The Scientific Gamer » Sunday Soundtracks https://scientificgamer.com Science, gaming, and all things in between. Mon, 22 Apr 2024 08:02:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.36 Sunday Soundtracks https://scientificgamer.com/sunday-soundtracks-55/ https://scientificgamer.com/sunday-soundtracks-55/#comments Sun, 02 Nov 2014 21:10:44 +0000 http://scientificgamer.com/?p=4270 TIE Fighter. Yes, I already did TIE Fighter. But I’m resurrecting this series for one week only because I just found these excellent redone versions of the TIE Fighter soundtrack. TIE Fighter’s iMUSE soundtrack was fantastic, but the audio technology of the time did mean it sounded rather more beepy and boopy than it perhaps […]

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TIE Fighter.

Yes, I already did TIE Fighter. But I’m resurrecting this series for one week only because I just found these excellent redone versions of the TIE Fighter soundtrack. TIE Fighter’s iMUSE soundtrack was fantastic, but the audio technology of the time did mean it sounded rather more beepy and boopy than it perhaps should have. Just listen to this Pilot Registration music; it really does the original justice.

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]]> https://scientificgamer.com/sunday-soundtracks-55/feed/ 0 Sunday Soundtracks https://scientificgamer.com/sunday-soundtracks-54/ https://scientificgamer.com/sunday-soundtracks-54/#comments Sat, 08 Jun 2013 11:00:12 +0000 http://scientificgamer.com/?p=3474 Has AirLand Battle been released yet? I have no idea; as of writing this I’m still back at the start of May playing the multiplayer beta. Hopefully if I reviewed it I did end up mentioning the excellent work that’s been done on the game’s sound, including its music. Listening to it while watching a […]

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]]> Has AirLand Battle been released yet? I have no idea; as of writing this I’m still back at the start of May playing the multiplayer beta. Hopefully if I reviewed it I did end up mentioning the excellent work that’s been done on the game’s sound, including its music. Listening to it while watching a pair of A-10s desperately strafing a tank column that’s threatening to break through your lines is one of the better experiences I’ve had in recent years.

What can I say, I’m sucker for anything that has heavy amounts of percussion in it.

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]]> https://scientificgamer.com/sunday-soundtracks-54/feed/ 1 Sunday Soundtracks. https://scientificgamer.com/sunday-soundtracks-53/ https://scientificgamer.com/sunday-soundtracks-53/#comments Sun, 19 May 2013 11:00:01 +0000 http://scientificgamer.com/?p=3470 So they got Jeremy Soule in to do the music for the original Company of Heroes, and it’s his usual plinky plonky generic crap. Then they get a different guy in (one of the many, many Ian Livingstones working in the games industry) to do the music for Opposing Fronts, and the result is that […]

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]]> So they got Jeremy Soule in to do the music for the original Company of Heroes, and it’s his usual plinky plonky generic crap. Then they get a different guy in (one of the many, many Ian Livingstones working in the games industry) to do the music for Opposing Fronts, and the result is that the British end up with the best music in the entire game.

 

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]]> https://scientificgamer.com/sunday-soundtracks-53/feed/ 6 Sunday Soundtracks. https://scientificgamer.com/sunday-soundtracks-51/ https://scientificgamer.com/sunday-soundtracks-51/#comments Sun, 12 May 2013 11:00:07 +0000 http://scientificgamer.com/?p=3376 There’s a reason I backed the Shadowrun Returns Kickstarter effort pretty much instantaneously, and that reason is the Shadowrun game released on the SNES way back when. As a western adventure-cum-RPG it’s a bloody weird thing to find on a console at that point, but it’s very good nonetheless.

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]]> There’s a reason I backed the Shadowrun Returns Kickstarter effort pretty much instantaneously, and that reason is the Shadowrun game released on the SNES way back when. As a western adventure-cum-RPG it’s a bloody weird thing to find on a console at that point, but it’s very good nonetheless.

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]]> https://scientificgamer.com/sunday-soundtracks-51/feed/ 0 Sunday Soundtracks. https://scientificgamer.com/sunday-soundtracks-52/ https://scientificgamer.com/sunday-soundtracks-52/#comments Sun, 28 Apr 2013 11:00:46 +0000 http://scientificgamer.com/?p=3421 The perfect music to browse and buy 13 different variants of AK-47 by.

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]]> https://scientificgamer.com/sunday-soundtracks-52/feed/ 2 Sunday Soundtracks. https://scientificgamer.com/sunday-soundtracks-50/ https://scientificgamer.com/sunday-soundtracks-50/#comments Sun, 14 Apr 2013 11:00:16 +0000 http://scientificgamer.com/?p=3373 While I’m not going to hate on any game that lets me swarm my enemies with dozens of Sardaukar, I have to say that by far the best thing about Emperor: Battle for Dune was its soundtrack.

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]]> While I’m not going to hate on any game that lets me swarm my enemies with dozens of Sardaukar, I have to say that by far the best thing about Emperor: Battle for Dune was its soundtrack.

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]]> https://scientificgamer.com/sunday-soundtracks-50/feed/ 0 Sunday Soundtracks. https://scientificgamer.com/sunday-soundtracks-49/ https://scientificgamer.com/sunday-soundtracks-49/#comments Sun, 24 Mar 2013 11:00:44 +0000 http://scientificgamer.com/?p=3239 Have I mentioned how awesome the Freespace 2 intro is yet? The pan up through the atmosphere and through the hole punched in the destroyer’s side — and then the subsequent Colossus reveal — is a great visual trick which is helped immensely by having this little bit of music play over the top of […]

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]]> Have I mentioned how awesome the Freespace 2 intro is yet? The pan up through the atmosphere and through the hole punched in the destroyer’s side — and then the subsequent Colossus reveal — is a great visual trick which is helped immensely by having this little bit of music play over the top of it.

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]]> https://scientificgamer.com/sunday-soundtracks-49/feed/ 5 Sunday Soundtracks. https://scientificgamer.com/sunday-soundtracks-48/ https://scientificgamer.com/sunday-soundtracks-48/#comments Sun, 17 Mar 2013 11:00:13 +0000 http://scientificgamer.com/?p=3237 A little more retro this week, with another excellent Bitmap Brothers theme for the Chaos Engine.

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]]> https://scientificgamer.com/sunday-soundtracks-48/feed/ 0 Sunday Soundtracks. https://scientificgamer.com/sunday-soundtracks-47/ https://scientificgamer.com/sunday-soundtracks-47/#comments Sun, 10 Mar 2013 11:58:49 +0000 http://scientificgamer.com/?p=3230 Baldur’s Gate 2 has a decent enough soundtrack, but Throne of Bhaal took things in a completely different direction by embracing a very early 80s fantasy movie sound. (Note: do not ever actually watch any of these films, because the music is by far the best thing about them.) Personal update: I am not dead, […]

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]]> Baldur’s Gate 2 has a decent enough soundtrack, but Throne of Bhaal took things in a completely different direction by embracing a very early 80s fantasy movie sound. (Note: do not ever actually watch any of these films, because the music is by far the best thing about them.)

Personal update: I am not dead, and will try to get out a full spread of posts next week. Going to be a while before I get my accommodation issues sorted though, I think — the Oxford rental market be crazy, yo.

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]]> I’m starting a new job tomorrow and posts on here may be a little bit sketchy until I get my accommodation issues sorted out — there’s one in the hopper for tomorrow, but past that I’m either going to have no time to write, or more time to write than I know what to do with. To keep things thematically appropriate, though, have this track from a game about another man’s first day on his new job.

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