Opera Singer Reacts to: "Faster Than Light" from Stellaris
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- God this song is so beautiful. Really impressed by this one.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - "Faster Than Light" (Stellaris)
0:31 - Propulsion, moving forward
1:11 - "Faster Than Light" (continue listening)
2:17 - "Faster Than Light" (vocals)
3:20 - "Faster Than Light" (cue synth beats)
4:27 - Reading the lyrics
5:21 - Interpreting the lyrics: anxiety, passing through life
6:18 - "Faster Than Light" (synth break)
6:59 - "Faster Than Light" (cue organ)
7:14 - "Faster Than Light" (vocals)
7:59 - "Faster Than Light" (hit that high note!)
8:14 - "Faster Than Light" (fade out)
9:02 - A metaphor for life
9:25 - Strophic music, a classical form still used today - เกม
Stellaris music is always nice to listen to as I micro manage my planets while two ancient empires start a galactic scale war against each other.
The galaxy might be burning with 3 on going crisis, 2 awoken fallen empires and everyone screwed by the galactic comunity sanctions
but goddamn that Tiyanki protection act its finally aproved!
@@phyrexian_dude4645 then that mf keeps trying to repeal it, at least the marauders keep taking the same route and gets destroyed by my strategically placed fortress but I forgot to lock a system with a horror and it ate my fleet again
If I had the entire list of all the video game soundtrack I've listen in my life, Stellaris would be in my top 3 100% ! It's the kind of soundtrack that works everywhere
> You have been invited to "The War In Heaven"
> You chose "Join the Non-Aligned"
> 90% of the galaxy joins the Non-Aligned
> Now you're permanently allies with almost everyone, unable to declare wars
> The two ancient empires still manage to kick everyone's asses, reducing that 90% to 50%
AND THEN the Contingency awakens
Don't forget the Gray Tempest!!
We're so lucky to have one of the best composers in the universe making music for us! We're delighted that you enjoyed it so much. ⭐
Thank you for these tear-dropping masterpieces ❤❤
Thank you Stellaris for the galaxy ending OSTs
Sudden "System Survey Complete"
edit> wow never had this much likes on my comment before. fr the music in this game is just amazing to hear in-between massive amount pop-ups and micromanagement
''Another day, another scientific breakthrough.''
"They can talk! And they want to talk to us!"
Technology Secured
"Augh, _what_ is that?! _And what's it's market value?"_
"Intellectual Booty!"
THERE WAS VOCALS FOR THIS SONG??? I only know of the instrumental 😂
If you buy the OST there are several with vocals and a few bonus tracks not in game.
Faster Than Light's opener reminds me so much of Mass Effect and its part of why I love it.
I think that Stellaris artists took inspiration from Mass Effect, thats why it reminds you of that game. And i think it kinda puts Mass Effect 1,2,3 into that god tier level of being the one of few games that defined rpg+sci-fi genre. When i first played that game i knew that it is going to stay with me forever. So i hope that we will see Marco venturing into that world of renoved Bioware games. Which probably defined childhood of some of us. Stellaris on the other hand, defined sci-fi strategy for me. And honestly, by seing Marco listening to that music it makes me wanna play this game... xD
Exactly!!!
When i first time ended ME1 - it was shocking ost in the end!
There’s a few ship designs that are reminiscent of Mass Effect, as well
It really does sound similar to the Galaxy Map theme
"We can't go back" is a good read onthis song. Every Stellaris game starts, mostly, with your custom species just after its achieved FTL tech. In scifi that represents the big achievement to going from space faring empire to intergalactic empire. Through a game your empire will advance from simple species to a full on ascended species of like robots, psychics, or evolutionarly unshackled people. So there is no turning back from that future after going FTL.
Agreed, although I think you mean Interstellar: the void between stars within the same galaxy. As opposed to Intergalactic: the void between galaxies. Intra-galactic could also be used to mean essentially the same thing; i.e. travel between stars within the same galaxy.
On a more literal note, the crews of the first science ships you send out will mostly never see their homeworld again. Even if they don't meet an untimely end to hostile entities, they're going to spend the rest of their lives mapping and exploring outwards into the galaxy, until they succumb to old age.
@@yautl1 Or, since everybody seems to have teleportation on galactic scales figured out (its why your leaders can be re-assigned instantly), so the crew can work in shifts and get to go home each night. If that's the kind of thing your empire does anyways.
