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Originally Posted by Jake
I also value music greatly in all types of levels, and it's easy to ruin a good level with bad music. *cough*Frontier Falls' original music*cough*
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Eekh, you can't say ruin. Honestly you can't say ruin. You can say it makes it less good maybe, but ruin? You can manually turn off the music yourself if you don't like it or even change it with /changemusic to whatever. Ruin implies it becomes the fundamental flaw of a level and makes it much worse and in fact not worth playing! Don't tell me you actually think that can be the case (unless again talking about SP then fair enough).
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Originally Posted by DoubleGJ
Because it's part of the gameplay. Music contributes to the overall feel of the level. You can't just say what percentage of the whole feel it is, but just try to play a (preferably singleplayer) level with music turned off. Not as fun, is it?
Are you sure this is an obvious universal statement? Sometimes it really takes a lot of time to pick the right song, especially if you have a large collection to look through (which is always good to have, especially considering the size of an average tracker module).
Also, keep in mind that a review is not some sort of oracle, it's more or less an opinion. You might take suggestion from it, but do not take reviews (especially non-professional ones, the only kind there is on J2O) as the truth that you must apply. If there are points given or taken for things you don't bother with, just take note of this when looking at the overall score and make the final decision yourself. And if it's your level that is reviewed, a fraction of a point down because of a bad music choice is not the end of the world, and maybe next time you'll choose better.  |
I don't think I've ever tried SP without the music, and yeah probably for the right reasons you're thinking of. I appreciate what you're saying but I'm sure music is also a taste thing anyway, like some JJ2 sound tracks, I personally like (am not home atm so I won't look for filenames to quote myself on that), but others say they just get really annoying really fast. Okay, fair enough people can avoid picking those, but yeah, just something to think about.
Also, if you think music is a part of gameplay, do you by any chance think, like say in an SP level, if you put faster music, that felt like race music, someone may perhaps be encouraged to run faster in it? Just wondering on your opinion there. Tad curious.
Also, do you think music is a part of gameplay in MP also?
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