What makes good video game music? Its different to all people, to me good video game music is about Nostalgia and emotion. If the music/theme brings out emotions then that's what I consider good.
Here are my top 10 favourite and the reason why, I also like giving stats and ratings to everything:
Honourable mentions:
-Ryu Hayabusa theme Ninja Gaiden ,
-Chrono Trigger frogs theme,
-Skyrim theme,
-Megaman theme,
-Vamo Alla Flamengo FF9,
-Terras theme FF6,
-One winged Angel FF7,
-Place I'll return to some day FF9
-Kingdom Hearts theme (not the song, the tune)
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#10 - Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time: Gerudo Valley
Reason: It sounds good, it develops over time. Reminds me of Mexico and Mexican culture for some reason. It feels soothing.
Nostalgia factor:....................... 7
Emotions factor:....................... 5 (soothing to the mind)
How music sounds:.................. 8.5
http://www.youtube.com/watc... , with 1.5 million views
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#9 - Melodies Of Life - (English) - Final Fantasy IX
Reason: This is a song, and it really makes sense with the video and with the game as a whole. It reminds me of the struggles that humans go through for each other.
Nostalgia factor:....................... 9
Emotions factor:....................... 9 (happiness, sadness, struggle)
How music sounds:.................. 8
https://www.youtube.com/wat... , with 3 million views
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#8 - Final Fantasy IX OST - Loss of Me ~ Beatrix's Theme
Reason: Very classical, bring out a sad emotion :(
Nostalgia factor:....................... 9
Emotions factor:....................... 9.5 (sadness)
How music sounds:.................. 8.2
http://www.youtube.com/watc... with 200K views
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#7 – Aeriths Death Theme (FF7)
Reason: Brings out a sad emotion, the theme and the scene when it played in the game matched. Each bounce of the pearl synchronised with the music.
Nostalgia factor:....................... 9.5
Emotions factor:....................... 9.5 (sadness)
How music sounds:.................. 9
http://www.youtube.com/watc... , with 1.5 million views
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#6 – Final Fantasy 8: Landing on Dollet
Reason: Pumps you with action. Scene is full of action and the song just gets your adrenaline running.
Nostalgia factor:....................... 5
Emotions factor:....................... 5 (adrenaline)
How music sounds:.................. 9.5
http://www.youtube.com/watc... , with 80K views
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#5 – Persona 4: Magatsu Inaba theme
Reason: Similar to Zelda, this song is very soothing to the mind, it fits the situation as if this is the last chance, last hope.
Nostalgia factor:....................... 9
Emotions factor:....................... 7 (soothes the mind)
How music sounds:.................. 9.6
http://www.youtube.com/watc... , with 1K view (original deleted)
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#4 – Halo Theme
Reason: Just so cool, fills you with adrenaline.
Nostalgia factor:....................... 5
Emotions factor:....................... 7 (lots of adrenaline)
How music sounds:.................. 9.7
http://www.youtube.com/watc... , with 4.2 million views
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#3 – Metal Gear Solid: Main theme
Reason: Sounds great, lots of nostalgia for me in this tune.
Nostalgia factor:....................... 10
Emotions factor:....................... 7 (happiness, lots of adrenaline)
How music sounds:.................. 9.8
http://www.youtube.com/watc... , with 100K views
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#2 – Final Fantasy 5: Clash on the Giant Bridge
Reason: Sounds amazing. That’s all there is to it.
Nostalgia factor:....................... 9
Emotions factor:....................... 0
How music sounds:.................. 9.9
http://www.youtube.com/watc... , with 1.3 million views
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#1 – Final Fantasy 10: To Zarnaknd
I will leave you with it *takes cap down to cover eyes*
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
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So what is your favourite video game music/theme and why?
We were expecting problems with mod support, but there are a lot of other issues.
This is why you get the GOG version on gog you can select the version of the game to download.
On pc fallout 4 fallout new vegas and skyrim are all broken on steam because they all got the same "next gen" update.
Skyrim dec 2023
https://www.pcgamer.com/sky...
Can not find new vegas but anyone that modded it knows the script extender there was also broken
Not accidental, they want modders to stop modding their older games to force them to mod Shitfield.
There doing the same on starfield with a mods store and blocking mods
There goal is like blizzard and what they did with fallout 76 you make mods they can sell and you become a slave.
On skyrim they have "trusted" mod devs now basically a badge that lets your mod on the store you get a crumb of the sale when someone buys it.
lol to the disagrees, the last Skyrim update broke mods too. They've been trying to kill mods to monetize them in creation club for years, it's not a stretch that they purposely put out patches just to break free mods.
The disagrees are from people who have common sense. They aren't trying to kill mods. Most mods for any game will break with a new update because they rely on files/code that have been changed. This isn't new. Even with Bethesda this would happen way before the creation club. Mod support is literally one of the things that got Bethesda to where they are, and they're one of the only devs that releases comprehensive mod tools for each of their games.
Over 14 GBs and doesn't change much at all? What? Taking up that much drive space for a pathetic 'remastering' is shameful.
Par for Bethesda.
LOL people are actually expecting massive improvements or something? From Bethesda?? the same people who released Skyrim multiple times and the all look like shit? THAT Bethesda? are people for real?
The ps5 version doesn't change a ton but from my small playtime it's enough to make me want to replay it just to have it running at 60.
A side note to this my PS4 version no longer boots after it's "update" so I guess that's what it feels like to own a Bethesda game on PC
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.
tech is different because they buy threats and then kill them. Twitter bought Vine and did nothing with it. Despite people seemingly liking it. Could've had tiktok a decade before bytedance. go figure.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
A voice actor from The Coalition's third-person shooter series, Gears of War, has hinted at a new game announcement coming in June.
Hopefully Microsoft will go back to the original story line and get away from that woke nonsense from the last Gears game Gears of Woke! But were talking about Microsoft so all the betting money is on more of the same woke nonsense.
The Locust trilogy concluded with Gears of War 3. I don’t get how Gears 4 and 5 are “woke” .
Excellent blog. I'd add The Monkey Island Theme simply because the bass line sounds like it was written by Jesus.
The Sight Of Spira from FFX is phenomenal too!
These are some awesome choices
Ramma1: You may of heard of this guy already but if not you'd probably love it
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He's done loads, easily the best youtube ff guitarist I've come across.
Also check out PowerGlove for some glorious 80's metal videogame covers, they've done a fair few of Nobou's tunes.
I am quite fond of the classic Tomb Raider themes, as well as some tunes from older James Bond games.
Chrono Cross: http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Chrono Trigger: http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Dragon Quest VIII: can't even say which one I like the most. This game has the best OST. Period.
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