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Title screens that fucking slap
- Thread starter RoboitoAM
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If by slap you mean, harrowing chilling existential dread it's bloodborne.
Dangan always puts a smile on my face, my jaw kinda dropped the first time i started the game, i expected it to turn into a epic classical rpg anthem and got some hella j-butt rock.
Dangan always puts a smile on my face, my jaw kinda dropped the first time i started the game, i expected it to turn into a epic classical rpg anthem and got some hella j-butt rock.
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Sadly this doesn't show the trippy scale/rotation background animation but the music still slaps
robocop is such a good choice, here's the c64 arrangement which is also really good/my fav
The Golden Axe 3 title screen is one of the most legendary intros ever created, in my opinion. It's incredible!
I don't know if anyone posted this but this Arkham Origins' menu caught me off guard when I first played it. I was like damn, gettin pumped to be Batman. Plus the little Xmas notes fit really well.
Look at this beast.
Then look at it again.
It's 2000. You've just played Pokémon Red/Blue/Yellow. You think you know everything there is to know about Pokémon. You caught them all. You even tried to look under the truck. We all did. We all failed. And yet, the Pokémon world is empty of secrets now.
But wait.
Gold and Silver? 100 new Pokémon? New places? That's impossible, you think, you KNOW everything there is to know, you think.
And you know what encapsulate this "Shit, I thought I had completed the whole journey but turned out I had barely started? What is this new adventure awaiting for me, I can't wait !" ? This title screen. You don't see the legendary, you see its silhouette. It's fleeting. It a shadow. It's most definitely a monster. And you're going to get it. Forget the creatures slidshow from the previous game, now there's a HUGE BIRD ahead of you.
This monster won't wait for you.
Go get it.
The SID is my all-time favorite soundchip for sure. Like you said, it could reproduce awesome bass-like sounds for its time, among other things. Such a versatile little chip!
The triangle wave on the NES sounds so tinny in comparison to what the C64 could output.
Oh yeah, when I was a kid my mum actually wanted to take the game away from me again after she got it for me because she said she never saw me as hyper and yet focused as when I was playing Mischief Makers :P
Ah the memories! :D
I want to mention the fan-made Megaman Battle Network 7:
It should be indisputable that these three are the finest examples of achievement in the field of video game title themes that "slap:"
This. Buck Bumbles theme song was gamings finest hour. Dare I say humanity's finest hour.
Holy shit what kind of sorcery is that? Those Martin Galway tracks are mammoth with the filtering, LFO, bass and everything going on. 1:05 in Terra Cresta and 1:00 in the Wizball theme...goddamn!
The difference between the Panther theme on Atari 8-bit and C64 is impressive; the Atari has it's own character but the SID is just MASSIVE. We had an Atari800XL in the house growing up but I haven't heard any of this C64 stuff before so I'm excited I've got a lot of listening to do.
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The best there is, the best there was, the best there ever will be.
The real sorcery is how C64 composers figured how to create an additional channel AND feed samples into it by taking advantage of a bug in the volume register.
And if you want more of Martin Galway going crazy on the filters (wait for it):
And another proper C64 anthem:
I've had this stuck in my head for an entire day now, tbh I don't even mind this fucking rules.
Ahhh yesssss, so exciting and refreshing. The music, the water animations, the sick af tricks, such a cohesive intro.
Two of my favorite games. JSRF was so much better than the first game, too.
I was about to be legit upset if this didn't make it on the first page. Just in the nick of time. All time GOAT themes.
I seem to remember a game where the title screen would transition almost seamlessly into the game but I forget what it was.
I'm also a big fan of the title screen changing depending on where you are in the game. I also can't seem to recall which games did this.
