Favorite Namco PCE game?

[Arkhan]

Yeah, but if you were to go to a concert, would you seriously rather go to a chiptune recording?

Because that's just a nightclub at that point, lol.

[Michirin9801]

Yeah, but if you were to go to a concert, would you seriously rather go to a chiptune recording?

Because that's just a nightclub at that point, lol.

I'd probably only go if it was either an Eurobeat one or a Vocaloid one...
I mean, I've never gone to a concert, but given your aforementioned experience with chiptune concerts, that sounds like it just wouldn't be worth it...

[Arkhan]

Chiptune concerts kind of suck. 

like, I even went and saw Anamanaguchi.

It's them playing along to an NES plugged into the sound system...    and they didn't interact with the crowd whatsoever.   

It was garbage.    Just a bunch of hipster prevapefam college kids flailing around acting stupid.

The best part was the one opener band had gameboys and he was trying to headbang while using it, and accidentally turned it off and ruined everything.

[Arkhan]

These are real chiptune concerts.


This is the real shit.     Not just them blasting the arcade tune over the loud speakers, lol

[Arkhan]

Shit heres the full thing.  Hell yeha.aaaaagrregadgdghhgh

[ClodBuster]

Question: Would Yellow Magic Orchestra qualify as chiptunes?

[Arkhan]

Question: Would Yellow Magic Orchestra qualify as chiptunes?

teehee

[nopepper]

-Mega Man X's soundtrack is one of the few that uses those horrible guitar samples and is not completely unlistenable. However, Capcom completely shit the bed in MMX 2 and 3, which has some of the most shrill sounds they've ever put out.

-Why does Sunsoft get so much NES music love? Their stuff sounds great, for sure, but their compositions are generally boring (besides Blaster Master). Journey To Silius is one of the worst offenders of just a flat, repetitive soundtrack that never quite achieves climax in its compositions. Maybe I'm missing something...

-The best soundtrack among the ones Michirin quoted is Silver Surfer. Too bad it is sooo short. I wonder if its seemingly high fidelity contributed to keeping it short, due to space constraints?

-Turbo/PCE Dragon Spirit's soundtrack is better than any soundtrack in the SNES. This is not opinion, it's fact, and if you disagree, you are wrong.

[Arkhan]

Sunsoft uses a lot of samples and stuff that distract from the fact that some of the songs are actually boring.

I liked Batman level 1's music... but the rest of the soundtrack, I can't really remember even though I spent hours playing that game...  I can recall the second level's music too, but it was garbage and annoying, and a total buzz kill after how good stage 1's tune is.

Blaster Master is definitely one of the best Sunsoft soundtracks, if not the best one.

Festers Quest had some good stuff too, packaged in a frustrating game, but still good.   The Addam's Family theme from it was done so well.     It's amazing to me that I used to sit and play that game for hours and actually beat it.   Playing it now, I'm like "holy shit this game is a douche"

Freedom Force is an often never spoken about Sunsoft game with no frills NES heavy metal music.   The tunes in that game are great.  There's some pretty wicked percussion in there.



Stage 5's music is straight up 1980s thrash metal. 

[nopepper]

Freedom Force is an often never spoken about Sunsoft game with no frills NES heavy metal music.   The tunes in that game are great.  There's some pretty wicked percussion in there.

Stage 5's music is straight up 1980s thrash metal.

That sounds pretty cool, but will need a zapper to play that game. Definitely one I have not tried before.

The only trash metal NES soundtrack I can recall is Kabuki Quantum Fighter, which has some pretty good tunes, but I always felt some of the instruments used (especially percussive) were too bubbly to fit the theme.

[ccovell]

I can recall the second level's music too, but it was garbage and annoying, and a total buzz kill after how good stage 1's tune is.

You're wrong.    The 2nd stage's tune is great too, for the "intricate" feeling it provides.

Anyway, if you don't like buzzkills, go play the Famicom version of the game to get that tune out of the way first.  Go look it up.  No, I won't provide a YouTube link. 

[Arkhan]

You're wrong.    The 2nd stage's tune is great too, for the "intricate" feeling it provides.

The problem I have with that song is the beginning little bit that repeats a few times.   That DRR DR DRRRRRR part.   I don't know why, but I can't stand it.  I think it's because the song is *trying* to sound like a metal tune, but that instrument doesn't work right for the guitar riff it was trying to emulate.   It's not gritty enough.

Go look it up.  No, I won't provide a YouTube link. 

well yeah, it's easy to look up something if I don't have to fumble through a picross game to find it... lol

Why did they switch the order, anyways.

[ccovell]

well yeah, it's easy to look up something if I don't have to fumble through a picross game to find it... lol

Erm, it comes before any such requisite fumbling.  It's in fact the very definition of a splash screen.  :/

[Arkhan]

Erm, it comes before any such requisite fumbling.  It's in fact the very definition of a splash screen.  :/

Oh, whoops,  I didn't realize it's **only** in the demo, lol.  The one on my machine and the one I regrabbed from the top of TML page isn't the demo.  Nailed it.

Why'd you take it out of the not-demo? 

[ccovell]

Yeah, why did I?   

It's as relevant in 2017 as it was in 1989, in 2001, and in 2006.