Am I weird for disliking automata's ost after learning the lyrics are just gibberish and don't mean anything
It's funny too I thought it was German at first lol
yeah
think of the voices as another instrument, not as lyrics
How could you not like that? It's fricking awesome. Writing your own language just to make an OST sound better is insanely high concept.
Nier music sounds like Balan Wonderworld music.
What makes it even funnier is that Balanese is, in theory, understandable. It's mostly just backwards English so you CAN figure out what they are saying. Nier music is literally just made up sounds. >uun krae... lie die schtileah mo... kativa.. FLAHNITA
There I wrote Nier lyrics
You know there are plenty of people that actually do make conlangs? All the way back to Tolkien, people have made full fictional languages for their stories, for real life applications (Esperanto), or for proof-of-concepts in lignuistics research (toki pona https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EZihKCB9iw).
I'm not baiting, I fricking hate Yoko Taro and his dickriders and I really fricking hate how people think making up random sounds is LE MINDBLOWING when there are people who actually do that but with amazing passion and talent. The music in Nier, like everything else, is half-baked and soulless slop for people that don't know better shit exists. I love language and I love music more than anything else in the world. Nier insults both ceaselessly
>>uun krae... lie die schtileah mo... kativa.. FLAHNITA
ugh....kino.....KINOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
yoko taro isn't the composer, his games are great from what he's trying to accomplish, even if you think the music is bad, the games are still great
i don't really care about lyrics, to me, the voices are just another instrument and the atmosphere they bring to the game are perfect, i'm not trying to attack you but maybe try to focus less on the lyrics, something like kuroi uta is great, it's like opera idk
also, ashes of dreams and weight of the world have lyrics
Its not exclusive to nier/drakengard she uses the same "language" in every song she makes. Its more like her speaking gibberish that sounds nice which still sounds good but it doesn't have any meaning.
>it is just gibberish.
According to an interview, she was more or less told to put all the major world languages together through the wash for a few thousand years.
I would agree with you if she had an actual structure to her language but it is just gibberish.
There's a quote, I forget from what book, about how hearing a song sung in a foreign language the listening didn't understand made it sound divine, and I think that's the intent with her music. You aren't supposed to understand it, you're supposed to just feel it.
Lyrics are easily the least important aspect of any piece of music. The fact that anybody would place them above melody, rhythm, or textural timbre is baffling.
Besides if you don't understand a language it all may as well be gibberish anyway. The only reason you'd give a shit about what language a song is sung in is if you want to show off like a homosexual that you listen to music in another language as if anybody cares.
>Lyrics are easily the least important aspect of any piece of music.
This. I always preferred instrumental music, and even in voiced pieces I don't particularly care to listen to the lyrics, I just treat it as another instrument of sorts. Besides, some vocalists, like MC Ride, are near-unintelligible anyway. >give https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNBDJNHeZmo a listen >only realise it was in English after looking at the comments
>Lyrics are easily the least important aspect of any piece of music.
Truth. Lyric-Black folk can eat shit. >Oh no I'm gonna add how sad my life is to this music. Maybe people will pay attention to ME!
Kys vocalists.
>vocalists
Vocals are still important, even if lyrics aren't. I have no idea what the lyrics for these are, and I never cared enough to check them out, but they're still incredibly powerful pieces.
lyrics is what wizards add to induce a gnosis state through the vibrational energies of music. The structure of lyrics is the most important aspect of a song because that's one of the main methods of how oratory spells are cast on listeners.
Lyrics are either the most or least important part of the song, depending on the rule. Dance music? Lyrics mean shit, I care about the rhythm. A ballad? Lyrics are the heart of the song.
I should've known Replicantgays didn't even play their game, your criticism applies to Replicant more than Automata you moronic contrarian.
