Music sample EU III

[DukeWilleo1630]

Sounds good!

 

[treedom]

I liked it. It reminded me of something off the Conan the Barbarian soundtrack.

 

[unmerged(41688)]

I like it, but surly paradox it wouldnt be to hard to include a few classics as well. Cmon, you know you want to.

 

[Shadowstrike]

I hope you'll excuse the dumb question, but why have the soundtrack on a seperate CD at all? I mean the soundtrack will have to be on the game CD anyhow. The only advantage would be that one could put the soundtrack in a CD-player and not risk losing the game CD if you put that in a CD-player. The whole thing is somewhat moot in any case, since who even uses a CD-player anymore?

The music excerpt sounds great. I can imagine a vast army before attempting an assault, or a fleet of ships sighting an enemy fleet on the horizon. Will miss the actual period music though. I'm a sucker for Baroque and Church music.

 

[Registered]

I hope you'll excuse the dumb question, but why have the soundtrack on a seperate CD at all? I mean the soundtrack will have to be on the game CD anyhow. The only advantage would be that one could put the soundtrack in a CD-player and not risk losing the game CD if you put that in a CD-player. The whole thing is somewhat moot in any case, since who even uses a CD-player anymore?

That's just the collector's edition.

 

[Gaute65]

Sounds good, will probably add music from EU and EU2.

 

[Van der Gent]

It sounds very good! Me like.

 

[Kamzel]

I am VERY disappointed... Although this music is not bad, still a good selection of REAL 1453-1789 music would be incomparably better...

 

[Registered]

I am VERY disappointed... Although this music is not bad, still a good selection of REAL 1453-1789 music would be incomparably better...

Run Winamp in the background, problem solved. You can even change tunes with it while playing, you can't do that with the ingame score.
Although... i wonder how well EUIII will play with winamps global hotkeys. They did not work so well with RTW i do know that.

 

[unmerged(55206)]

Intresting I like it. I know some won't but you can't please everyone. If you want to use real music just run it in the background. I hope you add more real and this type of music.

 

[Verenti]

“We are thrilled that Andreas was able to join us for again to work on “Europa Universalis III”, said Susana Meza, Director of Marketing and PR for Paradox Interactive. “His soundtracks strike a perfect balance between blending in and creating an atmosphere that enhances gameplay”.

Now Susana, Is it REALLY fair to quote yourself?

 

[unmerged(12303)]

sounds nice ... will falalan song be in?

 

[Jayavarman]

The only failing I have felt with Paradox's trend towards releasing games with "original" music is that there are too few "songs". It gets repetitive. Victoria and EUII had a crapload of music files. CK had 10 or something. I do not have any of my games on hand for reference.

 

[unmerged(56576)]

I didn't like the music. Bring Vivaldi back!

 

[unmerged(20077)]

Maybe this isn't background music like in EU2 (which I always turned off anyway, because my poor old computer used to crash if I didn't) but a piece which plays while you send out explorers or colonists or something?

 

[Cavendish]

Listen to the music excerpt

Blarrrgh

Its indeed the "Civilization Universalis"...

 

[unmerged(11427)]

The music is fine.

You realize that when we wanted to know about colonization in EU3, the music piece was not what we had in mind?

 

[Ulyanov]

I am VERY disappointed... Although this music is not bad, still a good selection of REAL 1453-1789 music would be incomparably better...

I second that.

It had to happen some day, but I feel that almost everything "new" in the recent paradox-games feel more "mainstream blockbuster-games-ish", and not so unique as the "original" Paradox-games like EU2. I'm a bit sad, because I know that the instant joy I felt when I "found" paradox; the use of a 2D map, use of unit sprites, being very historical (by historical events) and realistic, using authentic music from the era, and so on, might never come back. I always felt it was more like a different way to learn history rather than being just a game. The wrapping (graphics, music, etc.) was kept simple, while the content (history, realistic limitations on player-influence over his/hers country's development) was the focal point of the whole experience.

Nowadays, most of the new stuff are being drawn in the direction of more "famous" strategy games. They will probably reach out to a bigger audience with this, but personally I'm sceptical about what the future will bring from paradox... This purpose-composed soundtrack (reminds me of Heroes of Might and Magic-music) is an example of just that: more attention to gameplay, less attention to historical feel/content. So also with the situational events instead of the historical events... I'm sorry to say that I really don't like this at all...

 

[EUnderhill]

Those who like the soundtrack probably liked the music to "Pirates of the Caribbean".

 

[Cavendish]

It had to happen some day, but I feel that almost everything "new" in the recent paradox-games feel more "mainstream blockbuster-games-ish", and not so unique as the "original" Paradox-games like EU2.

Nowadays, most of the new stuff are being drawn in the direction of more "famous" strategy games. They will probably reach out to a bigger audience with this, but personally I'm sceptical about what the future will bring from paradox...

Seconded.

Probably bigger audience, but surelly diferent one... former Paradox games players may just stop to play it. I understand all the business arguments and etc, but cant anyone in the games market understand that adults, and not only children and teenagers, like to play games sometimes? Speacially inteligent and realistic ones, not "disneyland-ish"

I tought this branch of the market was fulfilled by Paradox, but looks like more and more that they are migrating...