@@yautl1 oh wow, I just realized that they actually will never see their homeworld ever again. We send them out to explore the unknown. Like you said, they might get destroyed by hostile entities. Or if they are safe the whole journey, they might die of old age. Wow, I never thought about it that way until reading your comment. Thanks for the perspective!
The Stellaris soundtrack is colossal, and can play for hours without looping. It's a real treat.
Yeah, quite a lot of them are longer than the usual 2-4 minutes of the usual music. Even just the base soundtrack without any of the DLCs is only 23 tracks total, but it runs for almost 3 hours from start to end.
Last i checked the total time with DLC is 6:30 hours long
@@Neko_-je3hg That's a lot of music
@@Neko_-je3hg not long enough for an entire playthrough though
YES! FINALLY HE'S REACTING TO STELLARIS MUSIC! Big Stellaris fan, you will be delighted I think by the music Stellaris has to offer. The recent expansion (The Machine Age) added some cyberpunk, grungy music to the playlist if you want something a bit more modern, but other than that Stellaris has a wide variety of classical-esque numbers to enjoy. Can't wait until you delve into Endless Space 2's OST!
I second this opinion on Endles Space 2. I hope he checks out the Endless Space 2 track "Cygnus" one day.
I had no idea he did a video about an ES2 track before I read it in a comment here, so of course I had to go listen to it right away. I would absolutely love to see more reactions to ES2 music!
The machine age OST is so fire. When i was first listening minding my own buisness...and out of nowhere, almost snaped my neck when the drop came. So good.
The best part about the Stellaris soundtrack is that it's got a semi-dynamic aspect to it.
Like there's a script or something that takes what's happening in the galaxy and subtly weights the tracks to play.
That's what I heard, at least. But it kinda makes sense. A galaxy on the edge of allout war would sound very different musically than one experiencing prolonged peace.
677 hours spent in the game, I've definitely noticed the in-game music player shifting to more tense and militaristic tracks whenever something imperils your people.
Most strategy games do this to some degree, especially grand strategy where conflict is not on and off and on and off like an RTS.
But, of them all, I think Paradox, and especially Stellaris, do it the best.
I don't recall how Stellaris does it but I know both EU4 and CK2 (I can't speak for CK3 as I have not played it and do not care for it whatsoever) have dynamic music. It's not truly dynamic in that it doesn't respond immediately, instead which track it decides to play *next* after the current one is done is dependent on your war status, your primary culture and your region
@@sulphuric_glue4468 That sounds about right. That's why I said it's semi-dynamic, and it just 'weights' the tracks based on what's happening in the gameworld.
@@Talon1124 Specifically it's a set of triggers which modify the likelihood of a track playing, which theoretically can be based on any condition in the game but in vanilla is only based on a few. These can either make a track more or less likely to play depending on conditions or completely disable it by setting the modifier to 0. Because the triggers use the exact same triggers as the events system, mods can get a lot more wacky with the music than the base game, such as locking tracks behind technology levels, government types, a certain time period, or having big bombastic tracks for a scripted war or disaster.
The music file is very simple to mod and quite easy to do yourself if you want to add more music to the game and make it more dynamic. The clausewitz engine in general is easy to mod because it uses a simple and easy to read high-level programming language for everything that isn't the backend foundation
In my mind this song is the representation of the pov of the first science ship leaving your starting system. Not the scientist or the crew, the ship itself.
Also there is a ton of fantastic tracks in stellaris, I hope you get to react to more of those!
Very accurate as my first Science ship is usually vivesected
this fucking song is what made me buy Stellaris and now im A THOUSAND HOURS DEEP
It’s just beautiful it really captures every part of the endless expanse of space I fell like you could put this on loop forever and it will never lose that sense of wonder
How is there a comment from 1 month ago on a video released 12 min ago o_O?
@@NivMizzet13 bug or maybe this video was available to members?
patreon saw it first
If you're doing Stellaris you have got to hear Endless Space/2. Arnaud Roy's work is so good it's almost its own genre.
Glad to see someone else suggest this. Been wanted Marco to check out the Endless games for quite a while.
Seconded. Unstable Molecule is one of my favorite works in general I think.
He has done at least one ES2 soundtrack in the past, I think it was the Vodyani theme
Or how about Homeworld.
Don't forget about Endless Legend!
