2011-06-20, 02:16 PM
Lozmaster Wrote:Why is it ok to "gamble" with the graphics and completely upgrade them with no choice for the buyer, but not the music? And I also said "Granted ZREOs work isn't nearly as good as the one official orchestrated track in OoT 3D". If you compare the ZREOs team attempt at the same songs that make up nintendos orchestrated credit theme, to the one done by the official nintendo orchestra, there really is no comparision, nintendos is a million miles better. Amaingly, that happens when they have a pineappleton of money and time to throw at the project, where fan projects don't.
And, again, if it was that much of a problem, they could have just slapped an original music option in there and be done with it.
Who says they had a lot more money to throw at the project? It's not like Nintendo has a bottomless pit of money. Creating sound tracks for video games, especially high-quality sound tracks, isn't exactly cheap, so they would be putting more money into it than they probably would have made through sales, especially considering the advertisement and whatnot.
There are songs in Ocarina of Time that would have turned out horrible if they tried to "make it better" and I'm pretty sure they knew it. Prime example : Sheik's Theme
It was way more cost-effective to keep the original sound track while keeping the original feel to the game than to pay a music composer to create orchestrated versions of it. They still had Skyward Sword to spend that time and money on, so a remake like Ocarina of Time just wasn't exactly worth the trouble.