NWN Theme Music - Love it or hate it?

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This is how I feel about the NWN theme music:

Love it! Can't get enough!
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29%
Hate it! Never want to hear it again!
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15%
Used to love it, but now I hate it.
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16%
Used to hate it, but now I love it.
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Who cares?
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NWN Theme Music - Love it or hate it?

Post by Simon Drat » Sun Feb 19, 2006 2:32 pm

After booting up my NWN last night and hearing that theme music for the zillionth time, I thought it might be time for a little poll. :)

Whattdya think, gang? Love it or hate it?
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Post by Significant Owl » Sun Feb 19, 2006 2:33 pm

hearing that theme music for the zillionth time
It gets tiring to listen to it at some point.
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Post by Pathos Street » Sun Feb 19, 2006 2:58 pm

I vote "meh."
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Post by Final Shinryuu » Sun Feb 19, 2006 5:09 pm

Hades has replaced everything with a disgusting amount of custom tracks. ^^
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Post by dannyschil » Sun Feb 19, 2006 5:14 pm

I love it, it really calms me down. 8)
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Post by Simon Drat » Sun Feb 19, 2006 5:32 pm

Final Shinryuu wrote:Hades has replaced everything with a disgusting amount of custom tracks. ^^
Wow! How do you do that?
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Post by Final Shinryuu » Sun Feb 19, 2006 5:50 pm

Simon Drat wrote:
Final Shinryuu wrote:Hades has replaced everything with a disgusting amount of custom tracks. ^^
Wow! How do you do that?
It's just a matter of scale. Avlis uses some custom music as well, but only 9 or 10 tracks total, and only in a few places. The ones most people hear often are the T'Nanshi theme, and the Ferrell Theme, I think.

On Hades, we have closer to 40 custom tracks in, and will only rarely use a default NWN track.
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Post by slave_of_emotions » Sun Feb 19, 2006 5:55 pm

Its not bad but i prefer the music from Baldurs Gate 2... can not get enought of that one.
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Post by Dark_EK » Sun Feb 19, 2006 5:57 pm

I turned it off 2 hours after buying the game and been using winamp ever since.
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Post by Marleh » Sun Feb 19, 2006 6:12 pm

There are some pieces that I love, like Aren Gend's theme. But the main NWN theme Ive heard waaaaaayyy too often.
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Post by Highwayman » Sun Feb 19, 2006 7:57 pm

I voted "who cares".......YAY Apathy
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Post by Rhissaerk Jalesh » Sun Feb 19, 2006 8:29 pm

The theme is okay, but I hear it too often.

Most of the NWN music is pretty good, but I'd really love to hear more custom tracks myself. Although there are some amazingly underused battle tunes that are really very nice.
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Post by deejayvee » Sun Feb 19, 2006 10:53 pm

I tend to have my own music playing on the stereo so I don't really care.

However, one thing I will say about the NWN music is that it can at times give away that you're about to be attacked. Handy, but a bit cheesey.
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Post by Simon Drat » Sun Feb 19, 2006 11:06 pm

deejayvee wrote:I tend to have my own music playing on the stereo so I don't really care.

However, one thing I will say about the NWN music is that it can at times give away that you're about to be attacked. Handy, but a bit cheesey.
I know what you mean there. That's a situation where I just try to RP it as if my character "hears the sounds of battle nearby." Usually the battle is closeby enough that it's reletively plausible.
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Post by Tesh » Sun Feb 19, 2006 11:16 pm

deejayvee wrote:I tend to have my own music playing on the stereo so I don't really care.

However, one thing I will say about the NWN music is that it can at times give away that you're about to be attacked. Handy, but a bit cheesey.
heh, yeah I do this too, it's all about making sure that the relative volume levels are right so that you can hear what is going on :)
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Post by Nighthawk4 » Sun Feb 19, 2006 11:21 pm

I always turn off the music - I find it distracting. :wink:
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Post by Cindare » Sun Feb 19, 2006 11:43 pm

I usually have Pandora running in the background. I just had a run of spectacular stuff on my playlist. Sometimes it sucks when you come across a crappy tune and have to alt+tab out to kill it, but overall it's been good for my NWN experience. :)
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Post by downsystem » Mon Feb 20, 2006 12:03 am

What nwn music i got it turned off and listen to my own head bangin death metal stuff.
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Post by EvokedShade » Mon Feb 20, 2006 12:15 am

I didnt mind the theme at first but after a while it really got to me and eventually turned the music off all together. If I listen to anything now it's CDs or MP3s
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Post by Game-Extremist » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:11 pm

Hearing the NWN theme song makes my juices flow.
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Post by Hexminder » Mon Mar 20, 2006 2:38 am

I can deal with the NWN songs ok - that is all except the one you hear in taverns. That one makes me crosseyed!

It is nice to hear the music for full immersion, but lately I find myself making my own Winamp playlists - mostly made up of Coil. It's dark, ambient, soft and atmospheric. Perfect.
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