heywood on 8/8/2023 at 10:53
Bomba Estéreo are big in Latin America. Fuego was a hit for a while in the English-speaking world circa 2010. I was in Sydney and hearing it. And I think it made it into other games before Far Cry.
demagogue on 8/8/2023 at 14:10
Ah, this thread again... Stephen Paul Taylor of "Everybody Knows Shit's Fucked" fame has just dropped what I think may be his best tune yet. I always feel like supporting him because I dig synthpop and he's so damn persistent. Everybody loves a fighter.
[video=youtube;H0Xl52ZE2Io]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0Xl52ZE2Io[/video]
Yakoob on 9/8/2023 at 01:06
Quote Posted by henke
Far Cry 6 introduced me to this absolute banger.
[video=youtube;UHdorv8zMK4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHdorv8zMK4[/video]
Apparently it was somewhat of a hit in the Americas ~2009, but I dunno if it ever made its way over here. I hadn't heard it. I'd be curious to know if anyone here from that side of the world has heard it?
oh wild, this was filmed at KEXP which is a local radio station and cafe space that I go to a lot and, in fact, was at earlier today lol
and yes, that song slaps
Jason Moyer on 9/8/2023 at 03:08
A lot of this soundtrack is boring unobtrusive generic modern videogame soundtrack nonsense but this track gets me in the mood for shooting mobs of evil shit in the wilderness every time it starts playing.
[video=youtube;bUPC28DddW4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUPC28DddW4[/video]
Sulphur on 9/8/2023 at 04:02
Quote Posted by demagogue
Ah, this thread again... Stephen Paul Taylor of "Everybody Knows Shit's Fucked" fame has just dropped what I think may be his best tune yet. I always feel like supporting him because I dig synthpop and he's so damn persistent. Everybody loves a fighter.
[video=youtube;H0Xl52ZE2Io]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0Xl52ZE2Io[/video]
I've had the phrase 'Fuck you, manatee' in my head for the past few weeks now, and couldn't remember where it was from. Now I do, so thank you for jogging my memory! Also, that is in fact a neat track, even if it isn't from a video game.
@JM: That
is a very good track. Loving those drums with the guitar licks. I get a bit of Uelmen's Diablo score from it, in that it's as dark and sombre in tone.
Jason Moyer on 9/8/2023 at 04:27
Dark ambient country is something I've been trying to make lately and that track is about as close to what I hear in my head as it gets. Maybe a bit more triphoppy, but I love those drums.
demagogue on 9/8/2023 at 05:47
Quote Posted by Sulphur
Also, that is in fact a neat track, even if it isn't from a video game.
Ohhhh, I got my wires crossed and thought this was the "what are you listening to" thread in CommChat. You can tell because I even posted in that thread wondering what happend to this post! Welp, that's a big oops. :erm:
Briareos H on 9/8/2023 at 08:06
Quote Posted by Jason Moyer
A lot of this soundtrack is boring unobtrusive generic modern videogame soundtrack nonsense but this track gets me in the mood for shooting mobs of evil shit in the wilderness every time it starts playing.
I think you're selling the soundtrack a bit short, I agree it's often unobtrusive and the bangers are scarce but in my opinion it has a distinctive, cohesive post-rocky atmostphere that made a lasting impression on me. No track is shoddily put together. One of my personal favourites is the slow and melancholic build in (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSpDusr6xTQ) this tune that plays during the city portions of Ashes of Malmouth.
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I've been listening to Yuzo Koshiro's soundtrack for The Scheme often during the last few months. Very well put together chiptunes for the PC88 with nice eurobeat influences, done with all the attention that a classic soundtrack deserves. Hard to pick one track, for now I'll go with that one:
[video=youtube;2sbM8cZZLAQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sbM8cZZLAQ[/video]
Aja on 9/8/2023 at 18:53
Tears of the Kingdom has an amazing soundtrack, and my favourite piece of music so far is the Fire Temple suite.
[video=youtube_share;j1MYUCpo4zo]https://youtu.be/j1MYUCpo4zo[/video]
Apologies for the long video, but it needs to be long to account for all the variation. It opens moody and atmospheric when you enter the cave. As you activate the five locks in turn, more and more instrumentation is added until the song has become a full-blown 60s-esque orchestral jazz suite, with cues from each successive version as well as callbacks to Ocarina of Time and Breath of the Wild. The temple itself was great, with lots of nonlinear problem-solving, but the music really leant it a sense of grandeur that I found impossible to ignore.