quite a few modern Sonic the Hedgehog games
some of the games have been quite mid (though i still enjoy anything sonic for the most part, thankfully i dont look at things very critically and can just enjoy a piece of media) but the soundtracks rarely fail to get me in a good mood!
There’s a game for the SNES called Act Raiser, I think it was by Quintet or Taito or Square, one of those. You play Actual God taking back the world from Probably Satan, you do this partly in a side scrolling platforming combat style, and partially in an overhead city building style. Surprisingly good soundtrack for a game as weird as it is.
Actraiser is one of my all time favorite games; I replay it every couple of years.
The combination of Sim & Platformer always kind of apealed to me because I play a variety of genres and weird combos like that are always interesting.
Actraiser 2 dropped the city building and I lost interest.
Turok 2 for GBC. Mediocre game, but man, the OST is a banger.
Tron, any of them. Would hesitate to even call them mediocre though lol
A Rose in the Twilight. Pretty unexciting and quiet puzzle platformer with a main character that’s slow and hard to control and dies easily.
Then past the main credits, it pulls out a secret final boss fight with this banger.
California Crisis
Depending on who you ask, Tron: Legacy.
(I personally love the movie and rewatch it every couple years but it didn’t do well, IIRC.)
I murdered a lot of reapas in Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer to some of those songs.
| Depending on who you ask, Tron: Legacy.
The last real Daft Punk release.
Depending on who you ask, Tron: Legacy.
The movie was OK, but I vastly prefer the original. It has a certain 80s “Gee whiz aren’t these newfangled computers the greatest” feeling that you just can’t recapture.
Weirdest Sheridan and Londo fanfic I’ve ever seen. 👍
Rinzler’s my fav, tiny gods it’s still so good. Thanks for the share.
End of line 🤌
True, the soundtrack single handedly elevates it - there’s not much without that.
The fountain (2006). The soundtrack was partially produced by the band Mogwai.
Love the movie and love Clint Mansell scores. Didn’t know about Mogwai and that’s dope! Only just recently discovered them.
You thought it was mediocre? Man, that’s one of my favorite movies.
Same. Did you know that all the nebulas and other space stuff, pretty much all the cgi, is not cgi? It’s images of things taken through a microscope. The bubble around the tree for example is a single cell. So cool.
I think without the score it would be mediocre. The music is why I love the movie so much.
Spawn movie.
If Spawn counts as a mediocre movie with good music, then you’d think Flash Gordon would be in the same category. But I don’t think either of those movies are mediocre.
I mean, cool, I fucking loved it, but let’s be real that outside of John leguizamo, the performances were mid. And it had almost no lasting impact. It’s just kind of an “oh yeah that was a movie wasn’t it” mid 90s comic book schlock.
But that album was like, actually peak 90s metal/ hardcore.
I might have a strange definition of mediocre, but basically, I think that if I had seen the movie once, and then I decide it’s worth watching again, then somehow it must not be mediocre. I’ve seen Spawn several times.
I think “mediocre” in this context would be mediocre to most people. Rather than you specifically. At least, that’s why I added some brackets explaining my Tron: Legacy answer in this post. (I personally don’t think it’s mediocre but imagine most did.)
I think “mediocre” in this context would be mediocre to most people.
I think you cannot ask about something subjective without getting people’s personal opinions. If you ask about an aspect of a mediocre thing, then you can expect at least some debate about what counts as mediocre, and probably none of the people’s answers will be correct.
For me, a “mediocre” movie would be something that I would only watch again if a friend wanted to watch it, but if it was just an option and I got to choose, I’d never choose it. But if it was just “on”, I might not change the channel. Let’s see, like The Rock directed by Michael Bay.
And then there are “bad” movies that I wouldn’t watch even if I had a friend who wanted to see it, like any other Michael Bay movie that I’ve seen. Armageddon had pretty good music, but it wasn’t mediocre. It was bad.
/shrug, you do you. I’m just leading a horse to water. But I cannot fill a cup which is already full.
Tron: legacy
and Tron: Ares
Haven’t listened to that one yet. I’ll have to check it out.
Imagine slotting
into your SNES in 1993 and hearing THIS. The game kinda sucks but the music keeps you going.
I’ve never played mystic quest but I heard that song in Super Mario Bros Crossover!
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World has an awesome soundtrack.
The movie itself, has aged towards somewhere between mediocre and good.
Oh I still like that movie
We are Sex Bob-Omb and we’re here to make You think about death and get sad and stuff
Movies
- Sucker Punch
- Transformer 2 and beyond. The movies were shit but the score was top notch
- Blue Hawaii
Tv Shows
- The Book Of Bobba Fett
- Star Trek Enterprise
Star Trek Enterprise
Not again! I refuse to let that get stuck in my head for a week. I REFUSE! runs away screaming
It’s been a long road…
If karma truly exists you’re going to get it stuck in your head longer than I will.
