@LionmightOfficial CP violation, requiem for ravenholm,ravenholm reprise, apprehension and evasion, triage at dawn ,combine harvester,dark energy,Nova prospekt,kaon,particle ghost and lastly (Something secret steers us. These are some of the best soundtracks from half life 2 and are definitely worth a listen.
@@LionmightOfficialRight sorry forgot you already did Left 4 Dead as well, was just thinking of the Orange Box and the big three from Valve. And in my personal opinion Portal 2 has an awesome OST, love all the leitmotif used thought the different tracks, it’s probably my favourite out of the Valve games previously listed
@@LionmightOfficial would also love to see you listen to the outer wilds or NSR music someday ^-^ but also dont forget half life 2 curious to see how you feel about those tunes too!
So grateful to hear you consistently react to Valve stuff, as a fun fact Half Life 1 and 2's Score was composed by Kelly Bailey, Lead Audio Designer of HL1, who had not really Studied or composed music ever before, he made the HL1 score on a rush , as they needed music and had no one else, so Kelly picked up a Synthetizer and Music and Audio library, and made the music only using his knowledge on Audio mixing Do you plan on reacting to Deadlock score next? latest from Valve, by Mike Morasky (composer of Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress 2, Portal 2)
Nuclear Mission Jam plays when you find and pick up your first exotic weapon, an absolutely deadly experimental prototype particle accelerator cannon. Up until that point you've only had access to conventional firearms, although some of them are still very powerful.
Nuclear Mission Jam is also called Something Secret Steers Us in Half-Life 2. If I remember, this plays when you deliver the Jeep with the tau cannon attachment at the lighthouse, kind of poetic.
@@norXmal Remember at the lighthouse you get the rocket launcher and the Combine attack....I think it kicks in right as the Combine dropships fly in. Perfect timing.
You're right about storytelling; every single track in HL1 and HL2 (and its episodes) coincides with specific moments. For example, Diabolical happens when you go to the surface for the first (very brief) time, after finding out the HECU is liquidating the Black Mesa staff to cover up the incident. You are confronted with Marines, are shelled after dealing with them, forcing you back underground. Hazardous Environments (which is used now as Valve's theme in other games) is my favorite moment in the game. You exit a drainage pipe out onto a shear ledge, high up on a cliff.
Fun fact! Most of the Half-Life OST uses a majority of Stock Music, and effects to make its soundtrack. Kelly Bailey had never made music before. But being a sound engineer, he used what he knew to make what is considered to be a pretty good soundtrack.
Half life 1 ost always gave me the vibe of suspense and feeling of being surrounded but when they really start they tell you "hey, you have a gun, start blasting already!"
@LionmightOfficial well, I didn't know you were about to analyze HL1's ost. I would love to hear your part on that piece if there another video for HL1. Love your content!
CP violation, requiem for ravenholm,ravenholm reprise, apprehension and evasion, triage at dawn ,combine harvester,dark energy,Nova prospekt,kaon,particle ghost and lastly (Something secret steers us). These are some of the best soundtracks from half life 2 and are definitely worth a listen and are some you should see from half life 2 totally worth it.
It has a sense of being dreadful, but at the same time, it's hopeful. You're in a scary, dark world, but you're also the hero who rised up to the occasion that everyone now looks up to. Such a beacon of hope, that many will gladly sacrifice themselves to assist the hero just so he could advance just a tiny bit further.
list of valve games we need you to listen to: half life oposing force half life 2- it does resuse a lot of half-life 1 music, but it also introduces its own half-life 2s episodes 1 and 2 all with their own music tracks more left 4 dead, of course portal 1 and 2 half-life alyx
The soundtrack's composer, Kelly Bailey also did almost all sound effects and atmosphere effects for the game. He's the one who made the game's sound environment system too.
Kelly Bailey is truly THE genius of his own way. I always thought that and still. Valve is no Valve without him already and Half-Life (whole series) is not Half-Life without his vision.
Wow, you hit the nail on the head. Yes, 'Diabolical Adrenalin Guitar' (at least in Half Life 2) plays during the apex of a chase sequence where the player is travelling through a water canal, being chased by a light assault helicopter. It is by far one of my favourite sections of a game.
The only downside of that sequence is that music doesn't continue through load zones. And if you're playing casually with even a modicum of skill, you will get through the sequence and through the next load zone long before the song has time to finish.
One thing that I feel people is not talking about much around (I may be wrong) is the HL:Alyx OST. In particular the 11th chapter "Point Extraction" album it's absolutely out of this world! I would love to see and ear your impressions about it one day eventually.
