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The Castlevania Dungeon Forums => General Castlevania Discussion => Topic started by: Sindra on March 03, 2011, 11:11:03 PM
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I'd recommend you D/L the extended score. It's massive and pretty friggin' awesome. It seems what they did was record a ton of tracks and then pick & choose only a handful for the game itself.
Ok, what's this I'm hearing about an extended score for Lords of Shadow? Thunderbrand mentioned something but it got usurped by the mega-thread. I thought I found something that also mentioned additional tracks to the game, but nothing concrete thus far.
Or is this something that is in reference to the coming DLC?
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http://forums.ffshrine.org/f72/castlevania-lords-shadow-ost-rip-rpgmm-81201/ (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f72/castlevania-lords-shadow-ost-rip-rpgmm-81201/)
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I do believe that was something already linked here?
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That's the extended score you were lookong for
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[Hidden link. Register to see links.]
Source: [Hidden link. Register to see links.]
LAME
Can anyone oblige my super lazy reluctance to register there?
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Seriously. I'm not gonna register for some place that *MAY* have a extended score for the hell of it.
Gimme Youtube links.....then well discuss. (if the extended parts are worth it)
I don't wanna continue saying the score is leak when there might be stuff on there I haven't heard and it awesome.
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Kinda doesn't correspond to the quote if the extended score is just the game rip of the music, heh.
I'd recommend you D/L the extended score. It's massive and pretty friggin' awesome. It seems what they did was record a ton of tracks and then pick & choose only a handful for the game itself.
/snob
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LAME
Can anyone oblige my super lazy reluctance to register there?
Just sign up. The FF Shrine is awesome.
Seriously. I'm not gonna register for some place that *MAY* have a extended score for the hell of it.
The FF Shrine has about every soundtrack ever. It almost definitely is real. I don't know why you would want to listen to a LoS extended score though...
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Just sign up. The FF Shrine is awesome.
There is absolutely nothing awesome about having to download each track one by one.
I already found it at a much better game OST site anyway. I should have known to look there first.
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There is absolutely nothing awesome about having to download each track one by one.
I already found it at a much better game OST site anyway. I should have known to look there first.
He was talking about the forums, not the site. ;)
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Also, the FFShrine has been known to have some silly spyware script deallyos going on in their site.
You have to have something like NoScript or something, etc.
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I too would love a link to this, that doesn't involve registering. Can't believe how hard it is to find this.
ANY HELP?
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I already found it at a much better game OST site anyway. I should have known to look there first.
The extended score?
Wanna link that so I believe you? (not that I wouldn't believe you, oh dearest Uzo.....=D)
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The extended score?
Wanna link that so I believe you? (not that I wouldn't believe you, oh dearest Uzo.....=D)
Oh ye of little faith. Check thine PM inbox.
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Canst thou send it to my pm inbox as well?
:)
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But you aren't a pretty girl.
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D'oh. :(
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Oh ye of little faith. Check thine PM inbox.
i know this is a newb move... but i've been looking EVERYWHERE for the songs that were not on the limited ed. cd. there are some REALLY beautiful songs. can you PM the OST place for me too?
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http://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/index.php?topic=2165.msg55323#msg55323 (http://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/index.php?topic=2165.msg55323#msg55323)
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Well, I finally got the entire score. Yes, most of it is filler, and it's difficult to tell the difference between some tracks. BUT, there's a lot of good on here too.
Track 125 (Crow Witch opening stage music) is easily my favorite, as well as tracks 23-25 (Castle Sewer). There are also several tracks which I believe to be the menu music, which I like a lot. Anyhoo, if you've played and loved LoS as much as I did, this is definitely worth the small amount of hassle it takes to get and convert to mp3 (WTF is .ogg?).
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Regarding FF Shrine:
Avoid the site. Spyware and malicious junk. Even without that, the site's still shit.
The forum is groovy. Gotten a lot of good soundtracks, but unfortunately a lot of dipsticks offer game rips for download and call them OSTs instead of what they are: game rips.
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The forum is groovy. Gotten a lot of good soundtracks, but unfortunately a lot of dipsticks offer game rips for download and call them OSTs instead of what they are: game rips.
