Do you stop and listen to the game music?

Started by Cosmotone8 August 15th, 2012 4:58 PM
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Do you stop and listen to the game music?

Cosmotone8

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Posted March 20th, 2013
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Have you ever just stopped to listen to the music in the game? If so, where did you stop? What game was it?
I admit I have done this before. I did it when I was facing Dialga and/or Palkia in Platinum. I have also done this many times in PMD. Don't think I could list all the times....
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Kanto_Johto

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I love the music in the Pokemon games. It's the one thing that Game Freak consistently do a fantastic job on every time. The GSC/HGSS music tops everything though. Absolutely incredible soundtrack throughout. It's like they just took everything about Gen I/their remake's music and just bettered it 10 times over (and RGBY/FRLG have an amazing soundtrack as it is). Everything from the town/city music to the surfing music to the cave music to the route music. Gen II and its remakes had amazing music.

So yeah, I most definitely do stop and listen to the music in the games. Some places I go back to just to zone out to the music there.

Screw it, I'm just gonna make a list of my favourite Pokemon music to zone out to:

RGBY/FRLG: S.S. Anne, Route 14/15, Route 24/25, Cinnabar Island.
GSC/HGSS: Route 26/27, National Park, Route 38/39, Dark/Ice Cave, the surfing music, Cinnabar Island (HGSS).
RSE: Route 101, Route 104, Marine Science Museum (basically an S.S. Anne remix, but the piano in it is incredible).
DPPt: Route 209, Team Galactic Battle.
BW: Castelia City, Opelucid City, the bike theme.
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Golurks Were Meant to Fly

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Yes, all the time. I won't always stop for very long, but I listen long enough that I'm able to hum along if I hear it ever. With some songs, I do stop and listen though. Accumula town, some of the bike jingles, and some of the rival's themes are just a few. Occasionally, I'll listen to the whole little song that goes with a person spotting you and then challenging you to battle. (it plays in the background as they "speak")
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I listen to the Pokemon game music a lot on YouTube. I even stop playing if a good music track is on.

My faves come from Black & White especially the Team Plasma Grunt battle theme.
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Ice Car

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Posted November 12th, 2012
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13.2 Years
Yes. Pokemon games are one of the few that have music good enough to make me want to stop and just listen, despite my playstyle in all games, pokemon included, being to always move around. I always move around with a sense of purpose and usually don't stick around places too long if I don't have to.

Cianwood City is unfortunately a small town and has little utility, so sometimes I actually fly there just to listen to music, and when I do go there for something, using the bike is out of the question and running is also.

LinooneFriend

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Posted December 17th, 2012
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11.1 Years
Of course!
I tend to stay in the seaside towns a lot cause I like their music so much. I also like that GB sounds thingy in HG SS but I don't use it all the time. The Sunday radio after getting the GB sounds is really cool too.
Once I stood on the Driftveil drawbridge for almost 20 minutes because I read online that sometimes you can hear a charizard call in the background! I'm still not sure if I actually heard it...
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Satoshi Ookami

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14.8 Years
Lavender Town music.

And also Johto battle themes.
I'm mostly speeding up the game but I like listening to the game music.
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Yeah! I do this a lot. Not really a specific game or track. But sometimes I'll put the game down to do something else and then I'll notice that the music playing is actually cool, and listen to it some more.

ORAS/XYBW

Mr Cat Dog

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I'm not ashamed to admit that I've listened to 30-minute YouTube clips of the music in Veilstone City in Platinum and National Park in HGSS. They're just reeeeeeeally, really good pieces of video game music that fit perfectly with their surroundings and are just good in and of themselves. Unlike listening to 30 minutes of most things, they don't even get tiring each time that they repeat, which is also a nice bonus! :D
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Its called Youtube and official soundtrack albums.

yeaaa
Basically. :3

But yes, I do this quite often. Pokemon has some fabulous music in it, and it seems like a shame to simply walk through sections of the game without taking in the music that goes with it.

Treecko

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11.2 Years
Yes. All the time.
I really like the Blackbelt/Guitarist encounter music from Ruby?Sapphire/Emerald alot for whatever reason. So whenever I run into one, I sit there for a few minutes before starting the battle.


And the one from DPPT too


Black and White has some of the best music so I'm always wasting hours on youtube listening to the music. Ruby and Sapphire's music too.
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I actually do! Whenever I'm up against a legendary Pokemon, I take the time to listen to the awesome battle music. The city and town music I don't really pay much attention to, however. D: