>play white for the first time >get to route 1 >5 seconds

>>25954070
>why wasn't 6 as good?
They stopped using MIDI, and switched to highly compressed tracks. This is why we also lost variable audio, like the drumbeats when you run.

Gen 5's audio was the culmination of Masuda's reverse-engineered Game Boy sound engine that he built back in the early 1990s.

>what the fuck went wrong in gen 4?
The soundfonts, primarily. Same reason Hoenn is notorious for its trumpets.

>>25954144
I should add, the classic DS still had GBA/GB hardware under the hood, which is also why the cries were redone for Gen 6.

Rather than try to emulate the old sounds, they sprung for new ones.

>>25954144
>This is why we also lost variable audio

I miss the variable audio. That was a neat feature.

>>25954144
gen 4's problem was more with melody rather than soundfronts

it's best melodies are the few special battle themes you hear only a few times through the game. everything else is mediocre

>why was Gen VI music so poor

No Go Ichinose because he was busy with Pocket Card Jockey at the time, which he was totally in charge of

>>25954175
will he be back for SM?

>>25954156
3DS has DS/GBA/GB hardware under the hood too though.

>>25954164
>it's best melodies are the few special battle themes you hear only a few times through the game
I'm inclined to agree, but I've grown to enjoy a lot of the more laid back tracks these last few years. Still not too fond of the HGSS remixes though.

>>25954157
It was a glorious feature, and we just scratched the surface of how well it can be used. Banjo-Kazooie, back in 1998, was an early example of a dynamic and engaging soundtrack that moved along with the world.

>>25954193
Yes, but I thought it functioned in a different manner. For example, 3DS can use the legacy GB hardware to boot up gba roms, but I thought it lacked some of the legacy features, like sound.

>>25954186
Hopefully.

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>>25954070
>what the fuck went wrong in gen 4?
Excuse me?

>>25954249
a majority of the music was bland as fuck, with the few very good themes being in limited event battles

like, compare the city music in sinnoh with that in unova, it's no contest

>>25954265
>>25954070
I guess I should add that I don't consider HG/SS when I say gen 4 since they use gen 2's melodies

>>25954265
Sinnoh music was arguably the first time we moved away from route 'themes'. While there are certainly routes with hummable themes, a lot more of the music played into ambience and mood than being catchy songs.

DP didn't feel the need to give every area an anthem.

>>25954296
the only songs that play into the ambience of the enviornment are the snow routes and eterna forest/sendoff spring

>>25954296
This is a perfect example: it doesn't have the strongest core melody, you probably won't whistle it, but it's fucking soothing to the core man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8cLW0Lckhc

>>25954307
this is definitly one of the better route themes in the game, if not the best

but you're argument about the melody is off, it also has one of the better melodies

>>25954157
Agreed. It made the world feel more alive.


I wont profess to know much about music. I've got an art background, and some of that can awkwardly translate into my feelings with music, and I can tell you what about a song I like, but maybe not why.

But fuck man. Something about Unova's world music just felt so.. right. Castelia? The Village Bridge? Undella town? It's somehow nostalgic to me already, even though I played those games when I was, what, 17, 18?
There's definitely a lot of personal stuff that was going on around the time of those games. Travelling to Seattle, meeting someone I loved.. ya know, cheesy schlock. But I dont think the music would hit as hard for me if it wasn't well composed.

Black and White just hit at the right time, man. I love those games.

>>25954306
You're too focused on environment anon, not everything needs to beat you over the head like sleighbells on snow routes.

Veilstone, for instance, is evocative of the high-stakes sleazy gambling life. It's like a junkie, sauntering about for a fix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x66LAzrR1eA

>>25954070
>what went so right with gen 5's music? why wasn't 6 as good?

Because that's just your shitty opinion
I have yet to find something in Gen 5 on par with these two:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3XEUx4-76Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RRGInmOhTQ

And dont get me started on Iris and her champion theme that ressembled a department store background music...

>>25954333
>Black and White just hit at the right time, man. I love those games.

Amen to that.

BW is also inextricable from young love for myself. Not only were the games compelling, but I was going through my own journey of truths and ideals, and that paralell didn't go unnoticed or unappreciated.

Unlike XY, which obviously aimed elsewhere, BW felt squarely aimed at me, and that was a good fucking feeling.

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>>25954070
>what went so right with gen 5's music? why wasn't 6 as good?

Good taste, friend

>also, what the fuck went wrong in gen 4?


And you lost me

>>25954333
>There's definitely a lot of personal stuff that was going on around the time of those games. Travelling to Seattle, meeting someone I loved.. ya know, cheesy schlock

This is it
Amerifats will always shill for the game based on their shithole, no matter how bad it was
They're the cancer of this board

>>25954070
shit OP, just wait till you hear:
the team plasma battle theme
the gym leader battle theme
route 10
chargestone cave
the final battle with N theme
and oh lord the fucking elite 4 theme

i promise you you'll jizz

>>25954333
>BW felt squarely aimed at me, and that was a good fucking feeling.

