Fun fact about the Skyrim theme song: When creating the dragon language and the english meaning of the lyrics, they made sure that the song rhymed in both english and the dragon language so the lyrics would work well in either language

@HKT-4300

11 ай бұрын

What the hell that's awesome, i can't think of another song that's done that!

@zadikariamitchell1930

11 ай бұрын

I've always wondered if the song predated the language. I figured it had to, to work so well in both, but it's cool to know.

@wren7195

11 ай бұрын

@@zadikariamitchell1930 Lore wise, ......I use to lurk the Imperial Library (that's.... not a bad joke, the devs were the main mods for the most while) and that's pretty much the vibe I got from them. I'm a historian in real life, the repetition of literature was something Elder Scrolls embraced in their "culture" even back in Daggerfall, but REALLY leaned into during Oblivion and solidified in Skyrim. They deliberately placed not only several different cultural perspectives of the origins of everything, but also several different esoteric/scientific authors' perspectives of those same stories into dozens of books within the game worlds. Many of those books covered multiple games, from Morrowind onward, with some having deliberate revisions mostly by "scholars" adding addendums to the books' later editions. In short, I think and hope you're extremely right, as Alduin himself was indeed partly a theophany of Akatosh? *looks shaking her head softly at youtube* "Theophany is a far older word than the majority of your requisites."

@Medicalguy

10 ай бұрын

Thats jeremy soule, he apparantly did it in a weekend

@Mr.Heller

10 ай бұрын

​@@wren7195A good half of those books is Imperial propaganda specifically designed to make people believe bs that can be disproven with simple cross-reference.

I remember when I would show others video game music to vibe to, and ended up feeling embarrassed when they didn't get as into it as I did. It's both strange and wonderful to watch music experts take it seriously and analyze it thoroughly.

@orangedream267

Жыл бұрын

I just stare at those people incredulously and judge them. Very heavily.

@MythagoWoods

Жыл бұрын

I know that feeling. For me though, it's with my father. He used to be a music teacher, has a PHD in music theory but anytime he'd show interest in music I was listening to and the moment he learns it's from a game, even if he was loving it before hand, he will suddenly hate it calling it nothing but "beeps and boops" and will refuse to listen to it anymore. It's so frustrating.

@brendanrisney2449

Жыл бұрын

I had the same problem, but, at the same time, my middle school music teacher literally had us learn the Halo theme. We never played it in concert, we just learned it because it was a good piece for our skill level. And it's awesome. So was she- and her husband, too.

@trannhathien1370

Жыл бұрын

@@MythagoWoods VGM is usually looked down by those of older generations. I assume that accepting that VGM is just as good as other form of music is a defeat to their beloved music.

@3lit3gn0m3

Жыл бұрын

I once put an "epic OST" on from my ipod in the car with my older brother and mom...it was a song that was incredibly moving to me, but they both seemed uncomfortable. It's genuinely disappointing when others don't or seemingly *can't* appreciate them sometimes. That happened probably 15+ years ago but I remember it pretty clearly.

Mick Gordon went so unbelievably hard on the two modern Doom game soundtracks, it's so perfect for the type and tone of game which is designed to make YOU feel like the boss, not the actual boss

@randommcranderson5155

11 ай бұрын

It’s too bad he got screwed so hard on the Doom Eternal stuff because the people who run ID are dishonest and nobody should trust them.

@wicky615

11 ай бұрын

Let's not forget that mick Gordon also used a chainsaw to make music

@dehoedergia

10 ай бұрын

It also fits perfectly, old dooms had music that was inspired(or copied) from 70-80's heavy metal or trash metal. New doom games have the sound of modern metal or more like djent.

@Nyx_2142

10 ай бұрын

And to think they still tried to fuck him over and slander him.

@hazim_izzat

10 ай бұрын

​@@Nyx_2142And because of Bethesda/id trying to fuck him over, Doom Eternal still isn't on Spotify 3 years after the game's release.

Doom "Your ears will bleed" - Starts headbanging / vibing. Ears actually smiling.

Timestamps: 1:21 - Dragonborn (Skyrim) 7:07 - I Was Born For This (Journey) 15:50 - Not Alone (Final Fantasy IX) 19:57 - God of War (God of War 2018) 29:49 - Kuroiuta (Drakengard 3) 38:33 - The Unsung War (Ace Combat 5) 47:14 - The Only Thing They Fear Is You (DOOM Eternal) 57:31 - Azhdaha Battle Theme (Genshin Impact) 1:04:02 - Dust (Punishing: Gray Raven) 1:05:52 - Tenebre Rosso Sangue (ULTRAKILL) 1:09:41 - Requiem (Arknights) 1:13:47 - Deep Stone Lullaby (Destiny 2) 1:20:24 - Bury the Light (Devil May Cry 5)

@ninjack11

Жыл бұрын

-Dont know why you didn't include --1:21-- Dragonborn (Skyrim)- Edit: he done did it :)

@TheCrazyCacaConsumer

Жыл бұрын

@@ninjack11 I got so distracted by him speaking french in the last one so is skipped ahead a few minutes I added the track now thanks

@SnarkyComments

Жыл бұрын

Dragonborn always gives me goosebumps

@Drakengard65

Жыл бұрын

Pin this!

@few1010

Жыл бұрын

Tks for your work 🫡

Ok, first of all, I love the look on his face when the deep voice start up and he looks like, "Yes, these are my people". Second of all with these kinds of streams, and maybe this is just me, but I would enjoy a little clip of the guest's work at the beginning. You know, just a brief clip (I'm thinking 30-90 second range) so we have a sense of who they are musically. If nobody else likes the idea, or if that's a copyright nightmare, forget about it. But I just wanted to suggest it.

@blockingdead6442

Жыл бұрын

I agree, that'd be pretty interesting to have

@benrex7775

Жыл бұрын

I'm in favor of this.

@rubag223

11 ай бұрын

Agree as well!

@alex_shevtsov

10 ай бұрын

+1 for this

@KermRiv

5 ай бұрын

you have my vote for whatever that's worth

Maybe I'm just a nerd but I am incredibly proud that I knew that the first thing Ryan was going to say after the lyrics to Skyrim's Main Theme started was something about it being a natural language or not. Is that something y'all as opera singers are particularly tuned into?

@DuskWolf224

Жыл бұрын

Well, a lot of opera singers have to learn bits of Italian, German, etc. So they have some base knowledge of at least of few different languages, which probably helps clue them to the fact that Skyrim's dragon speech is invented^^

@Arkalius80

Жыл бұрын

What I love about the dragonborn lyrics is that they rhyme in dragontongue, but the english translation also rhymes. Really awesome work by the guy who wrote it.

@EversonBernardes

Жыл бұрын

@@Arkalius80 likely because it was created through a phonemic transposition scheme and then had morpho-phonotactics applied to it. It has (roughly) the sames phoneme relationships.

journey was a great game... especially when you think youre alone but basically you see other players at certain points through a lense as if theyre in a parallel universe.

@Dekharen

Жыл бұрын

If you liked Journey, I'd recommend at least giving a try to it's successor, Sky: Children of the Light. It was released in 2019 originally for mobile and was brought to PS4/Switch and is currently in the process of being added to PC ! Very, very cool experience, particularly socially. Yes, other players will know you're a beginner. Do not worry, do whatever you like (but try to let them help you :p), it's all part of the fun.

I love that The Only Thing They Fear is You was his favourite. It's so incredible that it builds so much movement via rhythm instead of harmony.

1:08:15 it's super fun what Ryan said about the ultrakill song giving him a castlevania vibe, because the composer/developer for Ultrakill has almost certainly been infuenced by those games and their music. How do we know that? Because there is an Ultrakill song titled "Castle Vein" which is a very clearly reference to castlevania the castlevenia games. I just thought that was really cool.

@cherrydragon3120

Жыл бұрын

Oh deffinetly. DEFFINETLY

@emapelikanova478

11 ай бұрын

That one's by Heaven pierce her, different person than Keygen church/Master boot record.

@melvin8d671

Ай бұрын

Tenebre Rosso Sangue is actually by guest composer Master Boot Record, where most of the other tracks are by the games developer.

