How do you go from arguably the comfiest soundtrack of all time to arguably the most obnoxious soundtrack of all time?
ONE
TWO
>>322467532
I can't hear you!
*woo'ing intensifies*
THREE
ONE BY ONE
I sorta agree OP, the vocals get grating at parts but I think they're a net positive for the soundtrack and the mood of the game.
I really don't understand why people hype up the exploration in this game. The scenery is very nice but there are no towns, no grand adventure to find. In the first game every area had its own hub with its people and their problems (they were very simple and the quests were lame, but so are the ones in X in terms of objectives). I guess it's more suited for people who don't need an incentive to explore.
>arguably
Dumb faggot OP is too beta to stand his ground on an anonymous imageboard.
>>322468728
XCX is in almost every way inferior to XC. XC had a WAY better story, better characters, an INFINITELY better soundtrack (snowy mt valak at night, nopon village both day and night, mechanical rhythm) and a much better combat system with a more intuitive AI.
All XCX has over it is skells, and they aren't worth losing all of that, not by a longshot. Skells aren't even that big of a deal, they don't act that much differently from a normal player, just bigger and with more damage...whew boy, totally worth having a shit game for that.
>>322467532
Because they're different games with different tones and Sawano managed to nail the tone of X. Simple.
>>322468728
>The scenery is very nice but there are no towns, no grand adventure to find
It's an unexplored planet homie
>>322469108
>(snowy mt valak at night, nopon village both day and night, mechanical rhythm
Are you implying that Chronicles doesn't have it's own shit tracks? Half the soundtrack is filler
>>322469210
didn't know the tone of XCX was nigger
Learn something new everyday I suppose
You remove any sound options from the settings menu.
>>322469309
There's rapping in one track.
>>322469284
I'm implying that XCX doesn't have good songs, period. The ones that could have been good are marred by horrendous rap and a pack of niggers going HUH HUH YEAH over and over again
>>322469284
a WHOLE DIFFERENT PLAAANNEEET
>>322469361
They could have been talking about NLA night, Black Tar (I think, the one with "different plaaaanet"), or the "I need a bigger gun" skell combat theme
>>322469410
>No good songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I3KJp58Rfc&list=PLvNp0Boas722IZkbFk00DsW4eD92iQGSe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsUw4Hzex0M&index=2&list=PLvNp0Boas722IZkbFk00DsW4eD92iQGSe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC-1RFRsQ8k&index=7&list=PLvNp0Boas722IZkbFk00DsW4eD92iQGSe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIQTui9q1W4&list=PLvNp0Boas722IZkbFk00DsW4eD92iQGSe&index=9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VUOadmYwMk&list=PLvNp0Boas722IZkbFk00DsW4eD92iQGSe&index=13
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3ch02hpnUM&index=17&list=PLvNp0Boas722IZkbFk00DsW4eD92iQGSe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmdnpbmM4pc&index=19&list=PLvNp0Boas722IZkbFk00DsW4eD92iQGSe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNB0TtqX7lM&list=PLvNp0Boas722IZkbFk00DsW4eD92iQGSe&index=22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzNfRytZNGo&list=PLvNp0Boas722IZkbFk00DsW4eD92iQGSe&index=23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaPZdyIYOSk&index=27&list=PLvNp0Boas722IZkbFk00DsW4eD92iQGSe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7bYnHkhZYs&list=PLvNp0Boas722IZkbFk00DsW4eD92iQGSe&index=31
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgD2AxKPyN0&list=PLvNp0Boas722IZkbFk00DsW4eD92iQGSe&index=34
Feel free to continue down that playlist
>>322469410
Uncontrollable, Don't Worry, and The way are nice.
>>322469410
would have loved to have been at the recording studio when they were making the NLA night theme.
"alright, uh, just stand around the microphone and sound black"
>>322469519
>NLA Night
No rapping
>Black Matter
8 bar rap
>Black Tar
No rap
Do you know what rapping is
>>322469580
>all blocked
I came into this thread for music and I leave disappointed.
>>322469410
>I've only watched a ten minute video of a guy running around NLA and a single battle
Well done champ.
