I like how you just blatantly stated that you don’t think the soundtrack is excellent or amazing or anything, along with mentioning that most of the people who have an issue with the soundtrack are only the mini rock fans who grew up during the earlier nfs games. Yet, judging by the recent comments I’ve seen so far. People still CANNOT READ OR WATCH (yet they got the time to type out stupid comments which I find super ironic). I’ve seen some hilarious comments where people were all like “WoW yOu AcTuAlLy LiKe ThIs SoUnDtRaCk?” - 🤓 and some were more like “StOp BlAmInG rOcK mUsIc!!! NoT EvErY rOcK fAn Is LiKe ThIs!!!” - 🤓. Like it’s funny how people really assumed you meant ALL rock fans. When in reality all you said was just only a “mini” portion of fans. As in probably only like 5% of the entire fanbase. PEOPLE THAT DOES NOT MEAN THE ENTIRE GODDAMN WORLD!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Man the NFS community never fails to humor me. Also great video btw. Love all the points you make. And your music taste you showed earlier is very fire my guy 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

@6-1-98

Жыл бұрын

emoji users be like...

@2dumb2type

Жыл бұрын

my man here simping hard

@FreshBando420

Жыл бұрын

slow brain users be like...

@superdrinkingpepsi

Жыл бұрын

NFS community is made out of children there's simply no point in arguing with them

@makmakg242

Жыл бұрын

This comment gave me brain cancer

Being able to turn off individual songs would definitely help a lot. I don't understand why NFS isn't offering this option in their recent games anymore. People loved that feature in the older games and you would think that it would be easy to implement. At least Gran Turismo still has it in GT7.

@rlas

Жыл бұрын

Agreed 💯

@JeyVGaming

Жыл бұрын

Not sure if this is true or not but I've heard that some song artists from one of EA's Trax made a complaint to EA to why include their songs if people can just simply turn it off. Which led to some disagreements between them. Maybe that's the reason why EA decided to remove that option nowadays. Which, sounds pretty stupid, tbh..

@youssef1770

Жыл бұрын

@@JeyVGaming well its EA we all know what EA is and how EA is....

@Kev27RS

Жыл бұрын

GT7 doesn’t give us that option though. We can listen to the whole soundtrack in the menu but can’t turn it On & Off. Well, not the “menu music” at least…

@Frightenerd

Жыл бұрын

I think this would help out the game a lot in the soundtrack department

I think my biggest problem with the soundtrack of these games is that it doesn't sound like music for racing. Like for the garage, it's fine, but for racing it doesn't work. The music doesn't get me pumped up and I wanna get excited before a race begins. Also great video Jake!👍

@zerotofifty

Жыл бұрын

Asphalt 9 suffers from this. Garage soundtracks are literally some of the best songs I've ever heard in a racing game but they just don't work in races so they are replaced by subpar tracks that are more adequate but just not good.

@wyattmunger5529

Жыл бұрын

That's what really made the soundtracks for Underground 1, Underground 2, and Most Wanted work. By default, Rap was used for garages and menus while rock and electronica were reserved for the racing.

@thatoneewokthatdied2291

Жыл бұрын

YES! Exactly. I also am someone who generally doesn't listen to modern rap but "Shittin' me" by A$AP Rocky was one of those tracks that I really enjoyed whenever it came on. For tuning in the garage or even just cruising through the city it hits the spot really well but during racing it felt misplaced. Too chill/calm. You don't even need a specific genre like rock or electronic for races but it needs to give you adrenaline, it should put you on the edge. There's a reason you don't hear chill music during high-speed car chases in action movies.

@not_kjb

Жыл бұрын

Well yeah no one wants to hear music about "THIS PÜSSY TASTES JUST LIKE HEAVEN" In a fucking racing game

@diogovieira3362

Жыл бұрын

exactly this

I think another aspect to consider is that a lot of the music in Heat and Unbound isn't really racing music. It's too slow and lower tempo, so for me I don't get in a hyped mood when racing. As much I agree with you opinion on Burnout 3's soundtrack, it still at least feels like racing music. I think that is part of the criticism that people fail to say because it's all being drowned out with 'the songs sucks' but not *why* it does.

@WSPonPlayStationandXbox

Жыл бұрын

Exactly! Unbound's songs don't hype me up while racing but they can actually help me concentrate with the aspect of its racing because if there was no soundtrack at all, it would just feel boring or disturbing because I wouldn't be used to it, imo the people who just doesn't give Unbound's soundtrack a chance or just can't accept the change of trending music style these days just needs to get a grip if you ask me, yes some of its songs are questionable but I still enjoy it because I have favourites and that's what I like about it.

@unpass

Жыл бұрын

100% factual about the slow and lower tempo songs. In UG1 you can manually enable the menu songs to play in races, but it feels wrong. MC, pre-Ghost NFS, Burnout, and even Crazy Taxi understood this.

@shawklan27

Жыл бұрын

@@adlibbed2138 fuck I cannot wait to experience ride to hell for the first time in the coming weeks. The infamy of the game makes for great personal suffering :)

@altrd_mango

Жыл бұрын

I could say... they wanted to transmit the vibe with the music. They achieved that, but in execution it's just bad. Some songs are way to slow, in Heat the only ones that can be saved as "racing music" were the ones that appeared at night. On Unbound it's the same, the could have choseen better artists and albums, Ice Cream being the worst offender. And that one song with Rosalia and Tokischa... not a big fan of Reguetton/Mombaton, but they could pick some Bad Bunny song for having that "Carribean artists" on the roaster.

@unfractured_

Жыл бұрын

I agree with most of this comment, the only part i don't agree with is the "too slow" part, in reference to NFS Heat's night race selcection specifically. Some of those songs have the kinda pace that makes me feel like i'm playing midnight club 3 again (especially Murder Music by Chase & Status, and Hive by Impish)

people are seriously sleeping on nfs 2015's soundtrack. the chemical brothers, avicii, the glitch mob, wolfgang gartner, major lazer, aerochord... good stuff and it perfectly fits the atmosphere. that's the thing with game soundtracks: the music should fit the visual tone of the game. 2015 had a very contemporary, urban, grounded look which went well with the music, unbound has a stylized, street, hiphop look that any other genre would not fit

@TheJakeMG

Жыл бұрын

The only songs I'd consider 'meh' were some of the freeroam tracks but everything else was pretty exceptional. People also ignore the Drift music which actually includes METAL. However since had no EA Trax feature, everyone forgot about them existing in the game due to not being able to hear them in standard races.

@drakvaclav826

Жыл бұрын

@@TheJakeMG OH YEAH - I mean, that final Drift event with Ken (RIP, Legend), with "Wünsch dir Was" blasting in the background was something else.

@somedudenameddes0121

Жыл бұрын

I love nfs 2015's ost, I listen to like 80% of the songs on a daily basis. It's the same with heat, but only the night tracks. With nfs unbound, I can count the amount of decent songs in the game on one hand. Half the songs are meh but don't, 45% are just straight dogwater, and 5% are actually decent racing music.

@JRC99

Жыл бұрын

@@TheJakeMG That was my biggest issue other than the broken physics. I'm not too hot on drifting and the only part of the soundtrack in 2015 I liked was locked to those events. Ridiculous

@askerleaves1614

Жыл бұрын

Ye, "Go" had to be one of my in the game and I was glad they brought it back for dirt

the thing with nfs heat and unbound is that the music doesn't combine in a racing game, in garage is well it could relax you, but when you race you want something that inject the adrenaline, not only rock, for example EDM, dupstep, drum and bass, if nfs unbound race music were more agresivve, and there more varity, the music of the games wont be so hated

Long story short: The soundtrack back then had a lot of diversity

It's because half, if not more of Unbounds songs are just objectively awful music, at least for something like racing. Im not going to claim that older NFS games had fantastic fits for what was going on screen, but they worked well enough. When i think of iconic music for NFS i think of Buzzhorn, Celdweller, Rom Di Prisco, not a slow french song, not mummble rappers, and certainly not whatever that one song is that is basically just random noise. There is a reason Eurobeat was picked by the audio designer of the Initial D anime out of all other genres - it's cause it goes well with the action, and well you know, the studio behind Initial D actually gave a shit about what they were making unlike EA.

Listen to Midnight Club 3 and LA's soundtracks for a hip-hop inspired game soundtrack. They're pretty good. I don't like Heat and Unbound's soundtracks simply for the reason that they don't feel fast and exciting. Like you said they feel the same. Midnight Club and the older NFS games had music for free-roam, menus, garage, and racing. And a diversity in not only artists, but genres which helps with immersion in my opinion.

