@@renegadecut9875 The political stuff is good too, but this is why I came to this channel in the first place. I enjoy it both ways. Like music in video games.
@@8bitkron1k38 You can feel however you want to feel about a game, but you are mistaken if you believe it is widely liked now. Looking at Steam, it has worse reviews on average on Recent (69%) than the All Reviews (75%), which include the earlier, arguably worse days of the game. In other words, Fallout 76 is marginally MORE HATED now than before, not less. If you think it's good now, that's fine, but you are simply wrong about "the haters" liking it now. I'm looking at the arithmetic, not your anecdotal experience with these alleged haters on whatever subreddit you're talking about. It's not an old take, it's one of the most common (and recent) takes. If I were to compare this to an actual instance of a game being rough at launch but coming into its own, No Man's Sky, the Recent reviews are much better (91%) than All Reviews (77%). Second, don't reply to my reply with your completely unrelated bad take so that I will notice it and/or reply. Either your comment will stand on its own, or it won't. Don't game the system. Only time I'll tell you. Congrats, you got me to reply, but all this did was point out that you are mistaken. Your opinions are your opinions, but your assertion about its widespread acclaim is easily disproved.
@@transsexual_computer_faery I'm glad I'm not alone! I feel like every album has its merits, even if Lars's snare drum does sound obnoxious on that one, lol
Oddly, Metallica has made quite a comeback among several teenagers I know. They're going through the same fascination with Metallica I went through at their age, as my gateway into heavier music.
Honestly, St. Anger is their only dud. Everything else they've done since the Black Album has actually been pretty decent, and a few songs are among their best work. What bothers me is that ever since St. Anger, they've been chasing past glories and trying to make the same kind of music they used to make in their early 20s. While it hasn't necessarily been bad, it does signify a lack of growth and expansion of their sound. Say what you want about Load and Reload, but at least they were able to step out of their comfort zone and take some risks knowing that it might alienate metal purists. Nowadays it feels more like Metallica is just giving the fans what they think they want rather than expanding as artists. That being said, I don't begrudge them their success, and when considering how close it all came to an end in the early 2000s, I can't really blame them for wanting to preserve their meal ticket.
Leon's dry af comedic sensibilities will never fail to give me the gentle smirking noise exhalation I assume he too experiences when writing his jokes.
Something I learned when I was a kid - my parents computer had 2 CD slots. If you were using one to play the original Age of Empires, and you had an audio CD in the other, the game would play the audio CD instead of it's own soundtrack. Many a night was spent playing AOE while listening to Michael Bublé as my parents slept.
"FF6 is my favorite video game of all time" a man after my own heart. To this day, and to my knowledge, it remains the only game where you can suplex a train.
Shadows of Adam does have a slime boss that turns itself into a train. One of the characters has a suplex attack. Any self-respecting player would know what needs to be done at that point.
I can see why could from FF7 disappointed Leon so much. In the intro, he's got the train with both hands and just hops off. Shoulda suplexed the fucker.
One of the only titles in the series I've never touched but holy shit I want to now and if "The Suplex Express" isn't an achievement or Fandom inside joke then that is a damn shame.
The Smallest Church in San-San is one of most beautiful moments in any piece of art. Just hearing it here on its own, sent shivers down my spine. The futile awkwardness of trying so hard to express ones pain, while being completely incapable of doing so. But to display yourself as an object of ridicule. Fucking raw.
I was playing Helldivers 2 the other day, fighting bugs with some randoms when It's Raining Men came on the radio station I was listening to... Something about it just felt right. It felt so right I announced it to my squadmates. I don't think they appreciated the aesthetic as much as I did.
Less than 3 minutes in, and the Metallica line about "A totally cool and normal thing to ask in 1993, but a less cool and normal thing to ask any year after" got me. Dry comedy best comedy.
I remember as a kid, just when I was getting into metal, one of my favorite things to do was beat either Sonic 2 or Sonic 3 before Ozzy Osbourne's "Bark at the Moon" or "Diary of a Madman" finished. Great games with great soundtracks, but for some reason this just worked well for me. Some of my fondest memories of a kid was jumping out the exploding Death Egg with all the Emeralds in hand while "Waiting for Darkness" came on gave me goosebumps every time I did it.
I'm going to tell you right now, there is a special magic that happens when you play Road Rash 3 to Green Day: Dookie. It synchronized so well to the pace of the game, and I have fond memories of those nights.
I absolutely loved this video, I used to listen to games with my own soundtrack all of the time but haven't for a while. I really should. Keep on making video that make you happy, it really shines through when you do.
People hate System Shock 2's music but I've never understood that. Its PERFECT. Perhaps a bit too aggressive/techno for some at times, but paced with ambiance and silence. It matches the setting perfectly.
