Annoying Videogame Music

Started by LauriJ November 12th, 2015 10:13 PM
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For me, the most annoying music is the song that plays in the Magic Crafters homeland in Spyro the Dragon. I don't know why I hate that one in particular so much, but I do.

Some runner ups are:
the battle theme in Fire Emblem: Awakening (it's so damn calm and boring,)
Route 104 music from Pokemon RSE/ORAS
A track apparently called "Val Royeaux" that plays in various scenes and sometimes just randomly while exploring in Dragon Age: Inquisition
The Cheren/Bianca theme (it's a common battle theme to play on PokemonShowdown, so I hear it quite often)

The entirety of Persona 4's soundtrack. I absolutely cannot stand trashy pop music, and the game is full of nothing but that. Just the thought of Heartbeat, Heartbreak in particular makes me want to break something...it doesn't get much more annoying than being forced to listen to that.

All of Bayonetta's soundtrack, excluding the boss battle themes, for the same reason. It's ridiculous how a game with such amazing boss themes can have such an awful soundtrack everywhere else...well, the remix of Moon River in the second game wasn't too bad, but Tomorrow is Mine is absolutely atrocious.

This is not how vocals should be used in video game soundtrack. Hell, this is not how vocals should be used, period. This kind of crap completely ruins the atmosphere of a game and gets stuck in your head for hours in the worst kind of way. It goes beyond annoying.

With the exception of a couple of tracks, I'd say the entirety of the soundtrack for all three FFXIII games qualifies, too. Blinded by Light is a pretty horrible theme to listen to every single battle, and Saber's Edge is an awful boss theme which in no way breaks up the monotony. They pulled out all the stops with Fighting Fate and Born Anew, but you hardly ever get to listen to those. FFXIII-2 suffered from trashy pop themes for much of its overworld - with even worse "Aggressive" remixes whenever an enemy appeared, and Lightning Returns just slapdashed it with horrible remixes like Crimson Blitz. Masashi Hamauzu really buggered the soundtrack for those games up, and they had enough going against them as it was.

Lunatic Pandora in FFVIII has always struck me as very annoying, as well. Probably because I got lost there as a kid, and I had it going through my head for hours...it's just really grating.

All of the third generation of Pokemon's music was annoying, as well. **** those bloody trumpets! I suppose it was a product of the times, rather than a deliberate thing - or at least, I'd hope that was the case - but still...ugh. I would have preferred 8-bit to that.

I realize I've blurred the line between "annoying" and "bad" a little, but for me they're one and the same - if it's annoying it's bad, and if it's bad then it's obviously annoying.

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Even though I am a fan of the Final Fantasy series, there is music in that series that I find annoying. I am talking about the town themes. Come to a town, hear the town theme. Come to another town, hear the same theme.
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The entirety of Persona 4's soundtrack. I absolutely cannot stand trashy pop music, and the game is full of nothing but that. Just the thought of Heartbeat, Heartbreak in particular makes me want to break something...it doesn't get much more annoying than being forced to listen to that.
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Super Mario RPG's Forest Maze. I started to hate the song the more I heard it.

Cosmic Spacehead's Factory music. Another one that I got sick of because I couldn't really get through the level until I realised I had to put in a code to stop the machinery.

Now it's just going through all the games I've played to find out what was irritating. Will edit when I get the chance.

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I know I keep talking about Isaac, but oh my god, some of the tracks are absolutely unbearable on loop. Particularly the tunes on the first floors, Basement and Caves. They just sound so repetitive, over and over and it just drones on! I love the soundtrack, but a bit more variety than "Dun dun, dundundun, dundundun, dundundun" would be welcome.
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I hate those rolling ball stages in Galaxy 1 and 2. I don't remember how many times I had to keep redoing the Rolling Gizmo Galaxy, but it was a lot. -_- Then to top it off you have this annoying track playing which sounds like trolling music.

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I think I have a hard time getting annoyed by vgm, but I was playing Earthbound last night, and the weird music (more like obnoxious sound) that plays when Poo has to sit atop the mountain to finish his Mu Training was grating on my ears. I thought I wasn't supposed to advance the dialog at all or I'd fail, so I just left the controller there and had to listen to it for like five minutes and then figure out I needed to advance the dialog, lol. So I guess I brought it upon myself, but it's literally a five second loop, so can you blame me?

I also find Lavender Town's music more annoying than scary/creepy. Whoops.
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I also find Lavender Town's music more annoying than scary/creepy. Whoops.
I thought I was the only one who didn't like Lavender Town's music. It never scared me as a kid because I always found it annoying and turned the sound off.

Like Judge Mandolore Shepard, I really don't like the songs that play in Final Fantasy towns. Especially VI's. I think after spending so long in South Figaro, I just couldn't stand listening to that music. Also, the Veldt. I like the Veldt's song in small doses, but listening to it while raising Gau's Rages just got so annoying after a while.

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It's easier to pick a song out of Sonic Shuffle that isn't [hilariously] annoying; even the wiki and a ton of reviews commented about the OST being a part of the reason for the game's bad ratings. Considering how Sonic games usually have awesome music, it kinda sounded like Shuffle was trying too hard to play up its silliness.
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That song that plays in Kingdom Hearts when you're in the gummi ship traveling between worlds. It's not so bad, but I hate having to fly between worlds like that, and I've come to dislike the theme because of it.
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the battle theme in Fire Emblem: Awakening (it's so damn calm and boring,)
Route 104 music from Pokemon RSE/ORAS
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For me it's the Lumiose City theme. I got lost in it a lot during my first play through so the theme is associated with annoyance.
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Sword Art Online Code Register GGO OST...basiclly the music that comes if you play GGO lvl....if that counts as a game >_>
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I also find Lavender Town's music more annoying than scary/creepy. Whoops.
This was me as a kid, I absolutely hated the song and always turned my sound off when it played.

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Little Red Hood for the NES.



Just listen to that pixelated mess of a soundtrack. Its a vile mixture of frotting sounds of crackling farts.

The best part, like any of these Bad games in the NES Library, this is the ONLY BGM you hear while playing the entire game.