I've spent hours in fallout 1&2 playing and listening the music of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_morgan
and when i hear the music i always remember the quests... the agony for what is going to happen... and many more intense feelings

(here is a link of fallout 2 soundtrack... just to remember what i'm saying... http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_playlists&search_query=fallout+2+soundtrack&uni=1)

When i first played the Fallout 3 game... and after i wiped the drool of my face and floor... i remember my first thought when i noticed the music
"hey... this is like the oblivion soundtrack"

i don't know if its the same artist or not... but just that thought is enough for me to say that
they should make something more original with the music

I don't complain... i'm grateful that we have the fallout franchise up and running...
but i would like to listen to some original music for the series not some oblivion music altered to fit the game

It would be awesome if they hired Mark Morgan to do the music for the game (or the next ones)

What do you think?

If it were up to me, the entire soundtrack would be done in moody harmonica and acoustic guitar. Which is, I'd imagine, exactly why it isn't up to me, aside from the obvious fact that it isn't my job to decide this sort of thing.

Anyway, joking aside, I didn't really feel Inon Zur's effort fit Fallout 3. The game was overflowing with humor and what offensive and/or gruesome subject matter was there was done in an over-the-top, tongue-in-cheek way; if anything, I'd say New Vegas needs a more diverse repertoire in its score rather than the marching "ba-da-da-dum" that accompanies everything. It ultimately fails to achieve or convey any melodic or instrumental variety.

The thing is, I very much like Inon Zur, and had Fallout 3 been more sullen than it pretty much ever became beyond its main quest, I might have advocated his presence. Even then, though, I'd have to argue it was among his weakest work, even when compared in isolation to other recent efforts like Dragon Age: Origins and some of his EverQuest II expansion scores. I'm personally very fond of his Icewind Dale II work.

Buuuut I digress. I'd have to at least agree with you that Fallout 1 and 2 had somewhat better soundtracks overall, with the addendum that I never thought they were particularly outstanding.

I wish they had hired someone new for the soundtrack, while i didn't mind it I certainly would like something a bit better, or atleast different.
I hope the guy atleast takes a different approach to it this time, and not just make a Fallout 3 Soundtrack part 2

I basically agree with this. Either way, I'm fairly certain Inon Zur is reprising his role as composer, so at this point all we can do is hope he flexes his muscles as a composer.

~Heck, I spent so much time listening to GNR, I wasn't even aware the game had an in-game music score beyond the title screen until I was doing Broken Steel.

I barely listenned to the radio...there wasn't that much of interest for me on there, and just served as an annoying distraction most of the time

How can you possabliy want music from F1&2 its just noise! its a dude in a room playing a organ... its rubbish if you ask me, whare the F3 music realy sets the atmosphere and is once youve heard it about 300 times its quite catchy.... so F3 sort of music if you ask me.

Actually, Fallout 3 turned me onto the old timey music. Whenever I'm in my home office working on whatever, I put my ipod touch on the ihome set on Pandora Radio set to Bob Crosby to tune into the 20's to 50's swing music. I find it really eleviates my mood listening to that kind of stuff. I dare say, it's impossible to be sad listening to Big Band. As uncool as it sounds coming from a 25 year post-college man~ I find it more appealing compared to the noise that been counted as music the last decade and a half.

whenever i tuned it it seemed that it just threedog talking, and he always butted in and there was never a flow of songs when i lsitened to it so i didn't bother. Plus i prefer the more atmospheric immersion while travelling through the wasteland.

When I'm out an about in real life, I'm never without an earbud in, listening to podcasts, so I guess I treat the radio in Fallout just the same as I go about my business in real life. I used to use it to settle my nerves in the dark metros because the silence and the dark sometimes got to me. Not to mention, walking about with nothing to listen to...Boring.

i want more bob crosby and more ink spots music!!

I think for song they should use mister sandman by The Chordettes and Bob crosby and ink spots for sure. Blue moon by Frank Sinatra and other songs by him also

You obviously didn't understand the post Q dude

I'm pretty sure OP is referring to the ambient music and not the old-timey radio music (speaking of which, Maybe better make a comeback :flame: ).

Also, as much as Mark Morgan did an amazing job and I'd like it to be him, I doubt it'll happen. I do hold out hope that they attempt to use new music (not taken from Fallout 3), or it'll just feel like an expansion pack. Also, it doesn't really sound like Oblivion music at all, what are you smoking? >_>

It's already been confirmed that Morgan won't be making a return for New Vegas at least.

I'm generally not a big fan of Zur (I liked his Icewind Dale 2 soundtrack and that's it pretty much from what I can remember) and Fallout 3 was no exception. It just seemed like it was stuck between the ambience of the earlier games and a more orchestral style. Really forgettable all in all.

Even if Morgan doesn't return, I'd like a return to the more electronic ambience of many of the older Fallout tracks. I guess we're gonna get music that is quite reminiscant of Redding though, given how they kinda seem to push for an old west vibe for New Vegas. As long as it's not overdone, I think that's fine. But I really wish for a more electronic and synthesized ambience, something that feels a bit more hostile and weird.

I think connecting the F3 music and TES music is a stretch though.

Save that for in New Vegas itself. It would fit the Pristine-yet-dirty future city. Plus, hearing electronic synthesized sounds out in the desert? Are you aesthetically deaf?

The music is in funny contrast compared with the rest of the game.
I always liked that old school music while killing ghouls.

In F3 of course, i've forgot to mention that.

Thanks for the nice insult, classy. And I can most definitely see electronic sounds out in the desert, yes. By that, I don't mean 80s synthesizers or an ambience reminiscant of the Vault 13 track in F1 for example. It should be subtle of course. If you listen to the track Desert Wind (very desert-y that) from F1, well... there you go. The Boneyard is another piece that could fit well in the desert.

That's not to say I mean copy that though. I believe that a first-person game with wide-open areas calls for a different approach than an isometric game.

Hey, what's with the wacky vote options?

I wish there was some way to integrate all those oldies with original soundtracks... Maybe a station you could tune into with the name "Ambiance Radio". bleh.

lol... ehm... nothing man... realy!


Well let me explain, what i meant was that
the artist took the Oblivion musical ideas and re-applied them to the F3 soundtrack


I totally agree with you... F3 music wasn't his best work... he could try a bit harder this time (let's hope so)
and also i agree that even though i love the F1&2... its not because the music was outstanding but because the game was awesome!

I didn't do a great deal of research on the music. Didn't vote either, what is better and whatnot.

Because (except for the radio stations) the FO3 in-game music has a lot in common with the old series IMO.