music in the game

TerranC · #1 November 25th, 2002, 01:31 AM

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Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
Anyone play SimCity 2000? God, the music in that game was horrid! Maybe one or two notes at a time, in MIDI, no chords or other attempt at actually sounding decent...

On a side note, I recently saw an ad for SimCity 4 (guess they got tired of the 000's?)... it said "By the Creator of 'The Sims'"... talk about putting the cart before the horse!

How dare you insult simcity! I'll have you eaten by the monster/alien thingy!

the reason for that ad placement is probably because of the media attention that the sims got after it gathered popular support; SC3, whoever, is not really recognizable to most people.

LazarusLong42 · #2 November 25th, 2002, 07:31 PM

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Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
Anyone play SimCity 2000? God, the music in that game was horrid! Maybe one or two notes at a time, in MIDI, no chords or other attempt at actually sounding decent...

Oh, yes, absolutely agreed on that. Though at the time SC2K was released (1994? 1995?) game music in general wasn't all that great.

As for the whole "From the creator of the Sims" thing... well, the Sims sold about twice as many copies as all of the SimCity series together, at a guess. It would be silly not to advertise at the people who bought the Sims, especially with Sims Online coming out.

Taz-in-Space · #3 November 26th, 2002, 07:47 AM

...anyone else have trouble with the CD rom drive spinning and spinning if there happens to be a CD left in it.

This happened enough to me that I now check to see if there is a CD there BEFORE playing SE4.

Desdinova · #4 November 26th, 2002, 09:07 AM

the only time i had that problem was when i left a mp3 cd for the car i had just made in it. with the game cd or a music cd i have been ok.

Kamog · #5 November 26th, 2002, 09:13 AM

In my opinion, the game with absolutely the best music ever was Final Fantasy VI. Oh, the town music, the outside world music, the different special encounter musics - they were beautiful and almost hypnotic. After playing the game, I would just spend the entire day with the music repeating over and over in my head. And my favorite of all is the opera scene in which Celes sings the Aria Di Mezzo Carattere!

LazarusLong42 · #6 November 26th, 2002, 07:56 PM

Kamog: Yeah, Uematsu is also a favorite composer of mine. I have a symphonic Version of the opera from FF3/6, as well as quite a bit of the music from FF8. And who can forget Aeris's theme from FF7... beautiful.

Eric <-- musician geek

Ragnarok · #7 November 26th, 2002, 08:25 PM

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Originally posted by LazarusLong42:
Kamog: Yeah, Uematsu is also a favorite composer of mine. I have a symphonic Version of the opera from FF3/6, as well as quite a bit of the music from FF8. And who can forget Aeris's theme from FF7... beautiful.

Eric <-- musician geek

I would eventually like to build up a FF collection. I've only played VIII and X. But over time I'd like to buy I, through IX. Only one I own is X. VIII I played my brothers a few months ago. Well over a year ago I guess it was.