When Video Game Hype involves Music: "Forget about the big-beat techno music that used to permeate SSX, that is so 90s"

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as seen from IGN's bit on the next SSX snowboarding game:

...SSX On Tour is keeping the over-the-top gameplay aspects from the series but completely revamping the game's presentation. Forget about the big-beat techno music that used to permeate SSX, that is so 90s. This year it's all about rock n' roll or as EA put it - "becoming a black diamond rockstar."
EA has yet to nail down the licensed tracks is it will be using but expect an assortment featuring the new stars of rock and roll along with some hip hop tracks...

― kingfish (Kingfish), Saturday, 18 June 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

i don't like the ssx games

― That One Guy (That One Guy), Saturday, 18 June 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

Video Game Industry following the porn industry's lead shocker...

Welcome to the nu-nu-metal video game soundtrack age.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

― donut e-goo (donut), Saturday, 18 June 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

well, big budget video games had creatively become the nu-metal equivalent years ago, but now they're just adding the literal icing.

― donut e-goo (donut), Saturday, 18 June 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

(..with exceptions, yes. GTA, etc.)

― donut e-goo (donut), Saturday, 18 June 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

oh, i hope the next SSX has more tracks from Yellowcard!

― kingfish (Kingfish), Saturday, 18 June 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

EA used to have some really GREAT videogame soundtracks; NBA Street was amazing Just Blaze riffs, but now I play with the sound off for v. 3...

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 18 June 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

Everyone knows the greatest videogame soundtrack is Maniac Mansion
or maybe Final Fantasy VII

― That One Guy (That One Guy), Saturday, 18 June 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

The recent Midnight Club DUB edition soundtrack had a radio station with nothing but Underground Resistance and friends. It's a Rockstar release, of course.

Game development teams with decision makers who have an ear for the right tunes + some/total control over the licensing of music that goes into a game is a very rare combination.

― Scott Warner (thream), Saturday, 18 June 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

Is DR still doing Wipeout design?

― Lukas (lukas), Sunday, 19 June 2005 00:39 (twenty years ago)

I have tickets to hear the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra perform Final Fantasy music. Should be pretty rad.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 19 June 2005 01:07 (twenty years ago)

I AM INTERESTED IN BECOMING A BLACK DIAMOND ROCKSTAR

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 19 June 2005 01:25 (twenty years ago)

Grand Theft Auto: Telluride, by Black Diamond Rockstar Games North.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 19 June 2005 01:43 (twenty years ago)

I looked through the new Wipeout's manual and there's no DR mention. Paul Hartnoll did some music for it, though.

― mike h. (mike h.), Sunday, 19 June 2005 02:13 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, what's this whole 'black diamond rockstar' thing about? Random new KISS-inspired genre I've never heard of? Idiot fake slang?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 19 June 2005 02:14 (twenty years ago)

"rockstar" is such an annoying catchphrase in the way it's being used there. i've heard it before. i hate it. "omg you were SUCH a rockstar at the party last night!!"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 19 June 2005 02:23 (twenty years ago)

the DR ads for WipeOut 3 that would run during the pro-wrestling shows in 1999 were fookin' awesome...

― kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 19 June 2005 02:45 (twenty years ago)

The new Wipeout (Wipout Pure for the PSP) has a bunch of great IDM tracks on it. and an exclusive track by Aphex Twin. Plus the game is pretty damn good!.

― That One Guy (That One Guy), Sunday, 19 June 2005 03:06 (twenty years ago)

These are the tracks on it

Cold Storage - Onyx
Cosmos - Kinection
Drumattic Twins - Twister
Elite Force - Cross the Line
Freq Nasty - Grand Theft
Friendly - We Got Juice
Jay Tripwire - Room 2
LFO - Flu-Shot
Ming + FS - Hellion
Paul Hartnoll - Ignition
Photek - C Note
Plump DJs - Black Jack 3
Rennie Pilgrem & Roxiller - Bug
T Power - The System
Stanton Warriors - Night Mover
Tayo Meets Acid Rockers Uptown - Crafty Youth
Themroc - Mean Red
Tiesto - Gold Rush
Aphex Twin - Naks Acid

― That One Guy (That One Guy), Sunday, 19 June 2005 03:09 (twenty years ago)

That looks quite good, but quite a bit of breaks on there.. And tiesto, bleargh.

The soundtrack on the first wipeout game was quite cool from what I recall. Well I thought it was cool at the time.

