which led me to this version of*** The Legend of Zelda ***suite by the London Philharmonic Orchestra - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mq8Mnth10o&feature=related. i haven’t tried the rest of the album yet, but the few i tried sounds just as good, and my time is not wasted. i shall have to buy it.
We got to do a few classes on video game music in my M.A. I’m really intrigued by guys doing “chip bending,” where they use the sound card of old hardware to get this gorgeous, retro sound.
Similarly, I was very excited for Megaman 8 and 9, where the developers made it as NES-like as the originals, with a great synthesized soundtrack!
I’m really into some game music, although not Mario so much. I was never much of a Mario guy, although I enjoyed Super Mario Land 2 on the Game Boy. Sonic was my thing, and the music from the 16-bit games (Sonic 1, 2, 3, Sonic & Knuckles) is really good.
Other games I particularly like the music from:
Resident Evil (1 & 2 especially) - some prettycreepystuff and funboss musics.
Rocket Knight Adventures - cool boss theme, plus one level with some ridiculous bass.
Silent Hill - I listen to the theme, which sounds so sad to me, a lot, and the in-game music is scary. RE is more old-school creepy. SH is terrifying. Another good one from Silent Hill 2 here.
Final Fantasy IX - so much good stuff. Great battle music, great boss music, andsomanyothergreatones. Narrowing it down is really hard. Oh yeah, musn’t forget the penultimate and final battles. Apparently FFIX is Nobuo Uematsu’s favourite out of all the FF games he scored.
Metal Gear Solid (1, 2, 3, 4) - all I can say is these are possibly the best games ever and the music reflects it. MGS2 theme, something from MGS1, MGS1 boss music, MGS3 theme.
Crash Bandicoot games have some fun music too.
I could talk about the music in these games all day, but I’ve yet to find someone else who can manage 5 minutes. I wonder if anyone will click any of these links…
Sticking with the genre, one of the most profound, purely aesthetic moments I’ve had in video games was Red Dead Redemption, after a tough mission to get across the Rio Grande and into Mexico. It was night time in game when I finished the mission, and this song started playing as I walked across the moonlit desert to the nearest pueblo.
This scene from Bioshock: Infinite had a similar effect on me.
my thoughts exactly with all the links in the OP i just thought it was interesting how people seemed to be determined to play the Mario Theme on every instrument imaginable.
Awesome. I always wanted to replay that with the Idiot Savant trait or whatever it’s called. I like when game designers still support their own games even if the publisher doesn’t.
