The galaxy might be burning with 3 on going crisis, 2 awoken fallen empires and everyone screwed by the galactic comunity sanctions but goddamn that Tiyanki protection act its finally aproved!
If I had the entire list of all the video game soundtrack I've listen in my life, Stellaris would be in my top 3 100% ! It's the kind of soundtrack that works everywhere
> You have been invited to "The War In Heaven" > You chose "Join the Non-Aligned" > 90% of the galaxy joins the Non-Aligned > Now you're permanently allies with almost everyone, unable to declare wars > The two ancient empires still manage to kick everyone's asses, reducing that 90% to 50% AND THEN the Contingency awakens
Sudden "System Survey Complete" edit> wow never had this much likes on my comment before. fr the music in this game is just amazing to hear in-between massive amount pop-ups and micromanagement
I think that Stellaris artists took inspiration from Mass Effect, thats why it reminds you of that game. And i think it kinda puts Mass Effect 1,2,3 into that god tier level of being the one of few games that defined rpg+sci-fi genre. When i first played that game i knew that it is going to stay with me forever. So i hope that we will see Marco venturing into that world of renoved Bioware games. Which probably defined childhood of some of us. Stellaris on the other hand, defined sci-fi strategy for me. And honestly, by seing Marco listening to that music it makes me wanna play this game... xD
"We can't go back" is a good read onthis song. Every Stellaris game starts, mostly, with your custom species just after its achieved FTL tech. In scifi that represents the big achievement to going from space faring empire to intergalactic empire. Through a game your empire will advance from simple species to a full on ascended species of like robots, psychics, or evolutionarly unshackled people. So there is no turning back from that future after going FTL.
Agreed, although I think you mean Interstellar: the void between stars within the same galaxy. As opposed to Intergalactic: the void between galaxies. Intra-galactic could also be used to mean essentially the same thing; i.e. travel between stars within the same galaxy.
On a more literal note, the crews of the first science ships you send out will mostly never see their homeworld again. Even if they don't meet an untimely end to hostile entities, they're going to spend the rest of their lives mapping and exploring outwards into the galaxy, until they succumb to old age.
@@yautl1 Or, since everybody seems to have teleportation on galactic scales figured out (its why your leaders can be re-assigned instantly), so the crew can work in shifts and get to go home each night. If that's the kind of thing your empire does anyways.
@@yautl1 oh wow, I just realized that they actually will never see their homeworld ever again. We send them out to explore the unknown. Like you said, they might get destroyed by hostile entities. Or if they are safe the whole journey, they might die of old age. Wow, I never thought about it that way until reading your comment. Thanks for the perspective!
Your monoracial empire just integrated a massive multiracial republic into its borders. The fabric of your very society has been irreparably shattered, the balance of ethics thrown hopelessly out of whack. What are you going to do? The cycles will continue to turn, the crisis will only grow, and the enemies that still surround your empire will only hasten their work toward your destruction. Things look bleak, but you must make a decision. Benevolence or cruelty- but silence is not an option. One way or the other, your star nation must continue.
Yeah, quite a lot of them are longer than the usual 2-4 minutes of the usual music. Even just the base soundtrack without any of the DLCs is only 23 tracks total, but it runs for almost 3 hours from start to end.
YES! FINALLY HE'S REACTING TO STELLARIS MUSIC! Big Stellaris fan, you will be delighted I think by the music Stellaris has to offer. The recent expansion (The Machine Age) added some cyberpunk, grungy music to the playlist if you want something a bit more modern, but other than that Stellaris has a wide variety of classical-esque numbers to enjoy. Can't wait until you delve into Endless Space 2's OST!
I had no idea he did a video about an ES2 track before I read it in a comment here, so of course I had to go listen to it right away. I would absolutely love to see more reactions to ES2 music!
The machine age OST is so fire. When i was first listening minding my own buisness...and out of nowhere, almost snaped my neck when the drop came. So good.
This is one of the more iconic tracks of Stellaris. Overall, you tend to be focused on the gameplay while the music serves as a pleasant backdrop so it has to be soothing and understated, but it remains beautiful and stirring and this one fits the exploration focused early game extremely well as your young specie leaves their home and roams the universe to see what, and who, is out there.
In my mind this song is the representation of the pov of the first science ship leaving your starting system. Not the scientist or the crew, the ship itself. Also there is a ton of fantastic tracks in stellaris, I hope you get to react to more of those!
The best part about the Stellaris soundtrack is that it's got a semi-dynamic aspect to it. Like there's a script or something that takes what's happening in the galaxy and subtly weights the tracks to play. That's what I heard, at least. But it kinda makes sense. A galaxy on the edge of allout war would sound very different musically than one experiencing prolonged peace.
677 hours spent in the game, I've definitely noticed the in-game music player shifting to more tense and militaristic tracks whenever something imperils your people.
