Music from Descent. Composed by Ken Allen, Brian Luzietti, Larry Peacock, Leslie Spitzer, Jim Torres & Tim Wiles. Recorded from a Sound Blaster 16 CT1740. See playlist description for download: • Descent music (PC-AdLi...
This is the version I've come to recognize the most with this game, when it was new. I've heard the Roland and the AWE32 versions and while they sound great, this is the one I've come to love the most.
For some of the tracks I prefer this version, for others I don't have a preference, but there are a few (level 9 is a great example) where hearing the original Roland version it's clear entire parts of the track were butchered in the OPL versions. The title music is something else though, with the OPL3 version actually being way better than the original intent, in my opinion.
In 2024, a Korean girl group called "Aespa" released a song called "Supernova", and it sounds very similar to this track. You may like that song or not, but these kind of weird associations have made me like so many different music from around the world over the years, so maybe somebody will appreciate this reference someday... And I still keep that blue Descent Destination Saturn disc that came with my old Compaq Presario. 😅
I played the shareware game for almost a year until I got the final version. I loved it back then, but when I listened to this version for the first time it was a complete eargasm. Those were the times.
+Omikron1112 False. I am an indie dev composing my own soundtrack for my game with heavy inspiration from this and the work of Bobby Prince. It makes me sad that you'll never hear it in Triple A titles, yeah, but a lot of indies are about the nostalgia.
@@DaveyKanabus Triple A titles can be way overhyped and lackluster. Indie stuff will always have more heart than these money driven companies pumping out the next big steamy pile of shit to sell to the masses. I kinda almost prefer indie games and over big titles nowadays tbh.
The soundtrack to the new DESCENT is going to be awesome. All kinds of deep edgy underground electronic music on there and the game has come a long way since they got a publisher behind them earlier this year.
This tune always makes me think of the beginning of things e.g. first day of school, a clean white machine room powered up for the first time, etc., with plenty of foreboding and forewarning for the not-too-distant future (e.g. tests / exams will come up suddenly just when you're feeling settled, safe and secure, the machine room will suddenly turn nasty with a hidden "controller" taking over and showing who's "Boss", etc.) Lol! 😉🤣😁
And they died. But I agree. Not a gamer anymore. There games stuck with me. Descent. Never been there any game like Descent after they perished... Descent is unique in it's kind..........
dwindeyer No. It's recorded from a 486 dx4 100 mhz. I tried to record from a celeron 433 mhz, but it sounded the same. Either it's the card or how it actually sounds on original hardware. If you emulate it through DOSBox the music doesn't have the slowdowns though.
That was the original. The speed did fluctuate slightly and that was the magic of the OST. I have no idea if it was the design or the "overloading" of the sound card memory, but I've always been fascinated by that.
