Jeremy Soule - The Mage Tower | Icewind Dale | EXTENDED

[@thomasgriffin9267]

Everything Jeremy Soule touches is just gold.

[@therealjordiano]

dude everything this guy touches turns to gold, hes amazin

[@LordVader1094]

@@shadodovahkiin3951 I knew this comment was gonna be here. Good job looking at his Wikipedia page and taking accusations without evidence as fact lol

[@AntoinePelissier]

I think his music sucks, except maybe NWN

[@yrtti7732]

@@shadodovahkiin3951 Guilty until proven innocent, eh? For the record, Nathalie Lawhead, for example, pushed heavily the narrative that the lead of Fight Knight abused her girlfriend (and that Boen and just about everyone lied in rebuttal) when it was pretty much the other way around and the girlfriend was in severe need of help regarding her mental health. So as it stands, it's much easier for me to take what she says with a huge grain of salt. Avellone's guilt was pushed hard as well and it turned out to be false. Nobody apologised. Anyway, with Soule we may never know the truth; he could've done something or he might have not. Hell, without a literal FAN who was diligent enough to dig through the accuser's social media Avellone's case might've not gone over that well in the end either. It's sad how accusations have turned out to be verdicts in themselves with people having 100% conviction that the accuser is correct until the very last moment (or even beyond) and then just backing away not even saying sorry if it turns out to be wrong. Each false accusation just hurts innocent people while also eating away credibility of those who have actually been subject to sexual assaults or harassment.

[@yrtti7732]

@@shadodovahkiin3951 Isn't liar someone who you really shouldn't believe especially if they're the ones making the accusation? I obviously don't know if Nathalie lied in this instance (regarding Soule) - or who is telling the truth for that matter - but going around telling people how someone did something as a fact while it was never proven is quite wrong in my opinion. Honestly, one doesn't have to believe anyone in this instance since it never went anywhere beyond word against word accusations.

[@shadodovahkiin3951]

@@yrtti7732 I never thought of it that way, you have a point!! I'll stay neutral about the accusations, it was wrong of me to state it as a fact I apologize

[@toughguyver6986]

It’s incredible how fast computer games developed in the 90ies from chip sound to actual CD-music quality. Games transformed completely into interactive movies.

[@atempestrages5059]

Yeah, I hadn't thought of that. You kind of blink and MIDI gives way to... *phew* ...this.

[@Araanim]

@@atempestrages5059 That's because they were literally playing music off of the cd.

[@doctoronishispsychosislab1474]

if you had a roland 32 sound card all the Dos games had epic sound. (if you could afford a roland 32)

[@Araanim]

@@doctoronishispsychosislab1474 I had an HP Pavilion with Windows 95; no idea what that meant but I remember midis sounding almost like real instruments.

[@koncorde]

From the 70's to the 90's very little had changed due to the limitations of the hardware, and medium. CD's revolutionised the idea of what you could ship with a game, starting pretty much with Myst in '93 - so it's particularly amazing when you think that chip (imitating) to midi (synthesising) to sample (duplicating pre-recorded content) to multi-sample-the-entire-orchestra-so-I-can-do-anything (true musical arrangements from hundreds of samples of single notes or complex orchestral harmonies) happened in really the last 5 years (over the lifespan of the PS1) and by 2001 you had actual orchestral scores played by real orchestras in games like Hitman 2 and Halo meshed seamlessly with those complex multi-samples.

[@pikewerfer]

Jeremy Soule is the BEST

[@KARHUGAMECHANNEL]

one of the best..

[@Btechdom]

This soundtrack is simply amazing

[@MindinViolet]

This piece is hypnotic. I feel that I am being transported into another world.

[@iAdas]

Old music composed by Jeremu Soule was amazing and briliant. I love IceWind Dale.

[@Delerisk]

you sound like a bot

[@geneharper7535]

Imagine being the elf that had to carry the giant metal saturn plate all the way up the tower just to lay it on the floor like its some kids bedroom decoration.

[@TS90111]

I just wanna go back to those days. I’d give anything. :’(

[@PrybarCommando]

I had the soundtrack for ice wind dale, and I still forgot how awesome a lot of this music was. I remember picking up the sound track from a wizards of the coast store…in a mall in my home town.

[@aracnide5051]

I keep on returning back to this video, there's something hauntingly magic about this track, I don't even know what game this is

[@Sssatyzo]

Icewind dale 1 one of my fav rpg games

[@misantrophis3324]

Astrolabe!

[@blindhamsterman1]

whirling

[@AmritZoad]

Jeremy Soule is the greatest!

[@CernobilRS]

Free...my...people...

[@waveculture9457]

The elder scrolls music will forever be number one in my heart, but DAMN, the other Jeremy Soule OST are also wonderful !

[@timmyturner6817]

The song hides a cautionary story. You have the Elven leader Larrel reduced to a spiteful shadow, mourning the loss of his daughter and people at the hands of orcs abetted by dwarves who sold elven weaponry for profit. That’s what what he would like to believe. In truth his daughter died fighting by the dwarves’ side as they too fell to the orcish yoke. And the short fellows never betrayed elves either: A Drow had stolen all of their innovation and sold it to the orcs, allowing them to overrun both civilisations with ease. It would be easy to blame the Drow for all of the meaningless death and destruction. But it is too simple: The Drow had no qualm with neither elf or dwarf - he only wanted money. The truth is that the two people had doomed themselves through mistrust and prejudice. If they stood united they wouldn’t have kept to themselves in times of need. If they were more trustful they would have realised the source of the menace and would have dealt with it together. If only. But Larrel didn’t. And through his failure the elven leader remains stranded from the afterlife, trapped in his own grave. A once learned man he treads among the stars yet sees nothing except his own misplaced hatred which had ruined himself, his people and his own flesh.

