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Streets of Rage 2: This 90s Sega Game Soundtrack is Crazy
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Chuck Berry
Gold Member
Calls SOR2 a "cult classic"
Welp, shut that piece of shit off immediately.
Christ I hate fucking YouTubers. ESPECIALLY the young ones that comment on games that were popular before they were even swimming in their daddy's nuts. Shut the fuck up.
Welp, shut that piece of shit off immediately.
Christ I hate fucking YouTubers. ESPECIALLY the young ones that comment on games that were popular before they were even swimming in their daddy's nuts. Shut the fuck up.
Punished Miku
Gold Member
SoR2 is definitely one of the best ever.
You should do a real deep dive on Streets of Rage 4's OST next. Truly showcases why Olivier Deriviere is one of the best modern composers in the business. It's an extremely, extremely tall order to not only recapture the classic feel of the 16 bit era, bring it up to modern instrumentation and production quality, write a dozen memorable melodic hooks that stick with you, sync track changes to the game at key moments in multiple stages, and also mix it in with more modern instrumentation that is his own style but have it all fit. It's a masterpiece OST. I think most Japanese composers would struggle with that tall of an order, but Olivier nailed it.
You should do a real deep dive on Streets of Rage 4's OST next. Truly showcases why Olivier Deriviere is one of the best modern composers in the business. It's an extremely, extremely tall order to not only recapture the classic feel of the 16 bit era, bring it up to modern instrumentation and production quality, write a dozen memorable melodic hooks that stick with you, sync track changes to the game at key moments in multiple stages, and also mix it in with more modern instrumentation that is his own style but have it all fit. It's a masterpiece OST. I think most Japanese composers would struggle with that tall of an order, but Olivier nailed it.
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TerribleAtThisGame
Member
The SOR2 soundtrack is still one of the best gaming OSTs ever as far as I'm concerned. It's super atmospheric too with the grimy neon city environments and all.
The game as a whole is pure excellence.
The game as a whole is pure excellence.
Kenneth Haight
Gold Member
Such good memories. This and golden axe were life at one point.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Yuzo Koshiro was the man back then. I loved his work in Revenge of Shinobi.
TerribleAtThisGame
Member
Golden Axe II was THE SHIT
Such good memories. This and golden axe were life at one point.
Ristifer
Member
SoR4's OST deserves so much more love than it receives. Even the other composers who worked on it provided some ridiculous sounds. Rising Up and Next of Kin Showdown are two of my favourite gaming tracks ever composed.
Punished Miku
Gold Member
Yep. I put it as my GOTY in 2020 for a reason. The game is a miracle.
Chuck Berry
Gold Member
Such good memories. This and golden axe were life at one point.
Nice, the elusive Game Gear version
Kenneth Haight
Gold Member
I didn’t even realise this was a gif from the game gear version. I didn’t know that version existed until now, thought this was just a down ressed gif or somethingNice, the elusive Game Gear version
I am so old. Going to be 40 in a few years and can remember the game gear. It was a fantastic device when it came out but I think I only really had sonic and 1 or 2 other games for it at the time. Then I remember the PS1 coming out sometime soon after that and changing things again.
Chuck Berry
Gold Member
I didn’t even realise this was a gif from the game gear version. I didn’t know that version existed until now, thought this was just a down ressed gif or something
I am so old. Going to be 40 in a few years and can remember the game gear. It was a fantastic device when it came out but I think I only really had sonic and 1 or 2 other games for it at the time. Then I remember the PS1 coming out sometime soon after that and changing things again.
I had one too through the early 90s. Even had the TV tuner for it but it was complete shit. I remember sitting in the cafeteria with my friends in 7th grade fiddling with the antennae just to watch Price Is Right lol Eventually got it but the static was super bad.
Such a cool system. Man I loved old Sega.
Soodanim
Member
I know everything is exaggerated because it's a YouTube reaction video playing to a primarily American audience. But I know absolutely nothing about music except that this soundtrack has quite possibly the GOAT, so it's nice to see something I've loved since childhood approached from a perspective alien to me but with the same conclusion.
I played through the entire game just the other day on a whim and it's still just as fun as ever. 4 is unquestionably a mechanically stronger game, but 2 is a fantastic, timeless game that is more than just the gameplay.
The thing I found about 4 is that I didn't appreciate it until I got separate speakers and stopped playing the game through TV audio. It's a soundtrack that gets lost in modern TVs.
I played through the entire game just the other day on a whim and it's still just as fun as ever. 4 is unquestionably a mechanically stronger game, but 2 is a fantastic, timeless game that is more than just the gameplay.
The thing I found about 4 is that I didn't appreciate it until I got separate speakers and stopped playing the game through TV audio. It's a soundtrack that gets lost in modern TVs.
tomato shrub
Member
Old retro guys aren't better. The platform was taken over early by fanboys who paint this picture of retro gaming that revolves around a few Nintendo games, where the impact of a mildly successful platformer like Megaman is blown way out of proportion, where Castlevania talk ends before SotN and where you wouldn't know that Tekken is the bigger mainstream fighting series bc Street Fighter 2 is the only thing you ever hear about. I mean I was a Nintendo kid too, but retro YT paints such a skewed picture.
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Krappadizzle
Member
Great soundtrack. Love when the song jumps into my workout mix.
Hunter 99
Member
Still listen to it today.me as a 5 year old playing this in the utility room of my parents house with a small crt tv.played countless hours solo and Co op with cousins.
Absolutely amazing and was always buzzing especially the level with jett as a boss.i think it's the bridge level.that music blows me away today let alone when I was a kid!
Absolutely amazing and was always buzzing especially the level with jett as a boss.i think it's the bridge level.that music blows me away today let alone when I was a kid!
streets of rage 1 and 2 are some peak sega being sega as the master system and gamegear versions are different games and not just a zoomed in camera on the game gear,Nice, the elusive Game Gear version
and all 4 are excellent 8 bit beat em ups,
tons of channels are poorly researched, plus nobody ever covers the philips in2it.
Putonahappyface
Member
Nostalgia. Many hours spent playing the Streets of Rage franchise.
RAIDEN1
Member
It was one of the most DUMBEST decisions by Sega to firstly give a dam about getting Final Fight onto the Sega CD, when the REAL money was getting Streetfighter 2 on there...and then you've got a game in Streets of Rage that is even better than Final Fight yet you don't bring out a Streets of Rage CD, and then when you do include it in some collection it's got next to no improvements in it...the music would have been even better had they released it on there....