Russell Brower laid off from Blizzard

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If pic isn't next, the furry gestapo is real.

>>384767968
Literally who?

>>384768229
>an American music composer and three-time Emmy Award-winning[1][2][3] sound designer who has created sounds for Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs and Batman: The Animated Series, and video game music for games including Joint Operations, World of Warcraft, Starcraft II and Diablo III.

>>384768294
Well he can suck my nuts

>>384768410
hed do it too now that hes homeless

>>384767968
translation: we're big enough to get Hollywood composers for more ((((levity)))).

Expect full-on capeshit soundtracks in whatever's next from WeHollywoodNSheiyt the Game Company

>>384767968
>sounds pretty scary honestly

It does? How?

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>>384768229
/v/ forgot that if it isnt some idiotic slant eye, the weebs will claim "literally who" on everything.

>some bearded white guy in an industry that's 99% bearded white guys lost his job

woow

>>384768294
Diablo 3 music succk balls ass dick penis

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Blizzard music was never fucking good I can think of one memorable song and that's when you kill the fat fuck on the top of the first waypoint in Act V of diablo II holy shit

The rest are just memorable because they get stuck in your fucking head like the warcraft II music.

They're fucking ActiBlizz with retarded Naughty Dog/FF-tier budgets just hire John Williams and be done with it imo desu.

>>384767968
Blizzard are the ones who are lesser for this drastic mistake. Another company should act quickly to get Brower into a contract to compose for a game series. This is a huge opportunity for someone like M$, EA, Ubishit or Sony (the folks that would usually dole out the big bucks for things like this) to try and get some top-tier music for a heavy hitter

Imagine if Brower did the OST for that Spider-Man game they're doing for ps4, or the next Last of Us or Halo

>>384768601
Loss of creative control and singular vision when it comes to sound design and music. Get ready for generic template hollywood-esque garbage

>>384767968
Sounds like he's glad to be moving on to other projects.

You don't start a "sound decentralization initiative" unless somebody senior was complaining about being overworked. Now his time is freed up to relax and focus on whatever he feels like doing next.

Sucks for him, Blizzard has really gone down the shitter and now they're trimming everything they can to save $$$ since every franchise they own is currently dying.

>>384768795
What's up with the modern hate against white males?

>>384767968
He was quite good, fucking blizzard can't stop ruining their games, how long until we get a Mass Effect Andromeda from blizzard?

>>384768956
Zionists pushing culrural marxism

>>384768967
They know they'd get WoW: Andromeda if they tried making WoW 2.

What we'll get instead is Hearthstone 2 on mobile first, and that will be the countdown to the end.

>>384768294
so nobody?

>>384768856
>Blizzard music was never fucking good
This is probably the most contraion thing I've ever read on /v/.

>>384768795
>Some Xenomorph loses his job, word "gets out".
Stop oppressing the Xenomorphs, we're all equal, but he's much braver and better than you.

>>384769123
Good luck citing a single example without coming off a total Blizzcuck or Tolkienfag.

this is worse than when i found out John Romero has to work at a gas station nowadays to make ends meet

>>384769123
That anon is a retard, but I think it's worth mentioning this guy Brower only started working at Blizzard after vanilla WoW launched.

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he looks like jeff bridges and john goodman had a child together

>>384769123
>I heard it when I was a kid so it's good
mmmm, sorry sweetie

>>384769189
this is worse than the time a tripfag repeated a stale meme

>>384769186
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpyInx0ldfo

>>384769198
That's fine but WoW has phenomenal music.

>>384769186
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnJp_s7ow7A

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>>384769247
>muh grizzly hills nostalguh comfy
so bland they made it the hold music for customer service

>>384769264
ERPfag pls go

Keep grasping kids.

>>384769305
>m-muh taste in music is fucking superior haha git rekt!!! xDD
Shouldn't you be in bed right now, young man?

Companies always lay off unneeded management after a reorganisation. He probably got an insane payout anyway.

I dont know why people on /v/ expect game developers to stay in the same company all their life.

I don't care.

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>>384767968
>With the success of a 'sound de-centralization' initiative
What the fuck does that mean?

Why would you ever play a Blizzard game? Serious question.

>Nobody bought the Necromancer or gave a shit about HotS 2.0
>Fire the sound guy to make up for it
Real nice Activision.