>>322469658
He never said anything about rapping
All the music sans the NLA themes are decent.
Noctilum Day and Sylvalum Night are the best, though.
>>322469679
American? I'm so sorry m8
>>322469658
What about the
>hello is this thing on?
>Am i all alone?
>Is anyone there?
>I need a bigger gun?
Why is this not rapping? Genuinely interested
>>322469658
And you don't know how to read:
I said they could have been talking about those songs, nowhere in the post you responded to did they mention rap. Idiot
>>322469410
God fucking dammit, EVERY region theme, day and night, is top-notch. You couldn't have made it clearer that you didn't play the game.
I used to like Sawano but then realised all his shit sounds the same.
>>322469804
>Why is this not rapping? Genuinely interested
That's singing, not rapping. Look up the difference.
>>322469861
Okay?
>>322467532
Video game music is absolutely awful if it has vocals. Always so fucking annoying listening to some nigger or loli in the background when youre trying to enjoy the game. Imagine if everytime you are taking a shit in peace, some nigger would be standing next to you rapping and dancing with his boombox.
This game just proves how shit taste /v/ has.
The battle music is literally a shitty Evanescence song and you fags just lap it up, not to mention the WOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH town music.
The rest of the music isn't awful, but it certainly isn't memorable or even very good.
>>322469901
Yeah I agree all his shit sounds the same
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDbh3lLi1ZY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT0Uhkv4Jg0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB9Fmi1l5F4
All these tracks are basically interchangeable
>>322470003
YEAAAAH MY MY MY MY MY MY MYMYMYMYMY TADAYOOOOOOOO
>>322469976
Yeah I fucking hate SMT and Persona doing this, it's absolutely disgusting.
>>322470047
Not that guy, but the songs with the female singer from Attack on Titan and other anime do sound pretty similar.
>>322469969
>Singing is the creation of musical sound through the use of voice, tone, and rhythm while rapping is the rhyming and delivery of words to a beat.
Sounds like it was rapping to me
>>322470227
Yeah you should get your ears checked then. It's got a melody to it.
>>322470125
BABYBABYBABYBABY
>>322470405
I guess it's just subjective
>>322470456
It's really not. Rapping is non-melodic, singing is melodic.
>>322469976
Snake Eater is 10/10, and "While I think" and "Engage the Enemy" from the original XBC were great
>>322470528
It just didn't sound melodic to me, it was pretty monotonic, I'm not arguing with you anymore.
>>322470125
Yeah, holy hell. Souls games are the only ones where it doesn't matter so much since it is in bosses only and even then it is choir singing some gibberish you don't understand. Plus youre already focused on the boss to be interested about the music.
>>322470646
You're tone death if you can't hear the melody then. I'm through trying to explain this anyway.
>>322470576
I have to agree on Snake Eater, it fits the cinematic style of the game and boss fight.
>>322469580
>Theme X
This is criminally underused in the game. That intro where you're looking over NLA, the last bastion of human civilisation that is on the brink of survival, is one of the most fitting pieces of music I've ever seen in a video game
>>322467532
What's the song that plays in Pharsis lair and the Divine Roost?
>>322469976
And yet it works when the Sonic series does it somehow
>>322470806
Fucking creepy is what it is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOWqE-VATZg
>>322470909
Yeah that's it the only song from the OST I like
Guess it's because it reminds me of Dazil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-u3RUAeYWM
UGH
YEAH
>>322467532
DON'T LOSE YOUR WAY
>>322470047
I meant it in a general sense senpai. Same instrumentations, melodies, and especially song structure. His soundtracks for various anime sound quite samey.
>>322470881
Name a single good Sonic game that has vocals in the music? I sure can't.
>>322471365
Man that's every composer ever.
You look me in thepost numberand tell me that Yoko Shimunora, Nobuo Uematsu, and Koji Kondo, 3 of the most sought after and prolific composers of all time, aren't guilty of the exact same shit.
Hell I got tricked the other day when the FFXV battle theme as posted as a leaked version of the KH3 battle theme and I fell for it like an idiot because of how Kingdom Heartsy it feels
>>322471365
>instrumentations, melodies, and especially song structure
Also pls post examples, I don't watch Anime and every time I bring this up I never see examples or anything past the "hurr Sawano a hack" posts.
>>322471761
not him, but
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKB7dGYatQc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xoqly3cifCs&t=0m56s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyGFM5CGnoo
Best track in the game, or best track in the game?
>2:25 and onwards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VUOadmYwMk
>>322472512
Have a version that isn't blocked in Amerifatland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE0PpPREGkE
>>322472512
Not even close, that singer's german sounds horrible when she's not doing a chorus yelling part like in AoT.
>>322472591
>Gosto Walka
>Offensive Stance
>Gosto Walka
>Offensive Stance
>Gosto Walka
>Offensive Stance
>Gosto Walka
>Offensive Stance
>>322472784
>focusing on the lyrics over the music itself
Go listen to spoken word if you want to analyze lyrics.
>>322472784
Good thing I'm not a salty eurocuck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWZs5POCp0I
>implying this isn't the best track at the game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htKyD8SMVn0
I could sit in the man-on ship for fucking hours
>>322472890
I'm not analyzing them at all, I don't know much german, but I've heard enough it for those lyrics to feel off. Similar to engrish anime songs.
>>322473086
English is my first language and I don't mind the Engrish in the soundtrack at all, if anything the cheesiness makes it more memorable.
>>322473026
>1:46
>2:04
>>322469284
>half the soundtrack is filler
False. I can name every single song.
In fact, the sheer lack of filler is the primary reason why it's the best video game soundtrack of all time.
>>322473916
>False. I can name every single song.
That's just you being autistic really.
>>322467532
It's not even necessarily that the music is bad, the problem is that it's so loud and there are no audio settings at all despite there being settings and customizations for literally every tiny detail in the game. It strikes me as very bizarre that they completely skipped adding options for audio settings.
How do you go from this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umfc69VlAF4
to this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSyqAsc3wFw
>>322471761
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL_m-dVQqbQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRkBJY1mua0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpWjrfY7BXw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y1wCOxhn3A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc7EcuqVhPE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPKaERLphXE
There are probably better examples t b h. And while I don't think they're horrible he does stick to the same template a lot. Many of the slower/calmer tracks on his anime soundtracks also tend to be quite forgettable/inoffensive. But this is just my opinion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnaC0RgEPCw Though I do like this Unicorn track. I like its variations.
>>322470125
Heartbreak heartbreak
You tell me goodbye
>>322469580
It just sounds like the soundtrack to a bad anime. Not even close to Chronicles level.
>Xenoblade Chronicles
>God tier soundtrack by Yoko Shimomura
>Xenoblade Chronicles X
>Meme tier soundtrack by the Kek Le Kek composer
What went wrong?
XCX soundtrack is great besides the Japanese songs
Anyone know the name of the song when you fight the Final Menace?
I want to hear it but I have to go into overdrive to be any way affective in killing her.
X's Soundtrack is weird, different, yet oddly more cohesive than the original (probably due to having a single composer). Every area's music is memorable, which is more than I can say for Chronicles.
Sawano made a nice game Soundtrack. It's just that whoever chose the bgm for the cutscenes is fucking retarded.
>>322468728
1 is exploring civilizations outside your comfort zone, a world tour of sorts.
X is a frontier story, where you explore harsh wilderness and tame the land.
They're completely different kinds of exploration.
>>322476773
>Not even close to Chronicles level
Chronicles has one of the most unbalanced soundtracks I've ever seen. You can just tell all the composers weren't on that same page.
>>322469901
Less noticeable than Shimomura. He at least has like 8 basic songs that are relatively different instead of three songs that all use the exact same piano chord progression.
>>322480569
The team did good by what they had. Unfinished Battle would be completely unremarkable if it wasn't limited to a single scene.
>>322480067
Sometimes they fit, sometimes they don't.
Namely the ones where someone has a realization while Melancholia is playing in the background.
>>322481508
Unfinished Battle should have been the regular boss theme
What were they thinking with the metal shit in a fantasy game anyway? The battle themes for the most part sound off as fuck
>>322477830
But there are no songs in japanese.
