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Musical Synergy in AoC
pizzagod
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As someone who is both, a musician, and has played Archeage, both pre and post 2.0, I would like to know if music will be in the same key, or will be developed in a key that can synergize with a key that is the main. The reason why I ask, is because often times, conflicting keys will result in:
1: Musically annoying gameplay
2: Will result in many people muting that section of the Audio Options
Maybe I'm alone in this, but personally, I would love to finally see some musical synergy in a game I love. Feel free to bully me or whatever as a musician, but musically, if you intend to take music and environment seriously, this is something you need to think about.
PS: Making music synergize with each other with massively entice musicians to inspire and credit music with this game. Yeah, it's "dumb", as your community like to remind me of, but this is the musical reality.
Love the game!! And thank you for all your hard work!
1: Musically annoying gameplay
2: Will result in many people muting that section of the Audio Options
Maybe I'm alone in this, but personally, I would love to finally see some musical synergy in a game I love. Feel free to bully me or whatever as a musician, but musically, if you intend to take music and environment seriously, this is something you need to think about.
PS: Making music synergize with each other with massively entice musicians to inspire and credit music with this game. Yeah, it's "dumb", as your community like to remind me of, but this is the musical reality.
Love the game!! And thank you for all your hard work!
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https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Bear_McCreary
And tell you to check out the stuff he's done and see if he's done what you're asking for.
Unless Steven goes back on this promise, Bear is supposed to be the Lead Composer for Ashes.
On the general note of "music in games", I'm a hardcore Genshin enjoyer and music there is divine. Now, I'm not asking to replicate a $multibillion company's genius composer (with several other superb people), but having some accordingly-culturally inspired themes for races would be amazing.
This has nothing to do with "live streams" btw, on twitch or whatever tf y'all use. This is a question about music. This is not a response to pre-existing publicly shown ideas, based on the lack of knowledge that was provided to me. If there is another thread that is more suitable, please redirect me.
- also apologies for my lack of understanding of English, this is not my first language and am not native to it. Please be patient with me! ^^
Maybe I should find a way to speak to him directly then. I'm no one important, just a local musician in a small town that reads and listens a lot. Thank you for your lead, It's a lot of help! ^^
Having a group of four Bards all playing in different keys could be rather unpleasant, for sure.
If there are multiple tunes all playing at once for different buffs, and the tunes don't complement each other, it could very easily become a "STFU BARDS" moment!
My dreams for an in-game battle harpsichord or virginal are just that
being able to play for others using a manual rather than the 'keyboard' would be amazing hehe
Maybe later on an expert mode for instruments in game. Us amateurs would be composing some music for playing in Taverns and busking for sure
for example