The Witcher 3... So... Cyberpunk 2077
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Clicked on the vid in that article.
I felt compelled to shove a corkscrew into my ear and twist it until the pain stopped... I am now dead.
A special "thanks" to whoever chose that friggin' soundtrack. Srsly... wtf? Why does it sound like alleycats mating in a washing machine to me? Somebody thinks it sounds good, I guess.
The song in the trailer was made by London based band Archive. I assume it is a matter of taste, but their music also changes a lot from song to song. For example this song is the same band as this one and this one.Morkonan wrote:Clicked on the vid in that article.
I felt compelled to shove a corkscrew into my ear and twist it until the pain stopped... I am now dead.
A special "thanks" to whoever chose that friggin' soundtrack. Srsly... wtf? Why does it sound like alleycats mating in a washing machine to me? Somebody thinks it sounds good, I guess.
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I dunno... I'm dead now, so everything is kind of fuzzy. I do remember being reminded that the human body has a number of sphincters, not just the one everyone jokes about.pjknibbs wrote:I dunno, maybe someone inserted a corkscrew in your ear or something?Morkonan wrote:Why does it sound like alleycats mating in a washing machine to me?
Thanks for the samples! Well, I suppose they're still looking for their "muse." I really hope they don't do the whole soundtrack for this game. If they do, I hope it's directed by someone else. I'm not trying to criticize someone's favorite band or music or whatever. That's up to individual tastes. I've got a pretty wide range that only stops at certain things. This band is full-stop, gawdawful, for me, though.clakclak wrote:The song in the trailer was made by London based band Archive. I assume it is a matter of taste, but their music also changes a lot from song to song. For example this song is the same band as this one and this one.
To not derail:
I really enjoy me some good "cyberpunk." But, it's easy to screw up. There's a lot of stuff out there that focuses far too much on "cool setting bro" and not enough about how the characters deal with that setting. I like a lot of dystopia in my cyberpunk and also appreciate diversions and mixed genres, like "Shadowrun." I don't mind people throwing a kitchen-sink full of ideas at cyberpunk, just so long as they make it "human" and "relatable", if not "relevant."
@Morkonan Don't worry. While I do like some of their stuff I also hope that they do not do the Soundtrack. There are other people more qualified for that task.
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Inspired by your post, I jumped around searching for "cyberpunk" music. Everything from hard thrash punk to Gregorian chants came up...clakclak wrote:@Morkonan Don't worry. While I do like some of their stuff I also hope that they do not do the Soundtrack. There are other people more qualified for that task.
Vangelis did the original score for Bladerunner, the quintescential "dystopic cyperpunkish" movie. It's really a little bit removed from cyberpunk, but it's close to enough to count. Johnny Mnemonic is a bit closer, I think. There's not a whole lot of similarity in scores, there, though.
So, what would be good music for a "cyberpunk" movie, in general? What sort of represents the theme of cyberpunk? I visited a subreddit on cyberpunk music, but that didn't provide much illumination.
Brooding (dystopic) to furious action (punk'ish)? Some heavy metal comes to mind.
Some sort of electro-metal-synth musc? Maybe a few tracks of something "wondrous" and Vangelis-like, just to calm the nerves?
Why all this music talk?
Bladerunner and Vangelis composing for it was A Big Deal ™ at the time. When it hit the screen, people went nuts over it - A treat for the eyes and ears. Producers have been chasing that experience ever since. I don't know that it can be duplicated, but you can bet that anyone trying to really define a cyberpunk product is going to consider trying to chase that experience, again, at least in some way. They are certainly, without a doubt, going to try to define their experience of "cyberpunk" by intimately connecting the music to that experience. And, if they don't, they'll be trashed and thrashed by cyberpunk fans. It's a "must have" component.
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Master Boot Record?Morkonan wrote:Some sort of electro-metal-synth musc?
A still more glorious dawn awaits, not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise, a morning filled with 400 billion suns - the rising of the Milky Way
Interesting flavors, there. (Listened to some of their youtubes.) I definitely hear old hard/floppy drive motors with 8bit overtones.red assassin wrote:Master Boot Record?Morkonan wrote:Some sort of electro-metal-synth musc?
But, from what I've heard, they sound too similar to "game music." Intentional? Maybe. Every track had its suitable "game overlay" with unmistakable imagery being evoked.
That's what music does, after all. It "evokes."
So, classic 8-bit games, mostly platformers, are "evoked" there. However, importantly, there are some instances I could see that being very useful in certain scenes. I don't mean scenes of a character jumping from crate to crate in a warehouse while being shot at... I mean the underlying theme, but with more of an orchestral presentation that removes the 8-bit tone in favor of the analog horns and strings.
Writing "describe music" ain't easy.
Still, it was cool stuff. I swear there are real floppies in there, though. If not, then it's doubly-cool stuff. Did they include any modem tone strings? (Frick, used to know those strings instinctively, since I had to use 'em to connect to bbs's. I'm fookin' too old.)
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If they stay true to the R. Talsorian Games "Cyberpunk" universe, which presumably they will since there's no point making a point of the ties to it otherwise, each role will be distinct with little to no crossover (this was true even in CyberBarbies... err... Cyberpunk v3)Jericho wrote:I'm hoping for a some kind of hacking god that uses guns...pjknibbs wrote: so I'm hoping they include a decent and varied character progression system in 2077 that *does* allow me to choose to be a ranged character if I want.
It's based on the "Cyberpunk (2013, 2.0.2.0, & v.3)" by R. Talsorian Games, & my recollection of the initial announcement was that Mike Pondsmith (owner of RTG & author of much of it's product, particularly Cyberpunk) was a member of their development team (Game Dev/Programming has been his day job for decades).Golden_Gonads wrote:It isn't their IP though. It's based on Cyberpunk 2020 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_2020 Regardless, there is likely no main protagonist... Unless CDPR decide there will be.pjknibbs wrote:Um, yes, I did acknowledge that their hands were tied because of us having to play Geralt of Rivia? I merely hope that we don't have similar restrictions in Cyberpunk 2077, which is their own IP so their hands aren't tied anymore.
And he was always a proponent of "Iconic" characters, such "Netrunner" Rache Bartmoss, "Solo(/Mercenary)" Morgan Blackhand, "Rockerboy" Johnny Silverhand, "AI/ex-Netrunner" Alt, "Corporate" Dave Windham, etcetera.
So having a single main protagonist option (or at least a limited number of them) is entirely within the realm of possibility.
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