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What MMO has the best music?
Desetes
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I would say WoW actually.
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I would say Guild Wars, I love Jeremy Soule's tracks'. I remember Archlord also had some nice music.
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SWG - Mos Eisley Cantina
End of thread.
Futilez - Mature MMORPG Community
Correcting people since birth.
Jeremy Soule's work on the Guild Wars soundtracks is amazing. Great orchestral stuff, very rich and moving compositions. If you're not into Guild Wars' play style, you should at least consider picking up one of the OSTs at DirectSong.
Soule has been doing game music for many other games (NwN, Dungeon Siege II, Oblivion, KotOR, etc.), so he knows a thing or two.
I've heard Archlord's game music, supposedly done by a known london orchestra or something. Not bad, either.
EVE-online is my top 1 but I agree that Guild war is really nice.
HDRO is nice, EQ2 has some nice, too (the newer ones). wow music was like its graphic, poorly made
I like Guild Wars music best.
Aion music is awesome from what I've heard up until now.
Well, being an old fan of Jesper Kyd's music I'd say the upcoming Chronicles of Spellborn soundtrack has some very nice songs. I'm very eager to hear them all once the game is out. Heh, I'm actually waiting it to come out just to get my hands on the full soundtrack.
Composers with very awesome soundtracks mainly stay in movie industry but they are making their way to games too. For example Brian Tyler, Harry Gregson and Zimmer have done awesome music for many known movies and I wonder when gaming companies wake up and lure them here too.
After all, to me music and ambient backgrounds play a big role in games and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one.
I like Perfect World's music
My god has horns.... nah, I don't think he is real either.
Lineage 2
http://www.lineage2.com/pds/pds_music.html
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Horizons also had some very good music also.
omg, they're great ^_^.
no dubt, no history, LINEAGE 2 has the best soundtrack that i ever listened, and more it can compete with most of best movie soundtracks.. composer are bill brown (till chronicle 4 i think) and inon zur (from chronicle 5 but not sure 100%), check them with google, bill brown got his site.
Try to get and listen the whole soundtrack (all tracks) you will be not disappointed.
edit almost forgot that all tracks are performed by a real simphony orchestra (cant remember wich one) and that they even play the whole soundtrack in theaters (asian ones).
I've found the music in Sword of the New World to be not only beautiful, but very fitting.
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Lineage 2 by far
Too bad the playability does not match the musician's talents
btw.....did someone say the Mos Eisley Cantina song? lol!
People who have to create conspiracy and hate threads to further a cause lacks in intellectual comprehension of diversity.
What else?
Only reason I would ever log onto SWG again... Anyone know where i can illegally DL that song? Need a new ringtone on my cellphone
Futilez - Mature MMORPG Community
Correcting people since birth.
EVE imho has some of the most appropirate music for the setting. One of the few sound tracks that I never grow tired of.
1) Guild Wars
2) Granado Espada
3) Lineage 2
4) EQII
5) MXO.
Honerable mention CoX , LOTRO & RFO.
Worst: Perfect World & WOW.
Dutchess Zarraa Voltayre
Reborn/Zero Sum/Ancient Legacy/Jagged Legion/Feared/Nuke & Pave.
EVE's techno-rock is great, and it's in the background as such that it never really intrudes on what you're doing.
I really think nothing in the west has very good soundtracks. In most cases the tracks are utterly boring which is good for gameplay since you don't get tired of the music as quickly, but bad for the quality because their is no soul or substance in it. Ragnarok 2 also has some pretty good tracks.
#1 Guild Wars.
Playing: Guild Wars, Runes of Magic
Waiting: Guild Wars 2
Play Vanguard and listen to Hathor Zhi's music... Better yet, go to Ahgram.. Vanguard has the best ethnic music I have ever heard.. Being that musical tatses differ I would say that this "best" stuff is really opinionated..
Anarchy online (Shadow Lands especially) has some nice tracks, as well as Planetside..
For atmosphere rather than actual good tunes I found AC2's ambient music and sound effects to be one of the most effective I've come across.
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Pre-Luclin EQ (before they changed the opening theme to an annoying jazzed up version).