Vice City is an obvious choice, as is Stubbs the Zombie and Fallout New Vegas, personally though MGSV for all its flaws used music from around the time to really set a vibe. Hearing vid related at the start was so different to the opening to MGS1 back in the day but for what was ultimately the first "ill fuck anyone over for my goal no matter how close" thing Big Boss would do it was such a perfect "welcome to the true mans world" moment to kick off the game.
What other games are like this for you? Alan Wakes another good one and so is Tony Hawks in a nostalgic way.
Ryder Miller
It's not technically licensed since it's public domain but LOOM.
Eli Morris
Who aggressive inline here?
Brandon Phillips
-Battlefield Vienam -Crazy Taxi -Spiderman 2
Adam Roberts
I was a San Andreas fan myself.
Samuel Robinson
Burnout Paradise
Nicholas Diaz
HEY HEY YOU YOU I DON'T LIKE YOUR GIRLFRIEND
Matthew Long
Man, it's been too long since I played AI, I hadn't even realized I liked this song. Good times, thanks user
Connor Carter
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Justin Perez
I'd like to see a huge fantasy RPG use nothing but licensed music, assuming the sound director actually picked tracks that suit each area and event instead of thrash and dubstep.
Hunter Miller
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Oliver Barnes
When Rock n' Roll Racing came out: "Whoa, real music from real bands, this is so awesome!"
Nowadays: "Meh, licensed music, lazy dev couldn't even bother hiring a composer to do an original soundtrack."
Gavin Powell
grass is greener etc etc
Asher Evans
It's called Fortunate Son, moron.
Landon Brown
There are these things called "jokes", young user.
Wyatt Perez
Get memed on, kiddo.
Sebastian Anderson
Holla Forums was a mistake.
Anthony Robinson
I just want a game that features Skull Fist, Enforcer, Elm Street and Dream Evil's Dragon Slayers. But it'll never happen because the music industry is Jews.
Eli Edwards
What did he mean by this?
Easton Smith
Mhuaahaaaaa my board now longer even has a reason to exist!
Jonathan Harris
Guitar Hero. It has a reason for the licensed music. The music is overall good. It's one of the few rhythm games with not only tolerable music, but actually good music.
Jaxson Powell
Guitar Hero 2 is the best western rythmn game ever made.
Kevin Jackson
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Thomas Miller
I think it overall had the better music, but I played 3 much more than I did 2. That and I felt 3 was more challenging than 2.
Ayden Lopez
mario kart 64
Dominic Nelson
underage detected. go back to reddit, kiddo
Jace Rodriguez
Spec Ops the Line gets my vote.
All the licensed music essentially gets worked into the score and it lets them cover a pretty wide range of musical tones for downbeat or intense moments while still feeling cohesive.
Juan Ortiz
I bet you like prog rock too
Gavin Reed
Saints Row 3, while a shit game in most aspects, has a really fun mission where you seize an enemy penthouse while Stronger by Kanye West plays.
It's a really good moment, almost fooled me into thinking the rest of the game would be good.
Ethan King
Get out, you philistine.
Justin Hernandez
Fuck, I meant 'power'.
Bentley Ortiz
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Daniel Allen
The problem is that, if you saw the trailer, that moment had less charm and fun to it because the song was already used previously for advertisement purposes.
John Roberts
True, still, I thought it was a solid use of licensed music to paint a scene.
Ayden Morgan
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLL
Juan Ramirez
Need for Speed series
Jason Green
IT'S THE BIG SHOW
Nathaniel Torres
I really liked this part from Black Ops; getting Won't Back Down to play during the zombies mode is pretty good too.
Aaron Brooks
Vice City's up there. But I'd also say Bioshock. I love the music in that and I wish they'd made a soundtrack with them all.
In the end I did hunt down every track from both Bioshock 1 and 2, but it was a pain.
Joshua Mitchell
Vice City and Vice City Stories had the best soundtracks simply because the 80s were fucking great.
