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[Serza]

I'm game. Definitely game.

 

Heck, it's partially my suggestion.

[Golden_Persona]

How can anyone say no to this? Turning on your own music while playing isn't the same, because you also lose the sound effects of the game. Lowering the music volume, and then having to keep raising it every time story starts is tedious.

 

Games last gen could do it, no excuses. Both TW3 and DAI are silent outside of combat, which only serves in DA:I's case to make the sidequests even more boring, whereas in Witcher it's battle music is so good you want music all the time.

 

I honestly didn't like GotG as much as most people seem to, but I did love the opening scene. People complain when Star Wars or movies in general have too much CGI, but that movie is loaded with it too

[AlleluiaElizabeth]

This.

 

The other issue is that if the game actually included the ME equivalent of an ipod with modern (20th/21st century) music....most of the bands are artists who are relevant today shouldn't be in the 23rd Century, or whenever Andromeda is set. Most would be completely forgotten. It is modern for us, but wouldn't be for the characters in the setting.

 

We were told that Andromeda is set long after the events of the Shepard trilogy. Lets say that the Milky Way colonists get to Andromeda on an ark that is able to match the Reapers' speed of 30 light years per day. Assuming they leave during the events of the Shepard trilogy, they'd arrive in Andromeda 232 years later, or during the 25th Century. Lets say the ark leaves in 2186. It would arrive in 2418.

 

A song released this year would be 403 years old when the Milky Way colonists arrive in Andromeda. How many songs or musicians popular 403 years ago, in 1612, can any of us name today?

 

With that in mind I'm not sure this would be a good feature to add. Unless the main character actually has a backstory other characters comment on where he/she is known to like really obscure music no one has even heard of (Achievement Unlocked: Space Hipster), it would be feel out of place with the setting. 

As Rapscallioness pointed out:

 

Well, if it is an Ark idea, I could see them storing music/art/films as well as species. Preserving culture as well as genetics. So, I could see a selection available from the "library" including everything from Johnny Cash to some haunting Asari music.

 

And we could then choose what music would best work for our current mood and the atmosphere of the planet we're on.

 

edit: but I love driving with music on irl. also, I could see nostalgia playing a role in listening to music from hundreds of years ago. something to remind them of home. although it may not seem like  hundreds of years to us--depending on how we actually get to Andromeda.

 

The music wouldn't be 400+ years old to the mind of the protag. It'd be maybe 200 if you are talking about stuff from nowadays. I listen to classical music sometimes. I don't see how this would be different apart from genre.  Plus, in ME1-3 Shep and the others mention "old vids" of scifi films from our era and before. So they still watched our movies, why not our music?

 

And again, Bioware could also add previous game soundtracks, so it doesn't HAVE to be popular music. I'd just really really like that.

[AlanC9]

Not if I'm using headphones, no. And having the music play in a background program might result in a performance hit for people. You could always do this if you wanted and didn't like the music they gave us in game, but the answer to your question is no.

Ah, I see. I didn't consider headphones.

[AlleluiaElizabeth]

Ah, I see. I didn't consider headphones.

No worries.

 

Plus there are also the issues others mentioned of syncing the volume levels with those of the sounds in game so that it works. Much simpler to have an in-game thing in that respect. The in-game radio could be set to mute/go really low volume when you enter a conversation or some cutscene starts, too, so that's also an advantage to this being an in-game element as opposed to an outside program or stereo.

[Torgette]

Yeah. I don't get how this would work in-game. Is the request for them to allow you to upload songs to the game and then have a UI to play them back?

 

You could do it like MGS4, Snake literally has an iPod in the game (complete with the iPod touch wheel), you open it up and select an mp3 and start playing it. It cancels out any music that might happen like the alert music, though obviously once you reach a story beat the ipod stops playing.

 

Obviously you would replace the ipod and mp3s with something more futuristic.

[Wayning_Star]

I didn't read all the posts so.. but didn't they state that the new pip boy will play 'cassettes' and video games as well? It was on that e3 preview thing?

[Miss Golightly]

Not a bad idea.

