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Originally Posted by Ramza
I also think that for Western games, many soundtracks were treated akin to film and television score: as musical cues, etc.
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I was trying to avoid saying this, but I also felt like there was (is) a number of composers that really tried to run with the idea of VGM as being more akin to a film score, when the technology became available. As if being "game like" was a negative trait. The Japanese have never really cared, they published chiptunes on CD early on and continued with the technological advances of various consoles/computers throughout the years. It's that idealogy why I have a greater degree of respect for Japanese composers, they've just been plugging away at it longer and most of my favorite VGM came early on from them, when most US VGM composers and/or the game developers weren't taking the medium seriously.