Quake OST discussion.
 
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09/22/08 12:10 PM

Does anyone else appreciate the Quake original sound track?

I love it. It really adds to the theme and feeling of the game. Because of Trent's work on the soundtrack, the game really stands out to me. Anyone else notice that the music sounds akin to Ghosts? Another thing was that is was pretty cool that the ammo for the nail guns wielded the NIN logo. Awesome stuff.

Whatever happend to Trent scoring Doom 3? Just as well I say, the game wasn't good enough for it.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/22/2008 11:10AM by funkamatic.

 

09/22/08 11:20 AM

I own the ost, it's pretty cool. I think he should score more video games.

 

09/22/08 12:38 PM

Yeah. I agree. I don't know about Id in particular, but if TR scored a game, I'd probably buy it.

 

09/22/08 1:08 PM

Just wanted to pop in and say "kudos" to funkamatic for making a thread with a descriptive, on-topic thread title. Its rare, but I see it more and more with new threads. Great job!

 

09/22/08 1:20 PM

I can't recall exactly why I tried Quake in the first place, but Trent's work on the music really made me love it. Quake was the reason I bought my first Windows-based system (I was 13 or 14, so my old XT did me just fine up until high school). Ah, the memories...

I recall a line from some "How much of a nerd are you?" quiz that said, "You use the Quake soundtrack for mood music." You can guess what I said about that.

I know I still own it, but I'll be damned if I can tell you where it is right now, lol.

 

09/22/08 1:45 PM

swindley posted:
Just wanted to pop in and say "kudos" to funkamatic for making a thread with a descriptive, on-topic thread title. Its rare, but I see it more and more with new threads. Great job!

cool. thanks!


anyways. again, I'd really like to see more OST's done by TR. If I were making a game and I wanted to boost the atmosphere to an ultimate level, I'd be contacting him.

 

09/26/08 6:47 PM

Just a slight correction, it's not an "OST".
OST means an external music CD sold to promote the subject. The word "soundtrack" covers it, but you could argue that it should be called a "score", because the music was written specifically to give a mood to the levels.

You can read about the definitions here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundtrack#Origin_of_the_term
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_music

One other thing that some people don't realize is that Trent made every single sound in Quake, the gunshots, the door opening and most notably: the grunts.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/26/2008 06:47PM by nympholept.

 

09/26/08 7:05 PM

yeah i bought quake b/c of NIN..the game, as history shows, was revolutionary.... i esp loved the ammo boxes for the nail gun, which if you guys dont remember actually had the NIN logo on it. the true logo with the backwards N. you can download the soundtrack of torrent,, i got it a few years ago.

 

04/04/09 9:02 PM

Ive never played Quake 1. Ive recently gotten the urge to play the game while listening to the soundtrack. Also wanted a copy because it also plays as a cd(you know). I Bought a copy of it off ebay for .99c. Recieved it in days and installed it but WOULD NOT play. I get dumb error reports. So I googled around and found a torrent. Installed a different source and plays great. Hell yea. Now, the beautiful part of my story is...

with my cd rom inserted it still plays Trents soundtrack. Otherwise it wouldnt. The torrent doesnt have the soundtrack with it see, Originally you can only hear the music if you had the actuall cd in the cd-rom.

 

04/05/09 2:52 AM

I never really managed to listen to the whole soundtrack. I think i'm going to play Quake first, and then when i have the time, and that i'm not doing anything else, to really get a good listen of it. Until now, i've just got the "main theme" on my iPod, that is excellent, with all the screams in the back.

 

04/05/09 4:53 AM

In case the game doesn't work... there is Windows version of Quake on ftp.idsoftware.com, it installs into shareware and retail DOS versions (also GLQuake for Windows - looks much better, don't know about Linux and Mac). Any version should play audio CD tracks, they can be added in "mixed mode CD" after the data track if you choose to burn the game on CDR.

 

04/05/09 4:01 AM

The score of this game would have been good enough to warrent an external CD soundtrack IMO. Really showed Trent's abilities in a more 'ambient' context. When I first heard about ghosts, this was the first thing I thought of, hopefully the atmosphere will be revisited again some time.

 

04/05/09 8:39 AM

BenAkenobi posted:
In case the game doesn't work... there is Windows version of Quake on ftp.idsoftware.com, it installs into shareware and retail DOS versions (also GLQuake for Windows - looks much better, don't know about Linux and Mac). Any version should play audio CD tracks, they can be added in "mixed mode CD" after the data track if you choose to burn the game on CDR.

great. thanks for the heads up!.

 

04/05/09 10:01 AM

funkamatic posted:
Whatever happend to Trent scoring Doom 3? Just as well I say, the game wasn't good enough for it.

I'm pretty sure Interscope had something to do with it. All i remember was a little news tidbit saying he couldn't continue to work on it because of some outside influence. I actually really liked the game either way, but i wish he would have finished it - because the Beta leak that i had before the real game came out that still had Trent's effects in it sounded a bit better in my opinion... loved it either way though.

My friend had bought Quake because we we're both big id fans, having loved Doom and Wolfenstein. Then we heard the music, and tried it out in a CD player and i think it actually spent more time in audio racks than in computers, heh. We didn't even find out it was NIN until years later. (Yeah, those ammo boxes should have been a dead giveaway, but we were too concerned with shooting things at first. then when we went back to play it after Quake 2 came out, we noticed and were like woah!)

