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Games Where You Make The Soundtrack
One of the most interesting dynamics in video games is providing the player the opportunity to create music. This incredible game mechanic has been approached in many different ways and has impacted my life more than I would have ever expected. In this video essay, join me as I analyze strumming controllers in The Last of Us, creating chaos in Sea of Thieves, and exploring time in Life is Strange. It'll be fun, I promise.
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Music:
Sea of Thieves OST - ua-cam.com/play/PLYAweVdxYMcox8GZhSDw45vxpdGCxZCWZ.html&si=hK_OAnVAbbnNmbJP
Ellie Plays Hotel California - ua-cam.com/video/pBbHy_BIz64/v-deo.htmlsi=V4JqSf72vkT4TD4E
Ellie Plays House Of The Rising Sun - ua-cam.com/video/bQrIKyBhbJE/v-deo.htmlsi=3QSwsPeIgrllKtAv
Ellie Plays The Last of Us Theme - ua-cam.com/video/RGHP4VPir5M/v-deo.htmlsi=luO3X7Y7o9vJTQxf
Ellie Plays Hurt - ua-cam.com/video/f6_TtIqnOsY/v-deo.htmlsi=jrJpc9Xl3lB8k1CR
Joel Plays Helplessly Hoping - ua-cam.com/video/-zOjVJgIVHA/v-deo.htmlsi=3GJ5jFAwfPxt4KCW
Life is Strange OST - ua-cam.com/play/PLp3-KQ922RELlU_q8bmxEMtweK_b8jo0j.html&si=U9-TTFnGP__yGJRe
Sources: pastebin.com/7yTYU3Q9
Footage: pastebin.com/Bz8UM89A
Chapters:
0:00 - Games Are Moving Fast
1:55 - Sea of Thieves
6:50 - The Last of Us Pt. 2
13:00 - Life is Strange
19:00 - Appreciating The Crumbling World Around Me
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How The Gummy Bear Song Ruined Youtube
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Almost 20 years after its original release date, The Gummy Bear song is still alive and well. Amassing over 3 billion views, it has solidified itself in the UA-cam hall of fame. Fast forward to the present day, and videos like it posted to UA-cam Kids have completely taken over the platform. In this video essay, I decide to blame the entirety of this issue on a silly green bear. Yippee! Want so...
Revisiting TikTok's Greatest Trend
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It has been over 3 years since the Adult Swim trend took the internet by storm. Stemming from a platform often associated with lackluster creativity and trend chasing, the fan made "Bumps" stood out from the crowd. Loved by many and constantly trying to be revived, in this video essay we revisit the roots, effects, and lessons that the adult swim trend showed us all those years ago. Let's take ...
I Made A Video Essay* In 24 Hours.
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Making a video essay is a complex process involving research, planning, and direction. Unfortunately, I don't have time for any of those. In this video essay*, join me as I discuss something I hate, something I like, and a question that I have. It's a roller coaster, might make you laugh, hopefully doesn't make you cry, and certainly has videos of my dogs along for the ride. I made a video essa...
When The Only Thing Left Is Music
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Throughout history, art often follows the choices humanity has made; for better and for worse. Music is one of these arts, serving as a time capsule to travel back to see humanity at its worst and at its best. From the musicians aboard the sinking of the Titanic to an opera played in a fictional prison of fear, this video essay dives deep into this complex relationship, hoping to answer the que...
How You Made The Best Ending In Video Game History
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For a game that was released almost 6 years ago, it is difficult to forget the video game juggernaut of Red Dead Redemption 2. In this video essay, join me on a journey rediscovering not only why it has the best ending in video game history, but how it was also created by us as the player. May we all stand unshaken amidst this crash of worlds. Want some extra content from me? For only $5 a mont...
Me
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It is absolutely crazy to think this channel has reached over 10k subscribers. Thank you so much to every single one of you that made this possible, I am incredibly lucky to have such a wonderful community. To celebrate the milestone, I am happy to announce that a discord server for all things FCP related is officially live! Go check it out! Official Discord Server: discord.gg/A6xWjSPPXe Helpfu...
The Repetitive Nightmare of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared
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Why is it that we still can remember the series "Don't Hug Me I'm Scared' over a decade later? In this not normal video essay, join me on my listening journey to answer that question. I don't want to be apart of this repetitive nightmare. Want some extra content from FortCollinsProductions? For only $5 a month, you can have some extra content, access to ad-free videos early, behind the scenes f...
