You know what total war games lack? Good soundtracks.

[Darth Taco]

When was the last time a total war game even had a song that you remember? The main menu music from Rome 2?? idk.

[Lamp]

100% agree. Even the music in 3K puts WH:TW to shame. Rome was epic and I still remember the tunes. Medieval 2 had some beautiful tracks as well.

Shogun 2 music was fantastic, makes WH1-3's music sound like a thousand farting cows.

Basically TW music used to be of notable quality before they started cutting every corner for WH:TW- a shameful display

[Lunos]

??? Warhammer has some of the best soundtracks I remember in any Total War game. The Skaven battle music is probably my favorite theme in any Total War game ever. I think it's just not your music preference.

[Aluminum Elite Master]

Attila's menu-screen music was really good, actually. Ominous, plodding, mysterious.

But yeah, largely agree. Music has not been great for most TW games as of late. Not that anyone plays it, but Pharaoh has some almost metal-sounding rock and roll going during battles. Not a joke... not making memes here. If you play Pharaoh, during the battles, there's actually a rock version of a track for battle.

TW was *always* kind of weak, musically, though. It was the opposite of Civ games where, for Civ 5 and 6, I'd just stop and listen to some of the tracks... TW is nothing like that for me, but it never was like that. Only some tracks from S2 and the Attila menu-track ever really wowed me, and even then, S2 still had a lot of stuff that was verging on generic ambiance.

[Lamp]

Originally posted by Lunos:

??? Warhammer has some of the best soundtracks I remember in any Total War game. The Skaven battle music is probably my favorite theme in any Total War game ever. I think it's just not your music preference.

Hey you're not wrong about a few certain tracks, but like check out a few of the earlier TW's. Might be surprised to find that nearly every track is an on-brand banger. Shogun 2 especially.

Edit: And actually I do like the sinister pirate music, but a lot of the stuff like empire and such is just too generic for me.

[Darth Taco]

skaven who? yawn

[Raider Deci]

Yep, zero memorable tunes in TW WH

[Lamp]

Originally posted by Aluminum Elite Master:

Attila's menu-screen music was really good, actually. Ominous, plodding, mysterious.

That's definitely one of the last TW music tracks that stuck in my head from the older ones, very ominous indeed. Tracks like that are on a whole diff level than WH's best, they really need to stop being so fking cheap.

[Emilia Tempest]

Originally posted by Lamp:

Edit: And actually I do like the sinister pirate music, but a lot of the stuff like empire and such is just too generic for me.

I didnt even know that each race is supposed to have their own battle music, I only remember skaven theme (since it has skaven chanting and chittering and so on) and then generic theme that everyone else has
I always heard Legend of total war say they have different themes as it is an indicator to who has more balance of power (on legendary you dont see the balance of power)

Still prefer Rome 1 battle music and when you attack something (it really gets you pumped up to fight), that music is just great, and Medieval 2 has also some great battle tracks
Also, I've noticed that the "attack an enemy army/settlement" isnt actually a soundtrack and therefore it isnt really anywhere online which is pretty sad (went through many OST lists for Rome 1 and found it nowhere, I guess its regarded as "soundeffect")

[Father Ribs]

Part of the problem is that when you are talking about the historical games, you can arrange music around one "cultural archetype". I can't imagine the cost of making 100 songs just so every faction has their own theme music.

It would be interesting to create a thread about what songs/genre would fit each faction though...and not all pretentious Brit metal. :P

[Dark Pagan]

There are loads of different music tracks for most factions in Warhammer, some of them very good, but there seems to be a bug in WH3's campaign map where many of the faction tracks no longer play anymore. Most of the time, only a few generic tracks play on a loop on the campaign map no matter what faction I am playing as. I made a bug report about this on the TW forums 2 or 3 months ago and got a reply by CA that they were aware of this issue, but it hasn't been fixed yet.

[Lunos]

Originally posted by Father Ribs:

Part of the problem is that when you are talking about the historical games, you can arrange music around one "cultural archetype". I can't imagine the cost of making 100 songs just so every faction has their own theme music.

It would be interesting to create a thread about what songs/genre would fit each faction though...and not all pretentious Brit metal. :P

Each faction does have their own music theme though? Playing Empire will play a different song during battle than if you were playing Vampire Counts or Dwarfs. As Emilia said the song will even change mid battle depending on the balance of power.

[Father Ribs]

Originally posted by Lunos:

Each faction does have their own music theme though? Playing Empire will play a different song during battle than if you were playing Vampire Counts or Dwarfs. As Emilia said the song will even change mid battle depending on the balance of power.

Hmmm. Never really noticed, though then again I don't usually play the music during combat, only on strategy screen.

[Raider Deci]

Originally posted by Father Ribs:

Part of the problem is that when you are talking about the historical games, you can arrange music around one "cultural archetype". I can't imagine the cost of making 100 songs just so every faction has their own theme music.

Part of the problem here is that you are making the argument of the current status of the game. The historical has not exactly been bombarded with content & faction-releases. And the cultures has songs, not factions, why make argument for individual factions for WH then? Makes no sense.
Ofc its to much Now why its a lost cause

Just do as paradox and add music along with dlc-releases for the races involved.

If the wh-games at release when the content was far less had memorable tracks this would not be the issue. Now it does have tracks as mentioned, just not memorable.

[Chief Minister of Gaming]

I think the faction theme songs, need to be doubled so fresh variety, and mix, and would add to greater immersion, immersion being the whole thing of play

[DatHomieShnitzel]

Was about to bring up the Undivided trailer but then I remembered, not only is it not in the game but CA (I'm pretty sure) NEVER OFFICIALLY RELEASED THE ♥♥♥♥♥♥ AS A STANDALONE TRACK.