Is there anyone else out there that wants to see a little bit of rock return to Halo with Infinite? I mean, we’re getting classic looks, classic sounds, classic feels…a few chugging djenty riffs or soaring solos or a nice kick in the -Yoink- anthem like “Blow Me Away” (Breaking Benjamin) would put this game over the top for like a 10/10 for me
I would definitely love to hear some heavy metal again but as long as it feels natural and not forced.
I don’t really think rock tracks would fit the themes of discovery that Infinite’s gonna be using.
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> I don’t really think rock tracks would fit the themes of discovery that Infinite’s gonna be using.
How does it not fit in? Halo 1-3 were almost entirely about the discovery of new, great and terrible things. Part of the overall shock and awe was the at times mysterious, soaring, and kick -Yoink- soundtrack. Rock always seemed to be part of it with the exception of 343’s halos and the spin offs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEkblyzfeRE
in one of 343’s videos a few months ago this soundtrack was played in the background… and it seems to have guitar towards the end.
If this makes it into halo infinite congrats man
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> I don’t really think rock tracks would fit the themes of discovery that Infinite’s gonna be using.
I enjoyed Halo 2’s rock tracks but I agree they don’t really gel with the atmosphere. I guess they could be used during intense action sequences
When I first heard some Breaking Benjamin in Halo 2 I was blown away by it. Get it? Anyways I hope Infinite gets more of those Rock and Roll vibes.
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> I don’t really think rock tracks would fit the themes of discovery that Infinite’s gonna be using.
As much as I loved the rock tracks, I’m gonna have to agree with this. I don’t think it would fit either.
I would love some more drums though.
Yeah that would be awesome. The music they’ve shared so far is incredible but I hope there’s a little more variety coming.
Oh, please no… The heavy metal tracks in Halo 2 aged terribly imo, they screams the years of 2000s that this type of music kinda doesn’t exist nowadays. It is a bit akward, not that I don’t like it, but it is now a guilty pleasure now I’m a bit older.
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> Oh, please no… The heavy metal tracks in Halo 2 aged terribly imo, they screams the years of 2000s that this type of music kinda doesn’t exist nowadays. It is a bit akward, not that I don’t like it, but it is now a guilty pleasure now I’m a bit older.
The one during the heretic banshee chase was good, the mausoleum fight definitely doesn’t feel the same as it did back then though.
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> Oh, please no… The heavy metal tracks in Halo 2 aged terribly imo, they screams the years of 2000s that this type of music kinda doesn’t exist nowadays. It is a bit akward, not that I don’t like it, but it is now a guilty pleasure now I’m a bit older.
It wouldn’t make any sense to put 15 year old music into the newer game, but that’s not what I’m asking. Rock music itself is still a thing.
I suspect not a lot of people are going to agree with me, I see a lot of love for the Infinite music out there, but to me, it just doesn’t quite feel like music yet.
Sure, I’m happy to see that they are returning to more classic motifs, and it’s pretty good background soundtrack stuff.
But – and here I’m going full pretentious, apologies in advance – I just don’t feel like the music we’ve heard so far, stuff like Reverie or Set a Fire in Your Heart, have reached anything else but these simple emotionally manipulative little tugs at our heart strings, they don’t have the internal structure, complexity of a musical composition, they are simple, they are all about sound, not much in terms of building up to anything, little tunes, melodies, I feel like they lack the dimension of a piece written/composed by O’Donnell & Salvatori.
Whenever I listen to a piece of music from Halo 1-3 for instance, I feel like they can stand on their own, as individual independent pieces, that build their own musical landscapes in my mind. They also conjure up specific vivid memories of places and battles in the games, but it feels almost like it’s because of the music, and not just the places. The Infinite music feels like most other soundtrack music out there, I doubt they will elevate a scene, make a place stick in my mind that will be easily conjured up whenever I hear even a snippet of some piece in those pieces.
They are all just ad/trailer manipulation noises (you’ve all heard ads use the cheap but effective way of having that simple guitar stringing or that slow one press echo piano noise like in American Beauty, no musical genius required there, just good slow timing in hitting a couple of notes, effective, cheap, not art, just the fast food of soulful music), all surface tugs at emotional chords, no bold musical compositions with a complicated structure with many layers interwoven on top of each other like an artist would create to add their own touch into something.
Halo 3 had for instance those one note piano tones sprinkled here and there, but it’s sad that people only focus on that (it’s the cheap effective ones that sometimes stick most universally, like the popularity of fast food in general), and then we forget that it built up to become a complicated piece on top of it.
Maybe they are saving those up and are only sharing ambient tracks for now, who knows, but I’m still a bit disappointed in what we’ve heard so far.
Even Halo 4 & 5 had more interesting pieces, and I don’t particularly enjoy them as Halo music, they have some hints of being their own thing, but never really Halo.
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> Oh, please no… The heavy metal tracks in Halo 2 aged terribly imo, they screams the years of 2000s that this type of music kinda doesn’t exist nowadays. It is a bit akward, not that I don’t like it, but it is now a guilty pleasure now I’m a bit older.
That’s probably why it was changed up a bit in Anniversary release of the game.
I would love something similar to Deference for Darkness in Halo Infinite.
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> I would love something similar to Deference for Darkness in Halo Infinite.
Remind me where that was from again?
Imagine a warthog run rock style…that would be awesome.
It would be awesome!
We just had real rock on halo 2
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> Remind me where that was from again?
Halo 3: ODST, it has amazing music!
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> Halo 3: ODST, it has amazing music!
Ohhhh yes I remember. Yeah that game had incredible music.