Alternative Emperor music

[Dunenewt]

If you could choose a band to do the music for a side in Emperor what would it be?

For me:

Atreides - Muse

Harkonnen - Metallica

Ordos - Chemical Brothers

[Apollyon]

I rigged it to play total annihilation music on mine.

I'd have Beethoven do Harkonnen,

Bach do Ateides

Radiohead do Ordos.

[Ninja_Sher]

I rigged it to play total annihilation music on mine.

I'd have Beethoven do Harkonnen,

Bach do Ateides

Radiohead do Ordos.

Actually Beethoven would better resemble Atreides.

Harkonnen Sting ( Feyd Rautha ).

Ordos Metallica.

[Apollyon]

Hell no.

Beethoven is really loud and powerful music. Perfect for Harkonnen. It might not be evil music, but Harkonnen aren't really half as evil as the game makes them out.

[exatreide]

Yes...They are...

[Apollyon]

No... they aren't.

The only thing that gave Harkonnen their evil air in the books was Baron Vladmir Harkonnen. His predecessor, Dmitri, was a good and fair ruler of Giedi prime.

By the way your presentation of facts to back up your argument was amazing.

[Terenas77]

*imagine playing Harkonnen missions with "walking on the moon" by Police*

;D ;D ;D

[darkd3th]

hark - megadeth

atr - metallica

ord - slayer

[veK]

atreides: bonobo / archive / hans zimmer (the rock soundtrack style)

harkonnen: korn / farmer boys / apocalyptica ... maybe some m.manson too

ordos: dust brothers (fight club soundtrack style) / chemical brothers / prodigy

[Dunenewt]

Prodigy is C&C  style I reckon.

[erjin999]

So can this be done ? Wheres the thread that says which files need to be swapped ? Or is this all theoretical ?  :O

[veK]

afaik this can be done by making new bag files.

but i guess the thread was about which band we would like to do the music, creating new music like a soundtrack for the game - not using their old music...

[Dunenewt]

Yes veK is right.  It can be done but that's not the point in the thread.

[KALONY]

in my ordos games, i have a song from the lord of the ring film-music.....thats great....sweet in the beginning, and big dark and loud in the later games...thx to the noob-bro-darnnoobs

KALONY

[DjCiD]

Well I may seem a bit biased but I like the One Corrino track for most of the Houses. It kinda seems Ordos-ish...

ModMuzak

[Dunenewt]

They run at half the speed they should when they are in-game though.

[Apollyon]

Mine never did. Depends on how you encode them.

[Dunenewt]

The House Corrino's did for me.  How did you encode them?

[Apollyon]

Oh I don't know about that one. It's down to the encoding, ie how many kbs it is. Emp is set to something pretty low so anything higher will play strangely.

[veK]

actually the music isn't set to a low kbs.

it'a @ 128 kbs - but the difference is: it's only @ 22kHz.

I guess this might be the reason for strange playing, because everyone has his music with 44kHz and not 22.

maybe you just try to encode a copy of your music in 128kbs and 22kHz - just for the game.

[Apollyon]

128 is low.

[veK]

128 kbs is the average standard - 192kbs is good quality and everything thats higher than 192 is just insane and only encoded by people who think their hdds have unlimited capacity.

you could call everything below 128 kbs low but 128 is still the average standard and quite acceptable quality. I for myself encode everthing with 192...

[Apollyon]

The average standard according to whom?

[Vanguard3000]

EVeryone.  Store-bought CDs use 128kbs.  I don't think you can even burn CDs at higher qualities.  Higher quality MP3s will just burn at 128kb as well.

[Apollyon]

That's impossible as you can rip tracks from CDs at a much higher quality. I rip mine at 356kbs.