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Originally Posted by Jormungand
Interesting.
I'm still not crazy about his entry into Blizzard or his particular cinematic take on music. I don't think Blizzard really needed the position he is filling. I also don't understand the addition of freelance artists onto SC2 when the in-house team is perfectly capable (honestly, I'd be quite pleased if Stafford and Duke handled everything from now on).
That said, I wonder why Blizzard doesn't at least offer digital downloads of the full SC2 soundtrack. I'm really not interested in this new cinematic stuff; I want the in-game BGM. The meat of the soundtrack.
I'm still quite excited to hear HotS's soundtrack given that Stafford was the audio lead this time around. I hope there's more variety in the Zerg music, as I felt Duke went a little too "hard" for SC2 vanilla when compared with the more surreal, electronic Zerg sound of the original SC.
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I'm going to have to disagree with you big time there. Brower was *exactly* what Blizzard needed. He created a thematic, orchestral identity to Blizzard's universe that was missing before his arrival. Vanilla WoW had not a good piece of music, excluding the main menu theme and the cues composed by Jason Hayes. With Brower we got music with orchestral prowess.
Now I am not saying he is Goldsmith or Williams caliber, but the quality of music went up big time when Brower came on board.