what is their best boss theme?i gotta admit this is pure ludokino https://youtu.be/INV9C9BqSJs
Im convinced they brought radahn back in the dlc because 90% of players killed him in the base game before the song got really epic at around 3.50 https://youtu.be/Bfqu0TK_hPM
>>729474267>>729474671Those are two of my least favorite themes. But then again I'm about to drop one of the worst fights in 2 as my favorite theme so what the fuck do I know about best Souls game boss themes.https://youtu.be/vdwa0nFuc_4?si=heEARmJ9iM--yCJ-enjoy this unrelated picture
Between these:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS-T2XZX3nUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPJUQg_U5HYNot my favorite in the series, but the soundtrack is unmatched.
>>729474267Ebrietas is so good because it actually changes key, which they almost never do
Remember when FromSoft removed the best Dark Souls III tracks before release?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKDTaTlWOjw&list=PL_pygMRoMfQBYYv7IOqQIXcbGjpmnVIcT&index=3
>>729476821That's so good I'm surprised it wasn't repurposed somewhere else. Didn't know about DS3 cut boss fight music. And now that I'm reading it I'm saddened at what else got messed with.
here is my dark horse pickhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dV4NTEtRyc
>>729477197For me it's the ending of it. 2:15 to 2:45 ish or so. I could listen to that part forever.
>>729474267I generally hate most of the Elden Ring music for being muddy orchestral noise but the DLC had some really good stuffhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwTNzviKCDk
>>729474267All sound the same plink plonk plop. DS3 main menu and sister Friede stood out the most to me, also a lot of nice ambient themes in elden ring and sekiro. https://youtu.be/Ic2KJjSZumw?si=TNqrLDl-CvUBUykf
>>729477395If we're going off best plink plonk plop I have to vote for Aldia. My favorite of the plink plonk plop themes across the series. https://youtu.be/U8WXoKrqIi0?si=SOQM77EFIPPO5VGS
>>729477285also my favorite 3 trackhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHwWoo3sEDE
>>729474267Unironically the GOAT theme for one of the shittiest bosses in the entire serieshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ4Ni-kFIZc
unrelated but since when has youtube blocked any embedded video I try to watch? I have to keep opening all these in new windows, which is fine whatever but I never used to.
>>729477674Works on my machine, using waterfox.
>>729477601And another theme that goes way too hard for the aborted failure of a boss it represents:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h0HehqL1DM
>>729474267Definitely not their all time best but I'm a big fan of picrel, specifically the part around 3:38 to 4:10.>neat concept>cool lore>sick visuals>great theme>abysmal dogshit fightShame.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VMly0osCMc
>>729477773Lichdragon's issue is when you finally fight them I always thought. I followed that questline hard when the game first came out revisiting whatsherface multiple times just to see if anything changed and by the time I got to fighting an undead dragon underneath a hellscape looking sky I was so high leveled I shot him to death with my shortbow.
>>729477752Well firefox don't like it no more. It's not the end of the world, but a little annoying.
>>729477773Damn, you beat me to it.
midra and lawrence are my favourites
>>729477872Yeah, it's baffling that they made the final boss of a long quest chain that unlocks its own ending a massive pushover with less HP than a random bear in the same area
>elden rang music is, le bad!wrong. these are all great trackshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uG90Wt-wDghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb1LSTRbcKUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCauPz3hyfMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZRWcIKCk8Yhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK61JMXCFVk
>>729474671The pretty sure the second half plays after he meteor drops you. But yes, I agree, people kill him to quick and the nerf was unnecessary
>>729477197Dark Souls II's OST is neat. It's not the most impressive on paper, or even close, but it's very restrained and smart about not giving away the climax of the song at the beginning. They just allow it to be boring. You end up with climaxes that feel earned and each section actually adds something the song was lacking. With Dark Souls III you've kind of already heard the climax in the first 15 seconds. They made the task much harder on themselves to continue one-upping the opening verse.It's always fresh. It bridges Dark Souls 1 and 3 nicely.
I am bias but pic rels is so fucking good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt4wKlQ6FLM ER has some of my favourite in general ngl.https://youtu.be/mKOpTUezXeM?si https://youtu.be/1Saywp-mXxo?si Gywn is a classic too but we all know that>>729477850>banned in my countrywtf...