DooM soundtracks are such a huge part of the games. If the soundtrack isn't melting your face, the game isn't going to land. I'm 45 and playing Doom 2016 and Eternal put me right back into my parent's basement in the 90s, cranking the headphones, ripping and tearing.

He got a really key part of Kuroi Uta, when he pointed out the running away. It's kind of the contradictive feeling of Zero's mission and struggle, the battles against her sisters and herself. She has to keep on her toes, go through constant intense violence all while mourning the entire situation and the death she has to embrace along with her sisters. All in all, I feel DrakeNier has a key theme of fighting for an inevitable tragedy, whether informed or not. There is determination, yet certain defeat. The hope and the chaos. Though she is a white flower, she brings destruction and could be seen as a black flower or Kuroi Hana. (Sorry for the rant haha)

@Laezar1

11 ай бұрын

drakengard started as an exploration of the self destructive nature of violence and war (mostly inspired by how uncritical of it videogames were at the time if I'm not mistaken), so it's really cool that it evolved from those theme and still explores tragedy but more and more through the lens of "what's worth fighting for and why is life worth living despite the tragic nature of it?" At least that's how I view it, nier automata in particular is both very tragic and also celebrating all the things worth living for, the small acts of kindness and solidarity, the beauty of nature etc. It's a really cool thematic developpement over the serie and the music always conveys this duality between tragedy and beauty exceptionnally well.

@Evnyofdeath

11 ай бұрын

@@Laezar1 Yoko Taro was told to make a Dynasty Warriors clone and all he could think about was what kind of messed up broken people would actually engage in the wholesale slaughter those games are about

@AuspexAO

10 ай бұрын

I think of the musical theme of DrakeNier as being a Memento Mori. Beauty and life after the things we know are gone. Knowing that some things that we cherish will continue in new ways, and some things we fear and despise will be right there alongside them.

47 minutes in, the guest was abruptly woken up by the Doom riffs (/s) 😂 Seriously, though. just look at that happy smile.

I love Ryan's simple but significant insight that, like classical music, game music has more time to develop and explore its themes than the 3-minute pop song allows. I think that sort of sprawl allows the listener to really hear the musical textures in a different way. What "Tenebre Rosso Sangue" reminded me of most is prog rock of the 1970s, especially Keith Emerson's stuff with The Nice and ELP. He may have been using a Farfisa instead of a church organ, but the melding of figures from rock, jazz and classical was very similar.

First of all, not playing all of bury the light is blasphemy 😂 Second, Casey Edwards who made bury the light worked a lot with Mick Gordon who did the doom eternal track earlier in the video and Mick's influence can clearly be heard throughout the track. Third, I'm gonna replay final fantasy 9 once I've finished 16 😁

24:20 If we boil it down and bring all the snobs down to earth again: The great classical music was not written for the sake of writing it. A great lot was commissioned by the Church or Nobility for sheer entertainment. There was no television, no radio, no internet. Theater, Orchestra, Opera was the great entertainment of the day. Then it became cinema. Now it is videogames. The peak present day music is found in video games, regardless whether they are for children or adults. I still remember listening to Peter and the Wolf without pause when I was a kid - all the same hallmarks.

@mooncalf_4534

Жыл бұрын

I'd make the distinction of "peak classical/orchestral music is found in video games" as that whole neo-classical style of music isn't really being listened to for its own sake much anymore so it finds a reason to exist within games, where other genres don't need that because they're generally more widely listened to recreationally nowadays. To use Mick Gordon/Doom as an example given it's in the video, peak Metal isn't in video games. Peak Metal is just... Out there. In the genre. The most mechanically and artistically talented artists in the genre aren't working in-house for games, they're in bands touring. The genre's use in video games is very iterative and doesn't push boundaries much. Don't get me wrong, Mick Gordon's great and I love a lot of his tracks but the entire Doom soundtrack's basically just a The Browning album, but not as heavy. Then you get into the really avant-garde artists like Sleep Token that you're not going to hear anything of a like level of creativity or quality of a similar genre in games.

