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[sublimit]

I was listening to a list of video game music on my phone today and a song started playing that blew me away with how epic and atmospheric it was. I didn't remember where it was from but it made me imagine the most intriguing and epic game ever. Then i checked to see where it was from and it was a song from TES Oblivion. Then i remembered how shitty the game was and my fantasy was ruined.Same goes for Skyrim. Terrible game but great soundtrack.

Another one that comes to mind is FFXIII. I remember hating everything about that game except the music and environments. (Although lately i have been thinking to give the entire trilogy another chance.)

Any other games that come to mind?

 

[TheDreadLord]

Pretty much FFXIII the topic.

 

[Gifmaker]

Disaster: Day of Crisis and The Conduit on Wii come to mind. Great music, but mostly average games.

 

[eyesabitdull]

Skyrim and Oblivion are terrible games?

 

[kanjobazooie]

"Games I didn't like with great soundtracks" is what the title should be.

 

[J3nga]

Mafia 3

 

[Noboru Wataya]

Waterworld

 

[sublimit]

"Games I didn't like with great soundtracks" is what the title should be.

It goes without saying that in a forum everyone is expressing his/her own opinion/tastes. There's no objective metric about quality on these kinds of things (and no metacritic or sales are irrelevant too) .

 

[kanjobazooie]

It goes without saying that in a forum everyone is expressing his/her own opinion/tastes. There's no objective metric about quality on these kinds of things (and no metacritic or sales are irrelevant too) .

Fair enough. It's just that making a thread about "bad games" and having Oblivion and Skyrim as the first examples seemed a bit trollish.

 

[nkarafo]

Goemon's Adventure on the N64 is a very average game that has the best and biggest soundtrack on the platform IMO.

 

[Chukhopops]

I found FFVIIR gameplay to be dull and brain dead but I regularly listen to the OST. It’s crazy to think there have been tons of orchestral interpretations of the original soundtrack for 20 years and yet they managed to top it all in the remake.

 

[sublimit]

Fair enough. It's just that making a thread about "bad games" and having Oblivion and Skyrim as the first examples seemed a bit trollish.

To me it isn't. I have played both and i thought the controls and combat were terrible.Oblivion was downright unplayable back when i played it on PS3.I'm sure on PC it would have been better but the basic gameplay would have been the same. The music though is some of the best video game music ever written IMO. Especially Oblivion's.

 

[sublimit]

I found FFVIIR gameplay to be dull and brain dead but I regularly listen to the OST. It’s crazy to think there have been tons of orchestral interpretations of the original soundtrack for 20 years and yet they managed to top it all in the remake.

I agree. I think that was due to Hamauzu's awesome contributions to those tracks. That guy is a genious and deserves to work on a great FF for once.

 

[april6e]

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

Any bad Castlevania game (such as CV The Adventure, which I like but is objectively below average to be generous) still has great music. Actually, this (having great music, I mean) is probably true of any Konami game.

 

[The Shepard]

I found FFVIIR gameplay to be dull and brain dead

The combat was excellent! Guessing you'd prefer turn based, If not what jrpg does it better?

It’s crazy to think there have been tons of orchestral interpretations of the original soundtrack for 20 years and yet they managed to top it all in the remake.

Agreed, best soundtrack of the gen imo.

 

[sublimit]

Any bad Castlevania game (such as CV The Adventure, which I like but is objectively below average to be generous) still has great music. Actually, this is probably true for any Konami game.

What?? Silent Hill 1-4 has some of the best OSTs ever made.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

What?? Silent Hill 1-4 has some of the best OSTs ever made.

I mean, any Konami game has good music, regardless of the game’s quality.

 

[sublimit]

I mean, any Konami game has good music, regardless of the game’s quality.

Uh i don't know why but i read your post completely wrong. -_-

 

[stranno]

I love it, but according to the press it was not a good game (oh well). OST overall is great, but the whistled homage to Ennio Morricone is off the charts, one of the very few whistled tracks I have ever heard in a videogame.

