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Nov 7, 2019 · Counting Minecraft among the most influential games of the 2010s is a no-brainer. According to its developer, Mojang, Minecraft recently became the bestselling video game of all time, beating...
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- One Man's Quest to Reach The End of Minecraft
- Doom (2016) – Mick Gordon
- Florence – Kevin Penkin
- No Man’S Sky: Music For An Infinite Universe (2016) – 65daysofstatic
- The Last of Us (2013) – Gustavo Santaolalla
- Minecraft (2011) – C418
- Cuphead (2017) – Kristofer Maddigan
- Nier: Automata (2017) – Keiichi Okabe, Keigo Hoashi, Kuniyuki Takahashi
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2015) – Marcin Przybyłowicz
- Dark Souls (2011) – Motoi Sakuraba
It may seem obvious in hindsight but the unhumanly perfect pairing of Mick Gordon’s soundtrack with id Software’s DOOM is an experience unlike any other. The pounding drums and shredding soloson 8-string guitars, coupled seamlessly with the testosterone-charged gore-fest of ‘Doomguy’, is a glorious sight to behold. A breakout hit of the decade in r...
Australia’s own Kevin Penkin goes toe-to-toe with any AAA composer. After his wildly successful score for the anime series Made In Abyss, Penkin has been hot property, to say the least. Yet, his work on the mobile game Florence is second to none. The man knows how to build a melody, utilising chamber music to swirl around the game’s central romance...
While No Man’s Skywas a catastrophic, lie-riddled flop upon launch (but admittedly, somewhat redeemed since), the soundtrack is nothing short of incredible. What do you do when you have a game that flaunts the infinite depth and wonder of space? Hire a post-rock band to score it. 65daysofstatic elegantly captures the majesty and awe-inspiring wonde...
Widely recognised as a masterpiece, Gustavo Santaolalla’s haunting soundtrack takes no small cut of the cloth. The devastating cello solos, earthy percussion, and nylon plucked guitar lines imbue an emotional potency that should be a requisite for all apocalyptic games. Yet unlike 65daysofstatic, Santaolalla employs a masterful sense of restraint. ...
Sometimes a game calls for a soundtrack that melts your face off, and sometimes all a soundtrack needs to do is patter along in the background. The latter was Daniel Rosenfeld’s brief for Minecraft, the 2011 sandbox sleeper which has since become the best selling video game of all time. As C418 Rosenfeld would lay down compositions that drew on min...
Comfortably one of the biggest dark horse success stories of the last decade, Cuphead was, dare I say it, masterful. A hand-drawn, 1920s-style bonanza, every frame, character and stylistic choice was lovingly created. It was ruthlessly challenging and the result paid off in spades, no pun intended. Kristofer Maddigan clearly shares a love for Ameri...
Another brave mash-up of gaming styles that was an undisputed success is PlatinumGames’ NieR: Automata. Centring around Vladimir and Estragon – a virtual Adam and Eve – the player is confronted with endless moral complexity across a vast, adventurous landscape. Yet it’s the sorrowful, yearning melodies and linguistically impressionistic lyrics that...
Often cited amongst the best games of all time, Wild Huntput CD Projekt Red on the map as a world-leading developer in a time when other major companies were resorting to microtransactions and pre-pay strategies. Each in-game region is inspired by real-world influences and so is the soundtrack. Carefully considered in conjunction with the ‘spheres’...
Likely the only thing that threaded together the last shreds of a player’s sanity when they first encountered Dark Souls was Motoi Sakuraba’s magnificent soundtrack. Equal parts breathtaking and harrowing, Sakuraba crafted 31 pieces of simply wondrous music. While Dark Souls 3 is a close contender, this is where the tone was first truly set for the...
- Red Dead Redemption (2010) At the beginning of the 2010s, Rockstar managed to clean up its bad-boy image. Though subsequent releases would still have some dissent from concerned parents and an overly concerned lawyer, reception towards the publisher was no longer met with the same level of hostility compared to the start of the 2000s.
- DmC – Devil May Cry (2013) I understand that many people will read this entry, shudder and conjure a pox on my house and horses for merely mentioning Ninja Theory’s stab at revitalising a beloved hack and slash series.
- Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (2015) By 2015, there was no denying that the indie market was on fire. Within the space of 5 short years, many amazing titles were making their way to the Steam store and with the advent of streaming hitting its stride also, these two elements brought gaming as a whole kicking and screaming into the future.
- DOOM (2016) From its 1993 debut onwards, DOOM became a franchise of legendary proportions, as it should have been. It helped birth a new playstyle for generations to come within the FPS genre, and the idea of one man and his shotgun laying to waste the demons of hell was an alluring, yet simple concept that printed money for id Software.
- CaptainSparklez And TryHardNinja — ‘Revenge’ No other Minecraft song could claim this spot. A parody of Usher’s ‘DJ Got Us Fallin In Love’, it opens with a player being killed by a creeper (a monster that explodes), and the most memorable words uttered in the Minecraft community — even today, if you say ‘creeper’, people will respond with ‘AWWWWWW MAAAAANNN’.
- CaptainSparklez And TryHardNinja — ‘Fallen Kingdom’ The first instalment in the aforementioned Fallen Kingdom series, this parody of Coldplay’s ‘Viva La Vida’ depicts the epic tale of the king who lost his people and his kingdom to Herobrine.
- YOGSCAST Lewis & Simon — ‘Screw the Nether’ (Moves Like Jagger Parody) The Yogscast really were a prolific group. In this parody they move to the Nether, or Minecraft’s version of hell, and then realise that it was a fucking terrible idea, that they miss nature and end up returning to the overworld.
- YOGSCAST Lewis & Simon — ‘MoonQuest: An Epic Journey’ Another banger produced by Lewis & Simon, it’s an inspirational tale of a young dwarf who wants to fly to the moon but is shut down by the other dwarves who say his dream is ridiculous and that “he’d fail if he tried”.
- Minecraft (Calm 1) It would be remiss not to include this track. Known as Calm 1 in Minecraft's files, or simply 'Minecraft' on the game's 'Volume Alpha' album, this song is the most recognisable tune in the game.
- Stal. If you’ve ever wanted Minecraft to feel like you’re sat in a 1930s dive bar, glass in hand, black ties all around you, then this is the song you should shoot for.
- Ward. Ward starts off with the first few bars of Chopin's Funeral March, before flickering out into something else entirely. Yet despite this musical switcheroo, it maintains the same creepy vibe as the intro, trading the haunting organ for an unsettling electronic melody.
- Cat. This one is a little odd, but it fits the name well. With a unique mix of different instruments and a somewhat off-kilter beat, it sounds just like a kitten running across a keyboard.
Minecraft (albums: Volume Alpha & Volume Beta; 2011-2013) Composer: C418 You may not recognise the artist name C418 but there's a good chance you've listened to his music. With over 176 million copies of the game now sold, Daniel Rosenfeld's ambient tracks are (probably) some of the most listened to pieces of music in the history of the world.
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Dec 19, 2019 · Minecraft is another game released in 2009 that grew into a cultural institution in the 2010s. If you’ve got kids, or know people who do, you know what Minecraft is.
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