3:20 "Captain's report: February 4th, 2531. Five years - five long years. That's how long it took us to get Harvest back. At first it was going well. Then setback after setback... Loss after loss... Made what was going to be a quick and decisive win... Into five years of hell. Of course, that's all Harvest really is today... It's Hell down there, but now it's ours again.

@DigitalApex

12 күн бұрын

"And for the record; I would've kicked your ass the _first_ time if the lady hadn't stopped me!"

If it feels more haunting and sad than the mainline games, it’s because like in Reach and ODST, we were fighting a losing war in Halo Wars. Humanity has always been losing, losing HARD, and the mainline games don’t feel as desperate because the Master Chief always wins. But the Halo Wars opening cinematic tells the tale of the campaign of Harvest, which should’ve been a quick and decisive win but turned into « five years of hell »

@mmancuso1231

17 күн бұрын

Hall Reach says otherwise

@kalebkuhn9128

2 күн бұрын

​@@mmancuso1231 It doesn't

7:15 "Why don't we put the lady down and talk about this, man to freak?” "As you wish."

@PrederNationteam74

Ай бұрын

“And for the record, I would’ve whooped your ass the first time, if the lady hadn’t stopped me”

I can’t speak for hw2, but I’d say halo wars was very much a successful spinoff. it kept the feel of halo while telling its own story with its own characters and managed to carry that into its soundtrack. a great little console rts for those of us who liked that genre.

@MannerdDesert7

Ай бұрын

Fans of both Age of Empires & Halo were eating good in 2009

@nathanoliva2484

Ай бұрын

Hw2 was successful for a good while and rightfully so, but the devs eventually abandoned it completely

@deathab0ve

Ай бұрын

I bought Halo Wars 2 for PC. It would not load, and when it finally was fixed it was half a year later and I was too annoyed with it. I had 3 other friends 1 of them the same issue and we all gave up because of it.

@morgmatar2117

Ай бұрын

I have a similar problem on Xbox to this day, if it’s installed on the internal ssd it’s fine but if it’s installed on external strorage it gets stuck on pregame loading screens forever

@jacobwhelan45

Ай бұрын

@@nathanoliva2484It was decent and brought back a lot of good things like the good halo art style we all know and love but in terms of sales, reception of gameplay mechanics, microtransactions, and the new Blitz mode, it was considered a loss. It was the least selling of any halo game by far and even with gamepass it struggled to maintain a population they wanted to see. Gameplay was considered by many a step down from halo wars 1 despite the mostly good balance changes. Honestly if it wasn’t for the popularity spike from awakening the nightmare, they would’ve abandoned it sooner. Overall as a huge halo fan, it was a solid halo title held back by generic gameplay and microtransaction greed and the huge spike in popularity from awakening the nightmare shows that, at the very least, the story and campaign was somewhat successful

14:45 "Sir, it's already overheating. I'll have to separate the core and align them manually when they need to blow." "Son, I've a feeling before this is over, we'll need every last Spartan in the fight. I can do this. Report back to the ship." "Good luck, sir. It's been an honor."

@PrederNationteam74

Ай бұрын

Forge……..

Insignificantia (All Sloppy/No Joe) plays during the credits

@squaretread9715

Ай бұрын

It also plays during gameplay sometimes

@MrPikaGammer

Ай бұрын

It also plays in downtown on most maps

12:40 Burning sunshine is a colloquialism meaning to waste time. Most people get things done during the day & have to stop when the sun goes down so if you waste time your burning through the amount of sunshine you have to do things. It plays during a cutscene where they’re setting up a reactor to blow & opens with Sgt. Forge saying "Gentlemen, we're burning sunshine here!" He’s basically telling them to hurry up.

@angelshadow990

Ай бұрын

To piggyback off that, they're rigging the ftl drive from their ship to start a chain reaction that will destroy an artificial sun, they are literally going to burn the sun(shine)

@yobud6637

Ай бұрын

I always heard it as "we're burning daylight" but it's the same idea

The reason some of the tracks are called that way are because they’re inside jokes by the developers at Ensumble studios (the developers who made Halo Wars) RIP to them, this was their last game before they got killed off by Microsoft

@mythicknz8203

Ай бұрын

Yeah I'm pretty sure that the drvs quickly put together a side company so they could get the mp servers up in time as well as make sure the game got the support it needed for launch since Microsoft killed ensemble before halo wars was even officially launched

I love how the Halo Wars soundtrack clearly connects to the mainline games', but still has a unique feel that sets it apart. This easily makes it feel like a new story in the same universe.

