines might be, you can still usually tell it's the same console producing that different music. It has the same basic sound, because all the music is played using the same basic tools.
With immense storage space for actual audio files, all that shit flies right out the window. People can make whatever the fuck they want using whatever tools they want and all you hear is a recording of the finished product so nothing really sounds like anything else. That little bit of familiarity is gone so it's harder to immediately appreciate.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 7 00:06:57 2013 No.1252993 Just really poor theming/motifs. I almost feel sometimes like they're scared the music might step on their dialogue and narrative.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 7 00:15:27 2013 No.1253004 >>1251881 Because you have bad taste in music.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 7 00:21:27 2013 No.1253009 >>1252907 Really? The same people who made both sound chips The Super Nintendo sound chip has 8 32kHz ADPCM channels and 64 kB of memory. The PS1 soundchip has 24 44.1kHz ADPCM channels at 44.1kHz and 512kB of memory.

Anonymous Sat Dec 7 00:31:27 2013 No.1253013

>>1253009
Playstation definitely has a better sound chip than the SNES. And you can pretty easily compare FF7's music to 6 in terms of sound quality. 7's, while not the most pleasant form of midi, is still better quality than 6's.

The reason the Playstation often has worse music than the PCE-CD or the Sega CD is because those games were tiny and they could fill the whole CD with glorious redbook audio.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 7 00:34:27 2013 No.1253016 >>1252991 Um no, the SEGA CD is definitely a 16-bit machine. It's running a Motorola 68K, Sonic CD is definitely a 16-bit game. The 32X on the other hand, you'd be right.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 7 00:38:27 2013 No.1253023 >>1253016 Of course the GAME is 16-bit. I'm saying it'd be silly to count the SOUNDTRACK as an example of a 16-bit game soundtrack, even if it is technically true.

Anonymous Sat Dec 7 00:40:27 2013 No.1253027 [DELETED]

>>1253023
But it is a 16-bit soundtrack. I don't think you understand what 8 and 16-bit is. It has nothing to do with the medium delivered on, just what is inside. You know all those cash in games on Steam and other shovelware that comes out these days which calls itself 8 and 16bit is just using it as a buzzword right?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 7 00:41:57 2013 No.1253029 >>1253027 ...What? When people talk about music in 16-bit games, they ARE NOT thinking about CD audio. That's all I'm saying. What about this do you not understand?

Anonymous Sat Dec 7 00:41:57 2013 No.1253030

>>1253023
But it is a 16-bit soundtrack. I don't think you understand what 8 and 16-bit is. It has nothing to do with the medium delivered on, just what is inside. You know all those cash in games on Steam and other shovelware that comes out these days which calls itself 8 and 16bit is just using it as a buzzword right? Just because Sonic CD is a CD-based game doesn't make anything about it any less 16-bit, only the hardware is what matters.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 7 00:42:57 2013 No.1253031 >>1253029 Who cares what they are thinking? Either clearly state that you are talking about chiptunes, or get schooled.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 7 00:42:57 2013 No.1253032 >>1253027 you're beyond help.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 7 00:43:27 2013 No.1253035 >>1253029 Why can you not understand that has nothing to do with it. There are 8-bit CD games with CD quality audio like the TurboGrafx CD, stop being stupid. It has absolutely fuck all to do with it being on a CD or not. You're wrong, get over it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 7 00:44:27 2013 No.1253036 >>1251951 don't forget http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IRlVBZs8YY

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 7 00:44:57 2013 No.1253038 >>1253032 >proven wrong >hurr I know I'll shitpost because I'm an ignorant asshole anyway >>>/b/ Sonic CD is a 16-bit game, even the soundtrack. You don't get to dictate what is and isn't 16-bit. Stay retarded, Youtube kiddie.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 7 00:45:27 2013 No.1253041 >>1253035 How can you not understand that I KNOW SONIC CD IS 16-BIT, OTHERWISE I WOULDN'T HAVE BROUGHT IT UP IN THE FIRST PLACE, HOLY SHIT. People are not talking about CD audio. Quit being retarded. I'm serious, cut it out. Stop.

Anonymous Sat Dec 7 00:48:27 2013 No.1253046

>>1253041
You're the fucking retard. Go back and look at your post.
>Sorry, but I don't think 16-bit is inherently better in the slightest.
If I were to list off my favorite 10 or 15 game soundtracks, I honestly don't think any of them would be from 16-bit, or even 8-bit games, even though a large chunk of my favorite games are 16-bit.
...unless you count Sonic CD, which I wouldn't, since the arguments for 16-bit being better is usually all about creativity within strict limitations, or not being capable of generic orchestral sound, neither of which applies to CD audio.
> the arguments for 16-bit being better is usually all about creativity within strict limitations, or not being capable of generic orchestral sound, neither of which applies to CD audio.
You sound like some 15 year old who posts pictures of his SNES he overpaid for on instagram to try and score hipster cred with your faggy highschool friends. You obviously know nothing, get the fuck off /vr/ you dumb shit.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 7 00:48:28 2013 No.1253048 >>1253038 The soundtrack is Audio CD, Redbook format compliant. Which is not the same as standard, FM-synth based genesis music. But I'll do you a favor and say that you might be thinking about the Past tracks, which aren't CD-A. Stay nice, 4chan guy.