@thisdude9363

11 ай бұрын

@@mooncalf_4534 The difference is almost everyone can agree that the former kind of music is great. Not everyone agrees that shit that sounds like steel beams being twisted inside a woodchipper with some brain-damaged headbanger cracking his spine whilst bang the drums is good.

@mooncalf_4534

11 ай бұрын

@@thisdude9363 What a great roleplay of a braindead musical elitist. If you want complex and creative writing with actual high level understanding of musical theory and twisting of convention relating to such, classical is NOT the place for you. Metal is. Classical's by-the-book as it gets, and for a lot of very devoted music lovers, that gets old fast. They desire something creative and fresh, something inspired, thus they turn to metal.

@benabaxter

11 ай бұрын

In the baroque period, musicians had general scores and would improvise. It was a lot more like a jam session, or like jazz, than like iterative loops. As composition got more complex, improvisation fell out of favor. So even in its earliest form, classical and chamber music was more technically advanced than the typical thing you will hear during gameplay today. I think game music can be very good, even when on the loop, but it is very much a stretch to say that the greatest music today is video game music. Basically the only way you're going to make that case is by running down contemporary art music for being inaccessible and pretentious, which a lot of it has been ...

I adore You Are Not Alone so much. Strong out of context, in context (both for the game but even just the soundtrack) it's even better.

@melanp4698

Жыл бұрын

Yeah was instantly right back with Zidane struggling through that corridor, his friends coming to his aid one by one. So emotional, played that game like 8 times.

Songs like Kuroi Uta are just too good to interrupt 😆 I think Ryan was spot-on when he talked about "running away" and "regret." Though Zero was an intoner on a mission, it's not like it was an easy one to carry out. Especially when she had to share that responsibility with her only friend's child form... Forgive my Drakenier rambling, and thank you for bringing more non-gamers to the channels, Marco! It's always cool to hear from them

Love that you put the full vods on here!! Ace combat 5 is one of my favorite games in the series due to the story and glad to see its music getting appreciated.

Fun, informative and cool as always! I love to watch the full vods instead of the "radio edit" versions of the conversations you've had so far. And it's always funny to see the undercover metalhead come to the surface whenever you pick something heavier lol

Thank you a million times for adding the time stamps!!

“If it’s good music you don’t need to know what’s happening” That’s almost exactly what my father told me when he took me to my first opera (Magic Flute). I said something similar to my twins (7yo) when I took them to their first concert…. In Swedish (or at least some of it). Our next concert is in Japanese, and following that in Latin. P.S. They only understand English, Mandarin, Spanish, and Tagalog, so I translate some* of the Japanese and Latin for them as I speak those too, even if I’m horribly out of practice. * the Latin is Powerwolf, and there are large parts that are either inappropriate for children or requires in depth understanding of German idioms and is even more inappropriate for children - I skip those parts, obviously. Swedish was Sabaton (so of course leads to a history lesson after every song), and Japanese will be Baby Metal when they tour the US later this year.

@AD-lh3jk

10 ай бұрын

Wow that’s a pretty varied language exploration, kudos to you & your partner as parents who tries to expose their kids to the broader world beyond language barriers

Eyy, was waiting for the full video. I play a lil game and put these on the other monitor while doing other things and see how many times it makes me look over.

that journey piece is so powerful. i literally stopped what i was doing just to close my eyes and listen.

@Nai_101

Жыл бұрын

Play the game if you haven't.

@LC-sc3en

Жыл бұрын

Warning: if you play the game there is a chance you won't be able to listen to the piece without tearing up.

@jcbq01

Жыл бұрын

Journey... is properly the only game to make me sob uncontrollably not out of sadness. But by something primal something deep down. Like I get to the end walking to the peak and I'm litterally asking myself "why am I crying"

So many good songs in here. Deep Stone Lullaby, idk if it was just the vibes from it, but it just kept me thinking about Lance Reddick. I hope they do a huge in game event for him

such a fantastic format for videos, love these

Hearing journeys I was born for this made me tear up in a way I haven't ever before. That was beautiful. Also, after hearing your last video with a song from ace combat 7 I've been looking around for a copy to play it. I cant wait to hear more people in classical music learn about this side of music. Hopefully a nier song will be on the next one too

@ConnorEllisMusic

11 ай бұрын

You should listen to the Traveller Symphony version of I Was Born For This. You will cry so much there will be no more tears left.