@@domenicopisano4383 there is one good reason to it why. because entire ost is preety much a mess. not saing its bad. but ost has like 300 tracks where some have 2 mins or less because they are mostly just ambient which are getting into loops suposed to play either in some enviroment or with certein interraction within game. if they would released composed version of ost it would be more likely a diffrent story. long story short HL-A ost is 95% ambient plaing with player like ost in doom but without finishing polish to it.
@@MorrrisEk as far as I've listened that mostly applies to the previous chapters, but the mixing on the 11th seems pretty much clean. At least as it is on Spotify. Even the HL2 OST has some tracks that are just few minutes long if not seconds, even tho I agree that they're not 300 of tracks compared to alyx.
@@domenicopisano4383 i hate using spotify mostly because of ads so i didn't heard how ost is there posted but on youtube, soudcloud (reposted steam version) and on steam i did. its preety much mess of ambients with one track per chapter which feels while lisening more like catalogue of sounds to pick up rather than soundtrack ost. i really wanted it to be made same way portal 2 ost was threated. well i guess they did maybe some crunch with making music for game
Ngl, the beginning of Nuclear Mission Jam literally gives you this storytelling that you sense an unknown danger is coming towards you, and your take on the baseline being similar to a "heartbeat" sfx is quite fitting actually. This sense of "fear of the unknown" comes into play in the beginning where despite knowing a danger is coming towards you, you still don't know what that danger is, and therefore you are shaken up by the fear of what's worse to come. So when the beat finally drops, it tells you that the danger has arrived and now you must fight your way through it. I absolutely love Kelly Bailey's way of storytelling through his soundtracks alone, it makes his music feel more alive
The Half Life 1 soundtrack is absolutely class. Pretty much a cool amalgamation of all the musical trends and genres that were big in the mid to late 90s Bit of industrial, metal, grunge, trip hop, drum and bass, electronica, world influences with tracks like Nepal Monastery, club music (Adrenaline Horror sounds like something out of the Matrix movies, the first movie released a year after Half Life)
I cannot wait until we get to HL2 plus episodes OST and Portal 2 OST. Vortal Combat is so damn good Hope to see DOOM and Wolfenstein feature on the channel too in the future!
Now you've done the OG Half-Life's soundtrack, I'd highly recommend doing tracks from Half Life 2. But also, definitely look at Black Mesa's soundtrack (the remake of Half-Life), because it's absolutely astonishing. For Black Mesa, I'd suggest the following tracks : Internal Conflict, We've Got Hostiles, Questionable Ethics 1, Forget About Freeman and _especially_ Ascension.
Oh wow! I asked for half life back in the tf2 music reaction video! Im really hoping for half life 2 in the future. That has my favorite soundtrack out the half-life games for sure!
Nuclear mission jam plays in HL1 when you get the tau cannon, which is basically an experimental handheld particle cannon that is basically the best weapon in the game
Great video! Half-Life’s music deserves more recognition. Can you review these other five great tracks? Vague Voices, Nepal Monastery, Valve Theme (Long Version), Threatening Short, and Jungle Drums.
Damn I now want a full cover of Nuclear Mission Jam with your style. It's my all time favorite track and you've enhanced it so well! Please review more Half-Life stuff, maybe HL1's remake Black Mesa as well that game's soundtrack is PHENOMENAL especially the xen parts
i really cant remember hl1 having soundtrack, but now that you play them, i can put them in places/situations, is that brilliant soundtrack design or bad?
Valve always nailed it with their otherwordly sounding music and sfx. It's no wonder I'm into synth-based music so much 😅 The music just helps you to realize how horrific the situation is in the game's world, but also, that you're a total badass who's about to set things right. And that last track encapsulates that perfectly. Also, an amazing electric violin solo at the end there. I would love a full version of that.
You should also give Black Mesa's OST a listen, being the fan made Valve approved remake of Half Life 1. A few tracks I'd recommend are Unforseen Consequences, Office Complex, Blast Pit 3, Questionable Ethics 1, Internal Conflict, and Ascension.
I never knew that Nuclear Mission Jam needed an electric violin solo until now. Well done, and it's also great to see the reactions to tracks I've known and loved for years.
"Last Legs" has got to be one of the most heavy hitting tracks from Half Life 2. It's from Half Life 2: Episode 2. Try it out if you're gonna make a part 2 or 3!
Nuclear Mission Jam is one of my favourites, it plays when you pick up the Tau Cannon, a miniature particle accelerator that fires a concentrated beam of tau particles, which can be charged up with right-click and used to absolutely obliterate most enemies. I think it's really fitting for that moment in the game
One of the best games ever made! Here is a fun fact - there is a Serbian song that sampled one of the Half Life 1 soundtracks Nepal Monastery. The song is called "Svidja mi se tvoja devojka". (It's almost at the end of the Serbian song) Enjoy :D
Because Half-Life so infrequently uses music and stars a silent protagonist on a lone journey, Half-Life is a quiet understated game where the atonal and strange soundscapes of Black Mesa and its new inhabitants take center stage. It works to its benefit and you can feel the atmosphere oozing off the walls. The music is simply an extension of that, it's pure excellence. And no wonder why, either. Kelly Bailey was in charge of all the sounds and music, giving it the industrial, speculative hi-tech, and completely inhuman alien vibrations, and it is all the more cohesive for it. Simon Zinzovski made a brilliant video on the subject.
