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[TheShogunOfHarlem]

DiebytheSword wrote...

TheShogunOfHarlem wrote...

AgitatedLemon wrote...

John Williams > Hans Zimmer.

That said, Clint Mansell > All.

Agree with you that John Williams is easily better than Zimmer.

Got to disagree with you on Mansell vs All. To me a lot of the old time composers (living and dead) are musical geniuses. Bernard Hermann, Ennio Morricone, Jerry Goldsmith and yes John Williams I would put above Mansell.

You have a well seasoned ear and are to be commended for that list taste wise.

Thank You. It's just a shame that all those composers are either dead or aren't working that often.

[Landline]

The guy that did the soundtrack for Crysis 2? I say yes.

[Customz]

crimzontearz wrote...

whoever did the soundtrack for crysis 2

That would be Hans Zimmer's company...

[Customz]

All the composers being listed here are good, but they all feel a bit too classical, and "pianoy". At the risk of going along the "original fan" nonsense, I feel Mass Effect needs more of the synths and electronic style of the first game:

www.youtube.com/watch  - noveria

www.youtube.com/watch - ilos combat

[Chuvvy]

dazbotchio wrote...

I know Mansell is good but the music of his that I have listened to all seem to edge towards the depressive wheras Hans Zimmer always seems to have more vitality in his music, I just thought his style was a better fit, anyway theres no denying they are both excellent.  Here's to experiencing an excellent soundtrack come March 9th.

The galaxy is ending and the Earth is ****ed. ME3 is depressing.

[Chuvvy]

Customz wrote...

All the composers being listed here are good, but they all feel a bit too classical, and "pianoy". At the risk of going along the "original fan" nonsense, I feel Mass Effect needs more of the synths and electronic style of the first game:

www.youtube.com/watch  - noveria

www.youtube.com/watch - ilos combat

Listen to this and evacuate your bowels involuntarily. Good music is good music. It doesn't matter if it's synth. Clint will do fine.

Modifié par Slidell505, 17 décembre 2011 - 01:37 .

[Bluko]

I do like Hans Zimmer a lot, and admittedly probably would have been more enthused to hear him doing the soundtrack for ME3. But I'm not sure how well suited he'd be for Mass Effect. This series has been made in the mindset of sort of being a "throwback" to  the 80s Sci-Fi sort of stuff. 

Granted I would have been more happy if Jack and Sam had stuck around. But let's give Clint a chance here before anyone starts bashing his work with ME3.

To be frank this obsession with big names always gets a bit tiresome. I mean Jeremy Soule isn't exactly a big name, but the work he's done for Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim are simply amazing. (He also did a great job with Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, and I believe he worked on KOTOR as well.) There's also Michael Giacchino and Jeff Van Dyck.

I mean sure composers like John Williams are great, but there are other equally talented folks out there.

Modifié par Bluko, 17 décembre 2011 - 01:38 .

[TheShogunOfHarlem]

Customz wrote...

All the composers being listed here are good, but they all feel a bit too classical, and "pianoy". At the risk of going along the "original fan" nonsense, I feel Mass Effect needs more of the synths and electronic style of the first game:

www.youtube.com/watch  - noveria

www.youtube.com/watch - ilos combat

Hearing that music makes me want to play ME1 again. Tp me Zimmer is too generic from my tastes to be involved in any ME3 game. Of the Composers that I listed Jerry Goldsmith would work the best. Williams would come in second Hell Alan Silvestri would be nice. None of the would I consider "Piano-y".

Here some Goldsmith:(00:00-01:47) Parker's Death From Alien


I imagine he could make some awesome Reaper music if here were alive. 

[Annihilator27]

Customz wrote...

crimzontearz wrote...

whoever did the soundtrack for crysis 2

That would be Hans Zimmer's company...

Nope, Borislav Slavov and Tilman Sillescu. Hans only did some of the Soundtrack. I think a 4th composer worked on It as well.

Modifié par annihilator27, 17 décembre 2011 - 01:44 .

[TheShogunOfHarlem]

Bluko wrote...

I do like Hans Zimmer a lot, and admittedly probably would have been more enthused to hear him doing the soundtrack for ME3. But I'm not sure how well suited he'd be for Mass Effect. This series has been made in the mindset of sort of being a "throwback" to  the 80s Sci-Fi sort of stuff. 

