Board 8 > Which videogame had your least favorite soundtrack?

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Dragon Quest XI was the first thought, considering it's a game I spent a lot of time with and didn't particularly enjoy many if any songs

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I don't really have one? Of course there are individual songs I dislike but I can't think of a game where I felt the OST was just bad. Just kind of a level where it fades into oblivion in my memory because it's just not memorable at all to me.

...Like Warcraft III? Maybe? I can't think of any song there I liked enough to remain even slightly in my memory so maybe it wins by default? Pokemon TCG? Pokemon RBY?

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Crazy Bus

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i could not finish playing banjo kazooie because i thought the music was just too cheesy and fake and stupid and eventually couldn't stand playing it anymore. i love the game in every other way but wish like literally anyone else had done the soundtrack, just totally ruined it for me. the composition isn't even horrible, cartoony stuff is fine, it's just the fakeness and monotony of it all. maybe i'd like it if the instrumentation was more like super paper mario (one of my favorite soundtracks ever) or something

there's other game music / full soundtracks i like much less, but none i'm aware of where it's to a type of game i'd normally love that much, so i have a more personal frustration with banjo kazooie than anything else
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if it's bad i usually just lower the volume or focus on something else and it just fades away so i legit don't know.
Drakengard, maybe? can't say i played much of it though because it's ass but so is the music.

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Sonic and the Dark Brotherhood

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Of recent titles, Pokemon Sword and Shield. That soundtrack sucks. Only enjoyed a couple from the entire game, the rest were super bland, or just not good. Which is shitty, because I enjoy 90% of all the other Pokemon songs in the series.

I'm probably over exaggerating and there is more songs that I actually do think is good, but the battle music just isn't good, and it's a shame because that's the one you hear the most.

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I loathe the Pokemon Gen 3 soundtrack. The first two Pokemon gens have some of the best video game music of all time imo, and I still can't get over how steep the decline was in Gen 3. It was like going from Kobe beef to generic-brand Spam.

While Gen 7 had issues and Gen 8 is very flawed, I appreciate that they really turned the series' soundtrack quality back around. The Alola soundtrack in particular was very easy on the ears.

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Resident evil directors cut

Sorry forgot to specify the dual shock version but I'm not sure I had to

TheCodeisBosco posted...

I loathe the Pokemon Gen 3 soundtrack. The first two Pokemon gens have some of the best video game music of all time imo, and I still can't get over how steep the decline was in Gen 3. It was like going from Kobe beef to generic-brand Spam.

While Gen 7 had issues and Gen 8 is very flawed, I appreciate that they really turned the series' soundtrack quality back around. The Alola soundtrack in particular was very easy on the ears.

bruh

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NFUN posted...

bruh

Sorry, can't hear you over the world's tinniest trumpets!

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Too hoo

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There tends to be a correlation between games that I play and soundtracks that I like. It would be very rare for there to be a game that I play actively yet I don't enjoy the music (I guess one recent exception would be Pokemon XY, which has exactly 2 noteworthy songs and everything else is completely forgettable).

So for me to figure my least favorite soundtrack, I'd have to look for games that I don't play which have highly celebrated soundtracks that I personally don't care for (either negative or neutral). And that would most likely land me somewhere on the SNES. I've never been into that system as much as most people in my internet demographic.

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Dragon Quest IX was the most disappointing one, that game deserved a better soundtrack than it got.

Least favorite of any serious games I've played...usually I find most soundtracks pretty good, maybe forgettable at worst. I don't know of many instances where a soundtrack was all around weak. I didn't like Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance's soundtrack much, some tracks were good but it sure did try to sound dissonant a lot, didn't work for me despite the game's title.

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Wanglicious posted...

Drakengard, maybe?

wow no the Drakengard OST is an absolute masterpiece
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th3l3fty posted...

wow no the Drakengard OST is an absolute masterpiece

You know that not everybody can appreciate it. Some people don't like ecroF evitisoP, and somebody said Crazy Bus in this very thread!

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crazy bus is the obvious answer but as for a soundtrack that was actually deliberately composed and not randomly generated... maybe the NES version of xevious? the whole soundtrack is less than 20 seconds, it has 2 songs, one is terrible and one is among the worst pieces of music (not just VGM) i've ever heard.

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Came here to say Banjo-Kazooie. Did not expect Mycro to beat me to the punch.

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azuarc posted...

Did not expect Mycro to beat me to the punch.

he talked about his repugnance to the banjo-kazooie soundtrack plenty of times in the last VGMC!

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Banjo? Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire? What the heck? I get differing tastes but like, this is a world with Yoshi's New Island and Sonic Chronicles in it. Come on! (Dewford Town rules)

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Persona 3 or 4

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tbf I only know the title music so maybe other songs are decent but "beep"

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The most frustrated I get is just Dragon Quest as a series.