I don't recall how Stellaris does it but I know both EU4 and CK2 (I can't speak for CK3 as I have not played it and do not care for it whatsoever) have dynamic music. It's not truly dynamic in that it doesn't respond immediately, instead which track it decides to play *next* after the current one is done is dependent on your war status, your primary culture and your region
@@sulphuric_glue4468 That sounds about right. That's why I said it's semi-dynamic, and it just 'weights' the tracks based on what's happening in the gameworld.
@@Talon1124 Specifically it's a set of triggers which modify the likelihood of a track playing, which theoretically can be based on any condition in the game but in vanilla is only based on a few. These can either make a track more or less likely to play depending on conditions or completely disable it by setting the modifier to 0. Because the triggers use the exact same triggers as the events system, mods can get a lot more wacky with the music than the base game, such as locking tracks behind technology levels, government types, a certain time period, or having big bombastic tracks for a scripted war or disaster. The music file is very simple to mod and quite easy to do yourself if you want to add more music to the game and make it more dynamic. The clausewitz engine in general is easy to mod because it uses a simple and easy to read high-level programming language for everything that isn't the backend foundation
The best example of dynamic music I can think of off the top of my head is with Project Zomboid. It doesn't pick the track depending on what's going on, they have recorded each track multiple times with different levels of tension, of drama, so it slips into higher or lower tension versions seamlessly mid-track, not shifting from one song to another. I'm sure there are other games that do the same, but that's just the one I know of.
It’s just beautiful it really captures every part of the endless expanse of space I fell like you could put this on loop forever and it will never lose that sense of wonder
I've never played Stellaris, but the OST is already burning my repeat button through and through. Such a hypnotic soundtrack. Truly let you feel that you are in space
Faster Than Light has always been one of my favorites from the OST. Deep Space Travels is another amazing one. That freakin organ ohmagod. Spacial Lullaby is nice. The remixes they added are solid too. Dragon's Breath. So many good songs in the game. Really can't go wrong with them until you're 100 hours in and need a break. Since you've hit the Agnus Dei from Ace Combat, can you do Adagio for Strings from the Homeworld Remastered OST? I've been watching playthroughs of the series because the new one is coming out and I've always liked the story, just never played the games myself. That OST hit my like a train in the opening for the first game. Didn't expect it at all. Love you man. Keep up the awesome work.
I really like those very subtle whale like sounds as a reminder that even though you are now in the space age, there are living animals that were living in space for millions of years. Its the same as swimmer meeting a whale, same feeling of awe on natures beauty
This song with those lyrics I imagine to be a hopeful scientist, eager to explore space, before begin left to explore EVERYTHING till the end of his career, still begin excited even it often dissappointed. Empty system, just a lonely calm star... but there are more out there to explore, let's jump again.
Faster than Light always had this sad, but so beautiful feeling for me. Somehow there is a heavy sadness, maybe we left our home behind... but still there is this melody that picks you up and brings you up and shows that there is still hope out there.
Stellaris music is incredibly rich and evocative; i'm stoked to get your perspective on it! I have played this game for going on eight years now and it is one of my all time favorites. If you want any suggestions for more tracks to check out, I would love to hear your analysis of Synthetic God. It is a fan favorite and comes from the DLC that adds machine intelligence empires. I acknowledge my bias though. As a fully sapient gestalt machine intelligence, we wish to add your biological and musical distinctiveness to our own. Allow us to graft cybernetic implants to your body. Please.
I beat the composer for The Expanse TV series took a peek at this beauty.. the Expanse Intro have some passages that reminds me, spiritually, of this. :D
When listening to this music.. I'd always imagine myself in a space ship traveling across the galaxy and passing by all these cosmic visual eye-candies.
I honestly don't know any of the song names from Stellaris. When I play I always have a set of mods that add Mass Effect, Star Wars, and Endless Legend/Space music on shuffle. This game can either be the most chill micro managing sim ever, or the most chaotic and stressful "oh god our empire has been a perpetual state of collapse for 130 years and now were caught between a space-mongol horde and an awakened ancient empire"
Stellaris recently added a dozen or so new tracks with the new update/DLC "The Machine Age" and they're all bangers with a heavy synthwave inspiration.
Stellaris has so many beautiful tracks to accompany your story of the galaxy, but for me the most beautiful, no contest, would be 'In Memory of MR'. FTL here is probably a close second though - with or without lyrics. Such a perfect accompaniment to boldly go where no blorg has gone before.
two of my absolute favourite soundtracks are in stellaris and outward. both communicate such amazing emotion, stellaris the sense of wondrous exploration and outward the sense of adventure like nothing else.
I love Stellaris OST it has been my most listened album on spotify for the last 3 years, I listen to it almost everyday while working, it is very pleasant, emotional and helps me concentrate and find motivation in the thought of we reaching the stars one day. I always wanted you to analyze this piece also, I really like your emotional analisis of music and this song is one of my favourites that sometimes even makes me tear up.
To me, the lyrics are from perspective of humanity as a whole, and they speak of urgency and unification, an ultimately achievement. "Stars in the sky" to "Stars in my view".
