I have goosebumps listening to this. I can still picture the races that corresponds to the music We had just moved across country, i was 14, new kid, bit of a loner. I played Ascendancy for hours and hours. This and Xcom are my two favorite games of all time I was playing those, Fallout, Diablo, Quake and the very first elder scrolls called arena. It was 20 years before its time, the very first freeroam rpg. All while listening to the tea party and soundgarden pretty noose album. Ozzy-blizzard of oz My idea of heaven would be to live those days over lol I came across an article that was talking about ascendancy II. Then i realized it was 5 years old and Logic Factory is dead. I did however find Stellaris which is downloading now and i am so excited. Im going to play this soundtrack over it.
Yup. Ascendancy and X-COM. I sucked at X-COM at first. Like, *really* bad. Then I learned how to fight well, which targets to prioritize, which weapons to manufacture, and most importantly sell/sack-ing the alien corpses for 20k a piece.
Games industry died right after they hit the Towers...and Stellaris is a piece of shit. Acendancy is million times better than any game released after 2003!
I had a demo of this game that only allowed me to play to I think 100 days. I played it dozens of times before my dad noticed and surprised me by taking me to Best Buy and buying me the full version. Only time he ever spent full price on a new game for me, and I'll never forget it. Still addicted to this game over 20 years later.
One of the best games ever. Master of Orion, Reunion, Ascendancy, Master of Orion 2, Imperium Galactica, Imperium Galactica 2 --best sci-fi strategy games ever. 90s was a peak era for human creativity.
PROPS - you named them ALL - the '90's were the best of times for me too - Wing Commander Privateer is what sparked my passion for developing my own games!
Exactly! I'm wondering if anyone knows the name of the flute sound effect at 9:42 and/or 9:57, perhaps? I always hear it somewhere at random, and immediately have to go here and listen to the whole soundtrack over again!
I remember when this game came out. I was 9yo and I remember playing it non-stop for months and months. What an incredible and groundbreaking strategy game.
www.myabandonware.com/game/ascendancy-2qs Play it again, relive it, its still solid as fuck and the soundtrack is timeless. Go back to 1995 ! I was there, it works. DL or play it on the browser.
I was about nine years old when I first played this game as well! However, I played it on iOS. I miss the iOS port I’ve never actually played the Windows version
Just a spectacular soundtrack that perfectly fit the game play. OTH, these compositions are so good they could easily stand by themselves. Interestingly, the composer out did this sound track with his next game Tone Rebellion. But the music was just so good it dwarved the game it was playing for. But even with that Ascendancy is easily one of my top 3 game soundtracks of all time. And just like pgakagi said, I feel for all the non-gamers who will never hear this- it's sad.
ABSOLUTE PROPS for having this up on RUclips - I MISS those days playing this game, times were so much simpler then! 09:21 is the music I wanted to hear specifically - gives me chills, the flute, the "Screechy sounds" - just marvelous! I would love to hear ANYTHING about the people who produced this game, and the music - especially to just tell them THANK YOU, for the fun and memories I have for this game.
This game was fascinating in its simplicity. I have never been kind of addicted to computer games, but this was the exception. Imaginative...especially in the score, and in the steps of evolution...I remember the final stage was "endless party", still makes me smile.
Thankyou so much for sharing this. Brings back great memories of the game I used to play so much, driven in by the mesmerizing music, which is a rarety these days. No passion in the gaming industry now, as it dies a slow death. But for those of us who remember, we will not soon forget these wonderful gems from our past. Who ever made this music was a passionate person, and his work still shines to this day. I heard a song in X3 Albion Prelude, and my first thought was, this sounds like the same music I remember from Ascendancy, sure enough, corporations can break all the rules, but they throw the books at us, when we try and use music that doesn't belong to us.
Perfect game music. What I find interesting is that this really is better as a soundtrack than as music per se. It's not something I'd listen to in isolation, but it was perfectly matched to the sort of game that Ascendancy was, giving it incredible atmosphere.
Back in the day as computers were limited, music was the key to open up wast unexplored territories of the imagination. MechWarrior 2, shitty shitty graphics, just vectors, but functional and that epic soundtrack that came from CD. Dude another level achieved.
@@testikuskitestdrivr6012 That's not accurate. I remember playing stuff like "Ascendancy", "Populous", "Sim Ant", etc..... along Doom, Shadow Warrior, Duke Nukem 3D....
