This was a lot of fun dude, thank you for having me! Hopefully your audience can discover new videogame bangers with this video. If we do this again, next time I'll show you some brand new tracks which I've been writing for videogames myself 🙌
FINALLY A COLLAB I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR Like for real, I remember once you two made interaction in one's comment section but literally recently I couldn't find which video it was Tbh, both of you have sparkled my interest in the technical stuff regarding the music, it's evolution etc etc. because your reaction videos are much more than just staring at the music video with mouth wide open. You can explain every single detail or even foreshadow some events in the game. Thank you, sirs
These 2 for sure, but also Davi Vasc and "Music Theory for Gamers". Each one focuses on different parts of the music or in different ways which is so fascinating.
Alex's funk bass cover of One-Winged Angel is still one of the most fantastic bangers I've ever seen on TH-cam, and this collab was WORTH the work it took!
Marco giving his warframe pitch and possibly getting Alex into it, you love to see it lol. Also nice pick for the WitW menu theme. You are right most people do skip the music but as of late I found myself pausing to listen to new login tracks. The lotus eaters one was especially stand out to me in recent memory.
Alex the absolute GOAT! Double Italians! Edit* Marco you should def still play SOTE, if you go out of your way to collect Scadutree fragments its super doable, most people complaining about the difficulty didn't properly engage with the mechanic. The new weapon types the DLC gives you are also incredible and help balance out the difficulty imo. Only thing that remains hard is the final boss, but even that is doable once you get the hang of it.
And if the bosses still end up too troublesome, you could always set a special password for you viewers to help you with bosses. But yeah, SotE is absolutely worth it, it's like a whole other game
RAGNAROK ONLINE REPRESENTATION! My first MMO, played it in the mid 2000's believe from 2005 to 2009, I still listen to the soundtrack all the time, it holds so much significance for me. A bygone era, full of magic, the beginnings of the internet as we know it now. I didn't know English and this game and the PS2 games I had made me interested in learning so I could understand and communicate with people. Thanks Alex for bringing this!
Duuuude, he started right of with Stranger of Paradise. I’ve never seen anyone react to or even talk about the music from that game. That’s so cool. I loooove the soundtrack. Has some great composers from square’s team who appear on more soundtracks than people might realize, and Naoshi Mizuta as lead (one of my favorite composers). What a great start to the video.
By the way by now theres an official upload of the OST by now. Officials ones in general are so much better they can‘t even be compared to the unofficial uploads. Especially in the case of Bloodborne where for some reason almost all the fan uploads on TH-cam cut out specific sections of the soundtracks.
Nice to see you give some love to that Baer McCreary metal album! I don't usually like that type of metal (mostly because of the vocals), but with the cool influences he has thrown in there he really caught my attention. Using bagpipes, accordion, hurdy gurdy and mongolian throat singing in metal just sounds really cool. So now I got used to the vocals and really love the album. Which means now I have a lot more metal to explore that I wouldn't have liked before.
I'VE BEEN PRAYIN FOR TIMES LIKE THIS! But in all seriousness, seeing this in my feed made me genuinely happy. Looking forward to watching this after work! Thanks for what you both do to celebrate video game music and its composers ❤🎵
I always enjoy the more introspective and philosophical segues and discussions in these videos, and with Alex I know they'll be special. What a fun 90 minute listen! I learn a bit more about music and myself in each video you post.
You guys are up there as the two people I follow on TH-cam regarding video game music especially. It's a good surprise that I see you two together... Great joy to listen
Absolutely legendary collab, now we just need more collab from people like DrumrollTony, Jesse's Auditorium, Davi Vasc, etc. I think it'll be an interesting discussion from people who are experienced in this type of content just to expand the perspectives and opinions
48:37 As south american I always love when composers inspire their work in andean music, the melodies are so beautiful (I love what Genshin did in Natlan soundtrack). But damn, that shift in the middle of this theme was awesome. PS: What a great collab! 2 Goats in 1 video.