I was sooo addicted to the first Sims that I haven’t allowed myself to buy later versions. It came with boom boxes, stereos, etc. with channels. You could overwrite the Sims music with your own music, so I threw an hour’s worth of music into each channel so I could keep track of time
The original Alien Vs Predator game had this weird feature where if I had a music CD in the disc drive when you launched the game, the CD would play with the game's environmental (echo) effects based one where you were standing! It was insane, crawling through vents as the alien and the music is like it's pumping right there in the vents with you.
18:20 Ooof, that was me when I finished The Silmarillion. I ALMOST cried when I finished Lord of the Rings but held it together only to find out some weeks later that there was a prequel book that told the whole history of Middle Earth, and it was when I finished reading THAT and realized there weren't any more completed tales of that land that hadn't been polished up by Christopher Tolkien that I wept because there was no further arc for any of the characters, that was all there would ever be of the official canon. Mood frfr. Finishing FF7 was a little bit like that too: I was hooked on that game and did EVERY. SINGLE. QUEST. Doubled all the materia, beat every boss, fought all the Weapons, got my characters so OP'd that I could beat Ruby Weapon on auto-pilot (literally just set up Phoenix on Mimic and then let the game play itself for 10 minutes until Ruby was dead).
Quake is such a great example to use, since the original release actually encoded the songs as audio tracks on the CD. If you put a different audio CD in the drive, it would pull those songs for the BGM instead, automatically replacing the soundtrack
This was such a fun and funny video! I was looking forward to it from your community post, but you still exceeded my expectations. Going to share this with friends and chat about the good old days playing WoW with an add-on to listen to my music collection in-game.
I recently gave up on a romantic interest. Many factors contributed to my decision, but the straw that broke the camel’s back was when discussing Xenoblade Chronicles 3, I was talking about how impactful the use of leitmotifs in the soundtrack was when he dropped the bomb that he was playing with the sound off. No music. No voice. As someone who occasionally plays through games with custom playlists, I wanted to respect his decision. Not everyone will resonate with the soundtrack, but it was his unwillingness to even attempt to listen that gave me the ick.
I love this. I sometimes listen to music when I play a mindless shooter or something, but I’ve never considered that it’s an activity I could pursue and curate. Thanks for making this. This video also made me feel very relaxed. So thanks for that too.
Usually I listen to longform content like yours while gaming. This time, I'm watching this video while smoking my cabbabage. No matter what else Im doing, I'm always absorbing something new. Thank you for the video
Back in the maybe 2004, when I was in my late teens, one of the first things I ever bought off Amazon was the Queen album A Night at the Opera. When it arrived, to my dismay I discovered it wasn't a CD like I expected, but a DVD-Audio disc, something I didn't even know existed before that. I didn't have a DVD-ROM drive in my PC at the time, so the only way I could listen to it was through my TV, and I was also in the middle of playing Castlevania: Symphony of the Night for the first time, so I plugged the DVD player into the audio jack and the Playstation in the video jacks and it became the new soundtrack for that game, just playing on repeat throughout any play session. It fit pretty well! I don't think I heard SotN's native soundtrack until the last time I replayed it in 2018.
Same. A part of me was like "Yeah, she's not a trained singer, a skilled amateur is where she should be." Holy hell, I didn't know how much much I needed to hear ultimate opera Celes.
Sometimes I hear a song, and I feel something is missing, like I need to do something.... Then I remember, I used to listen to that song while playing a certain video game. So I really liked this video.
I just love your voice, I am super mad right now, stealing from that company time watching this video and I can just tell you it works. I am not gamer I don't know anything about music but hearing your voice soothes my soul
I haven't played video games in months. When I play, it tends to be low stress stuff like racing games or those Lego movie games (Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, etc). While I play, I listen to audiobooks. I get a lot of reading done that way.
Sharing more of your Mark Fischer side, I like it. This is the side that explores how popular music (in this case, iconic video game music) interacts and informs out experiences. Thanks Leon!
Lemme say, this is not the video I expected it to be, but, once I transcended the contravening of my expectations, it was a delightful ride that still managed to enlighten and inform. Well done, Leon. I am absolutely down for these trips, as well.
I wholeheartedly advocate cacophony mode. In-game music at 50%, after I'm used to it, is a perfect thematic joint to any genre of music. Sound effects 100% obviously. It's musically fascinating to follow the tempo mismatches weave together and apart. This often serendipitously creates new cords out of microtonals within the resonances, and is at worst on par with relaxing to lofi beats in/or a moderately noisy cafe. Game soundtracks are inobtrusive enough to layer, so long as they're sorta mixed downwards.