Yeah, endless space can't hold up in comparison. You always get to a point where it's useless to play on. Plus the battle management is even worse than in ascend. Imagine that 😂
With Alpha Centauri, Master Of Orion and Star Craft the best old SciFi Games ever. But I miss this soundtracks in Alha Centauri ... SMAC/SMAX still playable on modern windows OS.
Maybe start by having composers submit great weird music themes and then let the devs space out and come up with races that seem to fit the music. I honestly feel it would be right in Ascendancy's spirit to do so.
17:35 - Almost a "divine, spiritual experience"... No but this game came out when I was 18 and I remember playing it for several days straight stopping only to use the bathroom and eat etc, so addictive... Click, click click, next day, click click, click, next day...
I thought this game struck a good balance in complexity -- lots to manage but not so much that it was overwhelming. I also liked that it was turn-based; victory didn't depend on how fast I could move my mouse and keyboard.
I had found a way to build an invincible ship, with the largest hull, add many weak passive absorbing shields (no energy cost) and add some long range weapons, victory is yours
Hm, strange, I only remember the part starting at 9:25. Or was the first half from the intro? Anyway, it's great music. I mean, it's a testament how great it is when you play that game countless hours but never get tired of it. For many other games I usually deactivate game music after some time, not here.
but there was Master of Orion. And there IS Endless Space on sale on Steam right now - 15 bucks, and even if it not meets ascandandy's ultra strategic goals, i swear that music, dev tree and races will dig you in for varioues hours. Enjoy!
MOO was the definitive title, but I never gravitated towards it. Dunno, Ascendancy was more easily approachable. It was considered a "light version" and people shunned upon it a bit so it never became mainstream popular. I fucking enjoyed it thoroughly, soundtracks of my teen years.
Sometimes I think that this music was wasted for computer game (good one by the way) because it didn't make its way to more wide audience who would appreciate it and make it more popular.
Mars eis *lol* That's a funny coincidence. Just in case you're wondering, it's this castle here: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagdschloss_Augustusburg If you happen to be in that area some time in the future, it's definitely worth a visit. If you're into this kind of thing.^^
Nenad Vugrinec. He also did Wing Commander, Wing Commander 2, Wing Commander 3, The Tone Rebellion, and Ultima 6. I have all of those soundtracks on the channel in one form or another.
I think he only helped with the technical arrangement of in-flight dynamic music on WC3 and WC4, George Oldziey wrote the rest. However, Nenad Vugrinec wrote (at least some of ) the following soundtracks: Strike Commander Wing Commander 2: Vengeance of the Kilrathi Wing Commander Privateer Ultima VII: The Black Gate Ultima 8: Pagan Wings of Glory Leviathan: The Tone Rebellion And Ascendancy, of course.
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Listening to this in 2023. The memories...
I have goosebumps listening to this. I can still picture the races that corresponds to the music
We had just moved across country, i was 14, new kid, bit of a loner.
I played Ascendancy for hours and hours. This and Xcom are my two favorite games of all time
I was playing those, Fallout, Diablo, Quake and the very first elder scrolls called arena. It was 20 years before its time, the very first freeroam rpg. All while listening to the tea party and soundgarden pretty noose album. Ozzy-blizzard of oz
My idea of heaven would be to live those days over lol
I came across an article that was talking about ascendancy II. Then i realized it was 5 years old and Logic Factory is dead. I did however find Stellaris which is downloading now and i am so excited.
Im going to play this soundtrack over it.
Yup. Ascendancy and X-COM. I sucked at X-COM at first. Like, *really* bad. Then I learned how to fight well, which targets to prioritize, which weapons to manufacture, and most importantly sell/sack-ing the alien corpses for 20k a piece.
Games industry died right after they hit the Towers...and Stellaris is a piece of shit. Acendancy is million times better than any game released after 2003!
@@spearPYN So true, my Friend. Those were the times when developers did care about the quality and presented their products with pride.
@@spearPYN um, who hit what towers?
@@TheSpinductor 9/11
The 90s truly were the peak of us.
2nd best soundtrack in pc gaming (after total annihilation)
I had a demo of this game that only allowed me to play to I think 100 days. I played it dozens of times before my dad noticed and surprised me by taking me to Best Buy and buying me the full version. Only time he ever spent full price on a new game for me, and I'll never forget it. Still addicted to this game over 20 years later.
I had that demo too and also got the full version. Good times.
That was a very nice move from your dad :)
One of the best games ever. Master of Orion, Reunion, Ascendancy, Master of Orion 2, Imperium Galactica, Imperium Galactica 2 --best sci-fi strategy games ever. 90s was a peak era for human creativity.
