Namakubi
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Post by Namakubi on Apr 10, 2010 19:44:31 GMT -5
I always find it interesting when some terrible games can independently have great music. Two examples that come to mind are:
The Silver Surfer
Tim Follin did some absolutely incredible NES music for a game that clearly doesn't deserve his greatness.
Castlevania Judgement:
Some of the best remixes of classic Castlevania tunes ever arranged saddled to one of the most ill-conceived games in the series' history.
What other examples of bad game / great music can you guys think of?
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Post by kitten on Apr 10, 2010 22:53:34 GMT -5
To be totally honest I didn't think that Silver Surfer was that bad a game.
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Post by wyrdwad on Apr 11, 2010 0:29:15 GMT -5
PopoloCrois: Hajimari no Bouken was the first PopoloCrois game on the PS2, and is easily the WORST game in the series. It's really not worth playing at all - it's kind of an affront to long-time Popolo fans, and marks a serious downturn in the quality of the PopoloCrois games (everything before it was anywhere from good to AMAZING, and everything after it is anywhere from meh to ugh). Despite this, however, I'd say Hajimari no Bouken has the absolute BEST SOUNDTRACK in the entire series, by leaps and bounds. In a series not really well-known for its music, HnB's stands as among the best of its genre, and its soundtrack is one of my favorite game OSTs of all time. I've taken the liberty of uploading quite a few tracks from it to YouTube: www.youtube.com/results?search_query=popolocrois+hajimari+no+bouken+music&aq=fAnd if you don't want to dig through them randomly... well, just listen to this overworld theme, and try to tell me it isn't freaking amazing! Or this dungeon theme (the first in the game!): Or this boss battle theme: Such a shame that one of the PS2's least appealing RPGs - practically a series-destroying title - was paired with such amazing music... -Tom
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Post by Weasel on Apr 11, 2010 3:57:24 GMT -5
I don't have recordings handy at all, but the Genesis game Heavy Nova was pretty awesome in terms of soundtrack. It's a shame, then, that the game played like an amateurish SF2 knockoff with bolted-on platformer stages and had controls that were even more stiff than the political views of Mr. Glenn Beck.
I was also at some point addicted to the soundtrack from the FPS game Codename Eagle. The game itself was a glitchy mess that was only fun in multiplayer (but then, even a terrible game can be fun in multiplayer!), but the (synthesized) orchestral music was pretty good and helped with the wintery feel of the game's early levels.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2010 20:45:56 GMT -5
Unlimited Saga (PS2)
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Post by wyrdwad on Apr 11, 2010 21:12:56 GMT -5
Ah, good call. Man, Unlimited SaGa was such a terrible game, but what an amazing soundtrack!
-Tom
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Post by ReyVGM on Apr 12, 2010 6:16:16 GMT -5
Final Fantasy Mystic Quest and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles are both not so good games but with AMAZING soundtracks.
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Post by muteKi on Apr 12, 2010 11:37:50 GMT -5
I won't say the game was *bad* so much as rather lackluster, but I love the music in it much, much more than the underlying gameplay.
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Post by wyrdwad on Apr 12, 2010 13:21:09 GMT -5
Final Fantasy Mystic Quest and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles are both not so good games but with AMAZING soundtracks. Mystic Quest wasn't a bad game, though - I think people just expected too much from it. I thought it was a fun little romp, myself, and quite enjoyed playing it. And it did have one hell of a fantastic soundtrack. (: -Tom
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Post by Snarboo on Apr 12, 2010 15:13:42 GMT -5
Atomic Runner wasn't terrible, but it was thoroughly mediocre and outright sadistic to the player. The soundtrack is pretty catchy though, as are most Data East games.
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Post by muteKi on Apr 15, 2010 1:11:13 GMT -5
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Post by cj iwakura on Apr 20, 2010 1:42:20 GMT -5
Magna Carta on the PS2, definitely.
Beautiful music, terrible game.
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Post by ommadawnyawn on Apr 22, 2010 21:38:30 GMT -5
Lots of those on the Genesis and GB/GBC. Let's see..
For the genny, pretty much anything with Hitoshi Sakimoto in it. Master of Monsters, Midnight Resistance, Verytex and Devilish are the most fitting for this thread I guess.
Also Cosmic Carnage for the 32X, Virtua Fighter 32X (Ok, just a bad port), and Knuckles Chaotix. Totally awesome synthesis work.
For GB, Monster Max is the only one I could think of atm. A lot of euro games have impressive music though, you can almost just pick one at random and find something great.
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Post by Warchief Onyx on May 2, 2010 18:57:34 GMT -5
Chaos Legion. It was the very definition of mediocre PS2 action game (with some strategy elements haphazardly added in for some reason). But it had a REALLY good soundtrack. Shame you didn't get to hear most of it because the game would loop the same 10 second part of a stage's song whenever you had your legions out. Which was for a majority of the game.
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Post by forumer on May 5, 2010 18:34:12 GMT -5
Unlimited Saga (PS2) youtube linksSee also: SaGa Frontier 2. In fact, I think you could insert most of the games Hamauzu has worked on, and this post would still apply.
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