The 'Elven Ruins' one was a miss though, sounded like something out of Harry Potter.
Take into account it's pre-production. A lot can be added: choir, orchestra, all the epic stuff. I mean, try to imagine Skyrim's theme without the choir: it's just not complete. Do not worry bro, they'll deliver.
I'm gonna be honest, I can listen to a wide variety of music, and I do like me some really epic tracks like that one every once in a while. But it just wouldn't fit The Witcher.
So I'm with you on this one, in the case of this particular franchise. But I don't mind that type of composition in general.
Anyway, moving away from the main theme, I hope we get to hear some more pieces like this one in No Man's Land:
[video=youtube;g-jnOgVNGDE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-jnOgVNGDE[/video]
Does The Witcher 1 really have a main theme? There was a menu theme, which everybody refers to as the main theme, but it wasn't heard as much as the intro in "Dusk of a Northern Kingdom."
I think that theme was excellent, it gave the OST a bit of exactly what makes the witcher unique and mature: contrast and variety.
Making all songs dark and dramatic just provides a bland experience and makes the game feel forced, as most games are, either forced to high fantasy and optimism or to too much violence and serious themes for example, a classic mistake of games/other media that wanted to be "mature" and were a "tits and blood" fest.
TW1 had plenty of examples of music that was not in your typical dark fantasy, River of Life or the tavern songs, for example. Variety is no excuse for out of place music, which is what the Elven Ruins song was - a piece that was thematically disconnected from the scene and the game as a whole.
I know what TW1 had, and i agree variety is no excuse for out of place, yet i think that song wasn't out of place at all, so, we will probably have to agree to disagree
It's just that Harry Potter isn't the first thing that comes to my mind when 2 people are having sex.