music in the game

[Skulky]

haha. Well that shows our (collective) age when we remember Sim City before the sims.

Pharoah did play different music when you were attacked by enemies it became well dark and ominous. And when a festival happened it changed a bit to a happier sounding melody. It just seems that there are better things to do than improve music/game interaction

[TerranC]

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]

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]

...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]

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]

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]

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]

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.

[Erax]

I like to play SEIVG listening to the Empire Strikes Back soundtrack.

Jean-Michel Jarre would be great, but I have none of his CD's.

My favorite game soundtrack is Fantasy General (in fact, I often listen to it while doing something else). Emperor of the Fading Suns had a decent soundtrack (but not nearly as good as Fantasy General).

[Desdinova]

Originally posted by Erax:
Jean-Michel Jarre would be great, but I have none of his CD's.

and his CD's are getting harder to find. at least without ordering from overseas.
I hate the internet, its far to easy to buy items now. i used to have money at one time.