Nier has like 6 songs repeated all over >Yonah (Guitar ver. 1, guitar ver. 2, piano, string, dance of the evanescent, all 4 versions of ashes of dreams)
They remade the same song 9 times lmao >Dispossession (piano, string, pluck, music box) >Song of the ancients (Devola, popola, hollow dreams, fate) >Shadowlord (normal, music box, white note version) >Kaine (Salvation, escape) >Emil (Karma, sacrifice)
Now that I think about it, even your average game OST has a more varied soundtrack than Replicant.
replicant/gestaltgays are always very bitter towards automata. probably just because 2B's butt did happen to get popular in contrast to other taro games.
I don't see the point, they're all great.
I started with Drakengard 1 (picked it up on a whim from fricking Blockbuster for rental) so as someone who played all the games, the 'rivalry' to me comes across like a bunch of secondaries.
played automata for the first time this year, didn't expect the vocals in the camp or the ost in general. don't know what triggers it exactly but it would always mesmerize me.
My homie. First time I played NieR back in 2011, I noticed the Song of the Ancients lyrics kicking in when I got close to Devola singing by the fountain, and just put the controller down and sat there listening to it for 10+ minutes. Fricking genius design choice for proximity-based lyrics being added to the music.
Everytime some gachaBlack person tells you "gacha has godtier ost" just post show something from nier on their faces >b-but sino alice is a gach-
Doesn't count
gachagays in general are fricking stupid. half the time they don't even deny being braindead coomers who are there for the jpgs, but that won't stop them from getting super defensive when you dare besmirch their honorable name
Gacha does have really good music. They might not have much else going for them, but they do have that at least. I always check out the new music whenever another series heads off to die in the Gacha Mines.
Funny you should use nier as your example, because keiichi okabe just ripped off traditional galician folk music for that ost.
And the """etherial""" vocal harmonies are just ripoff's of what british vocalist elizabeth fraser was doing in the early 1990s
>Lyrics are easily the least important aspect of any piece of music.
Truth. Lyric-Black folk can eat shit. >Oh no I'm gonna add how sad my life is to this music. Maybe people will pay attention to ME!
Kys vocalists.
>You'd probably like the Ciel Nosurge soundtrack.
Same guy and same setting, far in the past, so yeah, but I'm waiting for that English fan translation to manifest or for my Japanese to get good enough, whichever comes first.
That would spoil it a little, anon. The music kicking in at the right place in the story elevates it. I still tear up when listening to EXEC_PHANTASMAGORIA because of everything I got out of the first game.
if you music goes "oohoohoooooh" then it's in the tier of normalgay music, not videogame music
videogame music goes beep boop, I WILL HEAR NO RECORDINGS OF HUMAN VOCALS ON MY PLAYLIST
Am I weird for disliking automata's ost after learning the lyrics are just gibberish and don't mean anything
It's funny too I thought it was German at first lol
The vocalist uses different phonetics for different songs, so there's still some nuance to it. Kaine's theme uses gaelic phonemes iirc
Nier music sounds like Balan Wonderworld music.
What makes it even funnier is that Balanese is, in theory, understandable. It's mostly just backwards English so you CAN figure out what they are saying. Nier music is literally just made up sounds.
>uun krae... lie die schtileah mo... kativa.. FLAHNITA
There I wrote Nier lyrics
4/10 bait, you can improve
You know there are plenty of people that actually do make conlangs? All the way back to Tolkien, people have made full fictional languages for their stories, for real life applications (Esperanto), or for proof-of-concepts in lignuistics research (toki pona https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EZihKCB9iw).
I'm not baiting, I fricking hate Yoko Taro and his dickriders and I really fricking hate how people think making up random sounds is LE MINDBLOWING when there are people who actually do that but with amazing passion and talent. The music in Nier, like everything else, is half-baked and soulless slop for people that don't know better shit exists. I love language and I love music more than anything else in the world. Nier insults both ceaselessly
Your lyrics are even better than mine anon
It sounds great, which means you are wrong.
yoko taro isn't the composer, his games are great from what he's trying to accomplish, even if you think the music is bad, the games are still great
i don't really care about lyrics, to me, the voices are just another instrument and the atmosphere they bring to the game are perfect, i'm not trying to attack you but maybe try to focus less on the lyrics, something like kuroi uta is great, it's like opera idk
also, ashes of dreams and weight of the world have lyrics
>pretentious moron shits out a paragraph to prove he isn't just a regular moron
>>uun krae... lie die schtileah mo... kativa.. FLAHNITA
ugh....kino.....KINOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Sour grapes anon realizing it's actually that easy when you're not low IQ like him
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Yeah when you know that it sounds a bit stupid. Not enough to ruin it but enough to affect my enjoyment.
you are a tasteless homosexual
yeah
think of the voices as another instrument, not as lyrics
How could you not like that? It's fricking awesome. Writing your own language just to make an OST sound better is insanely high concept.
