Opera Singer Reacts to Hearing Video Games For the First Time..
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- Опубликовано: 27 июн 2023
- American bass-baritone Ryan McKinny has earned his reputation as an artist with something to say. His relentless curiosity informs riveting character portrayals and beautifully crafted performances, reminding audiences of their shared humanity with characters on stage and screen.
Ryan believes the power of art lies in its relevance - that genuine connection can wake up a stagnant society to the possibilities of change. Ryan brings this clarity of vision to his work behind the camera, creating intimate films that bring stunningly beautiful and innovative performances to streaming audiences. With Helio Arts, he commissions artists to write, direct, and film original stories, leveraging his personal power to help elevate new voices and visions in the classical performing arts world.
Ryan’s commitment to transformative collaboration has led him to explore the potential of classical music in breaking down social barriers. He is a member of the President’s Leadership Council for Search for Common Ground, which works to end violent conflict through appeals to the shared human feelings on both sides, and has shared his musical expertise with Houston Grand Opera’s community outreach programs, including their prison empathy workshops.
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Chapters:
01:18 Skyrim Main Theme || Skyrim
06:09 I was Born for This || Journey
14:15 You're Not Alone || Final Fantasy 9
19:45 God of War Theme || God of War 2018
29:40 Kuroi Uta || Drakengard 3
38:21 Unsung War || Ace Combat 5
47:00 The Only Thing They Fear is You || DOOM
57:15 Azdaha Theme || Genshin Impact
01:03:59 Dust || Punishing: Gray Raven
01:05:50 Tenebre Rosso Sangue || Ultrakill
01:09:34 Requiem || Arknights
01:12:00 Who is Ryan Mckinney?
01:13:33 Deep Stone Lullaby || Destiny 2
01:18:21 Has your opinion changed about vgm?
01:19:55 Bury the Light || Devil May Cry 5
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
What the hell that's awesome, i can't think of another song that's done that!
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.
@@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."
Thats jeremy soule, he apparantly did it in a weekend
@@wren7195A good half of those books is Imperial propaganda specifically designed to make people believe bs that can be disproven with simple cross-reference.
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)
-Dont know why you didn't include --1:21-- Dragonborn (Skyrim)-
Edit: he done did it :)
@@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
Dragonborn always gives me goosebumps
Pin this!
Tks for your work 🫡
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
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.
Let's not forget that mick Gordon also used a chainsaw to make music
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.
And to think they still tried to fuck him over and slander him.
@@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.
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.
I just stare at those people incredulously and judge them. Very heavily.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
I agree, that'd be pretty interesting to have
I'm in favor of this.
Agree as well!
+1 for this
you have my vote for whatever that's worth
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.
Oh deffinetly. DEFFINETLY
That one's by Heaven pierce her, different person than Keygen church/Master boot record.
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.
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?
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^^
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.
@@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.
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.
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 😁
47 minutes in, the guest was abruptly woken up by the Doom riffs (/s)
😂
Seriously, though. just look at that happy smile.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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 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.
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)
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.
@@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
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.
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.
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
that journey piece is so powerful. i literally stopped what i was doing just to close my eyes and listen.
Play the game if you haven't.
Warning: if you play the game there is a chance you won't be able to listen to the piece without tearing up.
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"
“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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Yeah, stamp should ideally be at the end of the previous song discussion, not at the start of the song itself
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 RUclips, 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
Thank you a million times for adding the time stamps!!
such a fantastic format for videos, love these
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.
Such a simple way of creating something that feels different, and it worked very well
Why is that sad?
@@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
excellent selection here, can't wait to see more!
I'm only now seeing this video but i love seeing peoples take on VGM they normally don't know about.
Amazing video.
12 Years later and the skyrim-theme still gives me goosebumps =X
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I still have my PS1 and PS2, I just have to find where I can buy the game ahaha
@@deiyuwellfair warning, they might cost a pretty penny now.
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)
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.
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!
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!
Still having goosebumps at The Unsung War, love it❤
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.
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)
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.
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.
"They'd probably be really problematic video games" lmfao so good
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!
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
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.
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.
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)
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
Isn't it just latin? Dovakin = dragon kin right?
Edit: wait sorry no it isn't, my bad
@@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.
Time to peep this one after the vid.
PLEASE use this in one of your future videos:
Crysis 3 - Borislav Slavov - What Are You Prepared To Sacrifice?
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.
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.
Im just happy watching 2 guys vibing to Bury the Light. Thats all 😊
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.
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).
Here we gooooooo!!!
As much as I love the idea, my choices would be completely different but hey, good that Uematsu is there!
