{"id":1370,"date":"2025-03-12T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/?p=1370"},"modified":"2025-03-13T18:22:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T18:22:15","slug":"games-inbox-is-video-game-music-getting-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/12\/games-inbox-is-video-game-music-getting-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Games Inbox: Is video game music getting worse?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fantasy 7 Rebirth – a new old soundtrack (Square Enix)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Wednesday letters page is resigned to the next generation being all about AI, as one reader wonders what happened to The Wolf Among Us 2.<\/p>\n

To join in with the discussions yourself email gamecentral@metro.co.uk<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

PLEASE NOTE:<\/strong> Due to staff illness there will be no new Games Inbox on Thursday. Normal service will resume on Friday.<\/p>\n

Bottom of the pops<\/strong>
Is it me or is modern video game music really boring? It\u2019s very high quality but it all sounds like movie music and I never feel any of it is memorable. Very few game soundtracks feel like they were made for a game anymore, just its cut scenes at most.<\/p>\n

It says something when the best soundtrack of recent years has been for the Final Fantasy 7 remakes<\/a>, but they\u2019re only memorable because they\u2019re based on older tracks (although they are very well reimagined). Starfield<\/a> was the only other one I can remember liking recently but although good it could easily just have been a movie soundtrack and you\u2019d never know.<\/p>\n

I miss the days when I could hum a video game tune and everyone would know what it is. I mean, what\u2019s the theme tune for famous modern games like God Of War<\/a> or Monster Hunter<\/a> or whatever? Compare that to Halo<\/a> and Metal Gear<\/a> Solid and it\u2019s no competition at all. I miss those days.
ChaosMR<\/strong><\/p>\n

PC in disguise<\/strong>
What I don\u2019t understand about Microsoft\u2019s new direction is why they think anyone\u2019s going to invest in their ecosystem as they go multiformat and sideline their hardware plans. Xbox consoles are basically irrelevant now and the only other place Game Pass is available is on PC, so the number of people signing up to that and gamertags and whatever is going to shrink every year.<\/p>\n

Sure, they may make you sign into an account, like Uplay+ and whatever, but that doesn\u2019t mean anything and certainly hasn\u2019t helped Ubisoft. If you\u2019re a PC in a box you\u2019re\u2026 just a PC. There\u2019s nothing special about the hardware other than the logo on the case.<\/p>\n

Xbox just is Activision Blizzard now, plus a few sidelines, and every new rumour and annoucement just seems to cement the fact that they\u2019re purely a third party publisher.
Blastermaster<\/strong><\/p>\n

Welcome Crisis<\/strong>
I don\u2019t want to excite anyone, but Capcom has apparently trademarked the name Dino Crisis again. I know that doesn\u2019t necessarily mean anything, and sometimes they have to do this just to keep the name, but now there\u2019s hope that finally a dinosaur crisis could break out on modern consoles.<\/p>\n

Like many, I\u2019m hoping Capcom spend their Monster Hunter money on anything other than Monster Hunter and a new Dino Crisis would be my number one choice. I\u2019ll take whatever I can get but personally I\u2019d prefer a brand new game rather than a remake. I\u2019ll take that but the original had quite a bit of dull puzzling that wasn\u2019t actually that much fun, so I\u2019d like to see a completely modern take, like the new Onimusha.
Flambe<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Too many and not enough<\/strong>
Interesting to read how few gamers finish games. I don’t think it\u2019s down to having less time but that there’s so many games being released. You only have to look on the stores of all formats to see there\u2019s hundreds of games being released every week. Admittedly a lot are dross but it\u2019s still overwhelming. Then you have Game Pass and PlayStation Plus, where you have so many games that as soon as you start playing one you\u2019re already thinking about the next one.<\/p>\n

When I was gaming in the \u201870s, \u201880s, and \u201890s (that makes me feel old) games where few and far between, so we rinsed every last drop out of each game that we enjoyed. Makes me laugh that gamers now still moan that not enough games are coming out. I know they mean AAA games but hardly any are that now, as they\u2019re released unfinished or broken, but there\u2019s still lots of great indie games being released.
Rob<\/strong><\/p>\n

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