Xae's OST Contributions (BM Soundtrack)

[Ibsen's Ghost]

It sounds like you're both way more advanced in your skills and knowledge of game music than myself so I'll restrict myself to the following mini-remark in order to save myself looking stooopid =) :

Personally, I look at Oblivion from what I believe is a fresh point of view. I don't even play games much. In fact, the last thing I played was Oblivion and now I only mod for it and very rarely play it properly. Before that, I played the Thief series and Half-Life and pretty much nothing else for a period of about 10-15 years. Although I once owned Redguard, I have no other experience of the Elder Scrolls.

More importantly, I like the storytelling possibilities of games such as these more than anything else (although I did kind of get addicted to modding) and I get really annoyed when some lore monkey tells me I can't do something....like as if I can't produce a better storyline than the crappy Daedra invasion when I've been writing for years!?!

Yet this isn't to disregard lore monkeys (despite the unpleasant nickname) because they really make ideas come alive and you can't properly mod for OB without them.

However, my point is: don't be a slave to 'Soule-ism'. I noted Xae's 'FRAPS-exploring' remark but I took over this project partly because I felt it was as little restricted by what I regarded as feeble Bethesda conventions as any other. Experiment and reinvent! Both you guys are good enough to do that without paying lip service to institutions....