/mu/ - Music

>>65099

>cheap spinoffs of music that already existed

>surpassed any other music genre

I guess I forgot what it's like to be 14 years old.

The old stuff was god tier, but the quality has declined since then due to composers becoming less constrained by the technology available to them.

By the way, nice copypasta, faggot.

>>65102

So pleb it hurts.

>>65099

>videogame soundtrack

>a genre

it's like pop music, it takes from a shitload of other genres and creates a low quality mash up

>>65099

>>65108

low energy bait

>>65113

>some of the greatest instrumental music of the past few decades is low quality

Even when composers ripped people off, the results were often better than the originals. See all the house music that was ripped off by Yuzo Koshiro for the Streets of Rage soundtrack.

Also:

>pop

>bad

>>65114

>everyone who disagrees with my uninformed opinion is baiting

>>65113

It's easy to make that conclusion when you've only heard the most popular examples. Isn't such a person who does that someone you call a plebeian?

Listen.

Video game music is generally or was generally composed from a mixture of different elements of popular songs or songs the composer was fond of at the time, sometimes they don't even mix it and just outright use the song itself sampled over whatever device they were using, the most notorious example of this is the mother series where a great deal of the music is outright samples from songs by the beatles and the infamous icecap zone tune which is a sample of a theme by the jetzons (vid related).

To say they are superior to any genre of music is retarded.

>>65169

Arguing that any genre can be better than the other (like saying apples are better than oranges) is just retarded in itself. Comparing the individual quality of each song in their respective genres is a different story.

>Video game music is generally or was generally composed from a mixture of different elements of popular songs or songs the composer was fond of at the time, sometimes they don't even mix it and just outright use the song itself sampled over whatever device they were using

Isn't this the case with most music? A composer will always draw inspiration from something.

>>65170

>Isn't this the case with most music? A composer will always draw inspiration from something.

True enough, if I had a dime for every madonna cover there is I would be rich.

You sure went nuts on this thread /tv/ guy. Not that I mind.

I really like Ace Combat's music.

>>65099

>HOMMVI

>Not HOMMV

shiggydiggy

All of this shit is terrible. The orchestral stuff is beaten by 400 year old baroque music and the fast metal shit is beaten by fucking dragonforce. sage and filtered

>>65182

You're talking out your ass. Vidya game music usually has (or had) more of an emphasis on melody than either of those styles, especially the Nip stuff since Eastern music traditionally has more of a melodic focus.

Also, power metal is trash and just about any run-of-the-mill shoot 'em up game will have more compelling tunes.

>>65186

>power metal is trash

>posts a power metal tune

>>65190

>any melodic, heavy metal influenced track is power metal

>>65181

learn to read retard

>Hellsinker

Shit OP, that's some patrician taste.

The single most cancerous thread on /mu/ right now.

>>65231

what's your favorite track?

I want to have a threesome with this song and Cherry-coloured Funk (not a videogame song).

>>65445

>Nigger, Koji Kondo is typically considered to be the greatest video game musician and even he is mainly known for his melodies while he works with MIDI instruments and audio library samples

So what? The melodies are the main focus in his style of music.

>Even Shigeru Miyamoto can play more instruments than he can.

Who cares? He's known for his memorable compositions, not being a skilled performer.

>The point I'm trying to make is he was able to become so well known because in the land of generic Hans Zimmar score ripoffs and generic electronic tracks the one who can write melodies that stand out is king.

You're completely clueless. What about Nobuo Uematsu, Yuzo Koshiro, Yasunori Mitsuda, David Wise, or Hip Tanaka, among many lesser known composers? You're conflating the old chip music with what came later. The limitations of the hardware of the pre-CD era encouraged composers to create strong melodies due to the limited numbers of channels to work with. The old style started giving way to more conventional music in the mid '90s, and even then there was good stuff coming out into the the last decade.

>>65450

tbqh I just picked a funny post I saw on halfchan archievs and reposted it here for ez (you)s.

>>65468

who the fuck made this reddit tier shit?

>>65179

same

>>65099

Sorry but VG music is now almost all shit. 2008 ruined it

>>65557

what happened in 2008?

Here's a fantastic soundtrack from that year.

>>65564

Fincancial crash cased the start of the end of good vidya.