@TheJakeMG

Жыл бұрын

They’re absolutely hip-hop is inspired and are great soundtracks, but they have a lot more types of music in them than the last two NFS games. The aesthetic of those two games isn’t as strict as NFS Unbound, and the games came out in a time where rock music was much bigger than it is right now.

@civicrider5556

Жыл бұрын

@@TheJakeMG technically unbound isnt really all hip hop, it has some electronic too but thats atmospheric electronic in short its actually 80% hip hop/rap, 20% electronic its basically what heat did, 80% latin pop, 20% electronic

@TheJakeMG

Жыл бұрын

@@civicrider5556 You must've played more at Day in Heat?

@r0b3rt_959

Жыл бұрын

I mean, not only that; I think Midnight Club 3 is the best example of a diverse soundtrack. Somehow, all the songs R* picked work while racing. You can be listening to Sean Paul and Damian Marley, and then out of the blue you're listening to Marilyn Manson and Kasabian. And it doesn't feel out of touch.

@civicrider5556

Жыл бұрын

@@TheJakeMG yes 😢

Yep pretty much. I can't imagine Maximum Tune's soundtrack being super popular with everyone, but for me and some others it's the absolute goat for racing OSTs.

@r3uvsgaming

Жыл бұрын

Preach brother, Maxitune soundtrack is absolutely awesome.

@pinishere

29 күн бұрын

i know im late for a year but cant believe someone actually put.. idk, Maximum Synergy to Unbound races, that soundtrack's a banger

Someone may have stated this already, but it's not about the genre. It's about how it gets you pumped up when playing/driving. I may be part of the small percentage that likes heavy rock/metal music, but man have you guys ever listened to the Pro Street soundtrack.

@ralphlorenzperolino3054

Жыл бұрын

ProStreet soundtrack? To me it was average, not energetic at all, Rivals nailed it more.

as a kid i hated music so i had it all muted on my games, so i never gained this bias to rock music. now as an adult i can listen to pretty much anything and enjoy it from heavy metal to even jazz and classical, but in my opinion from listening to the nfs unbound soundtrack from start to finish without pause on youtube (thanks ad blocker), i can say that it really isn't good. like for a racing game it just doesn't really do what it needs to do, like some songs got no real beat to help you get into a groove, and some are just annoying as all hell and make your ears bleed, and the ones that are "good" are more of a "i'll listen to it if i have to" kind of a vibe. idk man, like i love music but this game has bad pick after bad pick on repeat.

@youssef1770

Жыл бұрын

A comment of a kid from the worst community opinion be like:

@fallrivers743

Жыл бұрын

@@youssef1770 what do you mean by that? Like I'm curious really.

For anyone who hasn't given NFS prostreet's soundtrack a listen, you are seriously missing on some hidden gems.

@ArmoredLyonell

Жыл бұрын

Mind recommend me some? :]

@ralphlorenzperolino3054

Жыл бұрын

I prefer Rivals more than ProStreet.

@youssef1770

Жыл бұрын

​@@ralphlorenzperolino3054 man rivals got some great ones tbh

@ralcolfwolfcoon8207

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, no

@mahiru20ten

Жыл бұрын

@@ArmoredLyonell watch my feet, blackjack

At this point, I think the main reason why modern racing game soundtracks are not as great as they're once was is because developers assume people would have a music app of some sort playing in the background. So they don't bother wasting money on music licensing.

I don't think it's a genre thing when it comes to what constitutes "good" racing music, I believe it's entirely down to tempo and thematic relevancy. Unbound has far too much slow, downbeat trap music. It doesn't really fit with the mental image people have of fast cars speeding down highways. A lot of people want their music to be fast and loud, just like the machines they're throwing around corners. It gets you in the mood, it hypes you up, it makes the visual and the auditory feel connected. Take the Forza Horizon series for example. The most consistently popular radio station across the franchise has always been Hospital Records, which is the drum and bass radio. This is despite the fact Horizon XS exists which is the "rock" radio. Hospital always has these fast, head thumping tunes. But the choices often selected for Horizon XS are more in the vein of mild pop rock.

Jake you missed one CRUCIAL point, it's that the energy is just not it. There's a reason old nfs games played the chill hip hop songs in the menus then blasted Scavenger during gameplay. The soundtrack also used to collectively build up a certain vibe that matched the game (example: Fluke - Snapshot for ug1), and there is no way anyone can say that "Linda" by rosalia builds up any vibe but juvenile and disgusting (watch the music video). Also the older NFS games soundtracks used to introduce a lot of new artists and even make their careers like Junkie XL, and the new soundtracks just feel like spotify top 30 of the week selections. As an experiment, lets see if in 10 or so years anyone will remember the music from heat/unbound as fondly as any of the older soundtracks. No matter what taste anyone has there is no defense for poor selection and poor audio direction (because the soundtrack directly represents what the game sounds like, and if it sounds like "Linda" by rosalia then there's clearly a huge issue).

@axl1632

Жыл бұрын

Man Scavenger it's one of the worst rock songs that you can heard for a racing game (in my opinnion); because it's from an annoying trendy rock genre called; Screamo rock & Emo Rock; which it's literally songs which the singer it seems like it's cutting-off their veins of it's neck, which it makes to restart the races or return again, because it's causes me a big headache to hear these annoying Schreeching chorus of that song...

@Reiji_Kurose

9 ай бұрын

@@axl1632 Get yourself a rope, redditor

For me a lot of it comes down to nostalgia, the post grunge, pop punk, and metalcore of mid 2000s racing games was like the soundtrack of my childhood and that kind of thing was super popular at the time. My musical tastes have evolved a lot since then and include a lot more progressive rock and jazz influences, in fact most of the music on those soundtracks isn't something id consciously put on when specifically listening to music but when it does come up in a playlist or I go back to one of those games I am always hit with all the memories of having fun as a kid and finding things in common with other kids through music I wouldn't have heard without these games.

@dennisjungbauer4467

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I think that plays a big role as well - nostalgia. Certainly there are songs in soundtracks that I wouldn't listen to normally, but that work well in the game. And I also think I didn't like the soundtrack of NFS MW as much when I was a kid; I remember there were songs I didn't like, particularly some Hip-Hop IIRC, but nowadays these songs are dope. :D Partly because my music taste changed, but also expanded, opened up to Hip-Hop for example, but surely also part nostalgia.

First of all. I'm a big metal head, so my comment might be altered by that, but on the other hand I'm 15 so I don't have any nostalgia for the old NFS titles. I think the main problem with the music NFS uses now, is that it's too slow. It just doesn't make me feel excited, and this isn't because it's not rock, and metal. For example, I love the electric style music in Underground2 (even though the ines I remember the most are metal songs). I just feel like the music in Unbound and Heat isn't good for a racing game. Also as you mentioned, it'd be much better if I could turn off a specific music, that I don't like. And btw, there are quite a lot of rock/metal songs that I find and would fit in a racing game perfectly. I'm not saying that the whole soundtrack has to be rock, but if they've added some music of a lot of genres, and added the option of turning off specific music, that it'd be much better. Nice video though, I liked it a lot

The problem is, devs forgot that music should suit the acton, that's why people put freebird riff solo on chase scenes or Paint it Black on Call of Duty shootout, this music suits the scene and what is happening on the screen.

@yoshimario

Жыл бұрын

true they forgot that music should suit whats actually happening, when im going more than 400 kmh i wanna have some kicking music to go alongside it, not some really slow badly made trap, hell play in the entire nwa discography while playing unbound and its at least 10 times better, thats because it at least has some dope beats, hell do yourself a favor and play the best mix of rock, rap and electro you can find while playing unbound, i can tell you this, it will be much better

Well, Ever since Watching Initial D, I almost never play NFS No Limits without listening to my Eurobeat Playlist, and hearing 'Calling All Cars' and 'LeCastle Vania' every 2 or 3 races gets old. Why it works is because both Eurobeat and Racing games are fast paced, and highly energetic.

@JoCaTen

Жыл бұрын

Can confirm, Eurobeat manages to turn on a certain spot on my brain that can increase focus.