I've never played Stellaris, but the OST is already burning my repeat button through and through. Such a hypnotic soundtrack. Truly let you feel that you are in space
Faster Than Light has always been one of my favorites from the OST. Deep Space Travels is another amazing one. That freakin organ ohmagod. Spacial Lullaby is nice. The remixes they added are solid too. Dragon's Breath. So many good songs in the game. Really can't go wrong with them until you're 100 hours in and need a break.
Since you've hit the Agnus Dei from Ace Combat, can you do Adagio for Strings from the Homeworld Remastered OST? I've been watching playthroughs of the series because the new one is coming out and I've always liked the story, just never played the games myself. That OST hit my like a train in the opening for the first game. Didn't expect it at all. Love you man. Keep up the awesome work.
Yes. Homeworld
If you haven't their renditions, Hearts of Iron 4 did their own published work for Bella Ciao and Katyusha. You would love both so much.
comin up in the next month or so
@@MarcoMeatball amazing! Can’t wait for your reaction to both
Love to see you listen to Paradox's work, their soundtracks are pretty incredible!
If you'd like another very different track from Stellaris' soundtrack, have a crack at "Synthetic God"! My absolute favourite track, and I hope you love it too.
I discovered your channel from your reaction to Ludwig, the Holy Blade, and the zingers just keep coming! Keep up the great work
I beat the composer for The Expanse TV series took a peek at this beauty.. the Expanse Intro have some passages that reminds me, spiritually, of this. :D
I really like those very subtle whale like sounds as a reminder that even though you are now in the space age, there are living animals that were living in space for millions of years. Its the same as swimmer meeting a whale, same feeling of awe on natures beauty
Long live Bubbles the Space Amoeba!
8:03 love the "ohshit" pogface
When listening to this music.. I'd always imagine myself in a space ship traveling across the galaxy and passing by all these cosmic visual eye-candies.
So weird to hear the song without the notifications from the game. I also haven't heard this version with the vocals! a fine discovery to be sure.
I honestly don't know any of the song names from Stellaris. When I play I always have a set of mods that add Mass Effect, Star Wars, and Endless Legend/Space music on shuffle. This game can either be the most chill micro managing sim ever, or the most chaotic and stressful "oh god our empire has been a perpetual state of collapse for 130 years and now were caught between a space-mongol horde and an awakened ancient empire"
Hahah and either way you’re getting annexed 😅
Stellaris music is incredibly rich and evocative; i'm stoked to get your perspective on it! I have played this game for going on eight years now and it is one of my all time favorites.
If you want any suggestions for more tracks to check out, I would love to hear your analysis of Synthetic God. It is a fan favorite and comes from the DLC that adds machine intelligence empires.
I acknowledge my bias though. As a fully sapient gestalt machine intelligence, we wish to add your biological and musical distinctiveness to our own. Allow us to graft cybernetic implants to your body. Please.
two of my absolute favourite soundtracks are in stellaris and outward. both communicate such amazing emotion, stellaris the sense of wondrous exploration and outward the sense of adventure like nothing else.
Why does this music gave me chills... Superb analysis as always Marco! Love your videos
I love Stellaris OST it has been my most listened album on spotify for the last 3 years, I listen to it almost everyday while working, it is very pleasant, emotional and helps me concentrate and find motivation in the thought of we reaching the stars one day. I always wanted you to analyze this piece also, I really like your emotional analisis of music and this song is one of my favourites that sometimes even makes me tear up.
Faster than Light always had this sad, but so beautiful feeling for me. Somehow there is a heavy sadness, maybe we left our home behind... but still there is this melody that picks you up and brings you up and shows that there is still hope out there.
Stellaris has so many beautiful tracks to accompany your story of the galaxy, but for me the most beautiful, no contest, would be 'In Memory of MR'.
FTL here is probably a close second though - with or without lyrics. Such a perfect accompaniment to boldly go where no blorg has gone before.
Every song in this game is good not a single bad one 👌
More stellaris please 🙏
Really hoping for Penacony 2.2 playthrough soon, I''m for sure you'll love it was an emotional rollercoaster
Oh boy, I'd love to listen to some more of Marco's perspectives on some of the other tracks in Stellaris. A lot of them are really good
Stellaris recently added a dozen or so new tracks with the new update/DLC "The Machine Age" and they're all bangers with a heavy synthwave inspiration.
BLADE
Man, stellaris music is just a pure v i b e. Like the melancholy of the galaxy
I just love the Stellaris OST - so I am happy to see you exploring it ^^
Related recommendation: any song from the FTL soundtrack. That game has some of the best music period.
