whats /mu/ thoughts on video game music? do you consider it

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>>68849692
>do you consider it real music
Of course
>do you like it
Most of the time it's shit, but certain games have charming or nostalgic music that is really nice, but not something I'd sit down and listen to without the game. Runescape has the best videogame music in my opinion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4M4XTsx2cA

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Of course bro.

I listen to ambient music from the deus ex human revolution gamerip at least once a week

>>68849692
>That pic
Holy shit

>>68849692
>do you consider it to be real music
Yes, why is this even a question

>>68849705
/thread imo

>>68849692
>do you consider it real music?
I consider 4'33'' as real music, so...

>do you like it?
If it's good, yes. Many games, though, have a soundtrack that only works while you're playing the game. The number of games whose music actually functions well outside of the context is low.

>>68849692
Akira Yamaoka is one of my favorite musicians.

>>68850048
>The number of games whose music actually functions well outside of the context is low.

which songs would you say work well outside their games?

>>68850082
The Europa Universalis Rome soundtrack

>>68849791
There's that big dude in my lectures who wears a shirt with a wall of text on the back that goes something like "We the Gamers of the world demand..." followed by various demands like finished games and other industry stuff. OP's pic reminded me of him.

I like when you're in a snow level and snow music starts playing, or in a desert level and desert music starts playing. Seriously, it's nice how music can evoke imagery and video game OSTs are often good at that.

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>>68849692
>do you consider music real music

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Of course it's real music.

Hell, one of the things that got me into music was Silent Hill's OST, of all things...

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>>68849692
>not having at least one Data Disc lp in your collection

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>>68849692
Gustavo Santaolalla.
Of course there's good videogame soundtracks

How do you think /v/ would react to a ost purely based on samplings and remixes of already existing albums

Video Game soundtracks are one of the places you can find music free from narcissistic pretensions. It's just pure music in most cases.

FFXIV has a great soundtrack

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T1k-9UvdlU
Anything else like this?

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Hitoshi Sakimoto is and will always be to me the best video game composer. I adore his work on Vagrant Story and Final Fantasy XII. No other composer comes close to the feel he conveys.

>>68851439
example

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

Video game music is quite similar to movie music, in that most of it is crap. The only video game soundtrack I listen to sometimes is the We Love Katamari OST.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc8lNDxC4kM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V4IEV8l-gA UNDERSTAND UNDERSTAND
UNDERSTAND UNDERSTAND
UNDERSTAND UNDERSTAND
THE CONCEPT OF LOVE

>>68851333

Haha, what? Video game music nowadays is at the complete opposite end of the spectrum, i.e. by the numbers bland orchestral stuff. You can't even name five vg composers that each have a unique sound.

>>68850509
/thread

Gautier Serre did some Path of Exile music, and is also behind Igorrr, so there's that.

>>68849692
>real music
What the fuck are you talking about?

Played Diablo one recently. Its a great dark ambient soundtrack

>>68851286
Not speaking for all of /v/ here, but if it's a game where music's important and it makes sure to have a wide variety of good stuff, then I'd think that'd be dope as hell.
>See Brutal legend
>Jet Set Radio
>Most modern open world games/ GTA clones
>etc etc

>>68849705
this is Varg's best track

Who here /in game/?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1Ch6N8QT00