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touhou as well

Honestly anything from the Endless series, they all have really nice music.

I'm not sure if you're being ironic or pretentious, but nevertheless.

>>15391825

You're a pretentious cunt but maybe you have a point, so here's something that you'll probably think is shit, but that I happen to find simple and elegant. Fuck you.

>>15391843

>pointless

I liked it way more than the original

>claims to be a musical intellectual

>doesn't like power rock

Fag detected although I admit it's been overused in vidya

>>15391956

Fuck off leftynigger

As an example of what video game music can't simply be considered a derivative of something else, look no further than ZUNTATA's output.

>>15392020

I just download his album the other day! Zuntata is a fucking god.

A jazzy soundtrack for a redpilled shooter.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1CE6E88CF4735702

>>15392024

>his

Zuntata is not a person, it is Taito's in-house music team.

>>15392052

It was a typo, I meant to say; "This album".

>op's a fag

3 tracks they had to work with, but you want some slope eyed, wannabe jap

>>15391843

>>15391996

Land is actually Arnold's boss theme, but slowed down and screwed up. Pretty much the entire area is designed to teach you how to fight him, it's a good fangame.

I thought about unironically posting the ass horns from Resident Evil but then I thought hey Lufia II's Labyrinth did a pretty good job pushing sound hardware it was on.

back when ea could sell you your mom's puss and you'd pay top dollar just for a sniff

The whole soundtrack to NIER, but the opening of Wretched Automatons spooks me every single time.

Also, you seem to think that chiptune automatically makes for bad music.

>>15391825

>Cuck/mu/

Either LARPing or not, fuck off.

>>15391825

Here you go faggot.

How is there not a single mention of JSR yet?

>>15392525

Japanese Stock Returns?

>>15392577

Jewish Sabbath Rituals?

what is it with every vidya music thread recently having a fucking cuckchan tier OP?

>>15392525

Jungle Savage's Revenge?

Ace Combat

>>15391933

if /test/ knew how to write music would it sound like this

>>15392735

I've been meaning to play some Jetrion recently.

>>15392703

My dude

>>15391933

Dubs prove that socialism can really fuck you up.

Of all the Souls games, I think Demon's Souls had the best aesthetic.

It was eerie in an inexplicable way, and later games in the series just seemed to be aping the style.

>>15391955

Man, this game was always a trip.

Sometimes I'd just sit around in a level to hear the music.

>>15393107

>It was eerie in an inexplicable way, and later games in the series just seemed to be aping the style.

Should take into consideration that Demon's Souls had a different composer than its successors too. Kida himself doesn't seem to compose much either.

>>15393056

Don't fucking remind me of that fucker

Stephane Picq did a bunch of interesting soundtracks to Cryo Interactive games.

>>15393307

His most unique being the soundtrack to the first Dune game.

Plebs would not know this

Hellsinker is among the games featuring a goa trance soundtrack that can be counted on your hand.

>>15392020

>>15392052

The Darius arcade series in particular was mostly composed by Hisayoshi Ogura.

Speaking of Zuntata, who would have thought that jazzy elevator music would make for a good action game soundtrack? Yasuhisa Watanabe is one of the other standout composers of Zuntata.

>>15393355

The other one being Tamayo Kawamoto.

>>15391933

ma nigga

The transition 30 seconds in always gets me.

>>15393412

>not jumping at the opportunity to influence someone into playing some great games with great music

>>15393464

I dont get the image.

This game is a piece of shit, but I do love this song.

Last one.

>>15393845

>cancerous game

>shit song

Kill yourself soyboy

>>15393942

Sure m8.

>>15393955

i cri evry tim.

>>15393068

Looked at filename but couldn't determine a source

It's honestly pretty good

>>15394119

That's Evergrace - Sunbeams Streaming Through The Hill. That one actually briefly drove me mad when I first listened to it.

>>15394124

Thanks anon

cant op put some effort into not having a stinky ballsack where his nose should be so that it dangles in front of his mouth and everything he says is nutsack words and automatically super fucking gay?

>>15391825

>All these boring Hans Zimmer wannabes,

Not knowing how to use an orchestra effectively, but doing it anyway because it feels like Hollywood, is a problem that mostly only affects Western video games. Japanese games are largely free of this, and Yoko Shimomura is a great example of someone who actually knows what they're doing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZGQfHjfars

>bleep bloop chiptune artists and mindlessly epic power rock

>Their music is not fit for a musical intellectual such as myself.

