I realize that this is not really music, just background ambience, but it was something that I had been thinking about for a while and I really wanted to use this for a MIDI Week Single. Something I appreciate in games is when developers know when to use music, and when to hold back. Crytek very easily could have had someone on their sound team compose music that would play while you scramble along the face of a mountain a few hundred feet above a roaring river while hang gliders soar overhead, and maybe that would have worked, but instead they went the minimalist approach and only included soundscapes based on the location you are currently climbing. As you climb along the route in "Grand Cambre" the sound of the environment changes, so you do not always hear the sound of the river and waterfall, and may be replaced by the sound of wind whipping against the cliff face, accompanied by the chirps of marmots peeking out of their holes to find out what this crazy person is doing outside their hovel.
If soundscapes are your thing, then just sit back and relax to the sounds of a waterfall in the alps, the occasional eagle screech, and the infrequent sighs of the player character as I just stand there on the starting platform for almost three minutes just taking in the scenery.
~JWfW/JDub/The Faceplantman/Jaconian
Anything Less than the Best is a Felony
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