Menu music

  • Does anyone else feel like the menu music is always depressing? Only time when it's not is festival of giving when all the shantys play there.
    My suggestion is to keep the shanties playing there all year long, instead of the depressing music you can hardly hear.

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  • @zerrryy you might not find much love for that suggestion matey! A lot of pirates love the various pieces that we have.

    The latest one is far from depressing! It's a lovely, soothing melody!

  • Some variety is always welcomed in my opinion. The Menu music is there to evoke a transition towards the newest season or update, it creates the mood required to inspire us players.

  • depressing? nope
    a bittersweet symphony? a bit

    It reminds me of the underwater sounds in Donkey Kong country. What a great time the mid 90s were. Deep enough into technological advances to have fun but we weren't into the belly of the beast yet. People could still live locally and everything wasn't world wide. Fights were just during the holidays and things were still a big deal but not everything was a big deal.
    The only platforms people had were holding cardboard signs outside of a Kevin Smith movie with the other grandmas and annoying neighbors with Rage Against the Machine and Beastie Boys while playing SNES and Nintendo 64.

    Like Richard Dreyfuss typed at the end of Stand By Me "I never had friends later on like I had when I was 12, does anyone?"

    that's what the sounds remind me of

    Not depressing but bittersweet

  • I think the menu music is perfect. Robin Beanland is the man.

    It makes sense to have more restrained cues on the menus, before switching to the vibrant theme that plays on the loading screen as you are about to start playing.

  • @zerrryy

    Hello Sir , the menu music , and i think you mean the music just before you start to select which kind of ship, crew and so on you want to choose , may let you feel a bit gloomy... It's Autumn after all, and Mother Nature is going to take a sleep...

    The Music Team of Rare can perfectly adapt to all kind of things , ranging from their own themes from updates or seasonal happenings like Halloween and so on... If you feel a bit depressed from hearing music then it's not the music to blame for . Maybe it's the time of year that's depressing you , it's late light in the morning , but the darkness returns quite quickly again in the evening or better said late afternoon...

    The months November / December always call up gloomy thoughts to myself , sometimes quite dark ones but the trick is to counter that by talking to someone you care for or can trust or in my case just play some happy songs so i can forget the darkness and lonely feelings and prepare me for a spring where everything and everyone will come back to live...

    For the game ...it's simple , don't linger on , just start your game , invite thy Friends , or be brave and jump into an unknown Crew and let yer voice thunder over the waves ... A True Pirate can never be downed by a sad tune because he / she is sooo free that we, nowadays people , envy their Freedom...

    Set aside your gloomy thoughts , pick up that rapier and swashbuckle away...

    Rise up that anchor , you blistering buccaneers cause Captain ZeRryy is here!!!! Now sail, Sir , and remember behind every raincloud shines an evershining sun.

  • @clumsy-george said in Menu music:

    @zerrryy

    Hello Sir , the menu music , and i think you mean the music just before you start to select which kind of ship, crew and so on you want to choose , may let you feel a bit gloomy... It's Autumn after all, and Mother Nature is going to take a sleep...

    The Music Team of Rare can perfectly adapt to all kind of things , ranging from their own themes from updates or seasonal happenings like Halloween and so on... If you feel a bit depressed from hearing music then it's not the music to blame for . Maybe it's the time of year that's depressing you , it's late light in the morning , but the darkness returns quite quickly again in the evening or better said late afternoon...

    The months November / December always call up gloomy thoughts to myself , sometimes quite dark ones but the trick is to counter that by talking to someone you care for or can trust or in my case just play some happy songs so i can forget the darkness and lonely feelings and prepare me for a spring where everything and everyone will come back to live...

    For the game ...it's simple , don't linger on , just start your game , invite thy Friends , or be brave and jump into an unknown Crew and let yer voice thunder over the waves ... A True Pirate can never be downed by a sad tune because he / she is sooo free that we, nowadays people , envy their Freedom...

    Set aside your gloomy thoughts , pick up that rapier and swashbuckle away...

    Rise up that anchor , you blistering buccaneers cause Captain ZeRryy is here!!!! Now sail, Sir , and remember behind every raincloud shines an evershining sun.

    Lol what

  • Didn’t they just lock this type of thread not to long ago????

  • @burnbacon said in Menu music:

    Didn’t they just lock this type of thread not to long ago????

    Yep

  • Its supposed to be eerie, sot is full of skeletons and pirates not rainbows and sunshine (certain ship skins aside)

  • @zerrryy said in Menu music:

    @burnbacon said in Menu music:

    Didn’t they just lock this type of thread not to long ago????