A Reading of Minecraft's End Poem
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A calming reading of Minecraft's end poem with C418's song Alpha.
Minecraft's Forgotten Song About The Universe
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There is a song at the end of the game. Within this ending, it has been put to rest, heard by many yet never talked about. This video essay is about my journey in discovering what that song was, who made it, and why it really was there with us all along. Shall we go off the deep-end? Want some extra content from FortCollinsProductions? For only 5$ a month, you can have some extra content, behin...
Helldivers II: The Sound of Democracy
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Helldivers II's music needs to be discussed more. It's in your face, motivates you to run towards horrifying creatures, and makes you feel patriotic for a planet that doesn't even exist. In this video essay, I find myself discussing what isn't being discussed enough; Helldivers II is THE sound of democracy. Want some extra content from FortCollinsProductions? For only 5$ a month, you can have s...
Why Jimmy Buffett Matters
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The man who captivated audiences around the world using kindness, good vibes, and music, has passed away at the age of 76 years old. As time continues moving forward, this videoessay cherishes the memories he's made with generations, the melodies he has sang with friends, and the message to never forget what he did for us and the music world. He was more than a singer, entrepreneur, and sea cre...
How Her’s Soundtrack is Genius
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This video essay is a stream of consciousness following my rewatching of the film Her. AI has become one of the major talking points of the last year and AI music is no exception, holding powers that we struggle to comprehend. Sit back and relax as I have a breakdown breaking down this incredible film. Want some extra content from FortCollinsProductions? For only 5$ a month, you can have some e...
The Best Musical You've Never Heard Of
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A musical that has seemed to fade into nonexistence over the last decade, The Last Five Years is a hidden gem waiting to be discovered. Join me and Erbo on the rollercoaster that is this musical and the clash of timelines that defines this video essay. Enjoy the ride, we'll see you at the dinosaurs. Want some extra content from FortCollinsProductions? For only 5$ a month, you can have some extr...
Uncovering Lethal Company’s Strange Soundtrack
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Uncovering Lethal Company’s Strange Soundtrack
The Secret Company Behind The Whopper Ad
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The Secret Company Behind The Whopper Ad
Why Noah Kahan Matters
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Why Noah Kahan Matters
Fear of Forests
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Fear of Forests
The Great Mystery of Variations on a Cloud
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The Great Mystery of Variations on a Cloud
Time Machines and Mr. Rogers
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Time Machines and Mr. Rogers
A Glimpse At Spectacle
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A Glimpse At Spectacle
Monsters, Movies, and Mahler
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Monsters, Movies, and Mahler
The Ridiculous Lives of Frank Sinatra
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The Ridiculous Lives of Frank Sinatra
Minecraft's Lost Souls
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Minecraft's Lost Souls
A Love Letter to Clair de Lune (and its comment section)
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A Love Letter to Clair de Lune (and its comment section)
Childish Gambino's Mission
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Childish Gambino's Mission
The Music of Black Ops 2 Zombies
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The Music of Black Ops 2 Zombies
The Great Mystery of Hawaii: Part II
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The Great Mystery of Hawaii: Part II
Worms On Concrete and Childhood Nostalgia
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Worms On Concrete and Childhood Nostalgia
Why Songs About Jane Matters
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Why Songs About Jane Matters