I would humbly add Star Wars Rebellion to that list. Best SW strategy up to this day and one of the best strategies ever. So underrated alas.
@@petersukhomeilo5662 yup, I actually forgot about it -- it is the best strategy game in the Star Wars universe, without a doubt.
I would also add Star Control 2 ( more adventure than strategy )
I would add StarControl2, Civilization and Master of Magic
PROPS - you named them ALL - the '90's were the best of times for me too - Wing Commander Privateer is what sparked my passion for developing my own games!
Ancient memories. Countless hours. How often I failed on this game.
Hahahahaha but still.... the time wasted did worth the pain.
Good times.
Ascendancy had one of the most memorable pieces of video game music ever. Absolutely epic!
Start listening at 9:25
Exactly! I'm wondering if anyone knows the name of the flute sound effect at 9:42 and/or 9:57, perhaps? I always hear it somewhere at random, and immediately have to go here and listen to the whole soundtrack over again!
@@AkwkyAkass ahoy bud. They are a little digitally tweeked in the Ascendancy OSD, but they are called Pan Pipes.
@@AkwkyAkass Shakuhachi or Navajo flute - like Enigma samples :)
These tracks are some beautiful travelling landscapes with a surnatural savor. If I close my eyes listening these musics, I see so much things...
I remember when this game came out. I was 9yo and I remember playing it non-stop for months and months. What an incredible and groundbreaking strategy game.
i loved this game but the ai is so bad it was never a challenge unless maybe they found some advanced tech early on
www.myabandonware.com/game/ascendancy-2qs
Play it again, relive it, its still solid as fuck and the soundtrack is timeless. Go back to 1995 ! I was there, it works. DL or play it on the browser.
I was about nine years old when I first played this game as well! However, I played it on iOS. I miss the iOS port I’ve never actually played the Windows version
I guess now that it’s abandonware I can do that
It really was. I just spent 20 minutes trying to find the name of this game. For the time, an utter and forgotten masterpiece
THey should make a remake of this game.
Hell yeah!
They did (not exactly them), but it is called "Stellaris"; from Paradox Games... If you liked Ascendancy, you'll love Stellaris ;-)
they ported it to ios once.
@H. G. Wells Schade für dich^^
@H. G. Wells Oh man, you are my favorite author.
Just a spectacular soundtrack that perfectly fit the game play. OTH, these compositions are so good they could easily stand by themselves. Interestingly, the composer out did this sound track with his next game Tone Rebellion. But the music was just so good it dwarved the game it was playing for. But even with that Ascendancy is easily one of my top 3 game soundtracks of all time. And just like pgakagi said, I feel for all the non-gamers who will never hear this- it's sad.
ABSOLUTE PROPS for having this up on RUclips - I MISS those days playing this game, times were so much simpler then!
09:21 is the music I wanted to hear specifically - gives me chills, the flute, the "Screechy sounds" - just marvelous!
I would love to hear ANYTHING about the people who produced this game, and the music - especially to just tell them THANK YOU, for the fun and memories I have for this game.
Gooooosebumps... dem memories. NO game nowadays will catch me like the old ones like Ascendancy
www.myabandonware.com/game/ascendancy-2qs
So play the old game !
Nothing still hits like this game.
This game was fascinating in its simplicity. I have never been kind of addicted to computer games, but this was the exception. Imaginative...especially in the score, and in the steps of evolution...I remember the final stage was "endless party", still makes me smile.
My favourite sci-fi game besides Star Control 2 in my youth. The soundtrack is my all time favourite of any game out there.
I used to turn on the game, turn up the volume, turn off the monitor, and go to sleep. Loved this so much back in the day, still enjoy it!
Omg i did this too. It got me through lonely gradeschool nights.
Thankyou so much for sharing this. Brings back great memories of the game I used to play so much, driven in by the mesmerizing music, which is a rarety these days. No passion in the gaming industry now, as it dies a slow death. But for those of us who remember, we will not soon forget these wonderful gems from our past. Who ever made this music was a passionate person, and his work still shines to this day. I heard a song in X3 Albion Prelude, and my first thought was, this sounds like the same music I remember from Ascendancy, sure enough, corporations can break all the rules, but they throw the books at us, when we try and use music that doesn't belong to us.
at 14:00 is why I looked this up. *nostalgia* thanks for the upload and taking me back almost 2 decades.
i played this game when i was 18, never forget it though, great great music!
I played it when i was 8. Unforgettable.
