ARWINGCOMMANDER 3987 Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 Do you guys think Star Fox needs a heavy metal sound track for certain aspects of the series. It might not. What do you guys think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Krystal Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 Probably not. Star Fox tends to get the epic orchestra, rather than rock or metal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salmon45 Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 I don't think that an all out rock soundtrack would work. It might be cool to have some electric guitar mixed in with the orchestra music but that would be about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Chiro-Chan Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 Orchestra and rock mixed together. It always sounds cool, and metal music hurts my ears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PuffNStuff Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 Halo pulled it off quite well! Just have one epic badass part where the metal will be played and the scene will be perfect. Don't get me wrong, orchestrated music is all fine and dandy, but metal has that adrenaline pumping effect the orchestrated music just can't achieve most of the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DZComposer Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 No. No. And no. Metal is too distracting. Orchestral music is best because it creates part of the scene and doesn't become a distraction. People who say that film and game scores should be replaced with pop music or metal or whatever miss the point of the score. The score is meant to add to the scene, not distract. If you want to listen to metal, buy metal CDs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PuffNStuff Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 I DID AND I WILL!!! I luvs mah metal! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARWINGCOMMANDER 3987 Posted December 7, 2007 Author Share Posted December 7, 2007 Orchestra and rock mixed together. It always sounds cool, and metal music hurts my ears. Don;t forget the original Star Fox. The Corneria levels seemed to have a little bit of metal mixed in with orchestra. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salmon45 Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 Some harder music would be fine as long as it was used sparingly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Chiro-Chan Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 Don;t forget the original Star Fox. The Corneria levels seemed to have a little bit of metal mixed in with orchestra. No, it was more rock/techno than metal. And why not do something like the music on Zoness in Assault? The guitar was cool, but the horns made it even better, so a mix of rock and orchestra would be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PuffNStuff Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 A good example of rock/orchestra is nightwish, album Once Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sol-Ratcht Saporro Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 I'll go ahead and give it one big "Naaaaaaaaaaaaah" Maybe one or two tracks for experimentation but that's it. For a full blown soundtrack, let it stick with Guilty Gear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syphe D. Mar Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 Some harder music would be fine as long as it was used sparingly. I agree. A little bit of anything won't ruin it. But Star Fox should not be all rock and metal. Besides, the orchestral music is pleasing. :? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Four-eyed Vulpine Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 Three words. Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Or is that two words? Meh. Hmm, it might work... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Star Fox Runner Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 The only way I would want rock in the music is if they manage to pull it off like they did in the first Star Fox game. Otherwise, keep it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orbital Fox Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 Metal music is good for some games like The Darkness for PS3 has heavy metal music when you start killing someone and I think it sounds really cool. And the first Halo (and only one I played and liked) had some metalish music on one level, I think it was the island level. I don't think that Starfox could pull it off though seeing as how it's past games have all been Orchestra/technoish style of music. Metal music belongs in FPSs or in fast paced racing games like Burnout. (from my perspective) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARWINGCOMMANDER 3987 Posted December 9, 2007 Author Share Posted December 9, 2007 Metal music is good for some games like The Darkness for PS3 has heavy metal music when you start killing someone and I think it sounds really cool. And the first Halo (and only one I played and liked) had some metalish music on one level, I think it was the island level. I don't think that Starfox could pull it off though seeing as how it's past games have all been Orchestra/technoish style of music. Metal music belongs in FPSs or in fast paced racing games like Burnout. (from my perspective) You forgot to mention F-Zero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Krystal Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 F-Zero GX has an AWESOME rock/techno soundtrack! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARWINGCOMMANDER 3987 Posted December 9, 2007 Author Share Posted December 9, 2007 Yeah, but the voice acting was horrible. They couldn't get the characters right. Well, maybe Samurai Goroh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orbital Fox Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 I've never played F-Zero so I wouldn't know. But I'll try it out later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Four-eyed Vulpine Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 Well, I've heard some combinations of orchestra and rock instrumentation sound quite excellent, actually. Namely the additions of a drumset and guitars. Some of the music in the second Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack are good examples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JediFox Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 No, Heavy Metal style music is only acceptable for games like DOOM. This is Star Fox, things are different in this series, music should be rock for planet stages & orchestra for space stages, just how it was in Star Fox SNES. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spetsnaz.Invidika Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 Well, I've heard some combinations of orchestra and rock instrumentation sound quite excellent, actually. Namely the additions of a drumset and guitars. That's basically what Nightwish is (great band to play games to). And as for the rest of this... I don't expect any of you to believe me, but quite often when playing SF64, I'll turn the music off and run my own, and a lot of the time it's some sort of metally or rockish (screamy oh-my-god-my-face-is-melting kind of metal though... No) -- and it fits surprisingly well; so does the Matrix soundtrack (especially Chateau). One time I had to chuckle to myself as I realized that I was fighting against Andross and had "Planet of the Apes" going in the background. x3 By the way, to any mod -- this is like ten days after the last post, is this considered necroposting here? (It seems to vary forum to forum, some have acceptability of only a couple days, some consider it okay up to about a month later) If so, sorry. x3 I guess I had something to add anyway. (edit) eh, I should amend this a little. StarFox + typical metal or pop would sound awful, and "listening" songs with lyrics especially tend to distract (not so much if they're not understandable) -- I totally agree with DZComposer here. Either Techno or Rock or metal mixed with heavy orchestral and choral elements would be an eargasm for me (or all of the above). The Descent II, Unreal Tournament 2004 and Matrix soundtracks are great examples of really well-blended music (well, UT had a few ear-rending ones, but for the most part it was great. Also I think it had one of the only totally-orchestral songs I've ever heard that was as pulse-pounding as metal or rock). However... Given the StarFox universe and overall theme (it's a kids' game, really...), metal wouldn't fit just because... It doesn't. It's too rough for the intended audience, I think. :3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARWINGCOMMANDER 3987 Posted January 16, 2008 Author Share Posted January 16, 2008 Uh, I think the intended audience for Star Fox is people ages 8-14. Besides, there was a really good kids show called Biker Mice from Mars in 1993, and it had metal music almost all the time. Well, why else would it? They were the "Biker" Mice from Mars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PuffNStuff Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Ya know, i think that sometimes it calls for metal and other for an orchestra. To much of either sucks. For instance, i was playing ace combat 6 the other day and all i heard was orchestra. Yet the level had so much action i wanted to hear some metal. The perfect song for it was "Diciples of babylon" By Dragonforce. Perfect of air or space battles. So wat i am trying to say is, a little of each is good as long as the situation calls for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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