legendary game ever......this game changed my life. great great memories.....the music is unmatched even to this day. i played this on 3dfx voodoo banshee.....those where the days
THOSE were indeed the days. Seeing the flyby Castle intro scene on a Voodoo 2 Pentium II 266Mhz with 128MB RAM. You could have killed me then - I would have died happy.
Me as well. What an amazing experience. I was overwhelmed with such awe, wonder, atmospheric, ominous, otherworldly awesomeness. Played it with a voodoo 2, but my friend had a banshee. Those _were_ the days.
Another Voodoo user here. Played Unreal on Pentium 200 MMX with Voodoo 3 3000 PCI. To this day I regret having recycled my first proper GPU. Unreal was really fantastic game with a really nice atmosphere. The graphics back then were just stunning.
Not really legendary and it hasn't really aged that well at all compared to other classic games such as Doom and Quake and whatever else. The only thing which still stands out from Unreal is the music and skyboxes but not really much else.
I'm generally playing extra careful and snipe enemies from distance. So I started attacking the gasbags without stepping onto the elevator. Then the small gasbags became angry at the big one and killed him. Two of them survived with little health. The action music started, at a slower speed, and because I never killed the gasbag, it never turned itself off as I walked around the castle. It sounds rather uplifting, a bit like the tune that plays in the ending sequence - all the castle is now secure and wide open to us. I guess for real pumping action it should be played at speed 6. I also notice that subsongs inherit panning from previous tracks, and sometimes may have wild stereo. It'd be cool if the song played slowly on purpose if we beat the monsters there a sneaky way (at no cost of storage space, just insert one pattern that sets the speed). It's great that we now have the "source code" of music to mess around with. The music events are apparently never tested with my play style. When I entered the castle via the water pipe, the action music also started for no reason. I found that the boat ride song through Serpent Canyon (third subsong), doesn't connect to the other parts. I suppose it should be played first and faded out, like happens in the game when we reach the gate at the windmill.
I won't forget getting out of those damn cellars and calmly drifting downriver with this playing. The sky... The sky, with that "dawn" feel, it blew me away, completely into the game.
@ShotecMusic did the check, GalaxyAudio bug, there isn't any note for speed change on the boat section, it just takes the speed of the first part of the song which made speed changes about 0:50, tried high quality Sound Drivers in Unreal and this songs play just like in my channel (which is correct module speed), besides every Unreal fan knows that Galaxy Audio (build in sound driver) was shitty and buged (try to play some modules with it, they will sound like garbage)
@ShotecMusic you really can try to make me wrong, but the speed change is on the original module file, so my version is still correct, his version on the other hand is the soundbug version which sometimes happen in the game not changing the speed of this track, at least it plays the same way in the game as the upload of my file (which is straight module convertion) but if you like it that way then no problem with me, it's good to have different versions
@ShotecMusic if you love it as i am, really i hate advertising of channels, but none of the uploads on youtube have correct speed of this music, i uploaded it on my channel, now gonna send a download link for it so stay tuned
I think that maybe with the music here, what the developers were going for was a way of showing that maybe Prisoner 849 wasn't just gonna get off the planet, but he/she was gonna take out the Skaarj.
man this is like the most undescribable piece of music in Unreal....its so deep....the feeling of loneliness it gives.....or maybe its just from remembeing playing in the nali castle and getting lost all the time when it was released lolz....
lol yeah 3:57 onwards is very cool.....they coulda put that in na pali haven.....woulda fit in there....but wat theyve done is just spot on with everything lolz......
Has anyone else managed to save the nail from the guillotine in the castle? I have once I think, but of course the his head is already off. Killing the skaarj before he triggers it will not change anything.
you know what goes well with Unreal? whiskey. And deep feelings towards someone who only really exist in your past. This whole thing you want so much is ... unreal.
I agree with Deathstorm and Scrapsy. For most people, the moment where Unreal "had" them was apparently when they walked out of the Vortex Rikers and saw that giant waterfall. For me, the moment Unreal got me was when you were drifting down the river and this music was playing, starting out creepy and dark and then starting to build like it does at 3:57; it just blew me away.
@ShotecMusic yeah we spammed the topic a little bit, besides people have different taste and nothing is forcing us to have one specific version of the song, im going to upload the slower version myself anyway just for the sake of having an option, besides it's nice to have a normal discussion with someone without cursing and all that bad stuff :D
@ShotecMusic also thank you for correcting me i think what made the game not slowing the music for me, i think it was my old Soundblaster 128 PCI back then (which creative isn't proud off anyway), but thanks to you im having nostalgia again with the classic, non-patched, software rendered and with old weapon sound unreal, sorry for the spam
@ShotecMusic ok just nevermind my older comment, checked my Unreal Anthology version and it does indeed slows there, but i could swear that in the Unreal (way before merging with Return to napali and patches) this track had the same speed as in the module versions and rarely slowed there... maybe the quirk of the engine back there
@Tuthor continuation, the game jumps in to the pattern which starts the boat section of this song, but because of the sound engine and the mod not having a specified speed in that section, the sound engine takes the last speed spec so you can have 3 versions at random, you can have one that is on my channel Tick/Row 6, the one that you uploaded Tick/Row 7 and rarely heard the slowest one Tick/Row 8 if i find the time i will try to do all versions in game, but it will take some patience
@Tuthor well it's a bug in the game original Sound Engine and also mistake of the mod creators at the same time, you see the song doesn't have specified speed changes at the beginning of each track in the whole module but, at pattern number 4 (which is eight pattern going from the beginning to the end on the pattern section) they used Ticks/Row changing which provides some kind of effect in the first track, when you're swimming in the boat and are nearly the cave
@ShotecMusic i must check it deeply, both level/game side and module side, but i think they slowed the music through the engine while the module was made faster (still need to check if there is a tempo change)
@OmegaCoolsterDX But how we should determine on which side is the bug. Game engine or module convertion but if there is really speed change command (is there?) on that pattern then yes it should be faster.