>>322467532
dude big name composers LMAO
>people actually think shimomura had anything to do with the xc soundtrack
holy shit LOL
YEAHHHHHHH
BAda ba ba ba boo bip bap bapity boo..I like the rest of the OST
>>322469410
I haven't seen a more unformed opinion of the game than this.
>>322471489
>What the fuck is Sonic Rush and Rush Adventure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-_4FokoGyY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMBL43I3r4g
>>322471489
>Sonic Generations
>Sonic Colours
>Sonic Rush 1/2
>>322484218
>>322483975
But both of those games are shit. Old Sonic games were average at best too.
>>322468580
This. Most of the music is growing on me and a lot of it is just great. I still think the regular battle theme could do without the vocals though. As whos fucking idea was it to have loud as fuck vocals during a track that plays during important story cutscenes?
>>322484565
>My personal preference is the standard for good sonic games
Yeah, no, they were great games and you have shit taste.
>currently swimming around Eryth Sea autistically filling the map in
Beautiful.
>>322485613
>My personal preference is the standard for good sonic games
>Then proceeds to tell me his own personal preference
>>322477775
>not using Yasunori Mitsuda
>not using Yuki Kajiura
>not using Yoko Shimomura
JUST
>>322486772
Would you rather have me show you reviews?
Even though I can tell you wont give two shits about a review, it's quite obvious people actually liked the game.
>>322469647
>by my side
feels good to hear after a tense situation. Like the theme to Friends.
The problem isn't whole soundtrack is shit
It's just 3 or 4 of the tracks are shit and those happen to be some of the most common tracks you'll be listening to.
Fucking both NLA themes, the ground portion of black tar, the flight pack music, and the barracks all have such shitty tracks tied to them. Meanwhile you've got stuff like Noctilum which has great music but you're not exactly going to be fucking around there nearly as much so you'll probably hear ONE TWO THREE FOUR far more than you'll hear ONE BY ONE
>>322489465
Yeah the NLA theme is "what were they thinking"-tier
>>322487859
You do realize that a review is made by some mouth breathing idiot like you and me? In the end what matters is what you enjoy and I say that Sonic Rush is ass (big reason for this being shitty music that we are discussing in this thread). Also I have to give you 10 points and a parrot sticker for posting IGN review.
>>322489985
>I'll just ignore scores given by 1175 people
Keep that sticker, you obviously can't face the fact that the majority of people actually enjoyed the game, you're just the minority, but my point still stands with it being a great game and having great music.
>>322491340
>I'll just ignore that we are still talking about opinions
I do understand that people think it is a good game but I don't give a fuck what faggots think. Let Sanicbabbies enjoy their shit while I enjoy my shit.
>>322468728
>>322468728
>I really don't understand why people hype up the exploration in this game.
You must be retarded then.
>The scenery is very nice but there are no towns, no grand adventure to find.
Scenic Viewpoints, Frontier Nav sites, Field Actions, Tyrants, Caves
> I guess it's more suited for people who don't need an incentive to explore.
No, you just don't understand what exploration is about.
>>322469108
>XCX is in almost every way inferior to XC
That's absurd.
>XC had a WAY better story, better characters
That's where any unfavorable comparisons end. The only thin XC has over XCX is characters and story.
> an INFINITELY better soundtrack
Nostalgia baby plz
>a much better combat system
XCX is the same fucking system but with more depth you fucking moron. The only thing I miss is the Monado "break the future" system
>All XCX has over it is skells
And just about everything else including affinity missions, customization of the player character's appearance and playstyle, squad missions and other multiplayer functions, expanded exploration and more I'm sure I've simply forgotten to list
>>322477775
>God tier soundtrack by Yoko Shimomura
You're aware that the soundtrack was mostly ACE+ and Kiyota, right? Mitsuda and Shimonura did maybe 10% of the soundtrack between them, and not even the best tracks.