Still having goosebumps at The Unsung War, love it❤

Sadly, the dragons' language in skyrim is a simple relex of English - that is, they're sentences in English with every individual word translated, with all the same grammatical structures as English, including declinations, in all the same places.

@mailpack584

Жыл бұрын

Such a simple way of creating something that feels different, and it worked very well

@Arkalius80

Жыл бұрын

Why is that sad?

@DreamyAileen

9 ай бұрын

@@Arkalius80 Because it's not a "full" conlang with like unique grammar rules and such, it's essentially a glorified code But I don't think it's that big of a deal, Skyrim barely even used the Dragon language anyway. It wouldn't have been worth the extra effort

Incredible what music can do. That FFIX number brought me right back there emotionally with Zidane struggling and trying not to lose himself. Played that game like 8 times and this invoked so many emotions.

I'm only now seeing this video but i love seeing peoples take on VGM they normally don't know about. Amazing video.

excellent selection here, can't wait to see more!

Hey Marco, I really enjoy watchiytgese sort of VODs (sadly i rarely catch them live due to time zone differences). One small change I'd be glad if you'll implement in thr future is that instead of putting timestamps for the beginnings of the songs thrmselves, you'd instead point to the beginning of your context to each piece, or qny conversation related to it that you hold with the guest before pressing the play button.

@AlleonoriCat

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, stamp should ideally be at the end of the previous song discussion, not at the start of the song itself

@microtree5392

Жыл бұрын

Personally accustomed to Marco's timestamps as an avid reaction watcher. Marco isn't wrong per se. His original timestamps are a lot more prevalent in general 'reactions' on KZread, both past (about a decade now AFAIK) & present. Unless Marco starts a new trend for himself; perhaps using the pretext of 'discussion'. Tbh We need double timestamps. E.g. Song Name X:XX Intro after discussion of last song (X:XX Song) Or something

12 Years later and the skyrim-theme still gives me goosebumps =X

You never think about it, but it is kinda weird that Bethesda went out of their way to articulate an entire language just for the Skyrim dragons. You can actually learn this language, kind of like how you can learn Elvish from Lord of The Rings, or Na'vi from Avatar. I also love the lyrics for God Of War. During the most emotionally effecting swell, the lyrics are "He needs a father, not a god" which is just so emotionally wrenching. I love it.

@globmonkey200716102

10 ай бұрын

Its only strange because most of the dragons don't talk and act like mindless beasts despite them all supposedly being intelligent, and it doesn't help that the dragons that do talk, usually are talking in a human tongue. They put a lot of effort into making a dragon language that is barely used (yes I know shouts are dragon language that you will commonly hear, but its not explored particularly deeply in that aspect of gameplay either)

@vitriolicAmaranth

7 ай бұрын

Dov is not comparable to Sindarin, Quenya or Na'vi. Those three were all constructed by esteemed professors with a deep working contemporary knowledge of linguistics and were serious attempts to construct a "natlang," or naturalistic language, one that could realistically come to exist for a real culture through deterministic linguistic processes, with the only external or heavily-artificial element of either being their phonesthetics, as they were designed with a particular sound in mind. Dov was made by a somewhat mediocre musician with no linguistic background (apparently even as a hobbyist) and rather than being a natlang that sounds a certain way its design goal was to sound a certain way (namely like Anglo-Saxon with a lot of single syllable words and open vowels) and for one specific song to rhyme in both Dov and English. You can learn its lexicon but it isn't really a usable language; even with the word walls the lexicon is too limited. Its grammar is just English with words removed. It was supposedly "made in a weekend" by a layperson and it shows.

I wish people would bring up "Answers" from Final Fantasy XIV it deserves some love. That is an epic video game song with A LOT of meaning.

@AuspexAO

10 ай бұрын

Answers is great because it has a lot of meaning outside the game, too. It's a very heavy, philosophical song though. Maybe reactors think it would be a mood killer, ha ha.

What I've learned from this series is that all people in the opera world have one of two sets of facial expressions they use when listening to music: Slightly smug hesitant looks like they're waiting to say something as soon as the song is over, and an intense brooding scowl characteristic of the male opera singer.