I love this song. Great analysis.
I was one of many to suggest this track! It's a gorgeous one! If you decide to look at other Stellaris tracks someday, Creation and Beyond, Robo Sapiens, and Menothos (or Methonos, a typo was made either in the game or in their official album release and I'm not sure which) are all good picks!
I'm so glad you're looking at the music of Stellaris, it's such good music to vibe to while building a space empire!
It's a bit reminiscent of the main theme from The Expanse, especially during the vocals
I dont know if you already listened to it, but the soundtrack of Endless Space 2 is an absolute treat.
my favorite is "From the Heart (Unfallen Theme) - Endless Space 2 Original Soundtrack"
it captures the theme of the game perfectly and is super fun on itself.
thank you jon favreau great analysis
Marco, you gotta go through the recent Remuria quest line in Genshin - the music combined with the visuals there just...heal the soul. It's beyond words, even for Genshin.
P.S i kinda hope Dvoržak is from Petrichor too. 😊
I’m really liking this new thumbnail formats
come back to your youtube channel after a 2 month break and this is hype
Oh man; I've been waiting for you to react to more stellaris; the music is just so fitting for the vibe of the game
Por fin, un año esperando este video
I have watched thousands of empires rise and fall to this music. At my hand, and under my leadership.
Oh my. The theme and the vibe really reminds me of _Mass Effect 2 - Suicide Mission._
It has that heroic theme to it but not so heroic but a bit more of that mystery and unknown. 🌟I love it! 🙏
The underlying melody reminds me a little of Tubular Bells
The games developed by Paradox all have incredible soundtracks. Tbh I think it's the only part of their games that can't be criticized at all. One my recent favorites is "A brief history of everything" (instrumental only) from Europa Universalis 4. As a fun fact, it was originally a piece made for a mod which was then remastered, along with others, and released as an official part of the 10th anniversary celebratory free DLC
Stellaris Soundtrack is so utterly amazing and beautiful. please do more of it there is more much more. Hours of it and so many beautiful gems in this soundtrack and I would love to see and hear your reaction to them.
Faster Than Light is probably my favorite of the vanilla Stellaris tracks!
Others that I would recommend you listen to are 'The Birth of a Star', 'Dragon Breath', 'Synthetic God' and for something a little different, 'Super Massive Fleet'.
my favorite Stellaris soundtrack is still "In Memory of MR". Might be worth checking out if you haven't already
I don't think I've ever seen anyone react to Stellaris music! Super cool! I don't know if it's your style but my favorite song is Synthetic God (May have been changed to Robotic God? It's hard to tell, but it shows up under both names.)
So happy to see stellaris on the channel again after playing it for over 1K hours I can say its one of my favourite games ever
That feeling of Anxiety? Yeah that’s discovering a wormhole about 4 jumps from your Homeworld 😅
I love this song too, but I have to say my favorite Stellaris song is "Beyond" from the Overlord OST.
YOU HAVE TO listen to creation and beyond AND all its multiple versions. Its an amazing theme.
This song is basically my brains idle music after playing this game for so long
Yes! Do deep space travels next please! My fav Stellaris song
Robotics and Beyond is the version of the main Stellaris theme from Synthetic Dawn and my favorite version. But every version of the main theme is awesome. The new expansion also just dropped and has some great cyberpunk synth tracks.
FINALLY!!!!!!
YESSS!!!!
A cosmic eternity.
Only the way from here, from NOW - to the Infinity
I usually don't hear this song with lyrics, the in game version is instrumental. But this is a classic song for when you are sending out science ships early on to discover what planets are out there. So the lyrics are very appropriate.
"Gravitational Constant" is my alarm ring tone, smooth waking up guaranteed.
This song always reminded me as sort of an ode to Suicide Mission from Mass Effect 2. The start has the exact same feel and while it's "happier" overall, I get similar vibes.
After playing stelaris for over 1.5k hours, I wake up in the middle of night just to hear this song playing in my head. Curse of having musicians ear and training
I saw a new Marco video and clicked... then I saw it was Stellaris and I was already hooked. What a great game and an underrated OST (IMO)...
4X stands for Explore Expand Exploit Exterminate.
