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nim
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15th April, 2011 at 19:03:50 -
Originally Posted by Sketchy
The problem with technology in music, is that the music becomes very dated. Like in the '80s, everyone was using primitive electronic synths, which might have been cool and new at the time, but now it just sounds shit.
And more recently, we have "autotune" which results in everyone singing in the same pitch-perfect, artificial sounding voice. Again, it was cool at first, but it's already getting very old (can you imagine what it will be like re-watching "Glee" in 10 years time?)
Yeah, a lot of it sounds terrible now but back then it was nice to be growing up in a time where people were discovering new things all the time. For example, Drum & Bass (whether or not it's your thing) still has a large following. The genre has developed over the years and you can trace its roots back to the 90s when people were dicking around with synths and drum loops. It's possible that people still like garage, although I can't believe it myself.
Now it feels like video games and music are reaching a saturation point, where we're possibly one console generation away from games looking damn near real. And like you said, now we have autotune for vocals so people don't even have to sing in key anymore. Can't help thinking that there's not much room to improve, at least on the technical audio-visual side.
The jump from Mario Paint to K&P was a bigger jump than K&P to MMF2 was  I'm not complaining; just saying that kids wanting to get into game creation now have much more choice (including sound editor, music sequencer, graphics package, etc) than we did when we started. It's a good thing!
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nim
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15th April, 2011 at 19:06:34 -
What current generation games do you think people will still talk about 20 years from now?
Portal?
They (we) might check out videos of people playing Wii Sports and laugh.
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Matt Boothman
The Nissan Micra of forum members
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15th April, 2011 at 20:18:39 -
The way I feel about games getting 'almost real' is that the photograph did not kill the painting. People will appreciate photorealistic games for what they are, but after a while they will become old hat. Game artists will have to become more impressionist.
The same with auto-tune - people after a while will stop being so drawn to pitch-perfect, ultra-produced vocals and will start to appreciate what a real human can do with their voice, even if it is not flawless. Personally I am waiting for this generation's "punk"; surely these kids have had enough of SycoWorld?
http://soundcloud.com/normbo - Listen to my music.
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Duncan
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16th April, 2011 at 15:20:41 -
in the '80s, everyone was using primitive electronic synths, which might have been cool and new at the time, but now it just sounds shit.
Insert exasperated response here 
What current generation games do you think people will still talk about 20 years from now?
We'll talk about the bad ones in nostalgia threads, and we'll still be playing the good ones!
Even talking about a notional afterlife for a game like Metroid seems wrong - surely it's still a living thing?
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