I don't hear a problem either. Matter of opinion, but I actually like the ESO theme more.

Yeah, I like ESO's music myself.

Yea I have no problem with music. I have a very talented orchestra trained musician friend who found it to be excellent.

Has anyone noticed that they are all the same song (the same "theme") but different versions?
I love them all in a different way, and I think they all match the games in which they are the main title.

But.. I really, really would love to listen to Jeremy Soule's "soul" in ESO; when I think back of Skyrim, there were times I was literally speechless and overwhelmed by his incredible compositions.
Even when I just remember (not actually listen to it right now) f.e. "Beneath The Ice", I get goosebumps and can't speak anymore because it's so fantastic, not from this world.. (For the ones who don't know which piece that is, it's the one that's playing in ice caves).
I've had some of my best musical experiences while listening to the Skyrim soundtrack and even still afterwards when it was over again.

In ESO I miss this feeling...

Jeremy Soule's soundtrack for Skyrim absolutely had a more epic feel to it. Now he also did the opening theme for ESO, but the balance of the soundtrack falls a bit flat.

One poster mentioned how the opening Skyrim theme wants to make you run out and crush skulls - a good composition can do that. Listen to Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky some time and tell me it doesn't make you want to run out and impale some Germans.

(No offense, Germans, but that was pretty much the message Prokofiev was driving at.)

On the other hand, the soundtrack is now a done deal, and I'd rather they didn't spend any time or resources messing with it now. I'd rather see new stuff. And I will say this; on the voice actors, they absolutely hit it in the ten ring. I can listen to Kate Beckinsale all night. Whoooo.

I will admit there are no songs in ESO which made me stop everything I was doing and just listen. Skyrim had such tracks. Still, I don't have a problem with music in ESO, I think it's quite fine and blends well with the atmosphere of the game.

I'd redo the bard songs though. More life, more power, most of them are so slow and lifeless...

I think this is a preference thing. I like the Skyrim one, but I like the ESO one more.

I like the music in ESO very much, but I also feel it kind of becomes boring what is completly normal after hearing it for 6 months.

I wish we could sometimes hear the music from previous elder scrolls. If it happens rarely enough it would be very fun to recognize them.

I also wish there are more drums during epic battles, but I quibble ^^.

I think the music's great. Obviously more of it would be good still.

Try playing ArcheAge - it's like being on an arcade game. It's appalling beyond belief.

Soule did do the theme for ESO but other artists (Rick Schaffer is one but I forget the other) worked on the rest of the music.

The only thing I wouldn't mind a little less of is hearing Red Diamond when hitting a tavern. But overall, I have no complaints about the music in ESO. It's subtle in a lot of areas, which is good for long term playing. Personally, I like Oblivion's soundtrack more than Skyrim's.

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The only thing I wouldn't mind a little less of is hearing Red Diamond when hitting a tavern. But overall, I have no complaints about the music in ESO. It's subtle in a lot of areas, which is good for long term playing. Personally, I like Oblivion's soundtrack more than Skyrim's.

I suppose "Red Diamond" is ESO's equivalent of "Ragnar the Red"... XD

In Skyrim and ESO, I've been so sick of both those songs that I would have cheerfully downloaded a mod that replaced them both with a track of my four-year-old grandson singing the "Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts" song.

(And no, I have no idea who taught him that song. **Looks innocently skyward.**)