1:00:33 nah Marco, hearing the whole login screen is a rite all the Warframe community must do every single time, the soundtrack of this game is amazing.
Great video! I just wanted to fact check some information about FFX-2. Alex said that Uematsu didn't compose the music because of the Square Enix merger, but the company was still Square during the development and publishing of the game, although it was published under Square Enix for the NA release. Uematsu was still working for Square at the time, but he had been winding down his involvement for a while, as the FFX soundtrack was worked on collaboratively with Uematsu, Masashi Hamauzu and Junya Nakano. Uematsu didn't officially leave the company until October of 2004, so using previous work probably wouldn't have been a legal issue as Alex suggested, but likely it was a style choice to show how Spira had changed. Though you could argue that FFX wasn't entirely an Uematsu-style Final Fantasy soundtrack to begin with.
Hooly shit did not expect the Ragnarok Online Music. Awesome! Still listen to the OST regularly, there is like 30 hours of music in the game. I'll never forget the Payon Dungeon music, Morroc city theme, prontery city theme or Skelly Worker Map OST. It's so good.
I came across Alex's reaction to octopath traveler a long time age and it was the first time I bought a game based on a video like that. I have no regrets, octopath 1 and 2 has some of the best game music I've ever heard.
Man this is a heavenly Collab, i remembrance when alex's videos became super scarce cuz of his increasing work load writing Videokamera music himself and then finding Marcos channel when he was still pretty fresh filling the void
this has to be one of the greatest content creator collabs i've seen on the entire platform you're so goated for this Marco, it had to happen eventually
That really sucks about Noriko Matsueda, she has a great creative voice in her music writing, I mean... she wrote the most played boss theme in Chrono Trigger. FFX-2 has many amazing tracks, and it's a shame about that backlash.
One of the best collab you've done so far(every one you've done so far has also been the very best) it's crazy that two years ago is when you started this channel
haven't even seen the video but get excited when you upload a new video i gotta thank you as seeing your experiencie with music has helped me thru daily even when i have such bad musical arrhythmia
BEST COLLAB !!! Love you both ♥ This is so interesting and I discovered a lot of tracks I like, thank you ! The Stellar Blade one is really great but with headphones it kind of hurts my head, I don't think I can listen to it for a long time
FINALLY THIS COLLAB HAPPENED!!! Ever since you both covered Scaramouches music in the end of Sumeru, I thought you both were extremely helpful to understanding what is happening technically and emotionally with the music. I am so glad you both have made a long chat together. Thanks again!
The mention of active music listening reminded me of how I started to notice the background elements of songs because whenever my earphones would break they'd have a weird effect where they'd remove the lead vocal audio so I had to listen to backing vocals and instrumentals. I believe it was from then that I started to pay attention to and hum the background elements of songs sometimes more than the main melody
Yeah there really is no good way to sun up warframe lore, especially without spoilers. But holy shit is THE moment one of the biggest moments in any game I've played. Its the best kept secret in all of gaming to the point that players all these years later are still blindsided by it. There is just nothing that compares.
My tired brain thought it saw a new Alex Moukala video and got excited. Then I realised what I actually saw and got even more excited. This was a wonderful collaboration from you two.
I'm 28 today, not only they drop this mad collab, but they put Ragnarok Online here, and it was my first MMORPG, i have all the anime DVD'S and Notebooks... AND STILL my favourite game dear to my heart. It threw me back so much nostalgia, so much stuffy back to me. Thank you both, no words can describe how happy im rn.
52:06 the quena is an Andian instrument (Peru, Chile, Bolivia). Back to watching the video XD. ....very good video rlly like hearing what conversations emerge between you and the different ppl you have invited to the channel😊.
The soundtrack from Lost Odyssey is absolutely amazing, i found myself not playing to listen to the rest of the music for the very first time in my gaming life. It deserves so much more reach than it gets.