A musical intellectual such as yourself should know that those genres actually correlate to the higher half of the IQ bell curve, not lower. IQ correlates to a preference for higher musical complexity, with generic rock and pop being around the center point, and the genres that you've listed are all of higher musical complexity than generic rock and pop, in descending order.

>what are some lesser known, experimental, and truly unique soundtracks which push the boundaries of video game music?

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles's music, while mostly not compositionally unusual, had a pretty unique sound due to its composer's intentional combination of out-of-fashion instruments from cultures that aren't normally associated with one another.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1BQQlozhzs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umz2fUSYYRo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fn1Pw-LxU8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumi_Tanioka#Musical_style_and_influences

>>15392020

>can't simply be considered a derivative of something else

All music is derivative of something else. What you're asking for is a greater amount of evolution per derivation. That song sounds like a form of Japanese 80s/90s EDM, combined with an old Space Opera soundtrack and a bit of a Prog Rock synth at the 2/3rds mark. The Phantasy Star series has some similar sounds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHjlPBst6tw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRdbMd3AO70

>>15393937

(((Freud))) was a fraud

>>15394607

Darius Burst has a lazy half-assed soundtrack trying and failing to ape what Ogura did with G-Darius.

>>15394119

>>15394137

Evergrace and Forever Kingdom (JP: Evergrace II) have some fucking weird music, but despite that, the OSTs aren't exactly bad.

>>15394661

It's very much it's own more jazzy yet unique style as expected from ZUNTATA, Tsuchiya likes his bass guitars and expressive incomprehensible vocals. It's more in the vein of Kota Hoshino's output, which makes sense since he used to be part of a band with him. Meanwhile COSIO brings more of an EDM edge to the soundtrack (something OGR would do with Hello 31337). Burst doesn't have quite the consistent feeling to it as Gaiden and G did, but then the Burst games comprise of several albums and composers which would all get compiled for Chronicle Saviours.

>>15391849

I want more music like this i love Okabe as much as anyone but next Taro game i want it to sound like thatlike pure madness

>>15394759

It's a kind of soundtrack that works really amazingly for Drakengard's concept of deconstructing the mass murdering RPG experience and the characters capable of the mass murder of an RPG protagonist.

I was expecting as I played through Nier: Automata that the game was actually keeping track of my kills (or of how many Android corpses I was looting…) and that things were going to go pear-shaped just as soon as I had enough blood on my hands; that the Watchers were going to make their presence evident for the Android that could claim enough lives - and that the soundtrack was going to go to hell as that happened.

>>15391825

Recently replayed Rez.

>>15394928

You expected the game to subvert your expectations and so it did do that, subverting your expectations.

Would've been cool what you said.

One of the best songs in the series.

The soundtrack from this old DOS adventure game is amazing.

>>15395340

>Evergrace

>Song has really emotional and excellent use of a xylophone

>Ruins it completely with nigger screeching and hooting

WHY

Nothing pisses me off more than a song that is ALMOST great.

>>15391978

>>15391970

My childhood.

Will never forget.

>>15391825

>>15393415

The underwater theme in Level 2-2 was particularly revolutionary because it was in 3/4 time signature.

the flute my man the flute

Only for the most enlightened.

>>15395340

>Koudelka

I liked it and found the soundtrack pretty good myself, but I remember hearing it pissed off Kikuta fans something bad back in the day, what with being a mixed horror/RPG and adopting the horror style "silence aside from sfx and ambiance for exploring" aspect, as opposed to something like Secret of Mana or SD3, which Kikuta also worked on.

Also just a nitpick from a design standpoint, but whoever made that should have alphabetized it, or at least organized it by release date, or something.

>>15391955

bomberman 64 and bomberman hero were criminally underrated.

OP, I'm gonna do you a solid no one ever did for me and tell you that Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth has a really cool and unique soundtrack.

>>15399661

>>15399661

Do you happen to have a link to a download of this? I've been looking around and can't find a live one.

>>15399734

Unfortunately, no. Sorry.

I read a lot and keep ambient stuff going in the background all the time. Anything that doesn’t totally distract from the task at hand.

>>15393955

I still think Director's Cut had some okay music

>>15402038

Anon that sounds awfull when compared to the spooky, atmospheric ost of the american/european version, and it also lacks the charming cheesyness of the jap version.

