Guild Wars 2

I have an honest question… one of my favorite songs in the entire game is Fear Not This Night. It plays in the Source of Orr mission, at the end of Arah Story Mode, and in the final personal story instance. Since we will likely be getting a new elder dragon, I wanted to ask:

Will Fear Not This Night be used again? I want to get that same sense of emotion from fighting Mordremoth as I did from fighting Zhaitan, as it’s what kept me playing the game in the first place. Season One was great and all, but it felt like there was a lack of any in-depth emotion to the story. Emotions are what make stories come alive as well as characters too.

I feel like music is a big part of what makes this game enjoyable to me. In the Zhaitan fight it was the music alone that caused me to enjoy that pressing of a single button. Music makes a difference, but I feel like, after season one, there won’t be the same level of in-depth emotion to fighting Mordremoth as there was for Zhaitan.

I’d prefer for them to make some sort of music that gives you that “on the way to kill a final boss type enemy” feeling during whatever dungeon we’re doing for it. I had this playing on the way to the Zhaitan fight my first time through Arah because I didn’t like the music they had playing.

I agree with you OP.

I’d really love it to be used again – its a really great song. I loved the way they used it! Taking RyuDragniers music as an example is sort of cliché for my taste.

I loves how fighting in the face of one of the most destructive forces in the know world of Tyria, you are comforted not by heroic music, but a firm yet soothing song, telling you that in spite of everything – you will always live on. And dawn is coming.

I thought it was absolutely beautiful, and I like Anets way of thinking in that regard.

While I do love that song I’d prefer it if they made a song for each of the races.

Not sure if you guys caught this, but the song was used for the Chinese release, and it couldn’t have been better. (I think it’s even better in Chinese.) This came across my YouTube feed a few days ago. It seems relevant here.

I agree, the credit roll at the end of the story mode with Fear Not This Night playing is one of my favorite “moments” in this game.

RyuDragnier.9476:

I’d prefer for them to make some sort of music that gives you that “on the way to kill a final boss type enemy” feeling during whatever dungeon we’re doing for it. I had this playing on the way to the Zhaitan fight my first time through Arah because I didn’t like the music they had playing.

I always liked this theme for a lead up to a final boss. Feels very ominous yet epic…

I never played GW1 .. I like Fear Not This night, great track, actually remember hearing it in gw2 while i did world completion at a vista, don’t remember where though..
But .. I do think gw2 soundtrack have a lot of great and emotional epic sounding tracks, even much better ones than Fear Not This Night .. It’s all subjective though ..
I took long break from halloween to april, and I was pleased to hear that more music had been added to the game .. I’m pretty sure there have been added music, correct me if i’m wrong ..
This gives me goose bumps everytime 8D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW6NbXqyGr8

Maclaine to my knowledge recently did a full 30 minute composure with a big time orchestra for Season 2, which means I suspect were going to get a more over blown epic version of Fear not this Night or perhaps The Zephyrite Song (which by the way I would love to have, fully orchestrated with massive harmonic choirs and epic trumpets/violins, more fast paced and heroic beat).

There is also the iconic Mordremoth theme (From the Tower of Nightmares update, and Scarlet’s Death cinematic) which I liked, very jaws-ish and brutal yet also powerful in its own guttural way with the deep trumpets.

I also suspect part of it was Scarlet’s Theme but given Mordy is now at the forefront…

We need an epic theme for an epic monster, something along the line of Xaxas from WoW or the Armor Titan theme from AoT’s score.

Music wise what I hope to see from an orchestra is the full use of it, taking advantage of the epic moments, the dark moments, the light moments, the romantic and tragic moments, the joyful moments.

Music from an orchestra needs to be just that and I hope Diemer took his time to find the best of all worlds he could manage in that 30 minute composure, I’m really looking forwards to some big themes.

One question on that note if A-net is listening, will we get very iconic theme tunes from now on? Such as specific theme music to specific characters and re scores, or will it just generally randomize…

Hopefully id prefer theme tunes with iconic notes primarily because I feel that iconic themes give more of a sense of character to each thing, such a race, person and event.

E.g.

Having the Iconic LA theme for the Lions Arch Lament was brilliant because it gives that GW theme vibe but also very heroic/tragic, but what if said theme was used in a darker manner, and likewise, a darker theme like Scarlet’s theme was used in a Lighter one?

I just love the idea of using music to its fullest and taking advantage of iconic pieces.

Fear Not This Night truly did make the end of the personal story a “wow” moment. I just stopped and listened to the song.

I liked Fear Not This Night, but for a leitmotif to build a dragon boss fight theme around, I can only think of Bash The Dragon. Not with the words, but the tune of the chorus occasionally breaking through an ominous theme.

Fear Not This Night, is a good conclusion song. Particularly since at the end of the personal story it’s made clear that the war isn’t over, but given the defeat of Zhaitan there is hope.