I'm playing Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 1 at the moment, and I've had to turn the music off on that. It's not *bad*... more it's elevator music for the most part, the tracks aren't that long, and it takes me *hours* to do each dungeon. The music makes me so bored I give up after half an hour or so, so if I want to seriously grind and actually get anywhere I have to turn it off and put something more interesting on... It's a shame, cause I like DDS, and nearly all the SMT games I've played, but after a while all their music has this effect on me.
Have you ever had to turn a games music off because it was so bad?
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That's pretty caustic. I find that particular combination of disortion and filtering based vocal processing actually DOES sound cool in general, but it's better used on hooks or fills than a repeating chorus, unless you're writing an Atari Teenage Riot style Digital Hardcore track or something.WickerMole said:
With a few exceptions, I find that female vocals processed thusly lend themselves better to backing male chorus lead vox, or as mentioned above, used as verse "punctuation".
The battle theme from Persona 3.
It's not really epic battle music, it sounds like cheap Japanese jazz or something. The amount of time spent in battle during the 80+ hours long game just really kills me.
It's not really epic battle music, it sounds like cheap Japanese jazz or something. The amount of time spent in battle during the 80+ hours long game just really kills me.
Forza Motorsport 3. The soundtrack is soooo damn annoying, it's horrible. Couldn't they pick out better tracks??
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit. Oh that music annoyed the hell outta me. In the end I just played my music instead. 
I can't recall having felt the need to turn music off entirely in any game, though I do sometimes reduce the volume a bit and I sometimes turn in-game radios off on some occasions just to have a bit of silence for a change.
I can think of a lot of games where music really added a lot to the game, though. No One Lives Forever had excellent and varied incidental music, and I like the music in Fallout 3 and New Vegas very much, not just the retro radio music but also the ambient and incidental music. Fallout 3's main theme is awesome.
Oh, and anyone who played Deus Ex with the music off missed out on a huge part of the atmosphere. That game's music is indispensable to the whole in my opinion.
I can think of a lot of games where music really added a lot to the game, though. No One Lives Forever had excellent and varied incidental music, and I like the music in Fallout 3 and New Vegas very much, not just the retro radio music but also the ambient and incidental music. Fallout 3's main theme is awesome.
Oh, and anyone who played Deus Ex with the music off missed out on a huge part of the atmosphere. That game's music is indispensable to the whole in my opinion.
You hated the Nier soundtrack? You are the first person I've met to say that.
I had to turn off TWEWY's sound for awhile. Not because it was bad, because personally it was really catchy! But hearing the same battle song over and over and over and over and over and over again can only hurt one's soul.
You are the first person I've met to say that.I had to turn off TWEWY's sound for awhile. Not because it was bad, because personally it was really catchy! But hearing the same battle song over and over and over and over and over and over again can only hurt one's soul.
I'm going to answer with a question: Have you ever played a PC game which could only output sound through the PC speaker?
Some of you may be too young to remember those particular torture devices, but man were they annoying; the only game that I remember really making good use of it was the original Civilization, in which the PC speaker managed to be better than the already decent Soundblaster sound, although not as good as the MT-32 sound. The only explanation for Microprose pulling that one off is that Sid Meier is secretly a wizard.
Most of the videos on youtube are examples of games that pushed the PC speaker to its absolute limit; this game is much closer to the average.
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Incidentally, these both sound better than the original, because they were emulated in dos box, and you're playing them over real speakers. The PC speaker was this weird thing that could beep but wasn't good for much else; I have yet to find an emulated version that sounds as horrific as the real deal.
Some of you may be too young to remember those particular torture devices, but man were they annoying; the only game that I remember really making good use of it was the original Civilization, in which the PC speaker managed to be better than the already decent Soundblaster sound, although not as good as the MT-32 sound. The only explanation for Microprose pulling that one off is that Sid Meier is secretly a wizard.
Most of the videos on youtube are examples of games that pushed the PC speaker to its absolute limit; this game is much closer to the average.
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Incidentally, these both sound better than the original, because they were emulated in dos box, and you're playing them over real speakers. The PC speaker was this weird thing that could beep but wasn't good for much else; I have yet to find an emulated version that sounds as horrific as the real deal.
no, but i had to mute the controller for Twilight Princess, those sound effects were SOOOO irritating!
For DA I actually had to use a mixer and edit the game files so I could hear dialogue and retain my ear drums.JMeganSnow said:
OT: Every flash game ever.
And most open world games IE: F:NV, Minecraft. Fallout because even the custom radio stations begin repeating, and Minecraft because the same ambient track begins to annoy the hell out of me.
I'm surprised no one has posted this little gem yet. Staying on target, the soundtrack to Superman for the NES was pretty mind numbing.
Hit play if you dare.
Hit play if you dare.
The voices in Okami were so bad I had to mute it and eventually I stopped playing.
Yes... God yes. Paris and Hong Kong especially.MattyDienhoff said:
