dude orchestra is getting annoying

jimmyjingle

United States472 Posts

May 21 2011 19:18 GMT

hi, i was re-watching diablo 3 teasers when i decided to blog about misplaced usage of movie and video game music. maybe i'm just wrong, i'm just throwin it out there, but these trailers are fucking obnoxious. watch the redundancy of dialog and music:
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then there's the CLASSIC demon hunter trailer that would be so much better with just no dialog and less music.
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now let's compare warcraft tracks.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGWTOImNTug
YEAH THAT WONT GET OLD FAST

so yeah. does anyone else have thoughts or an opinion on this?

Firepaw292

Canada126 Posts

May 21 2011 19:27 GMT

I think it would be better to compare the old D1 and D2 music to D3 (which I believe were made with mostly guitar and few other instruments rather than an entire orchestra like D3.) I'm a little disappointed with the new D3 music but I also think it's just nostalgia hitting me because the old musicians for the old d1 and d2 aren't with blizzard anymore.

Comeh

United States18919 Posts

May 21 2011 19:32 GMT

I don't think its the orchestra that is necessarily worse - I think it is the different composer that is worse :[

But a TON of it is nostalgia.

Weemoed

Netherlands741 Posts

May 21 2011 19:45 GMT

Yep, now i'll be playing Warcraft 2 again

Archas

United States6531 Posts

May 21 2011 20:11 GMT

Hmm... Orchestrated music isn't what comes to mind when I think of Warcraft 2...

Anyway, I don't mind so much that that particular genre is so prevalent in Blizzard games, as long as they do it well. Rose-tinted glasses don't fit me well, even when it comes to the classic Blizzard games.

dANiELcanuck

Canada217 Posts

May 21 2011 21:02 GMT

Well I don't really dislike the music or find it annoying/obnoxious at all, I don't think it's very good relative to how awesome D1 & D2 were/are.

Trowabarton756

United States870 Posts

May 21 2011 21:11 GMT

I listen to the tristram track all the time still.

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