RebelFM said:This years music, in order of appearance:
DMC Combichrist No Redemption
Strike Suit Zero Main Theme
Strike Suit Zero Thule Research Station
MGRR Rule of Nature
MGRR Im My Own Master Now
Tomb Raider The Descent
Tomb Raider The Tomb Raider
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon Blood Dragon Theme
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon Power Kore
Kentucky Router Zero: Act 1 The Bedquilt Ramblers Youve Got to Walk
Kentucky Route Zero: Act 1 Ghosts in the Static
Gunpoint Main Theme
Bioshock Infinite God Only Knows
Bioshock Infinite Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Bioshock Infinite Fortunate Son
State of Decay Main Theme
The Last of Us The Last of Us
The Last of Us The Quarantine
The Last of Us The Outbreak
The Last of Us Vanishing
Remember Me Nilin The Memory Hunter
Remember Me Fragments
Remember Me Neo-Paris
Splinter Cell Blacklist Welcome to Fourth Echelon
Brothers Main Theme
Brothers Webbed
Gone Home The House, Part 1
Gone Home The House, Part 2
Grand Theft Auto V We Were Set Up
The Wolf Among Us main theme
Guacamelee Forest del Chivo
Killer Instinct 2013 Main Theme
Killer Instinct 2013 Sabrewulfs theme
Resogun Ready For Deployment
Assassins Creed 4: Black Flag Dead Horse
Assassins Creed 4: Black Flag Fish in the Sea
Assassins Creed 4: Black Flag Leave Her Johnny
Super Mario 3D World Ghost House Theme
OUTRO: Katamari Damacy Main Theme
Uncle Nert’s Wacky Pick ™ of the day is...
Pokémon X and Pokémon Y
Composers: Shota Kageyama, Minako Adachi, Hitomi Sato, Junichi Masuda, Morikazu Aoki, Go Ichinose, Satoshi Nohara
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Anistar City: The atmosphere that this song creates is remarkable. I'm a sucker for the inclusion of clock sounds in music (see: Sigma Harmonics), and pairing them with this song's sparse-yet-powerful piano results in these indelible few seconds before the song loops. Before you even set eyes upon its mammoth crystalline edifice, this music lets you know that Anistar City has that whole "powerful, ancient mechanical wonder" thing going on.
Good read Nert. Yeah, some tracks were hit and miss for me, but I still think XY has the best Pokemon soundtrack yet. Anistar City is definitely one of my favorite tracks.Uncle Nerts Wacky Pick of the day is...
Pokémon X and Pokémon Y
Composers: Shota Kageyama, Minako Adachi, Hitomi Sato, Junichi Masuda, Morikazu Aoki, Go Ichinose, Satoshi Nohara
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EDIT: By the way, should I just continue to edit my original post when I want to add my next entry (doing them one at a time) or would it be a problem to make a new post (say with just my entries excluding the introduction I wrote) for my second/third entries? I was thinking about writing up a section or two for most disappointing soundtrack/music that just didn't click with me too. Would that be cool?
I want to take the time to give more thoughtful responses to a lot of excellent posts in this thread, but I'll answer this question super quickly before falling asleep tonight:
Because these voting threads are still relatively small, I still have the luxury of being able count everyone's vote by hand without it taking a prohibitive amount of time. This allows people to have a lot of freedom in how they format their posts. As long as the soundtracks that you would like to be given points (or simple tallies, in the case of honorable mentions) are clearly marked at some point, you're welcome to write about anything soundtrack related.
To use myself as an example, I'm going all over the place with my "Wacky Picks," but I will also submit an actual vote by January 5th.I honestly have no idea what I'll be giving points to right now, which makes things more exciting for me
I might do a Top 5 instead of a Top 3 this year, if that's okay with you. I listened to some good stuff the other day.
Migraines aren't the greatest (although seeing something akin to aurora borealis for a few minutes in my office today before it really hit me was interesting), so I'll be skipping today's post.
Just to throw a question out to everybody right now: are you comfortable with January 5th being the deadline? I'm fine with pushing it back a few days if enough people feel like the extra time would help them flesh out their posts and listen to more new things, but I don't want to draw the process out too much if there isn't a real need to do so.
2.) Crimson Dragon
My biggest impulse purchase of the year has to go to the Xbox One. I had no plans on picking up this system for a long time. Actually, a year ago, I had no intentions on EVER buying this system. Well, as the release date approached I started to see more videos and read more information on Crimson Dragon, the spiritual successor to Panzer Dragoon, a series I was fortunate enough to play/own as a kid. Impressions weren't too hot from the old school fans nor did the general media seem to give two shits about this experimental shooter. After doing some research on the game itself I decided to hop on over to YouTube to give the OST a whirl figuring that would make the deciding factor for my investment. Well, I'm glad I did because now it's one of my favorite soundtracks for the year.
Saori Kobayashi's sound is a unique as it gets. No one else can imitate her music, as far as I'm concerned. There's just something so otherworldly and unique about her work. While I do admit that Crimson Dragon's soundtrack doesn't hold a candle to her previous work/contributions on Panzer Dragoon Saga/Orta, I still can't believe I'm hearing music like this in 2013. When I first heard Sunrise I realized I had to play this game. So many waves of nostalgia washed over me when I first heard this track. What I love about her work with these Panzer Dragoon titles is just how earthly the games sound. It is the ultimate pioneer music too. I can just picture people settling/setting foot on earth for the first time. I don't know if it's all the different percussion/tribal-like drums she uses or what, but I just visualize so much wild imagery while listening to this music. She must also have some alien setting on her keyboard/synthesizer too that's labeled "Panzer Dragoon" because I have no idea how she's producing that sound.
What's interesting to note, Crimson Dragon's soundtrack is basically split between two games. The Windows Phone version, Side Story, contains the same tracks found in the home console version, as far as I know. The two games, however, provide different arrangements of the same tracks. The best/easiest way to describe it would be that the Side Story game sounds more game-y/arcade-like while the Xbox One game sounds more orchestral. To provide an example, here's one of my favorite tracks in the game; Lost Colony from the Xbox One game and Hestrine from the Windows version. I find from 1:56 to 3:20 to be particularly incredible. You can also hear those alien-like sounds I was describing during this range, hah! Two other notable tracks are The Warped Wilds and Fire World. Both tracks fit their environments perfectly and they're thematic in nature. The Warped Wilds has you flying through a sea of trees while Fire World takes you to the core of the earth. Just all around classic stuff. While I haven't played Side Story, I've listened to the two soundtracks extensively and I surprisingly prefer the Side Story arrangements. That's not to say that the Xbox One renditions are bad or anything, I just prefer the other arrangements more.
Say what you will about the game itself, but Crimson Dragon has a soundtrack like no other. No other game/soundtrack I've played/listened to this year could have provided the emotions or feelings I experienced from this game and for that reason alone it is in my top 3.
Considering Orta is my favorite oXbox game, this sounds amazing. I really can't say I'd spent $500 to play it though.
I dropped their podcast this year but I will listen for this. Arthur does make a good soundtrack listing.I'm not very fond of the RebelFM podcast and Arthur Gies' work, but they do a nice Game Music roundup podcast discussion (with music in between) every year that I like to listen to. Respect to Arthur for editing it every year during the Holidays
You can find the podcast HERE
Uncle Nert’s Wacky Pick ™ of the day is...
Electronic Super Joy
Composers: enV
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I'd probably be the only one asking for more time. >.>