Final Fantasy 9 You're Not Alone is bar none my absolute favorite song of any game. FF9 being my favorite game of all time. Very close second being Ace Combat 5, and Unsung Hero. I'm so glad you put those two in!

I never knew Ace Combat, a game with planes, can have so many good music. I'm intrigued. I want to try the game and experience the music the way it is written.

@cipher0324

Жыл бұрын

Oh boy here I go again. Okay, so the game is not connected in a sense you don't need to play previous installments to understand the latest one but I do recommend playing them because they're just godly especially the Holy Trinity (AC4, 5 and Zero) especially 5 because there's some references to it in Ace Combat 7. Sadly they're PS2 era games so unless you have emulator or a PS2 you can't really play them. 5, however, has a ported version that comes with AC7 Deluxe Edition iirc.

@Plaprad

Жыл бұрын

1, 2, and 3 are on the PSX. Fun games, but not really great in story and music (Comparatively) AC4 is PS2. Great story and amazing music. It just gets better from there. But I agree with the other poster, 4, 5, and Zero are the best ones to try if you're not going all in.

@deiyuwell

Жыл бұрын

I still have my PS1 and PS2, I just have to find where I can buy the game ahaha

@pantherjoseph

Жыл бұрын

@@deiyuwellfair warning, they might cost a pretty penny now.

@ExileTwilight

Жыл бұрын

I've heard that song before and it just struck me now that, I bought an expensive (to me) flight stick and.. other thing.. for Star Wars Squadrons and I've not played an Ace Combat game yet :/ (well, part of the reason I think is that trying to play with is was simply so much harder than using controller for me.. Would take a lot of practice, I think)

Time to peep this one after the vid.

great thing about the Dovahkin theme is they are singing in the dragon language, so basically the entire song is a bunch of dragon shouts

@derigelkott4405

Жыл бұрын

Isn't it just latin? Dovakin = dragon kin right? Edit: wait sorry no it isn't, my bad

@Alex_Fahey

11 ай бұрын

​@@derigelkott4405It's essentially English that had a face-lift so that many of the various sound combinations used in English words have been replaced with different ones but are the same sentences in terms of use and grammers (e.g. Dragon = Dovah, Voice = Zul, etc.). Since they follow identical rules and patterns, Dovahzul songs rhyme in English and vice versa.

Thanks to you, I'm going to revisit Journey It's been uhh.. few years and I still afraid to play it again, I dunno why I'm so afraid to revisit it but one thing I can remember, I was crying

To this day I believe journey to be the most beautiful game ever made. From music and visuals, to themes and motifs.

1:05:52 Not gonna lie...never heard this song before watching this series. Its so fun and such a bop!! I absolutley love it! Thank you for making these videos so I can expand my horizons on the music I currently listen to!

I really LOVE your emphasis on Kratos's roll as a Father in your explanation of God of War because that is truly the emotional core of the two games

Im just happy watching 2 guys vibing to Bury the Light. Thats all 😊

Here we gooooooo!!!

tragic I couldn't see him react more to Bury the Light and others. Schedule is what it is, though and I hope he heard enough to get him maybe interested to listen to some albums maybe. I think Metal Gear Rising would've also been nice for him to hear. Again, painful to have to work on such a time constraint, but I think you did as well as you could've maybe. I certainly enjoyed the experience.

"They'd probably be really problematic video games" lmfao so good

Love the moment of silence when Journey ends. It is always a good thing when song ends and people just need a sec to contemplate the feels.

29:11 in case you were wondering whether Kuroiuta actually meant something or was just a jumble of sounds from the Chaos language, it is indeed Japanese and means Black Song, (Kuroi Uta)

Journey was a pure, raw "Hero's Journey", which is a story template, which include stuff such as the call to adventure (the light), rebirth (yeah that one is clear). If you look at the soundtrack titles, it's pretty explicit which track means which part of the hero's journey (The Call, Threshold, Atonement).

