Professional Game Composers and Amateurism

Originally Posted by GoldfishX

For example (don't hate me, Dhsu!), I was never a fan of piano arrangements. To me, it's totally backwards to take a more complex piece and strip it down to a single instrument.

By "complexity," are you just talking about the number of instruments? Because I've heard piano arrangements that I would characterize as being more complex than the original pieces, like a remix of "Wind Scene" from CT recently posted on OCR.

I also think simplification is a valid arrangement technique. :|

Originally Posted by Cellius

Yes. My beef is with people who don't do this, but still change the style dramatically. Liontamer The Defender seems to think I would hate a worthy jazz arrangement on principle. Or the Final Fantasy Piano Collections. It's stuff like the Zelda main theme thrown into Fruity Loops and given a repetitive electronic bed that I can't abide.

So, are there any arrangement types besides crappy trance that you dislike? Because that's the only thing you've slung around so far, so it seems to me that you just can't stand the stuff period. Either that or you just hate bad quality arrangements that sound like they were whipped together in fifteen minutes, but I'm pretty sure that most people don't like to listen to bad songs as well.*

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I do.

Jam it back in, in the dark.