This thread will discuss what I would like out of the Soundtrack on TES V: Skyrim. First off I dont care if someone else already post this, dont put a link to someone elses post it is very annoying. As we know both Morrowind and Oblivion had EPIC soundtracks, memorable and far better than most other soundtracks. The only one that dare compare is the Halo series, anyways. I would like the soundtrack to be similar to the others, in that it is Orchestric and very EPIC. But i admit it was a bit short in Oblivion and Morrowind, possibly in Skyrim you could make it a bit longer. That is all I can reccomend is to make the soundtrack longer. It is to epic to reccomend anything else. If you have any ideas to add, post them below.

I think the biggest flaw of Morrowind and Oblivion was the small selection of tracks. There needs to be more music overall, not just one playlist of universal overworld/dungeon music, etc. Would it really hurt to have unique themes for specific areas? Combat music should be handled differently as well, I don't want combat music to start just because I looked at a mudcrab the wrong way.

I want the music to be epic, but the past ones have suited me just fine.
Morrowinds was particularly lovely...

They may have been short, but the music fit the atmosphere, which is what it should do.

More music = more composers. Unless you want to sacrifice quality music just to have a greater quantity.

I chose the "I am deaf" one but I really want them to make it more epic and make it longer.

Not really, one composer can make a lot of songs if he got the time.
And I think Bethesda should do it like FNV did. Some locations with unique songs and a lot of variety, and if possible even re-utilize some songs from previous game if implemented in a nice way.

No... why make them longer? No need to force them to be more long. Long is not always epic. And epic/long is not always good. 3-4 minutes is perfect imo.

Let Bethesda choose the right atmosphere and let Jeremy Soule put that atmosphere into something beautiful we can hear.

Just let Jeremy Soule compose them (that's my only request), and let him compose them the way he wants. I trust him 100% he has done an outstanding, almost unnaturally great job on everything before!
I see no reason to even discuss soundtracks for Skyrim, because Morrowind, Oblivion and Fallout have had the greatest soundtracks I've ever heard in any game of all time.
I have full belief that Skyrim will be the same.

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I voted for the top choice...although, in the end, after a couple of years, I will play with the music set to nix...because I will have become bored of it.

as long as jeremy soul composes the tracks, they'll be just as epik as ever

I'm hoping that the in-game music will have some of those beautiful chants and maybe even some female vocals, either way I think this new soundtrack is probably going to dwarf Oblivion's epicness.

yeah, i want to hear rise of the neravar after killing a dragon


dun dah dah, dundin der, dun dun der dun duuuuur dun dur, dund din din din dun dun dun dand dun dun din dun, dun dun duuuuuuuuuuuuuu


DA DA DIR, DA DA DIR! DA DAA DUUU DU DIDLE DIR!!!!!


(does whole morrowind song while imagining a sunset infront of the charecter and a dragon behind

Assuming Jeremy Soule is composing do you really think he has the time? He is currently composing for Guild Wars 2, and Duke Nukem Forever I think. A long soundtrack for Skyrim would be very difficult to pull off alone with all those other projects. The work would need to be split..Company Of Heroes did it..they had a [censored]load of music, but it was split among Jeremy Soule, Inon Zur, and Ian Livingstone.

Where's the option for some good music for once? Except the awesome (Awesome) Morrowind title theme (and to a lesser extend, the Oblivion remix that was weaker), the musics in both Morrowind and Oblivion where lacking. They aren't bad, they feel really good when you listen to them but somehow, I didn't find them memorable at all which must mean they aren't that good after all

More songs, and more epic than past games.

Song in the teaser was brilliant, more of that level of quality please.

Lol that made my day. You have a good point too, the music shouldn't be the same in a fight between a mudcrab, and A group of ogres.

I tried combining the theme of Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim together. Give it a listen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H7kjsRQG-k

Dude.. That is really good. I like that a lot. Very well done, sir.

I know not everyone believes what Wikipedia has to say (nor should they) but I think its been confirmed that Jeremy Soule is making the soundtrack for Skyrim!


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elder_Scrolls_V:_Skyrim (look at the composer on the right)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Soule#Video_games (the last one)

Meh.. I'll believe it when it comes from Bethesda. Good heads up, though. I'm pretty sure he's doing it anyway.

While without official word from Bethesda, I'm not sure how much we can trust any claims to that effect, but I certainly would not be at all surprised if Jeremy Soule is returning for Skyrim, since Bethesda seems to like him a lot, judging from the fact they used him for both Morrowind and Oblivion. And I'm sure the reason they did not get him for Fallout 3 is because his usual style wouldn't fit the atmosphere of Fallout, not because they've decided to stop using him.

But one thing I really want to see in the series is more music for different types of situations and environments, because while Oblivion improved upon Morrowind somewhat by having music for dungeons and towns as well as wilderness areas, instead of just generic exploration music, it still could have been better. A tavern isn't supposed to have the same kind of atmosphere as a quiet city street, so why should it have the same music? Also, boss fights really deserve their own music, especially if the popular belief that Skyrim is going to involve slaying dragons is actually true, I'd be tempted to bang my head against a wall repeatedly if I'm fighting a dragon and get the same music as when fighting a mudcrab.

If the music from the trailer is any indication, I'd say I have reason to be optimistic about the quality of Skyrim's music (Of course, it's always possible that it's not. Since as much as I liked Morrowind's main theme, I found most of the other music to be rather forgettable, proving that just because the theme song of the game is good doesn't mean the rest of the soundtrack is equally impressive, assuming that song is the theme song at all. For what we know now, it could have been composed specifically for the trailer, though such a move would seem like kind of a waste.) but we have no guarentee, at this time, that the game will have enough situational music to properly capture the atmosphere of each part of the game.

Instead of this crappy voice acting we have, I rather have all the info be used for music instead of voice acting.
So now we are limited to a few tracks and a few 2 different voices per race. Get rid of voice acting and use the
space for more variety of music. Just imagine how much more music we can have without voice acting.

The guy who updated Skyrim and Soule's wiki pages is anonymous and did it from Olympia, Washington (according to ip2location)
Doesn't sound like a reliable source.

Thus said, it will probably be Soule again.

I love the ambient soundtracks in the TES games and FO3. What I hate is the combat music that you can't toggle off.