Jah on 4/6/2009 at 13:12
Quote Posted by Shadowriku95
I liked the Heavy metal during the intro of TDP and TMA...:cool:
I thought it felt rather out of place in the context of Thief. They do have electricity in the City, but somehow I don't think an electric guitar would be at the top of the Hammerites' or the Mechanists' "to do" list. ;)
Go2doug on 4/6/2009 at 19:29
Quote Posted by Shadowriku95
What kind of awesome music could there be on Thief 4 ?
Hopefully just Eric Brosius Music.
Given the setting and time period that Thief takes place in, the music in the game should stem from classical music, medieval music, and cathedral music (like Gregorian chants and church organs). Any industrial or gothic music should be reserved for the cutscenes.
Platinumoxicity on 5/6/2009 at 09:08
Quote Posted by Jah
I thought it felt rather out of place in the context of Thief. They do have electricity in the City, but somehow I don't think an electric guitar would be at the top of the Hammerites' or the Mechanists' "to do" list. ;)
That's the point. Thief isn't a regular story. Thief is a deviant product, a rogue specimen. The heavy beats add to the already strange world, where nothing seems to make sense. I hate medieval fantasy games that have these over-dramatic epic orchestra music soundtracks, I mean... could you possibly have even less imagination? Thief isn't the game that need fake-epic keyboard string riffs. Thief is Trent Reznor hitting John Williams in the face.
Yandros on 5/6/2009 at 10:21
Quote Posted by Platinumoxicity
Thief is Trent Reznor hitting John Williams in the face.
I disagree. From a musical standpoint, Thief is Eric Brosius. Which is nothing like Reznor or Williams, nor anything in between.
Keeper Beege on 5/6/2009 at 14:01
Eric Brosius is the obvious choice...he was incredible.
Platinumoxicity on 5/6/2009 at 14:26
Quote Posted by Yandros
I disagree. From a musical standpoint, Thief is Eric Brosius. Which is nothing like Reznor or Williams, nor anything in between.
I wasn't referring Trent's style to Erics. My point was that they're very different from any other composers, and Williams is one of the best on the all-too-often used epic-genre. ;)
Yandros on 5/6/2009 at 15:11
Understood. Although I would contend that Williams is the most successful of soundtrack composers, but not necessarily one of the best. On a related note, Moghedian and I are using music by a relatively unknown movie soundtrack composer for Death's Cold Embrace, which is good since it means most players will not be familiar with it and won't have any outside-of-Thief associations when they hear it.
Petike the Taffer on 7/6/2009 at 15:59
All music should be instrumental. Most of it should be ambient, the intro, outro and portions of cutscenes can use some metal or drum n' bass as in the previous games. Over than that... Nothing. No licenced songs, please. It wouldn't fit the mood of the game.
Platinumoxicity on 7/6/2009 at 16:42
I loved the Thief 1 and Thief 2 intro musics with that synthesized drum beat and distorted "guitar". It reminds me of the Quake theme song (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv5Jvr2Fp48)
Except that Quake had that awesome, horrifying scream on the background. :p
Molock on 7/6/2009 at 17:10
Heavy metal / mixed.
I dont know why but it fit so well to Thief 1&2, remember the opening scene from T1 or shoalsgate? Talking about playing a thief and mixed heavy metal sounds crazy at first, but strangely it worked pretty well! :D
But oh well, I am happy with dark eerie ambient tracks, as example the ''down to the bonehoard'' ambient track was awesome. :thumb:
