Guild Wars 2

hi there, ive been playing gw2 since the headstart as well as gw1 for more than 6yrs already, and have a question to people similar to me – dont u think gw1 soundtrack starts to be a bit annoying in gw2? everywhere i go i hear gw1 music – at the beginning it was nice to hear them, but lets be honest – its annoying if you play the whole day and dont hear anything from gw2, just non stop the same tracks. its very disappointing that its so hard to find gw2 soundtracks in the game – i know theres a gw2 music in personal story but thats not enough… ive listened to gw2 soundtracks on yt and also have 6 of them from the collectors edition – imo in general theyre better than most of the gw1 soundtracks and almost everyone from gw1 used in gw2.

Yeah, that’s the main reason I made my custom playlist combining GW2 soundtrack with tracks from other games like Skyrim. No more boring gw1 themes for me hah

The music in GW2 is pretty solid, but it really isn’t diverse enough. You tend to hear the same themes everywhere you go.

Einlanzer.1627:

The music in GW2 is pretty solid, but it really isn’t diverse enough. You tend to hear the same themes everywhere you go.

Agreed. A certain other popular MMO did a really good job with music imo, often having around 30 minutes of unique music for each zone, then occasionally playing these small shorter “musical moment” pieces at special locations like camps, little towns, magical groves in the middle of the woods and so on. Sometimes smaller areas inside zones would have multiple unique tracks. Even if some of the pieces were less inspired than others and the style varied a lot due to lots of different composers, the music still added a lot of character to each zone.

GW2 mostly just seems to loop through a way-too-short list of tracks for each region and some themes get played more often than others. And then there’s the random reuse of GW1 tracks, some of which already got reused before (like the Kurzick theme first playing in Factions, then Eye of the North dungeons and now some Orr zones).

The new music is not bad. I really loved the stuff in the Charr zones. There just isn’t anywhere near enough of it for the whole game.