Game News Mark Morgan To Be Composer For Wasteland 2

[ManjuShri]

Even though I love Morgans job on PS:T, they initially hired Lustmord to do the soundtrack (you can hear some snippet in the Torment Trailer which is on the Baldur's Gate:Tales of the Swordcoast addon-CD) - it sounded fucking good. I wish they would have had actually the balls to use Lustmords music.

Likewise, you can hear some of his PST work on the Metavoid album, it's probably my favourite album of his. He said that it's not worth releasing the stuff he did on it because there wouldn't be enough interest and the old files are in a non-readable format.

http://www.lustmord.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=259&hilit=planescape




Can really hear the PST in this one.

 

[Lyric Suite]

Mark Morgan is a better musician then Aphex Shit.

 

[Radisshu]

Well Aphex Twin has released quite a lot of material since 1998 so Morgan has plenty of stuff to steal.

Mark Morgan is a better musician then Aphex Shit.

 

[Baron]

What with his love life shattered like a pumpkin casually thrown from a highway overpass I am hoping that our own resident composer has the bleak desolate state of mind to produce a quality Wasteland soundtrack.

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

Even though I love Morgans job on PS:T, they initially hired Lustmord to do the soundtrack

I had no idea. That would indeed have been incredible.

 

[Lyric Suite]

*googles Lustmord, finds a bunch of faggotry*

Why is it that musicians that produce music which is allegedly more "professional" somehow rate higher then musicians which produce music for other mediums, like film or video games, when the difference is only marginal?

 

[ghostdog]

Those Lustmord tracks are pretty good but the man can only write songs in this mood and it would be too much too hear this kind of stuff through the whole game. It would be cool if they had used them in a couple of areas though. Baator and Pillar of sculls would fit them nicely.

 

[Suchy]

Lustmord and Robert Rich made the 'Stalker' album, inspired by Tarkovsky's movie. It nails the mood and would fit the game perfectly as well.

 

[hiver]

*googles Lustmord, finds a bunch of faggotry*

 

[Jaesun]

Lustmord and Robert Rich made the 'Stalker' album

That's one of my favorite CD's of all time. Would fit perfectly to a PA setting.

 

[Pope Amole II]

*googles Lustmord, finds a bunch of faggotry*

Why is it that musicians that produce music which is allegedly more "professional" somehow rate higher then musicians which produce music for other mediums, like film or video games, when the difference is only marginal?

Why is it that an oldfag like Azimov who is allegedly more "professional" somehow rates higher than a dude like Drew Karpyshyn who writes text for other mediums, like video games, when the difference is only marginal?

Probably because the difference is not fucking marginal.


Though I also don't understand enamourment with Lustmord in this thread. Sure, he's one of the biggest names on the ambient scene, but I always found him one of the most boring musicians there, something like Bioware of it. And that stalker album is definitely overhyped - not the Rich's best by far and not half as impressive as they say it is(at least not for anyone who listens mainly ambient).

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

*googles Lyric Suite, finds a bunch of faggotry*

 

[Lyric Suite]

Why is it that an oldfag like Azimov who is allegedly more "professional" somehow rates higher than a dude like Drew Karpyshyn who writes text for other mediums, like video games, when the difference is only marginal?

Probably because the difference is not fucking marginal.

Not in the example you picked. Nice fucking straw man dude, total burn.

If you read my original statement you will notice that the difference between the artists in question was postulated a priori to be marginal as a conditional to my point. That is, if the difference between one artist within a given medium is negligible compared to a similar artist in another, why should we rate one above the other?

Video game musicians are not generally considered to be "real" artists, even though their work often ranks higher then actual "professionals" in the recording industry.

 

[Lyric Suite]

*googles Lyric Suite, finds a bunch of faggotry*

Perhaps you should have actually googled Lyric Suite rather then make yourself look like an ignorant shit bag.

Butthurt Aphex Twin fanboys detected.

 

[Pope Amole II]

If you read my original statement you will notice that the difference between the artists in question was postulated a priori to be marginal as a conditional to my point. That is, if the difference between one artist within a given medium is negligible compared to a similar artist in another, why should we rate one above the other?

Because the difference is not marginal. I dunno what you were formulating in your imagination, but we're in a thread about Mark Morgan (also somehow touching Brian Lustmord) so we're talking about him, not about some hypothetical undervalued composer. And the difference is huge here - while Morgan is OK for video games, he's no Lustmord, no Raison d'Etre, no Steve Roach, no Robert Rich, to put it shortly, he's not a great dark ambient composer. His planescape job is mostly bland and his fallout osts have a couple of decent tracks, but nothing more than that. You can argue with this, but since you're obviously not into this scene, your arguments won't be worth a damn.

And it goes for pretty much every game composer that there is - I won't even touch "grand" figures like Inon Zur, since he's bad even by video game standards, but even most good soundtracks are decent at best by the standards of "real" composers. There are some exceptions, I guess, but that's what they are - exceptions - and the rest clearly follow the rule.

 

[Lyric Suite]

but since you're obviously not into this scene

Clearly i'm not, since i remain nonplussed by of any it.

Even regarding Morgan, the only stuff he wrote that has managed to stick in my head doesn't have anything to do with "ambient" whatsoever, so its obvious that we are looking at this from diametrically opposed perspectives.

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

Perhaps you should have actually googled Lyric Suite rather then make yourself look like an ignorant shit bag.

Perhaps you should have known I was referring to you and not which your username is referring to for the sake of humor rather than make yourself look like an ignorant and humorless shit bag.

Butthurt Aphex Twin fanboys detected.

Errr, sure I dig Aphex Twin. But why the shit would I care if you do? I was simply jabbing you for your lame-dicked post about Lustmord earlier.