Stephen Rippy IMO is the only composer/arranger that has been able to compose his own music that sounds like Halo even without using any motifs composed by Marty and Michael. He uses some motifs in a few arrangements, and in those cases it's still better than what I've heard from other composers and quite original. Definitely a composer who respected the style and is able to be flexible to fit in. I think the composers in newer Halo games don't care to fit in or it wasn't in their style range.

Time stamps: 0:20 - Spirit of Fire / Main Theme of Halo Wars 3:18 - Five Long Years 7:13 - Put the Lady Down 9:36 - Part of the Problem 12:42 - We’re Burning Sunshine 15:37 - Fingerprints are Broken 19:28 - Insignificantia (All Sloppy/No Joe)

Would have liked to seen Action Figure Hands in here.

@GohanScholar

Ай бұрын

same, underrated track. It's one of my favorites in the entire franchise.

@linkndark

Ай бұрын

I agree. Was waiting for it the entire video. One of my all time favourite halo tracks.

It’s a halo game about a tacticians POV of the worst situation they could find themselves in, completely alone and outnumbered on a newly discovered mega structure so far away from home you see the Milky way galaxy in the sky

@fosstera

20 күн бұрын

the installation in this game is a shield world in the galaxy. Youre referring to the Ark, which was lost to time until late 2552

The farther into the games you go, the more atmospheric the music gets, and the fewer themes you'll hear.

Absolutely incredible soundtrack by Stephen Rippy. He was the composer to Age of Empires and Age of Mythology, hence the incredible variety of music. Halo Wars is one of my fav Halo games, and the cutscenes were incredible. Glad you choose this

Stephen Rippy is an amazing composer! Love his work, and he did a fantastic job with Halo Wars - he truly had some massive shoes to fill, but he always delivers

May not be Marty O'Donnell, but it still feels like Halo, don't know how they nailed that opening theme so well I love all the classic FPS Halo games, but Halo Wars (1&2) has a special place in my hard drive and I always end up playing it again.

Halo wars always reminded me of halo 2 soundtrack wise, where there is that "groovy" element very strongly up front. Halo wars mixes it with traditional orchestra, where halo 2 goes in a more rockish direction.

I would highly suggest watching one of the Halo Wars "movies" on KZread where it is all the cinimatics stitched together. The music hits so much harder eith the visuals. Probably my absolute favorite parts are the opening and the emergence of the Spirit into the interior of the shield world. Gives me goosebumps just about every time.

Stephen Rippy also composed music for Age of Empires and Age of Mythology as they were also done by Ensemble Studios. You can definely here lot of familiar elements from Age of Empires III soundtrack in Halo Wars, often its line mix of of that soundtrack and Halo.

Don’t know how many hours I put into halo wars as a kid, but it was a lot. Good times

"Nostalgia" is my only descriptor for the music. I miss it. I do love how the story it covers is canon.

This video made me realize that "Fingerprints are Broken" is a banger.

The story of this games development is very interesting, The devs really went through hell to get this game done. TheActMan does a good job of explaining it.

As a diehard Halo fan and a huge enjoyer of the trilogy OSTs, Halo Wars had amazing composition. It was different enough as to not copy Marty's music, but it seamlessly fit into the Halo universe's tone. It was also nice to see Halo come full circle and be developed as an RTS game, as originally intended by Bungie back in their Mac days.

