Music

[welsh]

What music do you want?

Honestly, I think they should keep the original soundtrack theme music. The title song should be consistent with the story, but the background tunes should be unchanged.

Your thoughts?

 

[Angrim]

Yeah, I love Mark Morgan's ambient soundtrack in the first Fallouts. But I don't think they need to keep the original music in Fallout 3. They should compose something quite similar, ambient, not-too-noizy... Just something that works in that atmosphere.

I actually didn't like the new backround tracks on Fallout 2 as much the original ones from Fallout.

And the title song should be some 40s or 50s jazzy tune.

 

[Eschaton]

I think any soundtrack for FO3 would have to definitely be kind of ambient to industrial, with more than a slight hint of a tribal/primitive touch to the music.

An old song for the intro movie is a must, though.

 

[Duckman]

Definitely just good ol' Fallout ambience. I really hope that they don't try to implement music as they did in FOOS. That death metal in battles really was just out of the Fallout setting...

But at least they had music I guess...

 

[Wooz]

I'm worried about the pompous, epic song featured in the F3 preview page.

Fallout's music isn't that pronounced, except maybe the "Raiders" track.

I hope they keep the dark and somewhat scary feel of it, without spoiling the music with Wagner battlefield opera emulations, blaring foghorns and war drums.

Also, the music in Morrowind was hella annoying. Hearing the title title track over and over infuriated me.

 

[alec]

I'm worried about the pompous, epic song featured in the F3 preview page.

I'm concerned about it as well. Gstaff calls it "a streaming version of the Fallout 3 title track". As far as I know, title track means that it's the song you'll hear during the intro and/or the outro. If you ask people what the title track of the A-Team is, they'll start humming "Ta-ta-ta-taaaaaaa, ta-ta-ta, ta-ta-ra-ta-taaaaaa, ta-ta-ta-ta-taaa" and so on. That means we can pretty much forget about hearing a nice 40s or 50s jazzy tune. I always hoped for "Somewhere over the rainbow" or "Mr Sandman" or "We'll meet again", but I don't see that happen. Which may mean that Bethesda doesn't have a clue which ingedients they need to make a worthy sequel.

Although not a bad composition it won't be able to deliver the same magic one witnessed whilst looking at the intro of Fallout or Fallout 2.

I also think that the chance of hearing the good ol' background tunes in Fallout 3 are very, very slim. After hearing the title track, I'm expecting action packed jingles that'll squeeze the adrenalin out of my pores and leave me in a tantrum. I hope I'm wrong, though, 'cause the world of Fallout needs gloomy ambient tunes reminiscent of Aphex Twin's early work.

 

[Eschaton]

Hopefully it's just the music that plays at the game screen

While "Maybe" and "A Kiss to Build a Dream On" are what I think of when it comes to the theme of Fallout and Fallout 2 respectively, I think the "themes" are the pieces of music that play when you're at the new/load/options/exit screen.

We can only hope...

 

[alec]

Hopefully it's just the music that plays at the game screen

While "Maybe" and "A Kiss to Build a Dream On" are what I think of when it comes to the theme of Fallout and Fallout 2 respectively, I think the "themes" are the pieces of music that play when you're at the new/load/options/exit screen.

We can only hope...

I'm confused with the jargon here.

The way I see it there are only 3 (maybe 4) distinctions to be made:

[1] Intro music ("Maybe", "A Kiss To Build A Dream On")
[2] Music that you hear whilst the main menu is showing
[3] In-game music (background music, different tracks)
[4] Outro music or coda (which was, if I remember correctly, the same as the intro music in FO and FO 2)

In the best case scenario, the D&D tune that can be heard on the F3 preview page, would be the tune that you hear while you're in the main menu (and maybe even the character creation screen).
In the worst case scenario, the D&D tune that can be heard on the F3 preview page, will be the intro/outro music. And then it'll suck elephant's testicles, if you ask my opinion.
In any case: I sure as hell don't want to hear that tune throughout the game, not even snippets of it, because it breathes 'ACTION, ACTION, ACTION!', 'ASSAULT, ASSAULT, ASSAULT!', the way bad Jean-Claude Van Damme movies do, it's way too melodramatic for a worthy Fallout sequel. And I don't call that nitpicking at all: the charm of "Maybe" and "A Kiss To Build A Dream On" were such inherent and important parts of FO and FO 2, they touched me in a way no other game ever touched me before. They gave you that special feeling, right from the start you knew: this game is different than anything else I've ever played or will play. If Bethesda doesn't get that, it doesn't bode well for the rest of the game.

 

[Goweigus]

always hoped for "Somewhere over the rainbow" or "Mr Sandman" or "We'll meet again", but I don't see that happen.

Well there is that thing about how they don't want any outside help... Likely they are against using someone else's music? Thus they'd make their own, and thus it'd be whatever crap they want. Cause its made for them...