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| 19 OCT 2002 at 2:18am |
The Terror of the Wolf part 3Schattenjger
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Status : Online | I don't remember either song from the Phantasmagoria games.. when did they play during the games?
And yeah, the bizarre pop-reggae tune from Broken Sword 2 kinda made me turn off my speakers. Gwah.
My favourate swongs? Possibly the occasional track from Omikron: Nomad Soul. It's not a pure adventure game, but it has the best soundtrack from any video game ever, in the entire history of video games. Well, I'm a Bowie fan
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| 19 OCT 2002 at 2:32am |
overcomeSpace Cadet
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Status : Online | I agree 100% with Wolfboy. Omikron: The Nomad Soul had the best soundtrack ever. In the game you would find these flyers advertising "The Dreamers" playing in a certain bar at a certain time. If you went you could watch the virtual characters (who all look alot like Bowie and company) play songs from his "Hours" album. How cool is that!
I've since lost the game to a roomate, but bought the album and it is one of my favourites.
Pandora Directive had a pretty good blues singer at the end credits.
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| 19 OCT 2002 at 2:44am |
The Terror of the Wolf part 3Schattenjger
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Status : Online | Omikron: The Nomad Soul had the best soundtrack ever. In the game you would find these flyers advertising "The Dreamers" playing in a certain bar at a certain time. If you went you could watch the virtual characters (who all look alot like Bowie and company) play songs from his "Hours" album. How cool is that!
It's not as if I ever actually DID anything with that game except from go to the bar and listen to it
If I remember right, the model of the main vocalist does have Bowie's face. But I'm not 100% sure on it. Nevertheless, the fact that it's a game that had live concerts in it was amazing.
And the Opera from GK2, don't forget that. Composed, written, and directed just for the game. The two arias were written, including the music and vocals, and performed. I loved it. It added so much to the game, after spending so much time searching for the missing Wagner Opera, to see it being performed like that. Wow.
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| 19 OCT 2002 at 5:55am |
MichaelIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | The two songs from Phatasmagoria were both played during the end credits.
Ahhh how could I forget the GK2 opera!? That was...amazing. I remember thinking how incredible the whole last chapter of that game was. I was so used to playing games where the endings were half-a*sed and rushed. It was so refreshing to have an ending that seemed to be another half of the enitire game. There was so much detail and work put into it. And now I am rambling.
The song from the intro to Full Throttle also rocks my socks.
-Michael
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| 19 OCT 2002 at 8:12am |
emmaPrivate Detective
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Status : Online | How about the soundtrack for Faust! Best I *ever* heard in a game. If you're into classical, Ring has pretty impressive music too!
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| 19 OCT 2002 at 8:34am |
JonasKyratzesSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | I agree, the music in Faust is really great.
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| 19 OCT 2002 at 9:33am |
CerberusPrivate Detective
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Status : Online | Wolfboy, you're right the lead singer of the band was Bowie.
...God now you've gone and made me want to go play Nomad Soul again (if I can get it to run on my PC of course)
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| 19 OCT 2002 at 5:07pm |
TimKIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Not just the opening title song from Full Throttle, but all of the tunes in that game by The Gone Jackals. I love the closing credits of Full Throttle. That and The Pandora Directive are probably the only games I've looked at the full closing credits to.
-TimK
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| 19 OCT 2002 at 7:31pm |
| Deleted User | Oh, there's a monkey in my pocket,
And he's stealing all my change,
His stare is blank and glassy,
I suspect that he's deranged...
Surely the best song in an adventure game ever.
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| 19 OCT 2002 at 8:22pm |
dimidimidimiSchattenjger
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Status : Online | I think also that the GK2 opera is the greatest music created especially for an adventure game. I also liked the russian opera song in Syberia that Helena is singing.
I remember the phantasmagoria song and I thought that it was cool that it had a real song in the credits like in a movie.
But don't forget that Phantasmagoria had also that song (I think it was called consumite furore or something like that) in the trailer and in some parts in the game that was a really good horror theme. It reminded me carmina burana by Karl Orff.
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| 21 OCT 2002 at 6:42pm |
SnowmanSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | My favourite song from any adventure game to date is Far, far away from my heart by Presence. Which came from the game Faust, during the closing credits I believe.
I don't know what it is about the song...I just love it!