Spirit of Fire is my favorite of the tracks. So Halo Wars takes place 5 years after the start of the Human Covenant War and 20 years before the main trilogy. They start at the the first human planet that was invaded searching for something the Covenant have found. Five Long Years plays before Spirit of Fire and plays over a starting monologue from the captain of the UNSC Spirit of Fire talking about their 5 year battle to get the planet Harvest back from the Covenant before finally regaining control of the planet. The Covenant leave Harvest and the Spirit of Fire chaises them down to another human colony under attack. They aid in the defense of the planet. Put the Lady Down plays when the Covenant kidnaps the human scientist on a human colony that is under attack and the captain needs to make the decision to chaise them down to save her. They arrive at an ancient Forerunner planet. We're Burning Sunshine plays when the crew of the Spirit of Fire rigs their slip space drive to blow up a planet to prevent the Covenant from using an ancient forerunner ship fleet. Insignificantia plays for the credits. The Spirit of Fire lost its slip space drive and they are now stranded in space far from any human planet with no way back. The UNSC unable to track them down designates the ship as "Lost with all hands" believing the ship was destroyed not knowing that it was actually adrift in space.

Fun fact: Halo was originally designed to be an RTS(Real Time Strategy) before being turned into Halo 1, so this is kinda almost a full circle for the series lol Also btw for Halo 4, it’s the first one by 343, but although having a very different ost from previous games it still has a bunch of decent tracks, definitely very underrated imo

The halo wars series has some great music that sets it apart from the mainline games. While they may not be as iconic as the others since it isn't as story driven, I still get chills and nostalgia when listening to spirit of fire (the main menu music)

@juicedog777

8 күн бұрын

to me they’re as iconic🙂 like action figure hands

You should see a set of cinematic long plays of these games (not just the cutscenes/cinematics, but where someone plays through with an eye for telling the story through the capture). You'll love it, and a number of the halo songs you've heard might bring you to tears knowing the story behind them.

6:04 The choppiness is actually from gameplay themes. Modern game soundtracks can actually be reactive to player actions and the halo franchise pioneered that. What you heard as a single short theme is a sample of a modular soundscape that can be shuffled and stitched together to make something indefinitely long that can fit the feeling of that stage of the story/setting. You heard what, a minute of song? In game the player might have that last 5-10 min if they're taking their time, or have the music blend from the previous theme through a few seconds of the current one and on to the next seamlessly if they're speeding through faster than intended.

It’s different like Reach is. Everybody f**king dies.

@theneoreformationist

Ай бұрын

lol no they don't

@primary2630

Ай бұрын

Only one major human dies and only one major covenant die lol

@RAD1111able

Ай бұрын

Have you even played the game? Only Forge dies from the main human cast.

IIRC Spirit of Fire, Burning Daylight, Five Long Years and Put The Lady Down are from cutscenes, and the rest are just loopable background music from game play.

Bad Here Day is usually my go to track from this OST, next to action figure hands. the stage music is always nice to listen to when forging maps in other Halo games, but all very ambient and atmospheric.

13:18 "Take care of those Elites! He's mine."

Im pretty sure people have asked, but you should try to watch whatever cutscenes as well

I was really hoping "Action Figure Hands" would be featured but it wasnt. I even suggested it on a previous video

HW1 has a better OST than HW2. Both have great gameplay though

@theneoreformationist

Ай бұрын

Yeah, I find the gameplay mechanics of Halo Wars 2 a step up, but it suffers dramatically in terms of things like story. There's very little that actually happens in the game by comparison, but the Banished campaign expansion was great.

The Halo Wars OST just embodies ambience. It's one of those OSTs that I might pick a couple tracks out to listen to, but usually I flip it on in its entirety. Remove a couple tracks and it's a fantastic sleep playlist, too. Since the cutscenes were done by Blur and not in-house, I assume they were scored after production and that's why Steven Rippy made a lot of the tracks exactly as long as they needed to be for the scene and not longer pieces that can be shortened or lengthened as-needed like some of Marty & Mike's tracks. Halo Wars is such a unique example of a spinoff, because the gameplay couldn't be farther from the source material yet it has a perfect feel that matches Halo 1. The characters don't have a massive amount of dimension to them, but they really don't need to. They're memorable, were very well played, and fit exactly where they needed to in the story. It's one of my absolute favorites If you want a franchise that will surprise you with its music just as much as Halo, I strongly recommend looking at Ace Combat. For being an arcade flight sim about pulling off superhuman feats of aerial combat, the music SLAPS

Stephen Rippy's work with the halo wars soundtrack is incredible. How he managed to maintain the spirit, tone, and sound of Halo while also creating some really interesting, almost poppy, melodies like on Insignifcanta, is awesome. Insignificanta Action Figure Hands Flollo Bad Here Day are my favorites. He made some great themes and also some really compelling chill music to have on while you're figuring out your strategy (or watching your supply depots be built) As a die hard Halo fan, Ensemble's work on Halo Wars was spectacular and far more faithful to the spirit of Halo than any of the 343 games.

