Most beautiful Thief ingame music

Child of Karras on 4/4/2003 at 17:11

Hey can you German players post up those files? I'm sure we'd all like to hear how the German stuff goes.

Oh and my last post in this thread was BEFORE I bought Thief Gold. Now I change my mind. The best one is in the Thieves Guild.

SneaksieDave on 4/4/2003 at 20:42

Yep yep these are all great :)

One bit of audio (not really in-game music, I guess... or is it?) I'll always be fond of is the sweet sorrowful song the Horn plays to you for your entire journey to it in the Bonehoard. Very haunting. It took me a while from first hearing it to actually reaching it, and I had assumed it was just ambience - when I got there and realized it was the Horn the whole time... mmm... :)

Edit: hehe, now that I go back and finish reading the rest of the posts, I see that the Horn was quite a popular choice.

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Edit #2: I just realized how much this thread makes me pray that Thief III's audio is in capable hands. Thief had the most unbelievable sound experience in any game, ever. That's a tough act to follow.

XSpidercideX on 10/4/2003 at 02:04

I know this may sound weird, but how do I listen to the sound clips?

I dont know how. I tried to open the snd.crf with a type of media player but my computer wont let me?

Cosmos on 10/4/2003 at 04:05

.crf files are normal .ZIP format files. Open them with winzip, or some other utility.

Heh, when I first got thief, and was browsing through the RES directory, on a whim I decided to open one in a hex editor. I recognized the header as a (pk)ZIP format and tried it. Boy did I think I was l33t! :D

ZylonBane on 10/4/2003 at 04:30

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Originally posted by Eshaktaar
The pagan music played in Trail of Blood is totally different, as well. US version: swelling tones, the soundfile Duodecimal put online some posts above. German version: a sad lute tune

Any chance you could whip up an MP3 of this tune? I'd love to hear it.

Child of Karras on 10/4/2003 at 04:54

You mean the U.S. version or German version Zylon? If you want the U.S. one, I can upload it.

Eshaktaar on 10/4/2003 at 07:30

Here's what German taffers get to hear when entering the pagan village in Trail of Blood: (http://www.hta-bi.bfh.ch/~thonr/thief/m10sadQS.mp3) m10sadQS.mp3

Child of Karras on 10/4/2003 at 09:59

Hey not bad... :thumb:

Did you cut away some parts Eshak? If you did, could you post up the whole thing? And what about the voice actors? Do they speak german or is there subtitles?

And why are there different music for different versions of Thief? Makes no sense...

Scots Taffer on 10/4/2003 at 10:32

I love the Thief ingame music and ambience, period. Just pure brilliance.

In a less addictive sense, System Shock 2 is also very well done, but after a while the thumpy beat starts to grate, unlike the peaceful meanderings of Thief's music.

Eshaktaar on 10/4/2003 at 11:49

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Originally posted by Child of Karras
Did you cut away some parts Eshak?

Nope, that's the full length soundfile.

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And what about the voice actors? Do they speak german or is there subtitles?

They do speak German, and it's quite good (apart from some translation errors). But the English voices are still preferable, especially Garrett's.

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And why are there different music for different versions of Thief? Makes no sense...

I don't know either. All other sound effects (except voices, of course) are the same, just the ones in MiscVOs are different.

Here are some more:

The tune of the wax cylinder in Shipping and Receiving:
(http://www.hta-bi.bfh.ch/~thonr/thief/waxytune.mp3) waxytune.mp3

The choir that can be heard in the Mechanist seminary in Eavesdropping:
(http://www.hta-bi.bfh.ch/~thonr/thief/wingedm.mp3) wingedm.mp3

Note that these two samples are part of the ending music that's played in the credits movie (which, as I already mentioned, has no music in the U.S. version).