What Makes Halo's Music Iconic?
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- With the official release of Halo Infinite just around the corner, I revisit the music of Halo: Combat Evolved (and a few ideas from the 2nd and 3rd installments of the series), and discuss how one decision - to write a plainchant melody for the Main Theme - affected the entire soundtrack, and our perception of the game.
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I did not realize this video had so few views, I'm honestly shocked cause this was absolutely fantastic. Great work.
Thanks! Still trying to build the channel, but having fun regardless. Appreciate the kindness!
its been a year or more and this still hasnt blown up. subbed, great analysis
I hope this one comes across Marty's feed also. He's been looking for theses kinds of videos and enjoying the unique perspectives on the themes and scope of Halo. These kinds of videos are my favorite and this was perfect. Thanks for all the hard work.
I would absolutely lose my s*** if Marty saw this. Thanks for the kind words!
I was so surprised to see this have tens of thousands of views less than I thought it would, criminal
That last part where you spoke to the developers with "Unforgotten" in the background was brilliant move!
This video deserves far more views than it has. Well done. I don’t even know music theory but I enjoyed every minute.
Did you get your wish granted with infinite?
Thank you for making this little piece of nostalgia video, it was very enjoyable.
This was the most beautiful thing I've ever watched.
What an incredible analysis! Awesome stuff Adam! (Editing is on point!!)
Excellent work, Adam. Marty will be pleased.
Still waiting for him to see this, I think? I’d lose my shit if he did.
I don't know much about music theory, so I'll just say that something I really appreciate musically and thematically about Halo CE is how it had a heavy mix of both orchestral and electronic, synth, bassy tracks, which almost felt like it mirrored the dichotomy of the naturalistic outdoor spaces and the mysterious forerunner ruins the game had. I know Halo 4 is contentious, but I think this is something H4 did even better, where the electronic tracks even sounded glitchy and dissonant as if to represent the forerunners were an active enemy now. Also, for as incredible as the main Halo theme is, I think it's a shame that stuff like Deference for Darkness (which IMO is THE best track in not just Halo but in gaming), In Amber Clad, Under the Cover of Night, Overture, Heavy Price Paid, Walk in the Woods, etc don't get as much attention despite easily being as good.
I think Halo more then perhaps any other game series is paradoxically underrated due to how popular it is: People know the main theme and know it's a famous series, but the rest of it's soundtrack and just the games as a whole sort of get dismissed just as "that one dudeshooter that was huge before CoD" with very little retrospective analysis or coverage by gaming channels on youtube or on fourms by people other then dedicated Halo fans or hyper mainstream outlets like IGN. And I think thhat's a shame. Would love to see you cover some of those other tracks I mention among many others!
Also, very, very tangentially, but as somebody who also does Mesoamerican (Aztec, Maya, etc) history collaborations and writeups, rafaelmenai on twiter did a pretty recent thread about Mesoamerican music you might find interesting. Sadly it's a subset of Mesoamerican society I know very little about myself, I pretty much only know that one thread and a few other researchers doing work on the topic, but If you find that one thread from Rafael interesting and want more let me know and I can dig up the few other things I know I have somewhere!
Love this. And yes, I hope to cover more Halo music down the road. Writing this video made me realize there is so much to discuss that couldn’t possibly fit in one video.
Phenomenal breakdown!
Marty should comment on this one too
Wake up honey new Adam video 😳
Honestly, as a person who could never maintain a weekly upload schedule, this is the goal 😊
@@AdamODell idc how frequent they are I still get plenty of laughs and learn alot since I don't know Jack shit about music LOL
The first game soundtrack I purchased - and I did so by special-order, placed in a Sam Goody brick-and-mortar store. Good lord have times changed. Great video!
Honestly considering getting a vinyl of the Halo soundtrack because like, I’m so curious to know what that experience would be like. I’ll risk being “that guy.”
Don't forget Bungie's earlier work: Marathon - which had quite a storyline also.