That's amazing! I was among those people who recommended it to you)) You should do some more of these Half-Life 1 songs and then please do some Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2 Episodes One and Two OSTs especially! They are all so amazing! P:S After all this Portal 1 & 2 soundtracks could be great for you to check out, game from same devs, in the same universe even.
bro...bro....bro...I fecking teared up on your Nuclear Violin Jam. That was just such a "thing that I did not know I want in my life" feeling. Thank you.
You knew it was going to get really serious and awesome when Nuclear Mission Jam played in this game. Those who remember and were there would know, like me. 😆😎💯💯💯💯👌❤️
This is why the hl soundtracks (all of valve's stuff honestly) is in my regular playlists. Having played the game so many times too, I'd love for you to be seeing what you're actually DOING when this music all cues up!
I was one among the peeps who popularized the HL SFX memes back in 2019, and this gets me back every time I hear one piece from the OST, especially from Kelly Bailey. You should check out his Black Mesa counterpart, Joel Nielsen (Among my favorites from Joel's OST are the parts where Gordon reaches the surface in We've Got Hostiles, the music in On The Rail, the battle theme in Questionable Ethics, and the dam part in Surface Tension). Sent one in the form. I'm glad you had to cover this amazing soundtrack! Cheers from the Philippines, solid na solid to! :D
I love watching you dissect the musical layers of video game scores and it makes me super happy you're doing the Half-Life Universe. I promise you, you will be astounded by Kelly Bailey's work as he's also done Left 4 Dead's music and Portal. Also, your jacket's pretty badass, with the yellow-orange shirt, kinda has that HEV vibe my man!
Such “computer sound“ type was much earlier than 90s. It used in synthwave (especially Sovietwave: Eduard Artemiev, Vladimir Martynov etc). Btw, about sovietwave - I'd recommend you to listen soundtrack from old soviet cartoon "Mystery of Third planet" (music by Alexander Zatsepin) . And other cartoon with music by Martynov - "Box with a secret", it's whole musical.
is it amazing how much while not on the expectations of a high musical technicality that most people would want for an ost or else have much melodic quality to theory to be analyzed esp for most music channels (sometimes it can come thru in a few tracks but yeah), still manages to be some banging stuff? Sound design is def an underrated aspect when it comes to music I'm tellin ya. Maybe another can say using loops from sample CDs is considered cheating or lazy like using Splice sample packs, but def amazing how much Kelly Bailey can pull off putting some stuff together that he didn't make from scratch cohesively. sometimes you gotta work smart, not hard with the tracks you make and I'm def all here for it! beat maker me here def feeling this
A lovely reaction, I eagerly look forward to you getting to the Half Life 2 soundtrack, and possibly Episodes 1 and 2. In the case of Episode 2, I definitely think you'll enjoy 'This Vortal Coil' Interestingly, Diabolical Adrenaline Guitar actually appears again in Half-Life 2, alongside a few other tracks from Half-Life, albeit they're typically under different names. In Half Life proper, the track appears when you're arriving at the surface of the underground facility you work at for the first time since everything went pear-shaped. In stark contrast to the randomly-teleporting alien forces you'd been fighting until then, the surface is covered with soldiers whom you've just learned have arrived to do a cleanup operation, which includes you. So while you're not only dealing with human enemies who shoot back, but they also have a helicopter orbiting above, along with frequent airstrikes on your position quickly forcing you back underground. Meanwhile in Half Life 2, the track makes a return when you, in an Airboat, are in a chase with a helicopter that's been occasionally attacking you through an old canal system since you got the vehicle, now this time following you for a long stretch as it tries to drop bombs in your path.
If you plan on making a part 2, it would be great if you reacted to Hazardous Environments, Drums and Riffs, Electric Guitar Ambience, and Nepal Monastery.
Opposing Force and Gunman Chronicles also have awesome soundtracks. OF has hard-hitting military band marching snare type tracks as you play a grunt... and GC has haunting strings, synths, and choir vocals, evocative of being in the desolate wastes of space that some parts of the game are set in.
Fun Fact: Kelly Bailey, the guy who wrote the soundtrack, originally was only the sound designer then later on decided on making the OST for the game Funner Fact: This was his first soundtrack.
Love to see you reacting to this ost. Kelly Bailey is a great composer and really ups his game in the HL2 and (in my opinion) in the episodic expansions. While the first games ost is great i feel like the seconds is where he develops that unique style hes known for.
