Let's face it, Andromeda's music was lacking

Maybe I play ME:A differently but I usually tone down any sound effects/dialog and amp up the music soundtrack. The sci-fi esque was great; specific areas such as clubs/capitals are less.

the soundtrack needed more Halo OT not new Halo imo

the combat music is fantastic and the galaxy map is great. But everything else fads or is very light.

You can listen to the vortex bar music even from the Nexus' research room.. so yeah, the music is there.

Some of the battle music are decent, but somehow the game often forgot to play the music when the battle started.

The music in Mass Effect: Andromeda doesn't really have a "soul" to it. Its generic and boring and takes too many elements from its predecessors to stand on its own.

Do you really think it comes close to any of these?





Hah. No way. The failing of MEA music is that each planet needed to have its own distinct music track. Each loyalty mission needed to have its own character track.

Music is atmosphere. Music is core. Music is background. Music is a language. It tells the story just as much as speaking to you through text on a screen...perhaps even more so and MEA failed hard at it.

I think the lack of melodic arpeggios was telling in the fact that it was unmemorable. Think ME1 main theme, the Mass Effect Trilogy main theme, Galaxy Map themes etc. They all had thoose bleepy synthy bip-bip-bops and that's pretty much been replaced by a bunch of modern synth drops and piano chords in Andromeda. The melodies I also noticed are generic in how they move. I'm not actually too keen on my music theory but I think Jack Wall and Sam Hulick use more tonal harmony with colorful use of keys. I noticed in particular there is an overly safe use of fifth intervals like very, very basic functional harmony (like 3 chords where one is central, one is tense and back to the centre again).

Jack Wall's music is special because of how he plays with different time signatures and transposing chord progressions as well as those signature arpeggios and Sam Hulick is very reliant on simple chord swells, atmosphere pieces but he also has a lot of arpeggios and subversive transpositions and the other composers that scored MET also tend to relish in the areas of their chord progressions where they end sustain the tense notes. A lot of Andromeda is just the central chord swelling with synthy instruments for atmosphere and when it gets melodic it's just a bit of 3-4 chords going back and forth and it leans too heavily on the root note. It just ends up feeling stale. Ok-ish and sounds-passable-ish but not interesting either.

Sad to admit, but the soundtrack was one of the things that sold me on the deluxe edition, but didn't want to listen to it until I'd played the game. Was disappointed to find out how unremarkable it was.

When you had music as iconic as the OT (And not Ubisoft "iconic", but the real thing) I just can't fathom how this one was allowed to go so... meh. There are tracks like the David Archer theme and An End Once And For All that I find emotionally stirring to just think about.

ahahahaah.  I bought the deluxe for the soundtrack, the pet pyyack, and the armor buff.  I ended up not even bothering to download the soundtrack.  The pyyack just sits around my stateroom.  (Maybe it plays a critical role later in the game.  I'm only 70 hours in.)  And I have so much armor that I don't even know which one I paid for.   I want my 10 bucks back!  Heh.

But the point here is music.  Everybody's taste is different, but the one objective thing I can safely say is that the soundscape definitely can add another dimension to the gaming experience.  For me, and of course totally subjective, the soundscape for KOTOR I was fantastic.  The one specific example from that game was the background music for Kashyyk (wookie world).  Sometimes I replay that old game just to play that world, to hear its fully orchestrated otherworldly soundtrack.  I'm just guessing, but given the cinematic connections with George Lucas, BWare had access to a top notch movie soundtrack composer with full orchestra. 

The soundtrack is fine. The problem is they barely used it/included it in parts of the game.

Most of us haven't heard it.

I voted "ok", as in it was average for video games. As others have said, I likewise can't recall a single tune as I write this. That wasn't the case with the original trilogy. I can literally think of a dozen tunes from the OT right now.