Musicology, ludomusicology, video game soundtrackĬopyright 2019 Musicological Society of Australia. This presents a compelling musical dichotomy of fantasy tropes and historical depictions, and it is these differing musical approaches that this article aims to explore. This in-game music espouses approximations of fourteenth-century and neo-mediaevalist traditions, but as creations of fantasy these musical endeavours are often historically inaccurate. It is in fact the diegetic music found in each gameworld, predominantly performed by characters throughout the environments, that share the most musical commonalities in approach yet differ vastly in output.
While both their non-diegetic scores aim to support landscape and emotion within the gameworld, differing musical approaches see various utilizations of orchestral, vocal, and folk music elements.
Music cues are also implemented in similar ways in both games, with either layered stems or complete tracks dynamically adapting to the players’ actions. At least that's what VP of PR and Marketing Pete Hines attributes the small size to. According to Pete, the better optimization is a result of a "new engine & we're much better at compression (art/voice/data).Situated within similar digital fantasy environments, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt share numerous aspects of design, including geographical formations, architectural design, and cultural indicators. Compression and better optimization, my friends. Now many may be questioning how Skyrim, which is a mere 6GB install on PC and an even more impressive 3.8GB on Xbox 360, can contain such a sountrack spanning over 4 CDs and still have a small install size. But take into account you're probably getting around 300 minutes of soundtrack music (about 80 minutes each CD times 4 cds) That's quite a hefty pricetag, and probably reason why the soundtrack wasn't included in the collector's edition. The leak apparantly came from the digital music store, which has since been removed, but fromw hat we've found out the soundtrack will consist of four CDs and cost $30. Given the massive nature of everything related to Skyrim, except the Xbox 360 install size, this isn't really much of a shock.įrom the size of the world, to the size of the strategy guide, to the apparent leaked size of the soundtrack, Skyrim is doing everything bigger, and better as evidenced from a recent graphical comparison to Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. We've just recieved word from Game-OST that the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim soundtrack will span over 4 CDs.
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