Music in SE IV

Erax · #1 May 29th, 2003, 06:30 PM

I'm sure this has been asked before. I think I even read the answer.

But here goes : is there a way to make SEIV play midi or mp3 files off the HD ? Or does it only play audio tracks on a CD ?

[ May 29, 2003, 17:30: Message edited by: Chief Engineer Erax ]

PvK · #2 May 29th, 2003, 08:26 PM

If that's the case, you could burn an audio CD with the tracks you want on it.

Fyron · #3 May 29th, 2003, 09:04 PM

Se4 only plays audio tracks on CDs. You can always just play the files in a media player such as WinAmp or Windows Media Player (which sucks, but thats another issue

) in the background. Multitasking is great!

Erax · #4 May 30th, 2003, 01:56 AM

It would have been nice to make different soundtracks for different games. I can still do that on Winamp or midi player, but it would have been nicer to have it all in-game. Oh well.

Fyron · #5 May 30th, 2003, 02:07 AM

Send a suggestion to MM. Who knows, it might even get into SE5!

PvK · #6 May 30th, 2003, 02:52 AM

Ya, though I often wonder about game music. Seems like people have pretty varied tastes, computers can play whatever music the user likes, as can stereos (which don't waste resources that could be doing game stuff).

On the other hand, there are a few games with music that seems to really help. But only a few. I think I'd usually rather the dev resources went towards game improvements, unless there is something really worthwhile to do with the music.

PvK

DavidG · #7 May 30th, 2003, 03:40 AM

slightly OT from the post but does anyone actually like music in games? I think the only thing worse is music on web pages.

I think the only game I've played were the music really enhanced it was System Shock 2. They really made good use of it there.

Katchoo · #8 May 30th, 2003, 03:43 AM

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Originally posted by DavidG:
slightly OT from the post but does anyone actually like music in games? I think the only thing worse is music on web pages.
I think the only game I've played were the music really enhanced it was System Shock 2. They really made good use of it there.

I don't know, the music in Dungeon Oddessy is pretty appropriate (and catchy!).

For the most part though i'll turn off the in-game music and run Winamp in the background (as Fyron mentioned).

TerranC · #9 May 30th, 2003, 04:15 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by DavidG:
slightly OT from the post but does anyone actually like music in games? I think the only thing worse is music on web pages.
I think the only game I've played were the music really enhanced it was System Shock 2. They really made good use of it there.

Role-playing game musics are usually good; Chrono Trigger and the Final Fantasy series games all had good and fitting music.

Taera · #10 May 30th, 2003, 04:18 AM

the only game i've seen that had awesome music was "Populous 3: The Beginning". Awesome.

as for the rest, i usually listen to the music for a week or less, then plug in my own music - i have a nice line-in setup with my cd walkman