Why is Japanese video game music sooo good?

No Western composer alive can top these.

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>No but you clearly are weeb.

wow you mad

I was about to say exactly that. America has plenty of great video game music.

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because they're trained by western composers. almost every jap orchestra hires western teachers

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mad weeb cope

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Pretty much this. Most western games with good music doesn't have faux orchestra bullshit. Look at DKC, Spyro, and Tetrisphere.

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based and ace pilled

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they make good music to compensate for the shit gameplay

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Japan still cares about artistic merit and hires the best people for the job. Whereas the west hires people based on an intrsectionality hierarchy, not their ability to do the job.

This divide is only going to get bigger if things don't change soon for the west. And it applies to every aspect of art. Not just music. Japan is fine taking up the gap in art if the west wants to let it die.

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Not really. Since Japan basically takes bits of every musical style and combines them together. In fact, Japan and most of Asia is basically keeping western classical music and bluegrass alive.

Yeah it used to be but the japs sent over a bunch of guys to Massachusetts to be trained in western music. The history of that is pretty cool. Instead of a western country forcing its culture the japs decided the path of least resistance was to learn.

One part thisThere are some western games with good music. This is usually because they had an actual composer.

One part japan has essentially different underlying laws and principles surrounding music, that for whatever reason, lends itself to video game music
One part Japan has very sticky cultural fingers, meaning they have a very easy time pulling something unusual that perfectly fits something out of their ass, rather than just another faux-orchestral number. If a dev decides that this character has an underlying peruvian flute them to his theme, then fuck you, we have a peruvian flute theme for this, I don't know, wizard.

Personal bias

Vidya is more respectable in Japan, so it's okay for a talented person to work on a video game.

I present to you my rebuttal:
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>western music is either Hans Zimmer sound alike #657558587558 or boring medevil celtic music
Stop this

There are plenty of western examples that don't fall into your generalization. But Japan still has more variety and better quality overall. In large part because Japan does stuff in literally every style the west does, plus more.

stupid post

As someone who browses GameFAQs and YouTube's Alt-Right clickbait channels looking for Anti-SJW/Alt-Right audiences to debate with, I know about them all too well. These people have always been in our society but seek solace in gaming. Gaming is a fantasy lands that, in their eyes, should be a reflection of everything they've always wanted but can't get out of life. It was made with white men in mind, and now that it's starting to change to better reflect its audience, they feel like they're being attacked. Western gaming is taking steps to diversify their protagonists, diversify their developers, and create female characters that aren't grossly sexualized, and they hate it. So they move on to Eastern gaming while condemning Western gaming for its themes of progress.

What's interesting that I noticed about GameFAQs topics and stuff on Yea Forums, and how they align with the Alt-Right, is that you see this pro-Japan agenda theme frequently. It first takes the form of "Japan makes better games" or "JRPGs are superior." But then, it starts evolving into the fetishization of Eastern women, which is a common theme with the Alt-Right, due to fantasizing the submissive stereotypes of Japanese women. They then start talking about how Japanese gamers hate progressives in America due to censorship, and how their culture is really traditional is what makes it superior. Slowly, but surely, it evolves into a "this is why homogenous societies are better" argument, because the themes fill every checkbox in what interests them. Women, traditionalism, homogeny, white, etc..

I'm not sure what can be done about these people, honestly. To me, they're in the same category as the Alt-Right It's really hard to get into an honest conversation with some of them. Some of them have no intention of ever changing their views, even if they acknowledge they're in the wrong.

Real answer: they're not afraid to treat it like pop music or anything that isn't a faggoty post-modern art piece.

Some of it is good, but like the West, most of it is forgettable. The West had some great shit. I loved the soundtracks for Oddworld, Future Cop LAPD, Soul Reaver, System Shock 2, Halo, and Hitman Blood Money.

stale pasta

SEs music is ridiculously good.
Even with their MMOs. FFXIV is generally shit but has great OST.

I legitimately think FFXIII and XIV have the best Final Fantasy music in the whole series. And I'm a nostalgiafag who grew up fapping over the music in FFIV-VIII.

I dont know man it's just too good
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I think you need to listen to some Ace Combat to make yourself feel better.

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Japan musics: catchy
Western musics: ambience

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This is a big part of it. It's the same reason why Western devs go for realism more than Japanese devs do, it's a cultural difference. Western devs think of music as supplementing a scene's mood rather than characterizing a scene's mood.

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Maybe its just America that can't make good music.

Info on that? I'm interested.
I always found it weird how popular japanese music goes from distinctly japanese in the late 60's and early 70's to basically american pop in the mid to late 70's

>American pop
God no. If it was like American pop, it would have been just a couple distinct styles on repeat. Everyone trying to imitate Jackson, Beatles and Queen. The thing that made City Pop stand out was they took a little bit of everything and experimented with it heavily. And not just variations of rock. But everything from fuck to smooth jazz to glam rock to classical music.

Funk, damn Freud.

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