I hear some people say this isn't quite like the original Kelly Bailey songs, but Half-Life soundtrack has evolved over time, even during Kelly Bailey's time. This is like a mix between original Half-Life and Half-Life 2 Episode Two.
@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 what other game? No idea what you're talking about. Literally no other fan made HL project has been put on Steam. Nope. You speak of the Darkest Timeline. Surely that's not the one we're in. I'm sure of it. Positive, in fact. ....
Black Mesa's soundtrack is VASTLY different to HL in general, yet you don't hear as many people bitching about that. People going on about how HLA's soundtrack isn't like the original need a slap to the face.
I do know what people mean though with some tracks like certain tracks definitely sound way more Portaly, and the orchestrated bits especially, like HL had orchestration but I gotta admit as someone who thinks Mike emulated Kelly overall relatively well with his electronic hard rock sound, I will say his orchestral work is basically unchanged from Portal. Like compare Anti-Citizen to the intro of the game, for example. The intro sounds more like it'd be from Portal 3
@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 yeah you in fact hear people giving it praise which it does deserve I mean Joel just didn't attempt to emulate the style at all which is just a creative choice - I suppose the problem people have with Mike is that they listen to the songs as if he's trying and failing to sound EXACTLY like Kelly Bailey
@@user-no3tu9kh3p Laid off? He helped work on the soundtrack, we don't know why he didn't return fully to actually compose it but I doubt it was just because Valve didn't want him.
@@sajjadsaeedmohammadsaeed7873 I think the G-Man traveled back in time and let himself get captured, knowing Alyx would break him out. He did this because Eli died before the 'unforeseen consequences' happened, and the G-Man couldn't let Eli die off before he receives his unforeseen consequences.
you know, kelly bailey is pretty damn good- personally, he's Irreplaceable to me and many others, im sure. However, that doesn't mean I can't live with this. I can definitely live with this.
@@Resi1ience mmm, yes, getting defensive for someone you haven't even met, yes. and I never, EVER, once intended to be rude to Morasky. I love his work in this game and portal, but he can't replace the nostalgia factor of kelly bailey. the fact that I even had to consider explaining this I find disappointing. I don't find it annoying, I'm not angry, just disappointed.
@Milk and cereal Ok? i've said in this comment chain before that it was not supposed to be an insult, Not sure what to else to say than "sorry for being a perceived Dick?" oh, and where did the "nostalgia glasses" bit come from? I didn't even grow up with the games, I would've been 3-ish by the time EP2 came out.
@@steven.2602 This is as politely as possible, but Resilience's comment doesn't look very defensive. This is just from me reading this as an internet stranger but I feel like you were a little rude to the people critiquing your comment and trying to downgrade how they felt about your comment by shining it with the "I'm not mad just disappointed" spiel to make yourself seem sophisticated and not in the wrong. I think Resilience's comment was honestly a pretty genuine take on what you said and I didn't see them defensive about anything. Because if I was a composer and I was told that someone could simply "live" with my music because it doesn't meet up to another composers legacy I'd be a bit brought down too and would want to ask questions for reasoning.
I love how you can hear the CP Violation motif in this track and a lot of others throughout HL:A. It feels like that's sort of become the core motif to represent the Combine.
I think it's more the motif of first contact with combine. Whether it's your first fight altogether or your first encounter in an hour, it signals the amazing combat to come with the protagonists prevailing through terrible odds in a badass manner.
0:37 gonna make this for myself, love the way the synth sound just vibrates my headphones and speakers, it’s super satisfying. Sounds crazy on the Index speakers
Mike Moraksy, the composer of TF2, CSGO, Portal, and Left 4 Dead, worked on HL:A's music. He also got help from Kelly Bailey, the composer of HL1 and HL2's soundtracks.
I was wondering what people were talking about when they were referencing DOOM Eternal. I'm sitting here, playing the game, thinking to myself "this sounds nothing like anything in DOOM". And then I got to Urdak
Think people were just making the references because both games have heavy Industrial music(Doom Eternal's being Industrial Metal, but same difference) for their soundtracks, and both games happen to have amazing soundtracks that make you feel like a badass as well.