>>729478165The climaxes or bridges to the tracks in DS2 always stood out to me far more then the ones in any other souls game. I'm sure not every track is that way but the ones that come to mind are that way. I agree.
No ones posted the true apex of the series yet.https://youtu.be/ALbVEmzY5S4?si=lYjPBY12dTPjigFz
>>729478376BB has the best ost even made, I'm not even kidding. Theres only maybe 5 bad tracks and it's just because they're sort of boring compared to the rest
>>729474267Motoi Sakuraba mogged every other composer with Gywns theme and FROMSOFTS music in general went to shit with Dark Souls 3 and beyond.
>>729474267Ivory King or the sunflowers
>>729474671that happens with a lot of elden ring tracks. its like they're telling the bosses entire storyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JBnY_JHViI
>>729478376When it comes to actually telling a story, nothing comes close. I mean that literally. They just... tell you his story in latin at the beginning of the 'Holy Blade' song
>>729478454Ill never forgive sony for shutting the doors on studio japan, their talent was unparalleled
>>729478517I dont think its was ever that good. Not bad but weirdly 7/10 in 11/10 games. Every game has a banger or two but far cry from FF or DQ. What's weirder is I thought they just kept on a old employee but supposedly every game has a different composer, which is weird in itself.
Maiden Astraea or Guardian Spirit.
>>729474267https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC_b5L5dup4
>>729476095>Maiden AstraeaTruly the patrician choice.
>>729477773Yoshimi Kudo is my favorite Elden Ring composer. Him not being brought back for SoTE was a huge mistake.
>>729478165Dark Souls 2 doesn't get enough praise for its ambient themes. Everyone brings up Majula but the title screen theme, Things Betwixt, Vendrick and the milfanito song are all top tier shit and you don't get anything like it in the subsequent games because it's all generic sad strings or whatever.
>>729479734Bonus points for literally all of those sounding different
>>729477773Probably the best theme in the game, and the boss would be good if they just added death blight to his lightning instead of the stupid homing garbage.
>>729478781From wasn't that big of a studio, niggas were busy. Demon's Souls had Shunsuke Kida as the composer, he didn't even work for them, it was a contractor, but their main sound team were likely too busy with Armored Core to spare the time for an almost failed side project.Then Dark Souls used Sakuraba through the Namco connections, but once they refocused their teams with the success of the Souls series the main in-house talent came back. Sakuraba worked on Dark Souls II while Bloodborne had a couple of guest contractors but was mainly composed by Tsukasa Saitoh, Nobuyoshi Suzuki and Yuka Kitamura. At the time all in-house contractors. Suzuki went to work for Nintendo on the main theme of Mario Odyssey, Kitamura left the company but still works with them as a contractor, Saitoh was lead composer and sound director for Elden Ring. They also have the legendary Kota Hoshino but he doesn't seem confident in his skills to make fantasy music so he only comes back to the composer chair for Armored Core and only does sound design for the fantasy games.Their sound team grew after Dark Souls III too, lots of new composers for Elden Ring.
>>729480184At the time all in-house employees*
>>729474267I wish they didn't nerf Balteus and just added a hard mode. https://youtu.be/9uI8jvUWDHc?si=1_r-OcdEelEgBTL3
>>729476095>>729479410Maiden, its not even fucking close.>the build up spanning over multiple levels of nothing but absolute vile.>showcased as one of the least redeemable places, its completely gone, their is no humanity level, even Latria does to an extent.>The tonal shift vs all other music in the game>The real boss just being her knight, whos only job is to stop you from seeing her.>Garland doesnt care about anything else but protecting her, even when there is nothing really left to protect or save>Maiden holding onto her demon soul, unlike the rest, shes trying to use it to mend others and bring back life>Shes sitting at river of blood with infant corpses clawing at you.>As hopeful as she was, whatever was left, you take and she dies by her own will>Is disgusted when offering her demon soul to you since you couldnt just leave it well enough alone even for someone like her. You had to take it.Its fucking perfect.
>>729480184I like Saitoh and Tomisawa the least out of everyone who worked on Elden Ring. They embody that generic Hollywood sound that makes Elden Ring feel more like a corporate product.
>>729480495I'm not a big fan of Elden Ring's soundtrack in general, except for a select few tracks, but I greatly enjoyed his work in Silent Line, Nexus and Bloodborne:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8ctLtUlgIEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9yppasLLB4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LOR9JXK1Og
