Inon Zur Officially Announced as Fallout 3 Composer

Would it really have killed them to call up Mark Morgan?

Is it a pride thing? Do they honestly not think the original developers got anything right?

Mark Morgan's music set the mood of the entire series, and while this guy has done some decent work on Black Isle games, he's not Morgan, and his music sounds nothing like it.
 
@the guy who asked if we should pay Mark Morgan to make an alternative soundtrack : Why would you want to do that while the game itself is going to require heavy modding if you want it to really correspond to your vision ? Do you really plan to fix EVERYTHING that should be fixed in order to stay true to Fallout ? Wouldn't it be easier, if it turns out that bad, to just pretend this game does not exist just as we did with Tactics and POS ?
 
MrBumble, maybe you are right, but even so Mark said he is excited about the idea to create music for Fallout 3.
Maybe we can pay him to create a score as a tribute to Fallout, just to hear his new vision?
 
MrBumble said:
Until now, it's not the bukkake I expected from Bethesda...It looks like an ok game inspired by Fallout ( more than Tactics for instance ).
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FO3 might hit closer to the mark than FOT with regards to the "Fallout feel", but I have no doubt that FOT is going to be the better of the two games. Ok, the vaults may look good, but Bethesda has screwed up so many other things. Including, apparently, the music, which doesn't fit the Fallout series whatsoever.
 
Tabi said:
I would say that his music is too positive in general.. Mark Morgan's music was pretty pessimistic and desolate, with the exception of Modoc, which was just beautiful.
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Agreed, I really loved the music for Modoc. Really set the mood for that town. (along with the stuff happening there)

And btw, while not many are probably interested, I'll probably give doing an alternative soundtrack for FINO3 a shot.
 
fedaykin said:
Hell, even our resident troll Bodybag does better :)
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EVEN?! :evil:

He was partially right, though; the melody is blatantly lifted from Basic Instinct. Game composers do that sort of stuff all the time. Bill Brown's C&C: Generals score was at times nearly note-for-note with scenes from Black Hawk Down. And Bill Brown is awesome.

What has me curious is : will there be battle music, or dead silence like the originals?
 
Forhekset said:
FO3 might hit closer to the mark than FOT with regards to the "Fallout feel", but I have no doubt that FOT is going to be the better of the two games.
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I have big doubts about that, personally.
 
13pm said:
Mark Morgan is a genius.
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Keep in mind that it's been firmly established that Morgan lifted music from all over the place for the Fallout scores. Redding for instance is borrowed from the theme to The Stand. For that reason I wouldn't be surprised to hear the New Reno music was lifted from Basic Instinct.

Also, stop with the moronic petition.
 
Bodybag said:
He was partially right, though; the melody is blatantly lifted from Basic Instinct.
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Nah, not really. As I said, it's a leap of logic to call a short melody that is repeated just 2 times in a 3-minute track, and only partially resembles BI (listen more closely, particularly the last few notes), "blatantly lifted". Ever hear of those things called coincidences? But I guess you'll take anything you can use, since you've been kinda quiet lately.
Bodybag said:
What has me curious is : will there be battle music, or dead silence like the originals?
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There wasn't dead silence in the originals. You haven't even played them, have you? I'm not surprised :)
Don't worry, though. F3 will probably have orchestral fantasy epic battle music. It's more immersive that way, since Oblivion was such a cool game.
 
I'm just hoping it's not the same damn tune over and over, every time you "initiate combat" like the final fantasy games..

I don't really mind the use of "battle music" if it is done well and not too repetitive but it shouldn't be the only thing about the combat that makes you aprehensive, or pumps you up. If the combat gives you emotional cues all by itself, because it's challenging and rewarding, and there is some tension to it, the music can actually heighten the experience to another level.

If it's the same track over and over, every time you start a fight, it gets old really quick and can even make what was enjoyable combat into a tedious chore.
 
fedaykin said:
Nah, not really. As I said, it's a leap of logic to call a short melody that is repeated just 2 times in a 3-minute track, and only partially resembles BI (listen more closely, particularly the last few notes), "blatantly lifted". Ever hear of those things called coincidences? But I guess you'll take anything you can use, since you've been kinda quiet lately.
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That's pretty funny.

There wasn't dead silence in the originals. You haven't even played them, have you? I'm not surprised :)
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I guess the problem was I never noticed the music during combat since it never seemed to change from the regular stuff, and was usually drowned out by gunfire, screams, and squishy, pulpy chunks being scattered about. Of course I played them, silly. :roll:

Don't worry, though. F3 will probably have orchestral fantasy epic battle music. It's more immersive that way, since Oblivion was such a cool game.
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What a condescending thing to say :(
 
SpeaK said:
And also uh, I hope I won't get striked for this this, but I have a WIP track that I made without Fallout in mind, and I think even it fits in more than the stuff Bethesda has offered. :?

Download the track here (7.1MB) (5:10)
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Pretty cool. Possibly a little too ambient - the polar opposite of what our mate has written for FO3 - but much closer to the... heh... Mark (Morgan).

And btw, while not many are probably interested, I'll probably give doing an alternative soundtrack for FINO3 a shot.
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Why the fuck not? Go for it. :)
 
fedaykin said:
Forget it, man. Online petitions rarely achieve anything, plus it's Bethesda we're dealing with. They don't care.
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but it will not do worse for sure =)
who knows, if there will be enough signs, maybe they'll ajust the style
 
Autoduel76 said:
Forhekset said:
FO3 might hit closer to the mark than FOT with regards to the "Fallout feel", but I have no doubt that FOT is going to be the better of the two games.
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I have big doubts about that, personally.
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At least FOT had enjoyable combat, which is probably more than I'll be able to say about FO3.
 
"Main title" sounds like a generic sound like used in many many FPS games. Could just be taken out of CoD as well. I hear no connection to Fallout there, not at all.

Very disappointing...

Let me guess.. He never played Fallout?

Megaton has a nice background song, I quite like it because it's very subtle and fits to Fallout.

Into the wastelands is too dramatic and mystical for my taste. Would fit better to some Fantasy console RPG
 
Per said:
Keep in mind that it's been firmly established that Morgan lifted music from all over the place for the Fallout scores. Redding for instance is borrowed from the theme to The Stand.
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I haven't known that, but relly... who cares where some music was borrowed from when he created a really nice score. I'm sure he hasn't taken the music fully, maybe some tunes. I haven't heard The Stand's score, so I can't say for sure. But I'm comparing Mark's music to Inon's. And compared to Inon, Mark is a genius to my opinion.
 
Main Title : it's Ok for me. Not the best fallouty stuff I'v heard, but that's OK.

Megaton : It seems they have been inspired by the music of Redding, "Gold Slouch"... but the result is a huge piece of crap.

Into the Wasteland : Commonplace.

I'm really gonna miss the old tracks : "Second Chance", "Trader's Life", "Radiation Storm"... etc.
 
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