I know this video is technically old, but one soundtrack I would love to see you listen to is the Black Mesa OST, specifically Forget About Freeman! and Ascension. Black Mesa is an entire remake of Half-Life from the ground up, along with its music, and in my opinion the music is godly! Love seeing your content!
There are exist so much game ost styles with individuals settings behind of it!!! I think you my friend you have a lot of work with and I sure you got it! Have fun!
You did Half-Life 1, now you gotta do Half-Life 2 and Episodes 1 and 2.
Can't wait for you to get to Vortal Combat.
Yes, please request your favorite songs with links in the suggestion form in the description.
@LionmightOfficial CP violation, requiem for ravenholm,ravenholm reprise, apprehension and evasion, triage at dawn ,combine harvester,dark energy,Nova prospekt,kaon,particle ghost and lastly (Something secret steers us. These are some of the best soundtracks from half life 2 and are definitely worth a listen.
@@tonivoul1971 Dimentia
And Opposing Force and Blue Shift too !!!!
@@tonivoul1971 lg orbifold too
Valve have one of the greatest soundtrack all time
@@pyroV12 I know a few other good soundtracks.
facts
@@pyroV12 so sad that they cannot count too 3.
@@aspiringadonis1253 actually they are doing it
@@pyroV12 imagine they call it Half-Life 4
Half life 1 OST was so good, they reused most of it in the sequel
Well hello there, I see ur vids too
and even some in HLA
@@vibaj16 really?
I believe they remastered them
@@scrungus_frodonkle740 yep
The best part is that the composer, Kelly Bailey had never made any music before this point, he just drops a musical bombshell unannounced.
That's insane, kinda reminds me of Trent Reznor's full album, kinda just landed out of nowhere.
This reminds me of Jamie Christopherson who didn't make much well known music and randomly dropped the MGRR ost which went crazy
Greatness from small beginnings and these people made GREAT ones right out of the gate.
He was a singer and songwriter in Seattle before Half-Life
@@Baratako0 hm, thats cool, I saw no record of that, still his first album as far as im aware
Team Fortress and now Half Life, Portal 2’s OST is gotta be next, right?
Don't forget Left 4 Dead.
@@LionmightOfficialRight sorry forgot you already did Left 4 Dead as well, was just thinking of the Orange Box and the big three from Valve.
And in my personal opinion Portal 2 has an awesome OST, love all the leitmotif used thought the different tracks, it’s probably my favourite out of the Valve games previously listed
@@LionmightOfficial dont forget about terraria or subnautica
@@LionmightOfficial would also love to see you listen to the outer wilds or NSR music someday ^-^ but also dont forget half life 2 curious to see how you feel about those tunes too!
dont count out Portal 1's OST. One of my favorite Valve tracks is Self Esteem Fund from P1
My favorites from Half-life 2 :
-Supression field
-LG orbifold
-Slow light.
Can't forget CP Violation and Brane Scan, those are bangers too
-Distorted trumpets
@@Koiiiiiiiii I love brane scan.
Ain't forgetting Hazardous Environments, the well known theme for anything HL and even Valve now.
Also the absolute slap that is Vortal Combat.
Last Legs is a banger too
So grateful to hear you consistently react to Valve stuff, as a fun fact Half Life 1 and 2's Score was composed by Kelly Bailey, Lead Audio Designer of HL1, who had not really Studied or composed music ever before, he made the HL1 score on a rush , as they needed music and had no one else, so Kelly picked up a Synthetizer and Music and Audio library, and made the music only using his knowledge on Audio mixing
Do you plan on reacting to Deadlock score next? latest from Valve, by Mike Morasky (composer of Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress 2, Portal 2)
And a guitar :)
Deadlock doesn't have enough tracks though, maybe after release there will be enough for a video.
I think that's what makes it more unique. Good tracks from a totally unexperienced music composer.
@@chrvrada Why'd you copy the reply before yours word-for-word?
@@JoBot__ bot?
Nuclear Mission Jam plays when you find and pick up your first exotic weapon, an absolutely deadly experimental prototype particle accelerator cannon. Up until that point you've only had access to conventional firearms, although some of them are still very powerful.
Yup. First, apprehension, then kick-ass, just like the introduction of the weapon itself.
@@tommcewan7936 It is my favourite song on the ost ;D
The first exotic weapon are the snarks, a few levels before the Tau Cannon
Nuclear Mission Jam is also called Something Secret Steers Us in Half-Life 2.
If I remember, this plays when you deliver the Jeep with the tau cannon attachment at the lighthouse, kind of poetic.
@@norXmal Remember at the lighthouse you get the rocket launcher and the Combine attack....I think it kicks in right as the Combine dropships fly in. Perfect timing.
