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[Permutation]

Yeah, I'm sad to see him go too. The theme from Ilos was my favorite. Clint Mansell probably the only composer that could possibly fill those shoes, so I'm glad it's him and not some other guy.

[Lunatic LK47]

AwesomeName wrote...

I doubt he was booted! Why would they, he did a fantastic job with ME2.

Could range from personal life issues to Jack wanting to move on.

[Fiery Phoenix]

Jack Wall wrote...

Dear People Who Love Mass Effect - 
So...maybe it's time to actually say something?

Working on the Mass Effect series was epic. It was mind-bending, soul-coughing, astral-plane traveling delicious loveliness - all the way. The games themselves are works of art. I wouldn't change one note of it that myself, Sam, David, Richard or Jimmy wrote. As you may have noticed by now, I am not returning to score the final game. The reasons are much too complicated to explain here, but suffice to say that the people at BioWare and I are still friends and we all really still like each other a lot. More importantly, the score for ME3 will be great and even more important than that, the game will liikely be (being BioWare and all) super duper fantastic. 
Clint Mansell is cool. Enjoy.
Oh and thanks to everyone for the kind words here and over the years. For those of you who didn't say nice things, that's cool too. I'm still searching for the perfect chord. If you guys see it laying around, let me know, ok?
See you in another game in another crazy universe!

-Jack

Wow! I wasn't aware you actually had an account on here. Very glad to see you around, sir.

I agree with you. I'm personally not at all worried that Mr. Mansell is taking the role for ME3; he's a very good choice on BioWare's part and I fully support him. In any case, I would like to thank you for the awesome soundtrack you provided for the fist two chapters of the trilogy. I listen to it practically everyday.

Hope to see more from you soon!

[Had-to-say]

Mass Effect 1's music is timeless but ME2 didn't have the same magic for me. It it hard to be perfect twice. Thank you Jack your music will live in my heart always. It touched my soul.

To Mr. Clint Mansell loved Moon.

You have a lot to live up to. My only advice try to give us "Miami Vice horror in space" it must be synth and it must be techno. My favorite song of all time below.

Modifié par Had-to-say, 10 février 2011 - 09:10 .

[turian councilor Knockout]

ONE THING: Tremendously Disappointing.

Modifié par turian councilor Knockout, 10 février 2011 - 09:08 .

[AlbertoAquilani]

Wait and see. I'm not happy that Jack Wall is not involved in any capacity. It's still early days but I'm very very cautious about what Bioware are doing with ME 3. We'll see though.

[Terror_K]

I at least hope at the very least Clint Mansell studies the existing music in-depth so that he can keep his work true to that of the original stuff. I don't want to see him simply making Mass Effect 3 "his own" and us getting a final chapter that just doesn't fit in with the others musically. I mean, when it comes to things like the new Mass Effect theme variant, the new love theme variant, the new galaxy map theme variant, etc. that will probably no doubt come to be, I'd like them to have the same vibe and feel that the previous ones did. Each of these three cases showed us that in ME3 Jack could replicate the style, feeling and tone of the original versions while also making them fresh and new. But then I suppose it'll also depend on whether ME3 is completely new music from Mansell or whether Jack Wall and co.'s stuff will also make a return (like how in LotSB we had new composers for the new music, but some classic ME1 music also returned).

[Goofy McCoy]

First you take away M4 part duece, now you take away the whole Wall of Sound, an immeasurably large part of Mass Effect's cool factor, and replace it with a hollywood guy.



I don't have anything against Mansell, he does good work, but why put him on this? Why not Brian Tyler, or some other "modern movie score composer not named Hans Zimmer"? There are plenty of them banging around, each with good work to his name, no better or worse qualified.



Hell, I'd have loved to hear Bear McCreary take a crack at it. He's damn good at what he does, could bring the intensity the war on Earth will require, and already has video game chops from doing Dark Void, which I thought was excellent.



Goddammit EA, this is why nobody likes you.

[Fraevar]

Sign #1138 that they're more focused with making ME3 an action game over a deep sci-fi game. 'Nuff said.

[Reavah]

Hey, if Jack Wall says he's good, then Clint is ok in my book!

However he goes about composing, I sure hope he decides to put in the ME theme and Suicide Mission somewhere in the game, those are by far the most epic :innocent:

[Permutation]

You have a lot to live up to. My only advice try to give us "Miami Vice horror in space" it must be synth and it must be techno. My favorite song of all time below.

I like this one.

Modifié par Permutation, 10 février 2011 - 09:33 .

[Remus Artega]

AwesomeName wrote...

Terror_K, I really wouldn't worry. The man has artistic integrity. Look at how he handled Tchaikovsky's music in Black Swan. Plus Jack Wall thinks he's cool.

Well he will say that no matter his opinion for obvious reasons...I sure hope that Clint will release some samples for us insecure individuals

[Therefore_I_Am]

Mr. Jack, I thoroughly enjoyed your work, on ME1 and most of ME2. Hope to see you on some other title.





If Mansel is going to conduct the scores, I want him to create something like this... 
Preferably during the final moments of ME3.

[f1r3storm]

Delerius_Jedi wrote...

Sign #1138 that they're more focused with making ME3 an action game over a deep sci-fi game. 'Nuff said.

And you base that on what information? Oh right, there aren't any.

[steveosrage]

I'm hoping for something similar sounding to this:
www.youtube.com/watch

[Terror_K]

I'm definitely going to remain sceptical about this until we actually hear some of his ME3 work, which hopefully shouldn't be too far away considering how soon it's coming out. I just don't like the idea of ME3 going less synth and more violins.

Again, it's nothing personal against Mansell and his music... I'm just not convinced he fits. Just like I wouldn't think John Williams would fit Mass Effect even though I love his Star Wars, Indiana Jones, etc. stuff. And there's nothing in any of Mansell's music I've heard via the many YouTube links in this thread so far that sounds anything like the likes of the original ME theme, Vigil, Noveria's music, New Worlds, much of the Illium music, Charges of Treason, Pure Krogan, etc. A lot of his stuff seems more moody and less --for lack of better terms-- "ethereal" and "cosmic" than Jack Wall and his teams does.

We'll see. It's not like me being unhappy is suddenly going to make BioWare change their minds of course. I'd just hate to think that they're purposefully trying to change the musical style even further away from the quasi 80's style it started with and more into "Modern Hollywood" territory.

Modifié par Terror_K, 10 février 2011 - 09:30 .

[CannotCompute]

Wow This soundtrack could get extremely epic. A lot of tracks written by Mansell still give me goosebumps everytime I listen to them.



I hope he will use some tracks from ME1/ME2 and keep those recognizable, like f.e. the Galaxy Map tune.



But anyway, very promising... I'm pumped already!

[Remus Artega]

AwesomeName wrote...

Remus Artega wrote...

AwesomeName wrote...

Terror_K, I really wouldn't worry. The man has artistic integrity. Look at how he handled Tchaikovsky's music in Black Swan. Plus Jack Wall thinks he's cool.

Well he will say that no matter his opinion for obvious reasons...I sure hope that Clint will release some samples for us insecure individuals

That's a bit cynical - he didn't have to say it at all.  Therefore him saying it is probably true.  Why would he needlessly tell a lie?

Good manners...you wouldn't say he sucks I was better... He has to say something about his replacement no matter his personal feelings...and I don't feel any exxagerated enthusiasm behind "he is cool"