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Last Topic: 11:00:00pm, 12/30/2011
Last Post: 7:38:06pm, 03/06/2023
Epyo posted...
Soundtracks with real instruments are worse. Especially ones with orchestras. Orchestras make everything sound blurry, vague, and weak.
Take for example, any Smash Bros Ultimate song that is a fancier real-instruments remake of a song from another game. The original game's song is better, every single time.
Another example, the original FF7 soundtrack, versus the FF7 remake. For any song that's in both games, the original PSX MIDI song is better, every single time. The fancier version is just messier and more complex for no benefit.
As a result, all soundtracks before ~2007 are better than pretty much all soundtracks after.
Think there's definitely some evidence of constraints driving creativity in VG soundtracks. But also probably influenced by the freedom composers had in older games versus more modern (big) games that are very tightly edited.
As for a hot take, how about: the lack of regular proper boss fights in most big games over the past couple of gens years has led to less stand out banger songs (in big games).
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