>western game
>has boring ambient music in it
Western game
Levi Watson
Evan Cruz
Why don't games have memorable soundtracks anymore?
Even Cawadoody got Hans Zimmer to make the score of one of the games once.
Landon Scott
>eastern game
>has kino music that I can't understand
Blake Green
Name 20
Jackson Powell
>Top Tier
The game's main theme is used as a leitmotif throughout the rest of the game's music, culminating in a totally rad version of it during the final boss
>High Tier
Specific characters have themes that play when they do something cool, or when a villain shows up and you know shit's about to go down
>Mid Tier
Music is based off of the location you're currently in ingame
>Bottom Tier
Breath of the Wild's entire soundtrack aside from the announce trailer.
Caleb Howard
Some japanese games are also doing it and it's all tiresome. Literally fucking lazy to build atmosphere with the environments.
Gabriel Carter
The music is the biggest flaw in Breath of the Wild. It's got other flaws (koroks, shrines) but the music actively makes me take breaks or avoid going to certain areas.
Camden Wright
>Why don't games have memorable soundtracks anymore?
I think that modern composers, see themselves as "artists", therefore they do what they want and what they think is "art". Letting the customers aside, and having in mind that most games nowadays are played by normalfags who don't care about the soundtrack, many composers are prone to do that.
Brayden Campbell
>Why don't games have memorable soundtracks anymore?
Play more games, faggot. Even indies have memorable tracks
Jordan Reyes
stop playing western shit
Aaron Hernandez
Because the industry started hiring sound designers that graduated from film school.
In movies the theory is to keep the soundtrack in the background so it doesn't distract from what's happening on screen and only crank it up in dramatic scenes.
Jordan Richardson
Isn't that how it works on videogames?
Kayden Cox
It does now, it didn't used to.
Every area in a video game used to have a noticeable and distinct soundtrack.
Nolan Bennett
>Turn ambient sounds up to make
>Hear voice snippets from previous game
Grayson Torres
No, videogame music is meant to be immersive so it should be aggressive enough contrary to film where it's subdued.
Adrian Morales
>make
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Isaac Nguyen
But isn't that what ambient music is?
Or is OP complaining that ambient music is not good now?
Christian Kelly
Well, most of the games doing that are making cinematic games anyway. The problem isn't that they're hiring film composers, but that the games designers are designing the game overall to mimic a movie. From Metal Gear Solid to Call of Duty, Final Fantasy to Assassins Creed.
But if you go find games that don't do this, they tend to have OSTs that are different. Which means indie games or Japanese games that aren't trying to mimic FF/MGS.
Luke Perez
Dumb aqua poster
Bentley Peterson
>In movies the theory is to keep the soundtrack in the background so it doesn't distract from what's happening on screen and only crank it up in dramatic scenes.
No, just bad movies. Good movies use music to create the tone of the film, just as much or more than visuals. The best movies blend visuals and music equally. But very few teams can ever achieve this, either because of a lack of talent or a lack of time.
Christian Price
>ambient music is not good now?
A lot of games don't even have ambient music anymore and when they do it's designed to fade into the background. Typically slow, droning orchestral tunes.
Dominic Evans
>But very few teams can ever achieve this
That's an understatement. I'm trying to think of movies where I actually remember noticing the soundtrack and I can think of like 3 that were on par with being even remotely as memorable as something like this
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Eli Garcia
Nigger BotW literally does all 3 of those things kys
Josiah Lewis
Carter Morris
I played through the entire halo trilogy and remember only the main theme, It's the same generic hollywood shit. Don't know why people suck marty's dick
Jonathan Butler
>not muting the game
Andrew Wilson
maybe you just have a problem noticing music. I notice the music in movies all the time unless it is really quiet. Both music I love and music I dislike.
But anyway, check out anything by Joe Hisaishi, John Barry, Ennio Morricone, Danny Elfman, Vangelis, etc. You may not like their music, but it definitely sets the tone for those films more than the visuals do.
Connor Lopez
>ODST's soundtrack
every fucking time