wibberley wrote:Id like to nuke to hell every sports stadium,everyone who likes sports,including board games,especially chess and all electronic games.Id like to nuke to hell also anyone who listens to rock music as it sucks.
I grew up with video games. Though I didn't know any other people who actually played them til well into my teens. When I started learning computer science I started scratching the surface of what kind of dedicated work is actually put into them. I guess the role-playing aspect is what drew me into games than any actually competitive aspect in them. I play by myself because I enjoy experience figuring out how to do things by myself. But mostly the music it's what brings me back to old games I've played. You can laugh at the music, in the early years the music was indeed laughable. But later on things got better. They're some amazing video game composers out there who were classical trained and use they're skills to create some wonderful pieces. Music in the games are always underestimated and underrated. Sometimes they're the only redeemable quality in a game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn4fzRK8 ... re=related
On the Beach of Dreams ~Another World~ by Yasunori Mitsuda. (He doesn't play any of the games he composes for, and his music
never incorporates rock, and he's classical trained. He has an interest in foreign music as well which he DOES use, and well excuted.) This song is an example of a fine piece, though I agree now most of the music has gotten lazy and people have for the most part given up trying to be creative(in games and music). There's nothing pop or rock about it too. But to say that ALL of the music from games is crap is just plain false.
20th century music isn't that old. That's just a hundred years, plenty of good music even before then. I've grown an interest in traditional music from other countries. Traditional music like village folk music, old enough that that they make "classical" music look young. Classical music was the rock music of its day in sheer popularity. So they're were people like you and I like 1981 that disliked any of it also and favored more traditional music. Learning and listening to new instruments(cuz there a plenty of them out there and no one has heard them all) is always a joy.
You should go to the "what song are you listening to?" thread in the off-topic subsection and share songs from the past that you enjoy with the rest of us.
All in all I'm a bigger fan of the music then the actual games even though good songs are hard to come by. And yes, I dislike modern pop music too.
"We believe in Vader, the Darth almighty, destroyer of Alderaan and the Sith. We believe in Luke, his only son, our Jedi. He was concieved by the power of the Force, and born of the senator Padme. Suffered under Darth Sidius, electrocuted, survived and partied with Ewoks. He descended to the Death Star, on the third hour he flew out in an Imperial ship and landed on Endor. He is seated on the right hand of Obi-Wan's ghost. He will come again to train Leia to be a Jedi. We believe? in Yoda.........
I'm fat and sassy! I love to sing & dance & stomp my feet & really rock your world!
