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Title: What rating would you give the Shadow of the Beast music?
Post by: DoomMaster on August 28, 2003, 08:34:21 AM
On a scale of 1 to 5, what rating would you give the Shadow of the Beast music?
Title: Re: What rating would you give the Shadow of the Beast music?
Post by: mepmepmep on August 28, 2003, 08:57:58 AM
Differs between tunes.. But overall pretty close to 5.
Title: Re: What rating would you give the Shadow of the Beast music?
Post by: Crispy_Beef on August 28, 2003, 09:03:56 AM
Considering the era the game comes from and that it amazed me at the time, and that I sat down the other day and listened to it I'd have to give it a 4.5.

The only reason I won't give it a 5 is that nothing is perfect, although the chip music on level 1 of Fuzzball gets close ;-)
Title: Re: What rating would you give the Shadow of the Beast music?
Post by: browny on August 28, 2003, 09:29:51 AM
yep, that `haunting` theme gets a 5.
And the `seven gates of Jambala` gets a big fat zero !!  :-D
Title: Re: What rating would you give the Shadow of the Beast music?
Post by: Crumb on August 28, 2003, 10:10:24 AM
a 4? :-)
Do you remember the music of a Dinamic/CreepSoft game called A.M.C.? I liked it a lot... The gameplay/graphics weren't special, but the music was quite good
Title: Re: What rating would you give the Shadow of the Beast music?
Post by: Warface on August 28, 2003, 10:10:29 AM
Definitely worths a 5. It was a close match to the C64 Supremacy theme in it's time.
Title: Re: What rating would you give the Shadow of the Beast music?
Post by: DoomMaster on August 28, 2003, 10:17:03 AM
To Crumb:

What does any of that have to do with rating the Shadow of the Beast music?
Title: Re: What rating would you give the Shadow of the Beast music?
Post by: Cymric on August 28, 2003, 10:41:00 AM
Some tunes definitely a 5 (the theme of the grassy plains you start out on, for example), others a 3.
Title: Re: What rating would you give the Shadow of the Beast music?
Post by: darksun9210 on August 28, 2003, 11:12:08 AM
depends which tunes you mean.
i remember one tune. i can't remember if it was beast 2 or 3, but when you died, you got some mental guitar music....
waaaaooooh waahh, jun jun jun, waah waaaaah neeyaaa neeeyaaa dodlooo...
ahem. used to die just to hear it so good. and to think it was only 8 bit.
how long have PC's had 16bit sound cards, and HOW long has it taken them to have GOOD music / sound?!?
Title: Re: What rating would you give the Shadow of the Beast music?
Post by: Linchpin on August 28, 2003, 11:52:44 AM
Me is thinking this should be in the software forum but what the hell

Shadow wasnt my fave game, remember the music being kinda cool tho.
Title: Re: What rating would you give the Shadow of the Beast music?
Post by: alx on August 28, 2003, 12:30:02 PM
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i remember one tune. i can't remember if it was beast 2 or 3, but when you died, you got some mental guitar music....


That was SOTB2 - amazing music.  The in-game music on SOTB2 seemed to go really well with the atmosphere of the game as well (I've never played SOTB1).
Title: Re: What rating would you give the Shadow of the Beast music?
Post by: Warface on August 28, 2003, 12:55:49 PM
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alx wrote:
(I've never played SOTB1)/


You've missed a real stunning game then :-)
Title: Re: What rating would you give the Shadow of the Beast music?
Post by: darksun9210 on August 28, 2003, 01:05:07 PM
argh!
nostagier attack! (or however you spell it)
must fix SX32, must -play SOTB!
Title: Re: What rating would you give the Shadow of the Beast music?
Post by: r00tAmiga on August 28, 2003, 01:59:36 PM
4.9.hehe  That is the best I think possible.  5 to me means perfection, you can't do any better.
Title: Re: What rating would you give the Shadow of the Beast music?
Post by: mepmepmep on August 28, 2003, 02:58:48 PM
Here goes a quite detailed review:

Intro: 4.4 (a teaser to whats comin up)

Title and the plains: 4.8 - 5.0 (close to perfection)

Underground: 3.8 - 4.3 (Drops slightly in quality, but when compared to the plains, what music does'nt)

The castle: 4.2 - 4.5 (overall fine pieces that really suits the atmosphere and the slight increase in difficulty)