It's not that any given composition is bad, it's the lack of variance between them. They sound lovely as movements in an orchestra, but with the crappy compression combined with how often they're interrupted in-game, they just suck to listen to. The start of each song is usually the weakest part, and you hear it CONSTANTLY. Plus the old man can only seem to make variations on about six songs that all hit the same notes - I think "Ole Sylvando" was the first piece of music in YEARS that I cared to remember by name, and it required being attached to Sylvando for me to care.

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andylt posted...

Banjo? Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire? What the heck? I get differing tastes but like, this is a world with Yoshi's New Island and Sonic Chronicles in it. Come on! (Dewford Town rules)

Never played Sonic Chronicles, but I can confirm that Yoshi's New Island indeed has an even worse soundtrack than Pokemon RSE. Great answer.

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Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. It does have some good tracks, but the overworld (on land) theme and the dungeon theme were so pathetic and constantly reused that it made the whole soundtrack seem cheap. For a Zelda game it was just awful, and I can't think of any other game I've played recently that did that poorly in the soundtrack department.

There's probably been plenty of games that I've played with bland forgettable soundtracks, but DQXI is the only one I can remember in recent memory that actively bothered me with how bad it was.
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Paratroopa1 posted...

Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. It does have some good tracks, but the overworld (on land) theme and the dungeon theme were so pathetic and constantly reused that it made the whole soundtrack seem cheap. For a Zelda game it was just awful, and I can't think of any other game I've played recently that did that poorly in the soundtrack department.

Spirit Tracks is pretty disappointing too, but at least the overworld theme is excellent

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Spirit Tracks is a very slight improvement solely based on the fact that it has actual dungeon themes

Probably not the worst soundtrack but Rogue Legacy was in particular very irritating with how repetitive the castle area theme is and how often you have to hear it.

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Yoshi's Crafted World is the only game I've played where I actually had to mute the sound after a while. It wasn't really the whole soundtrack though as much as it was one song that played in most of the levels.

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I wasn't a fan of MLB The Show 19's soundtrack. Not a lot of songs to begin with and I remember only one I think being of any interest to me.

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ZenOfThunder posted...

Sonic and the Dark Brotherhood

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Tales of Berseria was pretty weak in this respect
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I'm struggling to think of anything I actively disliked. (other than Crazy Bus and like probably some shovelware) I don't dislike Pokemon RSE, but I like it less than the rest of the series, which seems to be a hot take. I think I maybe even bought the Yoshi's Story soundtrack back in the day but the only part I can remember now is the shrill Yoshi singing.

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Nothing particularly stands out as being far worse, but video game music just isn't typically that remarkable in the first place.

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TomNook posted...

Nothing particularly stands out as being far worse, but video game music just isn't typically that remarkable in the first place.

lmao

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I dunno about least favorite, but the Dragon Quest series has subpar music. It bothered me how mediocre to bad it all was.
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I stopped playing Persona 5 partly because I couldn't abide by the terrible english pronounciation in some songs. I can only hear "I'm a shapshefter" that many times.

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TomNook posted...

Nothing particularly stands out as being far worse, but video game music just isn't typically that remarkable in the first place.

no

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I don't know how to answer this
There are plenty of games in which the soundtrack is barely noticable (i.e almost every Resident Evil game, Save Room excluded)
I don't recall a game that I had to turn off the music or turn it down or just couldn't stand it

There ARE however games that their music is disappointing compared to what I expect from the rest of the series
Best example would be Mega Man 11 (I don't like instrumental music either)

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Marvel vs Capcom 2

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Nanis23 posted...

I don't know how to answer this
There are plenty of games in which the soundtrack is barely noticable (i.e almost every Resident Evil game, Save Room excluded)
I don't recall a game that I had to turn off the music or turn it down or just couldn't stand it

There ARE however games that their music is disappointing compared to what I expect from the rest of the series
Best example would be Mega Man 11 (I don't like instrumental music either)

Me and my big mouth
Started The Messenger
And oh my god the first stage music is painful to the ears
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_5Tei-Y8so

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I like The Messenger's soundtrack.

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Oh, actually, based on what I know about it from other sources (Smash Ultimate/the internet), Persona 5 is one of them for me.

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some based takes in here ngl

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Yo I didn't know anyway could hate on Banjo-Kazooie's soundtrack.

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Crazy Bus

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Probably like, Just Cause 4 or something? That all seemed pretty generic.
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The only game I remember having actively negative thoughts about the soundtrack of was Halo 4, and that was mainly because the final boss music was really good, which made me realise that I hadn't noticed the music at all up to that point. Since the previous games all had great soundtracks, a completely unmemorable one was really disappointing.
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