CoH: the right music makes it at least 20% cooler

[cmdr_zoom]

On Saturday night, I was listening to Virtue server's streaming "radio" station, CAPE Radio ("You aren't super until you put on The CAPE"); I don't usually, preferring my own music library, but they had a special Halloween program. Eventually that ended and they resumed their regular programming... which in this case, included the track referenced in my Music tag. It's been a few years since I watched Matrix Reloaded, and I'd forgotten how awesome this cue (and the fight scene that was set to it) was. Even better, it came up while the team I was on was moshing through a base full of Arachnos goons and promptly made that fight much more awesome and kinetic.

It's not the first time I've used the Matrix soundtrack(s) as CoH fight BGM - there's the instantly-recognizable "Spybreak" from the first, of course, and the Burly Brawl, also from the second (particularly appropriate when fighting a lot of Crey suits). And there's a fight in a much-delayed gamefic I may yet finish that I can't help but set to "Neodammerung." Then there's "Supermoves" by Overseer, from the Animatrix, which z_gryphon once described as "[character] vs. the Entire Fifth Column"; it fits, it really does.

Of course, there's also the more traditional/classic superhero soundtracks, like Williams' Superman and Elfman's Batman, joined more recently by stuff like "Driving with the Top Down." And it seems appropriate to play the Halo soundtracks, particularly variations on the main theme, when fighting the Rikti.

Comments

[shadur.livejournal.com]

I really need to set up that AE mission that contains nothing but wall-to-wall Crey Special Agent spawns and ambushes in a lab, then get all of the big melee players into one group to power through it just for the hell of it...

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

"... More."