DO HALF LIFE 2 PLEASE
please?
he already kinda did
11:33 "It's like you're being surrounded by this massive swarm of alien bees or something"
As a Half-Life fan I can confirm this is very accurate
live hivehand reaction
That one part where you have to fight 3 Alien Grunts that have an eletric stationary gun
2:56
alien grunt moment
@@romnekk MODS ARE ASLEEP POST ALIEN GRUNT
DUDE, THE VIOLIN THERE WAS AWESOME! That should be a solo video just a rendition of that song. I love it.
Seconded. Fit SO WELL.
I keep replaying it. It's so good! I would love an official cover of that track.
You're right about storytelling; every single track in HL1 and HL2 (and its episodes) coincides with specific moments. For example, Diabolical happens when you go to the surface for the first (very brief) time, after finding out the HECU is liquidating the Black Mesa staff to cover up the incident. You are confronted with Marines, are shelled after dealing with them, forcing you back underground.
Hazardous Environments (which is used now as Valve's theme in other games) is my favorite moment in the game. You exit a drainage pipe out onto a shear ledge, high up on a cliff.
Fun fact! Most of the Half-Life OST uses a majority of Stock Music, and effects to make its soundtrack.
Kelly Bailey had never made music before. But being a sound engineer, he used what he knew to make what is considered to be a pretty good soundtrack.
Half life 1 ost always gave me the vibe of suspense and feeling of being surrounded but when they really start they tell you "hey, you have a gun, start blasting already!"
Especially because music is so rare when it happens it really captures your intention.
You missed my favourite, Hazardous Environments! It became Valve's theme for most of their games
You should've requested it then. I only follow what the people want. I don't really care about looking for it myself.
@LionmightOfficial well, I didn't know you were about to analyze HL1's ost. I would love to hear your part on that piece if there another video for HL1. Love your content!
@@LionmightOfficial Be sure to include it whenever you do a video for Half life 2, it is featured in that game as well.
@@LionmightOfficial damn, what a douchey response
@@youdonegoofed what a weak mind
If you plan on making a part 2 to this, react to Military Precision. It’s one of my favorites, as it has a nice factory sound to it I really enjoy.
He should react to the ''On a rail'' beginning song
And Hazardous Environments.
@@mr.silver1614 YES!!!
CP violation, requiem for ravenholm,ravenholm reprise, apprehension and evasion, triage at dawn ,combine harvester,dark energy,Nova prospekt,kaon,particle ghost and lastly (Something secret steers us). These are some of the best soundtracks from half life 2 and are definitely worth a listen and are some you should see from half life 2 totally worth it.
I like “you’re not supposed to be here”
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It has a sense of being dreadful, but at the same time, it's hopeful. You're in a scary, dark world, but you're also the hero who rised up to the occasion that everyone now looks up to.
Such a beacon of hope, that many will gladly sacrifice themselves to assist the hero just so he could advance just a tiny bit further.
12:44 awesome, now I want this version of Nuclear jam in the game!
He actually just straight up improved the track with that one. That sounded insanely good.
list of valve games we need you to listen to:
half life oposing force
half life 2- it does resuse a lot of half-life 1 music, but it also introduces its own
half-life 2s episodes 1 and 2 all with their own music tracks
more left 4 dead, of course
portal 1 and 2
half-life alyx
The soundtrack's composer, Kelly Bailey also did almost all sound effects and atmosphere effects for the game. He's the one who made the game's sound environment system too.
Kelly Bailey is truly THE genius of his own way. I always thought that and still. Valve is no Valve without him already and Half-Life (whole series) is not Half-Life without his vision.
Wow, you hit the nail on the head. Yes, 'Diabolical Adrenalin Guitar' (at least in Half Life 2) plays during the apex of a chase sequence where the player is travelling through a water canal, being chased by a light assault helicopter.
It is by far one of my favourite sections of a game.
The only downside of that sequence is that music doesn't continue through load zones. And if you're playing casually with even a modicum of skill, you will get through the sequence and through the next load zone long before the song has time to finish.
Holy Frick O_O Your Jam Session at the end was sooooo Amazing!
Also i really love your reaction to the Music, it feels so addictive
If you ever return to this soundtrack two songs I would recommend would be “hazardous environments” and “military precision”.
One thing that I feel people is not talking about much around (I may be wrong) is the HL:Alyx OST.
In particular the 11th chapter "Point Extraction" album it's absolutely out of this world! I would love to see and ear your impressions about it one day eventually.
and the credits theme
@@domenicopisano4383 there is one good reason to it why. because entire ost is preety much a mess. not saing its bad. but ost has like 300 tracks where some have 2 mins or less because they are mostly just ambient which are getting into loops suposed to play either in some enviroment or with certein interraction within game. if they would released composed version of ost it would be more likely a diffrent story. long story short HL-A ost is 95% ambient plaing with player like ost in doom but without finishing polish to it.