I do listen to the soundtracks of some games (like fallout new vegas) but Will Wood & Super Furry Animals goes sooooo well with Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare
Podcasts too! Welcome to Nightvale for GTA, Old Gods of Appalachia for Far Cry 5, and Magnus Archives for Spiderman/Miles Morales And the Epic: The Musical soundtrack makes Assassin's Creed Odyssey HIT
i always play a game with its music first, so it can hit if it hits, so many iconic hits for me, Run from hotline Miami 2, the boss music fighting Gwyn in DS1, the music right after watching the tape in Silent Hill 2, the CHILLS, but Night Wish Angel to love while fighting kaelthas in WoW BC is it for me!
I love how you've edited the music to fade in as you reference it. It's such a small detail, but it really helps "immerse" me in these play sessions which could have been. 🎵🎶 Much respect! Keep fighting the good fight!
Haven't even watched the video yet, BUT: 1) Yes I do listen to my own music most of the time, partially because of tinnitus (or podcasts if it's not an audio dialogue driven game). 2) I immediately had a smile on my face, having read your post about burning out on the tough stuff. 3. I hope you're well.
As a teenager I was delighted to discover that Quake 1’s “CD soundtrack” feature didn’t care what CD was in the drive. Each stage of the game is now indelibly connected to a specific track in “The Miracle” by Queen.
I'm only 3 minutes in, and it already feels like you are having way more fun making this video than the anything you've made in months. Welcome back to enjoying your art
i started doing this with first person shooters, turning off the soundtrack and playing some trap to get really riled up. then i played pirates of the caribbean’s soundtrack with sea of thieves and at this point im almost on your level. kinda awesome coincidence that you made a whole video about it
A great example of a game that pairs music with game events is Saints Row 4, from Thin Lizzy's "The Boys are Back in Town" for Johnny Gat's loyalty mission to Stan Bush's "The Touch" for when you finally get power armor near the end to rip Zinyak a new one, there are great moments of gameplay paired with music..
my 2 favorite games to play music over are Superhot, and Descenders. Superhot can trake almost any music and turn it around, free jazz, metal, ambient, all gives it a totally different mood. Descenders is amazing for really energetic music, flying downhill on a bike at fullspeed to anything high tempo jsut feels nuts, more midtempo stuff can be nice for jsut relaxing and trying out some tricks. Oh and Tony Hawk and Skate are great for putting on rock/punk/ska/metal/hip hop
Great video, Mr. Cut! I appreciate the shift in tone for the last couple of videos, it's nice to see you exploring less depressing subjects. I don't actually substitute music for videogames most of the time, but I have played shmups while listening to podcasts.
I have a vivid memory of being 20 years old in early 2017 playing battlefield 1 around the same time my friend from college had recommended me Weezer's blue album. I didn't usually play the game with music because I was pretty sweaty and it was much harder to hear gun shots and foot steps with music, but on this particular day I was only flying planes. I remember the map. It was Ballroom Blitz, I remember blowing up my first tank ever in an attack plane while "In the Garage" played. Every time I hear that song, no matter what I'm doing or where I am, part of me is back on Ballroom Blitz, flying that plane around. The first time I listened to DSOTM I was building a castle on Minecraft in its beta in 2011. "On the Run" still reminds me of building that castle to this day. There are some albums I used to play while I was raiding in world of warcraft, like Soundgarden's Down on the Upside, or RHCP's Blood Sugar Sex Magik. All that said, I have attachments to these games' original sound tracks too. I can remember my first world on minecraft, listening to the original music, trying to learn how to build my first house and make basic tools. Later in life, I began listening to lectures on youtube, and video essays while I would play games, but certain games dont fit with that. When I play Baldur's Gate 3, i never have anything else playing because the dialogue and frequent text use too much of the brain to be able to focus on both at once. But if I'm playing an MMO and mindlessly grinding away on daily quests ive done 50+ times, my brain is barely even engaged and I can fully listen to something playing at the same time. There are sections of the world map in World of Warcraft that remind me of certain lectures and tv shows, just due to how the brain can engage its left and right half in tandem to form memories.
Yes! Adding my own soundtrack to repeat play throughs of a game is one of my favorite things to do. It forever links those songs to the energy of the gameplay, and vice-versa. One of my favorite audio/video concoctions that I’ve stumbled across was playing Elden Ring to the tune of the Yellow Magic Orchestra discography. Caelid with Tong Poo was an absolutely luminous combination.🤩
You know Black Mages has a full rock version of the opera from 6 in Japanese, composed by Nobuo Uematsu? It's actually really good. I still have that bitch on my shuffle playlist. Every time it comes on, I take it as a sign that I need a break, so I play some ad hoc karaoke and sing along. Yes, I _can_ sing in Japanese. No, I do not speak the language. Personally, I blame Utada Hikaru.
I did not mute the audio in this video because I wanted to hear the Lavos sound effect. Thank you for playing the Lavos sound effect. And thank you for this video.
In the original xbox days I used to drive round liberty city blasting out the white stripes thanks to the function that let you play cds you'd ripped to your hard drive.
