Stealing Mass Effect music?

[witter]

Was it just me or did the Darkness music sound an aweful lot like Mass Effect (A popular xbox 360 space drama, role playing game)? The long drowning tones as the ship was about to skim the atmosphere really gave it away. I'm not complaining cause I really liked it but I did think "Wow, this is like a complete musical knockoff from the same genre!"

[Replicator Todd]

Eh, I didnt really notice it...maybe a tad bit similar.

[DigiFluid]

Can't say it sounded like it to me. Though it's been quite some time since I've played ME.

[wargrafix]

Did it? I'll load up my copy. Yeay for mass effect for PC!

[Coronach]

Was it just me or did the Darkness music sound an aweful lot like Mass Effect (A popular xbox 360 space drama, role playing game)? The long drowning tones as the ship was about to skim the atmosphere really gave it away. I'm not complaining cause I really liked it but I did think "Wow, this is like a complete musical knockoff from the same genre!"

If you could link to an example (maybe YouTube) from Mass Effect, then I'd be willing to compare the two by rewatching that part of the episode again.

I will say, though, that long, droning tones are something that almost every composer uses when wanting to portray a tense, suspenseful, or somber feeling in the music.

[Lightning Ducj]

I would say that the music is appropriately atmospheric in most places... but pretty much any context (video game or movie or tv show) going for that kinda music to set that kind of mood is going to use, or end up, with something pretty similar

[Vagabond Serpent]

Well, I've replayed ME just recently, and I can say that music in SGU sounds quite similar to the game's score. But that was very good music!

[reddevil18]

Get your hands off of my music, you darned, dirty ape!

[chris1984]

YES YES YES!!!! Finally someone else heard it too!!!
I brought this up in another thread a few days ago!!
Love it though...it suits it really well.

[latvian_stargatefan]

I dunno. I don't play games.
Even if it is, it's hard to call it stealing... maybe it served as an influence but it would be very hard to prove stealing...

[Coronach]

I dunno. I don't play games.
Even if it is, it's hard to call it stealing... maybe it served as an influence but it would be very hard to prove stealing...

Indeed, it would. Especially considering Joel has been composing for a very long time. Certainly longer than Mass Effect has been out. Composers often draw on previous work they've done for inspiration, so it could have come from there as well.

And most importantly (as I said before), a very generic motif of long, droning notes is something that all composers use to establish a certain mood.

[Saquist]

Was it just me or did the Darkness music sound an aweful lot like Mass Effect (A popular xbox 360 space drama, role playing game)? The long drowning tones as the ship was about to skim the atmosphere really gave it away. I'm not complaining cause I really liked it but I did think "Wow, this is like a complete musical knockoff from the same genre!"

Now I know why it was very familar to me...
I have FAUNTS and the rest of the sound track and I know it intimately.

[term]

Watch Blade Runner: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_runner#Soundtrack

The music is very much borrowed from Blade Runner. It's likely Mass Effect (although I haven't heard it) borrowed from Blade Runner as well.

[Ouroboros]

In the next episode it turns out Destiny is a reaper.

[MechaThor]

In the next episode it turns out Destiny is a reaper.

That would be awesome, only if we can watch the epic scene where the Reaper reveals itself.

"I am beyond your comprehension, I am Destiny"
"You Exist because I allow it, You will end because I demand it"
"I am the vanguard of your destruction"
"Indeed"

[Cory Holmes]

It's likely Mass Effect (although I haven't heard it) borrowed from Blade Runner as well.

Blade Runner, original BSG, Firefly, Star Trek, Star Wars... every 70s, 80s and 90s sci-fi trope that got discarded in the 00s made a roaring comeback in that epic game

[Saquist]

That would be awesome, only if we can watch the epic scene where the Reaper reveals itself.

"I am beyond your comprehension, I am Destiny"
"You Exist because I allow it, You will end because I demand it"
"I am the vanguard of your destruction"
"Indeed"

One of the greatest stories ever told

[wargrafix]

There are many styles of music used in science fiction music. Space music is very distinctive. Everybody borrows from someone else.

[siXbrownSnakes2]

Mass Effect won numerous awards for its score, and had (in my opinion) the best original score of any game I've ever played. There is so much more to video games than most people care to give their attention to, and Mass Effect did a brilliant job displaying that and bringing those things to the forefront. SGU's sequence did sound similar, but I see that as a good thing

[destinymaker]

Yeah, I noticed though I felt like I was the only one who enjoyed it...