@@MorrrisEk as far as I've listened that mostly applies to the previous chapters, but the mixing on the 11th seems pretty much clean. At least as it is on Spotify. Even the HL2 OST has some tracks that are just few minutes long if not seconds, even tho I agree that they're not 300 of tracks compared to alyx.
@@domenicopisano4383 i hate using spotify mostly because of ads so i didn't heard how ost is there posted but on youtube, soudcloud (reposted steam version) and on steam i did. its preety much mess of ambients with one track per chapter which feels while lisening more like catalogue of sounds to pick up rather than soundtrack ost. i really wanted it to be made same way portal 2 ost was threated. well i guess they did maybe some crunch with making music for game
People aren't ready for this conversation, but Ending Triumph is the best song in any half life game 😬😬
Ngl, the beginning of Nuclear Mission Jam literally gives you this storytelling that you sense an unknown danger is coming towards you, and your take on the baseline being similar to a "heartbeat" sfx is quite fitting actually. This sense of "fear of the unknown" comes into play in the beginning where despite knowing a danger is coming towards you, you still don't know what that danger is, and therefore you are shaken up by the fear of what's worse to come.
So when the beat finally drops, it tells you that the danger has arrived and now you must fight your way through it. I absolutely love Kelly Bailey's way of storytelling through his soundtracks alone, it makes his music feel more alive
9:35 100% pure 90s music
what we really need also is black mesa soundtracks (remake of half life 1 from fans) Literally such amazing soundtracks to be honest
2:22 dimrain47 jumpscare why is that in his recommended lol
WOW were you in for a treat! the music from this iconic '98 game. NINTEY EIGHT! it was indeed ahead of its time. felt like an early 2000s game!
Next - BLACK MESA
nah. better if he would focus on og games first.
Yes please
Nah
@@Emezomm Absolutely
YES
The Half Life 1 soundtrack is absolutely class.
Pretty much a cool amalgamation of all the musical trends and genres that were big in the mid to late 90s
Bit of industrial, metal, grunge, trip hop, drum and bass, electronica, world influences with tracks like Nepal Monastery, club music (Adrenaline Horror sounds like something out of the Matrix movies, the first movie released a year after Half Life)
I cannot wait until we get to HL2 plus episodes OST and Portal 2 OST. Vortal Combat is so damn good
Hope to see DOOM and Wolfenstein feature on the channel too in the future!
You should do part 2 for it i liked your comments about every part of the sountrack and this is just really perfectly made video for me
Now you've done the OG Half-Life's soundtrack, I'd highly recommend doing tracks from Half Life 2.
But also, definitely look at Black Mesa's soundtrack (the remake of Half-Life), because it's absolutely astonishing.
For Black Mesa, I'd suggest the following tracks : Internal Conflict, We've Got Hostiles, Questionable Ethics 1, Forget About Freeman and _especially_ Ascension.
I'd add on a rail 1, blast pit 3 and "black mesa theme"
9:08 music producer not music producers. Kelly Bailey singlehandedly made all these songs
Oh wow! I asked for half life back in the tf2 music reaction video! Im really hoping for half life 2 in the future. That has my favorite soundtrack out the half-life games for sure!
Nuclear mission jam plays in HL1 when you get the tau cannon, which is basically an experimental handheld particle cannon that is basically the best weapon in the game
12:41 Jeeeesssuss, what is thaattt, omg that was amaziingg
Great video! Half-Life’s music deserves more recognition. Can you review these other five great tracks?
Vague Voices, Nepal Monastery, Valve Theme (Long Version), Threatening Short, and Jungle Drums.
08:00 here comes the gargantua!
Finally, the time came for Half-Life soundtrack, was waiting for this video for months.
A slightly older game now, but Brink. I absolutely loved the music in that game, especially the main theme.
Damn I now want a full cover of Nuclear Mission Jam with your style. It's my all time favorite track and you've enhanced it so well!
Please review more Half-Life stuff, maybe HL1's remake Black Mesa as well that game's soundtrack is PHENOMENAL especially the xen parts
i really cant remember hl1 having soundtrack, but now that you play them, i can put them in places/situations, is that brilliant soundtrack design or bad?
That's exactly how it should be with the more ambient type of music with no obvious melodies to hook you.
To be fair, at the time they are mostly samples from music CDs that they mixed into a soundtrack. Luckily, Kelly Bailey is good at it
Certain releases of the game only had the soundtrack going if you had the CD inserted, that might explain it.
@@sunhammer420 Old games are like this, the CD drive contains music
I'm that guy who played without music too 😂
Maybe cause it came from Jack Sparrow.
