Ion Zur.
yeah, well it just so happened that I wrote a commentary on his score while he was figuring out how to do Fallout3. I was on his front page for about 1-2 years. He liked my analysis and pretty raw freakin criticsm.
he is a cool guy but the man who did Morrowind, Shoule, Korean dude, is a better guy for fantasy rpg. I would make a guess that Shoule played real rpg's when he was younger or else was a reader of novels of such. Zur admitted to me that he was not at all knowledgeable about the Fallout universe. He said that he wasnt informed that it wasnt a mysterious sort of epic adventure and that it actually was about beating a 50 year old whore to death with a pipe and taking her squeezins. I do not know how exactly our convo's changed the composition, but he was taken back by the unknown to him fanbase that was more passionate about this than any other project he worked on. It was fascinating to see how
FUCKING RETARDED THE MOTHER FUCKING COMPANY WAS
that they didnt inform Zur of the project he was on or the music and genre of the past works. They basically asked for a certain thing to be done which he accepted as he got a heap of cash. It was completely different than he would have done if he investigated the original series.
Oddly, the term "original series" is a false dichotomy. There is no "original" it is just, the series. original means you have no clue what you are doing or how the previous segments were created. WHenever someone uses terms like "Based" "Original" "Classic" "Time Honoured" you know it's going to be a heap of shit.
The score was too repetitive for the level of complexity of the piece. Morrowind repeated often but was always refreshing on the loop. In other words, it was creatively complex vs conventional and academic. THis is why you can listen to Baroque and Beethoven pieces over and over but Mozart pieces for quartets wax a bit mentally.
(of course, Mozart's opera's are completely creative and free, which is why if you listen to Queen of the night it makes you want to screw lusty virgins by the barrel and slash the faces of foes with a cutlass)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvuKxL4LOqc&feature=related
that's the shit, home-slices. First a sick speech and the PSYCHO Diana Damrau. I so would twinkie pop my pants if I ever got to meet this lady.