Game music and the music I listened to while playing games has such a strong link to memories in my head. Some tracks are just forever tied to whatever I was doing the first time I heard the music swell.
Sabina Zweiackers performance of the Final Fantasy aria with the Swedish Symphony Orchestra still gives me goosebumps to this day. Easily the best version of one of the best game soundtracks in history.
This made my brain happy. In the best way. And hadn't even realised I needed to travel back to early video game disruption. To just hear those sounds, and hear you explain the thinking, and the "taste' which is ultimately what this is. Sensory seeking at its best and still a part of my toolkit. Despite not being much of a gamer I did always love watching a game flow and curating a musical selection that worked. Always having a couple of options. The first time I asked my older brother if I could try something with audio, that maybe the repetition of part of the soundtrack was why he kept getting stuck and annoyed and was starting to get annoyed before got to that part. He both denied getting annoyed and humoured me, as any sibling 4 years older, who has permitted a little sister to sit in corner of their room and self soothe while watching play video games will. Despite me being branded as "difficult" he never did. If a 13 year old will allow an almost 9 year old to hang out, that's ultimate affection. He humoured my first recipe, was surprised but also knew making a big deal would overload me... but he played longer and got past the hard bit. So get trying combinations, and loved it
Funny you made this because to this day I will still get hit with nostalgic waves of when I first played Dark Souls on Xbox 360 and would run various albums of music, across wide swatchs of genres, for hours during my plays. Good times. Also during the first Saints Row and Halo Reach. Those were very lovely evenings
I'm glad you're making videos you want to make.
Thank you, it felt good making this, and I intend on doing more.
@@renegadecut9875 The political stuff is good too, but this is why I came to this channel in the first place. I enjoy it both ways. Like music in video games.
@@renegadecut9875 this makes me so happy
@@8bitkron1k38no, it sucks conceptually not just in execution
@@8bitkron1k38 You can feel however you want to feel about a game, but you are mistaken if you believe it is widely liked now. Looking at Steam, it has worse reviews on average on Recent (69%) than the All Reviews (75%), which include the earlier, arguably worse days of the game. In other words, Fallout 76 is marginally MORE HATED now than before, not less.
If you think it's good now, that's fine, but you are simply wrong about "the haters" liking it now. I'm looking at the arithmetic, not your anecdotal experience with these alleged haters on whatever subreddit you're talking about. It's not an old take, it's one of the most common (and recent) takes. If I were to compare this to an actual instance of a game being rough at launch but coming into its own, No Man's Sky, the Recent reviews are much better (91%) than All Reviews (77%).
Second, don't reply to my reply with your completely unrelated bad take so that I will notice it and/or reply. Either your comment will stand on its own, or it won't. Don't game the system. Only time I'll tell you. Congrats, you got me to reply, but all this did was point out that you are mistaken. Your opinions are your opinions, but your assertion about its widespread acclaim is easily disproved.
I’m happy about two things.
1. This video actually showed up on my feed.
2. That you’re doing what makes you happy.
"'Do you like Metallica?' A totally cool and normal thing to ask in 1993 but a less cool and normal thing to ask every year after."
Ngl, I really liked both Load and Reload... and might even like Reload more on average 😅
i love st. anger💥
@@transsexual_computer_faery I'm glad I'm not alone! I feel like every album has its merits, even if Lars's snare drum does sound obnoxious on that one, lol
Oddly, Metallica has made quite a comeback among several teenagers I know. They're going through the same fascination with Metallica I went through at their age, as my gateway into heavier music.
Honestly, St. Anger is their only dud. Everything else they've done since the Black Album has actually been pretty decent, and a few songs are among their best work.
What bothers me is that ever since St. Anger, they've been chasing past glories and trying to make the same kind of music they used to make in their early 20s. While it hasn't necessarily been bad, it does signify a lack of growth and expansion of their sound. Say what you want about Load and Reload, but at least they were able to step out of their comfort zone and take some risks knowing that it might alienate metal purists. Nowadays it feels more like Metallica is just giving the fans what they think they want rather than expanding as artists.
That being said, I don't begrudge them their success, and when considering how close it all came to an end in the early 2000s, I can't really blame them for wanting to preserve their meal ticket.
Leon's dry af comedic sensibilities will never fail to give me the gentle smirking noise exhalation I assume he too experiences when writing his jokes.
"/alternative recipe book."
Heh
Yeah, wow, the delivery!
Just noticing that your delivery is so much more relaxed after you decided "fuck it, no more bummers, I'm making what I want."
I can’t believe how wide a range tommy tallerico has and that he had time to write all this music. No wonder his mother is very proud.
And he has all those Guinness records...
And his house was on Cribs! (Now on sale for a mere 3mil)
Damn got his ass 💥
Something I learned when I was a kid - my parents computer had 2 CD slots. If you were using one to play the original Age of Empires, and you had an audio CD in the other, the game would play the audio CD instead of it's own soundtrack.
