Arcanum Soundtrack

[oscar]

I've been downloading these and it's brought back a whole flood of Arcanum playing memories. What a beautiful soundtrack, fitted the game so perfectly.

http://www.terra-arcanum.com/sierra/media/media-soundtrack.html

 

[Emotional Vampire]

Yeah.

What now?

 

[PlanHex]

What now?

Celebratory circlejerk!
*fapfapfap*

 

[JarlFrank]

This soundtrack has sex with my ears.

 

[made]

bump for one of the best soundtracks in game history

 

[Noodle on the Bum]

Yeah I just love hearing that same string theme tune rpeated every 1 and half minutes!
oh and that single battle track repeated every single time someone evil even looks my way!

After the 100 time its like drilling my ears out with a dentists plaque remover.

The soundtrack WAS excellent but there was just not enough of it.

 

[Andyman Messiah]

The unofficial patch puts the soundtrack to better use but I have to agree with Noodle Toodles. In-game, it got annoying after a while. This is music you're actually better off listening to without playing the game. And you fucking should, it really is some of the best music made for a computer game. Almost on par with Mark Morgan's stuff.

 

[made]

Guess I was the only one who would turn off ingame music and play the Towns theme in winamp instead for hours on end. It never gets old.

 

[MetalCraze]

Somehow I never felt an orgasm while listening to the lonely violins of Arcanum's soundtrack. Yet I never managed to turn it off. Guess it fits and adds to the game atmosphere perfectly and is one of the things I secretly love but openly not.

 

[Emotional Vampire]

The unofficial patch puts the soundtrack to better use but I have to agree with Noodle Toodles. In-game, it got annoying after a while.

You're wrong!

 

[JarlFrank]

The unofficial patch puts the soundtrack to better use but I have to agree with Noodle Toodles. In-game, it got annoying after a while.

You're wrong!

 

[Andyman Messiah]

The unofficial patch puts the soundtrack to better use but I have to agree with Noodle Toodles. In-game, it got annoying after a while.

You're wrong!

I am Spartacus!

 

[Drog Black Tooth]

The unofficial patch restores two tracks - The Tarant Sewers and The Vendigroth Wastes. They aren't really unused or cut-out since they were included in the listing on the official site, they just never been properly coded in the game, most probably due to negligence.

I think it tells a lot about the development process if two tracks that Ben Houge and his team have spent a lot of time working on were simply "overlooked".

Actually, I recommend that you read Ben Houge's notes on the soundtrack if you haven't already. It really shows how much attention and love have been poured in this work.

 

[Applegate's Breasts]

Very nice read! Makes one wonder if other game musicians put that much thought and effort into their own games.


Too bad it goes unappreciated as Troika is dead and the average gamer is:

I reinstalled Arcanum a couple months ago without being able to find the instruction booklet. It was almost prohibitive to play.

WHY CAN"T I HEAL! WHY CANT I THROW ANYTHING! Argh! I don't know how do I equip this?!

Something to that extent. Took me a long time to figure key gameplay quirks.