Here's the thing; I can like any song from any genre of music, even weird ass music like breakcore, purely because of how weird it sounds. And even though modern video game soundtracks usually have a hand full of songs I really like, i'm usually okay with the rest of the soundtrack being background noise, this is how I feel about GTAV and NFS: Heat's soundtrack, alot of their music I can still listen too and be like "It's not exactly my cup of tea, but I can still listen to it." NFS: Unbound has been a rare exception, where I only like A$AP Rocky's music, and the rest is music is just straight up bad. It's the first game I can think of where i've had to mute the music and put my Spotify on in the background. And again, i'm very easy to please when it comes to music, hip-hop and rap included, I like Ice Cube, 50/50 on Kendrick Lamar, Dr Dre and now A$AP Rocky. I can like those genres. But if I take Need For Speed or any video game out of the equation and you made me listen to Unbound's soundtrack, i'd still say it's terrible music. I can also say how none of the songs really give that fast, blood pumping feeling of racing, but alot of comments say that already. This is just my honest opinion on it. I'm all for different music genres, and I overall understand what the developers were trying to go with in terms of the vibe and aesthetic in regards to the soundtrack. But for me, it was a complete miss. I wasn't super big on Heat's soundtrack either, but atleast I never had the urge to turn it off and put on my Spotify to replace it. And imo, there are a fair amount of good songs in that soundtrack. As a suggestion to fix this problem, have the soundtrack as is as a garage and/or cruising playlist. But when the racing/events start, have a more heart pumping playlist of songs, that way it's alot more fitting and keeps with vibe of what your doing on screen.

Everyone over analyses the hate for NFS:Unbound soundtrack. It's not because it lacks diversity or tempo, it's because the songs are mostly straight up autotuned garbage and noise. Some are harder to listen to than ISIS beheading videos.

I think Motorstorm specifically Pacific Rift had a good diverse soundtrack like having Noisia, Aphex Twin, and even David Bowie’s “Queen Bitch” which i was surprised and actually fit well with the festival atmosphere and racing in the game.

@wyattmunger5529

Жыл бұрын

I think a lot of soundtracks these days like to stick to songs released within the last three years. If they started to/went back to incorporating songs from today with songs from ten years ago and further back, then there would be a nicer variety through age alone.

@miguelmoreno6990

Жыл бұрын

MotorStorm Monument Valley, Pacific Rift and Arctic Edge had god-tier soundtracks: you had a wide variety of genres, each from different eras and it all fitted with the game's atmospheres. Well, MSMV loves to drink from desert/stoner rock too much, but I'm not complaining X) Also, and in MSPR you could both select songs or switch them forward/backward at any time with the D-Pad, and turn up/down the volume! No other games that I know lets you do that, at most skipping to the next song...

@mr.razington7881

Жыл бұрын

@@miguelmoreno6990 I have played this game for years but I never knew this, thanks for the tip!

@agit5270

Жыл бұрын

Motorstorm games had the best soundtracks, despite the wide range of genres it all fitted together so well, it basically shaped my mind and musical taste as a kid, no words can describe how much I've loved that game

@kpegc

Жыл бұрын

@@miguelmoreno6990 I wish Evolution kept that approach for Apocalypse. I think Apocalypse could have had just as diverse a soundtrack as those games if Evolution retained the more non-linear Festival campaign that made them unique. For me, the out of place story mode and the overly serious, cliched orchestral soundtrack deprived the game of what makes MotorStorm unique. In my opinion, these were factors behind that game's poor sales and the series' subsequent demise.

Finally someone said that Burnout Revenge soundtracks has more variety. Burnout 3 it's cool n' all in general, but... just having Metalcore, Rock, etc... Revenge got a lot more variety... Today, Flyover, The Big Jump, Light N' Sounds...

@shawklan27

Жыл бұрын

Goddamn Today is up there as being one of the most perfect tracks to appear in the history of racing games and no one can detest otherwise. A song that completely elevates revenge out of the other burnout entries due to even featuring that song.

@altrd_mango

Жыл бұрын

@@shawklan27 The problem with Today? It's not on Spotify.

@TheJakeMG

Жыл бұрын

It is on my end in the US. I guess it's a regional problem.

@wyattmunger5529

Жыл бұрын

@@altrd_mango Be warned. A lot of people on Spotify put the radio edit version of Today in their Burnout Revenge playlists for some reason, which is effectively an entirely different song. However, the one used in the game is available on Spotify (at least in the US as Jake said) and is known as the album version.

@-eclipse-8435

Жыл бұрын

Flyover is a banger, drum and bass is slept on nowadays.

another problem with some of these modern games is that we don't really get a choice in what order the songs play, at least back in Hot Pursuit 2010 and Most Wanted 2012, we could change whether the sound track was sequential or shuffle. i like using sequential so i know how many songs i need to skip until i get to the ones i like.

In my opinion, a lot of devs nowadays try to chase the "trend" especially for younger audience or even Gen Z.

@TheJakeMG

Жыл бұрын

What does this even mean? For context, what generation are you in if you don't mind me asking?

@RedzaMalaysianCrossover

Жыл бұрын

@@TheJakeMG I'm grew up with 2000's rock/rap/hip-hop music and that kind of generation need to stick with.

@unfunnybrownman

Жыл бұрын

well, thats exactly what they did back in the 2000s just see how Most Wanted 05's is full of emo post-hardcore or metalcore like Avenged Sevenfold, thats just the stuff that was popular back then, nowadays is way more on rap and trap, so its not really a "recent" thing, thats just how mainstream culture works

@shawklan27

Жыл бұрын

Bro I don't even like most modern racing game soundtracks and my answer to your observation is that isn't that EXACTLY why the type of music that were chosen in games back then? Rock and metal was infinitely more popular with the youth back then compared to now so it explains why the newer ones are focused alot on rap and hip hop mostly.

@TheJakeMG

Жыл бұрын

@@RedzaMalaysianCrossover Gen Z refers to anyone born from 1995-2010. What are you talking about?

I dislike unbound's OST because it feels so damn repetitive. The same 808s, the same hi-hats, the same "overused trap snares"... I really love rap music, but that game made it feel like rap has only one single beat.

I'm a rock fan, but there was one thing that struck me about Need for Speed Payback back then. In the previous game NFS 2015, there were extra rock songs for drift events, which fitted the mood very well and gave a suitable adrenaline to the third. In Payback, the rock songs were replaced as rap by the drift events. And this is where I noticed how these rap songs don't go so well with the speed and drifting anymore. It didn't support the races as well as the rock songs did. I also like to listen to rap in private. But I've created Spotify playlists for real-life driving that fit whatever situation I'm driving in. A night driving playlist, a day playlist, one for very sunny days, one for heavy rain, etc. All of these scenarios have different moods that harmonize particularly well with the appropriate songs. Unbound's soundtrack isn't bad. But many songs do not fit the scenarios in which they are played. A lot of times during my playthourgh I thought I would have rather listened to this song in the garage than at races.

I feel like car type dependent soundtrack like Carbon could work. Like if you play with muscle cars it plays rock, if you use supercars and such it plays house and hip-hop instead, and so on.

@yoshimario

Жыл бұрын

however give a toggle to let all soundtracks play with all car types like carbon

@dennisjungbauer4467

Жыл бұрын

I found that a cool touch in Carbon as well. :)

@KMakoENVtuber

Жыл бұрын

Damn I forgot about that…such a classic.

@shockwave.studios

5 ай бұрын

Modern muscle cars generally attract rap fans (Chargers, Challengers)

I not really a fan of rock in general, but i do think that the old soundtracks fits the gameplay, making you fell like such a badass, and make the race's way more fun, but for the newer games it's just felt like its just a spotify Playlist thay plays randomly and it just lacks that umph, just imagine you are on a last lap and you're 2nd, with the old stuff it feels so intense, but now that stuff is happening and all you hear is "heyyyy we want somee moooooney" it's just killed the intensity of the gameplay imo

What makes a good racing game soundtrack? Is it the genre that it's build on? No. Is the recognizable and popular artists? Maybe. But overall a good racing game soundtrack is one that obviously has a great selection of the genres it has, it has good diversity (not just different artists from the same genre, but rather different styles in order to get room for both slow and fast-paced songs) and fits the whole vibe of the game. It's very hard to criticize music, it's one of those things that is very subjective and may have different results for one person to another, so hopefully all of this ost discussion can give more attention to the topic and bring us better/well received racing games ost from the future

i grew up with Burnout 3 Takedown and i LOVED the punk rock dominated soundtrack of it, Paradise went more varied with its rock/metal which isn't a bad thing either

@TunaMayoInumaki

Жыл бұрын

punk? pop rock*

@richardsavings6690

Жыл бұрын

I'm sorry, I only know of the classics by Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven and the like.