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @Mariana_Manta
    @Mariana_Manta 35 хвилин тому

    6:39 lla ta gnigniht rof llA

  • @MrSoupCanSam
    @MrSoupCanSam Годину тому

    Sir this is a Wendy’s..

  • @klentastic87
    @klentastic87 15 годин тому

    I appreciate local 58 footage occasionally when talking about the moon

  • @FancyDuckOG
    @FancyDuckOG 16 годин тому

    In the cover is that trombone notes?

  • @ShaggysMovingPictureBox
    @ShaggysMovingPictureBox 22 години тому

    I clicked on this because I recognized the album cover surprisingly enough super interesting stuff here. I’m glad I clicked this. Love you.

  • @Aussiewhatevercontentimakenow

    2:47 tre was not an original member and Jason white became a member in 2012

  • @mustashfan1o198
    @mustashfan1o198 2 дні тому

    I experienced Hawaii Part II in a strange way that, given I never saw anyone else mention it (mind you, my research and sources don’t exist beyond some memes, comments, fanart and this video) would probably make its community chuckle. Fair enough, as you’ll see. Let me back up, because my introduction to this beautiful album wound up being none other than Meffols’ newest animated meme. Yes, a meme. Except this one didn’t even have anything to do with the theorised story. It was Meffols talking to an avocado and using the line “you look quite divine tonight.” Just like you, I couldn’t not take to his video’s description to find the source of the song. That’s what’s important to note and probably why I got so confused. My introduction to the album was its finale. Dream Sweet in Sea Major became my initial experience with Hawaii Part II. Where this gets funny is how I perceived it. Bare in mind my starting point, how I had no prior context of the album or even its order (for all I knew at the time, Dream Sweet in Sea Major was the opening), how starved I was for context surround Miracle Musical and the community that followed them (listening on a UA-cam official music video meant no comments below to point things out). Simply me, the music, the writing and the album cover. And cutting to the chase, those three things gave me vibes. So I’m gonna start listing off everything it reminded me of to see how you’ll react. Straight off the bat, the music brought me back to FallOut and between that and the both the writing and cover putting notable emphasis on the sea, it also made me think about Subnautica. So my mind went straight to ‘this must be a post-apocalyptic and flooded environment. We’re following a survivor in an endless body of water who’s slowly losing his mind. Then, and this is where my mind starts stretching it, but between the set of razor teeth on the cover and the title itself, something ticked me off. Something about how the teeth are faded and slightly hidden. How the text is fully capitalised and the band’s name is in rainbow text. How the whole cover seems to be a cross of darkness and chaos. How it’s being cinematic in a sense. It all just added up in my mind. And it reminded me of… Well, a few things. Stuff like Jurassic Park/World, Godzilla and Pacific Rim. Crazy right? The way Miracle Musical portrayed the cover made me feel as though I was supposed to be scared yet simultaneously hyped. Like a thriller. A thriller about giant creatures lurking underwater. I mean, to paint the picture even more clearly in my mind, one of the lines is “You look quite divine tonight, here among these vibrant lights. Pure delights surround us as we sail. Signed, yours truly, the whale.” My brain translated it to “There is a whale lurking beneath me beyond my known capabilities to do anything about. It thinks I look divine around vibrant lights and surrounded by pure delights. That’s a romantic way of saying ‘there are a ton of fish around, but you exposed under the moonlight seem like an easy meal in comparison.’” I understand these thoughts can sound far fetched, but remember, there’s a set of teeth on Hawaii: Part II’s cover. At the end of day, in my eyes at the time, it didn’t matter if there was actually a whale threatening to eat the protagonist on a sailboat. What mattered was the picture. And that picture had been painted as a post-apocalyptic world stranded at sea. Add in all which accompanies that. So as interesting as I suppose it might be, there’s my first interpretation of Hawaii: Part II before I got more context.

  • @Klonki
    @Klonki 2 дні тому

    Am i the only one that remembers C418 minecraft's soundtrack when listening to the piano in lethal company?

  • @Ranger_James38
    @Ranger_James38 2 дні тому

    Yay, sea of thieves, one of my favorite games!!!!!

    • @Ranger_James38
      @Ranger_James38 2 дні тому

      Also I feel shouted out for the faith unholy Trinity reference, thank you.

  • @Ranger_James38
    @Ranger_James38 2 дні тому

    I feel like steanded lullaby, even in absence if the rest of the album, is so important to hear at least once. It demands an emotion that many will never feal anytime else in their lives, and having such a powerful feeling of loss and acceptance is so special.

  • @chelseaf.3352
    @chelseaf.3352 3 дні тому

    I don't dislike your analysis but the editing of this is so over the top edgy I'm struggling to take it seriously

  • @gaelvazquez6601
    @gaelvazquez6601 3 дні тому

    What if film theory or one of the channels did a breakdown of Hawaii part 2 and variations on a cloud

  • @nuggie7499
    @nuggie7499 3 дні тому

    Always thought as the album as a young man setting off for hawaii, finding love, love gets killed in the woods, is framed, sent to electric shock therapy, escapes the mental ward, steals a boat and bleeds out on an island as his dead lover sings with him in his final moments.

  • @KharaNayana
    @KharaNayana 3 дні тому

    This is what I was looking for, but what about Hawaii Part ii part ii?

  • @KharaNayana
    @KharaNayana 3 дні тому

    Wh does no one ever talk about variations on a cloud

  • @onlyguy_
    @onlyguy_ 4 дні тому

    Fun Fact! When you die, your brain plays your best memories for 7 minutes. Dream Sweet In Sea Major is exactly seven minutes long. This means that the final song is the death of Simon, and his best memory is sailing to Hawaii. It even reuses lyrics from Introduction to the Snow. It was also posted when the end of the world was supposed to happen. Now that I think of it, that wasn’t really that fun of a fact.

  • @OS1K3LI
    @OS1K3LI 5 днів тому

    One thing to notice as well, when you are out of earshot of any other players, the game starts playing certain ambient sounds it wouldn’t otherwise play

  • @koenvandenbroek5814
    @koenvandenbroek5814 5 днів тому

    The devil, or “Lucifer” AKA Lightbringer, is the bringer of light, so the bright light could be a reference to the devil/hell

  • @Gabriel12305
    @Gabriel12305 5 днів тому

    My actual childhood bro

  • @dont_mind_myname
    @dont_mind_myname 5 днів тому

    I remember my kindergarten teacher played the gummy bear video and everyone was laughing when he starting shaking his ass on the one bit LIKE WAS THAT IN THERE 💀💀😭😭

  • @IronGaming-sw9dc
    @IronGaming-sw9dc 5 днів тому

    Bro this video is so unnecessaryly long.