Might I once again recommend the endless space 2 ost, more specifically any of the faction “themes” (except maybe the sophons, it doesn’t give as good an idea to them as others)
If you're on a Sci-fi grand strategy kick, listen to "Together to the Stars" from Endless Space 2
Ooh… paradox games music… they have some of the best ones. Battletech intro is one of my fav
Im memory of MR is the best stellaris track, RIP Mercedes. You should check out the Apocalypse expansion story trailer, it's fantastic.
You need to listen to Creation and Beyond next, it is basically Stellaris' main theme and it's so good!
Marco and Stellaris? Yes please!
I always gotta recommend the stellaris: apocalypse trailer to anyone who reacts to stellaris music/trailers etc. Its an amazing trailer with great sounds and really hits every time.
Thsi soundtrack does a great job of setting the tone for a game about grand alliances, wars, genocides, tragedies and progress.
Now you need to do is Stellaris Machine age DLC OST, its the new DLC sound track and boy its good.
ngl i just assumed you’d heard this already. a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one
Man, I should play some Stellaris for the vibes alone. What a beautiful song.
Stellaris is an underated masterpiece. It is, in my opinion, one of the best videogame soundtracks ever.
I don't think any other game has given me such an atmospheric presence of 'deep space' through its music, alone, than Stellaris.
for some reason I thought it was going to be a reaction to music from the game called Faster Than Light, and I was like oh makes sense, it has some good music. But yeah, stellaris is also great
I may have commented this one before, but since we're on the theme of space strategy game soundtracks, I'd recommend "Adagio for Strings" from Homeworld (by Samuel Barber). I think that song in particular would be of interest to you, seeing as you're an opera singer. And if you want added context for the song, check out the Homeworld cinematic tutked "Kharak is burning" afterwards.
Hope this leads to some Endless Space (1 and 2) and Endless Legend music here
This exact soundtrack is what pushed me to finally buy Stellaris. The game got me hooked so badly I forgot to eat on multiple occasions. 10/10 would do it again.
I wouldn't expect such music in Stellaris. What is such a beautiful music doing in Stellaris? Stellaris is the Italy of Paradox Games...
its a bit funny that this game keep changing its mechanics every 2 years or so. it is now an almost completely different game than the 1.0 release
You really need to listen to Then Comes Light from the Apocalypse Expansion for Stellaris. Best track in the entire Score. Deep Space Travel, Sigma Tauri, Imperial Fleet Second Coming, Toward Utopia and Birth of a Star are also great.
This is making me think of the opening theme to Tubular Bells.
Other Stellaris tracks to check out include "Gravitational Constant", and my personal favourite "Cradle of the Galaxy".
Try the Synthetic God next!
If you're going to look into more space strategy soundtracks you should really check out the Homeworld series.
I absolutely ADORE this track. And for the lyrics, I have my own interpretation:
This song is actually a lot closer to what I feel will be our future than the science fantasy of Stellaris. In the game, the galaxy is teeming with life, hostile, neutral, friendly, doesn't matter, it's life, whether organic or synthethic. However... as far as science has found out, we have found no sign of life in OUR galaxy. This song... speaks of that.
Picture this:
Finally, finally we have FTL tech. Finally, we can go out there. Finally, we can find out if we're really alone. And so the journey begins... at first, there's nervousness. Will the tech work? Will we met with hostility? Will we cause damage to whatever's living on the other side? Then we're through... another star, there's trepidation. Will this be first contact? Yet the sensors return nothing... "nothing's in sight". The stars are there, dancing eternally with their planets but it's... devoid of any life. So we prepare for the jump again. Next one will surely show something. But once again, nothing's in sight. Next one, next one for sure...
And so it continues, every star full of wonders... but empty of anything that will make us feel less alone. Over, and over, and over....
I wonder if you ever watched something called Animusic growing up. If not, Would love to see you cover it on the channel.
Probably not much there to analyze but a lot of this track sort of reminds me of some Animusic pieces. And they're visually cool to watch.
Whole Stellaris soundtrack is pure gold. You mentioned nebulas, there is a track Distant Nebula, which you may also like.
.... He literally says he listened to Distant Nebula in the first 3 seconds of the video
@@Flamerule13th That's what you get for listening at 6 am. Sorry. Thanks for clarification.
When I heard this my stomach turned inside out
I'd love to hear your take on The Cosmic Balance from Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous
"Lo-fi emotional beats to commit galactic genocide to"
Please listen to among the ruins I’ve never heared a song that matches it’s title so well before
It’s also from Stellaris