Why is this guy so acclaimed? He's praised as if he's some kind of musical genius, yet literal nobodies compose music better than him. This is particularly obvious when it involves multiple games in the same series. Let's take his Kotor score:
Now, which of these do you think is more fitting for a ship that is a safe haven where you get to have deep conversations with your companions? Even aside from context, the Kotor 2 track is simply a much better piece of music from a technical perspective than Soule's. And the Kotor 1 track also double as Tatooine music. Kotor 1 doesn't even have unique music for its areas, every track is reused for different areas, no matter how poorly it fits.
That's just one track, but everything I said about it applies to the entirety of Kotor's score, and Soule's music in general. His compositions have zero personality and are devoid of any emotional hook. I guess it's fitting that he's the composer for bland Bethesda games.
I still can't get over the fact that this hack used generic orchestral pieces as background for Morrowind. The games setting is literally filled with wind chimes, lutes and bongos/drums but you won't hear neither in even a single track. He just makes generic string and flutes 24/7 for everything he does. Doesn't matter if he's composing for a space opera or high fantasy, he reuses the same generic 'orchestral but not really orchestral' soundscape for every game.
Suck a dick. His work on Total Annihilation, Oblivion and Skyrim is legendary.
Isaiah James
>Suck a dick. Funny that you should say that since Soule FORCED someone to suck his dick, if these allegations are to be believed.
Christian Parker
he's a rapist and a bigot total asshole
Ryder Ross
>if these allegations are to be believed That's the point. These days, anyone with Photoshop and some other tools can make a twitter thread with fake allegations of sexual harassment against literally anyone, and anyone can believe them and form a mob against the falsely accused, because nobodies on the internet don't lie, right?
Luke Watson
You're right, but you just don't understand why people enjoy music. For example, literally everyone played skyrim and morrowind, even those people that playing only cs, dota and other popular games. And most of the players spend a lot of time playing these games. People simply don't care how and why one piece of music playing in which episode, unless it's really ridiculous and cannot be tolirated. If it's remarkable and brings joy or memories, if it's atmospheric enough - people will love it. Even if that means only 1/4 of the soundtrack is deserve to be praised.
Alexander Butler
sounds based
Logan Baker
>if and if-a my grandmother had-a wheels, she would-a be a bike
The music he composed for the harry potter games is awesome, fuck off.
Isaac Hill
He's absolutely overrated, Jesper Kyd is the better alternative.
Adam Nguyen
Oblivion is the single greatest video game soundtrack in the fucking world you philistine. It can be played right alongside Howard Shore's LotR music and feel just as grand and moving.
Guess what tranny? I wouldn't even care if he raped anyone. Yes, he is THAT good that I can separate the artist from his work.
Jeremy Soule is the greatest video game composer of all time. It will probably never change either.
Samuel Peterson
I am defending a music composer on the merits of his work. resetera is cancelled and so are trannies. The pendulum has officially shifted and you only have yourself to blame.
Jaxson Ward
fucking /thread, you took the words out of our mouth
>Oblivion is the single greatest video game soundtrack in the fucking world you philistine. this desu
Alexander Young
Nier Automata, RDR2 and DMC5 are strong contenders. I will concede it to TES IV though, because I love it so dearly.
Colton Thompson
>Oblivion is the single greatest video game soundtrack in the fucking world you philistine. >It can be played right alongside Howard Shore's LotR music and feel just as grand and moving. Hyperbole but I'm inclined to agree in principle. Very few OSTs keep me coming back a decade after playing the game, and almost none for more than a couple tracks. It's masterful.
I really like TES music but I also really enjoyed NWN1's soundtrack. that one also felt incredibly special. The Rebel Camp soundtrack from SotU is 10/10.
Nicholas Murphy
>Jeremy Literally Who Soulless >Jeremy Soule born December 19, 1975 is an American composer of soundtracks for film, television and video games. He has won multiple awards and has been described as the "John Williams of video game music" and "a model of success" for Western composers.
LMAO only Amerifats describe this guy as a genius
Isaiah Cox
The Turrican II one is good but the other two are utter shit in comparison to Soule's work
Carson Kelly
no idea why i thought right side of thumbnail was Elden Ring at first
Tyler Richardson
Mediocre at best
Nathan Martinez
God tier just for his Morrowind and Oblivion OST. It's not easy to make something you can listen to for hundreds of hours without ever getting tired of it.
Jaxson Thompson
He deserves it for not blowing the lid off Bethesda's inner workings. But this Northerner Diaries theme is pretty nice youtube.com/watch?v=C25LySsyGe4
Bentley Powell
I'm a European and I've known who Jeremy was since 2005 you mong.
Tyler Collins
His music is perfectly fitting and actually creates atmosphere in many games that honestly need a lot of help with atmosphere. It's fantastic to listen to in-game and as background noise. If you're looking to put on a fursuit and go rave to it at anthrocon or something, then he's not for you.
