Music

[Denton]

Why did they go for generic, sci-fi ambience instead of a remake of the classic soundtrack? Such a shame.

Rip L01 Medical, such a banger.

[Musk]

My personal favourite is the one that sounds like 'Head Like a Hole' by Nine Inch Nails. Maybe copyright claims were the reason why they didn't decide to use those :P

But yeah, original soundtrack is amazing, I wish the new one had tracks that were at least inspired by the old ones (kinda like the new Doom games). So far, it seems the only one like that is the elevator music...

EDIT:
The track I mentioned is called "Reactor" in the remastered OST available on Steam, though I'm pretty sure it also played outside of the reactor level, at least in the original (non-enhanced edition).

[Stargoat]

Originally posted by Musk:

My personal favourite is the one that sounds like 'Head Like a Hole' by Nine Inch Nails. Maybe copyright claims were the reason why they didn't decide to use those :P

But yeah, original soundtrack is amazing, I wish the new one had tracks that were at least inspired by the old ones (kinda like the new Doom games). So far, it seems the only one like that is the elevator music...

EDIT:
The track I mentioned is called "Reactor" in the remastered OST available on Steam, though I'm pretty sure it also played outside of the reactor level, at least in the original (non-enhanced edition).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up80FfzySFA

They better reprise it, such a great track. You can feel how this one in particular influenced *basically all of* the System Shock 2 OST.

In general though, I don't mind the ambient scifi-ness from the demo. There's a bit of music there if you concentrate real hard, but it definitely has a different flavour to the original's music (as weird and glitchy as it was).

Hopefully there's something a bit more energetic at the right points. Cyberspace still gets pumpin'.

[Shodan]

Guess we will need some music mods.

[Xkilljoy98]

IKR, it needs the original music, either via an update, dlc, mods, something

[randir14]

I think at one point they had plans for music closer to the original game. They released this track years ago during the Kickstarter

https://youtu.be/Uemn79gOxeQ

[Denton]

Originally posted by randir14:

I think at one point they had plans for music closer to the original game. They released this track years ago during the Kickstarter

https://youtu.be/Uemn79gOxeQ

Yeah I thought they did. I think the reason why they decided against that was because the gameplay couldn't match the pace of the music. Still a stupid decision imo.

[ZylonBane]

I'm glad they cut that song. It start out decent enough, but at 30 seconds it starts sounding like it's having an epileptic fit.

[Denton]

Originally posted by ZylonBane:

I'm glad they cut that song. It start out decent enough, but at 30 seconds it starts sounding like it's having an epileptic fit.

Nah, it's a banger.

[Xkilljoy98]

Yeah I like that remix, a shame it was cut, though something more like the original would have been nice too

[Krotow (LV)]

Anyone who complain about ambience in last demo in comparing with 1994 game, must know that in 1994 main ambience sound trend in PC games was MIDI music. Digital audio playback was costly burden for most CPUs at those days and sound cards with good DSP was expensive. That is why ambience in most games from that era is pretty loud and intense syntheiser music. Now it is possible to fix sound too and make it as it should been from begin. Of course I too would like notes from original level music intertwined with remake level ambience. And more intense dynamic music during fight which changes according to how things are going.

Originally posted by Xkilljoy98:

Yeah I like that remix, a shame it was cut, though something more like the original would have been nice too

This remix seems is made from MIDI music that sounded in original game during walking through maintenance corridors and Reactor level. IMHO they should keep it for such places.

[Denton]

Originally posted by Krotow (LV):

Anyone who complain about ambience in last demo in comparing with 1994 game, must know that in 1994 main ambience sound trend in PC games was MIDI music. Digital audio playback was costly burden for most CPUs at those days and sound cards with good DSP was expensive. That is why ambience in most games from that era is pretty loud and intense syntheiser music. Now it is possible to fix sound too and make it as it should been from begin. Of course I too would like notes from original level music intertwined with remake level ambience. And more intense dynamic music during fight which changes according to how things are going.

Originally posted by Xkilljoy98:

Yeah I like that remix, a shame it was cut, though something more like the original would have been nice too

This remix seems is made from MIDI music that sounded in original game during walking through maintenance corridors and Reactor level. IMHO they should keep it for such places.

That's fine, I don't really care about the technical limitations of the original game. I think the original music absolutely slaps and the generic ambience is something we see in all games these days and it's boring as hell.