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[XyleJKH]

I am torn about this. I want the theme to still be a resounding Mass Effect sound. Maybe Clint will be doing certain scenes like the final scene or the opening cinimatic

[Randy1012]

As much as I loved Jack Wall's work on the first two Mass Effect games (and on Jade Empire), this is pretty exciting. Clint Mansell is one of the best in the business right now. Obviously the main themes and motifs are going to remain, but like Wall did in ME2, Mansell is going to put his own spin on them in ME3. I'm looking forward to hearing what he comes up with.

[pumpkinman13]

As great as Clint Mansell is, I really don't think ME3 needs him. Im concerned it will lose ME's signature mood/feel.

[DrAnaconda]

Well I certainly don't want to give anyone the impression that I'm against Mansell scoring ME3 for many of the reasons stated above. I actually prefer classic orchestral movie scores, primarily ones from the 80s and 90s, to most game music and most modern film music. I'd actually like the Mass Effect 3 score to go in a more classical/orchestral direction, as an extension of what was already occurring in Mass Effect 2. I just don't think of Mansell as a very good example of classical orchestral scoring.

[InfiniteCuts]

scyphozoa wrote...

Here is one of my favorite pieces by Mr. Clint Mansell,
NSFW (profanity)

Well, this is a little reassuring... I'm not too familiar with all of his work so I didn't know he had that in him.  This shows he can at least bring some aggressiveness to the soundtrack, which I didn't hear too much of in his other work.

[Silmane]

StElmo wrote...

That's the guy that wrote that score that everyone uses in their you tube fan videos. I'm not really happy with him being the man scoring the game.

I want a game composer scoring this game. Jack Wall would have created a consistent soundtrack for the trilogy, what is Bioware thinking?! They do realise the music is a good 40%-60% of the game's atmosphere?

Secondly, how do they know Clint Mansell is going to produce something as spectacular for games as he does movies? I hope the big name doesn't sway Bioware into just jumping the gun on this.

Thirdly, pretty poor form to supersede Jack Wall with this guy. JW had some serious skill. I was never compelled to buy a soundtrack by Clint Mansell, but I bought ME1 and ME2 soundtracks.

Really, pretty shocked at this Bioware. Not happy at all, unless Jack Wall is involved.

I'm crushed to the soul, bro. If Jack Wall really got out of it because he was tired of Mass Effect...all I can say is thanks for two unbelievable soundtracks that I listen to everyday. 

[DrAnaconda]

DrAnaconda wrote...

Well I certainly don't want to give anyone the impression that I'm against Mansell scoring ME3 for many of the reasons stated above. I actually prefer classic orchestral movie scores, primarily ones from the 80s and 90s, to most game music and most modern film music. I'd actually like the Mass Effect 3 score to go in a more classical/orchestral direction, as an extension of what was already occurring in Mass Effect 2. I just don't think of Mansell as a very good example of classical orchestral scoring.

Then again, the clips of Mansell's Sahara that I'm now listening to are remarkably good. From hearing many of his other scores I never would have expected Mansell to be capable of such a score. I'm still disappointed at the lack of Jack Wall, but perhaps I need to re-evaluate Mansell's potential ability to pull off an orchestral space sci-fi score.

[Gethforceone]

Awesome news.

[xXSnak3Eat3rXx]

StElmo wrote...

Really, pretty shocked at this Bioware.

And once again, no matter what they try to do....you can't keep everyone happy.

I'll admit that Vigil was hauntingly beautiful but that track along with a couple of others are the only exceptional ones IMO. Everything else by Jack Wall wasn't THAT great to be honest. Obviously, Bioware hired Clint Mansell for a reason. This line from the IGN article basically sums it up for me:

His involvement in Mass Effect 3 gives us good reason to believe we
might be in for the most emotionally devastating game in BioWare's space
opera franchise yet.

ME1 had that synth, upbeat score which was perfect for the opening chapter where you discovered/explored the ME universe for the very first time and were introduced to the mysterious, ancient Reaper threat.

Then along came ME2 which had a mixture of orchestral and digital/synth tracks, much
like the first, except it was more expanded.

And honestly, if Mansell puts the same amount of effort in as the rest of his work (which I'm sure he will) I wouldn't mind if ME3 had a purely orchestral score with a slight mix of synth thrown in.

But who's to say that he can't do synth? Maybe he will stay true to the roots of what Jack Wall and the others left behind - he has the talent. Stop jumping to conclusions, people.

Modifié par xXSnak3Eat3rXx, 10 février 2011 - 03:44 .

