I managed to snatch the download, but ArenaNet seems to have had it removed now. And I doubt posting it here will last much longer, so you’ll have to wait for an official post.
It really is amazing. Knowing Jeremy Soule, he might have been the one to compose this, but I really wish he had been this on-the-ball for the rest of the game. I don’t HATE the soundtrack, per se, but compared to his work on Supreme Commander, I think he could have done better.
So, I figured out how to record the music myself. I hook up my computer output to the microphone input, turn off all in game sounds except music, then open up audacity and record. The only problem is that I can’t hear it at the same time. Still, the main holiday song I was missing seems to start every time you exit one of the snow globe games into Lion’s Arch.
It does sound a lot like Jeremy Soule’s orchestrated style, he must have composed it ( “The Great Toymaker” ). There’s even one very short part of it that almost sounds like a nod to Skyrim’s main menu theme (only very subtly so). It sounds great… almost better by itself than the rest of GW2’s OST, lol… almost, not quite but… THAT just shines Jeremy Soule from inside out, and I love it.
Additionally… I wonder, will this newly-composed Wintersday OST remain in the game AFTER the event is over? To hear this beautiful OST only once a year for a few days in the game wouldn’t be nice. I want to hear it even if it’s full summer time with a month-long heatwave (and that would help me fight against the heat, too, just hearing it and remembering cool days of winter and snow).
Jeremy Soule didn’t compose any of the Wintersday songs. I read in another post that he left ANet.
I noticed, indeed and thanks for the links by the way.
I really thought it sounded like Jeremy Soule’s musical style though, anyone else? Maybe the new composer(s) are trying to stay faithful to the orchestrated style of the overall OST but of course they had to keep the whole holiday and Christmas spirit intact for the new Wintersday music, maybe that’s why it “sounds like” Jeremy Soule’s work.
But overall the new composers who made the Wintersday music are great! I hope they make more music for GW2 in the future.
Thank you ArenaNet for giving us the Wintersday music to download! :-D I would love it if we could also get the Holloween soundtrack. While the music for Guild Wars 2 is up to Jeremy Soule’s par with Guild Wars, I truly do miss the Guild Wars Wintersday music in Guild Wars 2. It would be nice to add the Guild Wars Wintersday music to the playlist for Guild Wars 2 Wintersday :-).
Again, Thank you very much for giving us the ability to create custom playlists. Thank you for giving us the Guild Wars 2 Wintersday Soundtrack!!
Thank you ArenaNet for giving us the Wintersday music to download! :-D I would love it if we could also get the Holloween soundtrack. While the music for Guild Wars 2 is up to Jeremy Soule’s par with Guild Wars, I truly do miss the Guild Wars Wintersday music in Guild Wars 2. It would be nice to add the Guild Wars Wintersday music to the playlist for Guild Wars 2 Wintersday :-).
Again, Thank you very much for giving us the ability to create custom playlists. Thank you for giving us the Guild Wars 2 Wintersday Soundtrack!!
They posted the Clock Tower music. I don’t remember if there was another one. Try searching the archived Halloween forum.
