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This could be said of any game people play that has fans and a soundtrack, you know?
No, really, I can recognize old GB games from music tracks I haven't heard in over a decade. That said, I'm a musician.
Any game people play that has fans and a good soundtrack.
And I'm not talking about something like a unique opening theme or some shit like that. I'm talking about music during mundane events. It's no duh people will remember the former. But can you honestly tell me you remember the overworld or battle themes from FF7, 8 or 9? I've played FF7 multiple times, and I can't recall a single tune from it. It's music just wasn't that good.
Or spectacularly bad soundtrack or mediocre but HOLYCRAPTHISISREALLYANNOYINGHEARINGTHISSONGSOMANYTIMES soundtrack.
...really?
I love FFVII's soundtrack.
From the intensity of the bombing mission to the forbidding austerity of the mako reactors to the tender personality of Tifa to the feeling of sneaking around the slums and forbidden areas of the city to the portly and horny and bumbling local mob boss to confidence in the golden shiny wire of hope to the battle against an otherworldly demon...
...on the other hand, I'm not much impressed by themes like "Ahead On Our Way" or the Turks' theme or the motorcycle minigame theme or the Gold Saucer theme or One-Winged Angel, which all seem to be fan-favorites.
On the other hand, I can remember a large portion of the music from Persona 4, because I hate Persona 4's soundtrack, because vocal music should never be used for battle or area BGM in a video game ever.
Though I guess it's not necessarily a bad soundtrack, if listened to without having played the game.
Also, the FF4 overworld theme is also its main theme, it's remixed to hell and
back throughout the game, which are used in many important events.
I even remember some of the Sailor Moon RPG: Another Story soundtrack, heck. And the most notable theme from that is the very silly-sounding load menu theme.
Not like games today, which sometimes don't even have a soundtrack at all. Admittedly, because it would probably drown out all the voice-overs and environmental sounds that you absolutely have to hear nowadays...
Hey, you guys have made me a born-again old-school gamer! Huzzah! I'm going to go write a thousand articles on why nobody should buy a next-gen console and just stick with their PS2s and SNESes!
You mean NESes?
You mean MSXes?
You mean Colecovisions?
Uh.....most games have OSTs, still.
Such as Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.....which also happens to have voice-overs and enviromental sounds, like you mentioned. And the OST is fucking awesome, too.
The system itself doesn't, but having one gives you convenient access to tons of classic arcade games and a few not-so-classic ones.
Also keep in mind that, for the most part having a PS2 makes having a PS1 obsolete.
... Okay, I draw the line at "Colecovision." I condone being strictly old-school, but not that old-school.
Seriously, did consoles back then even have games that weren't clones of Pong, Pac-Man and Galaga?
However, I'll designate it this way:
For a system to be old-school, it must be:
* not currently in production or having games published for it by major publishers
* fully emulatable (or theoretically fully emulatable) by an average computer. That means all graphical effects, at full speed. This presumes you have an appropriate controller or other input device.
PS2 fails the second test so is not old-school.
I wanted a PS3 for awhile, but then I thought "If Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker is THIS bad, then is MGS4 really worth the investment?" Short answer: No.
There is this feeling it conveys to me, when I first obtained FF7 as a hand-me-down during Christmas for my new Playstation. It was back when I had no friends because everyone hated me for being a weirdo. I played this game but spent most of my time listening to this song and wandering around Sector 8, Sector 7 and the Train Graveyard. I wished I could go past the garbage mound to the West of the Seventh Heaven, and see more of Sector 7. I wanted to watch Loveless too. This song reminded me of things that happened in real life, back when I used to wander around the garbage filled wastes that was my grandma's apartment complex. It had hallways, locked doors, unlocked doors and pipes everywhere. There were many apartments that nobody ever locked, and I walked in and wandered around, sometimes falling asleep on the couch or something and waking up, ready to leave again. I sometimes digged through garbage to find paper so I could draw on it, and it was always night because I never left the house during the day, to avoid school security from finding out my mother didn't want to send me to school anymore and avoid a bench warrant. I remember going in the basements of the apartments, giant stairways and hallways that lead to a strange amount of rooms that I never really understood. Why would an apartment complex have so many rooms underneath it? What's the point of all of them? How come so many people who lived there had abandoned their houses, left food everywhere?
Either way, when my mom was asleep I would listen to this song, loading up my broken memory card and pen-rigged PS1 and playing around on Train Graveyard. I was there for 40 hours before I moved on. Ended up being level 37 by the time I got to Reno.
...I don't have any emotional stories though.