Many a night was spent playing AOE while listening to Michael Bublé as my parents slept.
As god intended
Your delivery on this script was just *chef's kiss.* You always do good work, but the dry delivery here was amazing.
Literally so excited to hear how this topic turns into anarchism
It's coming...
"FF6 is my favorite video game of all time" a man after my own heart. To this day, and to my knowledge, it remains the only game where you can suplex a train.
When I was 14 I played Bjork’s Post throughout my FFVI playthrough. I can’t separate the two to this day.
Shadows of Adam does have a slime boss that turns itself into a train. One of the characters has a suplex attack. Any self-respecting player would know what needs to be done at that point.
I can see why could from FF7 disappointed Leon so much. In the intro, he's got the train with both hands and just hops off. Shoulda suplexed the fucker.
One of the only titles in the series I've never touched but holy shit I want to now and if "The Suplex Express" isn't an achievement or Fandom inside joke then that is a damn shame.
FF6, Chrono Trigger, Super Metriod, Secret of Mana/Evermore... These are the SNES's best games.
I'm a longtime viewer, video game nerd, and music teacher. This is unironically one of my favorite videos of yours, ever
This video confirms what I always knew, Renegade Cut was secretly a smooth late night radio DJ with that voice
The Smallest Church in San-San is one of most beautiful moments in any piece of art. Just hearing it here on its own, sent shivers down my spine. The futile awkwardness of trying so hard to express ones pain, while being completely incapable of doing so. But to display yourself as an object of ridicule. Fucking raw.
Just played that karaoke scene yesterday. You have to close your eyes and let it wash over you
YES
Absolutely 100% yes. Yes.
Yep. Sometimes, you just have to play "Free Bird", while fighting waves upon waves of minions.
Damn, that sounds like it slaps.
nothing hits harder than stomping a bunch of enemies in an online game while freebird is playing.
The next despicable me movie
make it Minions™️ and you've got a deal.
Or playing Kenny Loggins "Danger Zone" while zipping a starfighter through a space battle
Playing Resi 4 with the Cuphead soundtrack is one of the funniest video game experiences I've ever had.
Thank you for playing the Lavos sound effect.
Also thanks for the heads up, so I could crank the volume.
I thought I was ready
Oh goddamnit I got spoiled...
I was playing Helldivers 2 the other day, fighting bugs with some randoms when It's Raining Men came on the radio station I was listening to... Something about it just felt right. It felt so right I announced it to my squadmates. I don't think they appreciated the aesthetic as much as I did.
You've given me a lot to think about. Thank you. 😊
I often listen to depressing video essays while playing roguelikes, or light-hearted games.
You sound happier. I'm glad you're taking the step of making videos on topics like this one.
Less than 3 minutes in, and the Metallica line about "A totally cool and normal thing to ask in 1993, but a less cool and normal thing to ask any year after" got me.
Dry comedy best comedy.
“…and Fallout 76, sucks.”
Less than three? ...
Loving the new direction, mate, and loving how you're taking care of yourself through it.
Kudos, mate.
I remember as a kid, just when I was getting into metal, one of my favorite things to do was beat either Sonic 2 or Sonic 3 before Ozzy Osbourne's "Bark at the Moon" or "Diary of a Madman" finished. Great games with great soundtracks, but for some reason this just worked well for me. Some of my fondest memories of a kid was jumping out the exploding Death Egg with all the Emeralds in hand while "Waiting for Darkness" came on gave me goosebumps every time I did it.
I'm listening to the asmr of your voice while playing a video game right now, if that counts.
Same
I was about to comment something to the same effect.
Yep, I was gonna make an ASMR reference myself.
I'm going to tell you right now, there is a special magic that happens when you play Road Rash 3 to Green Day: Dookie. It synchronized so well to the pace of the game, and I have fond memories of those nights.
I absolutely loved this video, I used to listen to games with my own soundtrack all of the time but haven't for a while. I really should. Keep on making video that make you happy, it really shines through when you do.
You can tell making this was fun. Because it’s loads of fun to watch.
People hate System Shock 2's music but I've never understood that. Its PERFECT. Perhaps a bit too aggressive/techno for some at times, but paced with ambiance and silence. It matches the setting perfectly.
This is the correct take!
Abba and Tetris together got me through college😂. Thanks for the nostalgia!
I was sooo addicted to the first Sims that I haven’t allowed myself to buy later versions. It came with boom boxes, stereos, etc. with channels. You could overwrite the Sims music with your own music, so I threw an hour’s worth of music into each channel so I could keep track of time
The original Alien Vs Predator game had this weird feature where if I had a music CD in the disc drive when you launched the game, the CD would play with the game's environmental (echo) effects based one where you were standing! It was insane, crawling through vents as the alien and the music is like it's pumping right there in the vents with you.
