Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings / Homeworld Soundtrack
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Samuel BarberAdagio for StringsHomeworld Soundtrack

Write me 1500 words on how 1999's Homeworld and 2001's Halo:CE, having similar overall settings and plot structures, used their groundbreaking scores to tell very different stories.

Then I'll accord you the right to have an opinion about... idk... Secrets of the Magic Crystal.

Track in link is the choral version of Samuel Barber's Angus Dei - Adagio for Stings as prepared for Homeworld. Arguably one of the most iconic tracks in the history of gaming. Gamers of a certain age will still feel their spine tingle and their throat close up...

  • xXthrowawayXx [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Owner of homeworld in 2000 when I could get a copy here.

    Something expertly tugging at your heartstrings doesn’t make it art in the slightest.

    No more than the latest marvel movie is art.

    • 7bicycles [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      No more than the latest marvel movie is art.

      They are. Art doesn't mean it's good. Something can be both art and garbage.

      • xXthrowawayXx [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        The point wasn’t that marvel movies aren’t art but that what we tend to call the trappings of art in video games is actually stagecraft, a process that has been almost universally treated as not art by every culture on earth.

        Homeworld isn’t art because watching a spaceship come out of dry dock to adagio for strings makes you cry.