Change is hard. I think most of us would agree that 2.0 has added many improvements to the game, for which I am personally very excited. A few of the changes (Ghost voice, in particular) are already receiving mixed reactions, but I chalk that up to bring a case of "the devil you know" as much as anything else. I think most of us will get used to it as time goes by.

But there is one thing that has jumped out at me in a big way: the new music at the title and director screens.

I know, I already said this was going to be a silly complaint. But I can't stand the new music. I think it's awful. Vanilla Destiny's title screen music was, IMO, the best in the game. It had the perfect tone of wonder and hope. This new music sounds like the "spooooooky" intro to a bad 80s teen horror B-movie. If I sat down to play Destiny for the very first time, knowing nothing about it, this new music would turn me off if the game right from the start.

Like I said, I'm a crazy person to let something so minor bother me so much. But it does. Am I totally alone on this? What do you all think of the new title music?

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I really like and enjoy the new music on the title screen. I think it's a great piece that really sets the tone for Oryx.

However, I'm not sure it should have been the music for the title screen. You're right, in that it doesn't fit the tone of the whole Destiny experience, whereas the original theme did.

I really like and enjoy the new music on the title screen. I think it's a great piece that really sets the tone for Oryx.

However, I'm not sure it should have been the music for the title screen. You're right, in that it doesn't fit the tone of the whole Destiny experience, whereas the original theme did.

I think you nailed what bothers me so much right there. As a small part of a specific mission, I'm sure I'd have no problem with it. But as "Destiny's theme song" I don't think it works at all.

And I'm sad about it.

It was new and interesting, but I didn't love it. Its somewhat depressing/ominous and I fear I will tire of it quickly. I had a pounding headache last night and I wondered if the headache was influencing my distaste for it.

I had plenty of time to listen while my download stalled out last night. It was different, but fit the theme. For some reason though I have the mournful horns from halo 3 pop up in my head when I try to remember it.

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The fact that, in order to watch The Taken King teaser intro trailer in the game - the same trailer that is streaming right off of Bungie's front page - you have to already own The Taken King.

I think that lockout is for the entire saturn planet that will be there.

If you click on that on the PS4 at least, you have the option to hit the square button and watch it anyway.

I know this because my 6yo son's account is not showing a purchase of TTK even though I purchased it with my account on the same box. So it looks like I may have to buy it twice, which I'm a little disappointed about. I wish I had set up his account as a slave to my main account in the PS4 ecosystem rather than a separate account, but I didn't realize it at the time.

So heads up for anyone else in that boat, it may be locked to your account now, not just the PS4 it's activated on.

It's dark and ominous for now while the new threat is hanging over our heads and we're preparing for the big fight. But eventually we get strong enough to take down Oryx, restoring hope to the solar system. Once Oryx has been defeated, the title screen becomes light and hopeful again.

I don't think it'll happen, but it would be pretty cool.

-Disciple

It's dark and ominous for now while the new threat is hanging over our heads and we're preparing for the big fight. But eventually we get strong enough to take down Oryx, restoring hope to the solar system. Once Oryx has been defeated, the title screen becomes light and hopeful again.

I don't think it'll happen, but it would be pretty cool.

-Disciple

Yeah, that would be cool. I love it when games recognize your progress in little ways like that.

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I was actually hoping but not expecting a change to the title card and audio. I thought the original was great but after listening to it for a year I was so bored of it that I would actively ignore it by going to the dashboard or muting it while the character select loaded.

You're right in that the original suited the Guardians and the whole range of the vanilla story, but that's also what I love about this new one: it's a specific reaction to new directions the universe is heading. I've never had a game do this before! The additional orbit music also reflects the rising threats.

I also love that the new theme is a dark mirror to the original. Isolated horns with silent rests between the riffs.

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I was actually hoping but not expecting a change to the title card and audio. I thought the original was great but after listening to it for a year I was so bored of it that I would actively ignore it by going to the dashboard or muting it while the character select loaded.

You're right in that the original suited the Guardians and the whole range of the vanilla story, but that's also what I love about this new one: it's a specific reaction to new directions the universe is heading. I've never had a game do this before! The additional orbit music also reflects the rising threats.

I also love that the new theme is a dark mirror to the original. Isolated horns with silent rests between the riffs.

The music is definitely effective, I'll give it that. I think for me it is too effective. It makes me feel uncomfortable. The thought I keep coming back to is the interview with Luke Smith where he described the challenge of making the Dreadnought scary and creepy while still being a place the player will want to spend time and explore. The new title screen music has the opposite effect on me; it triggers my "NOPE, GET AWAY FROM HERE" instinct lol

The only thing is I think they might be overusing it. It is clearly the Oryx theme or possibly the Taken theme. Putting it in the titlecard AND using it for the Taken or Oryx is a little much, I think.

Eighth represents the height of my hope for Destiny. It was the first music we heard from the game, and I used it as my wake-up alarm for many months. I adore it. The bells like chimes in the breeze on a summer night, evoking stars blinking; the vocals angelic, ethereal, drawing us up into the heavens. It epitomized for me the otherworldly beauty I'd already seen in my glimpses of Destiny.

I stopped using it as an alarm after Marty got fired, because it was a bummer to get depressed the moment you wake up. Still, hearing it every time I launched Destiny renewed some of my old excitement for the game, and I'll miss it greatly.

The new theme just doesn't strike me as that great or timeless. It's decent soundtrack music, but I can't even imagine enjoying listening to it as music the way I have so with so much of Bungie's past soundtracks. I love Disciple's idea to bring back the original music once we kill the new big scary dude. Make Destiny an inviting place again.

Agreed. I wouldn't find the TTK music once I'm logged in to the character select screen, but I really liked that uplifting "you're playing Destiny now" music at the main title and kinda hopes it would stay forever while the stuff behind it rotated over the next nine years. :(

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