>>384768901
>Loss of creative control and singular vision
Sounds like the opposite of what happened in Blizzard

>>384769758
What happened then?

>>384769612
Have the poo's do it.

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>>384769403
>taste
You can break it down to its components and still be wrong about GH being an objectively good score.

It's a melodic mosaic of chordal identity crises. A beacon of nonfunctional harmonic dissonance. Is it a string piece? Bagpipe accompaniment in the B section with a 2 chord vamp why?

The whole score is a disaster, likely due to feedback of wanting it to sound like multiple sources (nature documentary/celtic influence/country tones, etc.).

It's the kind of blase disjointed lack of resonance that plebians seek in Hollywood scores and Hiroyuki Sawano pieces on /a/. It's a disaster and you should feel bad for liking it.

>>384769820
I'm still crying to figure our what
>With the success of a 'sound de-centralization' initiative
Mean, but me best guess is that with a "'de-centralization' initiative" they mean that they want their sound like centralized meaning it should allow for more creative control and less singular vision.

>>384769719
You don't hear about the other ones. Just the upper managers squawking to stroke their egos.

Neoblizz is probably a revolving door for everyone else now like most game companies.

>>384769845
>analyzing it on a faux-compositional level
that means every orchestral song past the 20th century is garbage you pretentious fucking cunt
hint: he's an order of magnitude better than Nobuo Uematsu or any jap orchestral kitsch

Blizzard used to be my favorite company but after WoW was released i knew it would go to shit. Now it's just a mockery of what it once was. I hope they die faster.

>>384768294
>Diablo 3

The fucking faggot deserved it.

Good riddance.

That's not Jeremy Soule so why should I care?

>>384768856
Karazhan would have to disagree Khadgar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dedMP7eda2E

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How will they spin shit like this in their next earnings call?

>Music department progress up 1400% year over year! (sorry cant disclose hiring/firing figures)
>Biggest department progress in the history of music studios ever of all time in the history of everything
>DICE nominated for game best department progress vs. Bethesda and Gearbox

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>>384770273
>remix the same song every 5 years
>profit

>>384770152
>i knew it would go to shit
I too have a crystal ball

>>384768294
Pretty sad. WoW music is iconic.

>>384770360
His best work isn't even elder scrolls.

>>384770376
I don't have a crystal ball, maybe you need one if you are a moron.

>>384770282
>The rest are just memorable because they get stuck in your fucking head like the warcraft II music.
I stand by this for kara too. And KEK for listening to it on loop for 40 minutes while your retarded tank waited for cooldowns to refresh after the 18th wipe of the night on Moroes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n6WP9qHyRM

Did he make this?

>>384770648
yes

>>384768187
Sam makes best Pandass

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWTSK5waNs8

I'll miss you, Russell

>>384769845
>melodic mosaic of chordal identity crises
>beacon of nonfunctional harmonic dissonance
>blase disjointed lack of resonance
Those are some hot buzzwords, anon, but you're still wrong and it's pretty clear by your rebuttal that it's making you upset that not just myself but thousands of people disagree with your conceited approach to music. Much to your dismay, I find it enjoyable and I'm not alone. It doesn't need to be a compositional masterpiece - regardless of what you might think (which is pretty amusing coming from a guy who apparently thinks that nature documentaries are a source of musical inspiration) - to be well received by it's listeners and to provide a clear and distinct audible experience. Music in Warcraft provides a unique and immediately recognizable thematic note. It does this very well in nearly every one of it's dozens of zones, dungeons, castles and cities. You would be hard pressed to find a more diverse, yet equal in fidelity, soundtrack to a video game.

Inb4 Danny Elfman and the assorted puns

He didn't make music for Warcraft RTS, StarCraft , or Diablo II the only Blizzard games with good music so he didn't really matter.

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>>384770682
Well that sucks. It's one of the most iconic themes for a western game in the past decade.

Guarantee this is an excuse to get a diversity hire or ship his job off to India.
When will the white man fight back? They took everything else from you, now they're coming after your videogames.

>>384770648
Neil Acree, Jason Hayes and Russell Brower are all credited for it.