Whole video was sheer joy, start to finish. I would’ve already felt this way about the script alone, but the performance and edit were also stellar
18:20 Ooof, that was me when I finished The Silmarillion. I ALMOST cried when I finished Lord of the Rings but held it together only to find out some weeks later that there was a prequel book that told the whole history of Middle Earth, and it was when I finished reading THAT and realized there weren't any more completed tales of that land that hadn't been polished up by Christopher Tolkien that I wept because there was no further arc for any of the characters, that was all there would ever be of the official canon. Mood frfr. Finishing FF7 was a little bit like that too: I was hooked on that game and did EVERY. SINGLE. QUEST. Doubled all the materia, beat every boss, fought all the Weapons, got my characters so OP'd that I could beat Ruby Weapon on auto-pilot (literally just set up Phoenix on Mimic and then let the game play itself for 10 minutes until Ruby was dead).
i remember playing some windows 98 flight simulator while blasting Korns follow the leader as a middle school kid. always loved changing it up.
Leonard, this video is amazing . I'm glad you're following your muse. I love your art. Please keep being the you you want to be.
Thank you, but Leon is not short for Leonard for me. It's not short for anything.
Quake is such a great example to use, since the original release actually encoded the songs as audio tracks on the CD. If you put a different audio CD in the drive, it would pull those songs for the BGM instead, automatically replacing the soundtrack
Also that he decided to put on Nine Inch Nails in a game whose soundtrack is already made by Nine Inch Nails.
That's actually kind of a genius solution, because back then back the you couldn't exactly fire up itunes or winamp and play a game at the same time.
You could do this with a lot of ps1 games that had the soundtrack encoded as audio too. Wipeout and gta were two of my favorites to experiment with.
Philip Glass's Satyagraha is my canonical soundtrack for SimCity 4
Gotta say, while I've enjoyed all your videos, I'm really liking this "mellow phase" you seem to be entering.
This was such a fun and funny video! I was looking forward to it from your community post, but you still exceeded my expectations. Going to share this with friends and chat about the good old days playing WoW with an add-on to listen to my music collection in-game.
That Hannibal joke got me good.
That cut into the Megaman music at the end is chef's kiss. Great video, Leon!
I recently gave up on a romantic interest. Many factors contributed to my decision, but the straw that broke the camel’s back was when discussing Xenoblade Chronicles 3, I was talking about how impactful the use of leitmotifs in the soundtrack was when he dropped the bomb that he was playing with the sound off. No music. No voice.
As someone who occasionally plays through games with custom playlists, I wanted to respect his decision. Not everyone will resonate with the soundtrack, but it was his unwillingness to even attempt to listen that gave me the ick.
I love this. I sometimes listen to music when I play a mindless shooter or something, but I’ve never considered that it’s an activity I could pursue and curate. Thanks for making this.
This video also made me feel very relaxed. So thanks for that too.
Usually I listen to longform content like yours while gaming. This time, I'm watching this video while smoking my cabbabage. No matter what else Im doing, I'm always absorbing something new. Thank you for the video
Thank you for this. Longtime fan and I felt the passion and love turned up for this. I f**king cried, bravo friend and to many more 🍸👍🏾
I’ve been so excited for this one. Getting that new video notification was the hit of dopamine that I needed today.
Back in the maybe 2004, when I was in my late teens, one of the first things I ever bought off Amazon was the Queen album A Night at the Opera. When it arrived, to my dismay I discovered it wasn't a CD like I expected, but a DVD-Audio disc, something I didn't even know existed before that. I didn't have a DVD-ROM drive in my PC at the time, so the only way I could listen to it was through my TV, and I was also in the middle of playing Castlevania: Symphony of the Night for the first time, so I plugged the DVD player into the audio jack and the Playstation in the video jacks and it became the new soundtrack for that game, just playing on repeat throughout any play session. It fit pretty well!
I don't think I heard SotN's native soundtrack until the last time I replayed it in 2018.
Axiom Verge is an ost I love. Feels like a new old soundtrack.
Gotta say, I love a good light-hearted video from you just as much as your regular hard-hitting videos
The live French rendition of the opera track made me shoot projectile tears out of my eyes how could u do this
Same. A part of me was like "Yeah, she's not a trained singer, a skilled amateur is where she should be."
Holy hell, I didn't know how much much I needed to hear ultimate opera Celes.
Sometimes I hear a song, and I feel something is missing, like I need to do something.... Then I remember, I used to listen to that song while playing a certain video game. So I really liked this video.
I just love your voice, I am super mad right now, stealing from that company time watching this video and I can just tell you it works. I am not gamer I don't know anything about music but hearing your voice soothes my soul
I haven't played video games in months. When I play, it tends to be low stress stuff like racing games or those Lego movie games (Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, etc). While I play, I listen to audiobooks. I get a lot of reading done that way.