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| 21 OCT 2002 at 6:58pm |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Online | I kinda liked the song in Discworld II. I forget the name but it was a typical Eric Idle song.
And as someone else mentioned, the opera sequence in GK2 (which is a song if we stretch the definition just a little bit) was one of the best musical pieces in an adventure (or any other game for that matter) ever.
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| 21 OCT 2002 at 10:17pm |
NellieSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | "Thaaaaaat's Death!"
*big band plays*
*skeletons dance*
Fun.
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| 21 OCT 2002 at 11:46pm |
Mike_ASorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | The best song with actual vocals in an adventure game has to be the Welcome to the Zoo song sung by the topiary creatures in Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo. If you've heard it, I doubt you can ever forget it.
Without vocals, all the music from Grim Fandango which I still listen to all the time. Being the only game from which I regularly listen to the music outside the game, it must be the best.
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| 7 JAN 2005 at 5:41am |
Goddess of All Things MagicalSchattenjger
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Status : Online | I liked that song in Discworld Noir when you first walked into the Octarine Parrot, and Sapphire was singing.
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| 7 JAN 2005 at 12:05pm |
colpetSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | I'm playing Runaway right now, and that theme song is stuck in my mind. It's pretty catchy.
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| 7 JAN 2005 at 4:04pm |
RobDSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | I just loved the beautiful Irish melodies sung by one of the main characters (Abi)
in Jack the Ripper.
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| 7 JAN 2005 at 4:23pm |
Goddess of All Things MagicalSchattenjger
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By colpet (7 JAN 2005 12:05pm)
I'm playing Runaway right now, and that theme song is stuck in my mind. It's pretty catchy.
I'm so glad you said that colpet, I experienced the same thing when I played Runaway. I was humming that tune everywhere I went.
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| 9 JAN 2005 at 9:12pm |
ThanandaJourneyman
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By colpet (7 JAN 2005 12:05pm)
I'm playing Runaway right now, and that theme song is stuck in my mind. It's pretty catchy.
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This is a great soundtrack.
Fits like a glove and sounds really good too. I was wondering, if anyone is going to mention it
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| 10 JAN 2005 at 1:54am |
kuddlesPrivate Detective
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Michael (19 OCT 2002 12:51am)
And can anyone explain to me what signifigance the song "Happiness is an Inside Job" has to do with the plot of Broken Sword 2? It was played during the credits but it seemed to be totally un-related to the story...
As odd as that song may have seemed, it sure fit better than that weird rock song at the end of BS3 did.
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| 10 JAN 2005 at 11:16am |
morzagIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | We're a band of vicious pirates
A-sailing out to sea.
When you hear our gentle singing,
You'll be sure to turn and flee.
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| 10 JAN 2005 at 2:02pm |
KsandraSchattenjger
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Status : Online | Even though it's very short, I love the piece of music we hear Helena Romanski sing in Syberia.
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| 10 JAN 2005 at 3:36pm |
TrunkyoIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Offline | Oci cernye, oci strastnye, oci zhguchie i prekrasnye!
(*pounds head* "Must... get... out of... mind... before... I... sing it... out loud... at work... again...! "
Originally Posted By colpet (7 JAN 2005 12:05pm)
I'm playing Runaway right now, and that theme song is stuck in my mind. It's pretty catchy.
Hey, I'm playing Runaway right now too (still stuck in Chapter 4! ???) Yep, the theme song's still playing in my mind this week thanks to Lula in Chapter 3!
Other infectious songs that I've replayed over and over (in my mind and in a game!) include:
Compañeros from Grim Fandango (the song played by the mariachi band right at the end when the credits start)
Any version of the Monkey Island Theme (especially from MI2 and CMI!), Stan's Theme or LeChuck's Theme and not surprisingly, A Pirate I Was Meant to Be!!! ( @ morzag)
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| 10 JAN 2005 at 4:43pm |
ShanyGuild Master
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Status : Online | That's Death from Discworld 2 (also Casanonda's short and annoying song 'I'm in the mood for love)
Ah, and the little underwater guy's song from Grim Fandango 'this little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine'...
oh, and the song from Syberia is a well known one. Also the music from komkolzgrad, it's also taken from a russian song (which has been turned into a children's song where I live and had me rather confused when I heard the music for the first time).
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