Was anyone else as disappointed with the in-game music as I was?

I was expecting music that you would hear in 1950's Las Vegas, not 1940's Texas. I mean Kay Kyser? Really? I was expecting more Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Bing Crosby. You know, jazz to give it that Las Vegas feel. Maybe I'm alone in this but I was just a little let-down.

I sort of agree - i was thinking the other day how the fallout 3 music was quite well suited to the game... some of it was perfect!
but i dont really like any of the music from FNV.

The music is extremely boring on FONV... FO3 was such good music - one of the reasons playing it for so long (hour after hour) was tolerable. New Vegas has a limited selection and most of the time I walk around the wasteland without my radio on. When I enter a town or a room that has the radio on, I find it and shut it off because I simply cant listen to Johnny Guitar one more time.

They do have some good songs on there, but to listen to it over and over again, brutal...

Yeah the music selection is terribly limited. I mean, there are about 5 songs it seems like. They really needed more variety. After about 1 hr of playing I have heard everything twice.

20 men had tried to take him, 20 men had made a slip.
21 would be the Ranger with the big iron on his hip.


this one is teh best


though it could take away from the game, they should let you put your own playlists on some seperate radiostation or something,
I would just use 50's music anyways

The radio station was a big disappointment. Not only is it boring. But the DJ does not follow the exploits of your character. I have to admit that hearing Three Dog mention and sometimes curse me was kind of cool. Wayne saying that he loves me. Gives me the creeps.

Have to agree. There are some good songs in FNV, like Big Iron and Jingle Jangle Jingle. But there needs to be way more Vegas tunes from Sinatra, Crosby, Martin etc. And where are the Ink Spots? They are a Fallout Icon! I was hoping to hear Mack the Knife too. And where is Elvis? A whole gang of Elvis clones running around, but not one Elvis song? What I think is they blew all their money hiring big name Hollywood voice actors, and didn't have enough left for song licensing. Thank goodness for mods..

that song is 'big iron' by marty robbins

FNV definately needs more music, maybe future dlc music packs or the ability to make a custom soundtrack from songs off your hard drive.

There are 48 songs in total which is a lot more than FO3 had, however it seems that only 5 or 6 of them every play. Either it was programmed like this, or the random selection is just seriously messed up.

But there are a BUNCH of 1950's Las Vegas songs; Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, etc. They just happen to be some of the songs the game never plays. It just wants to play Jingle-Jangle-Jingle every other freakin' song ><

If you want to hear the entire soundtrack, just add all the MP3s in ~Data\Sound\songs\radionv to Winamp or something and play them in the background.

Yeah, I maintain that there must be a glitch in the way the radio is coded to select songs. It just doesn't make sense that there are so many songs in the game's files but none of them every play. Also, it seems like Mr. New Vegas should talk about news/exploits of the player (for example, he talks about the player's recovery after getting shot in the head, he reports on large figures "skulking around Hidden Valley after dusk," he talks about how nobody has heard from anyone in Nipton, etc), but he doesn't seem to ever update what he actually says. It's always the same old news, even 20 hours into the game.

Hoping strongly that this is just an error and that they'll patch it soon. If not... well, at least I have mods. ><

Forty eight songs!?!?!?!?!?!

Then why am I hearing Big Iron and Johnny Guitar every twenty minutes?



In a well made game you wouldn't have to do that.

Considering how not long after I helped that first town fight-off the Powder Gangers to save Ringo, Mr. New Vegas commented on it.. Says that he's tracking things you do somewhat, if not as directly as Three-Dog did.

I totally agree, I think my radio has a 3 song playlist! I don't mind Big Iron a little bit, but I'm galling sleep to Johnny here! Where is the song "Chop that meat!" :rofl: That was a good song in Fo3!

Also, if you play on a console, you can't just copy them into winamp

One of the nice things about playing on a PC. The other is radio station mods and playlist extenders.

Speaking of mods, there's one that sort of fixes the playlist http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=35376.

But you can get the songs (no comment) and put them on your HD to play through the background player.. That's what I did.

If you add MP3s to that directory, will the game play them? I think I'll try it tonight... moseying across the Mojave to Metallica would be a pleasant change :mohawk:

I doubt it, since it doesn't even play all the default songs -.-

You can, however, replace the files with your song. Basically, rename your crappy metallica song to one of the files in that folder and copy it over, overwriting the original.

the music in FO:3 was something i never really enjoyed listening too, but it suited the mood well. my actual musical tastes are nothing like the music in FO3 & FNV, but i can definintely say that New Vegas has some swinging tunes that really suit the mood of not just vegas but even the mojave desert too. obsidian did a great job with this one, even if it seems like right now we only get to listen to a small portion of the games available tunes ...

ZING! :laugh:

To each to their own. I couldn't think of a good rhyme with "Disturbed" B)

I loved the tunes in FO3. Had the radio on constantly, even went so far as buying the tunes and putting them on my iPod :mohawk:

FNV however.... I don't know. Far too few tunes, far too bland a DJ. It's ok in the Wasteland, but I've found myself turning the radio off 99% of the time in Freeside and The Strip, mainly because the ambience there is fantastic. The shouts, jeers, distant gunshots, background radios... the whole thing is really evocative and quite realistic. The only way to experience Vegas, imo, is to turn the radio off.

48 songs? That's surprising. And you’re right, something is way amiss. I’m hearing in the neighborhood of 12 songs with 4 or 5 in very heavy rotation. Not what you want with a game you spend scores of hours playing.

I was disappointed with the looping. I anticipated not liking the default music though, as I'm just not fond of music from that era. I fixed both problems though. They made it very easy to replace the music, just rename and insert your desired MP3 and the default radio plays it happily.

So I did as Swish Lizard suggested and used Winamp to play all the songs that are supposed to playing over the radio. I couldn't believe my ears. There are some darned good tunes in there. Including some beautiful classical pieces. There's even a Fallout themed parody of Home on the Range.

Not having the radio working right from the get go was really a big F-up.