If Soule's music is generic I wish more composers would be generic! His is some of the most beautiful music I've heard in games. I think preference plays a part though in this (as always). He draws from classical/romantic period music - what you call generic, I would call traditional - and my being a fan of that certainly helps.
I think for many people, including myself, Chrono Cross is considered (one of) the greatest videogame soundtrack of all time. Which is to say nothing of Chrono Trigger, which is right up there with it.
She isn't a co-worker as they never worked directly together as far as I know. In addition what Lycan is implying contradicts that tweet. I'm not defending his political views mind you, but bringing up that tweet to discredit his work with Halo is fucking stupid.
How does not supporting a shitty company which experiments on animals then tries to earn brownie points throught soulless appeals to social messaging make him a bad person?
Okay, I still don't get what acknowledging an art award has to do with being a good person.
Why did he wait until that specific moment if he was boycotting them due to their animal abuse rather than their social message?
Take it easy peasy, man. Nobuo doesn't get an EA prize for ranking #1 or something.
I'm not discrediting his work. I bought the Halo trilogy soundtrack on CD because I enjoyed the music. I just don't think he's a top 10 composer, and now I don't care if I hear any future work from him.
Yeah man, I love experimentation on animals. Not to even mention the lovely chemicals they spew into the air and water. I'm sure those marketers really care about social issues and aren't just using it for publicity and to form a veil so their crimes don't get brought up. Enough thread derailment.
And I should care about his reasoning for not supporting it? I don't give a fuck if you don't like Monsanto for any stupid reason, doesn't change the fact that they're shitheads and the more people despise them the better, no matter how many preachy ads they put out. Same for Procter & Gamble.
Yeah, and Unit 731 was really useful for testing effects of certain diseases. Guess since it achieved that it's all alright, after all this hellish deathcamp tried to help people and as a result me saying "naw fuck them for that" isn't ok. Don't think of the impact, just the context.
I didn't search for context after I found that Tweet, since I was just looking for other things Marty worked on and that popped up, but after he was hounded, he did follow up with another tweet.
I mean sure, if you can't understand that marketing teams don't give a fuck about any social messaging they spew forward, and that people who see through this shit are "bigots" or whatever. If you drink the koolaid fine, but they care about nothing but people like you guarding them so any discussion is obfuscated. You do you.