Tbh..... i was too young to be thinking about galaxy conquering hahahahaha
Wow 2 decades indeed. Time flies
I still play it from time to time. It's simple but yet manages to have different ways to achieve victory.
In my mind i even hear the starships moving
OMG so true! "sweeesh" XD
And the Plasmatrons firing :)
Perfect game music. What I find interesting is that this really is better as a soundtrack than as music per se. It's not something I'd listen to in isolation, but it was perfectly matched to the sort of game that Ascendancy was, giving it incredible atmosphere.
Magical. I need these as individual MP3s!
cloud.mail.ru/public/EypY/DLC6KRxay
@@WellbeTD 5 years later. You got a re upload lol?
DosBox to the rescue... I still play this game every few years... it is still fun.
Oh man this game,i still have it,played it so damn mutch and it was very unique very underrated also.
Focus your Fergnatz Lenses boys and girls, because *this* is the music of the spheres
8:00 Oh, shi~... That tune and the following just brought so many memories! Thank you for digging this out!
is shit bricks! , i lov all that ost
Yeah, that's when the chills started for me too. Awesome game and awesome music!
LOL! This was such an epic game in its time. Didn't realize the music had this much depth... too busy playing, I guess. Nice. Thanks for sharing.
Back in the day as computers were limited, music was the key to open up wast unexplored territories of the imagination. MechWarrior 2, shitty shitty graphics, just vectors, but functional and that epic soundtrack that came from CD. Dude another level achieved.
Very fond memories of this game. I agree that the music was amazing. Great soundtrack.
Such an epic game back in the day.
When I mention this game, those who remember it, remember the music 1st and the fantastic art and so many different real alien races next.
Mega flash backs lol Love it!!
Awesom, the "classic" midi sound of Ascendancy was already great - but this is amazing.
This is very high on my study music playlist :)
Great soundtrack. I was kind of addicted to this game 20 years ago..
18:09 my favorite part.. Imagine your fleet of Huge class Warships invading a star system to that music ;-)
Цудоўная музыка! Брава кампазітару!
Oh man so much feels...
Not too long ago.... children could plan the conquer of the galaxy playing videogames. Now it is all about shooting like zombies.
@@Median0-Fran Dude, it was shooting zombies in dark corridors three years before this. It's all been everything always, you are narrow minded.
@@testikuskitestdrivr6012 That's not accurate. I remember playing stuff like "Ascendancy", "Populous", "Sim Ant", etc..... along Doom, Shadow Warrior, Duke Nukem 3D....
This music was keeping me playing the game for days. i kinda miss that in endless space. i wish i could implement this music to that game
Yeah, endless space can't hold up in comparison. You always get to a point where it's useless to play on. Plus the battle management is even worse than in ascend. Imagine that 😂
Had to turn it up at 14:00
true, that part is incredible awesome...
also check 19:45 its great too... the game wasnt too much, but the music was stunning,
Sarratak thanks!!! I LOOOOVE this part :D
hell ya! this is the part that strikes melancholic heart! :)
Very Specia!, Thank you for this awesome music from the past!
Glad you got it I'm tired of finding other things thanks!!
Music composed by croatian music author Nenad Vugrinec
With Alpha Centauri, Master Of Orion and Star Craft the best old SciFi Games ever. But I miss this soundtracks in Alha Centauri ... SMAC/SMAX still playable on modern windows OS.
18:49 This part sounds very much like Wing Commander: Privateer for which Nenad Vugrinec also provided the soundtrack.
Yeah, it really does! I so wish Nenad Vugrinec was still active. He just seemed to disappear.
Mmmmm Govorom - Floaty Floaty Goodness! *Edit Wow I really miss the originality and soul of this game, this game and Masters of Magic was my youth.
Incredible Sci-Fi, music worth of Jean Michel Jarre!
Awesome game music
It's crazy that i can still name the species associated with the theme.
Govorum forever
@@RolandTemplar chamachies gang
@@aud1gen both are god... Or at least useful, other aliens are underwhelming
19:44 is my favorite music
Incredible game. AI was just off - apart from that replayability and everything was almost perfect.
timeless classic sci-fi music. the whole game was like a journey. Still a good game though!
Jiseng So. Du bist ein guter Kanal!
4:00 ...wildly different cultures... In the enormous upheaval that followed... one of them... would gain... ASCENDANCY
i wish it would be a full music album!
best game we need the remake!!
Great idea. Ascendancy deserves it.