I think this is the most different type of music that you posted, but usually there's one or two common choices that rotate around. Glad to see you switching it up!
I didn't think I'd stumble across Ragnarok Online again. Takes me right back when I used to play it a lot... Now I need to listen to the OST again. Anyway, cool collab and video!
Oh, I was blown away by ost Bear McCreary did on BattleStar Galactica many years ago... I still sometimes rewatch his live performance of Kara remembrance and others. What's a Legend!
Saying how he was first introduced to electronic music due to a game gave me my own flashbacks. Bomberman Hero and Rush 2049 is when I fell in love with electronic music. Most people have probably heard Redial on TH-cam in random TH-camr's videos and haven't realized it. Need for Speed Most Wanted was the first game where I hated every radio station and I was scared of metal music but I really liked Decadence by Disturbed so I would listen to the metal Playlist and eventually fell in love with metal.
Austin did an interview with Bear and this new album really is sometyhing else. I loved GOW Raganrok and although the soundtrack can be a little generi at tunes c but man Bear knows what he is doing. So many great emotional moments, including the rogue-like dlc which is a must play. The fact that it is a free dlc blew me away.
the talk about people not looking into composers outside of a single game got me thinking of Kumi Tanioka, and my favorite videogame music from Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles. She has worked on so many videogame music pieces but ive never bother to look into it, so thanks to this im gonna go do that now 😁
If I were to suggest songs I’d just end up telling you to listen to all of Ruina and Limbus Company. Mili is an absolute gem and I’d love to hear your reaction to more of their stuff
So happy with Alex's opinion on the Final Fantasy X-2 soundtrack!! I love FFX, and it's music was beautiful, but the FFX-2 sound was so unique and quirky and fun, and so underrated.
Somewhere in the middle you talked about Madame Butterfly and how each time you listen to it, the music gets better, like it layers on itself. That is how I feel about game music! The first time I hear something in games is usually when I'm doing other things, or it's only part of the piece before questing leads me to other places, so I only vaguely register it and think to myself 'I'll look it up later to give it a better listen'.. Then, I do that and I'm blown away by the music in it's fullness. Genshin and Star Rail being the big ones for me, but other too. Then finally, I go back into the game. I hear the music in context again and it's even more beautiful than I first realized or when I listened to it separately in full - It's just stunning that it has stopped me in my tracks. I'll sit just listening to it, layered with the other ambiance noise of the weather, birds, people talking, or whatever with the music. It really makes me feel invested and in love with the world. There is like a pained feeling that I get in my chest, where I wish I was actually there. Two words come to mind when music really gets to me, to the point I have these intense feelings, and that's Hiraeth and Fernweh. The first is Welsh in origin and the latter German. Hiraeth has many definitions but basically is the feeling of missing a time, an era, or a person, including homesickness for what may not exist any longer. A place or person you can't get back to. I feel this when I play games and look back on my life but also when I try to think of capturing that first bit of storytelling that hooked me. I would be so in the moment that I forget I'm alive myself, I'm so caught up in just experiencing things. When I go back to listen to music in context, I think back and get the feeling of Hiraeth thinking of when I was just questing not really paying attention to the music but just living in the moment. It makes feeling the music later more intense. The other word, Fernweh, isn't exactly like the homesickness connotation of Hiraeth, but rather an inverse maybe, the farsickness. It's a longing to be somewhere you’ve never been; an aching to be in a distant and unknown land, an ambiguous yearning for anything, anywhere else, as anyone else. What I experience when I play games that I fall in love with so hard - that make me wish and hope fantasy magic are truly real things I've yet to experience myself. Fernweh describes that ache I get for experiences I'll never have and sensations I'll never feel. Where homesickness is a yearning for the familiar, this inverse is a yearning for the complete unknown! To be somewhere free from the confines of our familiar society there is the desire to discover a new "home" under the wide open sky of a faraway land; for something maybe more radical or freeing than where I'm at now.. This feeling also makes music I listen to in Genshin so much more intense when I go back to listen in context. So that part of the video really struck a chord with me. (bah-dum-tss) It made me more consciously aware of those feelings again, cause after a while it kinda goes back to being background noise in my mind. I really love trying to feel my emotions more intentionally, and music really helps me practice that and gives me room to meditate/ponder my place in the world. (another related and good word for this, Sonder ^^; )
SOME SPOILERS FOR STELLAR BLADE IN THE VIDEO FOOTAGE - NOTHING MAJOR BUT JUST FYI
WORTH IT
It's not like anyone plays that game for the "story" 🤣🤣
This was a lot of fun dude, thank you for having me!