Andrew Ross
Sure fatty
Joshua Moore
youtu.be/atgjKEgSqSU youtu.be/KdOD0fZs_XU This shit is fucking masterful, especially considering it comes from some literal-who German (originally) for some literal-who no-budget indie game
Angel Turner
Very reasonable choice desu. It certainly has the same quality to it that leads to a strong connection between the music and the in-game experience that accompanied it. Sweden, Mice on Venus, and Moog City give me similar recollections of my early weeks in MC much like Sunrise of Flutes, Wings of Kynareth, or Peace of Akatosh do for Oblivion.
Who gives a shit. Separate the art from the artist.
Jackson Martinez
Honestly? Of the two tracks I like one better. There's a sexual charge to it that I can't write put my finger on. It's captures the feeling of cornering someone in a vulnerable moment and waiting for that perfect moment when they leave you the slightest space to initiate a sexual advance. Song two is just kind of asexual. It's got the feel of ending a date with someone telling you that they want to be friends and actually being okay with it. It's the theme of someone happy that their sexual conquest failed.
Kayden Murphy
>implying he actually raped anyone
Juan Collins
>utter shit These tracks took more than just musical skill to make, the composers also had intricate knowledge of the sound hardware and how to circumvent its limits, like switching waveforms on the c64's SID chip on the fly to create the illusion of additional sound channels. Soule can just compose it, have it played by an orchestra and call it a day.
Nathan Gomez
Outrage culture has had a hard couple of days >Voidpoint tells them to fuck off >ProJared tells sheds light on how everyone was lying to destroy him and has damning proof to this effect >people claim someone is a rapist, people say they literally do not care
All in 2 days mind you. Meme magic is real.
Adrian Hernandez
I don't think rapists should be allowed to continue work and should be jailed. Thing is though, he's being accused of it by a liar with mental illnesses. An ugly cunt who plays victim because her piss poor adventures in video game development don't pay the bills.
>These tracks took more than just musical skill Okay, they're technically challenging to implement and impressive in that regard, they still sound like shit though. Maybe on modern hardware they'd sound nicer but there's only so much you can do with such barebones synths and those disgusting screeching noises
Jace Jenkins
Meh Sounds like the shit I used to do as a kid when doing some random piano "improvisations" and fucking around with fl studio Overrated as hell
Also, going after a sacred cow instead of someone likely to do the act at all. They always try to destroy the pillars of a given community. They are soulless and went against a guy that is literally Soule.
Gavin Thomas
fart
Elijah Baker
Separate the accusation from the judgment.
Jace Hughes
>Sounds like the shit I used to do as a kid when doing some random piano "improvisations" and fucking around with fl studio post some examples
If Trump can rape a 13 year old girl and become PRESIDENT, then Soule should be able to keep making music for games.
Juan James
Go fuck yourself to death.
Jacob White
I seriously, regret not recording that crap back then because I thought it sounded like shit I could have earned some serious cash from tone deaf retards like you
Hudson Walker
>Therm0ptic with the bants
Nicholas Jenkins
>i-it was real I just never recorded it I swear okay buddy, why don't you open up FL studio right now and show us your talent
Thomas Martin
>He made advances on me and I explained that I didn’t want this and wanted a friendship. He was very threatening, and didn’t listen. He made it clear that it’s “him or bust”. He raped me. That last sentence seemed like a bit of a leap forward.
Charles Edwards
>liar with mental illness Elaborate. I’ve never heard of this woman.
Isaiah Brown
And boy, Jeremy sure did bust. ;)
Eli Sanders
Can't wait for the lawsuit. Soule is not some no name indie dev you can slander without any consequences.
Joseph Sanchez
I never stated that I had any talent, you just have bad taste
Anthony Wright
Okay then, lets hear your supposed music that can rival C418's. I'll wait.
Henry Allen
She made one shitty "game" and pretends she's being harassed all the time. All of a sudden one of the biggest composers in gaming raped her, yeah right.
Elijah Richardson
stop shilling yourself so shamelessly. The songs were mediocre at best. If you weren't in a thread comparing your work to a living legend it wouldn't be so bad but here we are.
Chase Jenkins
>sound like shit They're some of the best music their respective platforms ever produced. You can't compare recorded orchestral music simplybeing played back with carefully crafted compositions produced in realtime by something like a ym2612.
Aaron Torres
Don't you have Five Guys to Burgers and Fries, Zoe?
Nolan Watson
>y-you're C418!! w e w fucking lad look at this cope now post your .flp files
You’re confused, soule did not work on Xenoblade X
Aiden Morgan
You could make a wonderous composition on a tin can and it would still be shit because your medium is a tin fucking can.
Easton Cruz
>Soule's tracks aren't carefully crafted I take it you've never even seen sheet music made for a proper orchestra before.
Jose Powell
Imagine getting this mad on a vidya board about a composer
Henry Martinez
Yea Forums latched onto her story some years ago, she worked on a game and started slinging her puss around to journalists to get better scores, and her boyfriend blew the lid off it to social media when he found out, only for the SJWs (which she and Anita basically popularized the entire movement of) to take her side and insist that fucking them didn't mean they gave better reviews.