Sharing more of your Mark Fischer side, I like it. This is the side that explores how popular music (in this case, iconic video game music) interacts and informs out experiences. Thanks Leon!
I absolutely loved this style. It was fun, funny, and it felt like you enjoyed making it,
Makes me think. I really have to try the discordant matching, i love stuff like that in films. Really wnjoyed the video.
Lemme say, this is not the video I expected it to be, but, once I transcended the contravening of my expectations, it was a delightful ride that still managed to enlighten and inform. Well done, Leon. I am absolutely down for these trips, as well.
The Italian Version of Aria di Mezzo Carattere literally brings me to tears.
I wholeheartedly advocate cacophony mode. In-game music at 50%, after I'm used to it, is a perfect thematic joint to any genre of music. Sound effects 100% obviously.
It's musically fascinating to follow the tempo mismatches weave together and apart. This often serendipitously creates new cords out of microtonals within the resonances, and is at worst on par with relaxing to lofi beats in/or a moderately noisy cafe. Game soundtracks are inobtrusive enough to layer, so long as they're sorta mixed downwards.
I do listen to the soundtracks of some games (like fallout new vegas) but Will Wood & Super Furry Animals goes sooooo well with Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare
As a video game connoisseur I really appreciated your musings on it. Would be cool if there were more to come in the future.
Love your suggestion to replace 16bit RPG soundtracks with the orchestral versions!!
Love this new direction for the channel! Thanks for sharing with us
Playing Sonic to Don't Stop Me Now is amazing 😂
Thematically AND atmospherically appropriate, yes.
Dropped the mic to Mega Man 2 opening for the credits.
*chef’s kiss*
Perfection.
Podcasts too! Welcome to Nightvale for GTA, Old Gods of Appalachia for Far Cry 5, and Magnus Archives for Spiderman/Miles Morales
And the Epic: The Musical soundtrack makes Assassin's Creed Odyssey HIT
Honestly, I feel like Epic would make anything hit!
I was hoping you'd talk about disco elysium this video, it's soundtrack is so perfect. Awesome video man
Of course! My Smash Bros sounds settings : SFX: 70%, VFX: 50%, BGM: 0%
i always play a game with its music first, so it can hit if it hits, so many iconic hits for me, Run from hotline Miami 2, the boss music fighting Gwyn in DS1, the music right after watching the tape in Silent Hill 2, the CHILLS, but Night Wish Angel to love while fighting kaelthas in WoW BC is it for me!
Depending on the game I might just listen to something like this while playing. Explore a world and listen to video essays, it’s kinda great!
I love how you've edited the music to fade in as you reference it. It's such a small detail, but it really helps "immerse" me in these play sessions which could have been.
🎵🎶 Much respect! Keep fighting the good fight!
Haven't even watched the video yet, BUT:
1) Yes I do listen to my own music most of the time, partially because of tinnitus (or podcasts if it's not an audio dialogue driven game).
2) I immediately had a smile on my face, having read your post about burning out on the tough stuff.
3. I hope you're well.
Cloudpunks sound track is amazing! Found myself listening to it outside the game while working on my computer
I'm really enjoying the new content
Thank you for the Lavos sound feature, it is exquisite.
That was nice. ;D
As a teenager I was delighted to discover that Quake 1’s “CD soundtrack” feature didn’t care what CD was in the drive. Each stage of the game is now indelibly connected to a specific track in “The Miracle” by Queen.
I'm only 3 minutes in, and it already feels like you are having way more fun making this video than the anything you've made in months. Welcome back to enjoying your art
i started doing this with first person shooters, turning off the soundtrack and playing some trap to get really riled up. then i played pirates of the caribbean’s soundtrack with sea of thieves and at this point im almost on your level. kinda awesome coincidence that you made a whole video about it
Heck yeah, i love video game music, cant wait to hear your thoughts on this!!
What an incredibly rewarding follow this channel has been over the last few years. Also your delivery somehow even drier on this one, impressive!
I just turn on my own spotify whenever I'm playing a non horror game
A great example of a game that pairs music with game events is Saints Row 4, from Thin Lizzy's "The Boys are Back in Town" for Johnny Gat's loyalty mission to Stan Bush's "The Touch" for when you finally get power armor near the end to rip Zinyak a new one, there are great moments of gameplay paired with music..
my 2 favorite games to play music over are Superhot, and Descenders. Superhot can trake almost any music and turn it around, free jazz, metal, ambient, all gives it a totally different mood. Descenders is amazing for really energetic music, flying downhill on a bike at fullspeed to anything high tempo jsut feels nuts, more midtempo stuff can be nice for jsut relaxing and trying out some tricks. Oh and Tony Hawk and Skate are great for putting on rock/punk/ska/metal/hip hop
I can’t believe I slept on this video after listening for two minutes. What a pleasure I have denied myself!