Hopefully your audience can discover new videogame bangers with this video.
If we do this again, next time I'll show you some brand new tracks which I've been writing for videogames myself 🙌
dude thanks for the Bear mention
how did I not know of such a project smh, this needs more attention
I've been following the two of you for a long time now, and was pleasently surprised you had history!
React to more Arknights, please 🙏
Thank you for the amazing music you brought to this! And I do hope there will be a next time with some of your own music! 🩵
Of course! I loved your take "Let's discover new music from games with less visibility". I loved the track from Ragnarok Online!
THIS. THIS IS THE COLLAB WE NEED
FACTS!!!!!!! 💯
I was always hoping for it to happen. We're blessed !
This isn't a farming channel so why are there two absolute GOATs on my screen
LOL
FINALLY A COLLAB I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR
Like for real, I remember once you two made interaction in one's comment section but literally recently I couldn't find which video it was
Tbh, both of you have sparkled my interest in the technical stuff regarding the music, it's evolution etc etc. because your reaction videos are much more than just staring at the music video with mouth wide open. You can explain every single detail or even foreshadow some events in the game. Thank you, sirs
These 2 for sure, but also Davi Vasc and "Music Theory for Gamers". Each one focuses on different parts of the music or in different ways which is so fascinating.
I can humbly say it is probably the greatest joy in my life to help even 1%. Without sounding excessive.
@@Puzzlesocks Atlas Benighted and Jesse's Auditorium too, so good.
@@MarcoMeatballyou’re legit a hero in the world of video game music bruh
Hearing Ragnarok Online music made me think of better times I’ll never capture again.
Thanks for the reminder of better days.
Rag All Night Long!
Alex's funk bass cover of One-Winged Angel is still one of the most fantastic bangers I've ever seen on TH-cam, and this collab was WORTH the work it took!
Marco giving his warframe pitch and possibly getting Alex into it, you love to see it lol. Also nice pick for the WitW menu theme. You are right most people do skip the music but as of late I found myself pausing to listen to new login tracks. The lotus eaters one was especially stand out to me in recent memory.
Listen. I’m just a man with a mission. 😂
Alex the absolute GOAT! Double Italians!
Edit* Marco you should def still play SOTE, if you go out of your way to collect Scadutree fragments its super doable, most people complaining about the difficulty didn't properly engage with the mechanic. The new weapon types the DLC gives you are also incredible and help balance out the difficulty imo. Only thing that remains hard is the final boss, but even that is doable once you get the hang of it.
Let’s do it in the new year after nine sols
@@MarcoMeatball Looking forward to nine sols too, haven't played it yet but heard great things. Too many good games, too little time lol.
@ yeaaaaaaa lol
And if the bosses still end up too troublesome, you could always set a special password for you viewers to help you with bosses.
But yeah, SotE is absolutely worth it, it's like a whole other game
@@MarcoMeatball YOU'RE PLAYING NINE SOLS? I just finished it! I'm so excited to see how you do :)
OMG I love that you sat down with Alex! Incredible. Two of my favorite TH-camrs, creators, musicians... what a gift
Wow! "Can't go home again baby" is insane! I have never heard it before but now I need a remastered version maybe with vocals.