>>322489465
>Fucking both NLA themes, the ground portion of black tar, the flight pack music, and the barracks all have such shitty tracks tied to them
>NLA day
>Black Tar
>Don't Worry
>Barracks Theme
Well you just fuck right off
>PC almost never does anything without at least a flavor choice, even somewhat dark ones
>guy betrays you
>someone else points a gun at him
>PC gets inbetween like some 12 years old anime protagonist without you having any say in it whatsoever
fucking dropped
>>322493072
/v/ has astoundingly bad taste in music. XVX's whole OST is fucking great.I sit idle in NLA and groove to the bgms all the time.
>>322489624
>>322488730
I don't understand you
>>322493189
>50/50 chance of destroying all hope of getting to the lifehold core
>Your commanding officer is becoming emotional and not thinking straight
>Do what you've got to doPersonally I'd have resorted to torture, it's shown throughout the game that Mims feel pain
>>322493384
Your PC clearly gets in the way because "muh friend can see the light!!!!" "love triumphs!!!"
Agree on torture.
>>322492836
That's not where unfavorable comparisons end. X lacks gem crafting, town affinity, party members being unique. Both games in general are OCD simulators with as much random collectable / sidequest stuff put into them, difference is that in XC you at least had a relatively gripping story with it.
>>322493734
>X lacks gem crafting
While adding Arms Manufacturers and their whole system. Gem Crafting wasn't very fun or enjoyable before. How could you miss it?
> town affinity
Doesn't make sense in the setting.
>party members being unique
Now I can pick and choose from a wide variety. It's different, not worse.
>difference is that in XC you at least had a relatively gripping story with it.
Again, the only point I'm willing to concede is the strength of the plot and quality of the characters. Everything else is equal or superior.
>>322468904
>arguably
>objectively
Theres a reason /v/ stands for virgins.
Bunch of betas afraid to stand behind something
OST is fucking incredible, you can just fuck off
>>322494354
I can't see you, I can't hear youONE TWO THREE FOUR
>>322494016
I miss it because it made me feel like party affinity matters. And not just Main character - NPC affinity, all of the party members had their own affinities with other members. Arms manufacturers system is just a Miranium dump unless I'm missing something. Town affinity could've been implemented. They could've made the world change once you progress into the story, with humans making new small bases in other parts of Mira. Rebuilding Colony 6 was pretty cool even if the quests weren't.
>>322492892
Mitsuda made exactly one track.
The ending credits one.
>>322489465
>barracks theme
>bad
What
>>322494603
>Arms manufacturers system is just a Miranium dump unless I'm missing something
It can be a Miranium dump but the manufacturers develop as you use their shit as well.
Kinda like a TWEWY deal.
>They could've made the world change once you progress into the story, with humans making new small bases in other parts of Mira
I completely agree with you on that.
Can't say I'm disappointed with what we got though, but it would be nice to see this in a possible future installment.
Although if XCX does get a sequel, I doubt it'll be on Mira again.
That, or the game will be about leaving Mira.
>>322494603
>Arms manufacturers system is just a Miranium dump unless I'm missing something
It can be a Miranium dump but the manufacturers develop as you use their shit as well.
Kinda like a TWEWY deal.
>They could've made the world change once you progress into the story, with humans making new small bases in other parts of Mira
I completely agree with you on that.
Can't say I'm disappointed with what we got though, but it would be nice to see this in a possible future installment.
Although if XCX does get a sequel, I doubt it'll be on Mira again.
That, or the game will be about leaving Mira.
>>322495632
>, I doubt it'll be on Mira again.
It better be a direct sequel considering all the bullshit clifhangers we got
>>322495824
>>322495670
I bet the next game will involve more than just Mira. NLA and Mira will be the main or central zones but we'll havespace travel and multiple planets and moons to explore
>>322495824
I can't imagine an open world game sequel that uses the same open world.
It has to be somewhere else.
>>322496093
>uses the same open world.
It doesn't have to though. If there's enough of a time gap, they can rework most of the terrain and change/add stuff all over. Imagine if Primordia at large starts being settled by people? What if Noctilum has grown to become twice as dense and thick? What if Aliens nuked Sylvalum and it's a wasteland now? What if other continents on Mira?
