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>the only video game soundtrack to have received a 10 from Pitchfork
Kneel.

>> No.9682734

>>9682724
I mean, it has the most schizophrenic OST of all time. A game has never been able to reproduce this level of anxiousness in a song, it was as if some mentally ill human being composed this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_G7Haf1aOI

Not to mention this fucking song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skn-ic3KV10

>> No.9682735

>Pitchfork
>2023
How much longer do we have to pretend that 2000s indie is still hip

>> No.9682738 [DELETED] 

>>9682735
It's not even that anymore. Some of that music was good. Now it's just trannies.

>> No.9682745

>>9682738
Castratos are back in style hell yeah we're going back to the good old days boys

>> No.9682756 [DELETED] 

>>9682735
Pitchfork stopped being indie like 10 years ago. They got bought by Conde Nast and became a generic "poptimist" outlet.

>> No.9682760

>>9682734
These two tracks in particular remind me of Yume Nikki

>> No.9682762

>>9682724
It's pretty good, but would have been a lot better if the N64 had proper sound hardware or CD audio. Some of the tracks sound kinda bad because of the low quality soundfont. Hyrule field is one example. The trumpets just sound hilariously bad.

>> No.9682769

>>9682735
They’re all wiggers and poptimists now, they’re long past their landfill indie days.

>> No.9682802

>>9682724
>Pitchfork
Literally who? Wait don't answer because I don't care.

>> No.9682819

>>9682756
>>9682769
>poptimism
One thing music industry was always good at is coming up with new names for same old shit

>> No.9682820 [DELETED] 

>>9682738
Yeah it used to be stuff like Fleet Foxes, Arcade Fire, Bon Iver, etc. just white people making relatively normal rock/folk music, or maybe a little more experimental like Animal Collective. People called it gay at the time, but it looks pretty good now. They would never promote white bands now unless it was LGBT shit

>> No.9682841

>>9682734
these tracks are awesome

https://youtu.be/1gFT_WKLyFI
some of the ambient tracks from OoT are really bold middle fingers to the homogeneous polish big budget family-oriented games would restrict themselves to these days. Don't want to scare those littlies and risk maximum revenue!

However as far as the melodious numbers go, I think aLttP might even surpass OoT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOvj1C3YyR0&list=PL78C7BAABDB14E289&index=12

>> No.9682843

>>9682820
I thought it was cool at the time, but then I got into 60s music and I've realised, no - it really was gay

>> No.9682863

>>9682724
who?

>> No.9682890
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>>9682734
I always pictured in my head that the forest temple music is as if you were lost in an endless all white/grey room with endless corridors all over the place, with no one but yourself. No entrances, no exits. Kinda like the backrooms, but without any colors.

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>>9682724
Because it IS the perfect video game soundtrack that doesn't overestimate its own purpose and tries to be some epic theater performance

And then it's even a gameplay AND story element with extremely memorable little jingles

>> No.9683928

>>9682724
I never really thought much of it, to be honest. Gerudo Valley is a nice tune, but nothing else really seemed like it was anything special.

>> No.9683942

>>9682724
>Pitchfork
What does the melon head say about it?

>> No.9685957

>>9682724
It's perfect. Also fuck remasters that make the sound clearer. Vidya music was better when it actually sounded like vidya

>> No.9685978

>>9682724
I find the oot soundtrack middling, but forgettable.

>> No.9686005

>>9685978
You're middling, but forgettable

>> No.9686006

Honestly OoT is carried by like 3 or 4 songs being absolutely incredible and the rest is mostly just okay
>Saria's Song/Lost Woods Theme
>Goron Cave Theme
>Kakariko Village
>Temple of Time Theme
>Gerudo Desert
I guess that makes 5 actually. Notice how all of these can be heard very early in the adventure, when the game is still establishing its world and getting you invested? Very effective frontloading of its best content and it absolutely worked.

>> No.9686012

>>9686005
I think you're gonna spend the rest of the thread trying to play down criticism of the music, because it's not very good. Tooty horns and non-descript ambient rifled through the choking midi of the n64 - it's not a very interesting soundtrack. As generic as it gets before you hit jeremy soule territory.

>> No.9686021

>>9686012
NTA but you clearly haven't listened to the soundtrack in question

>> No.9686025

>>9686021
NTA but everyone has heard it, lets not pretend otherwise because it's just a pathetic way to avoid engagement.

>> No.9686036

>>9686025
Your description of the soundtrack is entirely nonsensical and noncommital, you're just making yourself sound less and less like you know what you're talking about.
>uhhh yeah bro everyone's heard that soundtrack its like mid or whatever stop talking about it

>> No.9686078

>>9686036
That's not my description, that's his, and what's stand out to you? Most of the dungeons are background ambience. It's by far the most generic fantasy soundtrack of the generation.

>> No.9686601

>>9686006
The best themes are the dungeon themes.
Inside Deku Tree is classic ambientcore kinosonoludo

>> No.9687776

>>9686006
I dunno, for me it's Hyrule Field, Kakariko and Kokiri Forest. The Holy Trinity of maximum comfy music.