RAGNAROK ONLINE REPRESENTATION! My first MMO, played it in the mid 2000's believe from 2005 to 2009, I still listen to the soundtrack all the time, it holds so much significance for me. A bygone era, full of magic, the beginnings of the internet as we know it now. I didn't know English and this game and the PS2 games I had made me interested in learning so I could understand and communicate with people. Thanks Alex for bringing this!
Thanks for this amazing collab! Alex is the goat. I go back to his Hades and DMC video's regularly. His passion is infectious.
I'll treat this as an early xmas present, thank you Marco and Alex. Knew this was gonna happen eventually, but didnt know when, and yet here we are.
Merry Christmas and thanks for being here
Duuuude, he started right of with Stranger of Paradise. I’ve never seen anyone react to or even talk about the music from that game. That’s so cool. I loooove the soundtrack. Has some great composers from square’s team who appear on more soundtracks than people might realize, and Naoshi Mizuta as lead (one of my favorite composers). What a great start to the video.
an amazing gem of a game. remember your promise, Jack?
It’s such a treat to watch a soulsborne fan who also knows a lot about music listen to the SotE OST for the first time. ”THATS PHASE 1!?“.
By the way by now theres an official upload of the OST by now. Officials ones in general are so much better they can‘t even be compared to the unofficial uploads. Especially in the case of Bloodborne where for some reason almost all the fan uploads on TH-cam cut out specific sections of the soundtracks.
@@mt2r-musicwhere?
Nice to see you give some love to that Baer McCreary metal album! I don't usually like that type of metal (mostly because of the vocals), but with the cool influences he has thrown in there he really caught my attention. Using bagpipes, accordion, hurdy gurdy and mongolian throat singing in metal just sounds really cool. So now I got used to the vocals and really love the album. Which means now I have a lot more metal to explore that I wouldn't have liked before.
I'VE BEEN PRAYIN FOR TIMES LIKE THIS!
But in all seriousness, seeing this in my feed made me genuinely happy. Looking forward to watching this after work! Thanks for what you both do to celebrate video game music and its composers ❤🎵
Aw that’s so sweet
I always enjoy the more introspective and philosophical segues and discussions in these videos, and with Alex I know they'll be special. What a fun 90 minute listen! I learn a bit more about music and myself in each video you post.
Thank you so so much
Haven't heard from alex for awhile. Good to see him still active
You guys are up there as the two people I follow on TH-cam regarding video game music especially. It's a good surprise that I see you two together...
Great joy to listen
❤️❤️❤️❤️
The crossover we didn't expect nor deserved.
But still it's nice to see Alex in a Video with you Marco
Absolutely legendary collab, now we just need more collab from people like DrumrollTony, Jesse's Auditorium, Davi Vasc, etc. I think it'll be an interesting discussion from people who are experienced in this type of content just to expand the perspectives and opinions
Working on it
@@MarcoMeatball I am definitely looking forward to it
Здорово, что позвал Алекса!! Он умеет выжимать из нот 147% эмоций
Потрясающее чувство музыкального стиля
48:37 As south american I always love when composers inspire their work in andean music, the melodies are so beautiful (I love what Genshin did in Natlan soundtrack).
But damn, that shift in the middle of this theme was awesome.
PS: What a great collab! 2 Goats in 1 video.
1:00:33 nah Marco, hearing the whole login screen is a rite all the Warframe community must do every single time, the soundtrack of this game is amazing.
Great video! I just wanted to fact check some information about FFX-2. Alex said that Uematsu didn't compose the music because of the Square Enix merger, but the company was still Square during the development and publishing of the game, although it was published under Square Enix for the NA release.
