Which games introduced you to real-world musical artists?

[juanchikbzmusic]

saint's row 2 had this song in it's radio, and it's probably one of the songs that changed my life

It was almost a year before that I started to play my first instrument, and that kind of sound stays with me even to this day, even tho I don't listen exclusively to that kind of music as it was in those days

 

[Jayonnaise6105 Jayonnaise6105]

saint's row 2 had this song in it's radio, and it's probably one of the songs that changed my life

It was almost a year before that I started to play my first instrument, and that kind of sound stays with me even to this day, even tho I don't listen exclusively to that kind of music as it was in those days

Saints Row 2 had a really good soundtrack!

 

[nyka]

MGSV is why I like Man Who Sold The World, The band Garbage and Mike Oldfield's Nuclear so there's that I guess!
OH and No More Heroes introduced me to Genki Rockets (Wii players know what I'm talking about)

 

[Jayonnaise6105 Jayonnaise6105]

MGSV is why I like Man Who Sold The World, The band Garbage and Mike Oldfield's Nuclear so there's that I guess!
OH and No More Heroes introduced me to Genki Rockets (Wii players know what I'm talking about)

I love how eerie & haunting that version of The Man Who Sold The World is!
picks all around, friendo!

 

[glokglakglak]

guitar hero

literally how i found out about dragonforce, judas priest, black sabbath, buckethead, well i don't listen to eric clapton but cliffs of dover is a classic

thank you guitar hero

 

[Jayonnaise6105 Jayonnaise6105]

guitar hero

literally how i found out about dragonforce, judas priest, black sabbath, buckethead, well i don't listen to eric clapton but cliffs of dover is a classic

thank you guitar hero

Same! Even if I didn't become a huge fan of every band featured in Guitar Hero, they at least knew most of the time which songs would be fun to include.

 

[Turbo Kid]

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game - Anamanaguchi

 

[guiraran]

Ar Tonelico franchise made me an huge fan of Akiko Shikata, its mold my musical taste that its hard to reverse to what it was before

And Final Fantasy X-2 unlocked the diva pop missing in my brain, I still listening her songs nowadays and it surprises me to see non-FF fans knowing who she is lol

 

[Sheepy765]

Kingdom Hearts made me a fan of Utada Hikaru. The Ridge Racer games got me into Sanodg, Samplingmasters, and Kohta "SOLIDSTATE" Takahashi.

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

Do Asphalt 8 and Geometry Dash count?

 

[Jayonnaise6105 Jayonnaise6105]

Kingdom Hearts made me a fan of Utada Hikaru. The Ridge Racer games got me into Sanodg, Samplingmasters, and Kohta "SOLIDSTATE" Takahashi.

I'm also a fan of Utada Hikaru because of KH They also did the one Skrillex song I really like for KH III

 

[Boo Man]

Grand Turismo 3 introduced me to the band Feeder

Also Vice City for 80's music

 

[petran79]

Bad mojo made me listen to Xcorcist

 

[TacoMeister]

Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy got me into Cold, Really cool band.

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[DrunkGecko]

The rock music from Sonic games led me to becoming a huge metalhead

The Crush 40 to Dying Fetus pipeline is real

 

[X y b e r - S k u ll]

The Ape Escape games put me onto Soichi Terada which then lead to me looking into more Japanese electronic music. Also, as a few others have said, Kingdom Hearts got me into Utada Hikaru as well. Those first 3 albums of hers are still incredible lol.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Deus Ex: Invisible War to Kidney Thieves.

Quarantine to The Fauves.

GTA: Vice City to... a whole lot of people.

 

[Jayonnaise6105 Jayonnaise6105]

The rock music from Sonic games led me to becoming a huge metalhead

The Crush 40 to Dying Fetus pipeline is real

Sonic is to you what Guitar Hero was to me. I find just about every Sonic game has good-great music. It's one of the few consistencies the franchise seems to have

 

[Comster]

Sonic Adventure introduced me to the band Crush 40.

 

[Jayonnaise6105 Jayonnaise6105]

Sonic Adventure introduced me to the band Crush 40.

Maybe one of the best bands that work or have worked consistently on video games!

 

[NovumVeritas]

Bujingai - Gackt
Onimusha 2 Japanese intro - Tomoyasu Hotei
Leona Lewis - FF 13
Psychic Force - Zuntata J.A.M
Tales of Destiny Japanese intro - DEEN (Still my favourite of the Tales of intros.)

 

[CardcaptorEd2019]

Kingdom Hearts-Hikaru Utada

 

[Jayonnaise6105 Jayonnaise6105]

Bujingai - Gackt
Onimusha 2 Japanese intro - Tomoyasu Hotei
Leona Lewis - FF 13
Psychic Force - Zuntata J.A.M
Tales of Destiny Japanese intro - DEEN (Still my favourite of the Tales of intros.)

I'm partial to the Tales of Zestiria opening. If I'm not mistaken, it changes depending on what dub you are playing. Japanese dub OP has the vocals, while the English dub OP is instrumental.

 

[NovumVeritas]

I'm partial to the Tales of Zestiria opening. If I'm not mistaken, it changes depending on what dub you are playing. Japanese dub OP has the vocals, while the English dub OP is instrumental.

I also remember that, was pretty neat feature, so you had best of both worlds.