So how did it feel and add to the experience of the game?
I’d ask a lot but then wouldn’t make much sense so just say how you like or dislike.
For me, I would say I dislike it but honestly the soundtrack wasn’t memorable enough for me to know what I am disagreeing about even tho I usually prefer Singleplayer or Co-op play, The only tune that I can like is “117” tho I don’t think it feels very Halo, actually reminds me of most Military Shooter games, not a Sci-fi. The thing that bothers me most is the lack of the usual Halo theme and anything similar.
It was okay, I really liked the menu music, but it honestly didn’t have anything really outstanding to it.
Halo’s soundtrack, Halo 3 especially, was just…amazing. Everything had a very distinct sound to it, and it was very recognizable. Plus, it just had such a space opera-like grandeur that it helped make the big battles even bigger.
That’s part of what made Halo 4’s campaign so boring for me. There wasn’t any of those big battles that Halo is so well known for.
Personally I didn’t like the soundtrack. I think it’s not memorable as the one on halo 3. Through the campaign and the Spartan Ops it’s too predictable.
The Main Menu and Infinity’s Menu music is okay but the rest is just a huge MEH. It just was not memorable and did not feel like it flowed through the game right. One of the reasons I was bummed most of Bungie’s original crew was not designing the next Halo because I knew the music wouldn’t be the same.
The opening to the level where the Didact retrieves the Composer sounded exactly like Star Wars. Am I alone? The annoying voice at the menu drives me nuts and I can’t even recall the music from memory right now. So many things about this game just seems off.
HALO has always been known for its musical score…E Dorian from HALO 3 when played instantly takes me back to that time and that game
I was fortunate enough to win the HALO 4 OST over Twitter, and its quite splendid when you just close your eyes and play it through…such a score
It was brave moving to a new composer, but the new music is very much HALO, it follows the tone of the story, of the Chief as he is now, and it as always enhances the experience so much
I miss Marty’s melodies. There should have been new versions of some of them. But the soundtrack is completely new…and unrecognisable as Halo music.
Do you think ‘Arrival’ sounds as a Halo song?
The soundtrack overall is great, but it lacks the essence of the saga. I hope Davidge doesn’t compose music for this franchise again.
I think that the score sounded verry beautiful, esp 117, it sounded like something that could be used in a full blown movies. However, one of the things I immediately noticed and was miffed by was the absence of MJOLNIR mix. That particular song has been THE soung for Master Chief for a decade, and it was completely absent from the game, as were many other classic themes which were present throughout the franchise. While I understand that “new blood” made the soundtrack, I think that he should have retained at least the melodies of some, if not all, of the classic songs and at least written them in as themes or remixes rather than completely nixing them. I’m not saying that the composer should limit his great ability with music to merely re recording the older songs. I’m saying that someone with the skill required to write the beautiful music found in halo 4 would have been able to retain the classic sound yet leave his own mark on the sound of the Halo universe.
I do like the vocals though. It sounds like some of the traditional/ancient Greek music i have heard before. Seems fitting that a Spartan would have some elements of the music of ancient Greece in their soundtrack.
I thought the soundtrack was the best of the lot, but not by much because all the music was amazing.
I did notice that I didn’t remember the songs as I played the game, however if you listen its perfect for a soundtrack in that it supports the game, not overrules it.
Similar to Wars’ soundtrack. There are some outstanding pieces on it, but overall it doesn’t really reach the emotional undertones Marty put into Halos soundtracks.
It certainly isn’t bad…its just not really memorable. Not really touching or moving…
> The opening to the level where the Didact retrieves the Composer sounded exactly like Star Wars. Am I alone? The annoying voice at the menu drives me nuts and I can’t even recall the music from memory right now. So many things about this game just seems off.
I noticed that too, and that the way the scene went with the ships showing up one by one, and then Master Chief’s ship he was hiding in showing up and zooming in on it…it really had a Star Wars feel.
Since Skywalker Ranch had a hand in the making of Halo 4, and many of the roots of the story / feel come from a love of the Star Wars franchise…it felt like an hommage to me. Very lovely. In general, I like the soundtrack, it grows on you slowly…but Marty still has big shoes to fill. (see I can be positive :)~.
I really like the soundtrack and I’d rate it at least equal to the others. I really look forward to the other ones! No matter how they twist and turn they cannot go back to the old soundtrack, keep that in mind.
I’m fairly confident to say that I wasn’t the only one running around (dying…) on the last campaign mission thinking I was invincible because of the music in the background!
I like it. It really fit in. I just can’t imagine Halo 4 with old school music since it’s such a different tone from the old ones. My only complain is that the music’s too soft. Needs to be louder. Also, where the hell was “To Galaxy” in the whole campaign. That song was like the next Halo Theme!
I dislike it. It is one of the main reasons I don’t play the H4 campain anymore. There are perhaps 2-3 pieces that are great, but the rest is terrible.
I didn’t dislike it. But it didn’t help me get into the campaign too well.
It felt like there was no life to it. Laid back all the way through.
I’ve only been through the campaign once, but normally that’s enough to get a good impression if the whole game played really well. Which it didn’t imo.
I dont really like the Halo 4 music it wasnt very memorable and it didn’t help make the game very memorable. When you listen to soundtracks like perchance to dream you automatically remember creeping round the the forerunner rooms taking out the sleeping grunts and trying not to get seen by the elites.
Or when you listen to peril its just makes you think of going through the old temples on delta halo in Halo 2 or last spartan when you see chief going to blow up the covenant ship with the bomb.
And in again with the soundtrack like “behold a pale horse” when we touch down on the ark.
And many many more like walk in the woods, covenant dance, heretic hero, flawed lagacy, one final effort, in amber clad. Listening to all of these makes you remember specific parts of the trilogy.
But with halo 4 its not like that with me I could listen to any of the tracks and I wouldnt have a clue what level it was, when cutscene or anything, its just not memorble at all.