Best track in the game. It made that first firefight against the combine epic. Leaning out of cover and shooting a combine soldier in the head and then rushing the last one with the shotgun was so satisfying.
This is the best track in the game. They should have had CP violation too, and I dont know why this didn't play in the trailer #3 part in the full game. This played in a section with so little combine units I killed them all on Hard feels like before the beat of the song even hit. lmao
Alyx has some of the best combat I've ever experienced in a game, which I'm not surprised by since it's by Valve, but what does surprise me is this game is still one of the best I've ever played even with running it on a poor old laptop, the optimization is great and Valve did a fantastic job making it so a lot more of us can play than other less optimized VR games
I like this soundtrack, but there was always something so iconic about Kelly Bailey. I wish he could have done it, but I'm happy with what we got instead.
Yeah for sure. I hate the naysaying to this soundtrack but I too would've preferred Kelly - there's just something more meaningful when Kelly makes a soundtrack. Both the seniority and the fact that he's Gordon's likeness.
@@plrusek I heard that from another commenter, what's the source on that? I'm real curious cuz I went to see if he did the ost but could only find information about Mike. I'mma check for Kelly's name in the credits
Fun Fact: Remember the distorted trumpets being heard in a radio from half life 2? Well.. Its *Back* In half life alyx. (Try to find a radio in the beginning of the game. and try to switch and find the distorted/Unsettling music.)
son: why is my sister named rose? dad: because your mom loves roses son: oh okay dad: no problem Half-Life Alyx - Anti-Citizen | Official Soundtrack music
always appreciate when some of the best songs are maintained in some way throughout a series of games. shame the original Tomb Raider theme didn't make it into the reboot though
Hearing these battle songs for the first time gave me goosebumps all through my body and an intense adrenaline rush all at the same time. It was then I knew HL was back
"Hi yeah, I wont be in work today. I dont feel very well and can't possibly sit in front of my pc all day". *PUTS PHONE DOWN AND IMMEDIATELY STRAPS ON THE VR HEADSET*
"Viscon! Viscon! Range 30 meters. Bearing 11 degrees!" "Overwatch, Advised! We have heavy resistance!" "Echo 1, extractor is live!" "Bouncer! Bouncer!" "Overwatch, team is down! Sector is not controlled!" "I'm sorr- *flatline*"
You don't have to shoot for the index, unless it's a reasonable purchase for you. I recommend getting your hands on literally any headset you can and jumping into hl:a!
@@branescan i mean, its a really good headset wich gives a free game and isnt going to be replaced by a better one every 2 years like all the others so yeah id think its reasonable
@@blehh_mae the original HTC Vive has been out for yeaarssss now and it’s still a viable option for VR. VR headsets don’t really get “outdated”, the specs just get better.
@@branescan true but i mean it probably feels pretty terrible or annoying when you buy something and then a few months or years later a better version of it comes out for around the same price, cuz like if you just waited a bit more you couldve gotten a much better one
![Half-Life: Alyx - Strider Battle OST [Full In-Game Mix]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/20FFgeK42Xo/mqdefault.jpg)
Playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLLtHMPL2vkA03XbYFGzQwEJO9SjeIzIFl
Could you credit the composer of the soundtrack?
You still haven't
@@Shakenmike117 Mike Morasky
This sounds old and new at the same time.
Old style new sound
Agreed, they somehow nailed the old ost by Kelly and refreshed it
it's newold
Yeah a lot of Kelly
@@meowmix705 neold
or neld
I’m glad to say that all the music in Half-Life: Alyx sounds very Half-Lifey despite the composer being someone different.
Read a quote somewhere that he was constantly in touch with Kelly Bailey, like the writers were with Laidlaw.
i mean its fucking mike morasky, the guy who made the tf2 and portal 2 soundtrack. hes up there with kelly bailey
@@sleepnaught Laidlaw was called directly to Valve to fix HL:A's story though
@@elsienova4269 We know that now, thanks to Final Hours, didn't know that 3 months ago
Diadomergaming555 I thought Steve Barton made the Titanfall 2 soundtrack though
I hear some people say this isn't quite like the original Kelly Bailey songs, but Half-Life soundtrack has evolved over time, even during Kelly Bailey's time. This is like a mix between original Half-Life and Half-Life 2 Episode Two.
