The Oblivion Soundtrack, It's been released Options

[DoomedOne]

So, for ten dollars you can get a list of 26 songs used in Oblivion, all composed by the ltanted Jeremy Soule. I thought it was a waste of money but my eagerness cuaght up with eventually and I downloaded the album.

The music is excellent. A lot of the songs are very similar to morrowind;s, in fact it seems music will feel very similar to how it did in Morrowind, if only less repetitive and a bit more suited to where you currently are in the game or what's happening.

Still, after reading a couple interviews I decided a really necessary mod will be something really easy to do, when initiating combat music from exploration or plot music, instead of being abrupt as it was in Morrowind and I hear it is in Oblivion, the current music should fade away into a pause that will last for five seconds, then the battle music would start. The abrupt music changed spoil the immersion.

[Tellie]

Doomd, where did you buy it from...I want it...BADLY

[Bofra]

Doomd, where did you buy it from...I want it...BADLY

You can get it from DirectSong, although it will be copywrited with M$ DRM-system, wich sucks since you only can use Windows Media Player to play it . I've also considered buying the album though but I would burn it to a music-cd as soon as downloaded in that case, since I refuse to use M$ crap like WMP .

Regarding the music itself I find it even better than Morrowind actually, the exploration-themes have more depth to them than the morrowind ones and they feel more ambient. However you can only tell if the music is good in it's real context, I wouldn't know if this music actually fits in the environment were it plays before I experience it.

The transitions I find kind of OK, it's a fast transition but in some cases the distance between peace and battle are small and to fit the music in the transition would have to be short. However I totally agree that battle-music in general kind of spoils some battles, especially low-lvl ones, but that would probably be easy to fix with some mod. (Think I might post this in the Mod Ideas section) After I've played a game for a while I tend to turn off music at all since I find the amient-sounds more than enough (especially in games like MW with the sound enhancement mods and probably also in Oblivion) and I also find myself more emerged in the atmosphere without the music, after all I don't have a soundtrack running behind me in my life .