@stingysmailbox8209

Жыл бұрын

Burnout 3's soundtrack isn't even real punk rock.

@KMakoENVtuber

Жыл бұрын

It was the most emo/pop punk soundtrack ever…AND I LOVED IT

@axl1632

Жыл бұрын

@@stingysmailbox8209 Except the "I Wanna Be Sedated" song by The Rammones which *IS* the authentic Punk Rock. The rest of the songs; I agree that are Pop Punk.

I hope I don't sound old saying this, but the moment racing game soundtracks started to sound amazing to me leads far back to the PS1 era racers like Ridge Racer Type 4 and the Japanese release of the first Gran Turismo. Even the recently translated Sqauresoft horror/racing title Racing Lagoon comes to mind. I was around 10 I think. At the time jazz fusion was popular and I was surprised at how elegant and sophisticated music can be and it was racing games that introduced me to them. Come the 2000s and a new breed of racers like Midnight Club, Burnout and NFSU appeared and there was suddenly a new vigor to the music that came with them. And it was perfect then too because I was a growing teenager at that time so the music didn't only connect with me, it was cathartic, and it gave these titles such a rebellious personality. It gave me this feeling that these worlds were perpetually alive, and I guess that's why I miss them so bitterly. Sometimes it's not even the music anymore, it's just how these racing games are presented overall. The grit and edge are all gone, I feel. I'm not sure if it's a generation gap either. How can 10 year old me enjoy jazz fusion when it was music not catered to a kid? Maybe triple A studios are missing the point now. It's all social media and tiktok drivel and that's what I hear with new soundtracks. No hype, no mood building, just narcissism. Although, there are some exceptions. The Wipeout HD Collection and GRIP seem to still understand how certain types of music work for certain racing games. I guess it depends on the game if it needs music diversity or not.

@DjLamborghini

Жыл бұрын

Music of R4 is just magical

This whole "movement" is mainly tied to the general mediocrity of racing games nowadays. While a few "bad" songs in an otherwise fantastic game can usually be ignored, when you start losing interest in the racing itself, the music sticks out much more. When shapeshifter comes on during an intense race, it enhances the racing for me, even tho i usually don't like this blend of nu-metal rap with screaming, because Most Wanted was designed as a driver aggression simulator first and foremost. My experience with modern racing games is limited, but games like the new Forza Horizon's, and NFS Unbound lack a lot of the weightiness racing games used to have, to simplify, you no longer feel like you are navigating a high speed hunk of metal around tight corners, but a weightless bar of soap. Same thing goes for visuals and theming. People tend to notice the change, but cannot always put it into words, so they focus on the soundtrack, as that is the one thing which has obviously changed. I feel like the gap between racing simulators, and pure arcade affairs has widened, and not a lot of games go for that middleground, where you can still race just fine with a controller, but also have to understand a thing or two about shifting gears, breaking lines, and car handling.

Unbound soundtrack doesn't really fit to racing. The reason why we love Most Wanted / Underground is not just "because it is rock/metal, etc", it is because this OST is energetic, it really fits to a mad racing. And always remember - MW or Underground has hip-hop and rap music that also hits hard. I personally love all the MW soundtrack except for a few tracks. Even non metal-rap-rock Carbon OST is really good because it's atmospheric, the night, lights, racing... And we have this Unbound sound that is cringe for me to race with

@axl1632

10 ай бұрын

Despiste ironically Carbon's tracks they're also suffer the same issue as Unbound's soundtrack; the songs they're not translate with the adrenaline pump of the gameplay; specially when you do an Checkpoint Race in an Tuner Car or Exotic car. Because let's face it; the Muscle Cars it HAS the proper music & you cannot deny to me that are MILLIONS TIMES better than the corny-a$$ nu-metal or the Emo poop punk of the overrated Black Box titles...

For me, Hip Hop and rap took a nose dive after 2014, so seeing so much of it in Unbound with all of it being quite generic makes it grading. I'm not even like a huge rock fan, but Burnout 3 has songs from the 70's leading up to the early 2000s' such as "I Wanna be Sedated" by the Ramones and and a few others by them. I'm not saying its' soundtrack isn't innocent of what it does, but it at least has that going for it. Unbound just has the usual music that I could live without.

@post-surreal

Ай бұрын

you don’t listen to hip hop if you genuinely believe that

Funnily enough one of my favorite soundtracks from a racing game is Hot Pursuit 2010 And most of the songs were just electronic

There is a bit of variety in the electronic music in unbound, which I like a lot. I really think this game needs a jukebox or ea trax feature. I started to like a few tracks of the game which are quite out there for me musically, like el paavi, that hyperventilating japanese mumble rap, tared, in meinen benz, trophy, split and some other stuff like wicked and fun. There is a lot of stuff worth liking in this soundtrack if you give it a chance with a bit of an open mind in my opinion. Tho I was kinda bummed to not see any rock, metal or stuff like that, but it's probably because of pop culture right now and the theme of the game as mentioned in the video. Tho I would lose my shit if a track of Imperial Circus Dead Decadence got into this game, especially the more special ones

@yoshimario

Жыл бұрын

i am open minded when i say, mumble rap is a disgrace to language, all it took for me to make this opinion was one deutschrap song that had mumble rap. ironically you mention in meinen benz while that is one of the worst excuses to deutschrap ever. please listen to sido-mein block, please just listen to it. why is mumble rap a disgrace to language? you can't understand it, thats how. language is ment to be understood, thats why we don't mumble when we want people to understand us, if you don't want anybody to understand what you are saying then don't say anything

HEEEEEEY WE WANT SOME MONEY!!!!

Diversity is not our strength, unity is.

@TheJakeMG

Жыл бұрын

What does this even mean?

@rightbehindyou9398

Жыл бұрын

Amen

*Turns down music volume and puts on spotify playlist* "Ah much better." You see you can't beat old racing game soundtracks for one key reason...They have energy to them where Heat and Unbound don't have that same energy for racing the music in Unbound and Heat are crap you'd hear at the club instead of a high octane racing game. Wanna do a rap or hip hop sound track get some artist who would bring that agression to the table like Eminem, 50 Cent, Wu Tang, Dr.Dre stuff like that would help make the soundtracks a lot more exciting and would make you wanna race your best.

They should go with how Shift 2 handled soundtracks. A handful of songs but 3 different versions each. Where else would you find a brutally realistic racing game remixing Escape The Fate and make it fit as garage music and replay music?

We're talking about NFS Heat which has a neon aspect, maybe a bit 80's too, but there's no synthwave music to be found? that game is an absolute waste

Very interesting vid! Some thoughts right off the bat: "Rock music is not as popular anymore" Well, this kind of isn't true. Statistically, we got more people listening to all sorts of rock whether it be independent, post punk, progressive metal or even rap metal - which is the genre that sort of defines Most Wanted and was very popular during the early 00's. Rock is simply too wide a genre to go away. New bands pop up all the time. It's true that we don't quite hear of big name rock bands anymore but that's more to do how the music landscape has changed, streaming replacing mp3 sales, etc. "Unbound's soundtrack is just more hip hop focused" Well, NFS soundtracks have always been very "hip-hop" focused, including even MW 05 which distinguished itself by pulling in a lot of rap and hip hop acts. Usually merged with nu metal and electronica, but hip hop nonetheless. Heck you got some grandmaster flash remixes in there - if that's not old-school hip hop I don't know what is. "Unbound's soundtrack actually fits the race culture theme they were going for" True, but it's also paced differently. Which is why people say it's just less suited for high speed illegal street racing. Because it is. Firstly, MW distinguished between menu songs and race songs, but Unbound's got a lot of bleedover. Secondly, previous NFS games usually tried to have energetic tracks with rapid beats and aggressive borrowed notes. While a lot of people very clearly unfairly critique Unbound's soundtrack because they just don't like it, the truth is that it's simply not as suited for high speed racing.

@TheJakeMG

Жыл бұрын

I like your comment but… when did I say the third thing exactly?

@DrevorReal

Жыл бұрын

@@TheJakeMG oh I got the sense that was sorts what you were saying when you talked about how they were going for the hip hop aesthetic? Maybe I misheard. I apologise in that case!

@makmakg242

Жыл бұрын

Addendum to "Rock Music is not a s popular anymore" Counterpoint: MGK's Pop Punk album Tickets To My Downfall and and Olivia Rodrigo's Sour, which has few Rock songs on it, proves that Rock isn't "Dead". It's still underground until a popular mainstream artist attempts to pick it up on their next single.

@axl1632

Жыл бұрын

Or they literally even try to own & play Unbound by themselves to have a proper opinnion that isn't take it by someone else's.

As a rock and heavy-metal fan, i absolutely agree with what you said. I personally think that Burnout 3 has the greatest soundtrack in a racing game ever, and the same goes to Revenge. But i also like variety. I like NFS MW soundtrack because of the rock, the heavy-metal, the hip hop, and the overall way that it blends all of these in a beautiful package. While i love Burnout 3 soundtrack, i agree with you on the fact that there is no variety. But then, if people like it or not is subjective, and i personally love it, but that's because i love rock. Great video also!

@ricardocividini

Жыл бұрын

Thing is, Burnout 3 soundtrack sounded like racing music, NFS Unbound soundtrack is just awful, not only for that, but for music as general, almost all the songs are just ridiculously bad, and these songs dont even come close to something you wanna hear when racing.

@nicolasgoncalvespereira655

Жыл бұрын

@@ricardocividini Exactly. Burnout 3 and Revenge songs made us press the boost button so hard, it oblitared every car and every single thing close at the moment like if it was an adrenaline shot. It was magic. It also fitted perfectly, objectively speaking because of the rusty, destrucutive and fast presentation and overall game pace. NFS Unbound soundtrack just feels like a torture, and a "meh".

Late 90's - Early 2000's - Peak era for racing game soundtracks. Lets not forget the bangers on GT2 and Wipeout.

@b.1570

Жыл бұрын

Até você se deparar com a versão japonesa e vamos ser sinceros... Jazz Fusion é bom demais e combina muito bem em jogo de corrida.

Yeah... No. People's inadaptability simply isn't the case here. I personally couldn't care less about rock songs in a racing game, i only care about having a GOOD soundtrack. I've listened to the whole soundtrack of Unbound, the way i could describe it would only be "disgusting". It's so unbelivably bad, repetitive and extremely commercial. Same popular beats, same mumbly incoherent "lyrics". We had good rap and hiphop in racing games before. The main problem with Unbound's soundtrack is just the lack of effort. Neither the "artists" (such an overused word, just because you pump out mindless garbage with no effort put into it, you aren't creating art, you're just milking trends and making shit that sells, that falls into obscurity right when the trend fades) nor the composer of the soundtrack spend enough time into making it actually sound good. Just going to ask a simple question... How many songs can you name from Unbound compared to the rest of the series? Or how many songs you can play inside your head at any time? All of that after not playing the game for a month. How samey and forgettable is the soundtrack?

I consider the issue with Unbound's and to a lesser extent, Heat's music choices boils down to simply just not fitting a racing game and the atmosphere at all. I'm personally a metalhead first and foremost (extreme metal to be precise, but I listen to plenty of other music), and while I would surely love a return to a more rock, hardcore, or even electronic music, some of my favorite tracks don't even fit these labels (take Carbon's haunting canyon music for instance). Their new music choices simply do not fit in my personal opinion. None of them make the player feel they're engaging in fun, illegal activities or something adrenaline inducing, to feel the rush. So regardless of genre or even one's own knowledge of music (which I actually fail to see the connection), what the new games need are more evocative picks. Both Heat and Unbound failed to deliver in this department, if they continue chasing down what's popular without also taking into account the mood and atmosphere of the games, this is what future games will sound like.

Hiphop doesn't lend itself too well to racing games, it tends to be slow paced and lacks energy. Of course there are exceptions, but Unbound doesn't seem to have gone in that direction. It's also a big mistake to focus exclusively on one genre of music, hiphop may be the most popular genre at the moment but that doesn't mean most people playing the game actually like it. Unbound's soundtrack is just bad, there's no arguing around it

bcs in Unbound we have like one music genre, i've had same problem with nfs heat soundtrack and spanic beats it's not like i hate hiphop/rap but the choice is poor imo

Paybacks soundtrack was one of the most underrated soundtracks ever, fr love in a minor key is such a good song and there was a gorrilaz song in there, FUCKING GORILLAZ! That's a crossover I never thought I would see ever.

1:05 Most Wanted 2012 might have mixed opinions in the community, but GOD this game sounds amazing. Both soundtrack, cars and other minor sounds are so good. This game looks good too (at least for a 2012 game)

@literally-nobody242

Жыл бұрын

its just too much like a burnout game and not a need for speed games

@sebastianzarek7056

Жыл бұрын

@@literally-nobody242 Ah yes, the burnout: fairhaven

@dennisjungbauer4467

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I remember some pretty cool songs from that game as well and it does indeed look really good, I was amazed when it came out IIRC. :D Unfortunately the driving wasn't that great (delay!) and all the crashing was a bit annoying I think.

I still find Unbound soundtrack to be trash most of the time that I instead used Burnout 3's. Sorry man, Rock will live on forever, if a soundtrack's only full of Rock, I wouldn't complain either way.

@damarviggen6152

Жыл бұрын

Same here

send me all the hate you want but i liked that avril lavigne's 'girlfriend' was on burnout paradise

@TheJakeMG

Жыл бұрын

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@JohnFromAccounting

Жыл бұрын

Great song

The problem I have with racing game soundtracks in the modern day is they don't pick songs that fit the game or get you pumped up and enjoying what's going on. It's not the fact that it's a genre that I don't care about. It's just the song itself is just dull and doesn't fit what's going on. A good example is the past two NFS games (Heat and Unbound), I like hip-hop a lot since I grew up around it since I was a kid, but some of the artists that they picked for those games are not good at all. I like ASAP Rocky and Run The Jewels in Unbound, But the rest of the artists in that game have some hidden talent that should remain hidden for the rest of their lives, and they just don't fit the game. They sound too dull to be even in a racing game in the first place. And say what you want about Burnout 3's soundtrack (even though you're just objectively wrong), at least it somehow made you feel excited to play a racing game, even though putting pop punk with a racing game is like combining a Wendy's frosty with french fries (people who do that are skinwalkers). I mean, I don't care about reggae as a genre, but some of the songs in that genre in Midnight Club 3 are great and fit the game's presentation.

My music taste varies a lot and I'm always listening to new artists including modern artists, I like hip hop and rap, my problem is when the entire soundtrack is filled with generic hip hop, nfs 2015 truly was the last good soundtrack, I tried to like Heat's but its just too annoying.

Ugh. They couldn't just give us multiple different radio stations? I understand that Forza Horizon isn't perfect and I don't want to be sounding defensive of it right now, but at least PG knows that not every song will work for everyone..

Hip-hop/ Rap can be done well in racing games. It can disrupt the flow, and energy of the vibe of an race due to the slower nature of the genre. But works perfectly well free-roaming an open world. Thats why having an variety of music helps resolve that issue. Unbound tries to do this in the story mode with hip-hop beats and instrumentals while crusing arround. And then plays the actual music during races. Ultimately they fail at it because there is not enough divide in music genres in separate modes to make the feeling of being in a race uniques. I think that have an track select would remedy the issue slightly.

@clarksonoceallachain8536

Жыл бұрын

Ralph - back seat

The music genre I wished EA took a gamble on for Unbound is phonk : "base" phonk would have been a great choice for garage or free roam (DJ Smokey, Soudiere, DJ Yung Vamp, Holy Mob, Always Proper, Positive Squad, etc...) while having drift phonk for races (KSLV, Kordhell, dxrk, SHADXWBXRN, Ghostface Playa, KXNVRA, etc...). Since it's still a niche genre, I can understand why they didn't do it but that would've given a "fresher" feel. I muted the in-game music as a whole and have my personal phonk playlist instead, it fits surprisingly well.

@elaymm4

Жыл бұрын

There's a rumour that they wanted to include that music, but sample copyright problems with these tracks were too overwhelming.

@w47ch3r7

Жыл бұрын

@@elaymm4 you make a great point, forgot about that

Remember that soundtracks (be it during Menu or during racing) is all about the atmosphere, the "feel" of the racing itself. Rock, Hip-Hop, Rap, Metal and more....it matters as long as it has the beats and the song that fits the gameplay. In my case, Im loving Grid and Project Cars soundtrack. It doesn't have music during gameplay(sometimes it did), but the build up and the atmosphere it gives the player of something glorious about Racing, sometimes its about the beauty of Motorsport itself. Wreckfest also had a tons of great soundtrack, the main menu in particular is really fitting the "Chaotic" feel of the races you'll get, the in-game music also quite fitting and some is actually really good. Older NFS era is always been a nostalgia for me, even the soundtracks. Got nothing to say about the current NFS since I lost interest to the series since Heat.

