Comment on Anon enjoys videogame music

• Aqarius@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hell, even with the chip tunes alone, it’s amazing what people managed to squeeze out of a sine, a saw, and a square channel. Bloody Tears comes to mind. Or Willy’s theme from Megaman 2.

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  • Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And the modern scene is still going strong

    youtu.be/390m2LaUUIg

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• Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s excellent for the setting it was made for, but is lacking compared to the collected discography of generations of musicians tuned to at-home listening.

  I listen to opera at the opera. I listen to symphonies at the symphony, or at home if I’m particularly nostalgic. I listen to game music when I’m playing games. Each has an environment crafted around it to maximize enjoyment. I can’t even listen to edm without dimming the lights.

  Listening to a game soundtrack made to evoke specific emotions at specific times? It feels like the point was wholly missed and vast horizons entirely ignored.

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  • Nefara@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is a very narrow and limited way of seeing music. Music can be created for a purpose and a setting but once it’s out there it has no boundaries beyond what you impose upon it. Somewhere Over the Rainbow was written for the Wizard of Oz but it’s not like the only way to enjoy it is in a movie theatre. Certainly, music can be more or less appropriate for certain activities and moods, listening to EDM to fall asleep might be self defeating. However, music made for games can evoke all sorts of mental states and people are free to find appropriate settings and uses outside of them to enjoy it.

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    • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In the same way that a kid can watch a baseball game and notice none of the nearly superhuman athleticism playing out, many people simply can’t notice the difference between a bespoke listening experience and one tuned for a specific setting. And that doesn’t make them evil or stupid, and I’d never argue that. But it does place them firmly beneath vermin. People are allowed to feel any which way they like, even if it’s objectively WRONG.

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      • Nefara@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Ok so you do mean to offend people then. Have fun with that, I’ll just be over here enjoying things on their own merits despite your whole thing going on over there.

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  • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Please listen to the endless space 2 ost (without playing the game). Imo it is even better outside of the game, because I can fully kick back and listen, instead of micromanaging a galaxy-spanning empire at the same time.

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    • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I jumped though it and it’s overwhelmingly ambient music. Which isn’t bad but I rarely play ambient music. Just not for me

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      • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah I guess that is a big part of why it still works really well outside the game

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