>Just curious, a popular trend that's occurred over this last decade in particular is synthwave music. It's often used for games rooted in science-fiction, or games that try to be nostalgic for a particular era, like the '80s. Did that trend have any influence at all with Cyberpunk 2077.
>Adamczyk: Yes, it actually gave us a reference of what not to do for Cyberpunk 2077. I remember Marcin saying on the first day, "No synthwave, please." It definitely influenced us in that regard. Probably not in the way most people would think, but it did influence us.
>Leonard-Morgan: The thing about synthwave, I find, is that the sounds are just too beautiful. It just often sounds too glossy and shiny. The setting of Cyberpunk 2077 is this dirty place. It's dark as hell, so if you're going to do something with the music, take one of your flipping sounds, send it through 5,000 cables, filter it through other things as well. Marcin actually had this thing where he would send his sounds through 5,000 volts. If you think again of Night City, it's this world [where] everyone doesn't have their beautiful lights and stuff like that. [It] is people trying to get electricity from wherever they can, hacking into power grids and so on. So there's a very complex process going with those characters, and I think that was almost how we felt when we were creating the sounds of the music for the game.
>I remember Marcin saying on the first day, "No synthwave, please." >I remember Marcin saying on the first day, "No synthwave, please."
Shazam-kun needs to add another "It doesn't have to" for his list
Julian Nelson
synthwave is a meme genre that was actually cool over a decade ago at this point. it was already played out even before Drive made it full normie. not saying pitchfork bullshit like grimes or run the jewels is any better but this is unironically a basic bitch take. to be expected from someone who gives a shit about cyberpunk but still...i am lmaoing at your life
Angel Jones
Avoiding tired 80s pandering bullshit is a good thing
Connor Morris
if you really think about it, it's pretty based, although probably unintentionally so they're making a jewish-owned, nigger-infested anti-utopia
Anthony Moore
Yeah when I think of Perturbator and Carpenter Brut I think "too glossy and shiny". I'd rather have hip hop that just so happens to be popular in the year 2020 and quickly forgotten about soon after when the next fad song charts.
I watched that Xbox console showcase the other day and I heard music that sounded like mid to late 90s techno which is a worse fit than synthwave. These polish fucks were way out of their element making a cyberpunk game.
Xavier Gutierrez
>it doesn't need to have synthwave
Isaiah Gonzalez
Early Perturbator is in fact the same kind of trendy, schlocky garbage down there with shit like Com Truise, Lazerhawk, Miami Nights, etc. His newer stuff honestly sounds more like synth metal than anything and I wouldn't consider it as part of the same genre. I also wouldn't want to hear any of the shit he's associated with through Hotline Miami.
Nathaniel Hughes
Synthwave would have been cringe and cliche. Industrial electronic is way better
>The thing about synthwave, I find, is that the sounds are just too beautiful. It just often sounds too glossy and shiny. Have these retards heard of dark synthwave?
Asher Davis
Industrial wouldn't have fit at all considering tech aesthetics are moving more and more towards sleekness and minimalism. The very idea of future music being inspired by brutalism and industrial aesthetics is just way beyond my level of suspension of disbelief.
I don't care that you personally associate with shit like Com Truise, the justification that it sounds "too glossy" is fucking retarded, nothing in their discography sounds like that.
Eli Garcia
now that i think about it, synthwave isn't really prominent in any popular cyberpunk medium blade runner? nein gits? nein dude sex? nein so again, where does the synthwave meme come from
It could have been done well, like darker more John Carpenter sounding synths over com truise or gay shit like that. Their current soundtrack is total shit that already sounds outdated. And Refused’s contribution is the some of the most disappointing shit i’ve heard
Charles Edwards
>beatiful or nice music can't come from a random shithole What's the racism against poor people called again?
Isaiah Bailey
Accidentally based is still based. Now you just need to btfo trannies and this will be GOTY.
i wonder if this is the same idiot that want doom 2016 to not have guitars sometimes something haws a trend cause said trend just fits you odnt always have to go against trends
Kayden Thomas
>[Synthwave is] just often sounds too glossy and shiny. The setting of Cyberpunk 2077 is this dirty place. It's dark as hell Well I don't know much about cyberpunk, but isn't that what cyberpunk is supposed to be? Pretty outside, ugly inside. A dystopian sort of feel.
Sebastian Jones
>>No synthwave, please. I will now buy your game
Adrian Clark
>is that the sounds are just too beautiful >Cyberpunk 2077 is this dirty place. It's dark as hell, >Having such little faith in your audience that in order to create a dark atmosphere you can't use music that sounds good Fucking pathetic. I'm so fucking tired of games that just jerk themselves off to how miserable they can be to get normies' attention. Wow, a stereotypically pessimistic view of the future and technology in general? How unique and totally not done to death at all.
>I remember Marcin saying on the first day, "No synthwave, please."
based af, synthwave is trash meme music. fuck off carpenter brut, perturbator, kavinsky, whatever. Don't care though, I'm still not buying Cyberpunk 2077.
Isaac Lee
It's very meh
John Martin
Based
That's right, Synth/Vapor/Fashwave is for white bigots, alt-right and Trump supporters
Miles better then Synthwave. Hated that genre since its "resurrection/inception". If a music genre screams Reddit and cringe Youtube comments its Synthwave.
>being this much of a newfag Synthwave got stale and forgotten YEARS before you phoneposters decided to adopt it for your shitty "epic naziwave lol aren't these two aesthetics so dissonant lol that's so wacky xD" memes.
Jason Ortiz
Synthwave is really an extension of 80s movie music in general. Only because of Blade Runner is it really associated with cyberpunk, even though the soundtrack to that movie is more than just "synthwave". That's why the references are all over the place to 80s sci-fi, horror, and action movies. Particularly John Carpenter's movies.
It makes sense that they wouldn't want the more light and dreamy stuff for their dark and gritty setting, unless they were specifically trying to set that sort of tone, but there's also more dark and industrial electronic music they could use.
Matthew Butler
>I legitimately cringed with anger. I would cringe if I had your taste too
Bentley Richardson
>hambeast Marcin? Because I meant him. Fuck that meme genre.
Nathaniel Hughes
1.5 minutes of buildup before anything of substance, very meh for a vidya OST
Caleb Allen
synthwave is boring and cookie cutter crap and never should've been the "sound of the future"
Connor Young
Haha I hate synthwave too now that it's not as underground. Do I fit in, Zig Forumseddit?