To me, Unbound's soundtrack isn't all bad, I found some banger in there, some are better for menu, some are better for race, just don't misplaced it Now then, I don't understand why they remove features like EA Trax, or even skip song in race like Heat, it makes me, when a song that I hate plays, I can't skip it, so I'm kinda stuck with it, nor I can remove it from playlist Now, I don't have problem with rap genre or anything, it's just Unbound have less option for it. I mean even from neighbors games like Forza Horizon 5, who probably still sounds bad for older Horizon fans, at least that games let you change radio station when a song in a radio isn't what you like. To me, Unbound lack option, and it's kinda grinds my gear

NFS Carbon and NFS Rivals Features 2 songs from Gary Numan which is singer from the late 70s and early 80s and still making music to this day

@TheJakeMG

Жыл бұрын

Rivals had a newer track while Carbon had a much older track. Both excellent, I wish more games now were willing to span multiple decades of music.

@ralphlorenzperolino3054

Жыл бұрын

To be fair, Rivals had returning artists from past NFS games such as Hyper from MW 2005, The Qemists from Undercover, Madeon in MW 2012, and X Ambassadors also in MW 2012. It had the debut of Linkin' Park and popular EDM DJ's around the world.

I think you're missing the point slightly in here - problem is not with variety, the problem is that these songs are unfit to race to. NFS:MW2012 (a game that had the best soundtrack of all time, you can't change my mind) had good variety with Electronica, Rock, Grime, Hip-Hop, etc... All of those songs, however, were energetic, fast, rythmic - there's a reason for why Blockbuster Night Pt. 1 works with racing, and Babushka Boy doesn't. There's a reason why can I listen to Horizon's Hospital Records for hours on end while racing, and not get bored (at least not of the soundtrack anyway).

@TheJakeMG

Жыл бұрын

I agree with you, but that's not the point I wanted to cover in this video. Ironically, Blockbuster Night Pt. 1 was never a race song in NFS 2015. If you're thinking of NFSMW 2012 you might be thinking of the Flux Pavilion song.

@drakvaclav826

Жыл бұрын

@@TheJakeMG Really? I could've sworn I've raced to that song - well, surely there's stuff like Bonkers - Grime fits racing better than hip-hop ☺️ Though that definetly depends on the song.

Hear me out. Yes i liked old need for speed soundtrack, this is true. However what i wanted from Unbound is variety of genre and not just rock, edm and metal, you could add: Phonk, Funk, Eurobeat, (for the love of god, can a racing game use eurobeat?!) Hardstyle, Hardcore, even K-pop. Also give us back the EA Jukebox so we can pick and choose what songs play and what does not.

@siddheshpillai3807

Жыл бұрын

Excluding k-pop but yeah agree

@samanimations2002

Жыл бұрын

A racing game with euro beat would be FANTASTIC!!!!!

@RedlineGTR

Жыл бұрын

iirc initial d games have eurobeat

@ralphlorenzperolino3054

Жыл бұрын

Don't even include Uptempo Hardcore there.

@yoshimario

Жыл бұрын

the inital d games use eurobeat, but i get your point, hell, in my opinion unbound literally just dropped the ball when it comes to picking songs (might also be a problem with criterion still thinking trap is related to rap or hip hop but idk i normally trust criterion with soundtracks)

I'll disagree with you. No one is saying that the music is bad. It doesn't go with the game. With high speed cars, you need high octane music. It's a mismatch than a preference thing of one genre. You're missing the goddamn point.

Older racing did really well to add atmosphere into their game using music which is important. New racing games fail to add music that would belong in a racing environment or cruise or even heck the garage. Today's racing games just take anything throw it anywhere and just leave, well at least it feels this way. I mean look a games like need for speed underground 2. The game has 2 playlist for when your in the overworld playing song like "The Celebration song" and when your in the garage you get songs like "Lean back" or "Thatz my name" imagine if "Thatz my name" was placed in a racing environment instead of the garage! the atmosphere will be completely different and need for speed in the past did so well at this and that's why many are mad. They want to feel like they're playing a racing game listening to songs picked for the game not like they turned on the radio listening to garbage like rico nasty money like bro why this trash.

Juiced (PS2), NFS Underground 1 & 2, Most Wanted (2005), Carbon, Pro Street, Gran Turismo 3, Midnight Club 3, L.A. Rush & Burnout Paradise

The music selection on the Pulse playlist in Forza Horizons 1 and 3 were the two best in the series

@TheJakeMG

Жыл бұрын

CORRECT!

@shawklan27

Жыл бұрын

Horizon 1's own is king imo

@Sam36192

Жыл бұрын

@@TheJakeMG Like seriously Walking On A Dream had no business fitting so well into an open world Codemasters game

@TheJakeMG

Жыл бұрын

If you really look at it, DiRT 2's soundtrack sounds a LOT like Forza Horizon 1's.

@Sam36192

Жыл бұрын

@@TheJakeMG And the fact that both games soundtracks share quite a few of the same artists like Friendly Fires and Santigold as two examples

the WMMT series still has the best soundtracks of all time

@L3oT1g3r-

Жыл бұрын

A soundtrack that barely gets mentioned, heck, I downloaded the whole playlist lmao. Trance4life.

We don't complain about Burnout 3's soundtrack because *IT GOES ALONG WITH THE GAME'S THEME.* It's fast paced, frenzy, keeps you pumped and on edge while you try to stay alive and smash everyone else against oncoming traffic.

@rightbehindyou9398

Жыл бұрын

Burnout 3 is one of my all time favorite games, and if it didn't have that music I'd think the game's crap. That's how much the music matters.

The biggest problem isn't the genre of the music, but when it is played, in unbound case, it's really disturbing to be on a heat 5 chase, and it's playing "Everybody say hay, we got the money" it just doesn't fit the moment, and it's a repetitive issue, hardly the game picks the righ track for the moment.

Saying that people think that NFS Unbound -me from this nightmare- soundtrack sucks is because they are basically only listening to rock and that now rock music is not as popular as before there is none in the game is some S rank BS. I recently played through Midnight Club 3 and it has not only a varied soundtrack, but all the rap music is actually FITTING and even as a metalhead, I can appreciate good music from other genres. You sound like the type of guy who unironically like that "hey we want some money" or whatever is this shit.

@TheJakeMG

Жыл бұрын

I love how you paused the video before I said I hated Money and didn't think the Unbound soundtrack was amazing or anything. All I said was I thought it had some good picks. I also did not say people didn't like the music because they only listen to rock. I said it happens because it's primarily what they like (this is from me watching the behavior around the discussion) and NFS lacks it now, which creates a further dislike for the selection.

@QUENTINBIB1

Жыл бұрын

​@@TheJakeMG The only thing it lacks is good music no matter the genre. Hell at this point, even the GT2 PAL soundtrack is better. The main excuse for the NFS Unbound soundtrack is that it creates 'identity' and an 'atmosphere'. Okay, but you can create that without sounding like shit. Imagine GTA Vice City with bad songs? I unironically like all the radio stations in this game. The Ridge Racer soundtrack has a lot of charm too and is quite unique. Project Gotham Racing had different radio stations to fit the city where you were currently racing in. Gran Turismo has its lounge/jazz fusion music which to this day is instantly recognizable and iconic. In 10 years, nobody will listen to Unbound soundtrack, because it's full of music enjoyed by people who browse TikTok all day and, like all trends, especially recent ones, they tend to fade away quicker than GT7 single player mode.

You're the first person I see do this kind of video on Unbound's soundtrack contrary to the 400 other videos saying it sucks with a badly cropped gigachad png on the thumbnail and literally zero explanation. Some of your points are good but unfortunately knowing how stubborn NFS fans are, specially the ones targeted with this video, I doubt many will agree with you, which is a shame tbh. (I also kinda agree with your take on B3's soundtrack, Revenge is way better at it)

@rightbehindyou9398

Жыл бұрын

No offense but those 400 other videos with the cropped gigachad png are making fun of people who share your opinion. Hey, it's free speech, if they want to then let them.

pretty interesting video. here my take: most of us racing fan like rock music because it fits in racing games like a glove with the high energy feels. and when unbound decided to try new thing with the different soundtrack, people didn't accept it because they prefer rock music. what if they decided to find other music genre that could fit on a racing game like eurobeat? would the rock enjoyers accept similar high energy vibe soundtrack/genre?