NeoTokyo had a top tier soundtrack, its a shame the game has so few players nowadays.

Y'all need to understand the

CONCEPT OF LOVE

>>15394592

>>15393955

>>15402038

>>15402112

Never seen anyone post final boss music from RE Outbreak #2 on here before.

>>15402171

And of course "3rd Times The Charm" from the first game.

>>15402171

>>15402189

If we are going to talk about good RE music, then for me it has to be alexia's 2nd theme of code veronica.

Sad but true from 5 would be second and the save room of nemesis 3rd.

>>15402201

Hehe, got something that might interest ya.

And a bonus from Revelations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH_28Rjt3VE

>>15402219

Nice compilation lad, its surprising the fact that darkside chronicles did a better job narrating what went on on code veronica than code veronica.

>>15402148

Wonderful choice.

>>15402310

Truly patrician taste

>>15402346

>>15402310

>>15402148

>>15402249

I many ways yes, but it also butchered the characters and story a little bit too. I prefered when Alexia held her dead crossdressing freak twin and sang while getting her revenge, before stuffing him in the cooler.

>>15402112

Fine, how's this

>>15402171

I always liked Nyx's theme, yeah. Christ, I can't believe I owned both Outbreak games and never played either of them online.

>>15402148

>>15402310

>>15402346

>>15402356

Contributing

For GLA!

>>15402381

it's school shooter music

>>15402364

>>15402366

We'll have to organize a game night on /v/ one of these days and play them online using emulators. I've always wanted to play online. This is the only part of the soundtrack I liked from Directors Cut. The original is still superior to it in every way.

>>15402381

90s edge was the best. I wonder if it would still be around if the jews didn't bomb the twin towers.

>>15402463

>We'll have to organize a game night on /v/ one of these days and play them online using emulators

Sounds like a plan, yeah. Should be a ton of fun.

>>15402475

thanks, glad you appreciate the music that helped ruin quakes image

>>15402510

Apparently it does exactly what Hooktube did before it was shoah'd now Invidious can be embedded so faggots have no excuse not to use it or webm anymore. I completely forgot about it.

>>15402520

Personally have never considered anything but the first quake to be what the image of the franchise ever was or will be. The first quake probably should've been the only game under the quake name with arena as a possible second

>>15402520

no, there was already a school shooter franchise, quake 2 didn't need to exist.

>>15402552

Yeah just in my view I feel like the first quake's gloomy atmosphere is set in stone and anything that followed didn't have much of an idea what to do with itself. Arena just seems like it could fit a timeline where you have the main game and arena as a multiplayer spinoff that took all of the good parts of the gameplay and got rid of the rest.

Quake 2 & 4 feel like taking games that could be given any other name and do just fine but had quake slapped on top of it for the familiarity and not much else but this happens all the time in vidya so it's not like it matters all that much

DOnt think is lesser know, tough.

>>15402552

>being this mad the terrible quake 2 music gets compared to school shooter music

because it is. We went from moody ambient to the most generic shit metal from the 90s possible. That was better off in Doom. The music from Quake 2 is absolute plebe tier as well. No idea why you're posting it in this thread other than it sounds good to you.

>>15402510

Pretty much a good alternative. Also notice that transferring a video link to them bypasses protection the original jewtube video might have against being ripped.

>>15402635

>being this mad at Quake 2's music that you keep calling heavy metal "school shooter music"

>muh quake 1 reznor music

Oh that's it, you're an underage Gen Z soyboy who doesn't know Klebold and Harris were fans of NIN and industrial music in general.

But go ahead and keep cucking out about how guitar driven music triggers you to shoot up your classmates tomorrow. No idea why you're whining other than it sounds bad to you.

Gonna break from my JSR posting streak and bring you all some

BIGGITY BUCK BUMBLE

>>15402929

Fuck I forgot the jams

>>15392500

The main menu theme for this game is great. Gives me slight vibes of >>15402113 which is probably why I like it so much. I know Ed Harrison worked on it, but he didn't do that track. NeoTokyo soundtrack is fucking goat.

>>15393819

Came to post this.

>>15394928

But anon, you met the Watchers, they are Emil clones.

>>15393292

Got any more of this?

>>15403611

That makes no sense.