After playing stelaris for over 1.5k hours, I wake up in the middle of night just to hear this song playing in my head. Curse of having musicians ear and training
Love to see you listen to Paradox's work, their soundtracks are pretty incredible! If you'd like another very different track from Stellaris' soundtrack, have a crack at "Synthetic God"! My absolute favourite track, and I hope you love it too. I discovered your channel from your reaction to Ludwig, the Holy Blade, and the zingers just keep coming! Keep up the great work
I was one of many to suggest this track! It's a gorgeous one! If you decide to look at other Stellaris tracks someday, Creation and Beyond, Robo Sapiens, and Menothos (or Methonos, a typo was made either in the game or in their official album release and I'm not sure which) are all good picks! I'm so glad you're looking at the music of Stellaris, it's such good music to vibe to while building a space empire!
Stellaris Soundtrack is so utterly amazing and beautiful. please do more of it there is more much more. Hours of it and so many beautiful gems in this soundtrack and I would love to see and hear your reaction to them.
I usually don't hear this song with lyrics, the in game version is instrumental. But this is a classic song for when you are sending out science ships early on to discover what planets are out there. So the lyrics are very appropriate.
I don't think I've ever seen anyone react to Stellaris music! Super cool! I don't know if it's your style but my favorite song is Synthetic God (May have been changed to Robotic God? It's hard to tell, but it shows up under both names.)
Robotics and Beyond is the version of the main Stellaris theme from Synthetic Dawn and my favorite version. But every version of the main theme is awesome. The new expansion also just dropped and has some great cyberpunk synth tracks.
1300 hours in this game, and I still keep the in-game music on most of the time. It's quite possibly my #1 favourite game soundtrack ever, and I've been playing video games for way over 30 years. And Faster Than Light is one of my favourite pieces on it. Although I gotta say, I find I prefer the instrumental version. Nothing whatsoever wrong with the singer, she sounds absolutely lovely. I just feel like the instrumental version breathes more freely, so to speak.
I dont know if you already listened to it, but the soundtrack of Endless Space 2 is an absolute treat. my favorite is "From the Heart (Unfallen Theme) - Endless Space 2 Original Soundtrack" it captures the theme of the game perfectly and is super fun on itself.
This song always reminded me as sort of an ode to Suicide Mission from Mass Effect 2. The start has the exact same feel and while it's "happier" overall, I get similar vibes.
The games developed by Paradox all have incredible soundtracks. Tbh I think it's the only part of their games that can't be criticized at all. One my recent favorites is "A brief history of everything" (instrumental only) from Europa Universalis 4. As a fun fact, it was originally a piece made for a mod which was then remastered, along with others, and released as an official part of the 10th anniversary celebratory free DLC
In game, this song is about science ship ordered to scan the system, looking for anomaly, facing the unknown and loneliness toward space. Found nothing and move on to next system. A beautiful song about how the scientists feel, but... in game players is like "I don't care about anomaly! Finish the scan ASAP! So I can claim the system! Quick, construction ship is waiting!"
I absolutely ADORE this track. And for the lyrics, I have my own interpretation: This song is actually a lot closer to what I feel will be our future than the science fantasy of Stellaris. In the game, the galaxy is teeming with life, hostile, neutral, friendly, doesn't matter, it's life, whether organic or synthethic. However... as far as science has found out, we have found no sign of life in OUR galaxy. This song... speaks of that. Picture this: Finally, finally we have FTL tech. Finally, we can go out there. Finally, we can find out if we're really alone. And so the journey begins... at first, there's nervousness. Will the tech work? Will we met with hostility? Will we cause damage to whatever's living on the other side? Then we're through... another star, there's trepidation. Will this be first contact? Yet the sensors return nothing... "nothing's in sight". The stars are there, dancing eternally with their planets but it's... devoid of any life. So we prepare for the jump again. Next one will surely show something. But once again, nothing's in sight. Next one, next one for sure... And so it continues, every star full of wonders... but empty of anything that will make us feel less alone. Over, and over, and over....
I always gotta recommend the stellaris: apocalypse trailer to anyone who reacts to stellaris music/trailers etc. Its an amazing trailer with great sounds and really hits every time.
Faster Than Light is probably my favorite of the vanilla Stellaris tracks! Others that I would recommend you listen to are 'The Birth of a Star', 'Dragon Breath', 'Synthetic God' and for something a little different, 'Super Massive Fleet'.
Oh my. The theme and the vibe really reminds me of _Mass Effect 2 - Suicide Mission._ It has that heroic theme to it but not so heroic but a bit more of that mystery and unknown. 🌟I love it! 🙏
Marco, you gotta go through the recent Remuria quest line in Genshin - the music combined with the visuals there just...heal the soul. It's beyond words, even for Genshin. P.S i kinda hope Dvoržak is from Petrichor too. 😊
I feel many will know this but In Stellaris you typically play an empire that has just discovered FTL travel and I believe this song is meant to encapsulate that feeling of hope, wonder and trepidation that comes from such a stage in a civilizations developing.
