Video Games and Music

[Ruin Explorer]

Same! You kind of have to in order to blow up those pillars

Nah, I had basically no idea that fight was coming, I really thought I was getting out of there, so was totally unprepared and barrel-free at the time, but Lae'zel was able to dispatch the pillars shockingly quickly with the right weapon (I forget what). I had to do the whole thing legit - which was only enhanced by the music. It's definitely the best fight in the game though.

i mean...i grew up on video games. i don't even know where to start.

i guess the halo soundtrack would be a good place. ce was the first proper game i ever played, and the halo soundtracks have a legendary reputation (rightfully so). if i wanted to listed every song in those osts that wowed me i'd be writing a college thesis.

more recently i played through cultic, a wonderful homage to blood and resident evil and other such games. there's one moment in chapter 2 i don't want to spoil that ties in with the game's interlude but the song that plays during it really sells just how hype it really is:
i felt like GOD when this started playing. it's one of those.

for the exact opposite feeling there's
which depressed the hell out of me with the realization that i'd never be able to play the game blind again.

i could keep going for a while, probably, but i'm going to end this on the fact that i have a music document for the zeitgeist ap (since i want to run it some day) and most of the songs on it are from video games. take that how you will.

Ooooh wow I may have to get Cultic just on the strength of that.

 

[Reynard]

My writing music:

 

[Gradine]

You're welcome:

 

[W'rkncacnter]

Ooooh wow I may have to get Cultic just on the strength of that.

if you like boomer shooters and horror games i'd 100% recommend cultic. it hits the balance between the two EXTREMELY well. one of the best fps games i've played in a while.

be warned that every level in chapter 2 is HUGE. im talking 40 minutes to an hour minimum on your first run for each. they're generally paced well, but it's hard to get through it all in one sitting and it can be easy to get lost if you don't have a solid sense of direction.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

There used to be a time when I could hum the music to my favorite games. I can still hear those tunes in my head.

But 99%+ of my gaming the past 10 or more years has been on mobile devices, and I usually play those with ALL the sound off.

 

[MGibster]

There used to be a time when I could hum the music to my favorite games. I can still hear those tunes in my head.

I feel the same about movies. Not that I listen with the sound off, but I have a hard time remembering music from movies made for the last 25 years or so. Harry Potter is probably the most memorable and I'm not even a fan.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I feel the same about movies. Not that I listen with the sound off, but I have a hard time remembering music from movies made for the last 25 years or so. Harry Potter is probably the most memorable and I'm not even a fan.

Amusingly, I have a bunch of movie & TV scores & soundtracks in my CD collection.

 

[Artamo]

Amusingly, I have a bunch of movie & TV scores & soundtracks in my CD collection.

One that I keep coming back to for a variety of purposes is the Inception soundtrack. I play it a lot at work and sometimes during workouts. It’s moody, not overbearing that I can’t ignore it, but has the right edge that seems to keep me focused. It’s this weird kind of cocktail.

 

[Gradine]

There are a handful of movie and TV scores that have stuck out to me over the years, but few have had the lasting power in my consciousness as my favorite video game soundtracks. The only movie soundtracks that really stuck out to me (not counting John Williams, of course, whose work is pretty much always iconic) have been Inception and Unbreakable. A few TV shows have had some fantastic individual tracks that have stood out to me (Game of Thrones, Battlestar Galactica, and Dexter are the ones immediately coming to mind).

Scoring (whether for TV shows, movies, or especially video games) have been leaning towards being less obtrusive in the last decade or two, for reasons I would have to guess have to do limiting non-diegetic noise for the sake of immersion; but I think that's been a huge net negative for those respective media.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

One that I keep coming back to for a variety of purposes is the Inception soundtrack. I play it a lot at work and sometimes during workouts. It’s moody, not overbearing that I can’t ignore it, but has the right edge that seems to keep me focused. It’s this weird kind of cocktail.

The ones that get the most play for me (in no particular order):
The Crow
Heavy Metal (1 & 2)
Strange Days
Miami Vice (1 & 2)
1984
Judgement Night
Godzilla (The American movie)

There’s been a few video game soundtracks I’ve heard that I’d consider buying a CD of, but most of them are ultimately too repetitive for me. Even though I liked the music while gaming, I wouldn’t want to play them on my home or car sound systems