ET-Quake Wars Soundtrack [Archive] - Splash Damage Forums

Dragzonox

18th February 2006, 03:27

I think it's a bit wired....

Mabye it's just me... But this game gonna have some kind of techno, dance track... To make it more future like, but for sure we will need some "all know it's THAT game" when they hear it...

Dunno.... ?

corvey

18th February 2006, 04:35

Gringo wrote:
Dont know about an ET:QW soundtrack but heres something for yeh!!!
ET TUNES

Gringo, those are some pretty good homemade mixes.

Nail wrote:
I hear it's gonna be Michael Bolton and Kenny G

Now we all know what is on Nail's wishlist.. Haha, gross...

Nail

18th February 2006, 06:51

look up humour in the dictionary of your choice

KAGE

18th February 2006, 07:04

Kenny G is funny??

..must be a british thing

*KAGE assumes Nail lives in england*

what is up with people these days. HELLO it's called the internet... there should be a 'leaked' gameplay video or something by now...
btw i'm loving the digital distortion thing they've got happening on that little movie.

corvey

18th February 2006, 07:13

Yea KAGE, I'd be willing to bet that Nail is British because of the way he spelled the word "humour".

Nail

18th February 2006, 07:27

bet ?? how much ?

btw, sorry about spelling it correctly, don't speak murican

corvey

18th February 2006, 07:39

KAGE

18th February 2006, 09:49

it's called the commonwealth .. theres a few countries that are part of it. you may have heard of it?

they all spell the same.. like colour and color...

Gringo

18th February 2006, 11:11

Those tracks r the product of errol! I could never do anything creative like that!

Pytox

18th February 2006, 11:19

I think it would get some sort of Quake & Doom style :), like first a bit silenced and then rock ;)

Sauron|EFG

18th February 2006, 16:38

If your not British, then I know a bunch Canadians who thinks it's cool to spell words another way.
And I know a bunch of people (often with English as first language) that doesn't know the difference between "your" and "you're". :D

On topic:
The soundtrack isn't all that important since it's a MP only game, but I won't complain if there's a nice intro song as long as it doesn't feature Celine Dion. :)

corvey

18th February 2006, 17:49

"And I know a bunch of people (often with English as first language) that doesn't know the difference between "your" and "you're".

You're right, except that I do know the difference between the two. I can only say to you is that it was a small error on my behalf and it won't be the last one either. :D

Geeez, I really thought this topic was about music not English 101.

Bongoboy

20th February 2006, 11:50

Hopefully ET:QW's going to be the first MP FPS title to be released with a predominantly Folk/Trad Jazz soundtrack. Each game box will come with a pair of stripey braces (suspenders to our North American customers) so you can hook your thumbs inside them and tap your toes while nodding on the on-beat. C'mon now, altogether: One-two-Three-four-One-two-Three-four...

SniperSteve

20th February 2006, 12:39

One-two-Three-four-One-two-Three-four...

kamikazee

20th February 2006, 13:02

One-three-two-four... Ehrm, this doesn't work out as it should. Maybe it's my current outfit.

Dazzamac

20th February 2006, 13:58

Cool, pwning strogg to the wild rover and whiskey in the jar. :beer: :beer:

Etnies

20th February 2006, 18:02

A good sondtrack would be good, probally end up turning music off after like a week anyway, But a good techno song would sound sweet or The Fureys - the green fields of france (get it now ppl!)

Black_Forky

20th February 2006, 22:50

Just let us play music or CDs through the console ! :D

carnage

20th February 2006, 23:31

after listening to outofcontrol_mix1.mp3 the only reasonable solution i can see it to get errol to make the soundtrack to the game

its giving me to rtcw on LSD feel

ayatollah

21st February 2006, 01:08

after listening to outofcontrol_mix1.mp3 the only reasonable solution i can see it to get errol to make the soundtrack to the game

its giving me to rtcw on LSD feel

Yeah great wee tune but my fav has to be This Road is Closed!