I like the 80's radio stations in GTA: Vice City, they add great atmosphere. The most recent GTA wasn't quite so convincing though I did like the funk station hosted by George Clinton. And the alternative station.

The only other game soundtrack I really like is the Amon Tobin 'Chaos Theory' soundtrack. It works really well in the game, just blasts in with some heavy drums when you get discovered, otherwise is silent or has some spooky atmosphere's, I think he did a really good job on it..
Would be good to see more game soundtracks being done this way.

― Bn1, Sunday, 19 June 2005 04:03 (twenty years ago)

The breaks tunes on it are awful, but I don't get the hate for the Tiesto track - quite a lot like Alter Ego "Rocker", noisy/dissonant, etc.

― Siegbran (eofor), Sunday, 19 June 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

Ned I seem to recall from the one day of my life I spent on "the slopes" that black diamonds are used to designate particularly difficult ways down the mountain.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 19 June 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

And: I find it hard to believe that anything will match 1997-1998 for videogaming excitement. I remember mimicking Laura Croft in the hallway with strangers.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 19 June 2005 12:06 (twenty years ago)

That must have required some reverse engineering.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 19 June 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

I think the K-ROSE station on GTA San Andreas may be the best collection of songs ever recorded.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 19 June 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

its a shame you cant get a Cd of KROSE stuff.

but cause Tim Sweeny did the tracklisting it reeks of hipster kudos.

― daniel Hamilton, Sunday, 19 June 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

SSX games are really fun.

It's my understanding that getting tracks placed on video game soundtracks is a fulltime job at most of the major labels.

Voodoo Vince, although a mediocre game, had a really fun, swampy, kitch-jazz soundtrack, I think it was released on CD.

GTA and Tony Hawk are pretty much the masters of the licensed soundtrack, both those series do a fantastic job of it....THUG 2's soundtrack was just fantastic, as have all the GTA games been....Midnight Club 3's is really great....

The founders of Rockstar both have a background in the record business...one of them was an A&R for one of the Brit major's dance divisions in the late 80s early 90s, I believe.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Sunday, 19 June 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

it's tricky to rock around to rock around it's right on time it's tricky

― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 19 June 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

http://www.eurogamer.net/assets/converted/pics/reviews/ssxtricky_ps2/a_med_01b.jpg
"awwww yeah, you're trickin' GOOOOD!"

― kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 19 June 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

do you miss that game, kingfish? i haven't played it in a while.

― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 19 June 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

i sold it last year with my PS2 to move to portland.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 19 June 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

also, i hope that the next one has more shitty car ads(the SCION! the ELEMENT!) and other badly-dated product placement (remember 7-up's dnL thing?)

― kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 19 June 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Sadly, I think in-game advertising and product placement is only going to get more and more prominent, based on every exec I've ever talked to.

Also, I'd wager that the era of the $59.99 game is upon us.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Sunday, 19 June 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

Fuck that; the era of the online game rental service is upon us.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 19 June 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

dude, kingfish, you sold it to me. hit one less bong, bro.

FUNKY DOPE MANEUVER

― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 19 June 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

I CAN'T REMEMBER ALL THESE THINGS. i sold the ps2 to one ilxor, a buncha games to another, ssx to you, the gamecube and games to my cousin who drove up from ohio to get it, etc etc etc.

anybody wanna buy some dreamcast games? i still have Shenmue, Crazy Taxi, and Jet Grind Radio(which does have plenty of licensed music in its own right).

― kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 19 June 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

suffice it to say, SSX 3 had some cool bits and i liked the multiple runs down the mountain. the ads and the shitty DJ and the FOOKIN' TERRIBLE music didn't help, tho.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 19 June 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

(cannot believe nobody has mentioned Burnout 3)

but Vice City rules the thread here, all the great radio stations and Flock of Seagulls 'I ran..'. so so good.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 20 June 2005 08:05 (twenty years ago)

Jet Grind Radio and the Xbox-only (argh!) sequel were good.

remember 7-up's dnL thing?

Uh, how's this dated? There might not be a promo push now, but I still buy this stuff every few weeks at the convenience store. It hasn't disappeared yet.

― mike h. (mike h.), Monday, 20 June 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

Man, I misread that as Game Show Music.

TS: Edd Kalehoff vs. Bob Israel

fact or fiction: "Is it true that the Match Game theme song used a 50 foot wah-wah pedal operated by a small city?"

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Monday, 20 June 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

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