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.

[Sam]

I know! Isn't it great? This music is way better than Morrowind's. Although it is similar in some respects, it still has way better harmony, and less brass, which I found the Morrowind music to be a little heavy on.

About the music fade in thing, if you watch the second chapter of the E3 demo videos, it does seem to transition between traveling and fighting quite well, but I could be wrong.

[DoomedOne]

Possibly, I can go back and check easily. Listening to gaming steve or whatever I heard he complained about bad transition. To be honest, I don't even mind battles with no music at all. I like battle music that starts off fast paced but non intrusive then builds up, that way if it barely counted because it were something simple like a crab you wouldn't even be bothered by the ten second music change.

EDIT: Yeah I rewatched the demo it didn't have very good transition, and the combat music is intrusive. It's good combat music, but what really pissed me off about the cliffracers in morrowind was mostly the fact that I was enjoying myself traveling along accompanied by the nice kusic that would just end for a few minutes and come in with this battle music that was trying to insert this feeling of suspense, but it wasn't suspenseful at all.

This post has been edited by DoomedOne: Mar 11 2006, 07:09 AM

[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 .

[Sam]

I've started a poll for everyone to give their opinions on the new music, so feel free to post there as well.

[DoomedOne]

Yeah well my opinion on this music is that it's very specific to what you would be doing, quite awesome actually. The battle music song I'm listening to right now is one I could easil see in a good battle. It would add perfectly. I wouldn't mind being interrupted by this is it was in a real battle, not some slace a rat thing.