Noted television and video game composer Mark Morgan (Fallout 1 & 2, Wasteland 2) teams with horror composer Richard Band (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Stargate SG-1) to paint Sigil and the multiverse in a rich soundscape capturing the very essence of Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition.
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Noted television and video game composer Mark Morgan (Fallout 1 & 2, Wasteland 2) teams with horror composer Richard Band (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Stargate SG-1) to paint Sigil and the multiverse in a rich soundscape capturing the very essence of Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition.
This album features all 37 tracks composed for the original Planescape: Torment including tracks never used in-game. All tracks are provided in both MP3 (320 kbit) and lossless FLAC format, for your listening pleasure.
Its free already, don't buy this. It was always free from GOG for the original edition of PST, which you get anyway when you buy the enhanced edition. If for some reason they removed that, then I'd give this a negative 5 stars for taking content away in order to squeeze you for more cash. GOG should remove this from the store.
I bought Planescape Torment before the "enhanced edition" came out, and it came with an MP3 version of the soundtrack. And now, with the "enhanced edition," this is no longer free (though you still have it if you bought the original release). But this new package is NOT the same as what was in the original.
1) The original release came with a 38-track soundtrack, without metadata included in the files (and a separate cover art image) The final track, the "end credits," was in 128kbps bitrate... acceptable but not great. The remaining files were in 192kbps bitrate, which is better, but still not "audiophile quality."
2) The new release comes with a 37-track mp3 soundtrack (omitting the "end credits" likely because they don't exist at any bitrate above 128, which would sound horrible next to the new recordings). Every file is 320kbps... which is true "audiophile" quality sound. Compare the two side-by-side on a high-end sound system and you can hear the difference very clearly.
3) The new release also comes with a lossless FLAC version (with the same 37 tracks, an no "end credits"). These are variable bit-rate, ranging from a low of 683kbps (for "The Corpse Bar") to a high of 942kbps, for "Nordom Theme." That's RIDICULOUSLY high quality sound... studio master recording level (very few playback systems can really reproduce these levels of sound quality, frankly).
So, if you buy this, you'll be getting the equivalent of a studio-level recording, versus the earlier "low DVD end" recording.
It's the same music... from the same original studio masters. But it sounds a LOT better in this recording. But, as I said, you also lose a single track.
There's one other difference. The original 192 MP3 lacked cover art in the file metadata. The new versions have cover art (at 1000x1000) in the files... and the new cover art says "Enhanced Edition" with a different graphic (the 192 MP3 had the original "face of the hero in blue" as its cover art)
To be honest many people don't give all the details
- The OST was indeed free , BUT the quality was very bad : 192 kb/s in MP3 ONLY
- Secondly there no FLAC OST (lossless) provided
- Now yes Beamdog sell the soundtrack, which was available freely before, but what are users expect ? ,
-> To have the OST in better quality & in lossless format for free , i don't think it's reasonable, however i really disagree on the price, it's too much asked..
Sigh, people should check facts before posting a review.
Now people may like soundtracks with a low quality, its their right, but certainly not mine.
Hallo Beamdog,
off course you can be as greedy as you want, but you ignore the fact that no one will buy it. All over the world one sale hunts the next and you try to sell old and aged games and even soundtracks at release price and higher.
Ever heard from Dungeon Keeper 3 for mobiles ? Was it a Beamdog Concept ?
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