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Subject: The Music
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GAZEBOS!

I have been playing Halo Reach for the past week just like the rest of you and for the most part I have no complaints, but there is one and that is why I'm posting in this forum, and that is the Music, Reach ALMOST feels like Halo CE but It lacks the amazing music that drives forward at a constant pace, I am the only one who thinks that CE had the best music or what, because I think that many of the songs from CE should have made a comeback on Reach and it would have made the game a much better experience.

  • 09.23.2010 9:49 PM PDT

You're not the only one who thinks the HCE music is the best.
The soundtracks of the other games work better as independant items, but HCE's works unbelievably well in-game. Tracks like "The Gun Pointed at the Head of the Universe" work crazy awesome in their places in-game. It's just, well, upbeat and brilliantly integrated.
Also, the sound balance is almost always great.


As for Reach...it's score is absolutely beautiful, but I disagree that it's much like HCE's. In some ways, I think it works as well in-menu and in-cutscene as any other game of the series. This having been said, it's finicky in-game. In particular, on the second level, there were places where the sound balance between it and the combat was absolutely awful. For all the supposed usefulness of the striped room, some things just don't seem to be coming through all that cleanly in-game. I'm considering blaming oversophistication; it's a well-known fact that HCE's sound system is simple as heck in comparison to Reach's, which I think may have meant that, while it wasn't as manipulable, there were possibly a heck of a lot fewer ways to screw up. Simplicity is often a good thing.

[Edited on 09.23.2010 10:43 PM PDT]

  • 09.23.2010 10:42 PM PDT

"Were it so easy..." -Thel Vadame.

I agree. While I love Reach's soundtrack, it doesn't flow throughout the campaign to me. CE's was fluent and it didn't keep you adapting to knew sounds in the music as it all sounded similar. At least thats how it felt to me.

  • 09.24.2010 5:29 AM PDT

The same for me

  • 09.24.2010 9:58 AM PDT
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GAZEBOS!

@ Tupolev, I never meant Reach's music sounded like Reach, I meant that the gameplay and weapons felt more like CE, because Reach added a lot of new and original things just like CE, but yeah, its nice to finally some folks who agree with me, the guys in the Reach Forum , well I think a lot of them are newbies who don't remember staying up all night when they had school the next morning trying to beat the Maw on solo Legendary :P

  • 09.24.2010 11:27 AM PDT