"What am I going to do with all this cheese!!!"

Schaffer

21st February 2006, 06:49

Ummm, humour is a variant of humor. The standard way of spelling it is "humor". If your not British, then I know a bunch Canadians who thinks it's cool to spell words another way. I think it's silly the dictionary gives the same word a different spelling.

I wonder when this "standard" was developed? I do believe that humour and colour existed long before some people dropped some of the letters to allow them to spell words easier. As Kage pointed out, the countries of the Commonwealth speak proper English, not some bastardised version of it. Now it makes we wonder why it is called the English language???

So how about a bit of C&W for the background tunes. A little bit of Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson.

fattakin

21st February 2006, 11:31

Orchestral style music suits best as it easily blends into the background. I cant stand listening to my own music when gaming, its distracting. I have to admit i did enjoy Half Life 2's soundtrack, when the techno kicked in during the railyard chase i actuall enjoyed it, it helped with the pace and atmosphere.. i thought i was in a holywood movie for a while. Then i wised up.

Bongoboy

21st February 2006, 11:36

Wikipedia has a fine entries on both spellling differences (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences) and the notable lexicographer Noah Webster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Webster) 1758-1843, compiler of the eponymous Dictionary and (perhaps more importantly) "The Elementary Spelling Book" which by 1861 was selling a million copies a year. Webster was keen to make American English easier to learn, more efficient to use and generally less elitist, so he simplified the spelling by eliminating redundant letters. So post-Webster American English has color instead of colour, honor instead of honour and thru instead of through (although, bizarrely, not enuf instead of enough). Center/centre, theater/theatre, draught/draft, axe/ax, disc/disk, grey/gray etc.

There. That's pretty much all I learnt in a whole junior honours year of English Language. Oh, that and splitting infinitives. And the Schwa.

corvey

21st February 2006, 11:49

Yea, you are right, colour and humour are originally Englishs word and over the years I guess we Americians figured you spelled it wrong and it needed to be corrected, now color and humor is the new standard in American spelling apparently. You can tell I don't get out much. :)

Sorry I ever brought it up. Gezz. It was originally meant to point where one was from by the way they spelled something, not because it was spelled wrong and then Nail pointed out "Muicans". Good call Nail :)

OK,That should have been the end of this "off topic" unless somebody likes to keep stirring up dust.

So now can we get back on the topic of music..

Bongoboy

21st February 2006, 12:12

No, no, we still have grammar and lexis to cover. Wait till we get to Nominatives and Accusatives! Oh alright *goes back to hammering forehead against game design.

Dazzamac

21st February 2006, 13:34

[edited by Bongoboy, removing the witlessly offensive bit. First Warning]

Thinkin the classical route could be good, I always enjoy opening a can of whuppass to the sound of Adagio for strings

SniperSteve

21st February 2006, 13:48

Dazza, That was not appropriate.

Either a classical or orchastral with a mix of rock. You do have to have some of the quake theme come through, which is all out rock.

Dazzamac

21st February 2006, 14:58

Rock makes me go into all out kill mode which isn't always a good thing in team games where sometimes making the sneak and waiting for an oportune moment is a better course of action.

In hindsight probably wasn't appropriate but I've had a ceck morning and I feel the need to vent all my pet hates and insult everyone, hope no offense was taken :blah:

SniperSteve

21st February 2006, 15:24

Kill mode FTW :D

No offence taken, just it wasn't cool. :\ (I feel your pain though)

corvey

21st February 2006, 15:40

Damn, anybody care to email me the cut text Dazzamac said or at least tell me about what the hell it was he said? I wanna know :D

I hate cut text...