@OmegaCoolsterDX I know there is lot of uploads of Unreal Soundtrack with incorrect speed (most known is Terraniux/Night Vision and it's ending part) but that's because of Tracker music format. Do not hate channel ads because sometimes it's needed (like in this case). I'm going to check it.
strongest gaming experience with this game. in my case
unreal music developers have really not been recognised enough for their amazing art
legendary game ever......this game changed my life. great great memories.....the music is unmatched even to this day. i played this on 3dfx voodoo banshee.....those where the days
THOSE were indeed the days. Seeing the flyby Castle intro scene on a Voodoo 2 Pentium II 266Mhz with 128MB RAM. You could have killed me then - I would have died happy.
Me as well. What an amazing experience. I was overwhelmed with such awe, wonder, atmospheric, ominous, otherworldly awesomeness. Played it with a voodoo 2, but my friend had a banshee. Those _were_ the days.
Another Voodoo user here. Played Unreal on Pentium 200 MMX with Voodoo 3 3000 PCI. To this day I regret having recycled my first proper GPU. Unreal was really fantastic game with a really nice atmosphere. The graphics back then were just stunning.
Not really legendary and it hasn't really aged that well at all compared to other classic games such as Doom and Quake and whatever else. The only thing which still stands out from Unreal is the music and skyboxes but not really much else.
1999 i played on 3dfx vodooo2000
I'm generally playing extra careful and snipe enemies from distance. So I started attacking the gasbags without stepping onto the elevator. Then the small gasbags became angry at the big one and killed him. Two of them survived with little health. The action music started, at a slower speed, and because I never killed the gasbag, it never turned itself off as I walked around the castle.
It sounds rather uplifting, a bit like the tune that plays in the ending sequence - all the castle is now secure and wide open to us. I guess for real pumping action it should be played at speed 6. I also notice that subsongs inherit panning from previous tracks, and sometimes may have wild stereo. It'd be cool if the song played slowly on purpose if we beat the monsters there a sneaky way (at no cost of storage space, just insert one pattern that sets the speed). It's great that we now have the "source code" of music to mess around with.
The music events are apparently never tested with my play style. When I entered the castle via the water pipe, the action music also started for no reason.
I found that the boat ride song through Serpent Canyon (third subsong), doesn't connect to the other parts. I suppose it should be played first and faded out, like happens in the game when we reach the gate at the windmill.
Hell you can FEEL the fun the devs had with Unreal. Those days are gone and I pity all youngsters who think COD is the best thing..
From 3:52 on is simply...unreal. Just the atmosphere.
that was composed by Alexander Brandon :) and its one of my fav loop as well :)) you can play it from the modplug player and select the loop mode.
Amen to that ! Michiel Van Den Bos and Alexander Brandon. I just don't get why they are so neglected out there. Anybody remember Jazz Jackrabbit ?
3:57 onward sounds like something that would have worked just as well in _Deus Ex._
The game engine in both games is the same, as were the music formats and composers :)
I won't forget getting out of those damn cellars and calmly drifting downriver with this playing.
The sky... The sky, with that "dawn" feel, it blew me away, completely into the game.
Same here same here !!! OMG !
I love reading all those comments here... always thought I was quite alone with my feelings about this game and this music.
This is it. When the prisoner becomes the messiah.
One of the most underrated games and soundtracks of all time. Deserves so much more love
Wow... i was a teenager when i played this game.. wish i could go back in time..
I think I played Unreal (Tournament though) when i was 3!
No, I am not a murderer now :P
Still playing the game
I remember it clearly. 3:55 was the exact moment when I went from "I like Unreal" to "Oh my God, I love Unreal."
Just one word: ATMOSPHERIC.
There's only one game whose music can compare:
Lords of Magic.
