One of my absolute favorite things about this game is that song. I can't possibly be the only one that almost always hangs out at the load screen for a few moments before I start playing.

@Tesla: You're not alone. I love the load menu and the character creation screen and I always sit there for a while before I start playing as well.

It reminds me of the Save Room themes from various Resident Evil games. Very relaxing.

Dragon Age Origins always finds me sitting at the menu for awhile. So good. This one doesn't grab me, though.

Not very. Skyrim when It was released.

@TheDudeOfGaming: Nothing bores me more than cookie cutter epic and bombastic stuff. Skyrim is no exception. All around just boring.

@CptBedlam:

@CptBedlam said:

@TheDudeOfGaming: Nothing bores me more than cookie cutter epic and bombastic stuff. Skyrim is no exception. All around just boring.

Totally agreed. I don't mean to spoil anything, but hearing the final boss music in Dark Souls for the first time contrasted with the on screen imagery was sublime. An understated and beautiful soundscape will always outdo loud, obnoxious bullshit every time I learn a new dragon chant, level up, pick a flower, loot a corpse or take a shit.

@CptBedlam said:

@Tesla: You're not alone. I love the load menu and the character creation screen and I always sit there for a while before I start playing as well.

Yes! Glad to hear it, at least I know I'm not crazy.

@Svenzon said:

It reminds me of the Save Room themes from various Resident Evil games. Very relaxing.

Good call!

@Tesla said:

@Svenzon said:

It reminds me of the Save Room themes from various Resident Evil games. Very relaxing.

Good call!

Sometimes, I started RE4 just to spend a few minutes in the first saveroom in the village... love the melancholic atmosphere.

@CptBedlam said:

@TheDudeOfGaming: Nothing bores me more than cookie cutter epic and bombastic stuff. Skyrim is no exception. All around just boring.

the game i like is better than the game you like...

@CptBedlam said:

@TheDudeOfGaming: Nothing bores me more than cookie cutter epic and bombastic stuff. Skyrim is no exception. All around just boring.

I'm with you on this. Skyrim did have some good music however. Mainly when walking around at night.

There's music in Dark Souls? Wut.

I probably need to beat this game again...

It reminds me of the Save Room themes from various Resident Evil games. Very relaxing.

I've left the character creation mode on while I used the computer for awhile and completely forgot I had the xbox on! Love the music in Dark Souls overall. Just so epic and minimalistic.

@Stokes said:

I probably need to beat this game again...

Just wait for the PC version/DLC next month and bam! Perfect excuse, for me at least.

Nearly every time I have to break up my, uh, immersion intensification material, I do so while sitting at the main menu/load screen of a game. So, pretty often, I'd say. But not with this game so much since I just rented it a couple times. That'll probably change next month when I buy it on PC.
 
The start/load screen music for LA Noire is burned into my mind, and the flutter of horns that happens when you fail a mission in Driver San Francisco reactivates that part of my brain every time and makes me cringe.

@Svenzon said:

It reminds me of the Save Room themes from various Resident Evil games. Very relaxing.

This sooooo bad!.

@CptBedlam said:

@TheDudeOfGaming: Nothing bores me more than cookie cutter epic and bombastic stuff. Skyrim is no exception. All around just boring.

Which is why I prefer the music in Demon's Souls to Dark Souls. Dark Souls has very bombastic music, mainly in boss battles, compared to Demon's Souls. Demon's Souls' music was done by a smaller orchestra and had a very minimalistic sound which made the whole game much more eerie and creepy, especially when you run into the corrupt abominations that make up the bosses.

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Thats some great menu music, but it's still not as good as this.

totally did that with dark souls and demon souls. also with fallout's radio stuff and crusader kings 2 because all that music makes every choice you make in the game feel epic.

Given that I work at a gaming center, I hear load music, menu music, etc all day long. There's some that I thoroughly enjoy, while there are others that I detest. Typically, the former is stuff with songs that I like (Borderlands, Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, Grid), while the latter is any form of MMA or wrestling game. That bullshit hard rock is annoying as fuck!

As for original compositions, though, Dark Souls ranks high up there for me.

@MiniPato: Demon's Souls music is awesome but Dark Souls has several quiet pieces of music, too. Menu theme, Gwyn's Theme, Sif (kinda), Daughter of Chaos, Firelink Shrine... which is the predominating soundscape of the game.