Soundtrack Central The best classic game music and more

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Adam Corn Apr 17, 2014

Loudr have released their next indie game music bundle.  One dollar scores the following five albums in MP3 or lossless FLAC:

- The Banner Saga
- Device 6
- Broken Age
- The Floor is Jelly
- Luftrausers

While $10 gets those plus twelve more:

- Transfiguration [exclusive]     
- Starbound Orchestral OST
- Yawhg
- Magnetic By Nature
- Escape Goat 2
- Curious Merchandise
- Eldritch
- Winnose
- Bardbarian
- Tribes: Ascend
- Into the Box
- Soul Fjord

Larger contributions are welcome, with prizes up for grabs to the highest contributors.  Offer expires May 1, 2014.  Details and downloads at the bundle home page:
http://www.gamemusicbundle.com/

Any favorites among the albums on offer?  The last bundle worked out VERY well for me (Braid, Dust, Electronic Super Joy) so I'll definitely be getting the five-album version at least.

TerraEpon Apr 17, 2014

FWIW to those reading, "Transfiguration" is a piano arrangement of Journey.


Of course I alreeady bought The Banner Saga and Broken Age....AND apparently Broken Age is getting a physical CD. Ugh.

Razakin Apr 17, 2014

TerraEpon wrote:

Of course I alreeady bought The Banner Saga and Broken Age....AND apparently Broken Age is getting a physical CD. Ugh.

Banner Saga is also getting a physical release, but I don't mind double dipping on both. And one album I recommend checking is the Escape Goat 2 one.

Ashley Winchester Apr 17, 2014

Razakin wrote:

And one album I recommend checking is the Escape Goat 2 one.

I'm almost afraid to ask... what kind of game is Escape Goat 2? Rather unique title for a game....

"Hey man, what are you playing?"

"Oh, I'm playing Escape Goat 2."

GoldfishX Apr 17, 2014

I think I might go ahead and get this and do one giant Capsule update for everything.

I'm unfamiliar with everything up there, so anything of interest? Anything worth noting about any of those titles?

Razakin Apr 17, 2014

Ashley Winchester wrote:

I'm almost afraid to ask... what kind of game is Escape Goat 2? Rather unique title for a game....

"Hey man, what are you playing?"

"Oh, I'm playing Escape Goat 2."

Puzzle platformer, and here's the link the game's site and a trailer even!

TerraEpon Apr 18, 2014

Razakin wrote:

Banner Saga is also getting a physical release, but I don't mind double dipping on both. And one album I recommend checking is the Escape Goat 2 one.

ActuallY i mean that, brainfart x.x

Adam Corn Apr 29, 2014

Only two days left on this.  And they've added three more albums to the $10 bundle:

- The Music of Junk Jack X
- Ether One
- Dragon Fantasy Book II

Anybody have an opinion on the the five-album $1 bundle vs. the twenty-album $10 one?  How do the $10 bundle's albums compare quality-wise?

TerraEpon Apr 29, 2014

The $1 is certainly worth it for Banner Saga and Broken Age alone. Hell if those were $15 it'd still be worth it (I think that's about what I payed for them total)

Adam Corn Apr 30, 2014

Having given first listen to Broken Age, I'll agree the bundle's worth it for that album alone.  Any upcoming VGM composer who needs to score for story sequences (and a lot of vets too) should give a listen to this to hear how it's done.  (A post-listen Wikipedia check reveals the composer, Peter McConnell, scored a plethora of LucasArts games, including many of their adventure titles).

On Banner Saga I'm 27 tracks and 65 minutes in and ready for the album to be over.  To be so solemn and serious there needs to be something more interesting musically going on.  For the most part I wasn't overwhelmed by Journey either so I may well be the odd one out here.

The Floor is Jelly is next.  With a title like that, can't help but be intrigued.

GoldfishX Apr 30, 2014

Adam Corn wrote:

The Floor is Jelly is next.  With a title like that, can't help but be intrigued.

I got the bundle earlier tonight and I actually went through this one. It's pretty much acoustic/electronic ambiance. Not bad for what it is, but I barely had the patience to get through the end of each track.

Junk Jack is cut from the same cloth, but the tracks are generally shorter and overall it's more lively, just not terribly memorable. The most memorable thing about this one is the bass quality.

0-2 so far. Neither is worth doing a track-by-track rating. Good to put on in the background and completely forget about, but that's a negative for me with VGM.

Let's see, what's next...

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