I think Yoko Kanno did it first
Its not exclusive to nier/drakengard she uses the same "language" in every song she makes. Its more like her speaking gibberish that sounds nice which still sounds good but it doesn't have any meaning.
Maybe it means something to her?
I would agree with you if she had an actual structure to her language but it is just gibberish.
>it is just gibberish.
According to an interview, she was more or less told to put all the major world languages together through the wash for a few thousand years.
There's a quote, I forget from what book, about how hearing a song sung in a foreign language the listening didn't understand made it sound divine, and I think that's the intent with her music. You aren't supposed to understand it, you're supposed to just feel it.
you just set gamers understanding of art back 10 years
ameritards spotted lmao
Lyrics are easily the least important aspect of any piece of music. The fact that anybody would place them above melody, rhythm, or textural timbre is baffling.
Besides if you don't understand a language it all may as well be gibberish anyway. The only reason you'd give a shit about what language a song is sung in is if you want to show off like a homosexual that you listen to music in another language as if anybody cares.
>Lyrics are easily the least important aspect of any piece of music.
cringe
>Lyrics are easily the least important aspect of any piece of music.
This. I always preferred instrumental music, and even in voiced pieces I don't particularly care to listen to the lyrics, I just treat it as another instrument of sorts. Besides, some vocalists, like MC Ride, are near-unintelligible anyway.
>give https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNBDJNHeZmo a listen
>only realise it was in English after looking at the comments
This homie thinks he just invalidated all classical baroque and renaissance music
>Lyrics are easily the least important aspect of any piece of music.
Truth. Lyric-Black folk can eat shit.
>Oh no I'm gonna add how sad my life is to this music. Maybe people will pay attention to ME!
Kys vocalists.
>vocalists
Vocals are still important, even if lyrics aren't. I have no idea what the lyrics for these are, and I never cared enough to check them out, but they're still incredibly powerful pieces.
lyrics is what wizards add to induce a gnosis state through the vibrational energies of music. The structure of lyrics is the most important aspect of a song because that's one of the main methods of how oratory spells are cast on listeners.
Exactly, it's just another instrument but with an optional feature.
Lyrics are either the most or least important part of the song, depending on the rule. Dance music? Lyrics mean shit, I care about the rhythm. A ballad? Lyrics are the heart of the song.
you would lose your mind if you ever listened to a cocteau twins song
curious about the logic behind that statement
>It's funny too I thought it was German at first lol
stinky poopy non-europeans
not weird but tone deaf and uncultured
you should have realized it was shit when it's just 3 songs being repeated over and over. replicant is miles better
>not appreciating both of these amazing soundtracks
ngmi
>3 songs being repeated over and over
But enough about Drakengard 1.
I should've known Replicantgays didn't even play their game, your criticism applies to Replicant more than Automata you moronic contrarian.
Nier has like 6 songs repeated all over
>Yonah (Guitar ver. 1, guitar ver. 2, piano, string, dance of the evanescent, all 4 versions of ashes of dreams)
They remade the same song 9 times lmao
>Dispossession (piano, string, pluck, music box)
>Song of the ancients (Devola, popola, hollow dreams, fate)
>Shadowlord (normal, music box, white note version)
>Kaine (Salvation, escape)
>Emil (Karma, sacrifice)
Now that I think about it, even your average game OST has a more varied soundtrack than Replicant.
replicant/gestaltgays are always very bitter towards automata. probably just because 2B's butt did happen to get popular in contrast to other taro games.
I don't see the point, they're all great.