Valve always nailed it with their otherwordly sounding music and sfx. It's no wonder I'm into synth-based music so much 😅
The music just helps you to realize how horrific the situation is in the game's world, but also, that you're a total badass who's about to set things right. And that last track encapsulates that perfectly.
Also, an amazing electric violin solo at the end there. I would love a full version of that.
did NOT expect the violin solo holy shit thats sick as fuck
the best man. It's strange that you're younger than Gabe in a couple of decades
6:30 Diabolical Adenaline
PLEASE do black mesa next! 🙏
You should also give Black Mesa's OST a listen, being the fan made Valve approved remake of Half Life 1. A few tracks I'd recommend are Unforseen Consequences, Office Complex, Blast Pit 3, Questionable Ethics 1, Internal Conflict, and Ascension.
I never knew that Nuclear Mission Jam needed an electric violin solo until now. Well done, and it's also great to see the reactions to tracks I've known and loved for years.
"Last Legs" has got to be one of the most heavy hitting tracks from Half Life 2. It's from Half Life 2: Episode 2. Try it out if you're gonna make a part 2 or 3!
Nuclear Mission Jam is one of my favourites, it plays when you pick up the Tau Cannon, a miniature particle accelerator that fires a concentrated beam of tau particles, which can be charged up with right-click and used to absolutely obliterate most enemies. I think it's really fitting for that moment in the game
PLS do black mesa, its a fan remake of half life 1, i suggest you listen to blast pit 3 and we've got hostiles
Nuclear Mission Jam is personally my favorite track in the game; they apparently thought so to since it was reused for Half-Life Decay and Half-Life 2
Hello there( Obi-Wan kenobi voice)
About that, congrats to Ewan McGregor, he got his own Hollywood's walk of fame star today!
General Kenobi!
You are a bold one
Half-Life 1 is a classic OST, but I do hope you check out the Valve-authorised fan remake Black Mesa and its phenomenal OST by Joel Nielsen! 🙏
One of the best games ever made! Here is a fun fact - there is a Serbian song that sampled one of the Half Life 1 soundtracks Nepal Monastery. The song is called "Svidja mi se tvoja devojka". (It's almost at the end of the Serbian song)
Enjoy :D
Hey, nice. My comment made it into the video. This is a first time. Awesome reaction btw
Because Half-Life so infrequently uses music and stars a silent protagonist on a lone journey, Half-Life is a quiet understated game where the atonal and strange soundscapes of Black Mesa and its new inhabitants take center stage. It works to its benefit and you can feel the atmosphere oozing off the walls. The music is simply an extension of that, it's pure excellence. And no wonder why, either. Kelly Bailey was in charge of all the sounds and music, giving it the industrial, speculative hi-tech, and completely inhuman alien vibrations, and it is all the more cohesive for it. Simon Zinzovski made a brilliant video on the subject.
I know what's making you think of bees and hornets. The Hivehand!
You're String Player Gamer, right? I love your rendition of Alphys's theme!
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If you're gonna do HL2, you need CP Violation in there
That's amazing! I was among those people who recommended it to you)) You should do some more of these Half-Life 1 songs and then please do some Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2 Episodes One and Two OSTs especially! They are all so amazing!
P:S After all this Portal 1 & 2 soundtracks could be great for you to check out, game from same devs, in the same universe even.
A truly legendary game that deserves your attention!
I didn't know people were offering it to you so much
bro...bro....bro...I fecking teared up on your Nuclear Violin Jam. That was just such a "thing that I did not know I want in my life" feeling. Thank you.
Hell YEAH!
You knew it was going to get really serious and awesome when Nuclear Mission Jam played in this game. Those who remember and were there would know, like me. 😆😎💯💯💯💯👌❤️
that electric violin at the end goes hard
"What kind of hospital is this" from HL2 episode 1 will always be my favorite HL track.
You've GOTTA react to Black Mesa's OST, a remake/reimagining of HL1, a lot of good songs there.
This is my first video watching you. I'm on the first track and you crack me up with your looks 😂
FINALLY !!! :D I was waiting for you to react to one of my favourite video game OST of all time !
That's an awesome violin, Dude!
oh my god dude that violin thing you did was amazing. i would like to listen that separately!
This is why the hl soundtracks (all of valve's stuff honestly) is in my regular playlists. Having played the game so many times too, I'd love for you to be seeing what you're actually DOING when this music all cues up!
I was one among the peeps who popularized the HL SFX memes back in 2019, and this gets me back every time I hear one piece from the OST, especially from Kelly Bailey. You should check out his Black Mesa counterpart, Joel Nielsen (Among my favorites from Joel's OST are the parts where Gordon reaches the surface in We've Got Hostiles, the music in On The Rail, the battle theme in Questionable Ethics, and the dam part in Surface Tension). Sent one in the form.
