Barorque VS Real Orc Music

Dabbing on my WC2 team for their vain efforts to defend Baroque harpsichord music for orcs...

And the awesomeness didn't stop in WoD:

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Obviously, Glenn Stafford's Baroque soundtrack is much more complex and engaging than some "hua hah hu ha huu haaa hu ha" samples on some repeating horns and monkey metal poundings.

@deepstrasz Of course, orcs are well knows for being French nobility.. who just happened to be green!
EDIT: Plus the real orc music make it feel less ¨human¨ and more orcish.

Then again, modern WoW music is recorded in a real orchestra, keeping real music alive, so whatever I might think of the expansions, I admire the work:

@Moonman no, they actually have a Viking vibe in that fits with Bach's Baroque for instance.
I mean the earliest Baroque composers were Italian.

WoD's as most nowadays game and movie soundtracks still sound cheap and recycled. I don't care if they use metaphysical instruments or that it's infinite K quality, the music itself is uncreative and monotonous.

There's clear difference between the orc and human themes of Warcraft II. There's no such thing as orc music.

@deepstrasz ¨no, they actually have a Viking vibe in that fits with Bach's Baroque for instance.¨

@Moonman yes? It's a stretch since Bach was German.

@deepstrasz
¨There's no such thing as orc music¨ right after telling WoW music is uncreative... top fucking kek my man.
Their sound team is literally creating and imagining how music of different races and factions sounds like, using fitting instruments from all around the world, instead of just making everything sound the same.

The associations Baroque music invokes is of kitschy decorations, highly details fine clothing, high art, beautiful architecture etc.
Even back then orcs were clearly inspired by warrior peoples such as Mongols, Vikings and African warlords.
Pretty sure Blizzard just didn't know any musicians who could provide such material, or simply didn't take it seriously, so they just used same guy that made human music... there's really not much more to it.

@Moonman That only if you can't use your imagination beyond stereotypes.
Yeah, sure because mixing some exotic instruments around automatically results in good music. It fits, is subjective.
I didn't accuse Blizzard's composers of incompetence or whatever. I was particularly criticizing that Mag'Har track which has so many influences (God of War parts for example) in it that it feels like a mix, something that doesn't do well with Warcraft. Of course, everyone can imagine how orc music is but then we don't get consistency.

Stereotypes exist for a reason, ignoring them is just modernist indoctrination, which leads to ruin.

The only reason to make the old music work is to imagine it being a ¨narration¨ of sorts.
Not actual orc music, but how an Azeroth human composer would want to present them.
This could fit if playing against orcs in game, but not playing as them, it breaks immersion and is therefore bad, no matter how well the music is composed.

WoD soundtracks for orcs are so good because they use mostly ¨primitive sounding¨ instruments. The player can imagine this music actually coming from orcs.
It might not be a high class as WC2 for you is, but neither are orcs themselves.