The Soundtrack
I think Jared might do a pretty good job with the soundtrack of the game, mainly because he knows how to keep the theme intact while playing around with variations!
What do you think? It would be a shame if TTG would just use the original soundtrack with no remixes or new tracks. (remix doesn't mean adding a beat to it and calling it "new and fresh"
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What do you think? It would be a shame if TTG would just use the original soundtrack with no remixes or new tracks. (remix doesn't mean adding a beat to it and calling it "new and fresh"
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But I hope he uses at least the main theme and maybe Silvestri could say "yay" or "nay" to the stuff that's composed for the game by Jared, eh?
Same goes with JP... They just need to get the original Williams sketches! Just like Don Davis did with JPIII.
If we continue our long line of impossible requests to TTG, which has reached a neat climax with the demand of all-original voice actors, let's just ask for Alan Silvestri to compose more BTTF music for us, and have an impossibly large orchestra to record it (the orchestra used for the BTTF music was the largest movie orchestra to date, if I remember correctly).
As for "remixes", I think that Silvestri's style could be imitated if necessary. Jared Emerson-Johnson would probably be up to the challenge, and he'd probably love it, too. The music would of course have to be all-new; we don't switch from movies to games to see and listen to exactly the same thing. We want something resembling and reminiscing, but at the same time wonderfully new and surprising. Nothing else could work - you as a part-time composer are well aware of that.
I don't see why they couldn't just use the BTTF music for the most part and write specific cues where really needed. That's what LEC did with the star wars games, even the really good ones. But yeah, it'd be great to see some good new music in the BTTF style.
Given Universal are involved i'm going big budget: Rick Rubin and Danny Lanois.
Because the real fans have heard that music 10.000 times over. If the original music is used, it has to be done very, very sparingly, at exactly the right moment. If it doesn't produce goosebumps, it's actually wasted.
LEC massively overused the original Star Wars cues when it could have been done so much better: In the "Knights of the old Republic" games, new music was composed in John Williams' style, and some of these cues were really, really excellent.
To put it in a nutshell, we actually need new music to make the games feel like a NEW installment of BTTF, not a copy of the movies. But I really don't expect TTG to go any other way.
Would people please stop assuming that anyone who has another idea about how things might be done must not be a 'real fan'? I assure you, my BTTF fan credentials are just fine. I just happen to think there is a way to do this that uses quite a lot of the originally recorded soundtrack.
If you listen to it, a lot of cues are actually reused within the films themselves and as a soundtrack it's not as tightly synced to the action a lot of film music, even Star Wars, so a lot of it'd work quite well transposed to different situations. There are only a few situations where the music was so closely linked to the on-screen action that it'd be difficult to re-use (Marty punching Mad Dog at the end of 3 springs to mind).
And to fill in the blanks, well, I agree that unless Universal are paying it would be difficult to get an orchestra, but there's a lot you can do quite convincingly with good samples/software and a mixture of real and sampled instruments nowadays. I think they could do a good enough job of using both old soundtrack and new music that it isn't jarring.
I really hope not to have offended anyone. As always, different is not the same as wrong, and one fan differs from another in an infinite spectrum of ways. Still, I assume that fandom is connected with listening to the music over and over. My very basic assumption still stands that a something-old-something-new-approach for the game(s) would be the way to go - as with all movies and games series.
I disagree, but it is very hard to back up my claim. Only parts of the entire BTTF soundtrack have been released. I own all albums, and I haven't noticed any re-used tracks neither in the movies nor on CD. I find the synchronisation of music to action to be extremely well made and to the point, but if you watch the movies a thousand times as I have, it's probably very hard not to get that impression.
I agree with that!
Which Sierra are we talking about here? Choose your words carefully, I feel a rant coming on if you give the wrong answer...
Exactly what I was referring to. Dark Forces and Tie Fighter also had great custom scores.
Seconded.
Let me phrase it this way (so many opportunities to put one's foot in one's mouth in this forum! It's paradise!): I listened to many of the Sierra LotR soundtracks, but played exactly one game. That was "The Hobbit". Somewhat fun in the first level, actually, but pure frustration in the second. Also, the game was incredibly buggy. I based my comment on that experience; if there's more to experience, I readily stand corrected!
*Whistles innocently*
That's so cool! It's the main theme in "Chariots of Fire" mode!
(Imagines the Doc and Marty running in slow motion with this music)
Ok. At first I thought you were talking about Sierra's older adventure games which definitely weren't disappointing (to most). Sierra's later games all sucked. You're off the hook
Excellent work, my fellow musical friend.
as for the rest of the score, keeping in mind them partnership now between the two, i'm sure that telltale will be offered the complete original score to both movies. no copyright infringment you see. of course if they don't want to use it they can always record a small ensemble and magnify it using native instruments in nuendo (its a program for recording editing blah blah). they don't sound 100% but many people do this when the budget is small. over a small ensemble it fits right in
Wow.
Nicely done.. but still, nothing beats THIS
Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercial and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far much more bitter, cynical sense of humour.
Awesome. I must get this. '85 Twin Pines Mall is one of the best pieces there. Disintegrating Einstein was also fun.
Also, I had to laugh:
"09. 1.21 Jigowatts"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NMph943tsw
Dead link!
Huh? That's weird! It's not for me, I just clicked on it. O_O
i suppose it has something to do with this "this video is not available in your contry"-bullsh on youtube. thank you GEMA!
http://www.billboard.com/news/huey-lewis-looks-toward-classic-soul-on-1004121447.story#/news/huey-lewis-looks-toward-classic-soul-on-1004121447.story
How cool would a brand new Huey Lewis & the News song be on the game soundtrack though?
For old times sake, here's the full 6.5 minute video version of Power of Love and here's Back in Time.
I was actually going to mention that, because as you'll notice, the second disc contains alternate versions of almost every track from the original score. If they used those alternate cues, it would be almost like having an original score, since a lot of people haven't heard them before, but it would save Telltale the trouble of having to hire a composer for the game. And it might be cheaper to get the master recording license for those tracks then it would be get the sync license and whatever license you'd need to use just the themes but not the master recordings and compose new music, hire musicians, and record the music. Not that I'm saying that's the option I'd prefer, but it is an option.
Now we'll just wait and see if they'll use music from the Complete Soundtrack or ask Jared to compose something new...
Curse you Telltale! CURSE YOOOOUUUU!
Kidding, of course
As Stan Lee would say: "Nuff Said!"
There is a song there for every setting and coming up with remixes and such will only distance the game from the trilogy and the exact opposite should be strived for.
I hope they'll use this mysterious jingle a lot =D:
(At start of movie)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPkxu4vGxWM
Composer announcement, guys??
They've just announced that Bernard Hermann will be collaborating with Jerry Goldsmith for this game
They'll need to at least create some new music so that they can have a score that is timed to synchronize with their cutscenes.
I am the exact opposite. The more I hear it the more amped up I get.