Half-Life 1 vs Half-Life 2 music

[Swift]

Im currently listening to the Half-Life 1 soundtrack, its very moody. I like it tho.

I was wondering, those who have heard both now, could you compare the two?

In HL1, after an important scene, the music would come on for only a little while, and if you died you didnt get to hear it anymore. I dunno about the rest of you but i would like to be able to actually here most of the music.

I have played through half-Life 1 five times now and I havnt heard a good portion of the songs im now listening to in the HL1 soundtrack.

Its good music VALVe, lets make it so we can here it!!!1

 

[omni]

HL1 tracks are, if you can believe it, longer than HL2 tracks. The average length of the 43 HL2 tracks comes to about a minute and a half. The longer ones being remixes of old HL1 tracks and a few new compositions, including the Coastline Bink track.

All told, the music is well composed, if you liked HL1 OST then you will like HL2's.

One song I feel is a little too, shall I say, dance-techno-esque?

Another sounds a bit like that swooning piano driven Coldplay song, not bad, but not my taste.

8/10 as far as game soundtracks go.

 

[Eon Blue]

I still have never heard HL1's music. I put the disc in, I played on Steam... I've tried it all

 

[Heatseeker]

hm, i can hear the music when i put the disc in my cd player or use winamp.

 

[Swift]

If you want to here the HL1 music try this: C:\Valve\Condition Zero\valve\media

Thats where i found mine. Wierd that it wasnt in the Sierra Half-Life File.. but in the Conditon Zero File....

 

[Lanthanide]

I'm playing through HL1 again right now (just got up to the factory part of Interloper - I've always hated this level).

The music thing has pissed me off - it gets triggered at a specific spot, and then never again. If you reload or die or whatever, then the music will never start again (unless you load to a position before the music started). I usually quick save a lot and reload if I lose too much health in one particular area, however I've found that with the music (I've never played it with music before) I often keep going just so I can hear the entire track. Which is sort of interesting - makes the game more fun too actually.

 

[ThrasherX9]

I'm diggin' the music for HL2. It's kind of different for HL1. Lots of very heavy base... almost sounds Russian for example that Cold War type of pounding base and drums. Sounds oppressive. Am I making sense?

 

[redrain85]

I wish my Gold Package was here so I could listen to the HL2 soundtack and compare. ;(

When I played HL1, I never even really noticed the soundtrack and didn't know about how cool it was until recently. Tracks 10, 14, and 24 kick the most ass. But frankly, the whole soundtrack is amazingly good.

In fact, I even like to soundtrack to Opposing Force. Almost as good as HL1's.

I'm curious to know one thing, though. I don't have my copy Blue Shift any more, and didn't check if there was a soundtrack on it. Can anyone tell me if there was a soundtrack for Blue Shift? And if so, was it the same as OpFor's, or different?

 

[mortiz]

So the HL2 soundtrack for the most part is similar to the HL1 soundtrack?

 

[markabey]

i dont like the hl soundtrack much, i didnt even bother adding it to my music collection. the halo soundtrack however is awesome, shame the game isnt a good as HL.

For HL3 i think valve should put a bit more money into the soundtrack. Halo guy was a proper composer

 

[ThrasherX9]

Hmm... after listening to it again (just some of the songs. Plus some that were on the HL1 cd) I kind of like HL's better (The non ambient ones, the ones with actual music ). *shrug*

I'd like to see Hans Zimmer or Bill Brown or the like do a sound track for HL3 though. That'd be rockin'.