Whoever says this doesn't sound like Half Life is legit on meth
@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 what other game? No idea what you're talking about. Literally no other fan made HL project has been put on Steam. Nope. You speak of the Darkest Timeline. Surely that's not the one we're in. I'm sure of it. Positive, in fact.
....
Black Mesa's soundtrack is VASTLY different to HL in general, yet you don't hear as many people bitching about that. People going on about how HLA's soundtrack isn't like the original need a slap to the face.
I do know what people mean though with some tracks like certain tracks definitely sound way more Portaly, and the orchestrated bits especially, like HL had orchestration but I gotta admit as someone who thinks Mike emulated Kelly overall relatively well with his electronic hard rock sound, I will say his orchestral work is basically unchanged from Portal. Like compare Anti-Citizen to the intro of the game, for example. The intro sounds more like it'd be from Portal 3
@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 yeah you in fact hear people giving it praise which it does deserve I mean Joel just didn't attempt to emulate the style at all which is just a creative choice - I suppose the problem people have with Mike is that they listen to the songs as if he's trying and failing to sound EXACTLY like Kelly Bailey
This is instantly up there with the greats like CP Violation, You’re Not Supposed to Be Here, and Sector Sweep
They're all first place!
You're forgetting LG Orbifold
and VORTAL KOMBAT
Yee, I love it
don't forget apprehension and evasion
Oh Half Life, how I missed your unique dystopian techno soundtrack!
@@user-no3tu9kh3p Laid off? He helped work on the soundtrack, we don't know why he didn't return fully to actually compose it but I doubt it was just because Valve didn't want him.
@@woopi8003 Yeah Kelly left to start his own company but he did help Mike Morasky (an amazing composer in his own right) with the new soundtrack.
And Military Precision
@@falcononpc9845 Bailey didn't help Morasky. If he did, Alyx's OST wouldn't be so different from previous games' music. It's so generic
@@shahobiddinismoilov Bailey was the consultant. Tf.
when you anger the CPs and they hit you with the BBBWWEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
deploying vicerator
and the bwob bwob bwobbowbowbo
“Daggers on”
“Target is hostile”
@@TheGoldenTNT Open echo on Alyx
But you turn on server cheats
This has strong "Forget about Freeman" vibes
Yes they're against Alyx in this period of time 😄
"Forget about alyx we need the gman "
@@sajjadsaeedmohammadsaeed7873 more like it 😁
The reason i edit because at the near end of the game the combine try to capture gman and turn him into a super weapon
@@sajjadsaeedmohammadsaeed7873 I think the G-Man traveled back in time and let himself get captured, knowing Alyx would break him out. He did this because Eli died before the 'unforeseen consequences' happened, and the G-Man couldn't let Eli die off before he receives his unforeseen consequences.
“People keep asking if I’m back. Yea I’m thinking I’m back” -Gabe quoting John Wick
-G-Man on coming out of the stasis prism
When this dropped during the combine battle ... i felt like John Wick for a moment.. it was amazing!!
Fortnite ripoff
@@theploot8230 ???
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you know, kelly bailey is pretty damn good- personally, he's Irreplaceable to me and many others, im sure. However, that doesn't mean I can't live with this. I can definitely live with this.
That's... a bit backhanded. "You can't replace Kelly Bailey, but I can live with this." Morasky reads your comment and just says "Ok. Thanks. Dick"
@@Resi1ience mmm, yes, getting defensive for someone you haven't even met, yes.
and I never, EVER, once intended to be rude to Morasky. I love his work in this game and portal, but he can't replace the nostalgia factor of kelly bailey. the fact that I even had to consider explaining this I find disappointing. I don't find it annoying, I'm not angry, just disappointed.
@Milk and cereal It's a shame you think that, cause I ain't the one trying to be confrontational here for another person who doesn't even know me.
