We need to talk about the music. I love the MSQ, but sometimes what makes it such a chore is that scenes have been using the exact same background music for 10 years. Now, I don't dislike the music *in general* but those few specific songs which are used **far too often** in MSQ cutscenes.
These are great songs, as is the entire OST, but we've heard some of these songs done to death over the last several years. The game has such a wide catalog of music and the talented Soken behind it that it's almost frustrating to dive into new content only to hear the same song that you've heard in similar scenes over the last 10 years.
Nothing makes me roll my eyes and want to tune out of a cutscene faster than hearing any of these songs (among others I'm probably forgetting) as soon as the cutscene starts:
- Forever Lost
- Imperial Will
- Daring Dalliances
- Tranquility
- Canticle
And the worst offenders:
- Fracture
- Damnation
- Return of the Hero
- Machinations
Again, I'm not critiquing the quality of these songs but just critiquing their overwhelming use. They make the game occasionally feel very stale when the story itself is continually fresh.
I don't think it's too much to ask for each expansion to have a change in "generic/stock cutscene music" since each expansion is so aesthetically different, or even too much to ask to have these songs just change **once** now that it's been 10 years. Even remixes or rearrangements could do wonders, but as it stands hearing these same songs over and over again just makes it feel like the game hasn't evolved much since launch though so many other elements of the game show us that it has.
These songs are so done to death that I can immediately tell what the tone of a cutscene is the second they start, which is effective but also makes it feel forced and lazy.
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These are great songs, as is the entire OST, but we've heard some of these songs done to death over the last several years. The game has such a wide catalog of music and the talented Soken behind it that it's almost frustrating to dive into new content only to hear the same song that you've heard in similar scenes over the last 10 years.
Nothing makes me roll my eyes and want to tune out of a cutscene faster than hearing any of these songs (among others I'm probably forgetting) as soon as the cutscene starts:
- Forever Lost
- Imperial Will
- Daring Dalliances
- Tranquility
- Canticle
And the worst offenders:
- Fracture
- Damnation
- Return of the Hero
- Machinations
Again, I'm not critiquing the quality of these songs but just critiquing their overwhelming use. They make the game occasionally feel very stale when the story itself is continually fresh.
I don't think it's too much to ask for each expansion to have a change in "generic/stock cutscene music" since each expansion is so aesthetically different, or even too much to ask to have these songs just change **once** now that it's been 10 years. Even remixes or rearrangements could do wonders, but as it stands hearing these same songs over and over again just makes it feel like the game hasn't evolved much since launch though so many other elements of the game show us that it has.
These songs are so done to death that I can immediately tell what the tone of a cutscene is the second they start, which is effective but also makes it feel forced and lazy.
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