And this is why music should never be talked about. It’s honestly on the level of politics and religion. People can talk about how there are objective views and quality basis, but there is no RIGHT answer to anything. All it does is lead to worthless arguments, only unlike politics and religion, VG OSTs mean absolutely nothing in the end (outside of the times it’s actually connected to the game itself, ala rhythm games).
People still forget that many of the SF4 songs follow the EXACT same formula of SF2: catchy melodies, importantly with medium to long size, played by instruments instead of a singer, and with drums following it. It’s almost like a hit single, but just instrumental. They did exactly like in SF2.
SF4 isn’t without its good music obviously. Some of the ones you posted @cazetta are only in that minority of good music.
My SF4 favorites are:
Gouken
Viper (Although this one can get noisy and doesn’t suit Viper’s character)
Abel
Crumbling Lab (both rounds)
Indestructible (grower not a shower)
Old Temple
Cruise Ship
Overpass
Africa Airfield
There’s a few character theme remixes that were just acceptable, but nothing that beat the original. This was actually my main gripe with the SF4 music, it wasn’t the stage music. It was that most if not all their attempts at remixing the SF2 themes were not only failures, they were insulting.
Agreed dude. The new SF5 character theme for Ryu IMO is as good as the original theme if not better. SF5 stage music ~SF4; A few good tracks but mostly just that, background, and not memorable. The character themes and menu themes are 100x better than SF4 for the most part (Bison’s is taking some used to)
That is actually an exception. While the SF4 Bison theme was somewhere between crap and okay, it is still better than their ridiculous remix in SF5. Bison’s theme was massacred for SF5, it lost all its class in favor of a machine that keeps moaning.