Hi, Well, I do not believe it is so much laziness as it has to do with cost. It costs serious money to hire musical talent to do music tracks for the background and even though these companies have millions to spend on development after creating several Mortal Kombat games etc they probably have a large library of music used and unused to select from cutting production costs by several thousand in the process. So what you see as simple laziness probably and most likely has to do with the bottom line somewhere. It also could be that the musician they hired has run out of new ideas for music to give the game an all new fresh original sound each and every game. Thus you get that MK design baked and rebaked over and over again you were talking about.
On 2/25/11, Scott Chesworth <scottcheswo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yup, i getcha Clement. In terms of actual progressions and melodies, > MK has pretty much always stuck to tinkering within similar scales and > modes. That's fine, it's a signiture thing that's managed to bind > together some pretty dodgy sound design here and there, but there > certainly isn't the variation between pieces that there used to be. In > the last few titles it's almost like the composer has an MK recipe > that he bakes over and over. A bit of fancy decoration rounds off each > batch, rather than him pushing to become a musical master chef every > time. Considering how far the possibilities can go now if you're just > one dude in front of a computer full of libraries, it's a little lazy > perhaps. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