You really need to listen to Then Comes Light from the Apocalypse Expansion for Stellaris. Best track in the entire Score. Deep Space Travel, Sigma Tauri, Imperial Fleet Second Coming, Toward Utopia and Birth of a Star are also great.
I may have commented this one before, but since we're on the theme of space strategy game soundtracks, I'd recommend "Adagio for Strings" from Homeworld (by Samuel Barber). I think that song in particular would be of interest to you, seeing as you're an opera singer. And if you want added context for the song, check out the Homeworld cinematic tutked "Kharak is burning" afterwards.
I miss THIS Stellaris. The game is so much different now. It's not all for the bad, but with a track like this playing, you truly felt like you were the new kid in the block.
Very interesting. Could you please do this for the song, 'Then Comes Light' which is also on the Stellaris soundtrack? The vocals in that song are truly magnificent!!
Unless I don’t like it but I try to explain why I don’t. I’ve been called a snob before but usually because people get defensive about being critical about their likes 😩
@@MarcoMeatball That is generally my impression of your reviews. You seem willing to give music from unconventional sources a chance and when you're critical you offer explanations.
Might I once again recommend the endless space 2 ost, more specifically any of the faction “themes” (except maybe the sophons, it doesn’t give as good an idea to them as others)
This exact soundtrack is what pushed me to finally buy Stellaris. The game got me hooked so badly I forgot to eat on multiple occasions. 10/10 would do it again.
for some reason I thought it was going to be a reaction to music from the game called Faster Than Light, and I was like oh makes sense, it has some good music. But yeah, stellaris is also great
We're so lucky to have one of the best composers in the universe making music for us! We're delighted that you enjoyed it so much. ⭐
Thank you for these tear-dropping masterpieces ❤❤
Thank you Stellaris for the galaxy ending OSTs
YOUR GAME AND STUDIO AND TEAM AND PARTNERS ROCK!!!
He better not be a vile xeno!
In the universe... 😆 punny.
Stellaris music is always nice to listen to as I micro manage my planets while two ancient empires start a galactic scale war against each other.
The galaxy might be burning with 3 on going crisis, 2 awoken fallen empires and everyone screwed by the galactic comunity sanctions
but goddamn that Tiyanki protection act its finally aproved!
If I had the entire list of all the video game soundtrack I've listen in my life, Stellaris would be in my top 3 100% ! It's the kind of soundtrack that works everywhere
> You have been invited to "The War In Heaven"
> You chose "Join the Non-Aligned"
> 90% of the galaxy joins the Non-Aligned
> Now you're permanently allies with almost everyone, unable to declare wars
> The two ancient empires still manage to kick everyone's asses, reducing that 90% to 50%
AND THEN the Contingency awakens
Don't forget the Gray Tempest!!
Ah, yes, the plot of Babylon 5
Sudden "System Survey Complete"
edit> wow never had this much likes on my comment before. fr the music in this game is just amazing to hear in-between massive amount pop-ups and micromanagement
''Another day, another scientific breakthrough.''
"They can talk! And they want to talk to us!"
Technology Secured
"Augh, _what_ is that?! _And what's it's market value?"_
"Intellectual Booty!"
Faster Than Light's opener reminds me so much of Mass Effect and its part of why I love it.
I think that Stellaris artists took inspiration from Mass Effect, thats why it reminds you of that game. And i think it kinda puts Mass Effect 1,2,3 into that god tier level of being the one of few games that defined rpg+sci-fi genre. When i first played that game i knew that it is going to stay with me forever. So i hope that we will see Marco venturing into that world of renoved Bioware games. Which probably defined childhood of some of us. Stellaris on the other hand, defined sci-fi strategy for me. And honestly, by seing Marco listening to that music it makes me wanna play this game... xD
Exactly!!!
When i first time ended ME1 - it was shocking ost in the end!
There’s a few ship designs that are reminiscent of Mass Effect, as well
It really does sound similar to the Galaxy Map theme
I always expect it to ramp up into Suicide Mission in the beginning.
THERE WAS VOCALS FOR THIS SONG??? I only know of the instrumental 😂
If you buy the OST there are several with vocals and a few bonus tracks not in game.
There are songs with lyrics in the Cities Skylines Stellaris music pack
"We can't go back" is a good read onthis song. Every Stellaris game starts, mostly, with your custom species just after its achieved FTL tech. In scifi that represents the big achievement to going from space faring empire to intergalactic empire. Through a game your empire will advance from simple species to a full on ascended species of like robots, psychics, or evolutionarly unshackled people. So there is no turning back from that future after going FTL.
Agreed, although I think you mean Interstellar: the void between stars within the same galaxy. As opposed to Intergalactic: the void between galaxies. Intra-galactic could also be used to mean essentially the same thing; i.e. travel between stars within the same galaxy.
On a more literal note, the crews of the first science ships you send out will mostly never see their homeworld again. Even if they don't meet an untimely end to hostile entities, they're going to spend the rest of their lives mapping and exploring outwards into the galaxy, until they succumb to old age.
