I wonder how normal this was. I really deeply love the Oblivion soundtrack.

Even the music proved unusually challenging. Initially, the music was contracted out to Jeremy Soule—who composed the music for The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind around this time, and would go on to write scores for Oblivion and Skyrim. Hiring Soule should have been a slam dunk for Legend. Yet Dahlgren began getting feedback from his team that the music was “not what we signed up for”.

Dahlgren looked into it: “I saw that he was subcontracting to other people, and the stuff that was being produced by those other people was not the standard that I was holding the game to.” In the end, the bulk of the musical score was done by Tommy Tallarico’s production company. “Tommy came in and created some outstanding pieces.” Dahlgren says.