Game Music?

Anyone else feel that the Guild Wars music is highly disappointing in general?

The music in GW is absolutely beautiful and fits the game perfectly. I love the Kryta theme and the Pre-Searing Ascalon theme. There's also a lot of music that you haven't heard yet. The composer is Jeremy Soule and has won numerous awards for his music in video games such as Neverwinter Nights and Dungeon Siege.

Here's his webpage: http://www.jeremysoule.com/index2.html

Well, I personally turn music off in games and listen to MP3's or CD's if I want music. I do like the music for this game though, seems very well done to me. It has a nice mellow sound to it. Maybe you just don't like this style of music?

Will there be more background music in the retail though? Most of the times the themes only played upon entering an area, and soon after, its just silence...that got kind of annoying =P

I have to agree with Cain, the music fits the game very well. Its also not to overpowering and sets a nice mood.

The music is all right for the missions, quests, etc, but the arena battle music got old very, VERY fast for me. It was rather dull, annoying, and had no climactic points at all. Just my opinion, I suppose.

The music is perfect. Video game music has now reached the same level as movie music.

ah i love when the drums start pounding while your in the heat of the battle.

the developers did a great job with the music because its not just ramdomly played, you here different music depending on what your doing at the moment.

It fits the game perfectly. Very well done. Cheers to the music geniuses behind the game

Yeah the music is great. Guild Wars (and morrowind) is one of those games that you start up and think "Eh this could make it into a movie".

Well I must have been doing a lot of stuff that required silence because I heard hardly any music at all. I was starting to think I'd accidentally turned it off or something, but I did hear some occasionally. Nowhere near as epic as that of Dungeon Siege though. I hope I get to hear more music in the release version.

I love the music, and-evidently so did these people:

http://www.worldofdarkstar.de/freque...downloads.html

None of you guys had like...long spans of absolute silence?

I can't help the feeling that Soule reused his music from NWN. When I first got to Old Ascalon, I immediately thought: WTF? This piece is in NWN also! Anyone else notice that too?

The music is great, cant get enough of it. Very relaxing, none of tht, "I gotta get off this game before i get a headache from this shit happy music" That i got while playing rose online, yuck. That game was just TOO happy, and the grammer was misserable.

He also did the music for Morrowind. I think it's well done and easy to listen to while playing for extended periods.

GW suffers from CoH-itis. The music fits the game but it is not "always on".
Sound & character animations make or break a game for me and the long periods of silence make me want to turn on the TV (which is never a good thing in the first place).

I have not noticed any periods of silence.

I get occasional periods of silence.

I am not a fan of Jeremy Soule. His music is generic sheets for chamber orchestra. Every single melody sounds just like the previous. Bah.

THe music is perfect cause its not playing all the time and overpowering like most MMOs. It is much more atmospheric and adds to feel of exploring to be out in a wasteland and only be able to hear a bird cawing. I think its very nicely done.