Uematsu was still working for Square at the time, but he had been winding down his involvement for a while, as the FFX soundtrack was worked on collaboratively with Uematsu, Masashi Hamauzu and Junya Nakano. Uematsu didn't officially leave the company until October of 2004, so using previous work probably wouldn't have been a legal issue as Alex suggested, but likely it was a style choice to show how Spira had changed. Though you could argue that FFX wasn't entirely an Uematsu-style Final Fantasy soundtrack to begin with.
Hooly shit did not expect the Ragnarok Online Music. Awesome! Still listen to the OST regularly, there is like 30 hours of music in the game. I'll never forget the Payon Dungeon music, Morroc city theme, prontery city theme or Skelly Worker Map OST. It's so good.
I came across Alex's reaction to octopath traveler a long time age and it was the first time I bought a game based on a video like that. I have no regrets, octopath 1 and 2 has some of the best game music I've ever heard.
One of the collabs I've been waiting for. Love to both of you
seeing Alex go "THATS PHASE ONE?!" when reacting to Midra's theme is such a mood lmao
I've been subbed to both of you for years, and this was a lovely sit down and musical nerdout. Thanks, guys. ♥
Man this is a heavenly Collab, i remembrance when alex's videos became super scarce cuz of his increasing work load writing Videokamera music himself and then finding Marcos channel when he was still pretty fresh filling the void
❤
Thanks for repping Ragnarok Online Music, Alex! I screamed when I saw 'Can't go home again baby' in the video description!
WOOOOOOOO BABY! THIS IS WHAT WE WERE WAITING FOR!
this has to be one of the greatest content creator collabs i've seen on the entire platform you're so goated for this Marco, it had to happen eventually
HELL YEAH. RAGNAROK ONLINE
What a fantastic collab! And I looove me some Midra appreciation
2 of my favorite youtube channels, what a treat.
That really sucks about Noriko Matsueda, she has a great creative voice in her music writing, I mean... she wrote the most played boss theme in Chrono Trigger. FFX-2 has many amazing tracks, and it's a shame about that backlash.
One of the best collab you've done so far(every one you've done so far has also been the very best) it's crazy that two years ago is when you started this channel
I can't believe I was binge watching to some of y'all reactions just for you two to drop this collab- THANK YOU WE NEEDED IT!
haven't even seen the video but get excited when you upload a new video i gotta thank you as seeing your experiencie with music has helped me thru daily even when i have such bad musical arrhythmia
And this comment helps me daily to keep going so thank you too.
I love both of your content, i'm so happy for this collab !
The collaboration of a life time! Legends colliding
The collab I’ve been dreaming of finally happened! Gotta get my popcorn ready for this one 🍿
Finally Midra!! That's by far the best Elden Ring DLC OST in my opinion.
This collab should be a podcast. You guys have some really interesting musical reccomendations. I would love to hear more!
BEST COLLAB !!! Love you both ♥
This is so interesting and I discovered a lot of tracks I like, thank you !
The Stellar Blade one is really great but with headphones it kind of hurts my head, I don't think I can listen to it for a long time
Could totally get that 😂
This is the biggest crossover since Marvel x Capcom
Now this is the collab many of us have been dreaming of! You two are amazing for doing this and your passions!
FINALLY THIS COLLAB HAPPENED!!!
Ever since you both covered Scaramouches music in the end of Sumeru, I thought you both were extremely helpful to understanding what is happening technically and emotionally with the music. I am so glad you both have made a long chat together.
Thanks again!
This is probably the most fun video I've seen in a while. Awesome stuff. Also, Tatarigami is now on my Spotify list.
Thanks you two, you've added a healthy chunk of songs to my playlist
The mention of active music listening reminded me of how I started to notice the background elements of songs because whenever my earphones would break they'd have a weird effect where they'd remove the lead vocal audio so I had to listen to backing vocals and instrumentals. I believe it was from then that I started to pay attention to and hum the background elements of songs sometimes more than the main melody
That’s awesome e😂
So happy to see Alex and Ragnarok Online in the same video.
freaking at last.
this has been long time coming!
best collab ever!