    Yep

    So this is SPAM then, good to know so it can be properly noted and ignored.

  • @dlchief58 I can almost hear the sound of the anchor drop.

  • All the music in this game is fantastic.

    You want depressing? We got it.
    You want anxiety? We got it.
    You want action? We got it.
    You want adventuresque feeling? We got it.

  • I remember when I first started playing during Seabound Soul. The menu music... I was in awe when I first heard it. I still remember staying in the menu to listen to all of it not knowing it was on Spotify.
    Good times

    Who Shall Not be Returning

  • @burnbacon @dlchief58 @zerrryy the previous thread wasn't locked for spam, it was locked because I pointed out that this thread already existed and it was decided that it made sense to move the discussion to here.

  • @sshteeve Yaar

  • @personalc0ffee said in Menu music:

    All the music in this game is fantastic.

    You want depressing? We got it.
    You want anxiety? We got it.
    You want action? We got it.
    You want adventuresque feeling? We got it.

    And my personal favourite: you want to be calmed? We got it!

  • Speaking of the adventuresque feeling music, what is the name of that menu music that is the one of which I speak?

  • @personalc0ffee said in Menu music:

    Speaking of the adventuresque feeling music, what is the name of that menu music that is the one of which I speak?

    We shall sail together?

    Edit: Jesus, I just got goosebumps when I hummed the song to myself just after I wrote its name here.

  • @greengrimz said in Menu music:

    @personalc0ffee said in Menu music:

    Speaking of the adventuresque feeling music, what is the name of that menu music that is the one of which I speak?

    We shall sail together?

    No, that's the PL music.

    I'm talking about the one that happens during loading screens when you first start the game. The dun dun dun one. It's so hype. I think maybe it's called Adventure Calls which is very apt.

  • @personalc0ffee said in Menu music:

    @greengrimz said in Menu music:

    @personalc0ffee said in Menu music:

    Speaking of the adventuresque feeling music, what is the name of that menu music that is the one of which I speak?

    We shall sail together?

    No, that's the PL music.

    I'm talking about the one that happens during loading screens when you first start the game. The dun dun dun one. It's so hype. I think maybe it's called Adventure Calls which is very apt.

    This?

  • @greengrimz said in Menu music:

    @personalc0ffee said in Menu music:

    @greengrimz said in Menu music:

    @personalc0ffee said in Menu music:

    Speaking of the adventuresque feeling music, what is the name of that menu music that is the one of which I speak?

    We shall sail together?

    No, that's the PL music.

    I'm talking about the one that happens during loading screens when you first start the game. The dun dun dun one. It's so hype. I think maybe it's called Adventure Calls which is very apt.

    This?

    No, but that enabled me to find it!

    It's this:

  • @personalc0ffee

    Oh you meant the loading up theme. I though you were refering to the one from the intro that plays as you load up the game.


    Speaking of SoT music, today I'm on repeat:

  • @greengrimz I am having issues embedding Youtube.

    No, that's called The Maiden Voyage and that one is good too but my ultimate favorite is Adventure Awaits. I remember listening to this FOR HOURS on launch day because the game was having server problems haha.

  • @personalc0ffee said in Menu music:

    @greengrimz I am having issues embedding Youtube.

    Just paste the link, without any other text beside it.

  • @greengrimz said in Menu music:

    @personalc0ffee said in Menu music:

    @greengrimz I am having issues embedding Youtube.

    Just paste the link, without any other text beside it.

    For squak's sake. That was the issue. What good is link embed if it doesn't do anything? W/e I fixed it up there, should take you right to the video that I've had looping for about 10 minutes now.

  • @greengrimz said in Menu music:

    @personalc0ffee

    Oh you meant the loading up theme. I though you were refering to the one from the intro that plays as you load up the game.


    Speaking of SoT music, today I'm on repeat:

    Ah yes, listened to that one the other day.

  • @personalc0ffee

    Ah yes, listened to that one the other day.

    Dunno about you, but I just took a moment to reflect and appreciate all the great work that Rare have done for us.

    It's been an awesome adventure so far. I secretly hope we still have a long journey to sail together!

  • @greengrimz said in Menu music:

    @personalc0ffee

    Ah yes, listened to that one the other day.

    Dunno about you, but I just took a moment to reflect and appreciate all the great work that Rare have done for us.

    It's been an awesome adventure so far. I secretly hope we still have a long journey to sail together!

    Game's planned out to 10 years or something like that. So yes, a very long journey indeed.

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