WoW's music never really stood out to me, but it always did its job of conveying the ambiance, and he's clearly got a lot of fans. This is a disappointment, but not particularly unexpected for Acti-blizz to consistently become worse over time.

>>384770927
Why would you post a picture of grass and mountain? I already saw a picture of brick wall and that didn't make any sense.

>>384771183
It didnt stand out to you because your a pleb. With a walnut sized brain.

>>384771183
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNVomngq-Qc

WoW OST is really good though. I don't know if he did this but it's good anyways.

>tfw faggot composer of Gothic series still didn't released his fucking "Journey' album

I just need more of music like this.
https://youtu.be/ZAS7iDDCZKc

>>384768947
Opposite of what is happening: they will have to play more now (more People invovled) since all of their games are successful

>>384771257
You know not all songs are meant to stand out and notice them before the thing they're supporting right?

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aw man, the WoW music has been consistently great.
like the only part that never suffered in any expansion.

>>384768956
The fixpoint of hate for literally everyone, feminists, brown people, you name it. You can thank liberals for this.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqsazZUbt9s

To me, this was WoW. This is what separated WoW from the rest. It

>>384770189
you have shit taste retard

>>384767968
Damn, the WoW team is fucking dead.

>>384771672
That's not him though

>>384769221
using sweetie ya you are subhuman tumbletard go back you're pit subhuman you have no value here or anyone for that matter

>>384770947
>Guarantee this is an excuse to get a diversity hire or ship his job off to India.
That's pretty much exactly what he implies when he says de-centralizing.

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>tfw some of the best tracks come from the Cinematics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU7qTVkjMWU

>>384770417
He didn't work on vanilla.

>>384772043
Incorrect.

http://wow.gamepedia.com/Russell_Brower

Plus whatever he did as sound director which is a question mark.

>>384772213
Thanks for proving yourself incorrect you fucking retard.

>>384772317
Guess you can't even read.

>>384769205
that's just like your opinion man

who /echoesofwar/ here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvWH1KKOsoY

Haven't played the game since cataclysm but the music's still good.

He didn't compose this, and this is the essential WoW piece

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNVomngq-Qc

>>384772317
So you got as far as seeing 'Burning Crusade opening theme' and didn't look 5cm lower and see the vanilla music he worked on, you fucking retard.

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>>384771672
ahh shit man, fuck that brings back memories, what a great soundtrack

fuck, I feel like resubbing now

>>384768187
disgusting

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I think Jason Hayes made a lot more of the iconic music from WoW, like >>384771672
for example, and the Stormwind theme. Both of those songs make me feel really nostalgic about old WoW.

They were both good composers though.

>>384772723
thought for sure this would be the theme for cata at the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hIeWJlCxMw

>make a really good music track for WoW
>it never gets used in-game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhrxGCMzRL0

>>384770417
how come nobody knows any songs then

>>384773696
I think they used this in the trailers all the time.

>>384773473
That guy is a legend.

>>384768294
Why would you get rid of someone like him? Do they want bad music?

>>384773794
They want cheap music. People are too dumb to call out shit music.

>>384769845
You don't even know what instruments they use in Grizzly Hills theme, yet still attempt to appear like you're a fucking professor on the subject. Get the fuck out

>>384768940
>sound decentralization initiative

sounds like we can outsource for less money to me.

why keep around a guy who wants to be paid six figures when music can be made more cheaply in other countries

>>384774101
And the new generation growing up on videogames are listening to shitty nigger rap while playing games. Blizzard knows this and is kicking its talent in favor of some bland shit made by some Sanjeev on rice wages.

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>>384767968
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n6WP9qHyRM

Press F to pay respects

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>>384767968
Jews fired the music dwarf for eating too much. Now they are gonna outsource audio to India, just like they do with quality assurance.

>>384769612
soulless corporate speak
like the completely inappropriate use of 'topography'
bugman language

>>384774627
>walk into stormwind
>https://youtu.be/SQ1ED8-tBpE?t=1122 plays

>>384769612
Outsource to chyna and loos

>'sound de-centralization' initiative>
Well, that sounds fucking awful.
Guess the headstaff decided Blizzard wasn't enough of a hollowed-out shell.

What a shame. Blizzard used to be the pillar of video game music.

>>384768856
Iconic and memorable enough to be referenced in several other games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2evIg-aYw8