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Which Duke game has the best soundtrack? "In your opinion..."

The Ultimate Doomer

#1 Posted 04 July 2012 - 03:14 AM

Which Duke game do you think has the overall best music? For me, it's Robert Prince's Duke Nukem II music. Although it is FM synthesis, the Duke 2 music is excellent and intense, and having Metallica/Megadeth-style music is pretty cool. My favorite songs are He's Back!, Be Gone, Dukin', and Neverend.

I also like a few of the Duke 3D songs, such as Grabbag and Stalker, and Prince's Pizzed and Aliens, but most of the tracks in that game are rather weak and slightly dull compared to the Duke 2 music. They lack the catchy, rocking style of the Duke 2 songs.

NUKEMDAVE

#2 Posted 04 July 2012 - 03:32 AM

Total Meltdown for me. I think they should get Mark Knight again to make the soundtrack for a future Duke Nukem game.

Mike Norvak

Music Producer

#3 Posted 04 July 2012 - 06:45 AM

1) Duke Nukem 3D
2) Total Meltdown
3) Duke Nukem 2

hismasterplan

#4 Posted 04 July 2012 - 11:16 AM

NUKEMDAVE, on 04 July 2012 - 03:32 AM, said:

Total Meltdown for me. I think they should get Mark Knight again to make the soundtrack for a future Duke Nukem game.

Agreed.

xMobilemux

#5 Posted 04 July 2012 - 12:53 PM

1) Total Meltdown
2) Duke3D
3) Land of the babes

Malgon

#6 Posted 05 July 2012 - 12:03 AM

The Ultimate Doomer, on 04 July 2012 - 03:14 AM, said:

A lot of the Duke tracks (maybe all of them) might not jump out (as you mentioned they're not in the vein of a catchy, rocking style) but they're actually quite good, as they add a lot of feel to an already strong ambience present in the game. I'm sure I remember X-Vector mentioning that he is a fan of the music of the game, and he could probably elaborate more on why they suit the feel of Duke 3D. Each to their own.

Loke

#7 Posted 05 July 2012 - 04:59 AM

Definitely Duke Nukem 3D for me, I even listen to it occasionally. One of the reasons I like it so much is because it got quite a diverse soundtrack. Grabbag, alienz, ahgeez and missimp being a few of the tracks with a higher tempo which is great for alien extermination, whilst you got xplasma, robocreep, gotham, dethtoll and waterworld for the more relaxing moments. Gloomy, alfredh, in hiding and in tents are also some great spooky tracks.

Inspector Lagomorf

Glory To Motherland!

#8 Posted 05 July 2012 - 06:09 AM

Loke, on 05 July 2012 - 04:59 AM, said:

I wouldn't exactly call XPLASMA or ROBOCREP relaxing so much as I would call them unnerving, but I otherwise agree with you; the diversity and variety of Duke Nukem 3D's soundtrack gives it an edge not just against other Duke Nukem game soundtracks, but against other soundtracks in general (except maybe DooM, which Bobby Prince also composed for!).

OpenMaw

Judge Mental

#9 Posted 05 July 2012 - 04:45 PM

Duke Nukem 3D, followed by Duke Nukem Zero Hour.

"Main Theme"

"Liberty or Death"

Spoiler

It rocks.

NUKEMDAVE

#10 Posted 05 July 2012 - 07:20 PM

Commando Nukem, on 05 July 2012 - 04:45 PM, said:

"Main Theme"

I should've uploaded that without that effect applied to the audio. I didn't do it. It's a version I downloaded somewhere. I thought it still sounded better, though.

Here's the full, raw theme. I just recorded it straight from my N64. No quality loss.

DNZH_MainTheme_Full.mp3 (11.27MB)
Number of downloads: 177

Play it in Windows Media Player with SRS WOW on. In my opinion, it should replace this one:

http://duke4.net/download.php?view.19

necroslut

#11 Posted 08 July 2012 - 08:52 AM

Duke Nukem II, though I'm not sure I would've wanted that kind of music in Duke 3D. At least not all of the time.

Jimmy

Let's go Brandon!

#12 Posted 09 July 2012 - 10:19 PM

Zero Hour's music is awesome. The 'rock' tracks sound like something from Rollins Band, which is a good thing indeed. My only complaint is how there are only like 8 different tracks for the entire game.

High Treason

#13 Posted 10 July 2012 - 08:50 PM

Duke Nukem I ;D

Nah, every Duke game had a soundtrack that suited that particular game. If I had to choose one it'd have to be Duke Nukem II, E1L7's DUKIN' is by far my favorite piece of music from any Duke game, that and I could never play that one on the synth, pitchbends always caught me out. That game also had tracks that borrowed from Megadeth and was a big factor in why I started listening to metal.