Here to let you know, old timey RTS games had great music, since that's how you were to fill the time as RTS games can tend to be longer. Great examples -> Rise of Nations, Command and Conquer, Starcraft, etc. You should definitely check out these games' OSTs.

The same guy who did the Halo Wars soundtracks, Stephen Rippy, also did all the Age of Empires games. And Age of Mythology. I LOVE his style and his level music is fantastic. I listen to this soundtrack all the time while I study.

The Halo Wars 1 OST is criminally underrated, even as a standalone piece. Insignificantia is such a great vibe.

Halo Wars is different, but still feels Halo to me. The soundtrack is a good new take in the series and I really enjoy it. It is no 'Finale' or 'Keep What You Steal' but it is really good. Time for some video suggestions. I already talked about the Endless series so now lets recommend FROSTPUNK: Frostpunk is a city builder set in a dystopian 1800s where the world entered a new ice age. Humanity now lives on small cities around huge ass coal generators that provide heat and energy. You are the captain, you must rule the city as it grows, ensuring it has coal, food, hosing and order so it doesnt collapse to the cold or to anarchy. It makes you take some pretty tough decisions, you can try being a good leader but sometimes an iron fist is better to keep order amist the chaos. There are many moral and technichal decisions to make, but no matter how you approach it, you must remember: THE CITY MUST SURVIVE! And the soundtrack perfectly reflects that vibe. Its epic and mellow and terrifying sometimes. Playing as an ice storm ravages your buildings and gives your people frostbite. Slowly getting more desperate as your resources dwindle and your people lose hope.

Finger prints are broken probably refers to the fact that only humans can interact with forerunner tech through our unique fingerprints that the covenant species can't, since this game was made before humans being the forerunners was retconned

Context. Halo Wars is a Strategy game that follows one of the first ships that discovered the evil aliens and witnessed the first planet fall. Scattered and lost from the rest of the fleet, the ship must protect themselves from an onslaught while retreating

Spirit of Fire always made me feel sad. As a kid I couldn't really explain the feeling, but it was simultaneously uncomfortable and captivating. I couldn't help but sit in the main menu letting the entire song play out. As an adult, now, I still get this feeling, but now with a mix of nostalgia

Definitely like it, Before I was A huge Halo Fan I was a Huge Age of Empires/Mythology Fan so Halo Wars was a match made in heaven. Unfortunately this was the last game Ensemble studios ever made as they were shut down after it released but it was a great send off to an amazing studio.

@mythicknz8203

Ай бұрын

People think Microsoft only sucks ow but they have always had their heads 6 feet in the gutters

Insignificantia my beloved, probably my favorite piece of Halo music

The Halo Wars games are the only ones I haven’t played… well, those and the spartan strike games but mobile so whatever. Personally, I think the 343 era of Halo music gets a lot more hate than it deserves… it’s different than Marty’s, that’s for sure, but I still think it’s good in its own way.

@MannerdDesert7

Ай бұрын

Halo 4 is good, Halo 5 is pretty throw away & Infinite is a mixed bag Also Halo Wars 2 is decent but no where near as good as Halo Wars 1 (they didn’t get the same composer).

@aksis2133

Ай бұрын

@@MannerdDesert7 Yeah tbh I definitely agree with 4/Infinite > 5. Also, I think Infinite's OST is actually really underrated - yes, it has a lot of returning themes, but some of its originals, like the Endless theme, are absolutely top tier.

@MannerdDesert7

Ай бұрын

@@aksis2133 Endless was decent, the Issue with Infinites OST, besides reused music, wasn’t that it was bad, it’s actually pretty decent, it just doesn’t come anywhere near the originals, Halo 4 I would argue is the closest to reaching the originals in quality but it’s still not quite as good.

Strange request: Can you check out the Banana Kong 2 Soundtrack? I absolutely love the music! And it's by the same composer who did the Sonic Mania OST (Tee Lopes).

