Mass Effect Composer Joins Baldur's Gate

[Andy Chalk]

Mass Effect Composer Joins Baldur's Gate

Mass Effect composer Sam Hulick has signed on to create music for Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition.

If you're any kind of videogame music aficionado, the name Sam Hulick will be instantly recognizable. He worked with Jack Wall on the soundtracks for the first two Mass Effect games and made solo contributions to Mass Effect 3 and Red Orchestra 2. Now he's turning his considerable talents to a BioWare series of an entirely different sort: Baldur's Gate.

Overhaul Games announced today that Hulick is composing brand-new music for Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition, the remake of BioWare's classic D&D RPG franchise. "The music of Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate 2 was a huge inspiration for me as a composer who was just venturing forth into the world of writing music for games," Hulick said. "So to be able to travel back in time, so to speak, and score original material for the Baldur's Gate saga is a dream come true for me."

Fortunately, Baldur's Gate purists who think Michael Hoenig's original soundtrack is already perfect have nothing to worry about. "FYI, all of Hoenig's music will remain untouched," Hulick wrote on Twitter [https://twitter.com/#!/samhulick]. "It would be wrong to mess with it. I'm scoring new content only. Hoenig is inspiration."

I'm a big fan of Hulick's work on the Mass Effect series, but it couldn't possibly be any more different from Hoenig's original soundtrack, so I'm really looking forward to hearing what he does in a more conventional fantasy setting. Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition [http://www.baldursgate.com] is slated to come out this summer for the PC, Mac and iPad.


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[Fappy]

This will be a real treat. I too loved his work on the ME soundtracks and it will be cool to see him take on an entirely different genre.

 

[I-Protest-I]

Quick! Someone fetch me new pants!

 

[Andy Chalk]

Perhaps some golden pantaloons?

Also, mad props to Hulick for the "venturing forth" bit.

 

[endtherapture]

This makes me slightly more interested in the game.

 

[AbstractStream]

I adooore Sam Hulick. Looking forward to his work with Baldur's Gate.

 

[Richardplex]

Sam Hulick's work in Mass Effect was amazing, but since I haven't played or listened to BG music, I can't judge. To those who have, is this yay, nay or neutral news?

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

sickk. I was wondedring when that game was coming out, can't wait to play the enhanced edition.

 

[Flailing Escapist]

Ehh, Mass Effect's soundtracks got worse as the games went on.

 

[TsunamiWombat]

Ehh, Mass Effect's soundtracks got worse as the games went on.

Note Hulick didn't work on the 3rd one.

 

[Freechoice]

Ehh, Mass Effect's soundtracks got worse as the games went on.

Dun dun dun da dun dun dun!

They went from this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye31ZhLDFUw] to this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NPBpigwqOY] and ended up with this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXJRlWdjjRk] dog doo.

What the fuck?

"Your game company is based on the technology of the EA, our technology. By using it, your company develops along the paths we desire. We impose order on the chaos of ending shenanigans. You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it. The pattern has repeated itself more times than you can fathom. Game companies, evolve, advance, and at the apex of their glory they are extinguished.
We are EA."

Youtube win!

 

[Actino]

Ehh, Mass Effect's soundtracks got worse as the games went on.

Note Hulick didn't work on the 3rd one.

You're thinking of Jack Wall. Sam Hulick worked on Mass Effect 3 the most out of the 3 games.

 

[Jaeke]

I don't know if its good or bad that i can play half of his Mass Effect music pieces with a rubber band (no seriously, you can play Saren's Theme on a rubberband...)

Awsome.

 

[Andy Chalk]

They went from this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye31ZhLDFUw] to this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NPBpigwqOY] and ended up with this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXJRlWdjjRk] dog doo.

I don't think is especially fair to pick and choose one particular song from each soundtrack for comparison purposes. And ME3 was an entirely different game than the first two. It's the end, and not a happy end. ME2 is probably my favourite of the three soundtracks, but I think the bleaker grind of the ME3 music is perfect for the game. Honestly, I listen to that theme and my gut just kind of knots up, because I know what it means. I know the score.

Literally, in this case.

 

[TheHardOne]

I really enjoy the Mass Effect Soundtracks, and have yet to play Baldurs Gate. So I'm definitely looking forward to this.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

I really loved the Mass Effect sound tracks that he made.

To hear that he will help compose new music to the extra content that they will put in the Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition is just simply amazing.

 

[Freechoice]

They went from this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye31ZhLDFUw] to this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NPBpigwqOY] and ended up with this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXJRlWdjjRk] dog doo.

It's the end, and not a happy end.

Spoiler: No shit.

Oh, taking quotes out of context.

I know the score.

Yeah, it's just not a Mass Effect game without Jack Wall. I'm surprised as hell though. The guys that did the Kasumi DLC music composed a lot of the music for ME3. The Kasumi music was easily the best of the ME2 soundtrack, but it seems they couldn't create great combat themes. Damn shame, that.