This. I really don't know why, but it really felt like it was a more "personal" game somehow.

(Admittedly part of it might be because I live in NYC, so it was "my" region, but I'd like to think I would have felt the same regardless.)

>>25954359
That first one is indeed pretty good.

The second one is just a worse remix of Unova Route 10 though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV_2u6EDx6c

>>25954426
>>25954368
>BW felt squarely aimed at me, and that was a good fucking feeling.

Weird, totally felt the same way. I'm sure its no coincidence. But man, it's like the game was mirroring my own sort of personal journey to bigger cities.

>but I'd like to think I would have felt the same regardless

I'd imagine. I mean, like I said, mine was to Seattle yet I still drew parellels.
The atmosphere was strong with Gen 5. Not that I think Gen 4 was necessarily bad, but it felt more realized to me in 5.

>>25954426
>This. I really don't know why, but it really felt like it was a more "personal" game somehow.

I think two words sum it up best: Unwavering Emotion.

Game Freak did outright state they were trying to cater to longtime fans with BW, so it could've been their intent all along to play with our heartstrings. Things like N's playroom, or the bridge band, those likely aren't stirring much in the youngens.

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>>25954462
Ma nigger.

5 star post.

DPPt is my favorite soundtrack and I don't really remember a lot of BW's music desu, though there are a few great standout tracks

>>25954571
Forgot to mention... korean grown up in sydney, moved back to seoul a few years ago so realy identify as well

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>>25954571
>31 posts
>12 posters
>most of the thread is composed of two Unovabortions agreeding with each others

>>25954666
Nice meme.

I posted about a dozen times discussing music.

>>25954144
>>25954070
I thought gen Vs OST was very gen 4 esque

>>25954164
>it's best melodies are the few special battle themes you hear only a few times through the game
I'm inclined to agree solely for the fact that the only music I can actually remember from gen 4 are the battle themes, whereas every other gen has some standout overworld music to me

>>25954418
sadly no Iris champion theme which is, imo, the best battle theme in any game

>>25954801
It's way closer to gen 3 than 4

The overworld themes for Gen V didn't really do it for me until the new ones they added in B2/W2 honestly. Other than those I think I liked Dreamyard and Route 4.

>>25954070
Well they had to get something right

>>25954070
>>25954164
Step the fuck back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8uattn8pis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivXD3UY1aN4

Gen 4 had the best music IMO. Gen 5 was too calming and quiet, and towns like Nimbasa had boring themes. I loved most of the Gen 5 music though. Gen 6 was terrible. Almost NOTHING good there.

>>25955318
Don't forget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CF_evfTsDY

>>25955318
worst surfing theme, except for maybe kanto

>>25955367
>gen 5 was too calming and quiet

wut? sinnoh has the quietest ost

>>25955470
God-tier.

>>25955470
>>25956292
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utyq_Jg3ekU
GLORIOUS

>>25954666
This, it's the same two anons (anon) baiting /vp/ with Unova praise since they get ignored everywhere else, they know Unova is garbage and rely on this to bait on this board with contrarian opinions.

Shota Kageyama and Hitomi Sato a best Tbqh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A52quJ0z_QM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mSuNw_bV2s

>>25954070
Lolz
>not playing Pokemon strictly on mute

>>25954070
Gen IV's soundtrack is fucking great you faggot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOmznKTv74M

Best region & soundtracks.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc0At5MXUoM&index=5
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqBaDX33Eew

Yeah, sorry but Gen IV had great music imo. It's one of my favorite things about Platinum.

It's really hard for me to decide whether I prefer Gen IV or Gen V's soundtracks more. IV's strengths are in its route and city themes while V tends to have better battle themes overall.
Really, we just need Go Ichinose back.

Who was responsible for the soundtrack in X and Y?

>>25957329
Disgusting.
I'm just passing by to say filth like you shouldn't be EVER allowed to play any games

>>25957250
Here's an idea, instead of saying baseless bullshit, why don't you get a plugin to see the IPs?

>>25955367
>Gen 5 was too calming and quiet
That is literally gen 4 just look at the post above yours
Meanwhile check out music for the same thing in gen 5.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXBvbfO03MM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMmwi8rDIF0

>>25958253
>gen v battle themes
>implying the trainer battle and plasma battle aren't shit
>implying wild pokemon theme isn't shit either

>>25954885
>not Colress

>>25954070
>Gen 5
>Better music than Gen 4
You need to clean out your ears. It was good, but Gen 4 is the best, music-wise.

>>25960634
Unovaboartions do that with everything, pokemon design, region...
They jusqt can't accept Gen 5 wasnt the best in any single respect