You're so right. *sigh*
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Speakin'a OSTs and FF Shrine Forums, I'll be offering the Lament of Innocence and Curse of Darkness 2-CD soundtracks sometime soon (either in a few hours or later today) at 320kbps, since they were requested. For anyone interesteeeeeeeeed~
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Speakin'a OSTs and FF Shrine Forums, I'll be offering the Lament of Innocence and Curse of Darkness 2-CD soundtracks sometime soon (either in a few hours or later today) at 320kbps, since they were requested. For anyone interesteeeeeeeeed~
Are there any track on the LoI OST that aren't on the CD sampler I got with the game?
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It's a 2-CD soundtrack, so yeah, looooots more.
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The FFShrine Lossless VGM Thread is made of Win.
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If it weren't so shitty to navigate and find soundtracks, I'd agree.
Finally, high quality rips of the Perfect Selection Dracula Battle albums. :)
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downloading now... hope it's the xtended score. didn't have to use a password... is that bad? anyway, thanks you guys!
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ogg... got it to play on my gom player, but... can how to convert to MP3 without diminished Q?
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ogg... got it to play on my gom player, but... can how to convert to MP3 without diminished Q?
In theory, it's impossible, because OGG isn't compressed, unlike mp3. Try Format Factory and put mp3 to 320kps, you'll have pretty good quality.
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I was the one who asked Sindra to make this topic. I’ve known her, Bloodreign, Jorge, and quite a few other regulars here for almost a decade. My account on this site was removed years ago due to inactivity on my part and since then I’ve been quite happy in a retirement of sorts at CVC, but growing discontent with this discussion has forced my hand.
All of this began with two posts in the LoS topic:
Didn't Araujo say that Konami told him to make the music more epic and move away from the "efeminate" style of the older Castlevania music?
As for the LoS score---the in-game score is good, although repetitive and only a small sample of the whole thing. I'd reccomend you D/L the extended score. It's massive and pretty friggin' awesome. It seems what they did was record a ton of tracks and then pick & choose only a handful for the game itself. Hopefully we get more of it in the DLC.
Is it possible that somewhere out there are unused tracks that are perhaps not so different old-school CV music? If so, then why not ask Cox on Twitter? Given his track record, I’m sure he’d be more than happy to answer this question for us all. Hell, he’s purportedly been lurking lately, so he’s probably read this topic. If anyone is on Twitter and this discussion has piqued your interest, make it happen.
Although it’s tempting to call bullshit on Thunderbrand, I believe he simply misspoke and meant “game rip” instead of “extended score”. It was an easy mistake to make – the OST consists of only 20 or so tracks and is pretty half-assed, whereas a game rip entails every track in the game, be it cinema scenes, action sequences such as the choral jingle that plays whenever you get a sub-weapon upgrade, etc. For this reason, it’s pretty easy for someone to innocently dub it an “extended” score and thus instigate online shenanigans.
The game rip at FFShrine as well as the link that thernz posted are one and the same. Doubtless the link that UZO sent to Sindra was any different (plus it goes to a site that requires registration anyway.)
Are there unused tracks on the game rip? I can’t say for certain due to the way the entire score just blends together, but I didn’t notice any additional homages to old-school CV music, nor any differences in genre, style or composition. Don’t get me wrong, the LoS score is brilliant, but it’s more cinematic in scope, focusing on the big picture instead of individual tracks like in previous games. This, I think, is the root of all the reservations that CV fans have with the music of LoS.
I hope this post has cleared up any confusion caused by this topic as well as answered any questions that it has raised. Just so everyone knows, I didn’t “come out of retirement” just to make this one post; I owe a debt of sorts of Jorge (PM inbound). Also, as much as I love LoS and the direction it’s taking the series, be it for better or for ill, don’t expect me to be overly involved in discussions about it as I consider revolving door fan speculation and analysis to be a massive waste of my time - time that is better spent outside talking to girls or something.
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Are there unused tracks on the game rip? I can’t say for certain due to the way the entire score just blends together, but I didn’t notice any additional homages to old-school CV music, nor any differences in genre, style or composition. Don’t get me wrong, the LoS score is brilliant, but it’s more cinematic in scope, focusing on the big picture instead of individual tracks like in previous games. This, I think, is the root of all the reservations that CV fans have with the music of LoS.
This. Great post man, very meaningful.