I started with Drakengard 1 (picked it up on a whim from fricking Blockbuster for rental) so as someone who played all the games, the 'rivalry' to me comes across like a bunch of secondaries.
1. picrel is nier replicant, not automata
2. yes you are weird
It's not just gibberish. It's supposed to sound like a combo of many languages in the future. You're a moron.
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Moments I stopped playing an just listened to the music
Replicant
Automata
played automata for the first time this year, didn't expect the vocals in the camp or the ost in general. don't know what triggers it exactly but it would always mesmerize me.
My homie. First time I played NieR back in 2011, I noticed the Song of the Ancients lyrics kicking in when I got close to Devola singing by the fountain, and just put the controller down and sat there listening to it for 10+ minutes. Fricking genius design choice for proximity-based lyrics being added to the music.
End credits music for when you can't be certain you haven't completely fricked over the world
it really is just that good
but also
>Shadowlord
Absolute masterpiece.
This track alone made me play through the game years ago.
>Absolute masterpiece.
Ah, but have you heard it in super Gallic form?
I love it
for me it's neon white
That game had a lot of weird things about it, but the OST most certainly was not one of them. Except Yellow's theme.
Drakengard's OST is maximum kino, possibly one of gaming's best soundtracks, and I am not being contrarian.
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You're not being contrarian, but your caveman-tier brain thinks random noise sounds good, so there's no hope for you.
Gestalt > Drakengard 1 > Drakengard 3 > Automata
>random noise
It's all samples from classical music.
And its repetitive nature is styled after Rite of Spring.
>i-is that an experimental use of a classical sample?! AAAAAAAAAA NONONONO THIS ISN'T REAL MUSIC AAIIIEEEEEE
I have only listened to it, not played it. But it's grown on me.
>The release at 2:22
Immaculate.
Name 2 good tracks besides Growing Wings.
Your tracks migh not have convinced me but your pic sure did.
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i knew it would be seeres prayer before i even clicked it, based.
picrel
every track is good
I mean it
Jessica curry, that's all nothing else needs said
>yoko taro
"I love weird/obscure thing" starter pack
Hacko Taro has been normalgay territory since 2B's ass.
I am still bumfrick mad at the remake fricking up the melancholy of the original shadowlord.
Who are you quoting? Nobody has ever said this ever.
My all-time favourite vidya soundtracks in random order:
>LoR (studio EIM)
>VTMB
>Ace Combat (series)
>Touhou
>Hollow Knight
>Umineko
>Dies Irae
>Symphonic Rain
>FMD: Muramasa
>Saya no Uta
>Drakengard 1, 3
>Nier Gestalt, Automata
>MGR
>nu-Doom
>W40k: Mechanicus
>Ixion
>Frostpunk
>Ultrakill
>DMC
>E.Y.E Divine Cybermancy
>Demon's Souls, Dark Souls 1, Bloodborne
>Needy Streamer Overload
>Witcher 1, 3
>Metro 2033
>Silent Hill 1-3
>Baldur's Gate 3
>Hotline Miami
>Furi
>Black Souls
>OFF
Thank you for reading my blog
>Baldur's Gate 3
To each his own, but... really?
Great list.
>metro 2033
>furi
>black souls
>hollow knight
>ace combat
>witcher
based
Based on your favorites : I recommend Katana Zero, Deadbolt, Deus Ex (2000)
Is Deadbolt a good game?
forgot one rec
Ori and the Blind Forest (based on liking The Witcher)
Witcher 3 had no music.
Everytime some gachaBlack person tells you "gacha has godtier ost" just post show something from nier on their faces
>b-but sino alice is a gach-
Doesn't count
But I like both, moron
gachagays in general are fricking stupid. half the time they don't even deny being braindead coomers who are there for the jpgs, but that won't stop them from getting super defensive when you dare besmirch their honorable name
Gacha does have really good music. They might not have much else going for them, but they do have that at least. I always check out the new music whenever another series heads off to die in the Gacha Mines.
