Hello champions, good to see you.
I've been listening to some gaming tunes on my cellphone, and I've been wondering: Man, music in gaming surely changed in the last years. Nowadays, most triple-A games just use some generic orchestral soundtrack, most of them being awfully forgettable. They're not bad, they're just...generic, and that is a shame.
I'm a big fan of "video-gamey" music. I'm not talking 8-bit renditions of songs, no. I'm talking music that fits perfectly in a video-game scenario, and solely there. We have less and less music like that nowadays, and it is a shame. Some companies still make songs/music like that: Nintendo, Capcom, etc, but it's getting rarer and rarer.
I'd like to hear your opinion on this: Do you prefer orchestral themes, or "video-game music" in your video-games?
Giving two examples to make myself clear:
"Video-gamey music":
Other examples: Street Fighter, Deux Ex (the original one), Unreal Tournament, Castlevania series, Zero Escape
Orchestal music:
Other examples: Guild Wars 2, Call of Duty, Gears of War, Batman Arkham Series.
This is not a thread about one being better than other, it's a thread about preferences. I want to hear your preferences and why you like x better than y. Keep the comments civil if possible.