Personally, I love it. (Destiny)

by CruelLEGACEY , Toronto, Wednesday, September 09, 2015, 15:31 (3600 days ago) @ Leviathan

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