Hexen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel Soundtrack

[TheUnrealRogue]

Currently under repair.

[leileilol]

Music used in the soundtrack:
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Title Music------------------------------ Revenge of the Cats-----------Skaven

This is descriptive enough over an unneccessarily large 1.8mb PNG screenshot of gzdoom and says everything about throwing the game's aesthetic out the window, with some "hey guys i just found future crew music!!11" pack advertised as the 'soundtrack'.

[wildweasel]

This is a music patch, why does it need a huge image?

[TheUnrealRogue]

"hey guys i just found future crew music!!11" pack advertised as the 'soundtrack'.

It's not all from future crew you scrub. And what do you mean by aesthetics? Half of the people can't even get the original music to work with Deathkings.

[wildweasel]

A public notice: "User is a suspected spambot" should only be used as the report reason if it ACTUALLY IS a spambot.

[Gez]

Half of the people can't even get the original music to work with Deathkings.

If they don't read the wiki, which explicitly says about having to patch the Deathkings IWAD, then it's their loss.

[wiki]IWAD[/wiki]
Deathkings of the Dark Citadel

[TheUnrealRogue]

I don't care If you like it or not, but this post is for people who have something positive to add or would like to use the custom soundtrack. Anybody else can politely leave. Please leave suggestions, but not in a rude or negative attitude.

[Jimmy]

leileilol's blunt about it but honestly I think I'll agree and say that I definitely don't think Future Crew music is the best fit for Hexen.

Listening to it in-game, a lot of the tracks fit the maps for about 5 seconds before either a crazy synthesizer or bass line or ill-fitting drum kit takes over the track and clashes immensely with the aesthetic of the game.

As a musician myself, I really don't think the game experience is enriched by these tracks (as good as they are, and I'm a huge fan of Purple Motion and Skaven in particular) and I think Deathkings could do with a lot better custom selection than this. Heck, maybe I should write one... *adds to insanely-long-list-of-projects.txt*

[TheUnrealRogue]

leileilol's blunt about it but honestly I think I'll agree and say that I definitely don't think Future Crew music is the best fit for Hexen.

Listening to it in-game, a lot of the tracks fit the maps for about 5 seconds before either a crazy synthesizer or bass line or ill-fitting drum kit takes over the track and clashes immensely with the aesthetic of the game.

As a musician myself, I really don't think the game experience is enriched by these tracks (as good as they are, and I'm a huge fan of Purple Motion and Skaven in particular) and I think Deathkings could do with a lot better custom selection than this. Heck, maybe I should write one... *adds to insanely-long-list-of-projects.txt*

Thank you for your appropriate response. I guess I should look into hopefully improving it. I see what you mean too about not fitting in very well, but I think there are still some tunes that do well with their level.

[wildweasel]

A thing to keep in mind is that the majority of Hexen's existing music is very ambient in nature, with very little rhythm section going on. There are some fairly good module songs that fit that, but that generally isn't the sort of style most demoscene musicians go for, since most demoscene music is all about spectacle, and not ambience and subdual. You'd have to dig deep. ModArchive.org might help; I seem to recall they allow a search by genre.

[XanderK9]

ModArchive.com

More like http://modarchive.org/ (and it's a cool website, by the way).

[wildweasel]

Well, fortunately, they seem to have a redirect in place, but still. =P

[Seidolon]

I think it's ok. The whole purpose of making a new soundtrack is to give people a new perspective to view the game from. A little bit unfitting at times, but I think the game sounds better with some sort of music to enjoy rather than complete ambience.