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    Is America ready for a trance/dance music themed video game?

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    depends on the game. Without either being a puzzle game or something so abstract that trance just "fits" - trance wouldn't really work with many games as proper BGM. And designing a game around trance music for the sake of the music itself may not be the best idea.

    From my experience trance tends to irritate those who aren't into it. You could show them all the hiphop and r&b tunes you want with trance leads and synth arpeggios but most people I know who aren't into trance hear it and react to it the same way the vast majority of the people on this site do to hip hop - with either disinterest or disgust.

    It's not really good or bad - just is what it is...

    I agree wholly that it depends on the game. That's why I think that you have to make sure that the content the user will be playing matches what the music is doing, this way the user is more attached to the content. I feel like music is a key connector in a users gaming experience even if they aren't paying attention to it, they will enjoy the game a lot better during the experience and then afterward whenever they hear the song again.

    We do the same thing on this site. We hear a song from a game we love and are instantly connected to a great memory even if at that time we weren't even paying attention to the music.

    I honestly think songs that are heavy on the trance like bLiNd's - Jade Catacombs all the way to a more chill side like your IceCapped song, if matched to the right content could create an extremely awesome gamer experience, just like their respective original versions did.

    So..... a whole soundtrack like this?

    http://www.zshare.net/audio/64295219ed27f6ce/

    Did it in 10 minutes. Is Progressive Trance just a hip hop beat with a Gated saw running through the middle or what? Thats what all I heard on your examples.

    I don't think it would be awful for a game soundtrack to do it, but it might have to be a really funky weird game like Vib Ribbon before an unusual soundtrack like that might work.

    That would work perfectly for a puzzle type game like bejeweled. I'm talking about branching out the mainstream listeners to more than just that and show them more advanced beats and progressions.

    Is America ready for a trance/dance music themed video game?

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    With all of the recent auto-tuned songs and basic trance beat hip hop/pop that's out there right now. Kids might not even realize they are listening to trance beats when they listen to the pop songs they love.

    The lame trance beats

    (at 1:24)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocif0HitnOQ

    (this one upsets me the most... cause this song is so huge and everybody's favorite part is at 2:00 when the "beat drops" yet it's the most basic trance beat EVER!....these are the same people that say "I hate that techno crap"...grrrrrrr)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F444CELomo

    The Ripoffs

    (the best is when somebody says "Kanye makes the bests songs... wait what? whos daft punk?")

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jzSh_MLNcY

    (this one makes be pretty sick to my stomach too)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSGPcEk4-Lk

    Dance to Pop integration

    the list goes on and on with lady gaga and katy perry and all the other pop/hip hop that's out there using trance and dance beats.

    Do you think America is ready for a game with trance music as it's main background music theme? Do they need more time for integration? Or must they suffer with more of the same low quality trance beats, the auto-tuning and the four to the floor dance bass.

    Personally I would love to answer yes to this question mostly because that would be epic and I believe it can be done because of the great trance remixes and artists that I listen to from this site everyday. Makes me wish the trance versions were the real versions.

    If yes explain why or maybe what genre would be a good fit. If no also please explain.

    Thoughts?

    Edit: And when I say video game I'm excluding the rhythm game genre (DDR's and the Beatmania2DX's and the like)

    All Time Hardest Boss

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    If anybody has played KOF 97 they know Orochi is the cheesiest hardest boss in a fighting game. I think I wasted more quarters trying to beat this guy than on any other arcade game.

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    A player using Orochi against the computer. Yes the computer would play just as cheesy.

    The Newbie Introduction Thread: Come on in and say hello!

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    Hi everybody,

    While this site is definitely not new to me, these forums are. I've been enjoying OCR for about 8-9 years now off and on and video game music in general my entire life. I decided to finally register because I'm a little older now and I feel like I can finally invest some time into a community that I really do appreciate and care about.

    First I want to say thank you to djpretzel and anybody else who was a part of making this site and whoever helped keep it going strong. Also all of the DJ's that have contributed to making VGM remixes. This site has brought me a lot of joy over the past years and I just wanted to acknowledge everybody for that.

    Thank You.

    Now a little about myself,

    I grew up playing video games my entire life. I was born in the NES generation (born Aug 1985, two months later Nintendo launched in America Oct 1985). My earliest video game memory was when I was 3 years old, I played Galaga on my older brothers NES all night long until I practically peed my pants (Considering I was only 3 I probably did lol). Fast forward 20 years and I now work in the industry working a dream job as a video game tester.

    I know how to read music and play the piano poorly haha, but at least well enough to teach myself a song if I wanted to learn one. A.K.A. I only ever want to learn how to play my favorite video game songs.

    My music genre of choice is Electronica with the main sub genres being Trance/Eurodance/Dance which I'm not surprised since I've been listening to repetative video game music my whole life.

    I love all video game genres but my favorite growing up were the amazing platform games that you don't see anymore today (marios, megamans, dk countrys, earthworm jims etc). As I grew older I started to really enjoy RPG's and now I pretty much play anything I can get my hands on since it's all considered "market research."

    Anyways hello all and I hope to see you around on the site! Happy Remixing!

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