@Milk and cereal Ok? i've said in this comment chain before that it was not supposed to be an insult, Not sure what to else to say than "sorry for being a perceived Dick?"
oh, and where did the "nostalgia glasses" bit come from? I didn't even grow up with the games, I would've been 3-ish by the time EP2 came out.
@@steven.2602 This is as politely as possible, but Resilience's comment doesn't look very defensive. This is just from me reading this as an internet stranger but I feel like you were a little rude to the people critiquing your comment and trying to downgrade how they felt about your comment by shining it with the "I'm not mad just disappointed" spiel to make yourself seem sophisticated and not in the wrong. I think Resilience's comment was honestly a pretty genuine take on what you said and I didn't see them defensive about anything. Because if I was a composer and I was told that someone could simply "live" with my music because it doesn't meet up to another composers legacy I'd be a bit brought down too and would want to ask questions for reasoning.
"Hey Alyx, it's us. Come here."
*"Target decieved"*
they actually deceived me bruh i thought he was barney then i completely trust him only to realized he later shot me
@@mmgaming-pu7zt i thought it was some rebel asking for help
I love how you can hear the CP Violation motif in this track and a lot of others throughout HL:A. It feels like that's sort of become the core motif to represent the Combine.
I think it's more the motif of first contact with combine. Whether it's your first fight altogether or your first encounter in an hour, it signals the amazing combat to come with the protagonists prevailing through terrible odds in a badass manner.
Timestamp?
bro it hits me with that BWWWWEAHHHHH and then the hardest beat i've ever heard
BWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEAAHHHHHH
These folks are slowly becoming Houndeyes
@@ryuuji498 Lol underated comment.
@@ryuuji498 hound eye
So dame true
I love that the synth at the beginning sounds like a siren
More like train sounds
Alyx Eternal
Eternal Life
@@starrykailani B R U H
Half doom
Half-Life's Eternal??? :|
@@pickle7428 Half Eternal
Me in my first combine shootout in VR.
"Oh, we're doing this? Ok, we're doing this. Oh shit, it's happening, we're actuality doing this."
My first shootout in vr was in hard bullet vr. I was nervous af
Wow. This is Half Life
no it is fortnite 2 you idiot
@@VanderCold no this is geometry dash 2
Bruh y'all forgetting this is minecraft 2 episode 1?
yall stop being morons
Are you stupid. It's obviously angry birds friends
Did you guys know that this composer is the same composer who did the TeamFortress soundtrack? Along side portal?
CS:GO too.
MondySpartan oo! And left 4 dead :)
w h a t a b o u t h a l f l i f e ?
Dexo the combine avali Well, I know Bailey served as a consultant for the soundtrack this time around.
Well, makes sense, they are all Valve games
It is awesome to hear that the Soundtrack never changed in identity but is still evolving!
0:37 gonna make this for myself, love the way the synth sound just vibrates my headphones and speakers, it’s super satisfying. Sounds crazy on the Index speakers
Same the odd bass makes it sound even more badass
@@chessie4 ikr, it’s so satisfying
@epic roblox gamer is it tradable in csgo?
I feel like I'm getting attacked while listening to this. Never felt both being great and attacked before.
This feels like valve team loved black mesa's sound tracks
Imagine making a mod and the game creators like it so much that they use the sound of it for inspiration in a triple A vr game.
It sounds so good! valve's still got it!
Mike Moraksy, the composer of TF2, CSGO, Portal, and Left 4 Dead, worked on HL:A's music. He also got help from Kelly Bailey, the composer of HL1 and HL2's soundtracks.
Minigunner: *RATATATATA*
Me, an intellectual: *Shotgun*
@Hayden Tenno ive played it but, that's still somewhat minorish spoilers for people that don't want to be spoiled
supressor intestifies
@@intellectualpotato It's not really spoilers. The Russels are pretty much a mini Gravity Gun.
I was wondering what people were talking about when they were referencing DOOM Eternal. I'm sitting here, playing the game, thinking to myself "this sounds nothing like anything in DOOM". And then I got to Urdak
Think people were just making the references because both games have heavy Industrial music(Doom Eternal's being Industrial Metal, but same difference) for their soundtracks, and both games happen to have amazing soundtracks that make you feel like a badass as well.
