Hey all,

Just wondering what people on here think of the game music.

Personally i think the ambient music is spot on for the most part, it generally matches the mood and the feel of the world. On the other hand i'm not the biggest fan of the radio stations(aside a few tunes here and there) but rarely listen to it. Plus i'm still not too sure about the mysterious strangers new jingle. Its not bad...

So do the radio stations seems like an afterthought to anyone? or is it me?

Based on https://bethesda.net/#en/events/game/facing-the-music-in-fallout-4/2015/11/02/42 and the quote "That’s precisely why Fallout 4 has upped both the volume and variety of music, offering three times the amount of music (compared with Fallout 3)", I believed there would be a greater variety of different music tracks from old artists. Guess I believed wrong.

I like the ambient soundtrack.

The purpose is not to make it too catchy, as you're potentially spending hundreds of hours with it.

I had to turn down the in-game volume of the Witcher 3 music track because it got too much.

Fallout 4 gets it about right.

I dont like the Game Music. There was one horrible Part of it and i just made it off. It was 1 min after i left Sanctuary the first Time. Until Today i never listen to it again. And this is a Shooter i need to hear everything around me. Maybe multiple Ghouls attacking me .

I just use the Classic Radio in my Settlements, but no Radio in the Fights ofcourse

I'm kinda surprised at how boring and repetitive the radio stations are. I agree that the ambient music is great, but I recall Todd saying that they combed through literally thousands of songs for this game and ended up including way more than they had planned, and yet I feel like I'm listening to the same 5 crappy songs all the time. It's got nothing on the FONV radio stations, that's for damned sure. Epic tracks they found for that one.

Nailed it =)

I get the same feeling with the same song seeming stuck on repeat. i suppose playing a game of this nature(big open world) would lead to the radio being repetitive.

I agree about NV purely because of Mr New Vegas so cool.

I liked the ambient music a lot more then in Fo3 or NV, but i rarely listen to it.

I also liked the radio station a lot more then the NV one, but I'm not sure if it surpasses Fallout 3's. Fo4's radio has more songs, but there wasn't a single radio song in Fo3 I disliked, Fallout 4 has one or two I'm only neutral about.

They could add more music, I bet Elvis had some nuclear songs. "Are you lonesome tonght" do fits FO 4 because it's a waisteland and no one there. Sheldon Allman had "radioactive mama" in 1960, but I bet Todd had heard that one and scrap it from the music list. I listen to the ambient now...

Here is youtube to a nice song that could be in FO 4, Sons of the Pioneers - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB-oJLq5rWo (1950).

Cheers,

-Klevs

They would never get Elvis, his songs are THE most expensive to license.

"They would never get Elvis, his songs are THE most expensive to license."

Shame that. Some Elvis would be nice.

I love Diamond City Radio - more songs would be nice though.


Atom Cat Radio - all rockabilly all of the time would be a great addition.

diamond city radio is my favorite, great station! although it does seem inconsistent in its song rotation, some songs I hear a lot others not so much. ( I will the "civilization" song 4 times before hearing it play "the wander" song)

I love the ambient soundtrack, especially the Minutemen "theme song" which the composer calls "Still Standing". It's the one that starts playing whenever you travel to The Castle.

IIRC, Obsidian tried to get an Elvis song for New Vegas, but it cost so much they were told they could either get the song, or make the game.

Damn i wouldn't have thought a licensed track would cost so much.

The estate of Elvis must be rolling in it ...

The ambient music in the game (because it definitely is more of an ambiance thing than anything else) is pretty good, with some pieces making me feel downright nervous when I enter a dark, dilapidated building, expecting ferals to crawl out of the walls. If I use the radio at all, I keep it on the classical station, as it can help lighten the mood when things are getting too creepy for me. Plus, it has some great pieces to hum along to (like Blue Danube, Ride of the Valkyries...). The Diamond City station just makes me giggle sometimes - "Crawl Out to the Fallout", lol...

By the way, how many songs on DC radio are actual, real songs from history, and how many are completely made up for the game? I of course recognize "I'm in love with a wonderful guy" and "Anything Goes".

I really like the ambient music also. I'd probably enjoy the radio more if it actually played music I liked, other than that it's just kind of there as an option to me.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Diamond_City_Radio_%28radio%29

Diamond City Radio has 37 historical songs, and 5 songs(all of Magnolia's songs) made for the game

I really like the ambient game music, and it's usually what I listen to when I'm out exploring or questing. Listening to other music while exploring just doesn't seem 'right' to me. I also really like Diamond City Radio though. I have multiple radios in all of my settlements playing it, and a lot of the time when I'm building I'll turn it on in my Pip-boy. I do feel like it gets repetitive though. I love the songs, but I wish there were more of them.

I just recently installed the Cadillac Jack's Radio Shack mod, which is part of the Old World Radio - Boston series of radio station mods. Currently it's a replacer for the classical station, but will become a standalone eventually. This station is great. It has all of the songs from Diamond City Radio, plus an additional 60 songs that follow the same general theme. It's very lore appropriate, and it's also professionally voice acted. It has commercials for Sugar Bombs, Wonderglue, Nuka Cola, and all kinds of other 'name brand' items that you find throughout the world. The announcer is incredibly well acted and has some comical dialog.

For anyone that likes Diamond City Radio but wishes it had more songs, I can't recommend this mod highly enough. It's just great.

And I just looked and apparently there is now a standalone version of it! Excellent. Looks like I have a mod to update.

http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/5475/?

Sound like a nice mod(no pun there). I'll put that on my mods to install list :]

I definitely recommend it. The creators have several other stations available as well, including Tumbleweed Tunes with Dusty Dude, which is mostly slide guitar stuff. I personally didn't find this to be lore appropriate to Fallout 4, but it would be very fitting for New Vegas. Regardless of my personal opinion on it, it is incredibly well done and the voice acting is superb. There are already a few other stations that they have available, but Cadillac Jack's Radio Shack and Tumbleweed Tunes are the only ones I've tried so far.

I actually enjoyed Fallout 3's ambient music much more but for me (and this is not meant to be a "ES is so much better" kind of dig) but I prefer the ambient tunes in Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim quite a bit more. Jeremy Soule is awesome.

In regards to the Witcher 3 comment..I did the same thing. I'd rather listen to the ambient environment noise than the music. Yeesh.

I love it all - I can't really evaluate any disappointment with the radio stations, since radio expander mods spoiled me with hundreds of songs in the last games.

The new music they added to the Radio stations are actually great! Unfortunately, the problem is they recycled too many of the old songs that were in Fallout 3.

The main theme was excellent and a great improvement on the Fallout 3's main theme, although ambient music in Fallout 4 was kinda meh, I guess Skyrim's great ambient music must have spoiled me.