Hey! These are incredible, and thank you for spreading the goodness of games! 😊 One thing I'd like to request if possible is that when you stop the music before it ends its very jarring. Maybe signal to the guest and us in a way? Theres also a chance they'd like to listen to it, I guess. 😂 maybe you could also just lower the volume, and it could go on quietly in the background? Much love!

Theme are so fun!

52:22 that's just the perfect face for this music

PLEASE use this in one of your future videos: Crysis 3 - Borislav Slavov - What Are You Prepared To Sacrifice?

The music from journey reminds me of the music from divinity original sin 2(the stuff that plays in gort joy specifically). Not in terms of meaning, but more of how it makes me feel sorta calm and nostalgic/needy in a good way.

god kuroi uta is timeless and so powerful

I like how when you just said "russian" Requiem was the first thing I thought of, and it was right.

Other things Bear McCreary composed that I like: Battlestar Galactica (with Richard Gibbs) and Black Sails.

@rohanbesra4831

Жыл бұрын

He also did the opening theme for walking dead series

As much as I love the idea, my choices would be completely different but hey, good that Uematsu is there!

The Skyrim one..... WOW! Chills....

Still need some Neir: Automata in this format but Drakengard is so close in so many ways, neat to hear how the series evolved but kept a sort of motif. Another series with annoyingly good music is Persona. Persona 5 especially.

@TangoZulu85

Жыл бұрын

I've been recommending "Throw Away Your Mask" for months, but the wheel does not favor me or the other person who recommended it too.

I wasn't hoping Bury the light would be on the list, and even less that it'd be the cherry on the top. But my very first thought was that it would be interesting if opera singers listenned to Shan Yun's themes from Death of the Outsider, which I haven't been able to find in complete versions. Daniel Licht's work for Dishonored is amazing. In my opinion, he left us a huge cultural legacy in music. Sadly, he passed away too soon. By the way, have you ever heard to Hall of the gluttons, from Dante's Inferno ost?

Hidden metalhead right there, hahah. You can't fake that smile when playing the doom song!

I like how tenebre rosso sanguine is now the ultrakill poster child for Marco

Bury the light… I’ve been waiting for this day….

I don't know if you've seen it, but a great creator called LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER has recently bought an entire organ, removed it from the house it was built into, and has adapted it to MIDI as part of his museum he runs, it's quite cool.

Not to be that guy but the name Final Fantasy was not... because it was some last ditch effort kinda thing. Final Fantasy was originally going to be called "Fighting Fantasy" but the name clashed with some other product I dont recall exactly what but also they wanted the FF or "efu efu" abbreviation because to his japanese ears it just sounded pleasant. Square was in a rough spot at the time sure but not so rough that it'd have any impact on their naming. Sakaguchis own words.

I really think the Halo Theme song possibly even the Mjolnir Mix needs some love on this series :)

I think hollow knight ost perfectly blends certain modern video game style with classical, orchestral motifs and instrumentation.

38:21 unsung war. Listening to this bring back memory of playing AC5, tears in my eyes. "This is epic, we come together, be hero that save the world, this is unsung war for peace" Because that is literally the scene where the music play. The villain manipulated 2 superpower nations and escalated their conflict, making them war against each other, kidnap and confine leader of both nations. The player singlehandedly turn over the war balance, so the villain tried to eliminate player. At this point player then form an unofficial squadron. Because the villain and player are not officially exist, this is named unsung war, because it won't exist in official history. The last stage is where villains tried to destroy the world (literally, by launching nuclear against both nations), and player tried to stop it. But they were outnumbered against elite forces of best pilots, so in desperation, we plead for military of both nations to join us. Not easy, because the 2 nations are at war with each other just yesterday. But they came, and the scene where fighters plane join the player one by one is epic. And then the villains drop gigantic space station (or something like that) to the capital city. Player must destroy it when it descending in atmosphere. This is where the music play.

Bury the light is long, and skipping any second of it is a sin.

Time's Scar from Chrono Cross would be a great one to throw in the blend one of these times.

Ok but Ryan is really handsome 😳

You mentioned that Kuroi Uta is in Japanese, however its not grammatically correct. They chose words that had specific visual and thematic imagery and just strung them together in an order that sounded nice.