 

[Markio128]

How he kept a straight face throughout that performance, I’ll never know haha. I actually bought this game.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Good game good soundtrack

 

[bit_blaster]

least favorite Zelda, but had some fire music

 

[Godfavor]

Final fantasy mystic quest

Best FF music
Worst FF game

 

[bit_blaster]

Final fantasy mystic quest

Best FF music
Worst FF game

its got good music for a lesser FF, but idk if anything can top 6's soundtrack

 

[emivita]

Lol at these "bad" games. Beat this one:



And this was the fucking main theme of the game:



And FFS, FFXIII is not a bad game.

 

[odd_hatch]

Sonic Forces, obviously. The soundtrack is even bigger than the game's length.

 

[p_xavier]

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Tales of Legendia. Bottom tier Tales game with maybe the best soundtrack in the series.

Also Vay (Sega CD) was mediocre in every way but it did have a couple bangers on the soundtrack. The boss battle tunes especially:


^ that one sounds like it belongs in Streets of Rage

 

[sublimit]

Good game good soundtrack

 

[Aldynes]

What are we taking into account ? In term of ratio awesome music / Horrible game this one is legit a top 5 contender

Also this

 

[catvonpee]

 

[p_xavier]

I found FFVIIR gameplay to be dull and brain dead but I regularly listen to the OST. It’s crazy to think there have been tons of orchestral interpretations of the original soundtrack for 20 years and yet they managed to top it all in the remake.

What I liked is that FINALLY a JRPG remixes its battle theme depending on the scene. Can't believe we still have to endure the exact same battle theme during all the game for most.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Can we have at least one of these threads without attention whoring assholes posting near-universally beloved games?

 

[sublimit]

 

[bronk]

What are we taking into account ? In term of ratio awesome music / Horrible game this one is legit a top 5 contender

Also this

I was gonna post those two haha.

 

[01011001]

Skyrim and Oblivion are terrible games?

they are

here's another one:

 

[eyesabitdull]

they are

here's another one:

I think we're beginning to hit a point where we confuse an actual terrible game, and a game that just isn't for you.

Ride to Hell: Retribution is a terrible game.

Balan Wonderland (or whatever its called) is a terrible game.

Mighty No.9 is a terrible game.

Skyrim, Oblivion, and Nier Automata are subjectively good and/or bad games based on your taste.

Perfectly fine to dislike, or look upon with disdain on a personal level, but passing off the mentioned games as flat out terrible for everyone is absolute asinine of a perspective to take.

 

[Bakkus]

Glover on the N64. Both Sonic Adventure games.

 

[BlackTron]

Sonic: The Thread

 

[Esppiral]

Evil zone.

 

[Jack Videogames]

Not going to say anything that hasn't been hundreds of times but yeah, FFXIII's soundtrack is baller. I never finished the game but what I played I didnt like much, but I still have the battle theme stuck in my head from time to time.

 

[Y0ssarian]

I haven't actually played the game, but I have the CD soundtrack for Valkyria Revolution. The soundtrack is great, maybe one day I'll try the game

 

[MasterDerico]

Sonic 06 has a superb ost. (And i like to play some stages on that game lol)

 

[STARSBarry]

Syndicate reboot from EA.



They had a real mix of music, but the gunfight in the Night Club with Hatsune Miku blasting in the background the entire time was a memorable moment for me. The rest of it fitting with the corporate culture future was incredibly well done and I always remembered how otherwise mundane action scenes had me excited largely down to the music used.

 

[Halo0629]

 

[GymWolf]

Final fantasy 15 chocobo theme was great.

I also apprecciated some tracks in ff7 rerape.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

I’ll admit Sonic music is my guilty pleasure. The games... they’re not.

 

[MakarelBoi]

Majority of the Sonic games and particularly FFXIII trilogy. Also OP, you have a shitty taste to say Oblivion and Skyrim is a bad games