This track is a pure atmosphere of this great game
i tottally fucking agree with you on that one
@ShotecMusic did the check, GalaxyAudio bug, there isn't any note for speed change on the boat section, it just takes the speed of the first part of the song which made speed changes about 0:50, tried high quality Sound Drivers in Unreal and this songs play just like in my channel (which is correct module speed), besides every Unreal fan knows that Galaxy Audio (build in sound driver) was shitty and buged (try to play some modules with it, they will sound like garbage)
@ShotecMusic you really can try to make me wrong, but the speed change is on the original module file, so my version is still correct, his version on the other hand is the soundbug version which sometimes happen in the game not changing the speed of this track, at least it plays the same way in the game as the upload of my file (which is straight module convertion) but if you like it that way then no problem with me, it's good to have different versions
@ShotecMusic if you love it as i am, really i hate advertising of channels, but none of the uploads on youtube have correct speed of this music, i uploaded it on my channel, now gonna send a download link for it so stay tuned
I think that maybe with the music here, what the developers were going for was a way of showing that maybe Prisoner 849 wasn't just gonna get off the planet, but he/she was gonna take out the Skaarj.
man this is like the most undescribable piece of music in Unreal....its so deep....the feeling of loneliness it gives.....or maybe its just from remembeing playing in the nali castle and getting lost all the time when it was released lolz....
And a feeling of peace, quiet and solace here.
lol yeah 3:57 onwards is very cool.....they coulda put that in na pali haven.....woulda fit in there....but wat theyve done is just spot on with everything lolz......
The part that Maverickwolf2312 mentioned is both a slow and a fast version from 3.55/56.
I'd prefer the fast version :)
Has anyone else managed to save the nail from the guillotine in the castle? I have once I think, but of course the his head is already off. Killing the skaarj before he triggers it will not change anything.
@pulsarion
the correct one is the slow version
i got the ringtone of the slow one
greetings
the only server that had this map. Wink!
@OmegaCoolsterDX OK but I still think the slower is better. Now I just hope that Tuthor won't be upset about us for starting this long disscusion.
let me guess Chaptor One server? :)
@Andraxxus195
a friend of mine send it to me via bluetooth
This track is used in MH-Haunted in UT..
you know what goes well with Unreal? whiskey. And deep feelings towards someone who only really exist in your past.
This whole thing you want so much is ... unreal.
Like most other tracks, I'd say.
Uh.. I don't remember now.. ;)
who did this?
It was also in Nali Castle!
lol gave me the creeps too
@IntuitionJo I agree. Unreal 1 is the Opera of fps.
The action and Serpent Canyon songsections are playing at wrong speed, they should play faster.
no
AdrianGrave It plays much faster in-game
Ahh ok, sorry then.. I mistook you for being one of those metal heads that only appreciate fast music. :p
Sorry about that.
AdrianGrave Fair enough :)
I agree with Deathstorm and Scrapsy. For most people, the moment where Unreal "had" them was apparently when they walked out of the Vortex Rikers and saw that giant waterfall. For me, the moment Unreal got me was when you were drifting down the river and this music was playing, starting out creepy and dark and then starting to build like it does at 3:57; it just blew me away.
@ShotecMusic yeah we spammed the topic a little bit, besides people have different taste and nothing is forcing us to have one specific version of the song, im going to upload the slower version myself anyway just for the sake of having an option, besides it's nice to have a normal discussion with someone without cursing and all that bad stuff :D
@ShotecMusic also thank you for correcting me i think what made the game not slowing the music for me, i think it was my old Soundblaster 128 PCI back then (which creative isn't proud off anyway), but thanks to you im having nostalgia again with the classic, non-patched, software rendered and with old weapon sound unreal, sorry for the spam
@ShotecMusic ok just nevermind my older comment, checked my Unreal Anthology version and it does indeed slows there, but i could swear that in the Unreal (way before merging with Return to napali and patches) this track had the same speed as in the module versions and rarely slowed there... maybe the quirk of the engine back there
@Tuthor continuation, the game jumps in to the pattern which starts the boat section of this song, but because of the sound engine and the mod not having a specified speed in that section, the sound engine takes the last speed spec so you can have 3 versions at random, you can have one that is on my channel Tick/Row 6, the one that you uploaded Tick/Row 7 and rarely heard the slowest one Tick/Row 8 if i find the time i will try to do all versions in game, but it will take some patience
@Tuthor well it's a bug in the game original Sound Engine and also mistake of the mod creators at the same time, you see the song doesn't have specified speed changes at the beginning of each track in the whole module but, at pattern number 4 (which is eight pattern going from the beginning to the end on the pattern section) they used Ticks/Row changing which provides some kind of effect in the first track, when you're swimming in the boat and are nearly the cave
@ShotecMusic i must check it deeply, both level/game side and module side, but i think they slowed the music through the engine while the module was made faster (still need to check if there is a tempo change)
@OmegaCoolsterDX But how we should determine on which side is the bug. Game engine or module convertion but if there is really speed change command (is there?) on that pattern then yes it should be faster.
@OmegaCoolsterDX I know there is lot of uploads of Unreal Soundtrack with incorrect speed (most known is Terraniux/Night Vision and it's ending part) but that's because of Tracker music format. Do not hate channel ads because sometimes it's needed (like in this case). I'm going to check it.
I love the part which starts on 3:55 aswell as the whole Unreal Music and aswell as the UNREAL
the part from 3:56 to the end is my ring tone of my cellphone
sounds great
3:51 time for a nice relaxing boat ride :)
@OmegaCoolsterDX This upload is correct one.
2:55 YEAH, flexin Skaarj!
I don't like the second part that much.
But the the first and third part are great!
The last part is my favorite.