Vampire Bloodlines has some great Industrial.
Jacob Gomez
Yeah I think vtmb is probably one of the best uses of licensed music, not only is every track perfect for the area it's in, most of them even have lyrics that emphasize the story and characters in the area as well. The asylum, ash's club and the last round are the most obvious examples but there are some more subtle ones too like confession and the empire arms hotel.
Noah Thompson
Spec Ops
Anthony Lee
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Asher Cook
IT AINT ME
Caleb Allen
Rock and Roll is the saturated trans fats of music. Expand your taste, Phillistine.
Brayden Cruz
dozing daschunds
Daniel Green
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Mason Adams
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Tyler Lee
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Ryder Murphy
disgruntled plebian millennial detected.
Eli Bailey
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Zachary Hernandez
Please go jerk off over your cuck indie and vaporwave music on >>>/mu/
Christian Price
fuck you nog, i bet you don't even synth
Caleb Martinez
That's not licensed nigger. That's an OST. ORIGINAL Soundtrack
Oliver Baker
I was referring to cucks who buy into le rock is bad meme, as usually they listen to indie pap and weightless electronic music
Samuel Cook
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Levi Lopez
Elite Beat Agents Difficulty: "You're the Inspiration by Chicago" with no tears
I'd love to see a game with missions based on classic power ballads, all woven together in a loosely fitting story arc, e.g. motorcycle chase sequence while "Bat Outta Hell" is playing, a one-man-army last-stand mission while "Here I Go Again" by Whitesnake is blaring in the background, etc.
Christopher Gutierrez
kek
Tyler Allen
Well, I think that metal is better than rock. NIN doing the music to Quake, or Blind Guardian to Sacred 2, for example.
Elijah Reyes
Does Memelands count as licensed?
overreacted a bit too apologies
Nathaniel Wilson
Otherwise I agree, I'm a metalhead as well, but without rock, metal wouldn't exist. Faggots who spout le dad rock meme I honestly think are low T limpdicked cucks who believe they must listen the music equivalent to something that sounds "deep" so they can feel some sense of self worth, because listening to music that's just fun is hard for them.
As did i. sorry user
Benjamin Long
DOING EVERYTHING I CAN
William Morris
Mafia II has some comfy licensed 50s music.
HOLDING ON TO WHAT I AM
Justin James
I think NHL 08 or 09 had Scorpions, Judas Priest and Megadeath songs on it's playlist.
Liam Long
AT 17 SHANNON IS PREGNANT
Matthew Rogers
crazy taxi?
Asher Martin
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Gabriel Lopez
My nig
Adrian Reed
Now you're my nig.
Embedded is my personal favorite Wipeout song.
Dylan Roberts
Cuckstar cant keep getting away
Brayden Diaz
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Caleb Williams
One of those remixes that is better than the original.
Nolan Martinez
no lie my fav wipeout song not sure what it is about Wip3out, but the music just doesn't do it for me like it does in the previous games
Isaac Kelly
In general? Or specifically? If we're talking specifically, Bonnie Tyler's "I need a hero" at the end of Saint's Row III was very good either ironically or straight depending on your choices.
Lucas Allen
I think it's because Wip3out is more heavy on trance and percussion based tracks instead of the techno and big beat tracks in 2097. 2097 is overall more well rounded, but Wip3out's soundtrack is still incredible.
Angel Sanders
I guess a game like wipeout that relies so heavily on a certain cool-factor can't afford to be stuck in the past, and that includes the music
Nolan Stewart
welll , that s the 1st thing that come to mind 17:30 for FF
Jackson Phillips
dam so .. right on ! i got this one one gamecube and even in 2016 he still is my favourit. the only one where if you play with a friend you can go back and fuck with the police without having this feeling that the game "push you forward" like the 2010 version.
(also i don t know how but i manage to litteraly KO my ferrari 550 barchettaIIRC it only happend one though …)
