We need to talk about the music. Not 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 such a talented team of composers 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 7 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. 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.
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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 such a talented team of composers 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 7 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. 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.
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