Anybody else hate the music?

I was hoping for more late 50's and early 60's Doo Wop music. Stuff like The Wanderer.

Instead, I got a very literal 50/50 split between music from Fallout 3 and music from the CONELRAD mod for New Vegas. No, I'm not joking.
 
Fuck Butcher Pete. The ambient music isn't THAT bad though, although it can get repetitive I do pick up on tones that sound similar to 1/2. The radio is just absolutely awful though, I never put it on.
 
I think some of the exploration music is nice, not all of it. I like the sanctuary music.

I have to turn music off while exploring though, I can't stand the repetitive combat music that blasts whenever a fight breaks out.
 
The soundtrack isn't bad. I think Mark Morgan did a better job, but then again, I think there is a different atmosphere to the newer games, less dark in a way, more heroic sounding. It's not bad though.
 
Is it just me, or is the soundtrack selection really limited? My friend enjoys listening to the oldies in this game, but it feels like they have less than ten songs on the radio. It’s repetitive and boring. The ambient music seemed good from what I’ve listened to (it sounded Native Americanesque), but I’ve mostly been listening to the oldies and it’s annoying. (Sometimes, I feel like I’m listening to Christmas music. Personally, I wish that I could at least listen to Searchin'.) It seems like the designers only threw in the radio so they could rub the ’50s theme in your face.


And why are some of the songs related to nuclear materials? Wouldn’t that make a lot of the residents uncomfortable?
 
Irwin John Finster said:
I'm hearing a lot of the same tracks repeatedly. It definitely feels more limited.
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At least that is something that will almost certainly be modded in, hundreds of songs, that actually shuffle.

But.....while modding really is the silver bullet for this series, it's starting to feel rediculous, that I always have to change core aspects of the game to make it palatable :/

At least there is lots of open domain music from the period, and plenty of pieces available if you do some personal editing from FO1/FO2, to bring the ingame music to it. I have found that it helps quite a bit.
 
Jack "Butcher" O'Hara said:
I think that one thing Fallout 4 did fine was ambient music. It kind of remind me of old Fallouts.
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It has some tracks from Fallout 1 and 2 as ambient music, but every time they come up, it's like a reminder that Bethesda did not make those games, and it compounds with everything else lackluster about this title. (It happened in Skyrim as well, all the Morrowind tracks it borrowed.)

Severite said:
At least that is something that will almost certainly be modded in, hundreds of songs, that actually shuffle.

But.....while modding really is the silver bullet for this series, it's starting to feel rediculous, that I always have to change core aspects of the game to make it palatable :/
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Modding should be there to add life to an excellent title, like Roma Surrectum II is to Rome: Total War, not to make it bearable to play.
 
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Irwin John Finster said:
I'm hearing a lot of the same tracks repeatedly. It definitely feels more limited.
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It’s relieving that I’m not the only one. This is presumably a high‐budget game, so you would expect the designers to inflate everything. They certainly blew quite a bit of time, money, space, and energy on an automaton having the capability of saying a thousand different names. Why didn’t they purchase tonnes of songs, compile them all together, and use that as a selling‐point instead? They could have even bragged in the marketing that they had more tunes that any GTA game. I guess that their target audience just has too little appreciation for the classics.
 
I think the music is passable, personally I can't wait until the custom radio station mods come out. Get some ac/dc, Metallica, def leppard, queen, other rock and miscellaneous music coming out of the pip boy. I know it doesn't fit the theme, but there is nothing like shedding raiders while Mr. Sandman is playing in the back group.
 
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[x] Hate music

On a serious note, I think the music sounds too..epic, well the tracks they didn't rehash like the battle music. The new tracks they put into the game don't seem right for a Fallout game or maybe it's just me.
 
MercenarySnake said:
[x] Hate music

On a serious note, I think the music sounds too..epic, well the tracks they didn't rehash like the battle music. The new tracks they put into the game don't seem right for a Fallout game or maybe it's just me.
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I get what you mean. Some music sounds like epic-hero-army-good-guys-adventure-epic-epic-epic-EPIC. Like BOS on Predwyn. But the music at DC, the natural exploration ambients etc are really great.
 
I don't mind the ambient music, I have it turned down to really low. But on the other hand Diamond City Radio... that dudes voice is so fucking annoying and there are like 5 songs on this station lol. The only radio I like so far is the one that plays classic music because I like classic music.
 
raynor009 said:
I don't mind the ambient music, I have it turned down to really low. But on the other hand Diamond City Radio... that dudes voice is so fucking annoying and there are like 5 songs on this station lol. The only radio I like so far is the one that plays classic music because I like classic music.
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I know what you mean. Travis is so incompetent that he makes me miss Three Dog. I guess that Bethesda thought that he was ‘funny’ just because of his sheer incompetence, but he sounds more boring than anything. It seems like they di’n’t give him very much to say either, so now we have to tolerate his repetition, too.


I don’t ‘hate’ classical music, but I am a bit surprised that they included it since I wouldn’t expect their target audience to enjoy it much. Classical seems like a genre that would be more appropriate for Arcanum rather than a Fallout entry. It seems like they only included it simply because they could.
 
I don't know where anyone is coming from with the "songs list feels too short" thing. There's like 30 or so songs on Diamond Radio in reality. I think what it is is that 25% of Diamond Radio is dominated by songs from GNR.
 
Big No said:
I don't know where anyone is coming from with the "songs list feels too short" thing. There's like 30 or so songs on Diamond Radio in reality. I think what it is is that 25% of Diamond Radio is dominated by songs from GNR.
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I'm talking about the game music...as in the ambient music by Inon Zur.
 
Big No said:
I don't know where anyone is coming from with the "songs list feels too short" thing. There's like 30 or so songs on Diamond Radio in reality. I think what it is is that 25% of Diamond Radio is dominated by songs from GNR.
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I’m honestly rather stupefied by this, because somehow the radio still felt repetitive to me. Nukapedia says that there’re 37 songs, which I suppose is fair, but I feel like there’s something wrong. Maybe the looping system was poorly designed, or even 37 songs is insufficient. Or maybe it’s just because I’m crazy. I’m not sure how they managed to insert that many songs and still feel repetitive.

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GlowHound said:
About as uncomfortable as Fat Men make them uncomfortable.

Which is not at all, apparently.
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I just came up with a nice analogy. What do you think would occur if South African radio stations played songs that glorified A.I.D.S. or H.I.V.?
 
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