Anonymous Sat Dec 7 00:50:57 2013 No.1253050

>>1253048
So you're suggesting what, the entire game is 16-bit EXCEPT the soundtrack simply because it's delivered via CD? You know it doesn't work that way right? I suggest you watch some better Youtube channels if you want to look smart in front of all the big kids on /vr/, because right now it's obvious you're in highschool.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 7 00:52:27 2013 No.1253053 >>1253046 Alright, that's okay. You didn't stop being retarded like I asked, but I can still stop replying, for both our sakes. You can thank me later.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 7 00:52:57 2013 No.1253054 >>1252089 not necessarily more impressive, but it's great nonetheless. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXVOMZlIRfs

Anonymous Sat Dec 7 00:53:27 2013 No.1253058

>>1253053
>have the inherent ignorance and fallacy of your post pointed out and be shown to be the uninformed retard you are
>try and crawl away with your tail behind your legs as gracefully as possible
Nice try kid, come back when your entire knowledge of retro games doesn't come from shitty Youtube channels. You don't know jack shit.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 7 00:55:57 2013 No.1253061 >>1253023 lol. plenty of genesis games use a Z80 sound driver, does that mean the soundtrack is 8-bit?

Anonymous Sat Dec 7 00:56:27 2013 No.1253062

>>1253050
easy, big guy. it's not about that. you know the quality that Audio-CD delivers isn't in the same league as the genesis' fm synthesizer. in a sense, yes. it's not genesis music. it's sega cd music. which is not the same. yes, the game is 16-bit. the soundtrack isn't being generated in realtime by the hardware. it was composed using higher-end, better quality instruments, then recorded to the CD, then played back on the sega cd. realtime synthesis and digital audio playback are fundamentally different. I have no problems having a discussion with you or anybody else here. I wish you'd stop being so aggravating and insulting, though

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 7 00:58:57 2013 No.1253068 >>1253062 Guy who brought up Sonic CD in the first place here. Please stop replying to it. It isn't interested in having a "discussion".

Anonymous Sat Dec 7 01:01:57 2013 No.1253076

>>1253068
Oh fuck off kid, sorry you don't like being wrong but you are. CDs started being used as a medium in the 16-bit era, the soundtrack for Sonic CD or any other SEGA CD game is not 32-bit or anything higher than 16-bit because it is being run through a 16-bit processor in the end. A song doesn't need to be generated from a chip to be 8 or 16-bit, stay ignorant.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 7 01:10:27 2013 No.1253089 >>1252917 Not Op. It's shitty and forever sounds like a bad late 90's movie soundtrack or game title screen.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 7 01:11:58 2013 No.1253090 >>1253089 Is that why Final Fantasy 7 had a soundtrack better than anything on the N64?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 7 01:14:27 2013 No.1253095 >>1253090 It didn't though, because I didn't play it as an impressionable youth.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 7 01:16:28 2013 No.1253097 File: 56 KB, 80x80, dslkjes.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4YnWcnAg14 Still amazed at this!

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 7 01:17:28 2013 No.1253101 >>1253095 Yeah it does. The instrument has nothing to do with it, you must think chiptunes are shitty and sound like a bad late 80s movie sountrack or game title screen then. The OST suits the game perfectly and is extremely memorable.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 7 01:19:47 2013 No.1253104 >>1253101 >you must think chiptunes are shitty and sound like a bad late 80s movie sountrack or game title screen then Oh sorry, I'm not that guy. I just don't think FFVII's soundtrack is the GREATEST EVER OF ALL TIME by any means.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 7 01:34:17 2013 No.1253138 File: 5 KB, 225x225, 1301496419448.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1252976 Jesus Christ, I've never heard something so quick and frantic sound so clean.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 7 01:37:17 2013 No.1253139 >>1252970 >Dat chromatic run at 14:24 I don't even... how... it's been a while.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 7 01:44:17 2013 No.1253153 >>1253097 You're amazed at reverb over a NES tune? Reverb is nice sure, that ones a bit overkill.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 7 20:47:20 2013 No.1255204 >>1253097 I guess this is more echo than reverb but listen to this shit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_boVbz6Ag4I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IRlVBZs8YY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEYiOviSWx4 Sunsoft were the kings of nes music