Happy to see prostreet in your favourite racing game soundtracks. easily the best in the need for speed series in my opinion

@TheJakeMG

Жыл бұрын

Most Wanted 2012 is my favorite, but ProStreet is a close second for me.

@jammygamer8961

Жыл бұрын

@@TheJakeMG yea it is a good soundtrack too. Hated the game when it first came out but i was like twelve lol. But now i think its actually a fairly good game that simply shouldn't of been called most wanted

@shawklan27

Жыл бұрын

I loved how every song in that game had a very loud and in your face attitude to them which fits perfectly with the party all day hypebeast themeing the game has in just about every aspect of its presentation. Heck even the rap songs where very invasive and heavy to the ears which showed how well the soundtrack works.

Whatever happened to the techno soundtrack that was in games like High Stakes?

FlatOut 2 Soundtrack is goated

@TheJakeMG

Жыл бұрын

It somehow has a good Nickelback song which is an impressive feat on its own.

i would say nostalgia and your own taste in cultures is the two main things when it comes to someone prefering a group of songs over another back in the 2000s, emo and alternative rock and metal culture were the big things so thats what the aesthetic of all those games and its soundtracks came from, nowadays is more on the rap and trap aesthetic which comes with games and movies going for that style back then you would have been PILED ON for not listening to Disasterpiece by Slipknot, nowadays is if you not listen to SPEEDBOAT by Denzel Curry not only racing games but just, media in general honestly, thats just how trends work and thats always what most game devs will be chasing, whether it be to gain more public or just being the stuff theyre into

@unfunnybrownman

Жыл бұрын

i might also like to add that context in X game is also pretty important to the music selection if youre being the equal to Osama in Burnout while causing 80 million dollars in damages, then maybe indie rock like Arctic Monkeys or some jazz lofi playlist wouldnt be the first choice to fit in

@ralcolfwolfcoon8207

Жыл бұрын

It's not nostalgia. It's by choice modern games choose these shitty tracks.

@SpoonR24

Жыл бұрын

@@unfunnybrownman the 2000s arctic monkeys actually might fit burnout, especially dominator.

here is the thing: yes i m one of the people who like "older" songs. not just nfs older rock but also hardstyle i enjoyed when it was relatively new and mostly unknown, when it gained popularity the songs were just worse because they tried to market it to everybody not just the few people who like this specific genre. so i stopped listening to the new songs and listened to the ones i knew and liked. same with kpop nowdays it gets too mainstream. also, only the best of the best from the older songs survived and are still listened to, you can find some bad 80s music or so but mostly the most popular and best are known and played on the radio and come up in playlists oh, btw i ve not played unbound or heat yet so cant judge it but maybe one day when i have enough space on my ps4 but the "edgy" soundtrack fits the old mw really well because of the story and what you re doing

@hstd6604

8 ай бұрын

yeeeah man. I remember when they started pumping out garbage hardstyle to appeal to everyone, same thing with the shuffling, it was all watered down and shitty. On the subject, apart from a small few I cannot stand the talking they put in hardstyle, never liked 99% of the talking: "yo im a hard core raver.. blah blah blah" or "we got to live... for the moment... because..blah blah blah" etc etc I always found those bits cringe

In my case I disagree. I actually like all types of music and while my music taste formed while playing older games, to this day I still go to spotify and expand it every day. My spotify is filled with music from the 1950s up to 2023. I listen from classical music and pop, to extreme metal and noise. I don't like the newer soundtrack because they choose music genres designed for the masses, like generic mumble rap (not the good rap) and generic pop. While I still enjoy some songs from unbound, in older need for speeds they used to feature a great number of artists, from well known, to more underground (no pun intended). The reason I dislike newer soundtracks, is not because I'm "stuck" in an era, or that I'm a music elitist, it's because the music they chose had a lot more soul and punch for the racing purposes. When I'm going 200+ on the highway I don't wanna listen to a generic pop song talking about nonsense, I wanna listen to something that gets me going or fits the mood. Man, Hot Pursuit 2010 had songs like "Shining Down" by Lupe Fiasco, that even if they were slower and more chill, the songs still fit the driving and the feel of the game. I do see where you're coming from and I agree there are some people who don't like it because they are a bit close minded, or they are simply stuck in the past, but I know that in a lot of cases is more because of what I'm saying here. Anyways, keep up the good work.

I like the soundtracks from Underground to Most Wanted as there were a few bands there I ended up enjoying as a metalhead growing up, but overall I really prefer the Need For Speed 3 and 4 soundtracks. The 90s are not only nostalgic but those games had songs that were written for the game in mind, not just music that was around at the time. I miss that. I think it would be great for EA to hire Rom Di Prisco again to write say, the theme song and menu music for the next NFS.

@jackedup447

Жыл бұрын

Rom di prisco did some fuckin bangers back then. Its funny to think he also did the old fortnite theme then was told by epic to fuck off though.

@74810Eric

Жыл бұрын

Also Morphadron in need for speed porsche is pure gold

@supertaba10

Жыл бұрын

90s NFS soundtrack is God tier, Rom di Prisco and Saki Kaskas (R.I.P) are geniuses especially the adaptive soundtrack of NFS 3, I would love that EA at some point gives those soundtracks some recognition or old NFS in general, because everyone acts like NFS started with Underground 1 and died with Carbon. But I'm not gonna lie it was cool they added the Jaguar XJ220 in Rivals, but I need more, I love the M3 GTR and all the heroe cars, but some classic NFS cars need some love, the Ford GT90,Indigo,Mercedes CLK GTR,Ferrari F50,and how we can forget the mighty Lamborghini Diablo SV (which to be fare was featured in HP2010 and MW2012).

@mahiru20ten

Жыл бұрын

@@supertaba10 Any Porsche Unleashed love here?

@supertaba10

Жыл бұрын

@@mahiru20ten Of course the eras mode was a masterpiece I really liked that as time passes the older cars become collector pieces and more expensive, the biggest tip is getting the Carrera RS in the 70s when it's new and sell it near the end of the game since it ends up being worth more than when it's new. And well I really love that it's an encyclopedia about Porsche, you had the showroom to look at the cars and hear about their specs, you had the story part which details all the history of Porsche up until 2000, and you could even see galleries with photos of the cars and even some promotional poster for each one, even single models like the 901 Targa or 901 base model.

What happened to original racing game music? We need more music like 'Magical Sound Shower' from Outrun.

I don't really dislike new racing game soundtracks. I just do not like NFS Unbound's soundtrack. Why did you know that I dislike new racing game soundtracks?

I have alot good music in my playlist from nfs 2010-2015, its not all but anyway: NFS: HP 2010 1. Bad Religion - The Resist Stance 2. Benny Benassi - Cinema (feat. Garry Go) 3. Chiddy Bang - Opposite of Adults 4. Klaxons - Echoes 5. Lazee - Stronger (feat. Dead By April) 6. Lupe Fiasco - Shining Down (feat. Matthew Santos) 7. New Politics - Yeah Yeah Yeah 8. Pendulum - Watercolour 9. Plan B - Stay Too Long (Pendulum Remix) 10. Travie McCoy - Superbad 12. White Lies - Bigger Than Us NFS: MW 2012 1. Crosses - Telepathy 2. Dead Sara - Weatherman 3. Above and Beyond - Anjunabeach 4. MuteMath - Allies 5. Silent Code - East Star 6. Bassnectar - Empathy 7. Calvin Harris - We'll Be Coming Back (KillSonik Remix) 8. Cesare Marcher - The Chase 9. Flux Pavilion - Double Edge (feat. Sway & P Money) 10. Dispatch - Circles Around The Sun 11. The Joy Formidable - Little Blimp 12. RuN RIOT - A Light Goes Off (RuN RIOT Mix) 13. Last Dinosaurs - Zoom 14. Popeska - Now or Never (Gartner Edit) 15. Madeon - The City (feat. Zak Waters) 16. The Maccabees - Unknow 17. Rudimental - Feel The Love (feat. John Newman) 18. Strange Talk - Cast Away NFS: Rivals 1. Brick + Mortar - Locked In a Cage 2. RDGLDGRN - Lootin' In London 3. Walking Def - Let Me Show You (feat. Virus Syndicate) 4. Helmut Kraft - Manoir II (Wraith Mix) (with Miss Brown) 5. Flux Pavilion - Steve French (feat. Steve Aoki) 6. Bastille - Pompeii (Kat Krazy Remix) 7. Feed Me - Rat Trap 8. Gary Numan - I Am Dust 9. Garmiani - Rumble 10. Congorock - Minerals (feat. Nom De Strip) 11. Haezer - Troublemaker (feat. Tumi) 12. The Qemists - No More 13. Knife Party - EDM Death Machine 14. Mystery Skulls - Paralyzed 15. X Ambassadors - Love Songs Drug Songs NFS 2015 1. iSHi - Push It (Feat. Pusha T) 2. MUZZ - Insignia 3. Botnek - Vikings 4. Rogue - Rattlesnake 5. Hook N Sling - Break Yourself 6. Wolfgang Gartner - Turn Up 7. Riff Raff - Kokayne (Video Games Clean) 8. Junior Prom - Stand! 9. The Chemical Brothers - Go 10. Silversun Pickups - Connection 11. Aero Chord - Surface 12. Hudson Mohawke - Brand New World 13. Alison Wonderland - U Don't Know 14. The Glitch Mob - Better Hide Better Run 15. Major Lazer - Night Riders 16. Aero Chord - Break Them 17. All sountracks from 90-s NFS era And how i rememrer sountrack from Unbound? "Sh*t on me 🤨" or "Ayy, we want some money🤣🤣"? I don't have problem with hip-hop. I think prolem in songs - they not for racing in Unbound. Yes game have few not bad songs, but 90% i want to scip. Also i find Unbound using samples from The Moebius - Morphadron( from NFS: Porsche Unleashed) in pursuit heat level 5 ost.