12:41 if this is genuine, burning sunshine is an America saying that essentially means to waste valuable time, especially at the being or end of the day when you need the sunlight to do something. It’s also a pretty messed up joke about the ending of the game

Insignificantia RAHHHHH I love it

Some of these were unofficial soundtrack / not in the album which I think explains the lower quality audio for some tracks (some sounded kind of tinny). Some of my favourites are Spirit of Fire; Bad Here Day; Flip and Sizzle; Flollo; and Insignificantia. Glad you covered some of those! Also I found Halo Wars was the best example of a respectful 3rd party spinoff I could think of. One of my all time favourites even though my friends try to get me to play objectively more complex strategy games that theoretically should be more fun.

The composer for this game, Stephen Rippy, is best known for his work on Age of Empires III and Age of Mythology (same studio as this game). You can hear a lot of his specific style in this soundtrack, but also a lot of Halo. It feels a lot like a mix of Marty and Michael's work on Halo and Stephen Rippy's previous work on Age of Empires. In particular the woodwinds and brass are extremely Stephen Rippy, whereas the strings are very traditional Halo. The vocals go back and forth between reminding me of Halo and of AoE III, so it's clear that Stephen Rippy really understood the music of the series he was adapting but didn't compromise his style at all. If you liked this (and the weird track names) I highly recommend checking out Age of Empires III's soundtrack as well!

it's the story of halo, more of the human, less of the master chief. We get REKT by the covenant, it's not a war we win, it's a war we are losing HARD. and there seems to be no hope, but we must continue, because we dont have anythings else.

Halo Wars is arguably one of the best of the franchise, after HCE, 2 &3 of course.

Burning Sunshine is a cut scene track also. Fav cut scene.

19:55 those trumpets remind me of the KH soundtrack

Five Long Years plays in the opening cutscene, which is series of beautiful visuals and concise expository narration explaining the 5-year long campaign fighting the Covenant on the planet Harvest. That's why it's in sections.

So, fun fact, only 2/7 tracks here are sort of “ambient” tracks (ie, those that play during gameplay, on the map. 3/7 are cutscene tracks like you predicted, and that is why they’re a bit choppier and more variable. The last track is the credits music, and the first plays during the main menu. The second track is the intro cutscene, and while it doesn’t actually pause, it accompanies narration over a similarly choppy recounting of the past five years to that point. As for burning sunshine, not only is it an idiom representing wasting time (ie, burning the hours of sunshine we have left) but in this case, they are preparing a nuclear reactor to explode inside the heart of an artificial sun, so…double meaning? And the four descending notes you state sound like the end of “We’re burning sunshine” are also in “Five long years”, and are the motif of the main villain. So what you’re hearing is him making an entrance into the cutscene

When you get to halo 4 I highly highly recommend Green and Blue along with Arrival. My two personal favorites

I absolutely love Halo Wars music! Fingerprints Are Broken and Bad Here Day are my favorites.

For me at least, Halo Wars has a very unique musical identity that creates an atmosphere that I love. It’s my favorite halo game to just open a private game in and just chill, kinda therapeutic in a way. Some of my favorite ambient tracks that weren’t included here are “Bad Here Day”, “Work Burns and Runaway Grunts”, “Flip and Sizzle”, “and Just Ad Nausem” if you felt like listening to any of the others

I played every Halo game on PC since i was 7 years old, Stephen Rippy did a really good job on this new journey. Thanks for your content.

This game had me in its grips in my teenage years, i remember how far ahead the cutscenese were to anything i had ever seen in a video game like that before, music was very unique yet had many homages to the original trilogy

Ah, good ole halo Wars 1. One of the best RTS games period. 19:47. END TRANSMISSION:

With We're Burning Sunshine, Forge and Red Team are deploying the ship's FTL drive to the summit to detonate the sun and collapse the shield world. In the midst of all this they are set upon by the Arbiter and his honour guards. Red Team take care of the guards while Forge goes hand to hand with the Arbiter and defeats him. Its one of THE BEST cutscenes in gaming period in my opinion.

Hw1 was my favorite halo game. Period. Favorite music, favorite cutscenes, love a good rts.