[@Nova-oc2ry]

Very true and well said, it was indeed mistrust and prejudice that doomed both peoples. And on the topic of Larrel and his failure to protect the Hand of the Seldarine, i love how it feels like he is "redeemed" in the end of the second game. Helping in ultimately defeating the next big threat to the north, meaning that his great failure did not end up being in vain.

[@brent95b]

read this in the voice of Timmy Turner

[@waveculture9457]

As a fan of the dark, strange and mysterious delivered in story format, i'd like to hear that story through the voice of Mr Ballen. 😅

[@SebastianO-d7i]

I need this in Spotify!

[@2dheethbar]

Soule is up there with Hans Zimmer for me. I write stories to both their works all the time. Soule is fantastic!

[@MindinViolet]

Both composers are great at creating atmosphere.

[@Shauniiix]

Que melodia tan hermosa,estoy viciada.

[@serhateldem7091]

Larrel in Severed Hand

[@ilmater6189]

Nice

[@catlion3073]

this reminds me of the interstellar soundtrack a lot

[@Vulmen311]

They both feature prominent organ motifs.

[@Svemirsky]

Pov: _you just sold your soul to the devil and now you feel so much potential ahead of you..._

[@RealArtVandelay]

Magnificient

[@JPvanEngelen]

You know, we live in a society!

[@RealArtVandelay]

@@JPvanEngelen 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@petitcanasson3990]

Damn there is a Hans Zimmer's Interstelllar vibe with the organ

[@Hamurator]

The organ pipe in the background remembers me to Secret of Evermore.

[@dwarfstar5635]

Still play it to this day. ❤

[@Vulmen311]

Soule also did the music for Secret of Evermore! :)

[@wanderinghistorian]

Free my people! Astrolabe whirls...twirls...

[@BloodyBobJr]

What a sad story, and when you dig in the game and find out what happened to his daughter, even sadder. That he was forced to be a Baelnorn cause of his pride. Nice touch when you find that diary and show it too him

[@mrdeadpool8656]

Your spell faild. Dont bye scrolls from demons😉

[@ricarpotillieman]

It speaks of mysteries unraveled for a great purpose, our great purpose This is something worth living for, worth dying for, what brought us here, what made us, what made us survive, what gave us dominion, what will make us ascend and finally outlast time itself All else merely supplemental to its great cause, its great purpose, our great strength This should be our true legacy, our real heritage, our utmost pride But we are not there yet, not yet Either we get there, or we become extinct, I believe the former will be achieved, I have faith not necessarily when I look at what I see today, but more so when I look into the past and its greatness, and the fruits it brought us today, just how far it made us leap, nature unable to keep pace, the animals powerless to our great strength, the very universe in fear that we might one day master it Its not dark anymore when one lives with this knowledge, its not dark at all, it all starts brightening, it becomes so bright, it becomes worth, all worth it, all the suffering, all the despair, all the effort, all the sacrifice, it gives reason, a powerful foundation to stand upon, a great light to guide one

[@Broadbased]

Did you write this? 'cause that was epic.

[@AguyR1401]

/Im14AndThisIsDeep

[@jeanlundi2141]

What's the context for these paragraphs?

[@BgAndrew100]

pov: humans after inventing washing machine

[@ronanmurray503]

Playing this when my players make it to Ythryn :)

[@nuclearducks7387]

THIS is a liminal space, not creepy at all.

[@mygaffer]

Why does this music sound familiar? Obviously outside of Icewind Dale, which I never really played.

[@martinfljborg5870]

Maybe Interstella??

[@GlassAsian]

elder scrolls

[@tonyvillarreal1812]

​@@GlassAsian yep Jeremy Soules did Skyrim.

[@timgimmy609]

Sounds really similar to a song from Prince of Egypt for some of the progression

[@CynthiaLabyrinthia]

Part of the melody is similar to the theme of Sierra's Shivers (90s point and click adventure game).

[@tonyprouteau3716]

Nebrask's disk from icewind Dale...o_o

[@BrainNibbler]

What is the screenshot from?

[@juancarlosbernabeaviles]

¿What libreries do you use?

[@nneisler]

Slowest walkthrough ever

[@victorkreig6089]

Too bad we will never hear from him again, all because some woman wanted attention

[@MorrixYoda]

Wait what? What are you talking about? Did something happen with Jeremy Soule?

[@Balloonbot]

Yeah, sexual assault victims just want attention. Thanks for your incel take.

[@fatas6982]

@@Balloonbot which is not yet proven.

[@Guille-mz7xf]

And do you remember their names?

[@Garroh]

Look, I’m gonna side with the woman on this one. I’m pretty sure sexual assault victims aren’t looking for attention for it’s own sake

[@juancarlosbernabeaviles]

Great, but too repetitive.

[@jakelowery7398]

Yeah, its a 1-2 minute song looped, of course it's repetitive.