46:49 "I see you are a Man of Culture as well."
ZotE was AWESOME, and the music was perfectly suited to it's high-speed, frenetic combat.
I was waiting for this for a loong time. So nice to see you both talking about music 🤩
Wow. You 2 are some of my favorite music related youtubers, so it's amazing to see a collab. Really loved the video Marco, thanks.
oh my god two of my favorite music content creators!
Yeah there really is no good way to sun up warframe lore, especially without spoilers.
But holy shit is THE moment one of the biggest moments in any game I've played. Its the best kept secret in all of gaming to the point that players all these years later are still blindsided by it. There is just nothing that compares.
No kidding, i could listen to the two of you share VGM with each other for hours. Like genuine podcast material
Two of my fav creators collabing, nice!!
THE COLLAB IVE BEEN WAITING FOR!!! MY TWO VIDEO GAME MUSIC HEROES
My tired brain thought it saw a new Alex Moukala video and got excited. Then I realised what I actually saw and got even more excited. This was a wonderful collaboration from you two.
Duuude I was literally JUST wanting you to get someone to react to Midra’s theme. It’s so outstanding
I'm 28 today, not only they drop this mad collab, but they put Ragnarok Online here, and it was my first MMORPG, i have all the anime DVD'S and Notebooks... AND STILL my favourite game dear to my heart. It threw me back so much nostalgia, so much stuffy back to me.
Thank you both, no words can describe how happy im rn.
Ahhhhh Alex I remember jamming out to his content so fun watching his energetic content
Couldn't imagine better colab for this channel.
YEAH!! My two favourite music analysis/reaction TH-camrs in the same video!
1:03:35 A true Tenno right there. Salute Marco o7
Hahaha 😂
That was a great listen and so much more music I need to check out now! Thank you both for the great time 🙏
52:06 the quena is an Andian instrument (Peru, Chile, Bolivia). Back to watching the video XD.
....very good video rlly like hearing what conversations emerge between you and the different ppl you have invited to the channel😊.
The soundtrack from Lost Odyssey is absolutely amazing, i found myself not playing to listen to the rest of the music for the very first time in my gaming life. It deserves so much more reach than it gets.
The conversations between you two are very interesting to listen to
YESSSSSSS. THIS IS ONE OF MY VERY LONG TIME AWAITED COLLAB!
Alex is awesome
Was SO looking forward to this! Knew it would happen sometime, just nit when :)
I think this is the most different type of music that you posted, but usually there's one or two common choices that rotate around. Glad to see you switching it up!
Working on it. 😂
I didn't think I'd stumble across Ragnarok Online again. Takes me right back when I used to play it a lot... Now I need to listen to the OST again. Anyway, cool collab and video!
My absolute two faves together?!?! What a treat!!
I LOVE Alex! so glad you brought him on, although, i wished you showed him some more Fromsoft music.
Did you watch? 😂
Oh, I was blown away by ost Bear McCreary did on BattleStar Galactica many years ago... I still sometimes rewatch his live performance of Kara remembrance and others. What's a Legend!
Have you listened to any Hideki naganuma game music like "jet set radio"? I think if you like the Ragnarock online music you will like it.
Lemme do that
Saying how he was first introduced to electronic music due to a game gave me my own flashbacks. Bomberman Hero and Rush 2049 is when I fell in love with electronic music. Most people have probably heard Redial on TH-cam in random TH-camr's videos and haven't realized it. Need for Speed Most Wanted was the first game where I hated every radio station and I was scared of metal music but I really liked Decadence by Disturbed so I would listen to the metal Playlist and eventually fell in love with metal.
Wow, thanks for the Stranger of Paradise love, underrated title imo.
