Elite / Frontier Elite: Best composers for best game of all time?

JohannStrauss

JohannStrauss
Elite IV: A legend meets legends


When I was running through some live performances of Ben Daglish on youtube and saw the numberless remakes, edits and fanpages of all those legendary songwriters I came to the idea to GET THEM ALL to write ONE personal SONG for Elite. Millions of fans worldwide would just buy the game to listen to those tracks. And I am sure it wont cost you A PENNY to get them to write some music if you explain for what game they are writing.

So PLEASE call Rob Hubbard, Martin Galway, Ben Daglish, David Whittaker and let them take one star system each to write a song for.

Isn't this the best idea EVER?
 

Anders Lerche

Anders Lerche
Interesting idea- those guys are the backbone of all good 8 bit music. Ah, those were the days!

I don't think they work work for pennies though and I must be honest and say that I personally don't need a jukebox in my Elite 4 game. Ethereal space music maybe and some classical music obviously, but apart from that I'm not so sure I would want to listen to music for long periods at the time. Things grow tiresome after a few listens and the tracks need to be VERY good to hold up for a long time. Sure they could do it, but doesn't this game need to be modern instead of retro?

Having the option like the GTA games to arrange your own music tracks in a MP3 folder would be preferable or at least a neat option, so you could chose whether Enya, Prodigy or Jean Michell Jarre should accompany your interstellar adventures IMHO.
 

JohannStrauss

JohannStrauss
Well, some nice airy space sound from Ben Daglish when entering Lave would not be too bad. I'm not talking about a jukebox. And that classical score is one of the essentials in Elite for me anyways.
 

Anders Lerche

Anders Lerche
It's an interesting idea no doubt. At the very least it would be fantastic to hear what these guys can come up with, based on the material of such a game. A strong opening theme, with an orchestra sounding like John Williams at his peak would rock my boat ( spaceship) immensely! :D
 

rgmarett

rgmarett
maybe the classical pieces could be done in a modern style. There is a William Orbit album with pretty much the same name (Pieces in a Modern Style) and it's really nice.
 

Bounder

Bounder
Whatever else, the correct and proper hyperspace music must of course be Queen: Don't stop me now, with the intro synced to the countdown sequence so the jump effects kick in with the drop. Yeah it'd get tired pretty quick, but YOU KNOW it's da tune.
 

rgmarett

rgmarett
:) that would be cool....The Final Countdown by Europe probably wouldn't be cool though.

On the topic of famous people doing the music. I found out today that Hans Zimmer (Pirates of the Carribbean among a lot of other great film scores) is creating the music score for the new Call of Duty game.

Soooo, I don't think it's too far fetched to ask for great musicians like Tangerine Dreams or Vangelis for the new Frontier game.

Halo 3 had a great soundtrack too.

And on a completely different topic is the new game going to be called Elite IV or Frontier III?
 

Steve O B Have

Steve O B Have
This I would've thought would be just stunning in the right spot.

The track is called Space Manoeuvres - Stage One. It's by a British producer called John Graham who does a whole stack of trance and deep progressive house under the pseudonym Quivver.

It's a beautiful haunting track which I think would really fit in with the spirit of Elite (As an aside it has sound samples from the movie 'Event Horizon':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C5-rzpfA98
 

Michael Brookes

Game Director
rgmarett said:
On the topic of famous people doing the music. I found out today that Hans Zimmer (Pirates of the Carribbean among a lot of other great film scores) is creating the music score for the new Call of Duty game.
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He did the soundtrack for Black Hawk Down (which was excellent) so he's a good choice.

Michael
 

rgmarett

rgmarett
Steve O B Have said:
I hear he's doing Modern Warfare 2 as well so he's clearly not adverse to doing games.
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Sorry, that's what I meant. Although I think Modern Warfare 2 is still coming with the Call of Duty title. (One of these all powerful surveys was done which suggested Activision would lose around 50% of sales if Modern Warfare 2 dropped it's Call of Duty background. The first Modern Warfare full title of course is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare)
 

Steve O B Have

Steve O B Have
rgmarett said:
Sorry, that's what I meant. Although I think Modern Warfare 2 is still coming with the Call of Duty title. (One of these all powerful surveys was done which suggested Activision would lose around 50% of sales if Modern Warfare 2 dropped it's Call of Duty background. The first Modern Warfare full title of course is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare)
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Sorry dude - I didn't read your post properly :D I have to admit that I thrashed out COD4 quite a bit when it first came out. Was good for a laugh that game. Was a brilliant, allbeit short, single player game.
 

rgmarett

rgmarett
Steve O B Have said:
Was a brilliant, allbeit short, single player game.
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I agree. That's a funny thing about games. I want the new Elite to be this huge game that I can continue to play for years down the line, whereas, for me, Modern Warfare was just the right length. Any longer and the single player game would have dragged on. I suppose the long term benefit of that game is the multi-player aspect (which my wife is still playing!! she couldn't even hold a joypad properly when we first got the xbox360, now she's better than me!)
 
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