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Post by wyrdwad on Dec 13, 2008 13:39:20 GMT -5
The "games with Spanish guitar" topic, combined with my recent fawning over the newly-arranged version of Falcom's Zwei!! soundtrack, got me thinking... aside from Zwei!! and Zwei 2, I can't think of any other games I've ever played, in ANY genre, which feature bagpipes in their soundtracks. And bagpipes make for some awesomely epic music!
Anyone else know of any?
-Tom
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Post by Unsavory Maggot on Dec 13, 2008 15:20:48 GMT -5
Does Lemmings 2: The Tribes count? I'm thinking of the Highlands set, for some reason.
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Post by wyrdwad on Dec 13, 2008 15:33:25 GMT -5
Hey, it's a game I didn't know had bagpipe music in it, so sure, it counts. (: And there is one other game I forgot about that uses bagpipes in its soundtrack, and that's Okage: Shadow King. So that brings our total game count up to four now. Let's keep going! Maybe we can make a list as big as the one for Spanish guitar songs in games! Though somehow, I doubt it. -Tom
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Post by Weasel on Dec 13, 2008 17:52:51 GMT -5
I know of at least one Square game that has bagpipes in it, but I can't remember if it's Chrono Cross, FF Tactics, or something else...
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Post by justjustin on Dec 13, 2008 20:19:13 GMT -5
It's totally Chrono Cross, and it's totally amazing. I think the bagpipe music plays in a very rustic port town, the song is very befitting. Also, I think Majora's Mask has a little bit of bagpipe in it... just barely, though.
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Post by kimimi on Dec 13, 2008 22:22:35 GMT -5
The FF Crystal Chronicles track "Sad Monster" is bagpipe heavy
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Post by susanismyalias on Dec 13, 2008 22:52:21 GMT -5
I know FF5 has midi bagpipes, dunno if that counts...
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Post by morphballer on Dec 14, 2008 1:31:28 GMT -5
Soul Edge/Blade: Cervantes
Games composed by Yasunori Mitsuda (Xenogears, Xenosaga, Chrono Cross) tend to have bagpipes.
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Post by stefanl on Dec 14, 2008 6:07:18 GMT -5
I know FF5 has midi bagpipes, dunno if that counts... You probably don't understand what midi is... but if it plays an sample of an bagpipe then it is bagpipe and not midi
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Post by aggroger on Dec 14, 2008 15:03:23 GMT -5
One of the events in Epyx's World Games is set in Scotland and the BGM features bagpipes.
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Post by shelverton on Dec 14, 2008 19:42:49 GMT -5
Try the Suikoden series, 1, 2 and 5 in particular... I swear there are bagpipes in there somewhere...
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Post by PooshhMao on Dec 16, 2008 2:51:10 GMT -5
susanismyalias >> actually, you seem to fail to understand MIDI, which is a protocol which allows compatible music equipment to work together. The confusion probably stems from early PC audio cards, which have a set of chip-generated instruments on-board, which were commonly used to generate in-game music; this was usually referred to as MIDI. By itself, MIDI has no specific 'sound' - you're probably referring to the synthetic on-chip instrument set of the Yamaha OPL3, which was present on the SoundBlaster cards (and also used by Capcom's CPS1 board) Some HG101 reviews make the same technical mistake. Sorry about that to answer the question, the soundtrack of the first level of Jumping Flash features some creative bagpipe use.
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Post by wyrdwad on Dec 16, 2008 8:24:09 GMT -5
Oh, hey, you're right! I forgot all about that... man, Jumping Flash is an awesome game. (:
-Tom
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Post by King Frost on Dec 16, 2008 16:32:03 GMT -5
susanismyalias >> actually, you seem to fail to understand MIDI, which is a protocol which allows compatible music equipment to work together. The confusion probably stems from early PC audio cards, which have a set of chip-generated instruments on-board, which were commonly used to generate in-game music; this was usually referred to as MIDI. By itself, MIDI has no specific 'sound' - you're probably referring to the synthetic on-chip instrument set of the Yamaha OPL3, which was present on the SoundBlaster cards (and also used by Capcom's CPS1 board) Glad to see someone knows about this, I swear, 99% of the time I hear MIDI it's not that at all. MIDI is also associated to crappy music but it's not the case at all. If you play a MIDI (.mid file) on your PC and it sounds like crap (like a console stuck between the 8-bit and 16-bit generation), you probably don't have a good SoundFont installed or none at all. See: www.soundblaster.com/soundfont/tutorials/welcome.asp?articleid=54141&page=1for more details.
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Post by Sinople on Dec 18, 2008 21:58:22 GMT -5
Not in-game but I'm sure there are multiple tracks with bagpipes in the arrange album of FFIV, Celtic Moon.
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