This guy's recording sucks, I might upload the OST myself in the end, I'm sick of this low quality or emulation rubbish.

This post has been edited by High Treason: 10 July 2012 - 08:53 PM

Inspector Lagomorf

Glory To Motherland!

#14 Posted 11 July 2012 - 09:01 AM

It comes as no surprise that Duke Nukem II is heralded for its soundtrack; I think it has the best soundtrack of any Duke Nukem game too. I would disagree with necroslut, though; the songs would fit well for the Duke Nukem 3D levels.

Hendricks266

Weaponized Autism

#15 Posted 11 July 2012 - 02:44 PM

The Duke 2 soundtrack would only fit certain levels in Duke 3D. There is no track in Duke 2 that would be a good fit for The Abyss, Dark Side, Incubator, etc.

Inspector Lagomorf

Glory To Motherland!

#16 Posted 11 July 2012 - 06:12 PM

Hendricks266, on 11 July 2012 - 02:44 PM, said:

The Duke 2 soundtrack would only fit certain levels in Duke 3D. There is no track in Duke 2 that would be a good fit for The Abyss, Dark Side, Incubator, etc.

You know, when I made my post, I was thinking to myself - "Hmm, I don't suppose there would be a good track for The Abyss, though." Go figure. The atmospheric levels have atmospheric tracks for a reason, it seems.

High Treason

#17 Posted 11 July 2012 - 07:00 PM

I dunno, I think CALMA.IMF might work in that level. As for Dark Side and Incubator though, I don't know.

Hendricks266

Weaponized Autism

#18 Posted 11 July 2012 - 08:19 PM

High Treason, on 10 July 2012 - 08:50 PM, said:

This guy's recording sucks, I might upload the OST myself in the end, I'm sick of this low quality or emulation rubbish.

A recording of the Duke 2 soundtrack on your Adlib Gold S/PDIF would be godlike. If you did it, I would gladly help put together a Duke 2 soundtrack mod for Duke 3D. The only thing that would require a little bit of coding would be triggering the boss theme and end-of-episode theme but that's very simple. Other than that it would be assigning appropriate tracks to each level.

Unless I could be arsed to implement something so we could get the "3D Realms Fanfare" working.

High Treason

#19 Posted 11 July 2012 - 08:47 PM

Hmm, it could be worth a shot, I'll try and get around to recording those (and I haven't forgotten Raptor) when I get fed up with other things again.

As you said, triggering the boss music would be rather trivial to implement and actually, the fanfare might be, I'm not sure wether the command for playing music on a certain frame of an IVF is useable whilst using the original ANMs (triggering the sound on the last frame), or else it could be possible to do something in event_logo, though I don't know as I have never used that one for anything.

necroslut

#20 Posted 12 July 2012 - 02:25 AM

Achenar, on 11 July 2012 - 09:01 AM, said:

In some levels I think it would. But overall, the music (and mood) of D3D is much darker, and that contrast I think makes an upbeat song like Alienz work even better when it starts. I do think Duke 3D could have used more upbeat songs though, but not all the way through the game.

The Ultimate Doomer

#21 Posted 13 July 2012 - 01:23 AM

High Treason, on 10 July 2012 - 08:50 PM, said:

If I had to choose one it'd have to be Duke Nukem II, E1L7's DUKIN' is by far my favorite piece of music from any Duke game, that and I could never play that one on the synth, pitchbends always caught me out.

Same here, Dukin' is my all-time favorite Duke song. It was so catchy and memorable when I first heard it on my old Ad Lib card (which I don't have anymore, have to rely on emulation now). It's one of two Duke II songs that I've made realistic aggressive metal versions of (the other one being He's Back!), but I think the original Ad Lib versions are still better than my remixes.

I am ~~attempting to~~ "revamp" the whole Duke 2 soundtrack with an emphasis on heavily distorted guitars and powerful drums. Not sure whether to keep it private or if others would like to hear it. - Finished. I already had the arrangements and stuff set up quite a while back, so it was just a matter of fine-tuning the arrangements a little and exporting them to wave/MP3 played with heavy powerful instruments.

Here are the download links on come2store. It is in 3 parts because that site has a maximum file size limit of 30 MB.

http://download.come..._v1.1.part1.rar

http://download.come..._v1.1.part2.rar

http://download.come..._v1.1.part3.rar

Come2Store currently has errors, so I do not know when these links will work.

This post has been edited by The Ultimate Doomer: 24 July 2012 - 10:59 PM