Dazzamac

21st February 2006, 16:20

I was witlessly offensive. Can't you read? :P

carnage

21st February 2006, 17:43

at a gess the sound for the game will probably match or be similar to the sound on the trailer asuming they are trying to create the same kind of atmosphere in the actual and im pretty sure SD would not misslead us like that

as for games like bf2 on the other hand, the exiting fast paced shooter action in the trailer but might have been exagerated a bit to shift the game

SniperSteve

21st February 2006, 19:32

BF2 in the trailer looked like this hard core fast paced action shooter with cool vehicle stunts and realism. Once you played it, it was just like. Bleh...

Skumtomten

21st February 2006, 19:51

Hmm... as Id soft. seem to like metalmusic, as for Quake, Doom 3 and those games used that type of music, I think ETQW might be using some sort of music from that genre too... however I'm not sure as for what I've heard it's splash damage themselves who're doing etqw, and that Id ain't helping at all? :F
If that's the case I really have no idea of what it could be. :) I'll just sit down a wait for the goodies.

B0rsuk

21st February 2006, 20:32

No music please, unless it's made to last. In many games I eventually end up disabling the music, because it gets too repetitive/annoying after a while. The solution is to use ambients instead, or forget music alltogether and compensate with rich and high quality sounds. If music is too noisy/badly designed, you can't hear footsteps, for example.

By 'made to last' I mean 'it doesn't make your ears hurt after a while'. HL1 machinegun may sound powerful, but hurts your ears. Wolf:ET guns sound wimpy, but are merciful for your ears. Half-life was otherwise very good in sound effects/ambients department. Homeworld2 has some very good ambients, too.

SCDS_reyalP

21st February 2006, 22:11

I predict bagpipes :moo:

SniperSteve

22nd February 2006, 00:29

Oh yes! Bagpipes!

lol.

Well, there will be menu music, ther has to be. Many Multiplayer games dont have in-game music unlike single player. So I'm not sure if there will be any in-game, but for the menu music i predict something like the quake music. Just a bit less rocky.

Or we could have bagpipes...

*turns on some bagpipe music (seriously)*

Nail

22nd February 2006, 01:27

what do you call a beautiful woman on the arm of a bagpipe player?

a tattoo

Gringo

22nd February 2006, 12:16

I dont get it!

KAGE

22nd February 2006, 12:36

sef not get it.

i want it to be a subwoofer killer..
something like.. boom, boom, de boom, boom, etc..
then boom tesh.. boom boom...
..wicket..
boom.. sratchhhhhreeewwiiinndd.. boom boom.

and so on...

i have even written a song on the piano.. in this picture i drew.

ayatollah

22nd February 2006, 14:23

No music pleeeeease...I have my own to play if I really want it...Besides Wolfy didn't need it so why should QW?!

Oh and:
I don't get it!
DUH!!!

carnage

22nd February 2006, 21:47

music in MP games is very interesting here. in ET and rtcw music would be pretty hard to encorperate because the objectives carry little emotional conection to the player... its more just about beating the other team. As aposed to a single player game where the player races agasint time to save a beautiful women

music could be used to build up the tension but unless the story is clear any atmosphere created by the music may seem out of place

the reviews for ETQW say that the levels tell storied such as how the strog came to have the railgun etc and explain things about the quake universe. With more of a story to the maps music may be better used to tell the story

althogh each map will be played countless times so the msuic could be more repatative and become anoying than in a SP map that the player may play once or twise

SockDog

24th February 2006, 02:51

I liked the musical snippets in RTCW, well I say liked, I mean they're memorable and not because they were overly annoying. You know, the bits as the round ended and the steady flow of Good Game started. :)
No music in game but some catchy ditties between rounds and during map loads etc. That'd be cool.

SniperSteve

24th February 2006, 03:28

No music in game but some catchy ditties between rounds and during map loads etc. That'd be cool.

Yeah, in game music while you play is normally turned off because you can't hear stuff.