[Kusy]

I'm all fine with this, but I swear to god, if I'll hear Requiem for a Dream theme one more time...

Actualy, I'm not excited unless Ennio Morricone does the music. We can talk then.

[xXSnak3Eat3rXx]

Mr.Kusy wrote...

Actualy, I'm not excited unless Ennio Morricone does the music. We can talk then.

Heh. Ecstasy of Gold by Ennio Morricone is my all-time favourite score/soundtrack. But I'm not sure if you're serious about him doing Mass Effect.

Modifié par xXSnak3Eat3rXx, 10 février 2011 - 03:47 .

[UndercoverDoctor]

If it's anything like THIS, I can't wait

[DylanZeppelin]

I just found out and thats great as I am a big fan of his, but as much as I love him I hope the score stays true to ME's (which of coarse is a natural thing, but you never know) but I also am wondering what happened to Jack Wall, Sam and the rest of the composers who worked on 1&2, they did a great job.

Another thing is the trailer which had ME's music and this brings a couple of questions to mind, how long has he been involved, was it since work began on ME3 (which should be the obvious answer), if so then he may be using old music and adding his own, recreating some of them, doing his own renditions of them or it may be just for the trailer.

Modifié par DylanZeppelin, 10 février 2011 - 04:03 .

[Kusy]

DylanZeppelin wrote...
if so then he may be using old music and adding his own, recreating some of them, doing his own renditions of them or it may be just for the trailer.

Captain Obvious would be proud son. You don't make a trilogy, use the same musical themes in two games just to compleatly change that style in the third. Unless you go full retard. And you never go full re******.

Modifié par Mr.Kusy, 10 février 2011 - 03:53 .

[Eternz]

is there any confirmation that jack wall isn't involved? we had the thing before ME2 with sam hullick, everyone thought he was replacing jack, but they collaborated

[xXSnak3Eat3rXx]

I don't feel that ME2 and ME1 had the same musical theme. ME2 was somewhat of a departure from the synth/digital style of the first.

[Kusy]

Going compleatly off is bad imo. ME2 used themes from ME, those themes should reapear to make people more at home. How they apear and in what form - I'm eager to see.

[DylanZeppelin]

I hope its a collaboration as Jack and Sam did an amazing job and it would be a very bad move ethically to remove them (again if thats the case) from something they were a part of from the beginning.



It would also be (no words for it) to see what they could come up with if its a collaboration

[DrAnaconda]

AwesomeName wrote...

DrAnaconda wrote...

DrAnaconda wrote...

Well I certainly don't want to give anyone the impression that I'm against Mansell scoring ME3 for many of the reasons stated above. I actually prefer classic orchestral movie scores, primarily ones from the 80s and 90s, to most game music and most modern film music. I'd actually like the Mass Effect 3 score to go in a more classical/orchestral direction, as an extension of what was already occurring in Mass Effect 2. I just don't think of Mansell as a very good example of classical orchestral scoring.

Then again, the clips of Mansell's Sahara that I'm now listening to are remarkably good. From hearing many of his other scores I never would have expected Mansell to be capable of such a score. I'm still disappointed at the lack of Jack Wall, but perhaps I need to re-evaluate Mansell's potential ability to pull off an orchestral space sci-fi score.

Do you have Spotify?  I would listen to all his work on there, if you can   The Fountain is my favourite score - Clint Mansell + Mogwai + Kronos Quartet = sci-fi love epic masterpiece.   And you can see from all the stuff he's done he's more than capable of going the style of Mass Effect.  He really is one of the best composers out there imo (but I suppose that's because I'm one of the 50% who was blown away by the Fountain, so I'm a little biased).

I don't. Hadn't heard of it until now. Looks like it's not available in the US where I'm at yet. I listened to the samples here, on my favorite film score review site.

I used to like The Fountain quite a bit. Especially that one climactic track everybody loves, Death is the Road to Awe. I used to listen that score a lot. I guess my tastes have just changed a bit since then. I don't like the rock elements as much now, and I'm more into orchestra.

I think it would be cool if Mansell worked with Nicholas Dodd on this score. Dodd seems likely to have been a big part of why Sahara worked so well, since Mansell wasn't very experienced with large-scale orchestral scoring before then. I'm hoping Mansell avoids the rock instruments and focuses primarily on the orchestra, accompanying that with the electronics.

[yesikareyes]

He also composed the score for the movie Moon by Duncan Jones. It'a science fiction/drama kind of film which I think Mass Effect is about with some action as well! Heres the link to it!