Daggerfall: Blizzard

[killerfire23]

This song symbolizes the spirit of winter.

[TheeKingOsiris]

This is my favorite piece of music from TES. 15ys and I never forgot it.

[morrowindarcherman]

This the original midi or soundblaster? Sounds like soundblaster I could be wrong though

[ELOdry]

Little known fact : Eric Heberling did not compose all the music for Daggerfall. There was another composer, but no one seems to remember his name, and he's not even credited for his work. Someone should ask Julian Lefay about it.

[KingsFieldTAC]

who composed this games music?

[dradeel]

@KingsFieldTAC Eric Heberling made the music for Daggerfall, and incidentally also Arena. He did a lot of stuff for Bethesda and other companies back in the 90s. Not your most famous video game music composer, mostly because he ten years ago went on to make music and sound effects for vending machines and casino systems instead. A pity, cause he's good ... but he probably makes way more money now :P

[Syckezt]

@KingsFieldTAC Eric Heberling 

[dshaw8771]

Personally I haven't played Daggerfall, but I have played Oblivion and Morrowind, and what I've seen so far is that the music is a lot better in this than the newest ones.

[xpolar1706x]

This game had a certain feel to it that not even Morrowind gave or Oblivion. If there is any Elder Scroll game that should be remade, it's Daggerfall.

[ImagineMorrowind]

Daggerfall Sountrack > Morrowind Sountrack > Oblivion Soundtrack. Get's worse with time IMO. The games themself follow the same order too, Daggerfall has more of a charm than Morrowind & Oblivion, but I think Morrowind and Daggerfall are far better than Oblivion anyway. They're all good games though, and their soundtracks are all nice, but Daggerfall's 8-bitish soundtrack just sounds more charming.

[dradeel]

@ImagineMorrowind There's a lotta nostalgia with Daggerfall. I like it, I have great memories of it, and I probably hold it higher than its sequels, but only in terms of its contemporary value. I dunno if you've played it again lately, but if you haven't and you play it now, you'll discover that it tires you out pretty quickly. It's repetitive, flawed and haven't aged well at all, unlike Morrowind, which just seems to get better. The music, however, is still magnificent! I often listen to it :)

[jackoneill45]

@dradeel That's funny, because every time I play daggerfall it seems to get more fun, while even though I played morrowind first, every time I start to play it again I get bored. While the environments may be more varied, the atmosphere that keeps DF interesting for me isn't really there in morrowind or especially oblivion.

I still play both a lot btw.

[Pirkinmaa]

Question for those who have played DF a lot: In Oblivion it felt like you can't get much money no matter what you do, but I've just recently played Morrowind again and I've made quite a fortune, over 300k in just few dozen hours of gameplay. What was the economics like in Daggerfall?

[Binarynova]

Eric Heberling did a great job with this soundtrack. I wonder what he's up to now?

[AmiMecanique]

I took out the original morrowind exploration music and stuck in Daggerfall songs instead. :P

[0NoName9]

Ah, the magic of those late 90's winters...

[Phonosinnthese]

Magic.

[HardWarUK]

Funny, I could listen to the Morrowind music for about 30 hours of gameplay before I had to turn it off and added extra world sound mods to make up for it. With Oblivion it was about 15 hours of gameplay before I turned it off and added extra world sound mods. I have been playing Daggerfall, since I got it in 98, for about 300 hours and I still haven't thought of turning the music off!

[jackoneill45]

I still find it funny how i played oblivion so much, but since i tried this game, i almost never play obl anymore. This game is one of the only games i feel has a true game world, where as obl is more a sandbox. It feels more like in oblivion, you are put on top from the start, but in Daggerfall, you actually have to earn your way. DF just seems so much more fun and rewarding. If only people didn't care about graphics, they'd probably choose this over oblivion. Oh and DF also has great music.

[solomonkain]

Ah thats it, im playing Daggerfall all day now.

[heyitsemoman]

i think theyre all fricking genius. Heberling did some great tunes. but Soule did as well. Oblivion for sure had some amazing music.

[JacobTheFruit]

beautiful. Better than TES III's music

[AirHendrix91]

@JacobTheFruit Even though the Morrowind soundtrack is complete genius, after playing Daggerfall beating random temple quests and stuff, I must admit, I do appreciate the amount of detail EVERYTHING went into it.

[hercufles]

bring up memories what a bugged game it was but so great :)

[phanboyiv]

No, it wasn't Soule, it was Eric Heberling that composed these tunes.

[IHaveAFatDog]

Very true.

[CaliforniaTD]

Jeremy Soule is a good composer, and did a very good job on Morrowind and Oblivion's soundtracks. But this music has a certain charm that the music of Morrowind and Oblivion didn't have...

[xpolar1706x]

lol that's so true. If Jeremy Soule made the music for this game too,then he is just a genius if he can make impressive music for oblivion and morrowind AND this.

[melkormgc]

Yeah..I don't understand why they don't make Heberling compose the music again.. considering the fan demand..

[p1zzaman]

@CaliforniaTD Morrowind and Oblivion tried to be too epic and hollywood. Daggerfall music sounded more like it was from a small act in a playhouse. I like Daggerfall music much better

[EdikShepherd]

@CaliforniaTD I agree... but I wouldn't go so far as to say either is superior. The soundtracks really have independent themes, all excelling in different fields. For example, Daggerfall's is shrouded and mysterious, but not altogether sinister, while Morrowind's is almost melancholy and adventurous, and Oblivion's is relaxed and content. It's really hard to pin "best soundtrack" on just one of them.

[SGTBizarro]

@CaliforniaTD Sometimes technical limitations can force composers to get more creative. And the synth instruments will always have that strange otherworldly type sound. Full orchestras can produce excellent music, but they cant offer something like this. The 'artificial' nature of the sounds is part of what makes some of this earlier scoring so special and unique.

[littleNorwegians]

@SGTBizarro One important thing to note too is that when you can only have very basic sound, a good melody is required. That's why it's easy to hum old video game music, usually, because those tracks need good melody. These days you can have soundtracks that are ambient.