20 Years of PlayStation Doom.

[Buckshot]

Dave The Daring said:

The Jaguar version has the objectively superior soundtrack. No cheesy, faux-rock MIDI tracks and no long, drawn out, boring ambient so-called music.

There. I said it.

That's a daring thing to say, Dave.

[VGamingJunkie]

No way, the 32x's soundtrack was way better. Such beautiful instruments.

[Dave The Daring]

I wonder if that printer that Doom was ported to had music?

[Jaxxoon R]

I rest my case.

[scalliano]

MetroidJunkie said:

Even then, you can only really say it was the best console port of Doom at the time. Better ones have come out since then.

Personally, I'd sooner whip out my PS1 copy than load up Classic Complete on the PS3.

But that's just an opinion.

[Megamur]

Dave The Daring said:

The Jaguar version has the objectively superior soundtrack. No cheesy, faux-rock MIDI tracks and no long, drawn out, boring ambient so-called music.

There. I said it.

Congratulations on having the guts to express your terrible opinion.

[Dave The Daring]

Megamur said:

Congratulations on having the guts to express your terrible opinion.

Thank you, although I don't actually believe any of the stuff I wrote. Well, I'm not too keen on the original MIDIs, but I can live with them, and I actually love Aubrey Hodges' ambient music.

[Megamur]

Even better, then.

[VGamingJunkie]

Special mention to the Doom 3 Classic remixed music?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vUiBLpze_A

[Koko Ricky]

Calling dark ambient "so-called music" is an excellent way of telling people, "Yeah, I don't really know what dark ambient is."

[vinnie245]

He just posted that he was joking :P

[Dave The Daring]

GoatLord said:

Calling dark ambient "so-called music" is an excellent way of telling people, "Yeah, I don't really know what dark ambient is."

I tried making an ambient track back in the 90s. My brother had a small bedroom studio. Alas, this project ended up along side all my other failed sonic experiments. I'm just not cut out for music.

[Varis Alpha]

ambient is difficult to make. it's not like e.g. where you can plop in a guitar, bass and drums and it'll work because that's such a tried and true combination. ambient's based around the instruments and sounds you use to make an aural landscape, and that's trickier than just going and jamming on whatever instrument. i've tried doing a few ambient songs, but it's a bit harder to come up with ideas for it.

[Koko Ricky]

Ambient comes in interesting flavors. Dark ambient, space ambient, ambient techno, drone, chill ambient, etc. I've made a number of ambient tracks and it's a very subtle procedure.

[Tristan]

Doomhuntress said:

ambient is difficult to make. it's not like e.g. where you can plop in a guitar, bass and drums and it'll work because that's such a tried and true combination. ambient's based around the instruments and sounds you use to make an aural landscape, and that's trickier than just going and jamming on whatever instrument. i've tried doing a few ambient songs, but it's a bit harder to come up with ideas for it.

So true. I've seen people say that the PSX Doom music is just random noises thoughtlessly mashed together, and that's just completely wrong: it's no more random and thoughtless than any other style of music. Sure it's less likely to appeal to a wider audience, but those kind of criticisms are just nonsense to me.

[Varis Alpha]

Eris Falling said:

So true. I've seen people say that the PSX Doom music is just random noises thoughtlessly mashed together, and that's just completely wrong: it's no more random and thoughtless than any other style of music. Sure it's less likely to appeal to a wider audience, but those kind of criticisms are just nonsense to me.

some people are just ignorant to the amount of work that's been put in certain forms of art. some people might say that electronic music is easy to make because, hey, it's so simple and repetitive, that's easy to make right? aha. ahahaha.

[Dave The Daring]

Doomhuntress said:

some people might say that electronic music is easy to make because, hey, it's so simple and repetitive, that's easy to make right? aha. ahahaha.

I spent years trying to make even half-decent dance music back in the 90s. I failed. Easy it was not.

[Megamur]

GoatLord said:

Ambient comes in interesting flavors. Dark ambient, space ambient, ambient techno, drone, chill ambient, etc.

It seems every musical genre has roughly eight-thousand sub-genres for maximum confusion.

[Dave The Daring]

Don't forget ambient country.. Yee-haw!

[Tristan]

Don't tempt me...

[Jaxxoon R]

Distant, echoing guitar plucks and somber voices murmuring about material possessions and ideas.

[Megamur]

And beer. Don't forget beer.

[Dave The Daring]

Well Ambient Americana is a thing. Sounds like it could be a little bit country.

[Gez]

Dave The Daring said:

I wonder if that printer that Doom was ported to had music?

It really should!

I'm not sure how you'd plug a printer on another printer, though, because I'm pretty sure the printer with a screen wasn't a dot matrix.

[Dave The Daring]

It was a Canon Pixma inkjet printer. Are you suggesting that we force an inkjet printer to have sex with a dot matrix printer just so we can have a version of Doom on a printer that has music?

Spoiler

Do it.

[VGamingJunkie]

There's a certain retro charm to the GBA Doom music.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26obusU6NS0

[Koko Ricky]

Dave The Daring said:

Don't forget ambient country.. Yee-haw!

The contemporary work of drone outfit Earth could be described as ambient country.

[Job]

It could be argued that PSX Doom was more significant than the original Doom itself. We should be celebrating its birthday instead.

[BaronOfStuff]

I wouldn't go quite that far, but it's certainly a shining example of how to port a game (without just being lazy and shit about it) while making the most of the target system's capabilities in the process, to essentially give it a style and identity of its own.

Compare to PSX Hexen. There is no reason to play this over the PC version at all.

[vinnie245]

I thought the soundtrack to PSX Hexen was slightly higher quality but yeah nothing other than that :P
I also like ports that do things different to be unique yet still remain true to the original game, what's the point in just playing the exact same game on a different system.