Just a simple poll because I was curious
Do/Did you listen to the music while playing Diablo II?
Oh, and something else
Is there anyway to just listen to the music without listening to the other battle sounds? The sounds of hack n slashing sometimes overwhelm the other Diablo music
And I dont mean downloading the music and playing it separately with Diablo muted
Just a simple poll because I was curious
Do/Did you listen to the music while playing Diablo II?
Oh, and something else
Is there anyway to just listen to the music without listening to the other battle sounds? The sounds of hack n slashing sometimes overwhelm the other Diablo music
And I dont mean downloading the music and playing it separately with Diablo muted
yea... in-game options, there is a separate bar for music and sound fx, turn down fx and turn up the music.
yea... in-game options, there is a separate bar for music and sound fx, turn down fx and turn up the music.
The two bars are for Music and then for Overall Sound
So with Music on max and Sound on 0. There is no sound or music at all
Thats the problem. You can only get the Music on when the other sounds are on
Just wandered if there was any tricky way around this
oh thats right.... :confused: well i dont know of any way then, unless go in game files and replace all the sound effects with blank loops.... or you could just listen to it with music maxed and main volume very low, then turn up your computer's system volume...
I haven't though of that, but I never really bothered. As you so adequately pu it, I could never hear the music over the hack'n'slash noise, so it never got to me
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Matt Uelman is amazing, the music is so ambient and really creates the atmoshpere. Diablo 1 is better however, even if it only has 6
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OMG, I'm a bigger nerd. I took the longer path, and learned how to extract the .wav files from the game CDs, and then bought an iPod primarily to have the Diablo music with me wherever I go.
I love the music Matt Uelman produced for D2, but in truth I prefer the soundtrack of the first game, not for it's incredibly short length (5 songs in total), but for the atmosphere and sense of impending doom it generated.
Diablo 1, and yes I am sure this has been said many times before, was claustrophobic, eerie, creepy, gothic, dark and for some, scary. Diablo II had a much broader and wider opened stages, the sense of danger, while still present was not as concertrated. I felt more scared descending into the bowels of a dark labyrinth than I did wandering around open fields and sand dunes.
And the soundtracks reflected that.
Though if the rumours are to be true, then Matt Uleman took a less active hand in the soundtrack for D3, so we will have to wait and see how the music turned out.
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I agree about the D1 soundtrack, Elfen. The cool thing about the D2 soundtrack is how Matt built upon various phrases from the D1 soundtrack; in effect tying both games together with a common theme (apologies to any musicians if I'm misusing the terminology).
Tristram is the only song present in both, and it got extented in Diablo II. Not that I am complaining, I love that song.
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You should take the time to listen to the whole thing closely if Tristram is the only piece of the D1 soundtrack you've picked up on in D2.
He also used parts of the Dungeon theme, the Catacombs theme, the Caves theme, and the Hell theme.
I'll edit the places into this a little later... (going into the game to take notes, now.)
Edit:
You can hear the D1 Dungeon theme in the Spider Cavern in Act III, and a small piece in the Palace in Act II.
The D1 Catacombs theme can be heard in the Crypt and Mausoleum in the Act I Burial Grounds, and in the Halls of the Dead in Act II.
I can't pin-down a decent example of the D1 Caves theme in the D2 music, but I know I've heard it. And what I'm talking about in some cases are variations (not literal translations) of the D1 music; just as you can hear variations of the Tristram theme all throughout the D2 soundtrack, not only when you go to Tristram to rescue Cain. You can hear what I mean in the Rogue Encampment, and in the wilderness areas of Act I (the Blood Moor, Cold Plains, Stony Field, etc.)
Snippets of he D1 Hell theme can be heard in Act IV. I don't have a character that I can access Act IV with at the moment, but from how I have it denoted on my iPod, the Pandemonium Fortress is one area.
The Caves theme happens later in the track Mesa, which plays in the river of flame. You can really tell by the very deep drumming pattern that should be easily remembered
Edit: Also, the title theme of Diablo 1 can be heard in the track Leoric, which plays in the chaos sanctuary
Had to go back through it, something I haven't done in over 3 years. Few octave and tempo changes, but yes portions of the Diablo soundtrack are present.
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Do/Did you listen to the music while playing Diablo II?
Oh, and something else
Is there anyway to just listen to the music without listening to the other battle sounds? The sounds of hack n slashing sometimes overwhelm the other Diablo music
And I dont mean downloading the music and playing it separately with Diablo muted
yea... in-game options, there is a separate bar for music and sound fx, turn down fx and turn up the music.
The two bars are for Music and then for Overall Sound
So with Music on max and Sound on 0. There is no sound or music at all
Thats the problem. You can only get the Music on when the other sounds are on
Just wandered if there was any tricky way around this
I believe so, yes.
Matt Uelman is amazing, the music is so ambient and really creates the atmoshpere. Diablo 1 is better however, even if it only has 6
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why would u need diablo music wherever you go? incase you decide to do a baal run at wallmart? (if only...)
Diablo 1, and yes I am sure this has been said many times before, was claustrophobic, eerie, creepy, gothic, dark and for some, scary. Diablo II had a much broader and wider opened stages, the sense of danger, while still present was not as concertrated. I felt more scared descending into the bowels of a dark labyrinth than I did wandering around open fields and sand dunes.
And the soundtracks reflected that.
Though if the rumours are to be true, then Matt Uleman took a less active hand in the soundtrack for D3, so we will have to wait and see how the music turned out.
Tristram is the only song present in both, and it got extented in Diablo II. Not that I am complaining, I love that song.
He also used parts of the Dungeon theme, the Catacombs theme, the Caves theme, and the Hell theme.
I'll edit the places into this a little later... (going into the game to take notes, now.)
Edit:
You can hear the D1 Dungeon theme in the Spider Cavern in Act III, and a small piece in the Palace in Act II.
The D1 Catacombs theme can be heard in the Crypt and Mausoleum in the Act I Burial Grounds, and in the Halls of the Dead in Act II.
I can't pin-down a decent example of the D1 Caves theme in the D2 music, but I know I've heard it. And what I'm talking about in some cases are variations (not literal translations) of the D1 music; just as you can hear variations of the Tristram theme all throughout the D2 soundtrack, not only when you go to Tristram to rescue Cain. You can hear what I mean in the Rogue Encampment, and in the wilderness areas of Act I (the Blood Moor, Cold Plains, Stony Field, etc.)
Snippets of he D1 Hell theme can be heard in Act IV. I don't have a character that I can access Act IV with at the moment, but from how I have it denoted on my iPod, the Pandemonium Fortress is one area.
Edit: Also, the title theme of Diablo 1 can be heard in the track Leoric, which plays in the chaos sanctuary