Whats Wrong With Game Music?
[Instead of the distinctive themes of the olden days, most of today’s popular titles have indistinguishable soundtracks. Game Developer EIC Brandon Sheffield explores the reasons — and possible solutions.] Most game music these days is boring. I’m sorry, but it’s true. Music is one of the more pervasive arts. It’s integrated into almost all our visual entertainment media, played in stores, supports our advertising, and obnoxiously decorates our social networking pages. Rare is the person who does not listen to music. So with all this music interaction out there, why is so much video game music so consistently generic? Music, of course, is very subjective. It may even polarize people’s interests more than other traditional arts do, given that listening to music has far more universal appeal than does going to a museum, leafing through an art book, or for many, even watching movies. Further, it’s easy for people to be opinionated about music because all the artists’ names are very visib
