Over the past few years, one of my favorite past-times while online has been to listen to various video game music files that I've come across. After listening to ones from both old and new games, I've paid a little more attention to the already-significant changes in the quality of the music. Don't get me wrong! Older video game songs had their own type of good quality, but the bar has definitely been raised.
It seems like the instrumentations have gotten a lot better and there is a lot more variety in the overall sound of things. Instruments blend a lot more and the sound is louder, more brilliant, and just overall astounding.
These songs have become the product of departments within game publishing companies that are dedicated to writing, orchastrating, and arranging these songs around the clock. These departments are becoming more and more important to these companies and are nothing to be taken for granted. They truely make a big difference in games.
So, from the pings of Atari to the orchestras of the current generation, things have gone in the upward direction and will continue to. Here's to the future of these wonderful compositions.