 

04/07/09 5:23 AM

Acharis posted:
The score of this game would have been good enough to warrent an external CD soundtrack IMO. Really showed Trent's abilities in a more 'ambient' context. When I first heard about ghosts, this was the first thing I thought of, hopefully the atmosphere will be revisited again some time.

Totally the same, I got into Quake Soundtrack right when Ghosts was coming out. It's different, spooky and ambient and I love it. Having never played Quake it felt like I'd discovered an entirely new NIN record.

 

06/07/09 4:54 PM

i feel like a douche for making a separate thread about this game, but I just wanted to post up with my found information....

for anyone searching in the future you can indeed play the game's soundtrack from the game cd.... =)

 

06/07/09 11:05 PM

Is there actually a soundtrack? or is it just the game CD still? I have the game CD with one of the tracks being a data track in my CD collection but if there is an actual OST or "Score" I'd be down with finding that.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/07/2009 10:14PM by symphonyofnoise.

 

06/08/09 12:27 AM

just put the quake game cd in and open windows media player or something and go play as if your going to play a cd, it has the song titles and everything. Great game, the music was awsome thanks to Trent, there is some mad engine mods to make it look pretty neat, has bump mapping, and a few other current Graphic enhancements.

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Be sure to grab the texture packs smiling smiley

 

06/08/09 2:40 PM

I really love the music, wonderful dark ambient, really creepy... The first track is the only one really violent, and it rocks ! It reminds me of Reptile, also.
Anyway, the music really makes the game more interesting. Quake is one of the few FPS that can be as scary as a game like Silent Hill.

 

06/10/09 10:03 AM

A little off topic -- but I actually am somewhat glad Trent didn't get more involved with the Doom 3 sound. That game fucked with me as it was.

I actually had a little mini-flashback to the event that happens with the tram while I was at work once after I had gone through the game the first time. I am afraid to imagine how it would have affected my mind if I had let myself get absorbed into it having Trent's fingerprints all over the audio aspect.

 

06/10/09 1:27 PM

symphonyofnoise posted:
Is there actually a soundtrack? or is it just the game CD still? I have the game CD with one of the tracks being a data track in my CD collection but if there is an actual OST or "Score" I'd be down with finding that.

just rip it and remove the data track or fuck make mp3s of it and whack it on the ipod

 

07/23/09 1:42 PM

Trying to gather some information about he quake soundtrack.

Like what kind of horn was used in most of the soundtrack? Specially Track 1, half way through the song.

And also if any of those sounds are available for download?

 

07/25/09 2:41 PM

Ah, fond memories smiling smiley

Back in 1996 when I was 16 years old I had heard that there was a new 3d-shooter being published by the masters who made Doom a couple of years before. When I heard that Trent Reznor would compose the soundtrack and make the sound effects I knew I had to have it the day it was relased. 3D shooter with gothic themes + NIN soundtrack = my wet dreams coming true.

So I got it the day it was released and omg was it badass, certainly worthy of its mature rating back then. The game was so nightmarish, atmospheric and violent unlike anything I had seen before. Don't want to exaggerate but the music and sounds were perfect. I still have the original box + gaming cd here on the shelf.

It's clearly audible that the music is straight out of the Self-Destruct era, very dark and depressive.

One of the best, if not not *the* best gaming soundtrack ever. Look it up on youtube if you're not convinced.

 

07/25/09 5:25 PM

I don't know why but i could never get my head round this. I think it sounds great in the game but as somthing to listen to, i dont know maybe it's just me but i feel it's to abstract to listen to as a whole. It's basically just atmosphere on a cd. I am pissed now by the way, i'll apologise tomorrow.

 

10/10/09 9:11 PM

I just found out that the quake released on Steam was gutted of Trent's music. I know he no longer has copyright on that stuff so it probably wasn't his call (i'd be surprised if he even knows about it) but I'm curious about the sound effects as I thought he did those too. I haven't played old or re-release (farted around with quakelive a while ago) so I'm not well versed but I have been wanting to buy the old quake game just for the music as youtube isn't the best place to enjoy it =P

 

10/11/09 3:21 AM

According to Steam forums, id software knows that soundtrack isn't there, but they preferred not to dig into the game code, because soundtrack would have made Quake and Quake2 very big and at the same time they didn't want to sacrifice the sound quality with downsampled files. And id software don't use mp3 in their games, because they don't wanna buy a license.

 

10/11/09 12:02 PM

I just spent literally the entire night looking for the Quake soundtrack online--there were many false starts, time wasted, etc. But finally I found it. This is kind of cool for me because I have never heard this before, so it is also like a lost NIN album. I've listened to only the first few tracks but I am very impressed. My first impression is that it sounds like like a cross between TDS and The Fragile, which makes sense as this was released in 1996. Got it on my i-pod and will sure give it a few listens.

 

10/14/09 9:30 PM

I'm a little confused about one thing, does the Quake CD play on regular CD players--I seem to be hearing different reports.

 

10/14/09 9:33 PM

i seem to remember like a lot of games back then that the first track was data and the rest were playable in most cds

can't speak for later versions of the game, just the original/first shareware disc

 

10/14/09 9:46 PM

This thread is awesome. I've never heard any of it... I remember playing Quake when I was little, but I barely remember it let alone the sounds/music. That would be so cool if they could re-release it, doubt it'll happen.

Thanks for all the input everybody. I'll definitely be searching/checking out Q OST.

 
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