Combat Music Really Sucks - Make Optional?

cce

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2005

I absolutely HATE the combat music in Nighfall, and despite numerous pleas on this list, it has made it into GWEN as well. Please, please... give us a checkbox to disable it? I just want the regular music, no combat rutkis It completely destroys the wonderful music. It's ADHD. It keeps switching back and forth back and forth, and completely destroys the aural experience. Pretty Please make it optional?

Mr. G

Mr. G

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2006

S. Wales

Mo/Me

Mute....?

and i love the GW:EN music...

Kinn

Kinn

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2007

Englandshire, England.

The International Association of Mending Wammos

R/

/signed
/signed
/signed

An option to disable combat music would be great. Sometimes I'm in the mood for it, sometimes I'm not. Having the option to choose would be very welcome.

Bryant Again

Bryant Again

Hall Hero

Join Date: Feb 2006

Agreed, make it optional.

On the same subject, it'd be great to include pauses in the explorable music. 10 minutes in an area and I hate the music.

SPIRIT OF THE SEA

SPIRIT OF THE SEA

Banned

Join Date: May 2006

go to options then sound then under music put the bar down to none and the music wont play

Bryant Again

Bryant Again

Hall Hero

Join Date: Feb 2006

You sure missed the point there, didn't cha?

against

against

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

Edible Granite Pencil [yumy]

R/

Music volume all the way down = no music. I think it's already optional. :\

Bryant Again

Bryant Again

Hall Hero

Join Date: Feb 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by against
Music volume all the way down = no music. I think it's already optional. :\
Combat music.

generik

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Bryant Again
Combat music.
I like the combat music, without it I will doze off and not realise that we are under attack.

arcanemacabre

arcanemacabre

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Feb 2006

North Kryta Province

Angel Sharks [As]

I love the combat music, personally, but I see no harm in making it optional.

So... /signed

Pkest

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2006

Hooded Reavers of Eternal Life(Ankh)

R/

I turned the volume down all the way on all in-game music about an hour after I started playing.

Porkchop Sandwhiches

Porkchop Sandwhiches

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2005

Fishing Village in Wizard's Folly

R/

I love the background music in this game, but dearly dislike it being interrupted by the battle music.

Lord Juan

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2007

The Nights Watch

R/Mo

I like the combat music, but i still think it would be ncie to have an option to turn it off and keep the normal background music.

Bryant Again

Bryant Again

Hall Hero

Join Date: Feb 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by generik
I like the combat music, without it I will doze off and not realise that we are under attack.
So you keep the music up but the sound off?

Quote:
Originally Posted by Porkchop Sandwhiches
I love the background music in this game, but dearly dislike it being interrupted by the battle music.
With Nightfall, since I had the soundtrack, I would turn off the in-game music and loop a few of the tracks off the CD. The fact that there were just a few of battle songs and that combat occured so frequently reeeeally got to me.

Aethon

Academy Page

Join Date: Aug 2007

I suggest being able to adjust ambient and combat music levels separately. And maybe throw in a "frequency" tab for ambient music so that it only plays the ambient music for a short while every so often; the music in EOTN is just so...how to say it..."disney-like" in composition that it gives me a headache listening to it for too long, although it would be just fine if it played only once in a while.

mazey vorstagg

mazey vorstagg

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2006

Nodnol

Meeting of Lost Minds

E/Mo

I like the combat music but it annoys me you never get to hear all of it so I downloaded the soundtrack from directsong so I can hear it's track in its entirety.

Bryant Again

Bryant Again

Hall Hero

Join Date: Feb 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Aethon
the music in EOTN is just so...how to say it..."disney-like" in composition that it gives me a headache listening to it for too long, although it would be just fine if it played only once in a while.
Aaah I know what you mean, man - the music's all "floaty-like".

//RogueNine

//RogueNine

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2006

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Rogue Squadron

E/Me

so far I love the music in EotN, but I can see that some people wont.. anyways /signed for right of choice.

T1Cybernetic

T1Cybernetic

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Sep 2005

Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Uk, Nr Earth

Alternate Evil Gamers [aeg]

N/

I love it but im all for customisations so yes i agree, make it optional!

/Signed

Did i already say that i love it?

Alias_X

Alias_X

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2005

Love the GWEN music, but don't have a problem with making certain elements optional.

/signed

Hyper.nl

Hyper.nl

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2006

Defending Fort Aspenwood

E/

I love the battle music, so i would not use the option to turn it off.

/don'tcare

Solar_Takfar

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2006

Same here. Like the music, but wouldn't mind if it was optional.

/signed.

Dallcingi

Dallcingi

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2006

USA

The Black Parades [死人死]

Mo/

Ya it should be optinoal even though i enjoy it.

MithranArkanere

MithranArkanere

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Nov 2006

wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo

Heraldos de la Llama Oscura [HLO]

E/

- www.directsong.com
- Buy the soundtracks.
- Disable the ingame music.
- Make own plailist and play.

If you want some things, you HAVE to pay for them, being able to decide music is one of them.

Vahn Roi

Vahn Roi

Forge Runner

Join Date: Apr 2006

[HiDE]

Too highbrow for you? Would you prefer emotional rock music instead?

/notsigned

Ninna

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2005

Northeast USA

Guilded Rose

Me/

love the music but


/signed to give people the choice

Bryant Again

Bryant Again

Hall Hero

Join Date: Feb 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by MithranArkanere
If you want some things, you HAVE to pay for them, being able to decide music is one of them.
...

Quote:
Originally Posted by Vahn Roi
Too highbrow for you? Would you prefer emotional rock music instead?

/notsigned
That's quite a reason there...

cce

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2005

PvE battles are just so short in some areas that there isn't enough time to settle into either a full ambient state; or a full combat state. So you end up oscillating between the two... and it's painful. Just when I'm finally getting use to the ambient music, it abruptly switches over to the drums (Nightfall) or the high-strung music (for GWEN). In some cases, combat isn't over, and it switches to ambient mode. In any case, I don't like it. I really liked Prophesies and Factions since the music didn't jump back and forth. The biggest issue isn't even the music (although the combat music in Nightfall is quite lame), it's the indecisiveness.

If one were to make that a 'lever' that would be even better, ie a scale somewhat like:
Ambient . 0 . . . 1 . . . 2 . . . 3 . . . 4 . . . 5 . . . 6 . . . 7 . . . 8 . . . 9 . Combat

So, if you had 0, it'd just never switch over to combat music; while, if you had it at 9, it'd always play the combat music. If you had 1-3, it'd only switch over to combat music after quite a bit of activity; where if you had 6-7 it'd switch over even if foes are outside of aggro, 8 if you or your heros use a skill.

This is an extreme expression of the options meant to illustrate the general problem; I'm only asking for a OFF switch to the "combat" music. I want it to *always* be ambient music.

Thanks for listening (or rather reading, and, like me, not listening)

street peddler

street peddler

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2007

turn on itunes/winamp

better musicz

Series

Banned

Join Date: Aug 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Vahn Roi
Too highbrow for you? Would you prefer emotional rock music instead?

/notsigned
lol @ classical music elitists

Shakkara

Shakkara

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2006

W/

/signed!

I only keep hearing the first 30 seconds of tunes because it switches back and forth all the time. And I really hate the nightfall BAM BAM BAM music.

Redfeather1975

Redfeather1975

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2006

Apartment#306

Rhedd Asylum

Me/

It would be nice to have a volume level for combat music.

/signed

King's Spectre

King's Spectre

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2005

Syracuse, NY, USA

The Amazon Basin (AB)

W/

I love the music but wouldn't be opposed to a toggle switch.