Music

alec said:
I've been listening to "Selected Ambient Works Volume II" all morning now and nowhere do I get the feeling that Dixie_Rebel had. "Windowsill" comes kinda sorta close, I have to admit that, but still, to me it's an entirely different sound. It's kinda sorta easy to say stuff like: "Hey, you know that Beatles song, Strawberry Fields Forever? Well, if you get rid of the guitar, add a piano jingle and heck, maybe some extra violin sounds in the background, it kinda sorta starts to sound like the theme music from The Abyss! Isn't that friggin' awesome!"

Nope.

It's stupid for another reason: wind will generally always sound like wind, fog horns like fog horns and so on. That being the case, the music from the world map kinda sorta sounds exactly the same as what one can hear whilst lying on the beach in Ostend at three or four o'clock in the morning with a hangover and wet pants. Just get rid of the annoying seagulls and replace them by the subtile sound that is produced by tumbleweed that's passing by. :roll:

Anyway, you should never believe what Dixie_Rebel says. Everyone around here knows he's a pothead. Things tend to get contorted when one smokes 20 reefers a day. :look:
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Well I am not trying to argue here since you seem like a bigger fan of AT than I am, but as much as I am personally familiar with AT, it does sound similar to me. I have heard both Selected Ambient Works 1 and 2 and I own Drugks album and I do find some songs very similar, at least on those albums, including those mentioned by Dixie Rebel. For example, I could definitely imagine Bit 4 or Avril 14th being used in Fallout. Maybe it is because the sounds are very similar to the game music in a lot of his songs but I would have to agree with Dixie Rebel even if he is a pothead and it makes you mad.
 
Hi everyone, I'm new here... I like the site and it seems the forums here are pretty cool. Nice to see some intelligent discussion!

Anyway, about the music for Fallout 3.. I was thinking more along the lines of Diablo 3. Some of the ambient music (was it for Act 2, the desert level) was pretty nice, not overpowering.

I generally agree that the in-game music for Fallout games generally should be ambient and definitely in the background, not overpowering.

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They could leave it pretty much ambient and throw in a ALMOST PORTABLE CASSETTE PLAYER (maybe a reel2reel in pipboy?). It would be pretty cool to have a music system throughout the game that'd let you find pre fall music and play it - 50's Stuff; Charlie Mingus, Miles Davis, Elvis.

For some reason I'm imagining a juke box in a bar and subtly different pop classics - like putting on Dean Martin's "Oh What a Terrible World", to get that bar maid into bed & Elvis' gabber phase leading to bar fights seeing as people seem so hung up on the genre :D (maybe not so subtle).

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Elvis and pop classics? Not sure why people want to turn Fallout into some sort of music service. The pip boy is not a friggin 8-track player.

You got a Louis Armstrong intro that lasts about one minute and that's it... there is no more. That and Road Warrior style narrator "War never changes" make for an effective intro. You bring that sort of music into the regular game and I don't think it would work.
 
Hmmm odd music lovers Valley of Thousand Thoughts was composed by Ozric Tentacles back around 1990 off of Erpland...
 
I just watched the movie Constantine last night, as I have got to say that when I heard some of the music (like when he goes to hell and such) that it sounded like it was in-game music from Fallout.

Whoever did the music on Constantine, looks like two guys named Brian Tyler & Klaus Badelt, would do a great job with the in-game music for Fallout 3. If you head on over to Amazon you can get a sense for what I'm talking about. Check out the tracks called Last Rites and Hell Freeway.
 
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