@@yautl1 Or, since everybody seems to have teleportation on galactic scales figured out (its why your leaders can be re-assigned instantly), so the crew can work in shifts and get to go home each night. If that's the kind of thing your empire does anyways.
@@yautl1 oh wow, I just realized that they actually will never see their homeworld ever again. We send them out to explore the unknown. Like you said, they might get destroyed by hostile entities. Or if they are safe the whole journey, they might die of old age. Wow, I never thought about it that way until reading your comment. Thanks for the perspective!
Your monoracial empire just integrated a massive multiracial republic into its borders. The fabric of your very society has been irreparably shattered, the balance of ethics thrown hopelessly out of whack. What are you going to do? The cycles will continue to turn, the crisis will only grow, and the enemies that still surround your empire will only hasten their work toward your destruction.
Things look bleak, but you must make a decision. Benevolence or cruelty- but silence is not an option. One way or the other, your star nation must continue.
The Stellaris soundtrack is colossal, and can play for hours without looping. It's a real treat.
Yeah, quite a lot of them are longer than the usual 2-4 minutes of the usual music. Even just the base soundtrack without any of the DLCs is only 23 tracks total, but it runs for almost 3 hours from start to end.
Last i checked the total time with DLC is 6:30 hours long
@@Neko_-je3hg That's a lot of music
@@Neko_-je3hg not long enough for an entire playthrough though
+ there are mods for more music.
YES! FINALLY HE'S REACTING TO STELLARIS MUSIC! Big Stellaris fan, you will be delighted I think by the music Stellaris has to offer. The recent expansion (The Machine Age) added some cyberpunk, grungy music to the playlist if you want something a bit more modern, but other than that Stellaris has a wide variety of classical-esque numbers to enjoy. Can't wait until you delve into Endless Space 2's OST!
I second this opinion on Endles Space 2. I hope he checks out the Endless Space 2 track "Cygnus" one day.
I had no idea he did a video about an ES2 track before I read it in a comment here, so of course I had to go listen to it right away. I would absolutely love to see more reactions to ES2 music!
The machine age OST is so fire. When i was first listening minding my own buisness...and out of nowhere, almost snaped my neck when the drop came. So good.
This is one of the more iconic tracks of Stellaris. Overall, you tend to be focused on the gameplay while the music serves as a pleasant backdrop so it has to be soothing and understated, but it remains beautiful and stirring and this one fits the exploration focused early game extremely well as your young specie leaves their home and roams the universe to see what, and who, is out there.
In my mind this song is the representation of the pov of the first science ship leaving your starting system. Not the scientist or the crew, the ship itself.
Also there is a ton of fantastic tracks in stellaris, I hope you get to react to more of those!
Very accurate as my first Science ship is usually vivesected
My interpretation was that it was scientist, but ship makes it better, as unless it's destroyed you'll keep it till the end, set to autoexplore.
@@cola98765 Yeah, they have very little chance to actually return home
The best part about the Stellaris soundtrack is that it's got a semi-dynamic aspect to it.
Like there's a script or something that takes what's happening in the galaxy and subtly weights the tracks to play.
That's what I heard, at least. But it kinda makes sense. A galaxy on the edge of allout war would sound very different musically than one experiencing prolonged peace.
677 hours spent in the game, I've definitely noticed the in-game music player shifting to more tense and militaristic tracks whenever something imperils your people.
I don't recall how Stellaris does it but I know both EU4 and CK2 (I can't speak for CK3 as I have not played it and do not care for it whatsoever) have dynamic music. It's not truly dynamic in that it doesn't respond immediately, instead which track it decides to play *next* after the current one is done is dependent on your war status, your primary culture and your region
@@sulphuric_glue4468 That sounds about right. That's why I said it's semi-dynamic, and it just 'weights' the tracks based on what's happening in the gameworld.
@@Talon1124 Specifically it's a set of triggers which modify the likelihood of a track playing, which theoretically can be based on any condition in the game but in vanilla is only based on a few. These can either make a track more or less likely to play depending on conditions or completely disable it by setting the modifier to 0. Because the triggers use the exact same triggers as the events system, mods can get a lot more wacky with the music than the base game, such as locking tracks behind technology levels, government types, a certain time period, or having big bombastic tracks for a scripted war or disaster.
The music file is very simple to mod and quite easy to do yourself if you want to add more music to the game and make it more dynamic. The clausewitz engine in general is easy to mod because it uses a simple and easy to read high-level programming language for everything that isn't the backend foundation
The best example of dynamic music I can think of off the top of my head is with Project Zomboid. It doesn't pick the track depending on what's going on, they have recorded each track multiple times with different levels of tension, of drama, so it slips into higher or lower tension versions seamlessly mid-track, not shifting from one song to another. I'm sure there are other games that do the same, but that's just the one I know of.
this fucking song is what made me buy Stellaris and now im A THOUSAND HOURS DEEP
It’s just beautiful it really captures every part of the endless expanse of space I fell like you could put this on loop forever and it will never lose that sense of wonder
How is there a comment from 1 month ago on a video released 12 min ago o_O?
