Custom Soundtracks... How do you like it now?

I doubt there are many people who looked forward to the custom soundtrack on the Xbox more than myself. After reading up on the thing before launch it seemed too good to be true, well in a way it was. Remember that old saying; careful what you wish for? Or how about "too much of a good thing...?" Well, I have found after using this on 3 or 4 games that A. Most of my cd's really don't mesh well/fit in games, B. I burn the songs out and do not want to hear them outside of the GAMES!, or C. the music in the game is actually MORE fitting than anything I can come up with (SEE: Quantum Redshift). Another thing that bugs me is since a lot of music is recorded at different levels, I can't really mix songs from different eras. For instance (shows age) Old Sammy Hagar is very quiet when played alongside NEW Sammy which is freakin' blasting, the levels are too radically different to mesh, this is something the Xbox brochure never mentions, but it is annoying.

So, in conclusion, I love the C/S in "theory" but in reality after just a few games under my belt that support this, I'm already tapped out and left wondering; "What game will fit the Beatles?" None.

I love custom soundtracks, they let the player add a nice personal touch to the games that support it. The vast array of games that support it is also surprising.

I do get the sense that this is for people who like "new" music, or perhaps even younger people. I have been listening to Kiss, Ozzy, etc. for about 20 years and the image I have of "my" groups really doesn't fit in with "racing" and things of that nature. I do have some cd's that work with games, but not as many as I had hoped. It's like the music just doesn't fit in because I've heard it for so long outside of the games.

Unless the music included in the game is an obvious attempt at a failing industry to capitalize on another market *cough* licensed music *cough* the soundtrack provided with a game was the work of a musician(s).

Those artists that labored countless hours constructing a soundtrack that would not only, a) fit the style of the game b) provide either atmosphere or accompaniment to the gameplay (or both) and that c) would please their trained ears, deserve our respect. I see it as a disservice to yourself and the designers to use a custom soundtrack for a game. Why not use custom models or textures? How about custom lighting and physics? Hell, let's just make our own game using a loose structure of the original work!

A video game is the work of many artists and deserves to be preserved in it's original form as to properly represent the artistic intentions of it's creators.

Being a musician I can safely say that,

Custom Soundtracks = Lame

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Why not use custom models or textures? How about custom lighting and physics? Hell, let's just make our own game using a loose structure of the original work!

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I would if I could.

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A video game is the work of many artists and deserves to be preserved in it's original form as to properly represent the artistic intentions of it's creators.

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If it mattered enough to them then they wouldn't include the option for a custom soundtrack. Not all Xbox games do.

A little under 50 games currently use the feature.

I rather like the custom soundtrack, i've used it a lot with sega gt. Really nice being able to play a racing game with the same crap that i drive with in real life.

I do with more games included it. Especially stuff like PSO that ends up getting a lot of playtime. I mean, the music is good, but it gets old...fast.

Personally I like the custom soundtracks. The music included in DOAXV is ass and thanks to the custom soundtracks I can pretend that any racing game I play is Initial D. It's not that I think Initial D is the greatest racing of all time; I just love the music for it.

Custom soundtracks are a nice bonus. They will never make an average game good, and not having the option will never make a good game bad.

If I want a custom soundtrack, I'll turn the sound down on my TV and listen to my CD player or winamp.