I like how when you just said "russian" Requiem was the first thing I thought of, and it was right.
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.
Ok but Ryan is really handsome 😳
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?
I really think the Halo Theme song possibly even the Mjolnir Mix needs some love on this series :)
Hidden metalhead right there, hahah. You can't fake that smile when playing the doom song!
Other things Bear McCreary composed that I like: Battlestar Galactica (with Richard Gibbs) and Black Sails.
He also did the opening theme for walking dead series
52:22 that's just the perfect face for this music
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.
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.
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.
I like how tenebre rosso sanguine is now the ultrakill poster child for Marco
Time's Scar from Chrono Cross would be a great one to throw in the blend one of these times.
god kuroi uta is timeless and so powerful
Theme are so fun!
I think hollow knight ost perfectly blends certain modern video game style with classical, orchestral motifs and instrumentation.
Bury the light… I’ve been waiting for this 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.
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 !
Two things about two different songs
1. The story about Final Fantasy being named such because it was their last chance is false. This was a story made and spread by fans because, to be fair, it makes a fun, dramatic story. But Sakaguchi has gone on record to state that this is false, and in fact, the game was almost called Fighting Fantasy, except there were copyright concerns and they changed the name. They just liked the sound of the title.
2. Kuroi Uta is in Japanese, but a fun fact is that it is almost nonsensical Japanese. The words are very disjointed and gramatically incorrect. Yoko Taro wanted them to give a vague idea without having concrete lyrics.
I love that you're introducing so many new people to the joys of video game music. It's always fun to see these videos and see how blown away some of these people are that, yes, video game music is music, too. Damn good music, at that.
its also not an uncommon thing in japanese music, theres a whole genre, denpa, that primarily features nonsense lyrics, prioritizing rythm and sound over intelligibility. the most famous tunes in the style i can probably think of off the top of my head are the one used in fukkireta and we are japanese goblin. at least, the ones that got popular over here in the west
The Skyrim one..... WOW! Chills....
The FFIX one reminded me of the Golden Sun Sound track. I love that one too. Have you listened to it before?
Wooo! More people who know GS! Have a great day!
@@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.
Bury the light is long, and skipping any second of it is a sin.
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.
i think ive literally only heard the erutan version of you are not alone, i was NOT EXPECTING the guitar
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.
Have to like when I see someone else who likes Golden Sun. Have a great day!
Have you shown (or heard) any Chris Christodulu (Risk of Rain 1+2) yet?
You mentioned Traveller, so I thought you were going to play the Traveller version of I Was Born for This.
Skyrim, so many memories.
Nice of you to invite Kratos to listen to his own theme.
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.]
when it comes to skyrim, most of the elder scrolls have the same theme-song. But its adjusted for each game differently.
For a moment, I swear, I saw his beard growing a beard… 😧
HE HAS HEADPHONES!!! WE WON!!!!! BEST GUY
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.
Is there any particular reason why there is close to no "Souls" music in this video series? Please show them more!
I wish they had also listened to Meathook from DOOM Eternal, I wanted to hear his reaction the the metal choir
I am very surprised you dont have any music from path of exile. There is literally the best music there
49:30 you could see his camera going crazyyy
If you want to add some Metal genre options the OST of Prince of Persia: Warrior Within is amazing.
To be honest, I never listened to the original of the Dragonborn comes until now, but there's so many awesome covers out there. I personally love the oneby German Folk/Medieval Metal band Saltatio Mortis and Lara Loft best, that one's just really got some punch 😁 Fun fact, they also did sn original song for one of the Elder Scroll's DLCs or something. It's called Prax for the Hunter and definitely worth a listen, too ❤.
I love Journey/ Traveller and most of the other stuff Austin Wintory does, he's quickly become one of my favourite contemporary composers 🥰
The vocals on the Drakengard one almost remind me of some of the Ghibli movie outros (vocalwise) ❤
I like how the Ace comnat one combines likes the the low male vocals that kinda remind me of the Gregorian chant groups that were really popular a while back, the brassy/hymnal hero's theme/grand finale and then weaves in the soaring soprano notes as well, all the right kind of shivers here 👋
Surprisingly, I don't really enjoy the Doom one as much I thought I would (considering that I'm actually listen to a lot of metal), but maybe that's mistly because I listen to score/soundtrack/classical stuff more when I actually want to unwind rather than pressure valving 🤔?
Anyway, probably could write a bit about all of these, but want to spare you the read 😅 Love that you chose so much different stuff. Goes to show how versatile game music actually is and that there's probably something for everyone to listen to actually ❤
The Devil May Cry one sounds awesome though, that would go straight to my Metal/Rock playlist 😁