Marco made the collabs of all times... PEAK CONTENT
Added tatarigami to my main playlist, that song is so fucking cool
Austin did an interview with Bear and this new album really is sometyhing else. I loved GOW Raganrok and although the soundtrack can be a little generi at tunes c but man Bear knows what he is doing. So many great emotional moments, including the rogue-like dlc which is a must play. The fact that it is a free dlc blew me away.
This is too good to be true,TWO of my content creators i adore the most collab? What?
hell yes been waiting for this!
the talk about people not looking into composers outside of a single game got me thinking of Kumi Tanioka, and my favorite videogame music from Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles.
She has worked on so many videogame music pieces but ive never bother to look into it, so thanks to this im gonna go do that now 😁
If I were to suggest songs I’d just end up telling you to listen to all of Ruina and Limbus Company. Mili is an absolute gem and I’d love to hear your reaction to more of their stuff
So happy with Alex's opinion on the Final Fantasy X-2 soundtrack!! I love FFX, and it's music was beautiful, but the FFX-2 sound was so unique and quirky and fun, and so underrated.
oh this is really good. got two new songs added to my playlist now
yooooooo the two music youtubers I love to watch on 1 video
Omgggg Ragnarok online mentioned!!! 🗣️🗣️🗣️
Somewhere in the middle you talked about Madame Butterfly and how each time you listen to it, the music gets better, like it layers on itself.
That is how I feel about game music! The first time I hear something in games is usually when I'm doing other things, or it's only part of the piece before questing leads me to other places, so I only vaguely register it and think to myself 'I'll look it up later to give it a better listen'.. Then, I do that and I'm blown away by the music in it's fullness. Genshin and Star Rail being the big ones for me, but other too. Then finally, I go back into the game. I hear the music in context again and it's even more beautiful than I first realized or when I listened to it separately in full - It's just stunning that it has stopped me in my tracks. I'll sit just listening to it, layered with the other ambiance noise of the weather, birds, people talking, or whatever with the music. It really makes me feel invested and in love with the world. There is like a pained feeling that I get in my chest, where I wish I was actually there.
Two words come to mind when music really gets to me, to the point I have these intense feelings, and that's Hiraeth and Fernweh. The first is Welsh in origin and the latter German.
Hiraeth has many definitions but basically is the feeling of missing a time, an era, or a person, including homesickness for what may not exist any longer. A place or person you can't get back to.
I feel this when I play games and look back on my life but also when I try to think of capturing that first bit of storytelling that hooked me. I would be so in the moment that I forget I'm alive myself, I'm so caught up in just experiencing things. When I go back to listen to music in context, I think back and get the feeling of Hiraeth thinking of when I was just questing not really paying attention to the music but just living in the moment. It makes feeling the music later more intense.
The other word, Fernweh, isn't exactly like the homesickness connotation of Hiraeth, but rather an inverse maybe, the farsickness. It's a longing to be somewhere you’ve never been; an aching to be in a distant and unknown land, an ambiguous yearning for anything, anywhere else, as anyone else. What I experience when I play games that I fall in love with so hard - that make me wish and hope fantasy magic are truly real things I've yet to experience myself. Fernweh describes that ache I get for experiences I'll never have and sensations I'll never feel. Where homesickness is a yearning for the familiar, this inverse is a yearning for the complete unknown! To be somewhere free from the confines of our familiar society there is the desire to discover a new "home" under the wide open sky of a faraway land; for something maybe more radical or freeing than where I'm at now.. This feeling also makes music I listen to in Genshin so much more intense when I go back to listen in context.
So that part of the video really struck a chord with me. (bah-dum-tss) It made me more consciously aware of those feelings again, cause after a while it kinda goes back to being background noise in my mind. I really love trying to feel my emotions more intentionally, and music really helps me practice that and gives me room to meditate/ponder my place in the world. (another related and good word for this, Sonder ^^; )
Thanks for writing all this ❤️
26:02 holy crap my nostalgia kicked in with this one! RO was pretty much my first ever MMO before WoW became a thing.