Hip hop meets video games...

[Ferno]

Alright, I love video games, and I love hip hop....but, I don't feel like hip hop has successfully made the transition into video games despite some horrible games that tried to incorporate it....

So, I was watching this interview with Madden's lead developer back in 05, and he was talking about how they incorporated hip hop into Madden and took it to the next level...all they did was put some damn unoriginal songs in the game....

So, it gave me this idea of taking video game tunes and having producers flip them in a hip hop way, without any rapping...

I called it ''The Console Wars'', and currently working on vol.4.....if anyone would like to check out the first three, then let me know....

But, do you think that hip hop will ever make a successful transition into video games?

[Bad Sector]

It doesn't make any sense for hip hop (or any other music style) to be in a game only for the sake of being into a game.

However music styles (including not only hip hop but others as well) are sometimes related to other sort of styles (life style, art style, way of thinking, etc). This is something that can be put in a game and has been done at the past. The trick is of course that since we're talking about something that has to transfer some "feeling" (i'm not sure i can describe this but try to imagine :-p), it has to be made by people who know about it and love it.

See Tim Schafer's Brutal Legend. It is a game about heavy metal and the people involved obviously love this kind of music and style.

So for a game about hip hop, it needs people who are involved into and love hip hop .