[T:V] Music

BugsPray · Mar 28, 2004

Just curious as to what kinds of tunes we'll be bumpin' to when the game is released.

beast · Mar 28, 2004

my guess

national socialist black metal, dutch speedcore and japanese visual kei by turns :rocker:

adrian ng · Mar 28, 2004

westlife ballads, hopefully.

Rosdower · Mar 28, 2004

community bands and such, i think i'd be cool to hear bounty's (or my) band do an instrumental

SilentDeath · Mar 28, 2004

I hope we can have playlists, or atleast more songs than 4 songs that loop all game.

Ben Reed · Mar 28, 2004

beast said:
my guess

national socialist black metal, dutch speedcore and japanese visual kei by turns

Now there's an odd combination, particularly with the visual kei bands, which are basically just harder-edged hair metal bands whose main gimmick is not nearly so much their music as it is their effeminate, woman-attracting looks. The Nazi metal idea sounds pretty cool, though. MIDAIR MICHT FREI!

Myself, I was kind of hoping for quirky stuff with some jazz/symphonic elements in addition to the standard clanging-and-clanking industrial and the obligatory gruff guitar numbers that practically every FPS has these days. A couple of intense violin stings when fighting someone in midair or a few sultry saxophone notes while dashing around dodging fire in single-player would strike me as worth a listen if done properly.

But who am I kidding? I'll just replace the in-game playlist with the Guilty Gear X2 soundtrack when I get my hands on the game anyway.

/me AIR GUITAR :rocker:

knuckle · Mar 28, 2004

Simply, Shazfunk.

SINep · Mar 28, 2004

I doubt we will see John Zorns Naked city on this one... (crosses fingers)
Some Kataklysm would be nice.

Uncle Silas · Mar 29, 2004

I'll do some music for T:V if asked.

Ben Reed · Mar 29, 2004

Uncle Silas said:
I'll do some music for T:V if asked.

I would wholeheartedly approve of this.

I liked the feel of "The Chase" far more than the typical pounding industrial and jugga-jugga-jugga of most FPS soundtracks. I like quirky stuff, with brass and strings and woodwinds and other nice acoustic instruments, I think it lends much richer atmosphere than mere computer-generated wall-of-noise stuff.

Heavy stuff may lend itself better to killing, but Tribes isn't just about ground-pounding on foot and in vehicles. Tribes is about style, about a musical flair as you flit through the air like a butterfly raining death on your enemies, and I think a quirky ambience with an Uncle Silas-style soundtrack rather than a hard-edged ambience with typical techno and industrial would lend itself better overall to T:V.

Fraggy Poo · Mar 29, 2004

Wouldn't it be great if Irrational pulled a Marvel vs Capcom 2 when it comes to music?

Gonna take you for a ride! Gonna take you for a ride! Gonna take you for a ride!

Ben Reed · Mar 29, 2004

Fraggy Poo said:
Wouldn't it be great if Irrational pulled a Marvel vs Capcom 2 when it comes to music?

Gonna take you for a ride! Gonna take you for a ride! Gonna take you for a ride!

I'm not talking THAT whimsical, mind you. I'm talking quirky, but peppy. Stuff like The Chase, with a nice bit of acoustic guitar with a refreshing melody, but with a tempo that still befits flying across the map at Mach 2 through a hail of chaingun slugs.