Fallout 4 music preview

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Bethesda has revealed information about the music that will be in Fallout 4. Here are some highlights from the article:

More Music:

That’s precisely why Fallout 4 has upped both the volume and variety of music, offering three times the amount of music (compared with Fallout 3). The carefully curated tracks have become core to the identity of Fallout, with Fallout 4 offering an even deeper auditory experience to accompany Bethesda Game Studios’ most ambitious game yet.
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On Tone:

When it came to selecting the specific tracks, both Lampert and Game Director Todd Howard had a clear vision for what they wanted. For starters, Howard knew they needed an Ink Spots track. After all, The Ink Spots have been part of series since “Maybe” was used as the opening theme in the first Fallout. “You know you want to open the trailer with that riff from The Ink Spots,” Howard says. “It’s just part of the Fallout vibe.”
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As for the rest of the list, Howard and Lampert partnered with Chris Parker, a co-founder at music-licensing agency Brandracket, to help with the song selection. “We wanted to do more of the early rock-n-roll sound,” Lampert says. “Chris found a pocket of music that I hadn’t heard before. It was much less mainstream. He found all these artists who did songs about uranium, or radioactivity very specifically. ‘Atom Bomb Baby’ is a prime example.”
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Original music:

Fallout 4 also introduces something altogether new: original songs created just for the game, written and performed by a very “heroic” superstar. Which raises the question: In a fictional world where licensed music is almost an anchor to reality, how does original music fit in?
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Enter Lynda Carter. She’s famously played Wonder Woman, one the most iconic roles on TV. She’s performed for luminaries and dignitaries with her critically acclaimed band. And now she can add yet another loop to her proverbial lasso with a star turn in Fallout 4 – a performance that Carter describes as one of the highlights of her illustrious career.
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https://bethesda.net/#en/events/game/facing-the-music-in-fallout-4/2015/11/02/42
 
This is actually a really solid article and all the music choices seem appropriate. One problem I had with the previous two games, Fallout 3 in particular, was that the only music present was from the 50s and it feels jarring when we only hear songs that where produced in the 1950s-60s even though music still would have been produced, even in Fallout's diverged timeline. It's easy to assume that Three Dog and Mr. New Vegas just like the classics, but I feel as though we need more. New Vegas fixed this slightly with Sawyer wonderfully recording songs but he is clearly not the most talented musician, and "Begin Again" was like nails on a chalk board. Hopefully Wonder Woman will actually bring some in-game universe music that sounds like a legitimate retro futuristic song that could have actually have been made.

The process of how they chose the music that will be in the game is hilarious! Hopefully Todd has good taste in music so we don't get another game where "Johnny Guitar" plays on constant loop.
 
THIJAKA said:
TransgenderVaultDeweller said:
Bethesda, take notes from your betters.


K,Thx bai.
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That's unfair, Inon Zur did quite a wonderful job with both Fallout 3's and New Vegas' ambient music.

If you're going to try and oust Bethesda on how to do ambient music, next time choose this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SefxmOv-88M

Desert Winds is ma fave <3
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Man, @#$& <bleep> that noise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jxn1sqAQ-c

Chrysalis fo' life!</bleep>
 
Oh, when the songs are not looping constantly and overstaying their welcome are they cool to listen to.

Come to think about it, the radio might be one of the few aspects I enjoyed better in Fallout 3 than New Vegas; there wasn't a lot of material in the latter, and with the looping I had the radio off on my subsequent playthroughs.

I had better luck in Fallout 3 I found with not listening to the same song over and over again, and I found listening to Enclave Radio pleasing in my first playthrough. Maybe Fallout 4 will fair better, as long as there's no Three Dog copycat judging me with his black-and-white morality rules.
 
Inon Zur only made ambience for FO3 which was re-used in FONV, which, by the way, also re-used the old Mark Morgan tracks

One of my favorites are
 
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THIJAKA said:
TransgenderVaultDeweller said:
Bethesda, take notes from your betters.


K,Thx bai.
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That's unfair, Inon Zur did quite a wonderful job with both Fallout 3's and New Vegas' ambient music.

If you're going to try and oust Bethesda on how to do ambient music, next time choose this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SefxmOv-88M

Desert Winds is ma fave <3
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I really hated almost all music from F3, it was just too ''generic'' and ''empty'' for me, but in New Vegas I liked most of it, also New Vegas included many tracks from F1 and F2.
 
This is my favorite track from the original games, was so glad they brought it back for New Vegas.



Hopefully if Obsidian does get to work on another Fallout title, they'll bring back Mark Morgan for the OST.
 
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Money4U said:
THIJAKA said:
TransgenderVaultDeweller said:
Bethesda, take notes from your betters.


K,Thx bai.
Click to expand...

That's unfair, Inon Zur did quite a wonderful job with both Fallout 3's and New Vegas' ambient music.

If you're going to try and oust Bethesda on how to do ambient music, next time choose this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SefxmOv-88M

Desert Winds is ma fave <3
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I really hated almost all music from F3, it was just too ''generic'' and ''empty'' for me, but in New Vegas I liked most of it, also New Vegas included many tracks from F1 and F2.
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I feel as though the emptiness of the music was symbolic, just like in New Vegas were there was a western feel to it. The Capital Wasteland is a desolate empty place with a few spikes of hope scattered throughout, and I felt the music reflected that extremely well.
 
I rather listen to Johnny Guitar on loop than listen to Three Dog's awful dialogue and shrill voice telling everybody how much of an Asshole Defiler I am right before stating how I just helped the orphan get a new home on Rivet City.
 
Walpknut said:
I rather listen to Johnny Guitar on loop than listen to Three Dog's awful dialogue and shrill voice telling everybody how much of an Asshole Defiler I am right before stating how I just helped the orphan get a new home on Rivet City.
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I'm not a big fan of Fallout 3's unbalanced karma system either, but Johnny Guitar is something else.
 
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