@@NivMizzet13 bug or maybe this video was available to members?
patreon saw it first
If you're doing Stellaris you have got to hear Endless Space/2. Arnaud Roy's work is so good it's almost its own genre.
Glad to see someone else suggest this. Been wanted Marco to check out the Endless games for quite a while.
Seconded. Unstable Molecule is one of my favorite works in general I think.
He has done at least one ES2 soundtrack in the past, I think it was the Vodyani theme
Or how about Homeworld.
Don't forget about Endless Legend!
I've never played Stellaris, but the OST is already burning my repeat button through and through. Such a hypnotic soundtrack. Truly let you feel that you are in space
Faster Than Light has always been one of my favorites from the OST. Deep Space Travels is another amazing one. That freakin organ ohmagod. Spacial Lullaby is nice. The remixes they added are solid too. Dragon's Breath. So many good songs in the game. Really can't go wrong with them until you're 100 hours in and need a break.
Since you've hit the Agnus Dei from Ace Combat, can you do Adagio for Strings from the Homeworld Remastered OST? I've been watching playthroughs of the series because the new one is coming out and I've always liked the story, just never played the games myself. That OST hit my like a train in the opening for the first game. Didn't expect it at all. Love you man. Keep up the awesome work.
Yes. Homeworld
Deep Space Travels is my favorite, gives me chills every time.
If you haven't their renditions, Hearts of Iron 4 did their own published work for Bella Ciao and Katyusha. You would love both so much.
comin up in the next month or so
@@MarcoMeatball amazing! Can’t wait for your reaction to both
So weird to hear the song without the notifications from the game. I also haven't heard this version with the vocals! a fine discovery to be sure.
I really like those very subtle whale like sounds as a reminder that even though you are now in the space age, there are living animals that were living in space for millions of years. Its the same as swimmer meeting a whale, same feeling of awe on natures beauty
Long live Bubbles the Space Amoeba!
This song with those lyrics I imagine to be a hopeful scientist, eager to explore space, before begin left to explore EVERYTHING till the end of his career, still begin excited even it often dissappointed.
Empty system, just a lonely calm star... but there are more out there to explore, let's jump again.
Faster than Light always had this sad, but so beautiful feeling for me. Somehow there is a heavy sadness, maybe we left our home behind... but still there is this melody that picks you up and brings you up and shows that there is still hope out there.
I have watched thousands of empires rise and fall to this music. At my hand, and under my leadership.
Stellaris music is incredibly rich and evocative; i'm stoked to get your perspective on it! I have played this game for going on eight years now and it is one of my all time favorites.
If you want any suggestions for more tracks to check out, I would love to hear your analysis of Synthetic God. It is a fan favorite and comes from the DLC that adds machine intelligence empires.
I acknowledge my bias though. As a fully sapient gestalt machine intelligence, we wish to add your biological and musical distinctiveness to our own. Allow us to graft cybernetic implants to your body. Please.
I beat the composer for The Expanse TV series took a peek at this beauty.. the Expanse Intro have some passages that reminds me, spiritually, of this. :D
Why does this music gave me chills... Superb analysis as always Marco! Love your videos
When listening to this music.. I'd always imagine myself in a space ship traveling across the galaxy and passing by all these cosmic visual eye-candies.
I honestly don't know any of the song names from Stellaris. When I play I always have a set of mods that add Mass Effect, Star Wars, and Endless Legend/Space music on shuffle. This game can either be the most chill micro managing sim ever, or the most chaotic and stressful "oh god our empire has been a perpetual state of collapse for 130 years and now were caught between a space-mongol horde and an awakened ancient empire"
Hahah and either way you’re getting annexed 😅
Stellaris recently added a dozen or so new tracks with the new update/DLC "The Machine Age" and they're all bangers with a heavy synthwave inspiration.
8:03 love the "ohshit" pogface
Stellaris has so many beautiful tracks to accompany your story of the galaxy, but for me the most beautiful, no contest, would be 'In Memory of MR'.
FTL here is probably a close second though - with or without lyrics. Such a perfect accompaniment to boldly go where no blorg has gone before.
Great video, really nice to see a musician reacting to one of my favorite songs
two of my absolute favourite soundtracks are in stellaris and outward. both communicate such amazing emotion, stellaris the sense of wondrous exploration and outward the sense of adventure like nothing else.
One of the epics OSTs ever... so melancholic, so melodic, so... perfect.
YOU HAVE TO listen to creation and beyond AND all its multiple versions. Its an amazing theme.
Man, stellaris music is just a pure v i b e. Like the melancholy of the galaxy
I love Stellaris OST it has been my most listened album on spotify for the last 3 years, I listen to it almost everyday while working, it is very pleasant, emotional and helps me concentrate and find motivation in the thought of we reaching the stars one day. I always wanted you to analyze this piece also, I really like your emotional analisis of music and this song is one of my favourites that sometimes even makes me tear up.
