The only thing that I really don’t like about this video is the lame dance music. If you’re gonna put together a video with this many NES games, I’d think you’d want to have some music a little more appropriate for NES style gaming. Think 8-bit synthesized music with a video game vibe. This cheesy dance crap (complete with snare rushes) might almost actually ruin this entire experience for me.

But enough about the lame overlaying music. The video lineup is just good enough to make me forget about the music that is ruining this video for me.

Ya know, it might almost be blasphemy that I followed up a post about Squarepusher with a video that contains electronic music that is this lame.

Check it out.

I must first explain that come from a pretty heavy-duty electronic music composition and garage jamming background. Since probably 8th or 9th grade I’ve been jamming with friends and delving further into the world of electronic music composition.

Way Back…

Going from using really shitty gear to being able to buy some pretty nice electronic equipment has been a long journey. Back in the day I was using borrowed guitars (that needed to be fixed), buying $40 amps out of the back of vans in Park Rapids, MN, and struggling to save money just to buy a drum machine or a synthesizer and 4-track to make some very grungy sounding tracks.

Over the years I got into computers and finally lined up a nice turntable for sampling vinyl, and got some good software such as Propellerheads Reason for composing and sequencing electronic tracks.

After all that, all the rage these days is playing a fake guitar and and a fake drum kit for a video game, all using cover tracks.

I’d rather jam proper

Whenever I see anything that has to do with Rock Band or Guitar Hero, it piques my music curiousity but makes me want to jam. Not on a video game, but jamming proper. If I even think about the thought of playing one of those games I just think to myself that I would be better spending time trying to compose some new electronic tracks.

If I was hanging out with my buddies playing one of these games rather than jamming for real it just wouldn’t seem right. I don’t get it.

Oh well

I understand the gaming aspect of it though. I’ve enjoyed playing games involving car racing, for example, but I’m not a car racer by any means. So I can see it from that perspective. If I was more into car racing I might look at games like Grand Tourismo as kinda rediculous.

Replayability

Mercenaries (on the Xbox in my situation) was a game that I found to be very replayable. The replayability mostly stemmed from the fact that I wasn’t good enough to step through the game easily. Even though I played it a lot, I never beat the original Mercenaries.

So I guess maybe not replayable in the sense that I played the game several times. More replayable in the sense that it took me a very very long time to progress through it.

In fact, it was about 2 years of playing Mercenaries before I finally got far enough though it that I found out there is a completely different map and area of the game that you play in during the second half of the game. It was like getting to play a sequel 2 years later, only it was the second half of the game I never had played my way to.

For me, this new Mercenaries 2 that is coming out for Xbox and Playstation 3 (and probably some other systems) is actually Mercenaries 3.

What a story, huh?

Anyways, I’m excited about the new Mercenaries 2. It looks like fun. I hope there is some good online action, the Mercenaries concept seems like a great fit for online play.

Here’s the commercial for the upcoming Mercenaries sequel, kinda interesting.