>>15393056

what does "Spook" even mean? sage for off topic

>>15405223

Any more games with drums 'n' bass soundtracks, you mean? Here's one but it's not nearly as good.

>>15405223

Oh actually one of Kou Hayashi/Daisuke Nagata's previous games has a couple cool drums 'n' bass tunes.

>ctrl + f arcanum

>0 results

You're all a bunch of Philistines. rs poster gets a pass.

>>15402351

Virtua Fighter has an excellent soundtrack.

>>15402935

shame the game was a meme

>>15405681

>>15405675

Thanks man! Any drum 'n' bass is appreciated.

>>15406249

Also any idea where to find Karous' full ost? I looked for it but only found partial uploads.

>>15406286

Dunno if it's still alive, but this thread used to be a good source for shooter OSTs.

http://forums.ffshrine.org/showthread.php?t=40557

Karous OST is well worth owning, I got a copy myself.

>>15405316

Lefty word for "fake shit made by porky" According to these people, a nation is a spook created by the evil upper middle class.

Posting music to avoid having to sage.

>>15406688

>Checked

>>15405316

I'll have you know that Max Stirner was an anarcho-centrist who would constantly buttblast Marx.

In reality the term "spook" refers to how morality was just a social construct to make sure people were restricted by taboo. (at least that's my interpretation)

>>15407112

Spooks are a spook. Heh. niggers are spooks too

>>15406416

Thanks Anon. Unfortunately it was a dead link. Still found plenty of other things there though.

There's a lot about Civ games that you can criticize (including the tendency of the last second games to arbitrary include female rulers as glorified token niggers) , but the music usually is good stuff. Geoff Knorr and Michael Curran are quite good at what they are doing.

Even if a cynical person might argue they only do "remixes" of pre-existing masterpieces

>>15391825

This is more about the tech behind the scenes than the music itself.

https://www.platinumgames.com/official-blog/article/9581

>>15392240

The a cappella for that is fucking otherworldly. The only person that does shit like that better than Emi Evans was Elizabeth Frazer from the Cocteau Twins.

>>15393975

>made-up language

Most of it is a mixture of actual languages. Some extinct but actual languages nonetheless.

>>15399141

Can you possibly do City Ruins (Shade) off the Automata OST?

>>15406416

>>15410391

Well god damn I found it finally. I guess autism does have some perks. I will eventually turn all the tracks into webms and begin the next journey into the abyss.

>>15392255

(Checked)

About the only good thing from that game

It and the sequel have comfy soundtracks.

>>15415933

what part of the game used those two tracks even? I don't remember either of them at all

This seemed like the most serious shit ever when I was a kid

:^)

>>15439343

>Playback on other websites has been disabled by the video owner.

Someone wants their viewcount.

>>15439393

Wait, if embeds don't add to viewer count, why do people get so autistic over webbums?

Truly the best song stepmania has to offer.

Although metal arms was already an underrated game, people also seem to forget that the soundtrack was heavily underrated as well.

>>15393955

>>15402038

Reminder that capcom was jewed by a fake deaf person into letting these soundtracks into the dualshock version.

For some reason I've always loved the intro to AtFC.

Tony Hawk Pro Skater soundtrack

Go listen to superman by goldfinger and do japan airs

TBH Sports games always have the best video game soundtracks because they incorporate actual songs that fit the mood moreso than any shitty shooter game music that is just this ambient noise and elevator music or whatever the fuck they got going on in their gameplay and menus.

Even though I love shooters they always have shit tier music unless it's doom. Everything else is really really fucking bad.

I know you aren't looking for anything pretentious but I think this is actually the best song I ever heard in a videogame and relays a real cinema feeling to the intro that is rarely found in games. But we know you aren't into all that "pretentious" shit that tries to sound like movie scores. Obviously the symphony of the night ost is high on the list of good videogame music that actually enhances the ambience of the game as opposed to shooter game music which is just ambience in and of itself.

The goldeneye music is also highly underrated a shame nobody even talks about how good it is. It's on par with Doom in terms of good shooter game music that paces you up.

>>15447554

Not sure why you would even say "on par", Doom's music isn't really that amazing and a ton of its tracks ripped off famous heavy metal motifs. Graeme Norgate is a considerably better composer than Bobby Prince to be quite frank.

