Public Address | Cafe | Speaker: Friday Music Guest: @MysteryPirate on the music of games

Steve Barnes

Sun, 23 Sep 2012 11:23:34 +1200

What’s their game, then?;- )

Wasted them with the BFG 2000 in DOOM.
HAR Har

Ian Dalziel

Sun, 23 Sep 2012 09:11:38 +1200

As was this group in the Opotiki District in the late 1920s
What's their game, then?
;- )

Geoff Lealand

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 20:25:13 +1200

As was this group in the Opotiki District in the late 1920s--but I reckon they probably had more talent.

Russell Brown

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:50:04 +1200

Am I missing something?

Yes. But you are not alone.

They are very popular indeed. And I do not like them at all.

Geoff Lealand

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:05:41 +1200

On music; by chance I heard a couple of songs performed by 660 on Nat Radio this afternoon. I am bewildered as to why they are so popular because they sounded so bloody humdrum and derivative. Am I missing something?

tim oliver

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 16:46:29 +1200

I love Build That Wall – one thing that makes it lovely is that you encounter it in game in a very quiet, peaceful context, when you meet a girl singing it to herself in a glade. You'll probably whistle it to yourself for a while, and associate it with…

Jeremy Andrew

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 16:17:01 +1200

The webcomic 3-Chord Dorks has an enduring love of game soundtracks and the bands that cover them.
Apparently there are webcomics dedicated to the websites dedicated to the bands that are dedicated to performing covers of game music.

Leo Rae-Brown

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 16:00:43 +1200

Speaking of which, both Shatter and the game's soundtrack are available in the new humble bundle, not to mention Torchlight and its soundtrack by Matt Uelmen.

Bart Janssen

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:49:58 +1200

back in 2011

Had to laugh, said with such a deep sense of that was sooooo long ago.

Bart Janssen

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:47:26 +1200

The Bastion tracks make me think of FireFly/Serenity

noizyboy

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:39:03 +1200

'Tactical cello' says the first comment on YouTube. Nice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVAWi6K0JzY

noizyboy

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:37:51 +1200

Amon's Tobin soundtrack for Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory has always been a fave (never actually played the game! Heard the soundtrack at work one day and loved it as a standalone product)...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adh99_Q735w

Jarno van der Linden

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:39:03 +1200

Coincidentally, last night Module played the soundtrack of Shatter by Sidhe live in Wellington.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-h2flYsHk8&list=UUkuhIhz4kmlLyZI7RWW0G2Q
Starts at about 56:30

Leo Rae-Brown

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:16:54 +1200

Don't be hatin', now. The Xenoblade Chronicles soundtrack goes surprisingly well with Guild Wars 2.

Edit: Heck, may as well give you guys a sample before I go blow stuff up in Borderlands 2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xweRl4LZlmo

Kyle Matthews

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:30:45 +1200

It fascinates me how often Leo will play one game to the soundtrack of another.

OK now that's weirding me out.

Gabor Toth

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:03:55 +1200

The last time I played video games, these were at the top of my list (in all their 8-bit glory)

Vanguard was pretty neat- especially with a base-heavy arcade game cabinet (and it had a voice synthesizer which was way-cool...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24jDurkHtM0

Rally X was good for a while but could…

Dave Patrick

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 12:45:57 +1200

An old game called Ascendancy (released in 1995) which revolved around building spaceships, colonising planets and defeating other races, had the most beautiful soundtrack I'd heard in a game up until then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMU5rhEZpkA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx-YGTqgWWk

The Heroes of Might and Magic games also have beautiful soundtracks – HOMM2's (released in 1996)…

Russell Brown

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 12:20:04 +1200

It fascinates me how often Leo will play one game to the soundtrack of another.

Oh, and he’ll be along presently. Something new came out overnight and he’s busy defeating it.

Edit: It's Torchlight 2

Peter Darlington

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 12:03:23 +1200

This is very cool and I'll be passing the link onto my 14 year old who's big into his gaming music. Mainly Final Fantasy type material as per Su Yin Khoo's post above.

Jose Barbosa

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 11:29:53 +1200

Hell March is pretty much pure teenage testosterone and awesome for it. I dig Jessica Curry's score for Dear Esther. It's the perfect match of game (I say game, but it's more of a lyrical poem thingy) and music.

http://dear-esther.com/?page_id=670

Su Yin Khoo

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 11:11:54 +1200

If you liked Bastion, you might want to explore the Final Fantasy and Chrono Trigger soundtrack. Basically anything by Nobuo Uematsu is pretty much spot on.

David Cormack

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 11:08:41 +1200

I am so pleased you included Hell March. When I read the title of the post I was already heading to YouTube to get the link to Hell March. And then you posted it! Ah happy times being reminded of my teenage nerdish years.

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Fri, 21 Sep 2012 11:08:41 +1200

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