04-11-2017, 10:42 PM
(04-11-2017, 08:47 PM)AustinLB90 Wrote:(04-11-2017, 12:56 PM)Lost Rinoah Wrote: none of the characters in steamworld heist actually speak. At the most putting out mechanical chirping. Besides. As far as i've seen all of steam-powered giraffe's music has lyrics except for the steamworld heist menu theme.Well even when the music plays you're not supposed to hear the chirping unless you talk to somebody. The menu theme does have a version where there is lyrics though I don't know where and if it plays ever in game. I'm just surprised they stuck so many in a game type where you wouldn't really expect any songs with lyrics.
https://www.youtube.com/user/SpineRaptor
steam powered giraffe's youtube account.
It's actually a game perfectly suited for music with lyrics and there is nothing strange about it. Usually the only limiter is money since most small games won't be able to get someone who can sing worth a rat's ass so they'll do their best with what they have instead. Often leading to no vocals even where they would be more suited in the game. Then there is simply larger games which are designed by commitee, which are focused around being as inoffensive as possible. Meaning all of the music in it is going to be wordless as they blow the budget on voice-actors instead of music. And will just pay for the right of some random popular music they believe fits well enough. Occasionally you get good composers coming over to make music. But that's often the lazy option honestly even if it's better than the even lazier alternative. Requiring the least effort for fresh quality. Then you get times where you luck out and a composer is such a fan of the games he made music for that he'll often pop up to do music for you by asking for a mere 5-15$, if not simply free. Though this is usually only seen for voiceless composers with soundboards as an option for adding speech snippets. As the case with Frank Klepacki and a few others but i'm bad with names and can't remember them. I've simply listened to Klepacki for more than ten years.
So the only real strange thing is that they managed to get good music with good vocals that doesn't seem to suffer because of it as a small dev.