And yeah, I'm angry about it. I'm angry that the two best scores of the year didn't even get a nod (Dead Space 2 by Jason Graves, and Resistance 3 by Boris Salchow).
Don't get me wrong: I truly adore the music Darren Korb wrote for Bastion. It's incredible, and it's right up my alley in terms of the type of music I like to listen to when I'm not listening to classical music.
So let's just pretend for a moment that I'm not carrying a chip on my shoulder about R3 or DS2. Let's look at what Bastion and Darren Korb were up against for Spike's 2011 VGAs: Portal 2, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and Batman: Arkham City.
Of the four nominated, Nick Arundel and Ron Fish's Batman score is the only OST (Original Soundtrack) that is orchestra-based music. And I'm completely fine with that, if you create different categories to reflect such drastically differing genres of music.
I understand this is asking a lot of the Video Game Awards Advisory Council. But it's time to... well, get with the times. There are so many games created each year, and so many worthy composers writing great music, there is no excuse for placing Portal 2's OST in the same category as Batman's.
If you, VGA Advisory Council, are serious about awarding someone's compositional talents, then place them in appropriate compositional categories.
It can't possibly be that hard.
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