Great video, Mr. Cut! I appreciate the shift in tone for the last couple of videos, it's nice to see you exploring less depressing subjects. I don't actually substitute music for videogames most of the time, but I have played shmups while listening to podcasts.
I have a vivid memory of being 20 years old in early 2017 playing battlefield 1 around the same time my friend from college had recommended me Weezer's blue album. I didn't usually play the game with music because I was pretty sweaty and it was much harder to hear gun shots and foot steps with music, but on this particular day I was only flying planes. I remember the map. It was Ballroom Blitz, I remember blowing up my first tank ever in an attack plane while "In the Garage" played. Every time I hear that song, no matter what I'm doing or where I am, part of me is back on Ballroom Blitz, flying that plane around.
The first time I listened to DSOTM I was building a castle on Minecraft in its beta in 2011. "On the Run" still reminds me of building that castle to this day. There are some albums I used to play while I was raiding in world of warcraft, like Soundgarden's Down on the Upside, or RHCP's Blood Sugar Sex Magik. All that said, I have attachments to these games' original sound tracks too. I can remember my first world on minecraft, listening to the original music, trying to learn how to build my first house and make basic tools. Later in life, I began listening to lectures on youtube, and video essays while I would play games, but certain games dont fit with that.
When I play Baldur's Gate 3, i never have anything else playing because the dialogue and frequent text use too much of the brain to be able to focus on both at once. But if I'm playing an MMO and mindlessly grinding away on daily quests ive done 50+ times, my brain is barely even engaged and I can fully listen to something playing at the same time. There are sections of the world map in World of Warcraft that remind me of certain lectures and tv shows, just due to how the brain can engage its left and right half in tandem to form memories.
Yes! Adding my own soundtrack to repeat play throughs of a game is one of my favorite things to do. It forever links those songs to the energy of the gameplay, and vice-versa.
One of my favorite audio/video concoctions that I’ve stumbled across was playing Elden Ring to the tune of the Yellow Magic Orchestra discography. Caelid with Tong Poo was an absolutely luminous combination.🤩
I used to have playlists of music, but lately I've been playing while listening to podcasts.
That is just wrong
This video left me delighted and peaceful in a way I didn't expect but needed. Lovely stuff
You know Black Mages has a full rock version of the opera from 6 in Japanese, composed by Nobuo Uematsu? It's actually really good. I still have that bitch on my shuffle playlist.
Every time it comes on, I take it as a sign that I need a break, so I play some ad hoc karaoke and sing along. Yes, I _can_ sing in Japanese. No, I do not speak the language. Personally, I blame Utada Hikaru.
wonderfully vibey video, I was binging your Lynch analysis videos and I just know you must roll great joints
This was wonderful. I used to play a lot of Civ 5, and had a whole playlist of classical and film music to accompany my mediocre global domination.
I did not mute the audio in this video because I wanted to hear the Lavos sound effect. Thank you for playing the Lavos sound effect. And thank you for this video.
I cried at the beauty of you making this video. And at the beauty of the video itself!
This felt like a fever dream and I’m here for it.
In the original xbox days I used to drive round liberty city blasting out the white stripes thanks to the function that let you play cds you'd ripped to your hard drive.
Game music and the music I listened to while playing games has such a strong link to memories in my head. Some tracks are just forever tied to whatever I was doing the first time I heard the music swell.
Sabina Zweiackers performance of the Final Fantasy aria with the Swedish Symphony Orchestra still gives me goosebumps to this day. Easily the best version of one of the best game soundtracks in history.
This made my brain happy. In the best way. And hadn't even realised I needed to travel back to early video game disruption. To just hear those sounds, and hear you explain the thinking, and the "taste' which is ultimately what this is. Sensory seeking at its best and still a part of my toolkit.
Despite not being much of a gamer I did always love watching a game flow and curating a musical selection that worked. Always having a couple of options. The first time I asked my older brother if I could try something with audio, that maybe the repetition of part of the soundtrack was why he kept getting stuck and annoyed and was starting to get annoyed before got to that part. He both denied getting annoyed and humoured me, as any sibling 4 years older, who has permitted a little sister to sit in corner of their room and self soothe while watching play video games will. Despite me being branded as "difficult" he never did. If a 13 year old will allow an almost 9 year old to hang out, that's ultimate affection.
He humoured my first recipe, was surprised but also knew making a big deal would overload me... but he played longer and got past the hard bit. So get trying combinations, and loved it
Funny you made this because to this day I will still get hit with nostalgic waves of when I first played Dark Souls on Xbox 360 and would run various albums of music, across wide swatchs of genres, for hours during my plays. Good times. Also during the first Saints Row and Halo Reach. Those were very lovely evenings