game soundtracks - the nerd and geeks's world

yeah we all have movie soundtracks. some soundtracks are full dramatic ochestral, some are rock songs from unknown bands, some picked hits from the past, some has a mixture of instrumental tracks and vocals. but electronic game ost (original soundtrack) are the collectors item of the geek and nerd kingdom, a line one cannot cross else you'll be christened and branded.

soundtracks may it be from games or movies, it sipped into or heart and soul at some point of your journey while you immense deeply (on not) into the plot of the storyline. like a pipped-in song over your head in the library, or the music buzzing in your ears from your mp3 player while you walked in your darkest hour. only you know what is the soundtrack of your life.

in my earlier days of gaming, pc games companies capitalize the potential market of "i want more". they release versions like "collector's edition", "limited edition", "special edition". i've always been a sucker for such novelty, even still 2day.

2006 finally removes my disbelief of video gaming as i branched and departed to the world of console games. console games in the passt were a different ballgame as compared to pc gaming; FPS and realtime strat games are taboo. but xbox 360 and ps3 finally merges gaming as a whole, the controller = the mouse and keyboard. i strongly encourage everyone to give up pc gaming and let the pc be alone for your daily chores, let console gaming be king, for a console can last you millions of dole of continuous upgrading, the painful task of adjusting the graphical setting for optimal speed cos your machine cant do the job. all you need now is a hdtv + a console, all u need is love.

i salute the new adopters, including myself. blue or red pill, your choice. i can show you the fucking rabbit hole.

here's some of my old and newer game soundtracks .... like guidebooks, soundtracks become important to my collection, another expansion revenue to the extension of a game's world. top right:- Gran Turismo 5 Prologue (from play-asia, i've since stopped the game cos i cant pass the levels), dead rising (from play-asia, this is a bad soundtrack. it sounded better in-game, 1 crucial track was no included), devil may cry 4 (from play-asia, my current playlist), age of mythology (comes in a collectors edition. this one has plenty of harp), unreal (came with the guide book), unreal tournament III (from hmv, electronic rcok stuff), guitar hero III (from hmv, this is an expansion disc. u can claim 3 songs on your xbox 360 for your gameplay), metal gear solid portable ops (from hmv tokyo,havent finish the game yet til this day), metal gear solid greatest hits (play asia, with this i can skip the other 3 soundtracks of part 1 and 2 of the series), halo 3 (from hmv), blue dragon (from the productions of final fantasy, good stuff), CnC tiberian sun (from a collector edition pack), silent hill zero (play asia. finished the game and sold it. has one of the best opening credits song to date), silent hill 3 (hmv. i didnt finish this game on pc), silent hill 2 (play asia, silent hill is all about pain and loniness, fits my bill), metal gear solid 3 (james bondzy songs, from hmv). *not shown is the soundtrack of oblivion (i paid and download the soundtrack from elder scrolls website. burned it on a CDR).

here's my quake game collection (eh where is the quake 2 game disk !?!?!?) . quake's music was done by trent reznor, of nine inch nail fame or vice versa. this is the crucial alarm that fuses rock music into the gaming world, they are one. i had quake 4 but the game sucked so much. i recalled the days of OpenGL on dos, 3D gaming was at birth.