Something interesting I noticed about the Payday 2 OST

[Colonel Martyr]

So, being a fan of the OST, I was letting it play and relistening to the classics, is it just me or does it seem like from Wanted Dead or Alive onward a lot of the loud tracks are 'harder' in sound whereas the ones from the original Payday 2 soundtrack feel a little more 'game like'? This isn't a bad thing, it's just an interesting observation on the OST I wanted to share and wondered if anyone else noticed this as well.

[Vali Riversong]

Define "harder".

[Peanits]

I noticed that the more recent tracks seem to be a bit higher pitched and fast paced, while the older ones seemed to have more of that gritty heist style feel to them. Still like them all, though. But if you put a gun to my head and told me to pick, I'd say I like the older ones a bit more.

[Colonel Martyr]

Originally posted by Joninator:

Define "harder".

I'm not sure how to explain it since I'm not really super into all the terms nor claim to be a music aficionado. But listen to say Full Force Forward

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wizqYIqZHz0

and then listen to Wanted Dead or Alive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCxH3uLar_4

I kind of feel like from there onwards a lot of the new songs' sound of the songs themselves took on a more hard kind of 'grit' in the rythm in sound/aggressive tone than the gamey more typically fast paced sound stuff you hear in the original release. Like I said, it's not a criticism, I'm just kind of fascinated to hear how Simon's sound has evolved and changed over time.

[Pigeons555]

Yeah the Le Castle Vania ones are especially good at drowning out noise if that's what you mean by "harder"

The original Police Assaults are much "tamer" than say, Locke and Load, Drop Zone, Le Castle Vania, etc.

[Colonel Martyr]

Originally posted by Pigeons555:

Yeah the Le Castle Vania ones are especially good at drowning out noise if that's what you mean by "harder"

The original Police Assaults are much "tamer" than say, Locke and Load, Drop Zone, Le Castle Vania, etc.

Well, I was referring specifically to Simon's stuff. La Castle Vania is a seperate artist entirely and Donacdum was produced by someone else. (And you can tell because they feel a little different than Viklund's sounds do.)

[Strider]

It's nice to hear how his music evolves really, like you said a lot of the older tracks (pretty sure Wanted Dead or Alive was one of these) are pretty slow compared the more fast paced music Simon has been composing. Imo the music only got like a lot faster after the two Hotline Miami tracks (Evil Eye, Hot Pursuit), you can notice the tempo and style change a lot from there on where it seems like Simon is stepping over into DnB territory. He does an amazing job doing new remixes of the old PDTH soundtracks with his new style.

[nori357]

Originally posted by Strider:

It's nice to hear how his music evolves really, like you said a lot of the older tracks (pretty sure Wanted Dead or Alive was one of these) are pretty slow compared the more fast paced music Simon has been composing. Imo the music only got like a lot faster after the two Hotline Miami tracks (Evil Eye, Hot Pursuit), you can notice the tempo and style change a lot from there on where it seems like Simon is stepping over into DnB territory. He does an amazing job doing new remixes of the old PDTH soundtracks with his new style.

Every DnB song he makes is trash compaired to Three Way Deal from PDTH, besides well how I see it he's kinda regressed back to PDTH style, PDTH's music if I do remeber was similer to these newer payday tracks.