Author Topic: Good western game music (Read 2156 times)

Cerveza mas fina · « **on:** June 20, 2014, 07:03:13 AM »

Also the superior version of Stardust Speedway is not in the Japan version

demi · « **Reply #1 on:** June 20, 2014, 07:34:06 AM »

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #2 on:** June 20, 2014, 07:37:21 AM »

Yeah oscar I know, I was just kidding.

Is that western demi? Never played that

demi · « **Reply #3 on:** June 20, 2014, 07:44:47 AM »

Yup, 100% Western

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #4 on:** June 20, 2014, 08:46:38 AM »

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #5 on:** June 20, 2014, 08:48:35 AM »

HOW COULD I FORGET

Himu · « **Reply #6 on:** June 20, 2014, 09:21:15 AM »

Mass effect 1.

Takao · « **Reply #7 on:** June 20, 2014, 01:44:46 PM »

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #8 on:** June 20, 2014, 02:27:18 PM »

Vizzys · « **Reply #9 on:** June 20, 2014, 03:06:20 PM »

etiolate · « **Reply #10 on:** June 20, 2014, 03:24:48 PM »

Behind spoilahz for loading purposes

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Rufus · « **Reply #11 on:** June 20, 2014, 04:37:48 PM »

Get some Jesper Kyd up in here:

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Himu · « **Reply #12 on:** June 20, 2014, 05:01:00 PM »

http://m.

Positive Touch · « **Reply #13 on:** June 20, 2014, 05:26:24 PM »

magus · « **Reply #14 on:** June 20, 2014, 05:42:56 PM »

so... why this thread isn't about amiga music?

this thread is now about amiga music

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #15 on:** June 20, 2014, 06:00:28 PM »

Nope. This thread's now about Rob Hubbard music:

Rufus · « **Reply #16 on:** June 20, 2014, 06:06:13 PM »

Quote from: magus on June 20, 2014, 05:42:56 PM

so... why this thread isn't about amiga music?

Good point. Barry Leitch:

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magus · « **Reply #17 on:** June 20, 2014, 06:08:17 PM »

GR is like the only one showing good taste here, you guys should all feel ashamed! ASHAMED!

Your Stalker · « **Reply #18 on:** June 20, 2014, 06:10:04 PM »

Steve Contra · « **Reply #19 on:** June 20, 2014, 06:25:46 PM »

etiolate · « **Reply #20 on:** June 20, 2014, 06:50:54 PM »

cool breeze · « **Reply #21 on:** June 20, 2014, 06:58:07 PM »

tiesto · « **Reply #22 on:** June 20, 2014, 07:29:36 PM »

Nobody posted the most obvious ones yet?

(one of my favorite soundtracks of all time)

My personal favorite game soundtrack of all time happens to be from a western game. But half of the soundtrack is licensed, the other half was done by Sasha, exclusively for the game:

Also:

And of course can't forget these:

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #23 on:** June 20, 2014, 07:36:55 PM »

Cruisi'n had some pretty dope tracks.

a slime appears · « **Reply #24 on:** June 20, 2014, 07:40:30 PM »

For some reason all the music nerds are gigantic RPG japanophiles which is a real shame since there's a lot of genuinely great and sometimes superior music coming out of Western dev houses that goes completely ignored. There's some amazing music coming out of Japan but it's a small fraction of what's out there.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #25 on:** June 20, 2014, 08:20:02 PM »

Mark Morgan

etiolate · « **Reply #26 on:** June 20, 2014, 08:57:06 PM »

Shatter does indeed have a great soundtrack.

And often overlooked is Body Harvest 64's great sci-fi horror/suspense soundtrack.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #27 on:** June 20, 2014, 09:45:10 PM »

Body Harvest is really underrated all the way around. It's really too bad that Rockstar went on with GTA and never came back for another Body Harvest.

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #28 on:** June 21, 2014, 01:29:19 AM »

Fuck Mirror's Edge is godlike

Rahxephon91 · « **Reply #29 on:** June 21, 2014, 01:46:23 AM »

Remember Me.

Max Payne 3

tiesto · « **Reply #30 on:** June 21, 2014, 02:11:51 AM »

Quote from: Oscar the Grouch on June 20, 2014, 07:48:55 PM

I think it's because JP music tends to focus on catchy hooks while Western music tends to focus on atmosphere and depth. One sticks in the mind a lot better than the other.

Also, a lot of the best JP music is in great games, while a lot of the best Western music had to suffer being in not-so-great games. That's changed in the last ten years or so, and I do feel people are picking up on Western composers a lot more these days.

Too many western composers bite that Hollywood faux-symphonic style and/or dirgy middle-ages sounding music (especially in the 'AAA' field), neither of which I like very much. My favorite western soundtracks either tend to be catchy, gamey stuff like Amiga mod music (Turrican and any Future Crew demo), indies with chiptune soundtracks, or soundtracks that borrow a lot from EDM (Unreal, System Shock, Shatter).

etiolate · « **Reply #31 on:** June 21, 2014, 04:17:11 AM »

My friend and I used to turn the level select on and rock out to this. no homo

Of course, nobody else had a Jag but me.

TEEEPO · « **Reply #32 on:** June 21, 2014, 04:41:51 AM »

console plebs

TEEEPO · « **Reply #33 on:** June 21, 2014, 04:48:39 AM »

etiolate · « **Reply #34 on:** June 23, 2014, 06:50:45 PM »

The Steam summer sale reminded me of Awesomenauts.

DCharlieJP · « **Reply #35 on:** June 23, 2014, 09:54:52 PM »

ROB HUBBBBBBBBBBBBBAAAAAAARD! and co.... SID-II forever

And just because of the luls because i was a huge flag waving C64 fan ....

here is the ZX Spectrum (the C64s rival in eurolands) music for Auf Wiedersehen Monty :

and here is the C64 version....

that... that is the sound of dominance.

Yeti · « **Reply #36 on:** June 24, 2014, 01:50:14 AM »

toku · « **Reply #37 on:** June 24, 2014, 02:03:42 AM »

I think Infamous 2 has an underrated score:

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