Aerosmith has contributed "Dream On," "Amazing" and "Cryin'" to the Dead or Alive franchise, and Steve Vai was WAY famous before contributing any guitar work to video games. Do you mean recording new material to be exclusively in a video game? That's probably happened too, though I can't think of any specific examples.
What "would" happen? Fans of the game might be introduced to a new singer if they haven't already heard them. I doubt many "new" players would pick up a game just because an artist released a track on it, and I doubt it would affect the opinions of fans or critics; it'd just be a new way to get the music out, and it might be cool to have better ending credits music for once.
"Aerosmith has contributed "Dream On," "Amazing" and "Cryin'" to the Dead or Alive franchise, and Steve Vai was WAY famous before contributing any guitar work to video games. Do you mean recording new material to be exclusively in a video game? That's probably happened too, though I can't think of any specific examples."
Refer to the God of War III: Blood and Metal EP; it consists of exclusive music by Trivium, Dream Theater, Opeth, and Killswitch Engage.
@ZombieJesus: since when is Joze Gonzales famous ?
@Little_Socrates said:
" What "would" happen? Fans of the game might be introduced to a new singer if they haven't already heard them. I doubt many "new" players would pick up a game just because an artist released a track on it, and I doubt it would affect the opinions of fans or critics; it'd just be a new way to get the music out, and it might be cool to have better ending credits music for once. "
/thread. however, are you saying that if Justin Bieber wrote a song on Trine, his stupid ass fans wouldnt be all over the game ?
What "would" happen? Fans of the game might be introduced to a new singer if they haven't already heard them. I doubt many "new" players would pick up a game just because an artist released a track on it, and I doubt it would affect the opinions of fans or critics; it'd just be a new way to get the music out, and it might be cool to have better ending credits music for once. "
It happens all the time, and nothing happens. The people who hate the singer hate that song in the game and everyone else just ignores it like it was any other background music no one cares about.
Nothing really. I suppose at its best it will have more people looking up on who wrote the song and make that particular artist more famous if its a good song. The best example from the top of my head is Faunts with their epic credit song at the end of Mass Effect.
@Ahmad_Metallic: Depends on the game. If it was for "Just Dance 3" for the Wii, maybe. But he doesn't really have many fans on Xbox 360 or PS3, and if the song were in the new Grand Theft Auto (which, actually, would be fucking hysterical and they should totally get him to deliver a song to them) they still probably wouldn't be thinking about it.
So like Mike Patton in The Darkness? He voiced the Darkness, provided all of the original music in the game, and Starbreeze used one of his older songs ("Captain Midnight" by Tomahawk) as the ending credits theme.
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