Water (last level): 4.1 - 4.8 (music is of quite uneven quality even within tunes ranging from just good to superb)

Game Over (when you die): 4.2 (far from as good as SOTB2 deathscene but still a fine piece)
Title: Re: What rating would you give the Shadow of the Beast music?
Post by: Ilwrath on August 28, 2003, 03:01:21 PM
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argh!
nostagier attack! (or however you spell it)
must fix SX32, must -play SOTB!


haha!  Yep...  I have it installed on my 1200 that's hooked to the big TV in the front room.  :-)  

I finally had to give up the SOTB wallpaper on my computer in here after a couple weeks, though.  I'd sit down to do some work, see the SOTB theme...  Get the title song stuck in my head, and then end up just going out there and playing it for too long.  ;-)

Oh yeah... The music is great, too.  4.8, at least.

Damn near perfection all the way around in that game.  

It also had a death music and scene too.... but instead of the guitar it had this weird wind-sounding thing playing while it shows a barren landscape with some of your bones laying around. hehe!

I think it was my favorite of the three...  But all of them were great!
Title: Re: What rating would you give the Shadow of the Beast music?
Post by: Varthall on August 28, 2003, 03:07:15 PM
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DoomMaster wrote:
On a scale of 1 to 5, what rating would you give the Shadow of the Beast music?

Around 4... and I would give a higher rating to its sequel.

Varthall
Title: Re: What rating would you give the Shadow of the Beast music?
Post by: Varthall on August 28, 2003, 03:10:39 PM
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Crumb wrote:
Do you remember the music of a Dinamic/CreepSoft game called A.M.C.? I liked it a lot... The gameplay/graphics weren't special, but the music was quite good

IMHO the graphics were quite good, very colorful. And I agree, the music of AMC, especially the ingame tunes, was really great. I still remember some of these tunes after so many years :) I suggest to everyone here to go and listen them, probably they can be found on (un)exotica.

Varthall
Title: Re: What rating would you give the Shadow of the Beast music?
Post by: mepmepmep on August 28, 2003, 03:24:25 PM
The title music in SOTB2 is just increadibly beautiful.. Overall the ingame music has too much drums and is not as atmospheric as SOTB1, but still very good.. Deathscene is just brilliant.

Very good music with some peaks that rises upto SOTB1 quality and sometimes even surpasses it (title and deathscene). Overall ranking is still not as good as SOTB1.
Title: Re: What rating would you give the Shadow of the Beast music?
Post by: sdesros on August 28, 2003, 03:26:45 PM
Hmm...  Shadow of the Beast 1?  Well I give the amiga version a 4 overall.  The TurboGrafx SuperCD version is a 4.75!  (The CD Remaster of the tunes is just amazing.  :-P )
Title: Re: What rating would you give the Shadow of the Beast music?
Post by: mepmepmep on August 28, 2003, 03:32:15 PM
For those that likes the SOTB type music. Check out Wrath of the demon, Unreal and Leander for more great audio of this kind.
Title: Re: What rating would you give the Shadow of the Beast music?
Post by: ptek on August 28, 2003, 05:14:08 PM
And now the inevitable question :   :-)

Where can we download the MOD music of the SOTB I and SOTB II ?

Title: Re: What rating would you give the Shadow of the Beast music?
Post by: mepmepmep on August 28, 2003, 05:38:11 PM
Here! (http://exotica.fix.no/tunes/unexotica/titles/s.html)
Do not forget that each tune has 3-5 sub tunes. You need a player that can jump between sub tunes.
Title: Re: What rating would you give the Shadow of the Beast music?
Post by: mepmepmep on August 28, 2003, 05:43:05 PM
Ok, sorry thats not the MOD versions. They're in the David Whittaker format. If you use Windows use this (http://www.deliplayer.com) player, on Amiga I'm not sure which is best DeliTracker, EaglePlayer, HippoPlayer or other. I do not think MOD versions exist of all these tunes and subtunes.
Title: Re: What rating would you give the Shadow of the Beast music?
Post by: ptek on August 28, 2003, 08:06:21 PM
Wee ! Thanx

Lot of song there !

Yes, I already know Deliplayer for the PC. Great piece of SW ! Must be made by amigans ;-)
Title: Re: What rating would you give the Shadow of the Beast music?
Post by: ptek on August 28, 2003, 08:20:19 PM
BTW : Try the great Cannon Fodder music also !

(this is going off topic)
 :-D