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Fun fact it's all Swedish and sung by Annika Ljungberg, from Rednex
That whole band is Swedish
I remember being a teenager listening to this while I read plato
Stand aside kid
Very good soundtrack my brother
I usually turn the music off in most games because its normally dogshit, doubly so for anything Jap.
The best soundtrack for anything made specifically for the game is likely Red Alert 2.
Why didn't they give Stephen Rippy another job on AoE IV?
It's been real music since the arcades got more than one sound channel
dungeon synthe is p cool.
Funny you should use nier as your example, because keiichi okabe just ripped off traditional galician folk music for that ost.
And the """etherial""" vocal harmonies are just ripoff's of what british vocalist elizabeth fraser was doing in the early 1990s
forced music
The only people who say videogame music isn't real music are rap fans, and you can always dismiss those as they have shit taste
>lyricsgays
Not even once.
Lyrics are incredibly important
For me it's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWUJ-CqozUw
I like emi evans in the nis games
damn, when is labyrinth of galleria price gonna drop
its on sale right now for like 39.99, you should get it. its pretty good and the ost is one of the best things tenpai sato has done in a while.
She's the vocalist on the Nameless Song from the original Dark Souls too.
Kingsley had some dope ass tracks
Ordos mogs the frick out of the other faction OSTs
Say what you will about Petscop, but this song enters my head all the time
Didn't the remake change all of the songs? It's getting really hard to find old uploads.
Also, this scene was great.
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Not necessarily change, but update. The new 1.22 ver ones keep being deleted, Gestalt ost is up in full.
Ar Tonelico is king of vidya music.
>Ar Tonelico is king of vidya music.
You'd probably like the Ciel Nosurge soundtrack.
>Souky, Gradius V, Silvergun
Based Sakimoto appreciator
>You'd probably like the Ciel Nosurge soundtrack.
Same guy and same setting, far in the past, so yeah, but I'm waiting for that English fan translation to manifest or for my Japanese to get good enough, whichever comes first.
Just listen to the music in the meantime, homie.
That would spoil it a little, anon. The music kicking in at the right place in the story elevates it. I still tear up when listening to EXEC_PHANTASMAGORIA because of everything I got out of the first game.
Fair enough. I hope the fanslation eventually happens, then. It's pretty niche, in a niche genre, on an already niche handheld.
Same guys that retranslated Ar Ton 2 so it should happen, but after too long. I'm also actively trying to learn Japanese so there's always that.
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Just reading the lyrics Sphilia is one of my favorites:
Most shmup soundtracks are good.
>Espgaluda
>Esprade
>Battle Garegga
>Ibara
>DoDonPachi series
>Soukyugurentai
>RayForce
>Psyvariar series
>Gradius series, especially 5
>Samidare
>Perfect Cherry Blossom
>Zero Wing
>Raiden series, especially 4
>Grind Stormer
>Aleste series
>Darius series, especially Gaiden
>Radiant Silvergun
>Ikaruga
he deserved better
If there's any Anons in the Dallas region in January, the final run of the Orchestral Nier tour still has tickets, everywhere else has sold out
Square Enix are really hot on taking down uploads with full tracks from the album, but the Orchestral versions are generally really good.
if you music goes "oohoohoooooh" then it's in the tier of normalgay music, not videogame music
videogame music goes beep boop, I WILL HEAR NO RECORDINGS OF HUMAN VOCALS ON MY PLAYLIST
sex with furiae
>Wants to frick her brother so bad him making ONE disgusted expression at the idea causes her to fricking kill herself
What other villains/bosses sing their own battle theme?
Pure magic. I don't even joking rn.
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>Female
lol
at least two of them
2/3 yeah
pure kino
What is the best licensed song in vidya and why is it Into Free
I see your "Into Free" and raise you "Clock Strikes" from Like a Dragon: Ishin.
I'd at least say they're on equal footing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4pgSh6_fGc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MTWMv5Jcb0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zYz7F1FtmU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ex2IJf4SoY
For me it's
Good selection anon, honestly the only thing I0d change is Peril for Ghosts of Reach you can't beat that afripercussion solo.
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Honestly a shame some legitimately great music in games are stuck in obscurity.