Music makes the game.
By TaliciaDragonsong 32 Comments
Don't you agree?
It often does I find in genre's like RPG, MMO or Sports (blazing down the mountain with SSX3 radio pumping!).
The mere sounds can either invoke emotion or inspire you to some crazy antics, possibly becoming a great memory if anything remotely reminds you of the song.
I want to take a look at the music from The Lord of the Rings Online.
I've started playing this game a long time ago, on and off, but have been a steady player since it went free to play.
The music in the game is amazing and very memorable, that's why I'm gonna share my top 5 with you.
You should really give it a listen, the game's music is amazingly well crafted!
On with the show!
5. Baruk Khazad
Its the battle cry of the dwarves, this tune is filled with menacing vocals with some great drums and trumpets (I guess? xD) setting the amazing melody.You'll find this sticking in your head...and the voices are just downright impressive.
This song is often playing when encountering evil Dwarves (Dourhand clan or such) or when doing a skirmish in the city of Gondamon.
4. Gondamon's Theme
This song is a bit slower, it often plays in either Gondamon or Thorin's Hall (the dwarves' home) or in some off their inn's/auction houses/banks, generally where things are quiet. The tune is amazingly fun and slow, it sounds like what must be a dwarven dance, very simple yet alluring. Picture in a fortress and snowed woodland as far as the eye can see and you'd have an idea how this song made me feel when I first walked into Gondamon.
3. Theme of Men (Bree town)
If you'll spend anytime around human settlements, particulary Bree town, you'll hear this jig and you'll come to love it.It sounds cosy and fun, a bustling city full of trade and quite a downtown feeling, like walking past a streetband.
The clapping, foot tapping and finger clicking makes it sound down to earth and honest.
2. War Pipes
I engage a harmless harvest fly and this starts blazing...I was sold.This often plays in the area of Evendim when engaging in battle but its also the main theme for the Trouble in Tuckborough skirmish.
I think its bloody amazing, the start with the pipes goes right into the sweet rythm and the drums keep pounding for what is surely to be an epic battle (with an harvest fly, no less). Easily one of my favorite's.
1. The Shire
When I first walked into the Shire and this started playing, greeted by the rolling lush landscapes, farms and overall simple life of the Hobbits...I nearly cried.Amazingly simple, yet so catchy and so heartfelt. I don't have much love for Hobbits but the Shire is an amazing zone to behold, listen to and play in.
Hobbits are like children, often not grasping the bigger things at hand and all they often care about is food, love and fun.
Which is exactly what more people should do!
Well, that's a top 5.
Looking these links up I came across another dozen of great tracks.
The battle music is really catchy without getting too annoying, there's bombastic tracks (try walking into Loth-Lorien the first time without gasping) and there's subtle guitar jigs in the inn.
Lord of the Rings Online might have some flaws, not everyone will be as commited to it as I have been these past few years but if you have any love for music, you should at least take a gander in the game if you ever find the time, its free anyway!
Thanks for reading/listening!