Quote Originally Posted by demondude55 View Post
Mold anus has a point guys.
And the argument that nobue is better then mozart is BS.
No, it's personal opinion. Mozart positively bores me so if anyone asks me whether Nobuo is better, I'm not going to say no he isn't. I personally like his music a thousand times more.

Also Old Manus, video game music has been played by orchestras. You say there's little variety in terms of crescendos, dynamics, etc, but I say this is a problem only with older games which use Midi data playing sounds directly on the soundchip (and even then, it's not totally true that that's a problem with SNES games and on). You'll find plenty of dynamic variation in songs before and especially after the move to CD sound. Unless you're still looking to the original Mario Bros. as your idea of what video game music sounds like then the idea they don't feature thematic and dynamic variation is crap.

The reason it's not played by orchestras (aside from the fact that most of them have their pompous heads up their butts) is that most just aren't familiar with video game music, and there's a huge stigma around it in the West. Many people still think of game music as being like the original Mario Bros. There's also the fact that many of Uematsu's songs simply aren't arranged for orchestra, but so many have later been arranged for orchestra that the point is rather moot.