Granted I would have been more happy if Jack and Sam had stuck around. But let's give Clint a chance here before anyone starts bashing his work with ME3.

To be frank this obsession with big names always gets a bit tiresome. I mean Jeremy Soule isn't exactly a big name, but the work he's done for Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim are simply amazing. (He also did a great job with Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, and I believe he worked on KOTOR as well.) There's also Michael Giacchino and Jeff Van Dyck.

I mean sure composers like John Williams are great, but there are other equally talented folks out there.

It's a matter of taste. I find the majority of film music out there to be uninteresting. The whole big name argument doesn't really hold up when many of them either are dead or aren't working. The way I see it's more of an era thing. I'm not the hugest fan of the current era of film composing regardless of who's the big name or not. Composers from the 90's back are more to my liking regardless of status. David Arnold's earlier scores were great. James Horner in the 80's (then unknown) was pretty good in spite of the fact that he heavily recycles his own works.

But to me there are virtually no composers of this era that can come close to Williams. But that's me.

[Funkcase]

Mansell is better, imo.

[Killitngrillit]

wouldn't mind zimmer. Best work IMO is Blackhawk Down and Gladiator.

[Kaiser Shepard]

Both are equally unqualified.

[TheShogunOfHarlem]

Funkcase wrote...

Mansell is better, imo.

I have to agree based on what little I've heard of him and compared to  Zimmer's works.

[pmac_tk421]

The, Clint Mansell is better. Hans Zimmer isn't original anymore, and Clint mansell's work is amazing across the board. As I joked with some of my music nerd friends that Han's being payed millions of dollars to write second intervals. Hell listen to The Last Man by Clint mansell or the more traditional Lux Aeterna and you'll see why Clint was the better choice. Also see dead reckoning.

[Grivous456]

I'm surprised that no one mentioned Howard Shore, the guy who did the soundtrack for the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Those, especially Return of the King were dark and intense. On topic, I think that Clint Mansell will do fine with ME3, especially if it is something emotional and epic like Lux Aeterna.

Modifié par Grivous456, 17 décembre 2011 - 02:13 .

[Customz]

annihilator27 wrote...

Customz wrote...

crimzontearz wrote...

whoever did the soundtrack for crysis 2

That would be Hans Zimmer's company...

Nope, Borislav Slavov and Tilman Sillescu. Hans only did some of the Soundtrack. I think a 4th composer worked on It as well.

That would be Lorne Balfe. Because he and Zimmer were from RCP I assumed the others were as well. My mistake.

[TheShogunOfHarlem]

Grivous456 wrote...

I'm surprised that no one mentioned Howard Shore, the guy who did the soundtrack for the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Those, especially Return of the King were dark and intense. On topic, I think that Clint Mansell will do fine with ME3, especially if it is something emotional and epic like Lux Aeterna.

Probably one of the better composers to come out of the last era of composers. The LOTR trilogy scores was one of the best scores not done by one of my favorite composers that I've heard. 

[Someone With Mass]

Here's a sample of the music in ME3.

All the music that isn't from the previous games in this video is Clint Mansell's work too.

[DiebytheSword]

Kaiser Shepard wrote...

Both are equally unqualified.

Who then would you suggest, Kaiser?

[Bluko]

Someone With Mass wrote...

All the music that isn't from the previous games in this video is Clint Mansell's work too.

Hmm I thought that was just re-mixed stuff from Arrival. If that actually is his work I'd say ME3 is looking to have a stellar soundtrack, one that keeps in spirit with the previous two titles.

[Kaiser Shepard]

DiebytheSword wrote...

Kaiser Shepard wrote...

Both are equally unqualified.

Who then would you suggest, Kaiser?

I would've stayed with the original guys of Wall of Sound, instead of dumping them for some expensive semi-celebrity at the end of the trilogy.

[spirosz]

Bluko wrote...

Someone With Mass wrote...

All the music that isn't from the previous games in this video is Clint Mansell's work too.

Hmm I thought that was just re-mixed stuff from Arrival. If that actually is his work I'd say ME3 is looking to have a stellar soundtrack, one that keeps in spirit with the previous two titles.

Yes, most of that track is Clint's work, but the obvious "Normandy Theme" at the end. 

[didymos1120]

Kaiser Shepard wrote...

I would've stayed with the original guys of Wall of Sound, instead of dumping them for some expensive semi-celebrity at the end of the trilogy.

Or at least, that's what you assume happened.