Weirdly, my main association with classical music is a dominant 7th to minor tonic resolution which I guess includes any reference to the harmonic minor scale as well. It's a sound that I almost NEVER heard in any music outside of what I had to play from my lesson books and I only started to hear it again with Keiichi Okabe's work on Nier Gestalt/Replicant. Soken uses it a lot in FFXVI as well. Personally, I have a bad association in my memory with that particular musical technique because to me it represents the exact sort of elitism that Marco brings up about peoples' perception of classical music. Like basically, if you don't use these certain writing techniques, if you don't make a song entirely built out of scales or arpeggios, if it doesn't have this mechanical, impersonal structure, then it's not "smart people music." I like "classical" music insofar as it establishes and reuses leitmotifs and has an absurd level of variety in chord structure and progression, because that's the kind of music I grew up on with Zelda and Final Fantasy being my biggest musical influences as a child and teenager. So the reason I can't stand most classical music is because it feels very impersonal to me, the names sound like they're serial numbers rather than actual names, the songs stick to such strict formulas and never seem to deviate too far, and that stupid dominant 7th minor tonic resolution just really bothers me for some reason.

The FFIX one reminded me of the Golden Sun Sound track. I love that one too. Have you listened to it before?

@Gandalor75

11 ай бұрын

Wooo! More people who know GS! Have a great day!

@benrex7775

11 ай бұрын

@@Gandalor75 I just watched a let's play on it a while back. But now it is my default pixel art RPG which I judge every other one by. Also I occasionally listen to the soundtrack when I'm learning or working.

Loving this series so far. also SHOW THEM THE ORIGINAL TERRARIA SOUNDTRACK AND CUPHEAD OST

I recommend Golden Sun, Trials of Mana (SNES), Lufia, and Klonoa to you, Marco. Those game franchises have OSTs that have stuck with me for more than 2 decades.

@Gandalor75

11 ай бұрын

Have to like when I see someone else who likes Golden Sun. Have a great day!

I know the series isnt neccisarily well known. But i think showing one of these people songs from the Atelier series. Like "Astrella" would be interesting.

yes im a bit late but the only context I wished you gave about "I was born for this" is those are the first and only words you hear in the entire game which gives it a great deal of weight. also, to anyone who hasn't played....experienced journey: do yourself a favor and grab a good pair of headphones, set aside a couple hours or so and see it through in one sitting.

Skyrim, so many memories.

i think ive literally only heard the erutan version of you are not alone, i was NOT EXPECTING the guitar

28:01 did they just describe VR streams? 😅

HE HAS HEADPHONES!!! WE WON!!!!! BEST GUY

You mentioned Traveller, so I thought you were going to play the Traveller version of I Was Born for This.

man, if only we knew he was a big metal guy, the guilty gear soundtrack would've been perfect. "writhe in pain" also has that organ mixed with metal guitar that he said he'd never really heard before, plus harpsichord. i bet he'd have enjoyed that; then again, the entirety of guilty gear ost is great.

when it comes to skyrim, most of the elder scrolls have the same theme-song. But its adjusted for each game differently.

Nice of you to invite Kratos to listen to his own theme.

For a moment, I swear, I saw his beard growing a beard… 😧

Did you know that Bury the Light was mixed by Adam Nolly Getgood?

Battlefield 1 got a incredible soundtrack, specially the soundtracks of the DLC In the name of the tzar and the song Lacrimosa from the Apocalypse DLC. Would love to know you opinion about them, I love your content !

Regarding Skyrim, worth noting that the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra performed Dragonborn Comes (watch?v=hnXD6FRZtn0) several years ago, then for the 10th anniversary the London Symphony Orchestra performed a full concert covering 12 songs (watch?v=IaskxKfeFno). [Sorry for duplicate post from edited version.]

I am very surprised you dont have any music from path of exile. There is literally the best music there

I wish they had also listened to Meathook from DOOM Eternal, I wanted to hear his reaction the the metal choir

Dragonborn n Bury The Light are too perfect for character themes

I'd have people hearing over keichii okabe tracks over and over

Oof, journey music, that's very nice!

Is there any particular reason why there is close to no "Souls" music in this video series? Please show them more!