@ralphlorenzperolino3054

Жыл бұрын

You forgot Angry Panda by Manufactured Superstars and it's in Rivals.

I love every song in burnout 3 but I'm heavily biased because I love good pop punk and it's all good in burnout 3. But I remember most reviews back in the day slammed the soundtrack. But you had ea Trax So you could turn some or all songs off. Soundtrack in a racing game is both objective and subjective. Subjective in music taste but objective in how well it fits the game. imo I don't think variety in a soundtrack is necessary. It's nice but I think it's more important for music to fit the game than be varied. Like none of the songs in Heat's soundtrack stick out to me and is very forgettable imo But I can't deny that it fits the game. I'm sure unbound is similar but I don't know much about unbound so I dunno.

I am a metalhead, and i think Unbound and Heat missed on three genres: metalcore, phonk and synthwave. Especially dissapointed about synthwave not being featured in Heat - i mean, it's Miami, go for Tokyo Rose, Perturbator, Carpenter Brut, Miami Nights 1984, Daniel Deluxe... But no, they made 90% of the soundtrack to be a reggaeton. P.S. Imho, Heat soundtrack is way worse then unbound's. It's not only one very specific genre, but there are so few songs omfg

@axl1632

Жыл бұрын

Or at least trying to bring it back some rap rock music such as this ones: -Chronic Future - Apology For Non-Symmentry -Skindred - It's A Crime -Skindred - GIMME THAT BOOM -ZillaKami - BADASS ft. Lil Uzi Vert Because they actually modern songs & it doesn't corrupt the Unbound's Graffittied-out aesthetic, unlike certain douchebags that just slaps decadence or shapeshifter, because they don't give up with the reality that we aren't in 2005 with mexico piss filter anymore...

@SHIRAKOTEKUMOTO32909

8 ай бұрын

Heat Has 1 phonk music It's Mercedes by blocboy JB

1:03 FH3 radio set to Hospital Records Radio, that’s nostalgia. Used to fly down roads listening to tunes that got me lost in my own head

Dropping the categorized Day/Garage/Night music from _Heat_ only made the soundtrack sound as disheveled as a "putting my playlist on shuffle" meme. Not mad that I'm not getting Disturbed - Decadence, not even mad they skipped nu-metal completely, but I am mad someone in their right mind would include Congolese tribe music and two minutes of heavy breathing in a racing game, where they absolutely do not fit the pace as racing music, and only exacerbated the problem. (ex.: Tokischa & Rosalia - LINDA was bangin' but would fit way better in _NFS Heat_ ) For the amount of reggaeton _Heat_ had, it sold me the premise and setting far better than convincing me Downtown Chicago listens to Ukrainian underground hardbass or Swedish glitchhop. No Kanye? No MF DOOM? None of the rich historical tracks from Windy City locals? It all but made A$AP Rocky's hip-hop monologue ring even more hollow. In short, diversity was never the problem, if the tracks fit the high-speed pace of racing is, and _Unbound_ did a horrible job at making races not feel like a slog through and thru.

While I haven't played unbound yet I sank roughly 300 hours on Heat and from the moment I heard the song in the opening cinematic I went to the option menu and muted music audio, tabbed out and looked for a synthwave playlist

Glad someone addressed this. I've seen countless threads and videos in the NFS community of people discussing the soundtrack of Unbound and it's seemingly impossible for people to not address the older titles in the series. Then they would place tracks from MW05 or Carbon into Unbound and say its "100X WAY BETTER" without considering how thematically detached that track may be the actual gameplay. Imagine if you could, any track from MW05 being played in Unbound and it being the first time you've ever heard the song. You would immediately be at odds with the design of the game but still no one wants to address this because they fail to admit that they just like the song and are riding that nostalgic high they had long ago. While I still have my gripes with the OST in Unbound, the songs themselves don't take me out of the world that I'm in. I'd argue that while a wider cast of higher tempo songs of all kinds would work to enhance the thrill of racing in Unbound, it would still fall a little flat because I believe that the core design doesn't properly grasp that excitement of racing that older titles may have. Unbound did quite a few things right that people don't give it enough credit for, but they don't discuss areas of the game that simply don't merge into a greater racing experience.

Good rap and hip hop existed in the past and were in various nfs games, tastes and all may have changed but almost no songs in unbound are considered bangers so people just meme'd them and not many come to their defense for a good reason, these songs are bad, NFS Heat did have a few bangers atleast imo especially the garage music, that shined the most, NFS Payback had a great selection of songs too which i happened to fall in love with, probably the nfs with the best songs rn in recent memory, but Unbound? None of the songs in that game did i want to add to my playlist, they're not worthy. Ive been following song trends myself despite being older and I do keep finding gold from time to time, NFS Unbound had none.

One thing I know. The soundtrack sucks because the music industry is horrible nowdays. The songs from 1960s to 2000s are amazing because it's memorable. Now they make music only for memes and social media.

@TheJakeMG

Жыл бұрын

You couldn't be more wrong but alright

@FreshBando420

Жыл бұрын

The music industry was always horrible it’s not just nowadays. Also how do you even know songs from the 1960s were amazing? Did you even listen to all of them? Not everything in the past was gold my guy

My largest gripe with most racing soundtracks these days are they aren't as focused on building up the game's atmosphere anymore. Forza Horizon 1 and 2 did this the best, along with Burnout Takedown and the Underground games. Modern Horizon became the best example of a franchise dropping that skill, where the radio stations are simply there to appeal to as broad of an audience as possible, and using the crutch of classic songs of each genre instead of narrowing the genres and looking far and deep to find something that matches the game world and atmosphere perfectly.

Lets Give it up for Midnight Club 3's sound track... one of the best soundtracks of all time

Can't relate to almost everything you said. I didn't like rock back in 2005-2008, but the soundtrack to nfsmw, carbon and prostreet was good and fit the game a lot more than what currently plays. Like driving through the industrial district in nfsmw while rock played just felt right. It's like when some people don't like rock but can't imagine a better song to play at the end of the transformers movie than Lincoln Park. Music just suck now a day. Like even the new James bond music just doesn't have the same impact, like you feel the power of the music is just forced. Sorry just a little ramble.

One other main problem is quantity, even if it seems redundant, I'd argue it's one of the main causes of people hating on the soundtracks of both heat and unbound. There is too few songs, almost all will become repetitive in your playthtrough. This made the terrible songs stand out most, in my case I haven't once skipped a song in my life till heat's "tu manera" plays, that shit gives me headaches.

they should include synthwave genre in racing games

It would be interesting to see a Need For Speed to have Drift-Phonk as it's racing music, as it is pretty popular in the car community

@siddheshpillai3807

Жыл бұрын

What a missed opportunity

and there is me, who disable music while playing nfsmw 2012 because i want to hear LFA sound XD

Big facts the entire video, NFS has always chased after what's trending so it makes total sense they would include hip hop as the primary soundtrack