Maybe start by having composers submit great weird music themes and then let the devs space out and come up with races that seem to fit the music. I honestly feel it would be right in Ascendancy's spirit to do so.
Maybe a mix between Ascendancy + Alpha Centauri
17:35 - Almost a "divine, spiritual experience"... No but this game came out when I was 18 and I remember playing it for several days straight stopping only to use the bathroom and eat etc, so addictive... Click, click click, next day, click click, click, next day...
I thought this game struck a good balance in complexity -- lots to manage but not so much that it was overwhelming. I also liked that it was turn-based; victory didn't depend on how fast I could move my mouse and keyboard.
indeed, moving mouse quickly and having fast reactions requires very specific skills that I dont have either
I still have the game CD. Such a shame Logic Factory appear to have closed. Especially after their updated ascendancy release on iOS
I WANT A COPY SO BADLY I COULD KILL FOR IT!!!!!!!!!!!
hahahaha please....
@@Median0-Fran www.myabandonware.com/game/ascendancy-2qs
Smashing Pumpkins : The Beginning is the End.... very similar to the music from Ascendancy here on track that starts at 4:01
EPIC
10:51
I had found a way to build an invincible ship, with the largest hull, add many weak passive absorbing shields (no energy cost) and add some long range weapons, victory is yours
Hm, strange, I only remember the part starting at 9:25. Or was the first half from the intro?
Anyway, it's great music. I mean, it's a testament how great it is when you play that game countless hours but never get tired of it. For many other games I usually deactivate game music after some time, not here.
It's all of the music from each different alien race.
I still wonder why they compressed the audio like this. The CD was only 10% full.
but there was Master of Orion. And there IS Endless Space on sale on Steam right now - 15 bucks, and even if it not meets ascandandy's ultra strategic goals, i swear that music, dev tree and races will dig you in for varioues hours. Enjoy!
MOO was the definitive title, but I never gravitated towards it. Dunno, Ascendancy was more easily approachable. It was considered a "light version" and people shunned upon it a bit so it never became mainstream popular. I fucking enjoyed it thoroughly, soundtracks of my teen years.
16:05 reminds me of Star Trek. So gud
me2 - anno 1995
9:25 is what I do remember the most
13:58 for motivation
great
This music must be in EVE online.
Im listening to this on headphones while im playing stellaris...
This isnt the soundtrack so mich as is its the music for each individual race
I believe that's called a "soundtrack".
Sometimes I think that this music was wasted for computer game (good one by the way) because it didn't make its way to more wide audience who would appreciate it and make it more popular.
Still one of the best game soundtracks ever. Easily in the top 5 of all time. It's too bad they botched the game AI so badly.
19:44 com see the vastness of universe with me
Does anyone know who made the music for this!?
Nenad Vugrinec, more than likely.
So, I have apparently won the game so few times that I don't recognize the last track.
Same lol
I love this game, even if this game is about 5 years older than me. I am still playing it, emulated by dosbox. www.dosbox.com/download.php?main=1
Mars eis
I like your profile pic. That's not so far away from where I grew up. :D
Geobacter I just choosed it randomly during a computing-lesson in school, it was the first pic in my pictures-folder.
Mars eis
*lol* That's a funny coincidence.
Just in case you're wondering, it's this castle here:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagdschloss_Augustusburg
If you happen to be in that area some time in the future, it's definitely worth a visit. If you're into this kind of thing.^^
Geobacter It's about 15 min away from my hometown and I have been there multiple times.
Let your imagination run wild
You can still get the game on iTunes.
I'm afraid this no longer seems to be the case
That's sad! I would have bought it!! I hope this game lives on in some way :) One of my all time favorites!
I still have it on CD and play it occasionally.
www.myabandonware.com/game/ascendancy-2qs
You can play it on a browser.
I wonder, who is the composer?
Nenad Vugrinec.
He also did Wing Commander, Wing Commander 2, Wing Commander 3, The Tone Rebellion, and Ultima 6. I have all of those soundtracks on the channel in one form or another.
@@JisengSo Thank you!
I think he only helped with the technical arrangement of in-flight dynamic music on WC3 and WC4, George Oldziey wrote the rest. However, Nenad Vugrinec wrote (at least some of ) the following soundtracks:
Strike Commander
Wing Commander 2: Vengeance of the Kilrathi
Wing Commander Privateer
Ultima VII: The Black Gate
Ultima 8: Pagan
Wings of Glory
Leviathan: The Tone Rebellion
And Ascendancy, of course.
8:10