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Okay, I'm REALLY pissed-off at Namco right now...
13 years ago
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I finally got to hear the soundtrack of Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy, and I call FRANCHISE KILLER;
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.p.....ranchiseKiller
What brought me to drop a bomb like that, you ask? Compare the original soundtrack of Ace Combat 2 to it's replacement in the Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy remake.
Yes, I said REPLACEMENT --- they replaced an entire video game soundtrack, even though it was a classic, and STILL would have fit the game perfectly.
This was the original theme for Operation Toy Box in AC2;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj5A3WSJtW8
The theme for Operation Toy Box now sounds like this;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iRqiX_wfgM
This absolutely awesome track was the theme for Operation Seagull (and take note that this is universally considered to be THE most popular song ever played in any Ace Combat game); http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEeB2R-outc
Here's Operation Seagull's new theme;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_nLA8dtVs0&feature=relmfu
This is the signature theme of Operation Midnight Assassin in AC2; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEeB2R-outc
This is Operation Midnight Assassin's new theme;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF82BbIQb8A
This was the theme for Operation Fighter's Honor, the final mission of AC2; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyX-Bco-PVo
This is the new theme for Operation: Fighter's Honor;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m1tbVBmTZw&feature=relmfu
What the hell are they smoking over there at Namco?! They had a timeless, original, imaginative, and exciting soundtrack, and threw it all away for crap that sounds no different (at best) than that Royalty-Free music that now chokes the internet!
And here I thought they hit rock-bottom with Ace Combat Zero's Anvilicious moralizing, and Ace Combat 6's overly-saccharine theme and soundtrack. I thought they couldn't cheapen their own franchise anymore if they TRIED, but they've hit a new low.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.p.....ranchiseKiller
What brought me to drop a bomb like that, you ask? Compare the original soundtrack of Ace Combat 2 to it's replacement in the Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy remake.
Yes, I said REPLACEMENT --- they replaced an entire video game soundtrack, even though it was a classic, and STILL would have fit the game perfectly.
This was the original theme for Operation Toy Box in AC2;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj5A3WSJtW8
The theme for Operation Toy Box now sounds like this;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iRqiX_wfgM
This absolutely awesome track was the theme for Operation Seagull (and take note that this is universally considered to be THE most popular song ever played in any Ace Combat game); http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEeB2R-outc
Here's Operation Seagull's new theme;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_nLA8dtVs0&feature=relmfu
This is the signature theme of Operation Midnight Assassin in AC2; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEeB2R-outc
This is Operation Midnight Assassin's new theme;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF82BbIQb8A
This was the theme for Operation Fighter's Honor, the final mission of AC2; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyX-Bco-PVo
This is the new theme for Operation: Fighter's Honor;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m1tbVBmTZw&feature=relmfu
What the hell are they smoking over there at Namco?! They had a timeless, original, imaginative, and exciting soundtrack, and threw it all away for crap that sounds no different (at best) than that Royalty-Free music that now chokes the internet!
And here I thought they hit rock-bottom with Ace Combat Zero's Anvilicious moralizing, and Ace Combat 6's overly-saccharine theme and soundtrack. I thought they couldn't cheapen their own franchise anymore if they TRIED, but they've hit a new low.
It's a violation of video game commandment #1, only in an acoustic form;
http://www.cracked.com/article_1619.....ould-obey.html
That, and there already WAS a soundtrack that was right for this game. All Namco had to do was just add new tracks to the existing score, and NOT take anything out of it. Instead, when they gave AC2 a facelift, they threw the baby out with the bathwater.
Let's hope they don't screw-up this bad in the next title, because the WORST thing you can possibly do with a long-running series is thumb your nose at the fanbase.
Capcom failed heed this lesson in the Breath of Fire series, despite four consecutive titles, and made Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter a completely different kind of game that fans of the previous titles hated. The result was that Dragon Quarter bombed, and there hasn't been a new title in that series for nearly 10 years. If Namco doesn't get their act together, this is going to happen to the AC series as well.
And yeah, I haven't played AH yet, but 6 was . . . weak.