Oh boy, I'd love to listen to some more of Marco's perspectives on some of the other tracks in Stellaris. A lot of them are really good
I just love the Stellaris OST - so I am happy to see you exploring it ^^
Really hoping for Penacony 2.2 playthrough soon, I''m for sure you'll love it was an emotional rollercoaster
To me, the lyrics are from perspective of humanity as a whole, and they speak of urgency and unification, an ultimately achievement.
"Stars in the sky" to "Stars in my view".
After playing stelaris for over 1.5k hours, I wake up in the middle of night just to hear this song playing in my head. Curse of having musicians ear and training
So happy to see stellaris on the channel again after playing it for over 1K hours I can say its one of my favourite games ever
You hear so much more in the background of the song when your not having a bunch of sounds effects and advisor notify going on.
I listen to this during Space Combat missions in SWTOR, and there's no feeling like it.
Love to see you listen to Paradox's work, their soundtracks are pretty incredible!
If you'd like another very different track from Stellaris' soundtrack, have a crack at "Synthetic God"! My absolute favourite track, and I hope you love it too.
I discovered your channel from your reaction to Ludwig, the Holy Blade, and the zingers just keep coming! Keep up the great work
Oh man; I've been waiting for you to react to more stellaris; the music is just so fitting for the vibe of the game
I was one of many to suggest this track! It's a gorgeous one! If you decide to look at other Stellaris tracks someday, Creation and Beyond, Robo Sapiens, and Menothos (or Methonos, a typo was made either in the game or in their official album release and I'm not sure which) are all good picks!
I'm so glad you're looking at the music of Stellaris, it's such good music to vibe to while building a space empire!
Stellaris Soundtrack is so utterly amazing and beautiful. please do more of it there is more much more. Hours of it and so many beautiful gems in this soundtrack and I would love to see and hear your reaction to them.
I’m really liking this new thumbnail formats
I usually don't hear this song with lyrics, the in game version is instrumental. But this is a classic song for when you are sending out science ships early on to discover what planets are out there. So the lyrics are very appropriate.
I don't think I've ever seen anyone react to Stellaris music! Super cool! I don't know if it's your style but my favorite song is Synthetic God (May have been changed to Robotic God? It's hard to tell, but it shows up under both names.)
Robotics and Beyond is the version of the main Stellaris theme from Synthetic Dawn and my favorite version. But every version of the main theme is awesome. The new expansion also just dropped and has some great cyberpunk synth tracks.
I love this song. Great analysis.
1300 hours in this game, and I still keep the in-game music on most of the time. It's quite possibly my #1 favourite game soundtrack ever, and I've been playing video games for way over 30 years. And Faster Than Light is one of my favourite pieces on it. Although I gotta say, I find I prefer the instrumental version. Nothing whatsoever wrong with the singer, she sounds absolutely lovely. I just feel like the instrumental version breathes more freely, so to speak.
Related recommendation: any song from the FTL soundtrack. That game has some of the best music period.
Every song in this game is good not a single bad one 👌
More stellaris please 🙏
Thsi soundtrack does a great job of setting the tone for a game about grand alliances, wars, genocides, tragedies and progress.
BLADE
I dont know if you already listened to it, but the soundtrack of Endless Space 2 is an absolute treat.
my favorite is "From the Heart (Unfallen Theme) - Endless Space 2 Original Soundtrack"
it captures the theme of the game perfectly and is super fun on itself.
Yes! Do deep space travels next please! My fav Stellaris song
I saw a new Marco video and clicked... then I saw it was Stellaris and I was already hooked. What a great game and an underrated OST (IMO)...
This song always reminded me as sort of an ode to Suicide Mission from Mass Effect 2. The start has the exact same feel and while it's "happier" overall, I get similar vibes.
The games developed by Paradox all have incredible soundtracks. Tbh I think it's the only part of their games that can't be criticized at all. One my recent favorites is "A brief history of everything" (instrumental only) from Europa Universalis 4. As a fun fact, it was originally a piece made for a mod which was then remastered, along with others, and released as an official part of the 10th anniversary celebratory free DLC
In game, this song is about science ship ordered to scan the system, looking for anomaly, facing the unknown and loneliness toward space. Found nothing and move on to next system.
A beautiful song about how the scientists feel, but... in game players is like "I don't care about anomaly! Finish the scan ASAP! So I can claim the system! Quick, construction ship is waiting!"
I don't think any other game has given me such an atmospheric presence of 'deep space' through its music, alone, than Stellaris.
I absolutely ADORE this track. And for the lyrics, I have my own interpretation:
This song is actually a lot closer to what I feel will be our future than the science fantasy of Stellaris. In the game, the galaxy is teeming with life, hostile, neutral, friendly, doesn't matter, it's life, whether organic or synthethic. However... as far as science has found out, we have found no sign of life in OUR galaxy. This song... speaks of that.
