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Originally Posted by dissident93
I agree with what many of you are saying. The quality of VGM (and maybe all things artistic) has dimmed a bit, seeing as anybody with a laptop and a DAW can become an artist nowadays. but I also think we always overvalue things we grew up on. VGM pre-2004 was better in terms of quality IMO, but how much does nostalgia play a role here?
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Nostalgia's important, but the fact that so few games nowadays have soundtracks where I am dying to hear the music from them nowadays is equally important. There aren't a lot of games where, if I had been limited to what I had in the NES/SNES days, I'd be making cassette tape recordings out of.
As far defining "older" VGM, I would say pre and post PS2 era is when I noticed the gap. The 8 and 16 bit eras are important, obviously, but the 32 bit era was dripping in quality releases. I feel like the following eras never held up the momentum that was established.