I'm glad you had to cover this amazing soundtrack!
Cheers from the Philippines, solid na solid to! :D
I love watching you dissect the musical layers of video game scores and it makes me super happy you're doing the Half-Life Universe. I promise you, you will be astounded by Kelly Bailey's work as he's also done Left 4 Dead's music and Portal. Also, your jacket's pretty badass, with the yellow-orange shirt, kinda has that HEV vibe my man!
7:20 actually a pretty accurate description of the half life gameplay loop
Such “computer sound“ type was much earlier than 90s. It used in synthwave (especially Sovietwave: Eduard Artemiev, Vladimir Martynov etc).
Btw, about sovietwave - I'd recommend you to listen soundtrack from old soviet cartoon "Mystery of Third planet" (music by Alexander Zatsepin) .
And other cartoon with music by Martynov - "Box with a secret", it's whole musical.
is it amazing how much while not on the expectations of a high musical technicality that most people would want for an ost or else have much melodic quality to theory to be analyzed esp for most music channels (sometimes it can come thru in a few tracks but yeah), still manages to be some banging stuff? Sound design is def an underrated aspect when it comes to music I'm tellin ya. Maybe another can say using loops from sample CDs is considered cheating or lazy like using Splice sample packs, but def amazing how much Kelly Bailey can pull off putting some stuff together that he didn't make from scratch cohesively.
sometimes you gotta work smart, not hard with the tracks you make and I'm def all here for it! beat maker me here def feeling this
definitely check out last legs and vortal combat from half life2 episode 2
Please do a part 2! I would love a reaction to Klaxon Beat, also in the Half Life soundtrack.
YES! IVE BEEN HOPING FOR THIS THE MOMENT I FIRST FOUND YOUR CHANNEL!!
A lovely reaction, I eagerly look forward to you getting to the Half Life 2 soundtrack, and possibly Episodes 1 and 2. In the case of Episode 2, I definitely think you'll enjoy 'This Vortal Coil'
Interestingly, Diabolical Adrenaline Guitar actually appears again in Half-Life 2, alongside a few other tracks from Half-Life, albeit they're typically under different names.
In Half Life proper, the track appears when you're arriving at the surface of the underground facility you work at for the first time since everything went pear-shaped. In stark contrast to the randomly-teleporting alien forces you'd been fighting until then, the surface is covered with soldiers whom you've just learned have arrived to do a cleanup operation, which includes you. So while you're not only dealing with human enemies who shoot back, but they also have a helicopter orbiting above, along with frequent airstrikes on your position quickly forcing you back underground.
Meanwhile in Half Life 2, the track makes a return when you, in an Airboat, are in a chase with a helicopter that's been occasionally attacking you through an old canal system since you got the vehicle, now this time following you for a long stretch as it tries to drop bombs in your path.
If you plan on making a part 2, it would be great if you reacted to Hazardous Environments, Drums and Riffs, Electric Guitar Ambience, and Nepal Monastery.
Do half life 2 and episodes next vortal combat and sector sweep are insane
Awesome to see you do this one. Hl1 has one of my favorite soundtracks of any video game.
Opposing Force and Gunman Chronicles also have awesome soundtracks. OF has hard-hitting military band marching snare type tracks as you play a grunt... and GC has haunting strings, synths, and choir vocals, evocative of being in the desolate wastes of space that some parts of the game are set in.
I still have the soundtrack on my phone and jam to it regularly, closing credits its still a banger
Love your reactions bro, and the way you cover them in your violin is something else
Fun Fact: Kelly Bailey, the guy who wrote the soundtrack, originally was only the sound designer then later on decided on making the OST for the game
Funner Fact: This was his first soundtrack.
normally i dont like when you do the violin part BUT DAMN you hit it spot on
Awesome video!! Holy shit the ending was so good! Boneworks and Bonelab got really cool soundtracks :D
Please do black mesa, specifically: We've got hostiles, Surface tension 1, Forget about Freeman and Ascension (V2)
Love to see you reacting to this ost. Kelly Bailey is a great composer and really ups his game in the HL2 and (in my opinion) in the episodic expansions. While the first games ost is great i feel like the seconds is where he develops that unique style hes known for.
I like the chell portal 2 minifig on your desk
I know this video is technically old, but one soundtrack I would love to see you listen to is the Black Mesa OST, specifically Forget About Freeman! and Ascension. Black Mesa is an entire remake of Half-Life from the ground up, along with its music, and in my opinion the music is godly! Love seeing your content!
There are exist so much game ost styles with individuals settings behind of it!!! I think you my friend you have a lot of work with and I sure you got it! Have fun!
Pelease analyze the music from the game Hitman Contracts. It marked my childhood.
Big hug to you!