I joined this forum to contribute my music and see what others had contributed music-wise. I have been on other forums and they all had section devoted for music, writing and music. Some actually combined all three under a single subforum. I'm suprised that this forum not only has both a writing section and an art section, but a rom hacking section as well. Why this forum can't have one is beyond me. As I initially stated, music is large part of the Pokémon franchise, game and anime alike. I don't know anyone who's played or watched Pokemon and considers themselves a fan who doesn't know the main Pokémon theme and the original Pokémon theme song. Chances are you'd recognize a well-known Pokémon town theme, like Slateport or Jubilife, or a route theme like route 2 from the original Red and Blue or Route 216 from Pokémon Diamond and Pearl. Even spinoffs, like Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, which was well known for itls emotional story and amazing soundtrack, do a great job in the music department. Music is a crucial part of Pokémon, and I simply wanted a place where the community could discuss and share one of the most amazing parts of Pokémon, like they already with art, fiction and even ROM hacking.
Not to say that we should be conformist or anything, but I'm going to explain how and why other forums aotes have a music section.
Cave Story Tribute site Forums: The creator of cave story developed his own music making program just for CS and went on to create another more versatile, yet more complicated music making program. Add in the fact that the entire soundtrack is gold and praised, and the reasons become overly apparent.
MSPA Forums: Homestuck is known for its excellent soundtrack and the multitude of fanmusicians that have contributed works to the Homestuck soundtrack. The MSPA forums not only fosters these artists, but raises new ones as well. On the fourms, they lump together all Fanworks, including art, writing and music. This works because of how Homestuck is heavily dependent on all three for its storytelling.
Pokémon music is obviously well praised and analyzed, despite the fact that Pokémon is not an indie hit like Homestuck or Cave Story, it's music is still worthy to be remj
It can be brought up 100 times, though...the fact of the matter is that the pros have to outweigh the cons, not JUST for the people enjoying music but it has to make sense for the forum mod and its regulars.
So far the only con I'm seeing is that there wouldn't be as much traction in the General Entertainment section. And like J. Mustang said, there's only about 26% of GE that is music, and even if there was more attention to music in GE (like this fallacious 90% you keep throwing around) there would be no point in GE if most of it was music. The pros, in my opinion, far outweigh the cons. Maybe if you can provide me with additional cons then you might have me convinced. J. Mustang has stated them well, I implore you to look at his list.
Ok....your point? Music is an art, I agree, but you create music to inspire, to entertain, to instill so many emotions in someone. At the core of it all, though, music IS a form of media, and media content, for consistency purposes, belongs in GE.
You realize that visual art does all three of those things, right? With that in mind, shouldn't Art be in the GE section since it is technically media. Media is just anything that conveys an idea. Under the same logic, writing should be in the GE section. But it isn't. Why? Because the fiction is users contributing to the subforum and it has to do with Pokémon. The Music section could do both.
And where's your evidence that an (apparently...i havent checked personally) inactive/insufficient showcasing thread would blossom into a bustling forum? You say theres lost potential, and I'll agree with you when there are like 50 people posting their music everywhere in GE.
I personally believe there isn't a lot of music makers behind this because there is no venue for music makers to place their works or converse with a community of other music makers, not because they aren't here. It's also possible that pokemusic makers are turned off from joining the forums because there is no music section.
You are missing the point. You and those who support say it isnt about helping GE, but whether you like it or not, GE is the place to go for music. I dont know if you realize, but you're ignoring the general welfare of GE, saying "let the mods deal w/it" should worst come to worst and GE does suffer inactivity because of it.
To be frank, none of what's going on in the GE section is relevant to Pokémon, the main theme of this website. Most of the music discussion is unrelated to Pokémon, and seems to simply be about opinions on music or your favorite genre. The closest it gets to what I would like to is the sharing of compositions and whether on not you're a musician. And Ive responded and subscribed to both the Genre thread and the Musican thread and the former is much more popular than the latter. And as I said earlier, that's because of a lack of an appropriate venue for proper music-making and sharing as it pertains to Pokémon.
Music is relevant to Pokemon and it, like Art, Writing, Gameplay and Programming, are the most crucial parts toa good game. While Pokemon may not have groundbreaking Gameplay, its has a fairly good art direction and good programming for what it's trying to do. Both elements of Pokémon are represented here on the forums. Music (which as I've said before, Pokemon is very good in.) is sadly underrepresented here in the forums. There doesnt need to be a subforum just for music, but there should be one under the C&D section.
Also, forget what I was saying about being a mod of this if this does come into fruition. I just want to see this be a success if at all possible.
