5-Year-Old Civ IV Gets Gaming's First Grammy Nod

[Shale_Dirk]

Any press is good press when it comes to video games + awards.

Hopefully after this acceptance that video games can have awesome scores and soundtracks, they might start acknowledging them in the future as well.

 

[lacktheknack]

YAY!

Now, when are they going to find this?

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[lacktheknack]

Please stop eating my posts, Escapist...

 

[SilentHunter7]

It's possible that the Grammy folks only just now got around to nominating this song because this was the first they'd ever heard it.

But it still feels weird to have a song nominated for an award half a decade after it was first released, don't you think?

Actually, Mr. Funk, I think Tin's album, which Baba Yetu (in a much better arrangement than the game version, IMO) is on, was only just released. So TECHNICALLY, it did just get released this year. In album format, anyway.

 

[kementari]

Was way, way better than Civ V's opening.

Seriously, who makes an opening movie a loading screen?

 

[JonahNYC]

It's for the Video Games Live arrangement, which had two singers not in the original.

You can see the nominated version here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u_EWzmvI8E

 

[Jumplion]

I friggin' love this song, I was sorely disappointed that there wasn't something similar to this in Civilization 5. I recommended it to my choir teacher before, hopefully they'll actually let us do it (which I doubt).

And after seeing that music video, Civilization needs to expand to space. Wouldn't that be totally awesome? Expanding to space to colonize planets, and expanding your civilization even further! The naval units could go inbetween the planets, like space is the sea! That'd be crazy.

 

[CosmicCommander]

If any song from a video game was going to be nominated, this should've been it.

I second this sentiment.