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Tan's a very insightful guy.He basically nailed everything on the head. This is a game rip rather than an "Extended Score", which is fair.
It's also unfortunate. I would have loved to have an actual extended score with grand and epic renditions of a few (not a lot, mind you) oldschool tunes from past CV games. Subtle nuances like what they did with "Final Confrontation" (which, I'll admit, has grown to be my favorite track of the game) including "Beginning" in it. Homage to past Castlevania games, despite LoS being a new step in a new path, will go a long way with older fans.
This goes on to my argument that all it takes is a few minor, subtle inclusions and cameos to make the difference between attracting oldschool fans ALONG WITH new fans than not. Mr. Cox would be wise to keep that in mind in future incarnations of this side-series he's now responsible for.
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Hearing "Beginning" in "Final Confrontation"?? Dude, I need your hears.
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Hearing "Beginning" in "Final Confrontation"?? Dude, I need your hears.
Yes it was there in the most climatic moment, my eyes became wet when I heard it fighting Satan (It played at the last quick time event in my case) I heard it before in the trailer of course but It gave me chills in battle ;D Castlevania Lords of Shadow Music - Final Confrontation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvzhoq2SHuk#) (5:29)
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Yes it was there in the most climatic moment, my eyes became wet when I heard it fighting Satan (It played at the last quick time event in my case) I heard it before in the trailer of course but It gave me chills in battle ;D Castlevania Lords of Shadow Music - Final Confrontation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvzhoq2SHuk#) (5:29)
Wow, man, I hardly believe it is a reprise of "Beginning". The music may sound a little bit like it, but I'm not convinced. The music is still very epic (one of my fav from LoS).
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If you play it on piano you would find out that they share the same notes however with no alterations (flat notes as opossed to the original sharp ones) so yeah that's beginning :P
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As I said a while back, that part also sounds like a part of "Red Dawn", a special song in The Dracula X Chronicles.
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As I said a while back, that part also sounds like a part of "Red Dawn", a special song in The Dracula X Chronicles.
You're right. It sounds like both tracks, but I think it is unintentional (it's only my opinion).
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Yes it was there in the most climatic moment, my eyes became wet when I heard it fighting Satan (It played at the last quick time event in my case) I heard it before in the trailer of course but It gave me chills in battle ;D Castlevania Lords of Shadow Music - Final Confrontation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvzhoq2SHuk#) (5:29)
HOLY CRAP!! You're right!
When I read this I thought "no eff'in way", but I played it, skipped to 5:25, and at 5:29 it started, in violins no less. Puts a huge smile on my face, thanks.
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You're right. It sounds like both tracks, but I think it is unintentional (it's only my opinion).
Are you going to argue with THE PIANO!! ;D I swear they are the SAME notes and Cox confirmed it was beginning too long a go when the Kojima trailer was revealed but yeah so there is it
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Are you going to argue with THE PIANO!! ;D I swear they are the SAME notes and Cox confirmed it was beginning too long a go when the Kojima trailer was revealed but yeah so there is it
Yeah, I can EVEN argue with the piano! ;D (jk)
BTW do you have a sheet music or even a MIDI of the song? I'd be interested in looking through it.
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Only the end of the music sounds like Beggining at all. Nonetheless, it's the only music I found "memorable" on the entire game.
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Only the end of the music sounds like Beggining at all. Nonetheless, it's the only music I found "memorable" on the entire game.
Suck on lemons much?
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Yeah, I can EVEN argue with the piano! ;D (jk)
BTW do you have a sheet music or even a MIDI of the song? I'd be interested in looking through it.
No I play it by ear sorry :( but I'm sure you can convert a MIDI into sheet notes with Finale or Sibelius :)
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After rereading a few of the posts in this thread, I'm surprised anyone thought "extended score" was anything more than just a game rip. I figured game rip from the start, as an actual extended score had never been released.
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After rereading a few of the posts in this thread, I'm surprised anyone thought "extended score" was anything more than just a game rip. I figured game rip from the start, as an actual extended score had never been released.
and a really crappy rip at that >< but i still listen to it all the time LOL once i get the proper equipment i'll be making a much better rip... hehe... no pun intended.
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Loving BGM125, its the opening area to Super Castlevania IV plus bits of the ending theme