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Interview Music, NPCs and Sacred 2

DarkUnderlord

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Something a little different. <a href="http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6190306.html">Gamespot have an interview with "Blind Guardian"</a>. For those who don't know, they're the group doing the music for <a href="http://sacred2.com/">Sacred 2</a> (sequel to Sacred, an action RPG, the original wasn't too bad, Saint loved it, I thought the whole respawn thing was way over-done). Here's a snip:
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<blockquote><b>GameSpot UK: How did Blind Guardian get involved with Sacred 2?</b>
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Hansi Kursch: That's quite an interesting story. Having three very active fantasy computer game nerds in the band, it's easy to imagine the big impact Sacred 1 has had on us. Because of their passion for Blind Guardian, some of the people at Ascaron in charge of Sacred 2 saw it as an opportunity to have us in the game musically. Coincidence or predestination? We'll never know. Fact is, when we were finally contacted by Ascaron, asking if we were interested in doing a song for the game, we immediately agreed to do so. So far the whole thing has been great fun for us. The reason for that is quite simple: Blind Guardian's music and the world of Ancaria perfectly blend together.
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<b>GS UK: What exactly can we expect from Blind Guardian in Sacred 2?</b>
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HK: At first we were only asked to do a song which would be used in the game. Later on, the Ascaron guys came up with the splendid idea of having us as resident [non-playable characters] in the world of Ancaria. We perform in the game as a kind of prize after a quest which our characters are involved in. We're here today to do motion capture for that performance, so it's a big challenge, and the first time we've ever done anything like this.</blockquote>
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Fan service? <a href="http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6190306.html">The rest is here</a>.
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Spotted @ <a href="http://www.gamebanshee.com">GameBanshee</a>
 

denizsi

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It could be good, it could be bad. I think they peaked with Nightfall In The Middle Earth. In a span of 10 years since then, they released a whole two albums and both were, the more recent one being worse, quite repetitive, dull and boring, save for a few songs (or one: Soulforged. The only song I can remember and care about from the older A Night At The Opera, in contrast to previous albums which I can remember in full).

I'm glad that I got to see them llive at all before they started to play the newer material on gigs.
 

ghostdog

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Nightfall was too pompous for my tastes. I think they peaked with Tales from the Twilight World.

I'm sure they'll go the bard route and not the opera one so It's going to be a good thing ,for the game at least, if blind guardian write the music. What remains to be seen is if the rest of the game will be any good.
 

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"Blind Guardian's music and the world of Ancaria perfectly blend together" - ARPG with double cheese.
 

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