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Ughhh this one requires some very heavy seperation of art and artist for some of the best game OSTs
Oh I know feeling very well, the person who drew the concept art for the battlemechs in MWO (and thusly caused a whole string of events that resulted in getting a lot better art for Battletech as a whole) is from what I've heard, a gigantic piece of shit of a person.
if it makes you feel any better, michael salvatori is heavily underrated and also a huge part of the halo soundtracks, for instance he personally composed the menu theme to halo 2/3 which o'donnell originally turned down and said it had no place on the soundtrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUu0Uf8z8Rw
and while salvatori hasn't been like publicly cool or an ally or anything, he did work with ella feingold for almost all of the destiny game soundtracks, and for all of bungie and destiny's problems it's probably one of the most LGBTQ+ positive FPS game franchises of all times, like legit by the end of the last release a third of the main cast were all some form of gay/trans, and it had an onscreen gay bald guy -> android husband kiss
I believe Salvatori also did one of my absolute favorite songs in Halo 2, "Heavy Price Paid", which was another one of the songs that played on the menu. It's a shame it's all mostly accredited to O'Donnell; game music enthusiasts with their heads on straight knew he was a POS back in the mid-00s, too. As far as I can remember he's never been shy about it.
Here's what someone posted on the Halo subreddit regarding Salvatori:
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As someone who personally has a relationship with both of them, Mike Salvatori is actually very different from Marty. Mike likes the quiet and is happy as long as his family has what they need, and he's always just been happy that Bungie gave him cool stuff to make music for. When he was at Bungie, he always described himself as a "believer" in the Bungie team and in Destiny as a universe. Mike actively hates social media.Fwiw, Marty tweeted that Mike was a republican "just like him" and that's not true, or at least not anymore. Marty and Mike don't talk anymore and have a pretty bad relationship these days, so I imagine whenever they would've last talked about politics, Mike may have identified that way, but Mike and I don't talk about politics pretty much ever so I don't know what his views were several years ago. I will say that one of the main people Mike works with for Destiny music is a super cool trans woman named Ella who loves working with him. It's kind of sad I feel a need to specify this, but yeah; Mike's not some old boomer guy yelling at kids and is a super empathetic person.
Mike is an incredibly nice guy and everyone at Bungie absolutely loved/loves him. Mike has helped me through some tough stuff before and has been extremely encouraging to me as a younger composer. I really can't say enough nice stuff about him.
If anyone is curious, Mike wrote some of the all-timers such as The Lost Song, Walk in the Woods, The Gun Pointed at the Head of the Universe, Unforgotten, Broken Gates, In Amber Clad, Destroyer's Invocation (that's Mike's voice that he reversed and made super demonic, and he wrote the backwards message. It doesn't mean anything at all, has no connection to Halo lore, and was just supposed to be fun), and a ton more. Mike even did The Siege of Madrigal. I think Mike did Perchance to Dream, but he personally doesn't remember. He also did the drum and bass tracks from Oni, "The Hunt," and "Searching."
it's nice to hear Michael Salvatori seems to be chill and holy shit those are some 🔥songs, it's a shame I usually only see o'donnell brought up when people talk about the Halo soundtracks.
Amber.
This bot consistently showing up in any thread regarding Halo is a tribute to how banger the names of the ships were. Critical support to whoever came up with those names.
They're so good though. In Amber. Clad, Forward Unto Dawn, Long Night of Solace, Shadow of Intent. It's like the thematic opposite of the Culture naming scheme
They’re a ton of fun. I seem to remember one of the alien ships called Truth and Reconciliation or something like that. Great ominous names, so much better than “USS Dead White Guy Name”
Destiny has bald guy representation?!