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Final Fantasy music legend Nobuo Uematsu thinks modern ‘movie-like’ game music is uninteresting | VGC (www.videogameschronicle.com)
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Legendary video game music composer Nobuo Uematsu says he doesn’t think some modern video game soundtracks are as interesting as those in older games.

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[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Yeah hard disagree with Nobuo on this one. I remember firing up Halo CE for the first time and being blown away by what I was hearing throughout the game, and to this day I can see a screenshot of that game and my brain immediately starts rocking out to that level's sound track.

It can be utilized poorly for sure, but a videogame with a cinematic sound track done right goes straight to my favorites.

[–] Bezier@suppo.fi 4 points 8 months ago

In my experience lots of games go for this "generic movie-like" style, which sounds high production value, but where the composition is just unmemorable filler that says nothing.

Halo was great in this regard, so I don't think that's what he's going for here. Hell, I'm instantly getting Halo ost playing in my head while writing this.

[–] SuperSynthia@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Halo’s opening theme on the OG Xbox is so iconic I guarantee you if you did the chants in public several random dudes (and even a few women) will join you. Iconic