Super good vid! Love how you went into details that many other videos don't cover; keep up the great work - I can definitely see you becoming a popular commentator/content creator if that's what you so choose!
Thank you! I would definitely love that. I think I need to get better at self-promo for that to happen though.
The minor key section remendes me you when you get a Ocarina song wrong from oot
Nice
BEST ONE YET. EXCELLENT TOPIC, SCRIPT, VISUALS, EDITING, AND MEMES 10/10
I’m surprised this doesn’t have more views
Thanks for being one of the few (and hopefully proud)!
@@AdamODell id totally watch if you did more of these!
@@rpond definitely planning on it at some point! I’ve just had a lot of (mostly positive) things going on in my life that make it hard to make time.
This is a really good video.
“It’s 2001! The idea of a shooter game title screen starting with anything other than Nine Inch Nails…”
Unreal ‘98 comes to mind (the castle flyby).
Loved this, subbed. ♥️
Also, hope you’re enjoying Infinite!
Great job dude; this is painfully under-viewed. Hoping this helps boost visibility!
Hey, thanks! It’s probably partly my fault. I’m notoriously bad at Reddit and self-promotion in general. So glad you found it and really appreciate the support!
@@AdamODell Happy to offer it - you've earned it! Cheers~
Would love to see your take on some of Ace Combat's music.
You have A-Tier youtube video writing ability
Thanks for watching, y’all! Would you like to see more video game music content? If so, what games would you like me to talk about?
I stream on Twitch (gamertag Zuckerbees) and would probably do what I did with this video for any other game: play through it with a piano nearby to do some real-time analysis. That was fun. Would love to do it again.
You should Minecrafts soundtrack
The only games I can think of that have soundtracks of the same level are the elder scrolls games. Would love to hear about Oblivion or Skyrim. I know that's a lot of material though and not a linear game, but it's good music I would love to hear about like this
Great video, and that cover of Beyonce's Halo, was priceless
I think that a very overlooked soundtrack is the one from the original SCP:containment breach while there isn't really many tracks the few that are there are incredibly effective at invoking a sense of udder dread, hopelessness and isolation
Also just realized that you haven't uploaded in a bit I'm looking forward to your next upload if one will ever come
Apple did NOT control Bungie. They were and are a totally separate company - they just primarily released their games for the Mac (Pathways Into Darkness, and two of the three Marathon titles - Marathon II and Myth were released on Windows as well). Like many companies that had really good Mac implementations (or were Mac-only) they were featured on-stage at Macworld and WWDC.
I've always loved Halo music, one of the best videogame music I've ever listened to (even though I'm not such a gamer😅)...this video finally explains why. Great one...Thank you, Adam!
The whole halo and shrek thing got me hella dead my mom would get upset because I loved shrek so much I would watch it constantly so she would tell me to turn it off and play some halo.
I loved this video! Where are all the views? Your jokes really hit home with me!
Thanks! The UA-cam algorithm hasn’t picked me yet, and I’m not great with self-promotion, so hopefully one of those things will improve lol.
Hahahah I love this humor. Great video :)
This dude looks like a more fit call me carson
Lol this was so good
...it did :(
It's not that deep. Its suppose to be a sauber mellancolic and serious note to denote the underlying gravity of the main plot. Then the rock music starts which is the start of the military music you could imagine soldiers listen to to prepare for battle. This is also put in the perspective of a hero journey and 117 is the hero kind of. This typ of first serious then action is used by literally every composer out there. The idea that it's iconic is due to the fact that it's good, but mainly to be honest it's because of the franchise success overall.
I think dooms music comes close to Halo's
Its good but for me it has like 4 really good songs , halo on the other hand ... i would be hard pressed to pick a top 5 it has soooo many good songs that you can just unironically listen to anytime .
Y'all need to share this with 343 industries tell them to trash halo 4 and 5 and make a game that fells like halo