Nice video! Also last vid I made a comment, I don't know if you seen it so am going to copy and paste it here lol. Hi, I'm new to your channel and I love your reactions! I don't know if you read suggestions, but you should listen to the OST of the game Piggy, here are the best themes: -Scary Shanty* -Kraxicorde theme -Crystalized* -Duality* -Twisted Twins -Kona* -Uneasy Urgency -Her Encounter -Let Go* -Washed Clean By The River* -Travelling Time -The Lonesome Sailor* -The Wretched Wolf* I put a little star * to the one you MUST listen to.

I'm actually kind of surprised to hear that hw1 music is controversial, I consider HW1 OST to be just as Halo and Nostalgic as any other Marty piece, anything after this though is another story. I also hope people don't dislike it JUST because it wasn't made by Marty. edit: anything after HW1 OTHER than infinite, I think Infinite's music was pretty good all things considered.

I would recommend reacting to some things from the game named 'Cloudbuilt' Namely 'Aerial Walkways', 'Sinister Gale' 'Solar Eclipse' and 'Relics of Vigor' in comparison to 'Spiritwalker' on the track. I'd like to see the breakdown of that.

Have you tried Warframe music yet? Consider it! And yes to 5 Long Years being in a cutscene - the first bit has a voice speaking over, with Halo fighting in the background, taking about how Humanity is losing the war, and they are losing planets.

I love this soundtrack not only for Halo, but they also did the soundtrack for Age of Empires.

As you play these songs, the cutscenes just play in my head. You are absolutely right about the cutscenes by the way 😁 As you said yourself, there's the differences between each track, ones that are clearly used in cutscenes and ones that are used as music for multiplayer games, like "fingerprints are broken" is one of those multiplayer tracks and "5 years" is used in a cutscene.

That piano has become such an iconic part of the Halo soundscape. It's as vital as the choir.

Halo Wars was a game I was initially critical of, but then I played it with a friend and we both enjoyed it, both the co-op campaign and multiplayer.

We're burning sunshine is a way of saying were wasting or running out of time, also not only was there a different composer but this was also a different game company making it which got shut down by Microsoft after development was completed even though Microsoft requested the game from them

Hello. I understand that the music for Halo Wars 1 was composed by the same man who composed the soundtrack for Age of Empires 2 and Age of Mythology. Great job by this person. My favorite song is Bad Day Here.

Would love to hear you listen to more of the in game music, like Just Ad Nauseam (no idea if I spelt that right)

The piano is solidly anytime the ship "Spirit of Fire" shows up. You were correct about the cutscenes and why it sounded seperated. This game was made without permission and saw Microsoft aquiring Ensemble Studios. Still a favorite of mine to this day. Held a base for 5 hours in a 1v2 situation as Cutter Deathmatch. Best RTS next to Dawn of War.

I love the Halo Wars games! I need to know what the crew of The Spirit of Fire are up to! I need either a new Halo Wars or the crew in Halo 7! And the music! Every Halo game has had a fantastic OST!

To add extra context to the last track insignificantia it's played during the end credits where the developers (ensemble studios) also say their goodbye as halo wars was a game that they didnt want to make but were forced to by microsoft whilst recieving no help from bungie as they were against the idea due to seeing it as microsoft "whoring out the franchise" and not only that microsoft informed them part way through making the game that they would be getting shut down after the games launch making it their last ever game. In my opinion it was a great game and so was the sequel halo wars 2 with them being two of my favourite halo games.