@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 no, there's music in Urdak that sounds weirdly similar to this
Best track in the game. It made that first firefight against the combine epic. Leaning out of cover and shooting a combine soldier in the head and then rushing the last one with the shotgun was so satisfying.
*"Probable anti-citizen."*
- Combine Charger in Chapter 1.
*"Probable anti-citizen"*
-2 combine grunt*
The charger wasn’t the one that said that
This is the best track in the game. They should have had CP violation too, and I dont know why this didn't play in the trailer #3 part in the full game. This played in a section with so little combine units I killed them all on Hard feels like before the beat of the song even hit. lmao
NUNCA PIERDE EL TOQUE HALF LIFE
SIEMPRE SUS SounTRACKS SERAN GENIALES!
Approaching target, exposing hostile in 3...2...1...
This game seemingly came out of nowhere and surpassed expectations by miles and miles, with the music definitely being a part of that.
Crazy how well they managed to make this sound original yet having a new feel to it - Bravo Valve, Harbingers of Quality games production!
Let's make *_'Welcome Back Valve'_* a meme
Definitely my favourite song from this incredible game!
Honestly this track could be called CP Premonition. It's basically CPV but the prequel ver.
There's still hope. They'll give the OST proper title's when the OST is released for purchace
God i missed that dark dystopian synthwave that half life used to have
It so fking amazing that half life is back
Alyx has some of the best combat I've ever experienced in a game, which I'm not surprised by since it's by Valve, but what does surprise me is this game is still one of the best I've ever played even with running it on a poor old laptop, the optimization is great and Valve did a fantastic job making it so a lot more of us can play than other less optimized VR games
This Sounds Like Gordon And Alyx Soundtrack At The Same Time
It's a masterpiece
Anti-Citizen is the CP Violation of this game
Goosebumps, every time I play this section.
It is like Half-Life, Half-Life 2 and Episode 2 soundtracks combined and it sounds damn amazing!!!
Shit is an INSTANT Classic, So fucking good. Hearing this for the first time in the game is genuinely the most badass thing Ever.
Hopefully this comes to spotify, we need this.
this is going to be fan favorite for sure
When you haven’t been credited with composing a game for Valve since 2013, but still knock it out of the park
So happy that it still sounds like half life
Fantastic. Absolutely fantastic.
_"Ready to hammer in Three, Two, One"_
Mike Morasky you fucking didn't disappoint. Holy hell.
Holy hell?
Finally, *CP Violation 2.*
This almost sounds like something Mick Gordon would compose.
Whenever I heard this tune kick in I knew I was in for a leg workout! Awesome track
I like this soundtrack, but there was always something so iconic about Kelly Bailey. I wish he could have done it, but I'm happy with what we got instead.
It's the man, the classic. Haven't seen you in a while.
That could also be said about Kelly Bailey.
Yeah for sure. I hate the naysaying to this soundtrack but I too would've preferred Kelly - there's just something more meaningful when Kelly makes a soundtrack. Both the seniority and the fact that he's Gordon's likeness.
Kelly assisted in making this OST
@@plrusek I heard that from another commenter, what's the source on that? I'm real curious cuz I went to see if he did the ost but could only find information about Mike. I'mma check for Kelly's name in the credits
What I hear when running away from the library after putting horror books in the kids section
“Attention Citizens. *Miscount Detected In Your Block.”*
Can we now consider Half-Life as its own genre of music now?
I think it should be called Baileycore
Yes
@@Memezuii maybe Valvecore since Bailey isn't the only one who can make bangers
@@dallas5832 Yeah but he was the first to make this kind of music (to my knowledge)
How does this hit so hard?!?!?!?!
Listen to this then to CP Violation from HL2. Same sort of feeling
Fun Fact: Remember the distorted trumpets being heard in a radio from half life 2? Well.. Its *Back* In half life alyx. (Try to find a radio in the beginning of the game. and try to switch and find the distorted/Unsettling music.)
