The videogame music thread

[Todinho]

I cant play as him to save my life but there's not doubt as to who is the best character in Skullgirls,Big Band!

[mikeleddy83]

[DomsBeard]

Love this in Ultra Street Fighter IV (Jurassic Era Facility) it's a nice little tune but when it kicks in from 3.11 onwards in the final round it is pretty epic ranking up the tension ten fold.

[Nekemancer]

For those who are fans of Final Fantasy music, Distant Worlds is a wonderful concert to attend. My wife and I have been to it yearly since 2010 and have enjoyed it immensely. We even got the opportunity to sit next to Nobuo Uematsu during one concert before meeting him during a meet and greet afterwards. Highly highly recommend it.

http://www.ffdistantworlds.com/ for more information. London on Nov 1st!

And to share, here's a song from Cloudbuilt. I fell in love with the soundtrack from a review, haven't gotten around to trying the game out but I purchased the soundtrack before even buying the game.

[ratsoalbion]

Music Monday: Borderlands
http://caneandrinse.com/music-monday-borderlands/

To coincide with the latest issue of the Cane and Rinse podcast (Volume Three, number 135: Borderlands 2), here are some tracks – including those well-selected opening themes and some of those effective in-game ambient pieces – from Gearbox/2K’s brace of FPSRPGs.

[Todinho]

Man the RE2 soundtrack is so good!

[Jinkkai]

Love the Victorian vibe this song oozes.


It's a popular choice, but this song is a great song to relax to. David Wise is my favorite composer, Easily.


It's not the best game by miles, but the soundtrack has stuck with me since I was a kid. Belongs up there with the best if only for the drum track.


I'm a sucker for western sounding song.


I love the thread guys, keep 'em comin!

[Flabyo]

Have we not had anything from Child of Light yet? Let's remedy that. Lovers of piano should really own this soundtrack already... get thee to iTunes!



Total change of tone now... long forgotten 80's racer Power Drift...



And let's finish with some Titanfall demonstrating that it has more in common with Firefly than just it's plot. They may as well have just called the Militia 'brown coats' and been done with it...

[ratsoalbion]

Music Monday: Burnout Paradise
http://caneandrinse.com/music-monday-burnout-paradise/

Away from headliners Guns N’ Roses and Avril Lavigne (pronounced La-vig-knee as far as I’m concerned) the selection of ‘EA Trax’ that make up Burnout Paradise’s extensive playlist features a smattering of quality tunes that I’m happy to have as mainstays within my own music collection, and that I actually enjoy tearing up the streets of Paradise City to. Except when DJ Atomika feels the need to interject...

[ratsoalbion]

Epona USA

[mikeleddy83]

Brilliant! Best laugh I've had all week.

[CapinGreen]

I finished Shadow of the Colossus last week for the first time and I can't stop listening to the OST. It's flippin' fantastic!

[Flabyo]

I rank Shadow's score as one of the finest ever crafted for a game. Other games might have individual tracks I love more (Suicide Run from Mass Effect 2, Icarus from Deus Ex Human Revolution) but in terms of complete score Shadow is just consistently amazing.

[ratsoalbion]

Music Monday: Banjo-Kazooie
http://caneandrinse.com/music-monday-banjo-kazooie/

In the latest issue of the Cane and Rinse podcast dedicated entirely to Rare’s bear and bird we feature some of and celebrate Grant Kirkhope’s wonderful Banjo-Kazooie music.

Music plays a huge part in that game’s atmosphere, charm, theme – you collect 100 musical notes (well, technically 200 I think as each is a quaver) on each world for a start – and title.

Oh yeah, and the lead characters are named after musical instruments. If you can call the kazoo a musical instrument. Which I suppose you can.

Anyway, I loved the B-K OST from the minute I started playing the game back in 1998 and still love it to this day having just been back through it on Xbox Live Arcade and done everything – and I mean everything – all over again in 2014.

I wasn’t the only one and where I lack the skill (and equipment) to express my affection for Kirkhope’s jolly, funny and eminently catchy tunes, plenty of talented people out there have performed terrific covers for us to enjoy.

[countstex]

Not sure if it's of interest in this thread or not, but this months Massive Chalice TeamStream is all about the sound track creation:



Massive Chalice is an in production game from Double Fine, think XCOM but with a medieval setting and family blood lines thrown in.

[Flabyo]

Martozz return with a new Zelda arrangement, this time it's Hyrule Field from Twilight Princess (which I think is probably my favourite Zelda 'field' theme)

[mikeleddy83]

[Flabyo]

Some Valkyria Chronicles. Just because.





(Hitoshi Sakimoto is one of my favourite game composers. His style can get a little samey though if you listen to a lot of his stuff in one go...)

[ratsoalbion]

Music Monday: Tearaway
http://caneandrinse.com/music-monday-tearaway/

Even if Tony and I weren’t quite as enamoured as Jay and Sean with Media Molecule’s Tearaway (definitely not to be confused with the Sonic-esque antics of Tearaway Thomas on the Amiga) in our recent podcast, one thing that the entire panel were singing from the same hymn-sheet about was Kenneth Young and Brian D’Oliveira’s videogame-atypical folksy music.

As ever you can hear a few snatches during the course of the podcast, but let’s use this week’s Music Monday to explore Tearaway’s rich musical tapestry a little further.

Firstly a video from the Official PlayStation Channel which sees Mr Young explaining how sea shanties and other traditional forms of music provided the source for much of Tearaway’s uncommonly earthy audio palette...

[ratsoalbion]

Music Monday: Noby Noby Boy
http://caneandrinse.com/music-monday-noby-noby-boy/

Keita Nagahashi’s (Katamari Damacy) suggestive plaything Noby Noby Boy will most likely be remembered for – if anything – its surrealist planetscapes, all-but unachievable cooperative end-goal and its cheeky concept of, ahem, reporting a boy’s length to a girl.

Aside from its mystifying gameplay, confusing menus, pernickety cameras and obtuse controls, the 2009 PSN exclusive (which has since stretched its way onto iOS) amused me greatly with it’s deleriously ‘pointless’ play (not really gameplay), freewheeling ideas and absurdist sitauations, but mostly with its surprisingly eclectic (embellished with further tunes through a free update some months into the game’s life) soundtrack.

Namco veteran Yuu Miyake’s (Tekkens, Ridge Racers, Katamari Damacies) original score features over 30 tracks of mostly mellow ambience but still a range of subtly different moods across a wide variety of instruments including melodica, ocarina, ukulele, vibraphone and kalimba as well as more (perhaps) traditional stuff like blues guitar and cello...