 

I will not rest until I can listen to "Folsom Prison Blues" while ripping around in the MAKO.

[AlleluiaElizabeth]

I didn't read all the posts so.. but didn't they state that the new pip boy will play 'cassettes' and video games as well? It was on that e3 preview thing?

Holotapes, I think. But yeah games and music.  

 

 

You could do it like MGS4, Snake literally has an iPod in the game (complete with the iPod touch wheel), you open it up and select an mp3 and start playing it. It cancels out any music that might happen like the alert music, though obviously once you reach a story beat the ipod stops playing.

 

Obviously you would replace the ipod and mp3s with something more futuristic.

 

That's certainly one way to get past the combat music you don't like. Or the constant shift btwn background music and combat music, which can get very annoying if you are constantly in and out of fights with landscape mobs every few seconds.

 

I assume that ME:A is gonna be a third person game like other bioware games, so I dunno if an upclose i-pod like interface would work, but I wouldn't be opposed to it. And ultimately, we could have the same thing, but as an interface in the omnitool. 

[Exaltation]

Maybe inside the Mako?,like the music player in Shepard's place,but also with ability to add custom songs.

[rapscallioness]

I didn't read all the posts so.. but didn't they state that the new pip boy will play 'cassettes' and video games as well? It was on that e3 preview thing?

 

did they say that? the e3 preview thing? i didn't catch the preview stuff. how could i have missed such a nugget?

[rapscallioness]

Holotapes, I think. But yeah games and music.  

 

 

 

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what? i did not know this! haha, that's fantastic!

[AlleluiaElizabeth]

what? i did not know this! haha, that's fantastic!

Yup. They're retro video games. There are at least two: a donkey kong like thing and a missile command one. .

 

 

I've added the ability to upload/use our own music as an additional option in the request in the OP since it seems to keep popping up in the thread.

[Wayning_Star]

lets hope it's not like the radio in fallout..lol  I think they were knocking how the radio in realtime plays the same songs over'n over'n over'n... Like the movie channels.. yay!!

[General TSAR]

Please, just give us the option of installing our cabin music player into our hardsuit and then have the options in a tab next to the character screen.

 

Easy.

[Undead Han]

As Rapscallioness pointed out:

 

 

The music wouldn't be 400+ years old to the mind of the protag. It'd be maybe 200 if you are talking about stuff from nowadays. I listen to classical music sometimes. I don't see how this would be different apart from genre.  Plus, in ME1-3 Shep and the others mention "old vids" of scifi films from our era and before. So they still watched our movies, why not our music?

 

And again, Bioware could also add previous game soundtracks, so it doesn't HAVE to be popular music. I'd just really really like that.

 

Fair enough. But what music would you include?

 

I could see Johnny Cash, the Rolling Stones, the Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Metallica, ect...having perhaps the longevity of Mozart or Beethoven. But every band or artist that people might still be listening to hundreds of years from now, there are thousands that will be completely forgotten. 

 

Speaking of the Rolling Stones, they'll probably still be doing live shows in 25th Century. 

[Wayning_Star]

imagine?

[AlleluiaElizabeth]

Fair enough. But what music would you include?

 

I could see Johnny Cash, the Rolling Stones, the Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Metallica, ect...having perhaps the longevity of Mozart or Beethoven. But every band or artist that people might still be listening to hundreds of years from now, there are thousands that will be completely forgotten. 

 

Speaking of the Rolling Stones, they'll probably still be doing live shows in 25th Century. 

I dunno. The music selection would be up to Bioware. Some of the songs they listen to when writing, maybe?

 

(And possibly it'd be up to modders later on if Bioware didn't give the option to input our own songs. Which I think might be asking too much, but would still be very happy to see.)

[Big Magnet]

What about internet radio stations? I think it would be pretty cool to play and hear actual real world radio ingame. Immersion breaking, sure, but cool  :3

[AlleluiaElizabeth]

Please, just give us the option of installing our cabin music player into our hardsuit and then have the options in a tab next to the character screen.

 

Easy.

I dunno how easy it'd be, but that is basically the idea of what I'm asking they do, yeah.