>>15447607

Well it's not really about how quality the music is in particular as much as it enhances the ambience of the game. If you just changed the music goldeneye and doom would both feel like part of the soul of the game was ripped out. Whilst in most games if you just changed the music nobody would know the difference. I think halo might be the only other shooter series that has a soundtrack with a profound "Identity" that doesn't just come off as generic shit.

>>15447679

Metroid Prime has some great music that fits the environments really well.

>>15447748

I have to say good music and ambience goes a really long way when it comes to having an enjoyable or memorable experience with a game. Even a game I don't really like(Halo) the music itself brings back very vivid memories of the game itself. I can't say the same for most games who just get the little intricacies wrong.

Funny how "This is a cinematic experience" meme in game design is mostly antithetical to actually creating that cinematic experience as we already had that going for us it's just the industry turds are too blind to see the forest for the trees.

>>15447764

Yeah i know exactly what you mean. Its sad that these days with budgets that are bigger than ever we also only have generic shit. Most of the time when i notice that its just another "totally epic" orchestral soundtrack i just turn it off and listen to something else.

But i guess that's what happens when the teams making these games are so big that the music composer has no idea where each song is going to be used and thus has to make every song fit the entire game instead of a specific level or area.

>>15447825

I think bravely default had an amazing soundtrack also.

>>15447839

I really liked this song in the game. It had shades of Saga Frontier. Don't tell me they have the same composers.

ragnarok online 2, by yoko kanno

pity about the actual game

>>15431833

>>15391955

This game was a very significant portion of my childhood. The music is the kind that's just good to listen to forever. Uncultured niggers that I've shown this music to think it's elevator music. They can suck it.

>>15397572

Bomberman 64's sequel is great too. Hero's a great game but I always liked 64's action puzzle-ness from a pure gameplay perspective more, plus there's the fact that it's truer to Bomberman's roots.

>>15447679

>>15447607

This. Doom's music is campy because the whole aesthetic of the game is campy. Like Duke Nukem it has a bunch of references to Army of Darkness. It's almost like Blood except without any voice acting, and sci-fi horror themed instead of turn of the 20th century. It's catchy and it has a corny appeal to it.

I liked Doom 64 and I think it did "serious Doom" the best. It has a top-tier ambient soundtrack done by a guy who's an independent artist that specializes in ambient music. The soundtrack's theme seems to be loneliness to me, and constantly made me think about how I'll never find any NPCs to help me fight demons. This is the ideal way to do creepy atmosphere in a Doom game because you're slaughtering demons by the millions, it's not like you can really be afraid of them. Plus it has a really good levelset. Doom 3 is a shitty Half-Life clone with corny atmosphere that falls short of good camp. nuDoom successfully identified camp as the game's roots, the only problem was that the execution was terrible in almost every regard.

>>15394119

>>15394684

And wait to hear the final boss music

>>15395340

I was ready to dismiss it because of

>Postal 3

But now that I listened through it, it's not as bad as I thought, but I still don't think it deserves a place there, as it's really hit or miss.

>>15447523

Who are you talking to? Who doesn't like the Outbreak ost?

>>15391825

>>15448559

OP and his insatiable tastes that just lust for cock

>>15448366

Fuck me it's like every track from that game is two similar but largely unrelated tracks just laid over each other

Fun fact, this was done by the Wild Arms composer

>>15396525

I don't know if you're fucking with me, but this legit makes me feel good. Hurts the ears a bit though.

It must suck to be such a hipster as you OP, i bet you actually browse /mu/

>>15412287

I've got a "translation" of City Ruins (Rays of Light) that I've put together today, although I'm rather dissatisfied with a few parts of it…

I've also just put together a "translation" of The Tower, so here's that instead:

The Tower, "translated" to English by this anon:

Peitus lorta star - An impossible tower

Ratu kapyu wa - Its outer walls visible

Teni priktu pyor - A perfect philosophy

Irnri kus vorchia tvoirta - Its concepts at least recitable

No pis isu ra - An idea of grand complexity

Hrisus viktura - Its assumptions understandable

Kenih karta kui - A strange loop

Mei a kwonti kunra chi - In an unknowable tangled hierarchy

Sofeila - It claims to know everything

Nomeia - Except for the answer to one question

Shurkaio - All it asks:

“Do you love her?"

Chukara - All I can do is weep

Furwana - Weep for the unknowability of it

Orlano - She was unknowable

Somarago - I am unknowable