💖
@@Totej :3
This is my fav sound track in this game
That background noise that starts at 0:14 sounds a lot like DOOM Eternal. Might just be similar sounds used but damn.
Russell has some sick music built into that headset.
Mike Morasky made the perfect music for this game, the grandchild of Kelly Bailey's work pumped with morphine
We got a new banger here
son: why is my sister named rose?
dad: because your mom loves roses
son: oh okay
dad: no problem Half-Life Alyx - Anti-Citizen | Official Soundtrack music
this sounds badass, my ears are very pleased listening to this
This gives me the same vives as with the prowler theme from spider verse
Love your vids you are the best
I need official 3rd ep....this track must be there
This one got me so amped the first time I engaged with the two soldiers underneath the bridge.
Thank god it’s finally on Spotify
I am not regretting the index!... not at all !!!
[cries inside]
always appreciate when some of the best songs are maintained in some way throughout a series of games. shame the original Tomb Raider theme didn't make it into the reboot though
That's what real gamers are listening to
It’s hard to not dance while fighting gonna be honest
I uninstalled this game after beating it for the sake of storage space but listening to this made me want to redownload it again
Spiderman 2099 theme but its actually a song
Immediately thought of this song when I heard that.
Somehow I always associate this game with this music. This is the theme song of the game imo.
Such a great soundtrack, gives me sector sweep vibes!
Hearing these battle songs for the first time gave me goosebumps all through my body and an intense adrenaline rush all at the same time. It was then I knew HL was back
Greatest csgo music kit of all the time !
See now I'm worried Cyberpunk 2077 won't be able to top this lmao
We got Doom Eternal and Ori & the Will of the Wisps as well. Here's to hoping that Cyberpunk 2077 will have great music like these other games do.
ohoho cyberpunk hahaha how the times have changed. sure it spretty good but the music'll probably clip before the midpoint.
@@suyogv8235 Oh yeah my comment aged like milk I no longer care about 2077 anymore lololol
Rick did a wonderful job at doing what Kelly Bailey did for half life 1 and 2.
Innovation Inc. Thermal Power Plant Warhead
"Hi yeah, I wont be in work today. I dont feel very well and can't possibly sit in front of my pc all day".
*PUTS PHONE DOWN AND IMMEDIATELY STRAPS ON THE VR HEADSET*
FULL HALF LIFE
*Russle headbangs in the background*
Litteraly best Half Life 2 theme for my series 🔥
my friend has this as his mvp song for csgo, to this day ive never seen anyone else with it
"Viscon! Viscon! Range 30 meters. Bearing 11 degrees!"
"Overwatch, Advised! We have heavy resistance!"
"Echo 1, extractor is live!"
"Bouncer! Bouncer!"
"Overwatch, team is down! Sector is not controlled!"
"I'm sorr- *flatline*"
Welcome Back, Half Life.
feelin some Reach vibes
Strong Sector Sweep vibes
0:47 CP OPEN UP!
damn, this is fucking GREAT, more reason why i absolutely need hl:a or a valve index some day
You don't have to shoot for the index, unless it's a reasonable purchase for you. I recommend getting your hands on literally any headset you can and jumping into hl:a!
@@branescan i mean, its a really good headset wich gives a free game and isnt going to be replaced by a better one every 2 years like all the others so yeah id think its reasonable
@@blehh_mae the original HTC Vive has been out for yeaarssss now and it’s still a viable option for VR. VR headsets don’t really get “outdated”, the specs just get better.
@@branescan true but i mean it probably feels pretty terrible or annoying when you buy something and then a few months or years later a better version of it comes out for around the same price, cuz like if you just waited a bit more you couldve gotten a much better one
@@blehh_mae for sure. You can’t go wrong with the index unless you can’t afford it, I hope you join the VR club soon!
This reminded me of the iitpp war head that they use
When you look straight into the Combine heavy's shield and get blinded by the flash
BWEEEEEAAAHHHHHH
I was streaming, and just jamming to the music for s sec LOL
Mike Morasky nailed it so fucking well holy shit