    • @bingbof
      @bingbof 4 дні тому

      oh my god dude shut up

  • @Teahp_wt
    @Teahp_wt 5 днів тому

    .

  • @cadetoonstheguywhomadegetty
    @cadetoonstheguywhomadegetty 5 днів тому

    Can we focus on present day and talk abt what's ruining youtube rn

  • @sparkle-kohi
    @sparkle-kohi 5 днів тому

    STOP TRYING TO SCARE ME THIS DOESNT NEED TO BE SCARY

  • @ST4r_SHR1Mp
    @ST4r_SHR1Mp 5 днів тому

    THIS WAS LITERALLY GREAT VIDEO TYSM but now this music kind of creeps me out BUT OMG GOOD JB BROO!!!❤ ive thought the mind electric specifically was about him losing his mind slowly, but i didnt know about murders being his fault lol

  • @The_second_general
    @The_second_general 5 днів тому

    2:33 banana man jumpscare Edit: WAIT THAT WAS JUST A CLUE THAT THIS WAS TALLY HALL

  • @SomewhatGrand
    @SomewhatGrand 5 днів тому

    Tally Hall? You Called?

  • @minecrafteramedney
    @minecrafteramedney 6 днів тому

    Imagine living in the middle of nowhere, its june 2020, the world has shut down, and you are alone for several hours and you've just discovered Hawaii part 2: it will be the only album you will get to know in great detail for the next few months. That was my experience with this album. It was almost a psychedelic experience

  • @ZedBoulé-j9v
    @ZedBoulé-j9v 6 днів тому

    GOD ITS 3AM AND I JUST FINISHED WATCHING 07/18/1978 AND NOW IM WATCHING THIS NIGHTMARENIGHTMARENIGHTMARENIGHTMARENIGHTMARENIGHTMARENIGHTMARENIGHTMARENIGHTMARENIGHTMARENIGHTMARE

  • @reaganlee6706
    @reaganlee6706 6 днів тому

    Are you from FOCO?

  • @Jazzm4h
    @Jazzm4h 6 днів тому

    holy shit

  • @itsdaannym0514
    @itsdaannym0514 6 днів тому

    For some reason this song gave me nightmares idk why

  • @wizzlyisdizzily
    @wizzlyisdizzily 6 днів тому

    This shit’s beautiful bruh🥲

  • @slurpysplace
    @slurpysplace 7 днів тому

    this was..wow

  • @ink_ad
    @ink_ad 7 днів тому

    How much time did you but in making this video

  • @SeenCentralized
    @SeenCentralized 7 днів тому

    American Democracy Forever!

  • @iputcapitalistsdownlikedogs
    @iputcapitalistsdownlikedogs 7 днів тому

    Dreams is the best break up album of all time but this is second

  • @ThatOneGuy-wr8rh
    @ThatOneGuy-wr8rh 7 днів тому

    21:30 Where are you...? Come to my embrace, Catherine!

  • @yesssaaa121
    @yesssaaa121 7 днів тому

    bros mad cause he didnt get the album on november 13th for the music videos and extra

  • @Cheeseman_85
    @Cheeseman_85 7 днів тому

    When the company is lethal

  • @NateDaboomMintycloud
    @NateDaboomMintycloud 8 днів тому

    Don't say it don't say it..... GYAAAAAAAAAAT

  • @valentinovigovv
    @valentinovigovv 8 днів тому

    The piano score is just beatiful. Had to look it up and it's actually on Spotify. Can't stop listening now.

  • @GeorgeUni
    @GeorgeUni 8 днів тому

    you are too dramatic smh

  • @Gerry-980
    @Gerry-980 8 днів тому

    this was my childhood song i used to listen.

  • @teaboundturtle
    @teaboundturtle 8 днів тому

    Mmm musical mmmm

  • @emricricard4499
    @emricricard4499 9 днів тому

    this music gives me earthbound vibes

  • @alexanderweir2382
    @alexanderweir2382 9 днів тому

    Great work 👍🏻

  • @leighahorner169
    @leighahorner169 9 днів тому

    my very first time playing we went to experimentation, i got lost outside and my coworkers left me. i ended up somewhere on a tall rock and i just looked around at the canyons and skybox while that little piano ambient music played and it was the most insane feeling ive ever experienced recently

  • @zacharyrivas8074
    @zacharyrivas8074 9 днів тому

    Best Maroon 5 album? Absolutely! Best breakup album? No! My vote goes to Rated R by Rihanna and Rumours by Fleetwood Mac

  • @MoltenDough
    @MoltenDough 9 днів тому

    who cares i love gummy bears