Skumtomten

24th February 2006, 06:35

No music in game but some catchy ditties between rounds and during map loads etc. That'd be cool.
:F Yeah, I agree to that, I would also find it nice if they put some menumusic in it. :F
Though not on that thing during map, I would just find that irritating. :F Though, at intermission and such things (If they're still gonna keep that.)

eRRoLfLyNN

3rd March 2006, 17:15

Slayer, Spill the Blood

Job done! :nag:

Florisjuh

3rd March 2006, 19:51

Music has already been decided, the SD team will sing "Jingle Bells" a fragment of 10 seconds which will repeat itself troughout the game, also during combat!

also, it has been reported there will be a special dance mode where players can do a 1 on 1 dancing the 10 seconds song.

Nail

4th March 2006, 01:28

as long as Sabbath's "Iron Man" is playing while I drive Goliath, I'm a happy camper
:lol:

:tapir:

Gringo

4th March 2006, 02:24

The razors edge by the legendary AC/DC as the GDF advance on the strogg stronghold. Perhaps if one o the maps is on Belgian soil Bedlum in Belgium would suit! :rocker: :rocker2:

eRRoLfLyNN

16th March 2006, 05:31

/me's broke - get your soundtrack for a tenner (negotiable!)

Bongoboy

16th March 2006, 10:59

We're in advanced negotations with the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain (http://www.ukuleleorchestra.com/main/home.aspx). Fingers crossed, they'll be able to do ALL the game music.

...

OK, no, we're not. But seriously, they're REALLY good.

16th March 2006, 11:09

http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/5594/mandosmiley4tq.gif

eRRoLfLyNN

16th March 2006, 11:34

Saw them Ukeleleeersers on Later one night. They were great! Only heard them playin Smells Like Teen Spirit though, but that was... quite somethin to behold!

Loffy

16th March 2006, 12:37

About the music in ETQW.
SD is in England, right? Then you can walk over to David Gilmour.
When Allies win: 60 sec guitarsolo.

When Axis win: Another Gilmour solo.

In game music: When Allies attack: "Keep on rocking in the free world", Neil Young.

Yes, I am near 40. Yes, I often wear blue jeans.
//Loffy

EDIT: And yes, I like Dire Straits. "Lady writer on the tv.. "

crumblycake

17th March 2006, 09:22

Hello, new to the forum. I think the server menu music on ET was the best. Hope ID & SD can keep that for QW's server menu.

Also, as far as voice chats go, I think that it would be funny if ID & SD could keep the ET BETA voice chats in QW. I miss those...

;)

Gringo

17th March 2006, 11:31

Tbh u dont need music, the music of the battlefield is enough

eva05

17th March 2006, 13:13

I love game soundtracks, I own quite a few....Final Fnatasy, Chrono Trigger, BioHazard, etc. Generally speaking I kill all the music whenever I play an FPS because it always breaks my immersion when I'm playing.

I was just blowing through Black, that Criterion FPS, and the parts that were most annoying had music associated with them. That was the first game in I've played in a while without the option to kill the music.

Ultimately music or no, I'll turn it off when I get in game.

As someone said, ambient sounds are far more important to me.

j

Dazzamac

17th March 2006, 17:47

I'm gonna get shot for sayin this but there was one aspect of Battlefield I liked *ducks*, Whilst there was no music when you were on foot and you could hear people around you running about etc. If you got in a vehicle it had a stereo in it, it gave away your position somethin shockin but flyin a chinook in carryin a tank to the music of 'Flight of the Valkries' is always fun.

MadMattUK

20th April 2006, 17:23

I'm working on some ET:QW inspired stuff. I am very lazy though! :D .

A very very short peice here: Clicky! (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/matthew.strange/music/ET-QW%20V_Short.mp3)

Don't really want to stick too much of it up yet, ID software might come after me for nicking their Strogg voices! :uhoh: ( althought the marine voices are me :) )

Danyboy

20th April 2006, 19:56

Any word from Sonic Mayhem (Quake 2 + 3 soundrack makers)

Admitedly Quake 3 Noize was just that - noise. But I still listen to Descent Into Cerberon, Kill Ratio and Quad Machine daily

:rockon: (damn smiley is missing)