Poll of the Day > Do you like VGM remixes/covers?

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I don't know if I like them. Some are okay, but I've never really heard one where I was like "Wow, this is better than the original!" Even if it's just like a crappy 8-bit song, I think that's part of the appeal, and that's lost when they make it all hi-fi with real instruments or good quality midi.


And don't get me started on metal covers, ugh. Does every goddamn piece of video game music need a metal cover? Because it sure seems like they exist for everything, even if the original style is something completely different. It usually isn't even an interesting arrangement, it's just somebody putting excessive drums in the background and playing the exact original melody on a distorted guitar

Lindsey Stirling's done some good violin covers of vg music. I'm sure there's other good ones out there somewhere, but generally no, i'd rather listen to the original version 99.9% of the time.

I don't think I've ever heard a remix I like.
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I like some of the SSB remixes, but those kind of take on a life of their own since you can associate them with playing Smash rather than their original game, and they're professional

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I usually like a good cover more than the original.
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This one is kind of cool - I've always wondered what this song would sound like in OoT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvX6eq1cdYc

It actually sounds really similar to the original though, which might be why I don't hate it. If I didn't hear any SNES music for a few years and you gave me this video unlabeled, I might be fooled into thinking it was the original version

Yeah, but it depends on the song though. Some music sounds best unremixed. Never really liked metal covers either now that I think about it; I'm more of an electronic fan.
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