Unmute those greentext
Anon enjoys videogame music
Submitted 2 months ago by gurty@lemmy.world to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 months ago
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I miss Seth Everman! Dude was so great
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
space level
theramin and sounds of masturbatinganelephant@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve been laughing out loud at a university cafeteria for a good minute now, thanks. Dark Orbit - EIC (New Music October 2013) 0:32.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 months ago
>laboratory level >futuristic sounding synths
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Anon’s vibin
gegil@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
This is not just real, its a truth.
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 2 months ago
American level clapping noises
Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
> Not with that attitude
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 2 months ago
omg hax
Hubi@feddit.org 2 months ago
>he doesn’t know
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
> American level
> clapping noises
tfw when you totally can
lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 months ago
I’ve been using
>code blocksfor that, but I low key want actual greentext here.bdonvr@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
Just use a backslash to escape the >
> like this, which looks like:
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LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I feel like it should be possible
daggermoon@piefed.world 2 months ago
Sounds like a good game.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Ok uh, barely related, but:
Is there an actual name for the genre of music of Half Life 2, Ep1/2, Alyx?
Its like… progressive rock but sometimes also hardrock guitar riffs, but also with … basically ‘experimental’ industrial/techno usually mixed in quite well, and then also very often with essentially breakbeat drumming, and a lot of it also uses some pretty uncommon time signatures and switchups.
And then sometimes there is either classical instrumentation, or, essentially some kind of filtered or synth version of it.
… I literally fail to describe it succinctly, I don’t know how, I’m not aware of anything else that really sounds consistently like it.
AlexLost@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So, like Nine Inch Nails then. That’s called just industrial.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I mean, NiN and industrial in general has many elements in common with it…
I dunno, its less … orthodox, in time signatures, than basically all NiN I can remember listening to, with the exception of Ghosts.
Ghosts has a lot more just… weird timings, but they’re also paired with melodies and chords that are dissonant or off in some way…
Not much of Ghosts is high tempo, ‘action-y’, and HL2’s melodies are actually not as odd and dissonant, they’re more conventional, just often played with unconventional instruments/synths.
And, NiN’s drumming, cymbals and such is usually nowhere near as frantic.
… Maybe I just don’t have a wide enough industrial palette, and I guess maybe yeah, ‘HL2 style’ is best described as a subgenre of industrial?
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 months ago
>cherry blossoms in the level
>koto and sho OR shamisen and shakuhachi
roguetrick@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sax… And violins.
StillAlive@piefed.world 2 months ago
That’s how yo momma likes it.
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roguetrick@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Snakes are valid.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Limonene@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Counterpoint: The Crosscode soundtrack.
Forest level: accordion, guitar, only a bit of flute, no violin.
Forest level 2: accordion, choir, and xylophone.
Forest level 3: steel drums, guitar, some other kind of guitar.
Ice level: flutes, bass guitar.
Ice dungeon: french horn, synthy violin.
Lava level: (none)
Desert level: Exactly what OP said.
Desert town: Totally different from what OP said.
Beach level: guitar, flute, piano, very little steel drums, no ukulele.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
but anon, what if you are Spider-Man in a Fun House in 1991?
Apeman42@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Bongos, error beeps, and the wails of the damned.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And that instrument that makes plastic clicky noises, expertly played.
Nangijala@feddit.dk 2 months ago
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I don’t mean to offend anyone but I cannot respect you as a human being, let alone a sentient organism, if you enjoy video game music at any time other than whilst playing a video game.
“I like the music in doom, it’s weirdly ambient despite being so aggressive.” Perfectly fine, even respectable. “I was listening to the mortal kombat soundtrack the other day…” You are lesser than a sea cucumber.
Nefara@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Was the last time you listened to game music when it was all chip and midi? There’s some beautiful and moving music in games.
Aqarius@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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.
kartoffelsaft@programming.dev 2 months ago
I could sympathize with your point if VGM was still the blips and blops of cheap midi synths like it was in Doom’s hayday. Heck, I still someshat sympathize with the idea that VGM just doesn’t work as well as albums for making a pure listening experience because the game inherently restricts it’s format (though I’d say it depends on the game). But VGM by [current year] has gotten so good I must ask what VGM you have heard. Would you make the same claim for film soundtracks?
Unsolicited VGM suggestions that I think prove my point
Expedition 33, Neon White, Ultrakill, Team Fortress 2, Hyper Light Drifter
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I do feel the same way about movie soundtracks. My partner pulled the full interstellar soundtrack into their chill out playlist and I wince a little every time.
I liked the music in bioshock, shadow of the colossus, kingdom hearts 3, horizon, undertale, etc., quite a lot. But devoting time to listening to it, rather than modern music made for home listening just doesn’t appeal to me. It feels like pulling out a jigsaw when you need a dremel. Like, you can do that, certainly, but there are infinitely better options
gurty@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Its almost a cliche to say it at this point, but Clair Obscur’s soundtrack is incredible.
imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It’s a great song, but I can’t see myself choosing to play it outside game night. (I played this one to death during our desert campaign)
BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Another counterpoint
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Look, I think gamers should definitely expand their tastes because I know a few who almost exclusively listen to games soundtrack, but that doesn’t mean games soundtracks have no artistic value outside of the game… now, not all of them do, but it’s not all black and white
zedgeist@lemmy.world 2 months ago
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I’ve got spurs that jingle jangle jingle
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sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
“And they say, ‘whoah, ain’t you glad you’re single~!’…”
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Boone?
… oh. fuck. right.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Boone_killcam.
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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hell yeah. I’ve listened to the Mario Christmas medley every year since it debuted.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
sleigh ride is so fun
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 months ago
Then you got Ape Escape and it’s DRUMS AND BASS
Soundtrack for the curious.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Soichi Terada is cool.
Also it’s jungle rather than drum’n’bass.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 months ago
🚨🐒
CPMSP@midwest.social 2 months ago
And for a good variety of levels and backgrounds, I present Snails House.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Thanks Ocarina of Time
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Also Mario 64.
Basically its ‘thanks Koji Kondo’.
MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I dunno… According to this, Gerudo Valley should have a sitar and zurna flute, but instead the flamenco jam comes in hot with the Spanish guitar and trumpet.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Different kind of dessert.
Zitar and zurna flute for deserts with camels and sand dunes. Spanish guitar, trumpet, and I think drum rim? for deserts with cliffs and tumbleweeds.
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
There’s a ukulele in the OoT OST? O.o
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
OoT doesn’t have beach music. Mario games (by the same composer), however…