Lucas Reyes
>believing the women who said Jeremy said that his music is about sex and women lol ok brainlet
Ex-boyfriend. They had already split (though admittedly very recently) before she started shopping around for a different flavor of dick. And frankly he comes off as a turbo betacuck. He couldn't cope with the fact that his bedwarmer took off in search of somebody chadder than him, so he does exactly what a dumb bitch would do: start a passive-aggressive self-victimizing campaign. A true man would pick himself up, dust himself off, wipe the blood around his nose, and move on.
Austin James
Prove he did anything.
Ian Murphy
>>ProJared tells sheds light on how everyone was lying to destroy him and has damning proof to this effect
Did this really happen?
Kevin Russell
Sure, but innocent until proven guilty. I'm going to treat Soule as though he's not until proven otherwise.
Tyler Morris
Like an hour ago he uploaded a 45 minute video with some pretty fucking solid evidence he didn't do anything.
Robert Lee
>A true man Would be Scottish.
Logan Lopez
I saw Jeremy Soule at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
Isaiah Torres
Wait.... Zoe Quinn says Soule raped her?
Bentley Collins
i just want to know one thing: as soule began the rape, did skyrim combat music start playing in his?
Ian Howard
^head
Landon Stewart
>Jeremy Soule thread >only two mentions of Guild Wars
The ABSOLUTE state of Yea Forums
Robert Sanchez
No, she just latched on to it and proclaimed some onions indie dev maltreated her and wants to make it all about herself.
Brandon Powell
He was in his best in 2000-2007 years,Dawn of war and icewind dale are his best works.
In all fairness, it seems major studios quietly dropped Soule post-2012. He doesn't feature as lead composer on anything big post Skyrim and the original Guild Wars 2. He's either an ensemble composer (alongside others) or he leads small projects like the Consortium series. Whether this might have been due to sexual misbehavior allegations or his control-freak behavior, it's not known.
Michael Miller
Sorry, I really liked the music of Total Annihilation and Icewind Dale 20 years ago, but after that it sort of started sounding all the same.
Even Hans Zimmer makes more varied stuff (for movies.)
Carter Stewart
Ok, got it. This thread is the first I’ve heard about this.
>someone Must have been your mother, since you're so upset about it
Jonathan Hill
He literally became too expensive for them to handle. He knows his worth and expects payment to reflect that. He also advocated for royalties since his music is integral to the game since you hear it 100% of the time you spend playing it. The studios wanted to pay him a flat contractor's fee.
Don't ask me how I know, I will not discuss the particulars.
Jaxson Evans
He also ripped off his kickstarter backers.
Eli Walker
As one should do routinely.
Cameron Harris
Bullshit until proven true
Ryder Young
Oh, and apparently there was that one time he was on a random project, and he tried to bang the chick doing the vocals, she bounced him, and in return he kicked her out. Which reportedly scuppered the project since she was one of the relatively few people who could passably sing in old Norse. Never go full retard, folks.
Hudson White
Jeremy Soule raped and killed a girl in 1990. Dont question this just believe.
Camden Ward
If people don't call you back, it doesn't matter how good you believe yourself to be. Bills don't pay themselves. Consortium and Consortium: The Tower ain't exactly multi-million unit sellers.
Easton Reyes
Doesn't really matter in the long run, guy got what he wanted from the soundtracks he did complete and is known for. He isn't begging on the street lol.
Connor James
Luckily Oblivion and Skyrim were :^)
Nathan Gutierrez
Back to Pedotera you tranny freak.
Blake Edwards
>listening to video game music I play my own music over any shitty in game OST. They're never good.
Landon Brown
Who paid you to make threads shitting on him?
Logan Thompson
If this is a dig at rumors regarding Trump's past, I feel the need to remind you that we live in a world where a multi-millionaire banker flew teenage girls to his tropical island sex dungeon for private orgies with the world's rich & famous. Said banker also inexplicably managed to commit suicide despite theoretically being under watch after a prior unsuccessful attempt. It's tinfoil hat tier shit, except it's all true. So yeah, you bet your ass I believe Trump cut a few hoes back ~30 years ago.
I heard the dark brotherhood storylines where based on his exploits.
Grayson Jackson
>Second music Generic score >First music KINO
Jose Clark
You're obviously not listening to music at all.
Ryder Murphy
Not him but these kinda put up or shut up arguments never go anywhere. When has anybody ever posted proof and had the other guy say "well fuck, fair enough that IS good"?
Its because its made up. No evidence, just a nobody blog writer having a meltdown over a WordPress template they weren't paid for ten years ago and the time they slept with somebody quasi famous that didn't benefit her disproportionately. Fucking yawn to be honest.
Absolute retard move on his part if true, but not quite illegal.
Leo King
That's how it should be, fuck those assholes trying to pay artists a one off and then keeping the rights to sell that music for years and years. Anybody who takes a flat fee instead of royalties for music is either naiive or is on fiverr and doesn't give a single fuck
Justin Reed
He also used to go to Thailand to strangle hookers and murder children. Listen and believe.
Elijah Foster
Nier and DMC5 can't even beat MGR tho, and RDR2 is basically a "Now That's What I Call Music" album.
