Music quality is awful?

[MiskatonicFox]

I get to the village setting and my ears get blared with heavily compressed, staticy, ♥♥♥♥♥ quality audio. The original game sounds fine. WTF happened?

Is this a settings issue?

[Faded]

I liked all the music, the island is really good

[MiskatonicFox]

Originally posted by Faded:

I liked all the music, the island is really good

It's not that the music itself is bad, I'm wondering if there's something wrong with my settings. It sounds like they used an MP3 with the lowest possible quality settings.

[Fahrenheit]

Originally posted by MiskatonicFox:

Originally posted by Faded:

I liked all the music, the island is really good

It's not that the music itself is bad, I'm wondering if there's something wrong with my settings. It sounds like they used an MP3 with the lowest possible quality settings.

That first track sounds like that. I was wondering myself too, but guess it's just how it is

[MiskatonicFox]

Originally posted by 𝔴𝔬𝔩𝔣𝔤𝔞𝔫𝔤:

Originally posted by MiskatonicFox:

It's not that the music itself is bad, I'm wondering if there's something wrong with my settings. It sounds like they used an MP3 with the lowest possible quality settings.

That first track sounds like that. I was wondering myself too, but guess it's just how it is

Odd. I guess it is just that sequence too, it stood out so much.

[LetsNotPlease]

I also noticed this, but it seems to be a stylistic decision, not a technical one. The rest of the game sounds fine.

[StingingVelvet]

All three modern remakes have very faint soundtracks focused more on ambiance. That's why they have the retro soundtrack DLCs I suppose, to offer that more intense melody style for those who want it (like moi),

[MiskatonicFox]

Originally posted by LetsNotPlease:

I also noticed this, but it seems to be a stylistic decision, not a technical one. The rest of the game sounds fine.

It's a really ugly, awful stylistic decision that sticks out like a sore thumb and is bizarre.

Originally posted by StingingVelvet:

All three modern remakes have very faint soundtracks focused more on ambiance. That's why they have the retro soundtrack DLCs I suppose, to offer that more intense melody style for those who want it (like moi),

It really does seem to mostly be the village fight music, and if it was intentional it's baffling

The other two recent remakes didn't have any parts that sounded to me like they were recorded off of a sixth generation cassette tape recording of the original games OST

[tetra]

just wanted to chime in and say this annoyed me as well and made me think my audio was broken

[󠀡󠀡]

Lol and people keep paying $70 for a compressed 8 bit audio from the 80s cassette. That just tells Capcom everything is fine and on the next game they will slack even more and you will pay exactly how much money they ask :)

[ChiefMendez]

Originally posted by zukobach5:

Lol and people keep paying $70 for a compressed 8 bit audio from the 80s cassette. That just tells Capcom everything is fine and on the next game they will slack even more and you will pay exactly how much money they ask :)

Not just sh1t audio, but sh1t-tier writing by a 75 y.o. american who hasn't played a resident evil game in his life.
Watch certain individuals on this forum still shill this game and try to shut down any criticism.
It feels like a cult formed around these REmakes, they are completely delusional, especially on reddit.

[LXT]

Originally posted by ChiefMendez:

Originally posted by zukobach5:

Lol and people keep paying $70 for a compressed 8 bit audio from the 80s cassette. That just tells Capcom everything is fine and on the next game they will slack even more and you will pay exactly how much money they ask :)

Not just sh1t audio, but sh1t-tier writing by a 75 y.o. american who hasn't played a resident evil game in his life.
Watch certain individuals on this forum still shill this game and try to shut down any criticism.
It feels like a cult formed around these REmakes, they are completely delusional, especially on reddit.

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[VibeCheck]

Try
Settings -> Audio -> Sound Reverberation

[talloyer]

You have to pay the DLC to swap the Music back to OG OST of Resident Evil 4. If the music still sounds Bad, then it is a technical issue of the game itself or maybe of your hardware at worst.