Re: The videogame music thread (also Sound of Play submissions)
Posted: August 18th, 2017, 4:37 am
Nova Limits - Ryan Henwood (feat. Adam Axeby)
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is a lovely little co-op game I played through with my wife. This song immediately sets the tone for the game. I could explain more but I think the song is good enough I don’t have to.
I’m often surprised a track hasn’t been suggested prior to my request, or the search feature hasn’t been working properly (I think it is). Some time ago I backed off these requests, but it’s been a long time and they’re still awesome.
Battlefield 3 Main Theme - Johan Skugge and Jukka Rintamäki
This is simply an awesome track. It becomes a part of you when you play a lot of BF3 because instead of a big warning that a multiplayer match only has a minute left, music just starts playing. I don’t really like the massive burst of discordant sound at the end.
Bonus (it's only like 33 seconds, and doesn't really stand up on its own): Battlefield 3 Dark Theme - Johan Skugge and Jukka Rintamäki
I think the composers had a debate about how to lead into the main theme and this was the result. It has the same blast of noise at the end as the main theme, which keeps it from perfectly leading into that song.
Cosmology – Stephen Barton
I love this track’s transition from “story about stuff” to “some badass cybernetic shit is about to go down.” Almost like the machine revealing itself behind its fleshy pilot.
Self Esteem Fund – Kelly Bailey
This song from Portal made me realize a couple things while I was playing:
I might actually be alone in this strange facility, and I haven’t heard a lot of music so far in the game. It’s a special kind of aloneness conveyed by this track. If you ever got outside one of Quake’s levels you would see the map on which you were fighting was suspended in space. It looked small, insignificant, and irrelevant. You were fighting through a map full of monsters, but the playable field was just one particle out in space. There were no other players or characters, and no one cared that you were playing. It’s not lonely, it’s the sound of being alone. The difference is that when you’re lonely you miss others. This track makes you wonder if ever there were others, or perhaps what “other” even means. When you’re this alone, you create your own purpose, because you are the only living record of your own existence. When I heard this in Portal, I realized I was really, really alone.
Science is Fun – Mike Morasky
I love this song, it made entering co-op so exciting in Portal 2. The song informs you that you were definitely going to have an awesome time. It is also one of the first things I hear each morning when I wake up because I’ve set it as an alarm tone.
Cara Mi Addio – Mike Morasky
After playing Portal 2 I’d largely forgotten about this song. Cane and Rinse’s Portal 2 episode reminded me about it and attached a significance to it which I’d never assigned myself. I played through Portal 2 with my best friend and when he and I play a game we tend to skip over a lot of story in order to keep playing. We are sometimes too ruthless with our skipping for certain kinds of games, not even letting a scene fully begin before we skip it. We were honestly a bit annoyed with Portal 2 for having so much down time and dead space. Perhaps if I’d gone solo I would have had a greater appreciation, but thankfully a podcast discussion filled in the gaps for me. I find this song genuinely emotional now.
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is a lovely little co-op game I played through with my wife. This song immediately sets the tone for the game. I could explain more but I think the song is good enough I don’t have to.
I’m often surprised a track hasn’t been suggested prior to my request, or the search feature hasn’t been working properly (I think it is). Some time ago I backed off these requests, but it’s been a long time and they’re still awesome.
Battlefield 3 Main Theme - Johan Skugge and Jukka Rintamäki
This is simply an awesome track. It becomes a part of you when you play a lot of BF3 because instead of a big warning that a multiplayer match only has a minute left, music just starts playing. I don’t really like the massive burst of discordant sound at the end.
Bonus (it's only like 33 seconds, and doesn't really stand up on its own): Battlefield 3 Dark Theme - Johan Skugge and Jukka Rintamäki
I think the composers had a debate about how to lead into the main theme and this was the result. It has the same blast of noise at the end as the main theme, which keeps it from perfectly leading into that song.
Cosmology – Stephen Barton
I love this track’s transition from “story about stuff” to “some badass cybernetic shit is about to go down.” Almost like the machine revealing itself behind its fleshy pilot.
Self Esteem Fund – Kelly Bailey
This song from Portal made me realize a couple things while I was playing:
I might actually be alone in this strange facility, and I haven’t heard a lot of music so far in the game. It’s a special kind of aloneness conveyed by this track. If you ever got outside one of Quake’s levels you would see the map on which you were fighting was suspended in space. It looked small, insignificant, and irrelevant. You were fighting through a map full of monsters, but the playable field was just one particle out in space. There were no other players or characters, and no one cared that you were playing. It’s not lonely, it’s the sound of being alone. The difference is that when you’re lonely you miss others. This track makes you wonder if ever there were others, or perhaps what “other” even means. When you’re this alone, you create your own purpose, because you are the only living record of your own existence. When I heard this in Portal, I realized I was really, really alone.
Science is Fun – Mike Morasky
I love this song, it made entering co-op so exciting in Portal 2. The song informs you that you were definitely going to have an awesome time. It is also one of the first things I hear each morning when I wake up because I’ve set it as an alarm tone.
Cara Mi Addio – Mike Morasky
After playing Portal 2 I’d largely forgotten about this song. Cane and Rinse’s Portal 2 episode reminded me about it and attached a significance to it which I’d never assigned myself. I played through Portal 2 with my best friend and when he and I play a game we tend to skip over a lot of story in order to keep playing. We are sometimes too ruthless with our skipping for certain kinds of games, not even letting a scene fully begin before we skip it. We were honestly a bit annoyed with Portal 2 for having so much down time and dead space. Perhaps if I’d gone solo I would have had a greater appreciation, but thankfully a podcast discussion filled in the gaps for me. I find this song genuinely emotional now.