>> No.9687976

>>9682724
It's pretty shitty when you find out that 95% of it is just literal direct soundbank samples that have been slightly pitch shifted, it's mark morgan tier

>> No.9687995
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>>9682724
OoT has one of the greatest final boss tracks of all time and it's shockingly under appreciated considering how massively well-regarded the game itself is. In fact I'd say the entire final sequence (everything from the Ganondorf fight until "The End" appears on-screen) is exemplary, a damn near perfect crystallization of everything a fantasy epic's ending could and should be in video game form, and it doesn't get nearly enough recognition whenever people are discussing the game
https://youtu.be/TyZl16tC1Fw

>> No.9688000

>>9687995
This sucks even for n64 standards. Starfox music lol.

>> No.9688028

>>9682724
Majora's Mask has a better OST

>> No.9688126

>>9682890
If you ever feel like experiencing that in real life, take a shitload of Benadryl (DPH)

>> No.9688135

>>9687995
This is one of the most forgetable tracks though.

>> No.9688584

>>9682734
Idk, the new forest temple music comes pretty close
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuTvz0yBoFE

>> No.9688760

>>9682724
Understandable. Most memorable OST ever probably. Everyone knows at least three melodies forever

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9689898

Kondo, I kneel.

>> No.9691826

>>9682724
Deservedly so

>> No.9692732

>>9688126
Did you do that or something?

>> No.9693226

Underrated pieces? For me, it's the Ganondorf organ playing music when you go up the stairs in his castle.

>> No.9693978

>>9682843
Extremely so, too, compare what rock sounded like in the past and how it sounds now. It's like they are allergic to proper bass

>> No.9693982

>>9686078
>It's by far the most generic fantasy soundtrack of the generation.
Except not.

>> No.9694018

>>9686006
The damn main themes is good too

>> No.9694279

>>9693982
Whoa. what a killer come back. Man you're really studied on this stuff.
Anyway, it's literally just midi samples from a generic instrument pack CD. It's so fucking underwhelming.

Come on anon, have some passion, this is your favoritist game of all time or whatever the fuck, have a spine.

>> No.9694281

>>9694279
NTA but you aren't really giving any real argument that warrants a real come back, his post was adequate to the kind of shitpost you made.
>n-noooo but midi! generic!
That's basically "thing I don't like = bad" room temperature IQ posting.

>> No.9694294

>>9694281
He's a big boy, he can stick up for himself. I expect more from the most of all time.

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>>9682724
I have never once gone out of my way to listen to anything aside from Song of Storms.

There are five games that I can think of that have perfect soundtracks and OoT is not one of them. All of these were pulled at random:
>Shadow of the Colossus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7dyRfQqIDY
>Total Annihilation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp50yG8we2U
>Grim Fandango
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q4U1oJZC9M
>Chaos Theory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIwLHyggjBc
>Outcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NSvzyrPVzc

>> No.9695065

>>9682724
The Gerudo desert song is so good. Apparently a part of it could be plagiarized from some anime but it's really just a part of a song that's amazing from beginning to end. Also might be a coincidence. Every day a song reminds me if another song

>> No.9695309

>>9682734
that hyaa sound in the background thats like link grunting made this too creepy for me especially in the main room when the torches go out and everything is dark

>> No.9695514

Journalism is getting desperate as of late.

>> No.9695540

>>9694281
He's right though. It's not so much that it's MIDI, it's that a huge part of that OST is just literal 1-to-1 rips from a sample disc. The Forest Temple theme or whatever it's called comes to mind but there are others.

>> No.9695935

>>9695540
That's cool, care to share that sample midi disc? I'm interested.

>> No.9695995

>>9695935
The disc itself is called Ethnic Flavors by Zero-G but it's pretty massive so I'm not too sure if there's a full youtube rip somewhere. I know Forest Temple uses African 098-B and the Potion Shop uses African 21-17

>> No.9696000

>>9682734
>I mean, it has the most schizophrenic OST of all time
It ain't even the most schizo track in the Zelda series. You guys oversell OoT purely based on nostalgia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxpqiO0pxrw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv5UAdAa9v4

>> No.9696009

>>9682724
Fuck pitchfork and fuck all the retards that needs to be told what is great.

>> No.9696050

>>9695540
Playing samples with midi is literally how almost all music that isn't just a recorded band or orchestra is made for the most part. You might rarely get someone sequencing a synth I guess.

>> No.9696227

>>9682724
Nah. The game's OST really isn't that hot and the soundfonts are nearly FF7-level chintzy if not worse. Has some tunes for sure, but it's not even on my radar for like top 300 soundtracks.

>> No.9696235

>>9682890
>le liminal meme
This zoomer psyop.

>> No.9696278

>>9696227
it doesn't use soundfonts that you know of; the samples it uses are from commercial sound libraries in the same vein that was used in mainstream music and TV from the era.
>>9695935
here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIJdpViwRFY

>> No.9696283

>>9695935
>>9696278
silent hill too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpsXD_kCurQ

>> No.9696292

>>9696283
SH is especially bad because everything people consider iconic about that OST is in the original samples. The vocal songs are still nice though so it's not like Yamaoka is a hack, just did a hacky job

>> No.9696303

>>9696278
>best service gigapack
0/10
>best service gigapack by Nintendo
10/10