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Top 10 soundtracks from 2001
In meiner vorherigen Liste der Top 10 Soundtracks aus dem Jahr 2000 hatte ich damals dieses neue Tool, genannt ‚Chat-GPT‘, ausprobiert, um mir ein Ranking zusammenzustellen. Zwei Gedanken dazu: Man, ist das schon wieder lange her, dass KI offiziell an den Start ging; und man sollte echt überprüfen, was die KI einem da so zusammenstellt. Denn die hatte mir damals in ihre Vorschläge unter anderem Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty hineingeschmuggelt … das allerdings erst 2001 erschien. Das hatte ich damals aber nicht mehr überprüft, weshalb das Game so seinen Weg in meine selbsterstellte 2000er-Liste fand.
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Top 10 soundtracks from 2000
I love top lists. After all, there is probably nothing more controversial, as it is ultimate, than a numerical list of your own preferences. The problem with this is that ranking them takes a lot of time and preparation. After all, you not only have to find a contingent of winners, but also comprehensively record the field of participants from which they emerge. This is probably the main reason why I created my last list a solid year ago. Fortunately, a lot has happened technologically in the meantime! So I asked Chat-GPT to put together a quick list of the top 10 video game scores for games released in the year 2000.
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Top 10 Star Wars soundtracks
If you say Star Wars, you have to say John Williams as well as lightsaber, Darth Vader and Utinni(!). In hardly any other franchise spanning decades is the music such an integral part of the brand's identity. Even today, I get goosebumps when the title crawl starts and the fanfares ring out, heralding adventures in a galaxy far, far away. The typical Star Wars soundtrack is not only to be found in the movies or when streaming at home, but also in the video games.
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Top 10 Medieval soundtracks
My 100th review on this website is coming up, so I thought it was time for another top 10 list. This time it's about the best medieval scores, i.e. the soundtracks of video games set in the time of witch-burning, knights and damsels in distress. This thematic focus goes hand in hand with two important limitations, as this list would otherwise be significantly longer and less coherent.
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Top 10 Battlefield soundtracks
Hach ja, Battlefield. Du einstige Perle der Taktikshooter. Du Spielspaßgarant langer Zockerabende. Du Meilenstein immersiven Gameplays. Was hatte ich viel Spaß mit dir… ich werde schon wieder wehmütig. Ist dein Werdegang sinnbildhaft für alle großen Marken meiner Jugend? Oder gar für Videospiele im Allgemeinen? Ist Triple-A mittlerweile synonym für massenkompatible Eindampfung? Oder bin ich einfach anderes als die heutigen Zocker gewohnt, die mit Fortnite, Call of Duty und Apex Legends eine andere Art von Spielprinzipien bevorzugen? Bin ich der alte Mann geworden, der traurig in seiner heruntergekommenen Arkade steht und dieses Internet verflucht? Vermutlich eine Mischung von alledem, gepaart mit einer gehörigen Portion Wut auf den neusten Ableger Battlefield 2042.
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Top 10 Indie soundtracks
In music, indie is often used as a subgenre: Indie rock, indie hip-hop, indi-ans ... predictable gag. Indie stands for 'independent', usually in relation to larger labels. Artists who don't swim in the mainstream, but in the curious tributaries that are sometimes more and sometimes less rousing. In my experience, there are three things that distinguish this category from the main genres: more creativity, more risk and mixed quality. Because not everything 'edgy' is necessarily good. But this list is not about bad. No, it's to praise the top 10 best indie game soundtracks!
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Top 10 Sci-Fi soundtracks
Space. The final frontier. Or the earth in the not-so-distant future. Or even a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Science fiction is big and beautiful. It explores places we will never reach, times full of unimaginable wonders and dangers; and is therefore a perfect breeding ground for unique games, franchises and their soundtracks. I would like to pay tribute to these today in my Top 10 Sci-Fi Scores. To do this, I have looked at videogames and franchises which are set somewhere in the possible future or take place in alternative universes.
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