Sucker Punch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZyCKVMzrX4&list=PLE0FA3E5E02103254
Transformer 2 and beyond.
Playlist is of all Transformers movie soundtracks, but this link will start at Transformers 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJNmOd3tWB0&list=PLKsSQjMAbBxjWkTmuCQb9rAiQEEmso4em&index=20
Blue Hawaii
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m-T4tarPy4&list=PLvDaQTRzMiRoM6RfTOasp2BOxwzrYkf-9
The Book Of Bobba Fett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJVuM-g9Gc8&list=PLuSPz2swq5PEF_6w4nLiwYbbISibLyKER
Star Trek Enterprise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdFp_ifToHU&list=PLtFDQ-QrwVZ3LdIL0fhcoInmVsUbFXpeE
Sucker Punch arguably would have been a better film if they went full Daft Punk and didn’t bother with actual dialogue.
I want to mention like three different games, but for each one someone would rightfully come after me for saying the game itself is mediocre. So I’ll just say I personally love these games, but I see with pretty clear eyes that aspects of them haven’t stood the test of time.
Mirror’s Edge, The Neverhood, and Yuri’s Revenge all have amazing soundtracks.
And after that disclaimer if you still try to pick a fight about how they’re not mediocre games, I’m going to also pretend I’m fighting the person who called them mediocre and then crawl out of our cartoon fight cloud.
Terry Scott Taylor has an incredibly deep back catalogue on his Bandcamp page - some pretty middle of the road, and some totally weird, worth having a rummage and seeing what you get… For those who don’t want to play lucky dip, there’s the full soundtrack to Neverhood, plus a couple of related albums (Songs from the Neverhood Vol 2 which was the platformer sequel, and Return to the Neverhood - which was released as a companion to the graphic novel).
I was honestly remiss in not mentioning him, his bandcamp is a treasure trove.
Never played Yuri’s Revenge, but the first two are certified bangers. I need a Neverhood Remaster.
With C&C, my sense that those games are somehow below par come mainly from a perception that RTS is a largely dead genre.
According to this list, the annual release count peaked around 2000, but RTSes are still coming out at a decent clip, maybe half the rate as they did then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_real-time_strategy_video_games
Some thoughts:
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The genre as it ran in its heyday was really aimed at keyboard+mouse play. I don’t think that it translates incredibly well to mobile or console. I remember trying to play Supreme Commander on a gamepad and not really liking it.
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Depending upon how one classifies games (the above list appears to treat real-time tactics games as a subgenre, which I wouldn’t), some real-time strategy games might go into a different bucket, the real-time tactics genre.
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I think that RTSes gave birth to some child genres, like MOBAs, that to some extent compete for marketshare.
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There were a lot of 2D RTSes that came out around 2000. I mean, it was something of a glut. I think that it was just a good match for the game hardware and computer capabilities of the time. But…you’d kind of expect some subsequent decrease if that’s the case. Other genres have had similar booms based on being a good match for the hardware of the time. For example, third generation consoles and fourth generation consoles saw a huge number of side-view 2D platformers, because they were a decent match for what the hardware could do. There are still modern side-view platformers that come out, but it’s a far smaller percentage of the game market than it was then.
You’re probably right. I know there’s a open source RTS project for Linux, I’ve been meaning to check it out.
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Yuri’s revenge isn’t even close to being mediocre tho, it was an amazing addon for an already amazing game.
Why specifically Yuri’s revenge?
The soundtrack! Maybe it’s nostalgia goggles, but I love the combo of classic cinema samples, guitar riffs, and mad science beats.
Just started another playthrough of catalyst after 5 years, absolutely serene soundtrack. Sure the game has issues but it’s for sure one of my favorites
The Neverhood is a flawed gem, one of those fantastic point&click adventure games that have some of that moon-logic malaise so common in Sierra games, up to an absurd point.
Yet every other aspect of the game is polished and fantastic enough I would recommend it with enough warning.
I would definitely not call it mediocre, it is anything but that, it is also in retrospective a worse “game” than some contemporary titles like Broken Sword or ToonStruck.
That’s just it - the writing, animation, music, the art direction, the voices - all stunning. But, the gameplay lets it down. What makes a mediocre game for me is, if watching someone else play a thing is a preferable experience, it’s not such a good game - speaking strictly of the “gameplay” aspects of the work.
I could catch a lot of flak from this opinion but I wonder if Cyberpunk 2077 could fit in this category: I have probably something around 100 hours in that game just because I like going around in the city and there’s some great writing, both for the main questline and even some random side-quests. But as much freedom I have from choosing how I want to deal with a mission, neither combat nor hacking is fun IMO. Hacking feels more like an overpowered magic ability that if you put enough points into it, it lets you cheat the game, and fighting is mostly a big mess, be it physical or shooting.
I should give it a go sometime, or at least listen to the OST.