The Halo franchise in general is predominately first person shooting with a strong emphasis on environmental storytelling. The main character generally has a direction or a waypoint they need to head towards, and they encounter various setpieces along the way as they blast their way through aliens to get to the next pivotal story point. The character is a super lethal, but small part of the overall war effort. Halo has cutscenes, but they take a back seat to a game design that tries to emphasize putting the player into the unfolding action. Most cutscenes are short in the main franchise, or happen sparingly in favor of storytelling that leaves the player in control of the camera/movement. Halo Wars by contrast is a strategy game. You take an eagle-eyed perspective of the battlefield and direct armies towards big picture objectives. Most of the storytelling comes from named characters having dialogue over the various objectives the game presents you. The player is basically a commander, and the emphasis is on telling the story through plot macguffins and cutscenes. Halo Wars is a massive divergence from the original genre, but a very faithful adaptation of the source material and a quality rendition of the franchises' world building. It manages to feel like Halo, without putting the camera in the player's helmet, so to speak. There is a heavy reliance on using full cutscenes before and after the missions. For this soundtrack, the pieces that had abrupt pauses and starts were almost universally cutscenes, and sometimes very separated sections of cutscenes. All the tracks that had repeats (typically one refrain) were looped mission tracks which got reused in various ways. The 'groovier' tracks would play out as you were in the game in control of your army and base. The more dramatic tracks that were broken up might be something like "Cutscene A, Cutscene B, Cutscene C" in a given mission. They rely on repeating the same motifs in different ways to tell a story of rising and falling action throughout the arc of a given gameplay segment, and break up the action so the player can immerse more in the story. Your instincts on this were pretty accurate all things considered, which is a testament to how well Stephen Rippy and the orchestra captured Marty's original charms.

The team who made Halo Wars never set out to make a Halo game, they were pressured by Microsoft, so they did the best they can to remain faithful to the legacy. Unfortunately, there was a level of resentment Bungie had towards them for daring to touch their baby so they weren't exactly friendly consultants. Before the game even released, the team was informed they'd all be laid off after finishing the project, but they endured and pulled through till the end. Feel bad for the guys who worked on this game

Still incredibly glad you’ve listened to Halo because good lord it’s music is phenomenal

The vocals in Five Long Years kinda remind me of Parapluie from Band of Brothers

I can greatly recommend the soundtracks of Project wingman, the base game and the Frontline 59 DLC

You should watch the halo wars cutscenes pretty much like a mini animated movie and it’ll give you context for some of the tracks.

As a huge Halo fan boy. Halo came out when I was in high school. I really love Halo Wars 1 & 2 but I don’t consider them Halo games as much as they are Halo themed games.

Its interesting seeing your reaction without any visuals. You should followup by watching the cutscenes where this music plays!

The Halo Wars soundtrack is, imo, the most underrated soundtrack in the entire series. It catches so much of the scale that you hear in the rest of Marty's work as well as the style while maintaining its own identity.

I wish she watched the cutscenes many of these tracks were paired with after listening to the tracks separately.

You have to listen to the Mario & Luigi Dream Team ost, it's my favourite video game ost ever

The version of the Halo theme that comes in at 11:00 is something I've been craving to return ever since I first heard it in Halo Wars. It's so good! 😫 Edit: Okay. That wasn't it. Hopefully, the one I'm talking about is in here soon 😛 (The one that plays during three fail screen)

the thing i love about halo wars is it makes the war with the covenant more real and desperate because its just humans with one out of date ship against them not a super soldier with plot armor

Has anyone suggested some Monster Hunter themes? THere's a lot of good ones. Caedeus' is a great one I've always loved

DAMN. I just discovered this channel throught these 'halo reaction' clips and man I wish people recommended the better halo OSTs rather than the in-game scores that feature diegetic sounds from cutscenes in the previous halo videos. Nonetheless I enjoyed this series!

Honestly all the games have some great Soundtracks even Halo 4 and 5 especially Halo Infinte. Even if the community may not like it you should definitely react to them to compare them. Halo Wars definetly is liked so you also should do Halo Wars 2.

@rexskirmisher4040

Ай бұрын

*cough* shill. No offense.

Insignificantia is the game's end credits track. You wouldn't have heard it during gameplay or in the background of a cutscene. That's why it sounded out of place relative to the other tracks. It's there for you to listen to while you process all of the emotions whirling around inside of you right after you've finished the game. Some other tracks from this game that I think are really good but didn't make it into this video are Action Figure Hands, Flip and Sizzle, Bad Here Day, and Money or Meteors. For a first try with a property they were completely new to and with no assistance from anyone at Bungie, Ensemble and Stephen Rippy did a heck of a job. It's a shame what happened to them after the game's release. They deserved better.

If you haven't played them, Dark Souls would be a very, VERY good listen for you. The music for Dark Souls is depressing, exhausting, peaceful, existential, cold and warm. The songs are either non-linear in their progression. While some are more pompous in the boss fight sections of the games. While the last boss fight is utter distraught.