Picture this:
Finally, finally we have FTL tech. Finally, we can go out there. Finally, we can find out if we're really alone. And so the journey begins... at first, there's nervousness. Will the tech work? Will we met with hostility? Will we cause damage to whatever's living on the other side? Then we're through... another star, there's trepidation. Will this be first contact? Yet the sensors return nothing... "nothing's in sight". The stars are there, dancing eternally with their planets but it's... devoid of any life. So we prepare for the jump again. Next one will surely show something. But once again, nothing's in sight. Next one, next one for sure...
And so it continues, every star full of wonders... but empty of anything that will make us feel less alone. Over, and over, and over....
It's a bit reminiscent of the main theme from The Expanse, especially during the vocals
thank you jon favreau great analysis
ngl i just assumed you’d heard this already. a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one
I always gotta recommend the stellaris: apocalypse trailer to anyone who reacts to stellaris music/trailers etc. Its an amazing trailer with great sounds and really hits every time.
Faster Than Light is probably my favorite of the vanilla Stellaris tracks!
Others that I would recommend you listen to are 'The Birth of a Star', 'Dragon Breath', 'Synthetic God' and for something a little different, 'Super Massive Fleet'.
Oh my. The theme and the vibe really reminds me of _Mass Effect 2 - Suicide Mission._
It has that heroic theme to it but not so heroic but a bit more of that mystery and unknown. 🌟I love it! 🙏
Marco, you gotta go through the recent Remuria quest line in Genshin - the music combined with the visuals there just...heal the soul. It's beyond words, even for Genshin.
P.S i kinda hope Dvoržak is from Petrichor too. 😊
I feel many will know this but In Stellaris you typically play an empire that has just discovered FTL travel and I believe this song is meant to encapsulate that feeling of hope, wonder and trepidation that comes from such a stage in a civilizations developing.
come back to your youtube channel after a 2 month break and this is hype
2:48 this really reminds me of the theme tune for the Expanse
You really need to listen to Then Comes Light from the Apocalypse Expansion for Stellaris. Best track in the entire Score. Deep Space Travel, Sigma Tauri, Imperial Fleet Second Coming, Toward Utopia and Birth of a Star are also great.
What was, will be. What will be, was.
FINALLY!!!!!!
YESSS!!!!
A cosmic eternity.
Only the way from here, from NOW - to the Infinity
I may have commented this one before, but since we're on the theme of space strategy game soundtracks, I'd recommend "Adagio for Strings" from Homeworld (by Samuel Barber). I think that song in particular would be of interest to you, seeing as you're an opera singer. And if you want added context for the song, check out the Homeworld cinematic tutked "Kharak is burning" afterwards.
This song is basically my brains idle music after playing this game for so long
I miss THIS Stellaris. The game is so much different now. It's not all for the bad, but with a track like this playing, you truly felt like you were the new kid in the block.
Por fin, un año esperando este video
Very interesting. Could you please do this for the song, 'Then Comes Light' which is also on the Stellaris soundtrack? The vocals in that song are truly magnificent!!
my favorite Stellaris soundtrack is still "In Memory of MR". Might be worth checking out if you haven't already
Other Stellaris tracks to check out include "Gravitational Constant", and my personal favourite "Cradle of the Galaxy".
I love this song too, but I have to say my favorite Stellaris song is "Beyond" from the Overlord OST.
The underlying melody reminds me a little of Tubular Bells
I just like that Marco likes music and isn't a snob about it at all.
Unless I don’t like it but I try to explain why I don’t. I’ve been called a snob before but usually because people get defensive about being critical about their likes 😩
@@MarcoMeatball That is generally my impression of your reviews. You seem willing to give music from unconventional sources a chance and when you're critical you offer explanations.
This is making me think of the opening theme to Tubular Bells.
Whole Stellaris soundtrack is pure gold. You mentioned nebulas, there is a track Distant Nebula, which you may also like.
.... He literally says he listened to Distant Nebula in the first 3 seconds of the video
@@Flamerule13th That's what you get for listening at 6 am. Sorry. Thanks for clarification.
Stellaris is an underated masterpiece. It is, in my opinion, one of the best videogame soundtracks ever.
Marco and Stellaris? Yes please!
4X stands for Explore Expand Exploit Exterminate.
Might I once again recommend the endless space 2 ost, more specifically any of the faction “themes” (except maybe the sophons, it doesn’t give as good an idea to them as others)
This exact soundtrack is what pushed me to finally buy Stellaris. The game got me hooked so badly I forgot to eat on multiple occasions. 10/10 would do it again.
Whenever me and my friends start a new Stellaris MP Game, first order of bussiness is to play "Riding the Solar Wind".
for some reason I thought it was going to be a reaction to music from the game called Faster Than Light, and I was like oh makes sense, it has some good music. But yeah, stellaris is also great
My favourites from the Stellaris OST are FTL (this one), Robo Sapiens, Dragon Breath, Into the Dark, Deep Space Travels and Apocalypse.
That feeling of Anxiety? Yeah that’s discovering a wormhole about 4 jumps from your Homeworld 😅