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 7 22:10:51 2013 No.1255339 >>1255204 I disagree. Silver Surfer sounds the best.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 7 22:35:51 2013 No.1255394 >>1255204 what? silver surfer is better than sunsoft?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 7 22:42:51 2013 No.1255410 Personal opinion about sound chip sounds: Genesis/Megadrive > TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine > Super Famicom/Super Nintendo Does matter how it looks on paper, I honestly think most of the Super Nintendo games sound like shit.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 7 22:46:21 2013 No.1255420 >>1255410 not all of them http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6gW975XDwA

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 7 22:47:51 2013 No.1255423 File: 384 KB, 421x437, 1377647647921.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1252089 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VzLxWBho-8

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 7 22:47:51 2013 No.1255424 >>1255420 Bad example. Mega Turrican sounds better.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 7 22:51:21 2013 No.1255430 >>1255424 Other stages maybe, not that one.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 7 22:52:51 2013 No.1255432 >>1252035 Same here.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 7 22:52:51 2013 No.1255434 >>1255430 No, I definitely think 1-1 sounds better in Mega Turrican.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 7 22:53:51 2013 No.1255436 It's called nostalgia, the same reason people in australia think vegemite is good

Anonymous Sat Dec 7 22:59:51 2013 No.1255448

I love the chip-generated stuff from the 8/16-bit era, but I also have a soft spot for the Redbook soundtracks on the Sega CD and Turbografx/PCE-CD. That style of music they did for them is quite rare on modern consoles these days.

Some random examples:
http://youtu.be/tKj7KI6Bps0?t=9m50s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdMU0rZjOog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NUvBC9cmio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sThnCzeNyEk

Anonymous Sun Dec 8 00:18:03 2013 No.1255634

Because music made up most of the audio, and these were games you tended to play multiple times. You had more exposure to the music itself back then, not loud explosion sound effects and constant voice acting drowning it out, and you got the opportunity to hear the same tracks more often.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 8 09:37:20 2013 No.1256525 Is there a Game OST chart? Doesn't have to be completely retro.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 8 10:09:51 2013 No.1256550 >>1255448 >No Ys III Redbook Lets fix that http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtCBhN63Ug

Anonymous Sun Dec 8 11:45:41 2013 No.1256680
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Some 8 bit tunes that give me goosebumps and nostalgia-filled feels.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTxRyWqVdG4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo6EnAstG3s

I haven't even played these games when I was a kid, I did in recent years, the nostalgia comes from hearing such beautiful melodies with that nostalgic 8bit chiptune sound.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 8 13:23:46 2013 No.1256820 File: 74 KB, 135x293, Mylegshurt.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1251881 Frog's theme was the ringtone to my phone for about 8 years. Even as an alarm I still loved this tune

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 8 14:25:50 2013 No.1256921 >>1252970 >Everyone can identify the first movement I couldn't. And I didn't miss out, it's monotone, reptitive and boring. The third one on the other hand...

Anonymous Sun Dec 8 14:40:50 2013 No.1256965

>>1251881
I love Contra "soundtrack" since I heard it as 4-5 years old kiddo. It's very cachy and memorable. There is plenty of covers recorded by bands and the best seems these with thrash metal esque. As its game from 1987 it definitely must absorb some metal characeristics, in that year it was top music.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 8 14:58:20 2013 No.1257004 Go call me stupid, but how do I embed a video? Does it do it by itself?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 8 15:37:24 2013 No.1257127 The Megaman series has some songs I could listen to for hours. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0QGANk6PIg >>1257004 Yeah, just post the link.

Anonymous Sun Dec 8 15:40:24 2013 No.1257138

>>1251881
It's not. You're focusing on the few games that stood the test of time. The majority of 4th gen games (and almost all 3rd gen games) had hideously sounding, horrendously composed 20-second loops for soundtracks. If you knew any games beside Mario and Meyroid, you'd've kniwn that.

Anonymous Sun Dec 8 15:46:54 2013 No.1257159

>>1257138
>If you knew any games beside Mario and Metriod
Or, you know, if he knows of some great hidden gems with wonderful music. Just because it isn't widely-known doesn't make it bad. There's of course some shitty music, but there's shitty music in all time periods, and I think he's explicitly referring to the good music of the eras, whether well-known or more obscure.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 8 15:57:54 2013 No.1257206 >>1251895 > dem glorious backgrounds in Chrono Trigger Remember when having to work with limited pixels and colors made people pump time into design?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 8 15:58:24 2013 No.1257208 >>1257159 Not some. Most of it was awful AND amateurish, as opposed to modern music that's merely bland. For every soundtrack tha was great despite playing on the cheapest synth of the time, there are hundreds of laughably miserable attempts at "music".

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 8 16:01:54 2013 No.1257219 >>1253104 I am completely astounded by anyone who touts FFVII as the best soundtrack ever. Nobuo Uematsu, the FF composer himself, says that FFVI and FFIX are both better.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 8 16:03:54 2013 No.1257228 >>1257219 He says IX is his favourite, not that it's better.

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