Forever doing deals with yourself ... "OK Turn 223 ... might as well go to 250. That'll give me time to finish this wonder, research Astronmy, hopefully get to the Industrial era, THEN I'll go to bed!". Two hours later, you're locked into a war with Shakka, theres a barbarian uprising in the mountains north of your capital, and it's turn 294...
Funny story how Christopher Tin got hired by the Washington National Opera: The director was cooking dinner in the kitchen. Her son was playing Civilization 6 in the next room and she heard this song. She went in there and demanded to know what the song was and where to find the guy who made it
i think all of us civ players felt that. honestly his music is way too good for the title screen of a video game. you just sit there for hours listening to it and not playing.
@@oldfrend It's illegal to own a copy of the game with this amount of godly soundtrack. I'm grateful for the team that perfectly represents our history, our humanity.
1. This is based on a poem by Leonardo da Vinci. 2. The game covers all of human history from the invention of agriculture in the stone age to space flight. It was created by Sid Meier who is a notorious history buff. Some of his games cover specific times and places (e.g. games about pirates or railroad tycoons), but this one covers absolutely everything from a fairly macroscopic view. Cultures from every continent, world wonders, technological upheavals, all of it. It used to be that games would put the most impressive music in the intro movie, but most people only watch that once and only once. Civilization 4 started the trend of putting the best music in the title screen, where you get to hear it every time you launch the game. Civilization 4 used Baba Yetu by the same composer. That song is based on the Lord's Prayer translated to Swahili, and it's also worth checking out.
I've played this game over a thousand hours at this point and thus have heard this song hundreds of times, and yet it still gets me excited whenever I start up a new game. There's so much to this game that every playthrough feels fresh and unique, even after 7 years.
Hopefully Baba Yetu is up on the list somewhere. Volare is absolutely stunning, I'm so glad you enjoyed. But man, Baba Yetu holds the most special of places in my heart.
Not to mention it holds the prestigious claim of being the first song from a video game ost to win a Grammy, followed by the 8-bit Big Band's rendition of Meta Knight's Revenge
Eyyyy it's insane how long ago I requested this! Glad it's finally here, something different for Jesse to hear :D Grammy award winning composer Christopher Tin wrote several albums, one representing the unification of the world, one to represent the flow and life of water, and one to represent mankind's potential to reach the skies and soar. Recently he wrote an album that serves as an elergy to the extinction of birds. What's amazing is that all of these albums is a musical ear-scape that seeks to tell stories or images as you listen through the songlists. Sogno Di Volare and Baba Yetu are the only songs he wrote specifically for the Civ games, but there's an amazing amount of tracks that you likely won't hear since they're not "video game" music so you should definitely check out others!
Honestly, I agree with you, Baba Yetu is a banger on it's own, but for people that aren't that religious, this song of which is made from a I think a poem or text written by Leonardo da Vinci, can have that much more impact, as it doesn't really depend on faith, but the dream of flying and filling the universe with wonder.
I remember when I first got Civ 6. I left the title screen idle for an hour just so I could listen to this whilst getting other jobs done. Absolutely love it
Civilization is the titular "Just one more turn," game. This is the title screen. It's a turn based game where you send out settlers and build up a nation from scratch up through the space age, exploring, exploiting resorces and making friends or enemies of your neighboring countries as you see fit. Its a blast
Welcome to the world of 4X, EXplore, EXpand, EXploit and EXterminate. This genre of games have by necessity amazingly epic music. Since we're conquering the Country, World, Galaxy. Or if you use mods in certain games, Galaxies plural.
Christopher Tin is a maestro. I'd suggest checking out all of his suites as they're all masterpieces. The main theme of Civ 4 (Baba Yetu) is the first (and only?) video game score that won a Grammy. All of his symphonic suites are sung in all kinds of languages from all around the world and have various world music and/or very hopeful, celebrating classical vibes. They all carry incredible imagery imo. Actually when you say anthem, this is a perfect word to describe it all: it's an Anthem to humanity, history and discovery.
There were two others in the years following Baba Yetu, and then in 2023 they added the Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media category to the Grammys, so now there'll be one every year (Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor so far). But yes, Christopher Tin's win of Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) for a video game composition was unprecedented at the time.
One of the best main menu themes. Really gets across the hopeful and adventurous sides of humanity, that have always been a part of Civ. Civilization is a tile-based turn-based strategy game where you build up your civilization and try to advance your's to victory through conquest, science, religion or culture.
In addition to what others have said: this song not only plays in the main menu, but while you're loading up a game. While your game is loading, there's a small narration about the era of the world that you're currently in in game, as well as about the the leader of the civilization you're playing as in that game. And both of those narrations are voiced by Sean Bean. So this song just makes me think of Sean Bean, lol
Dream of Flight is an Italian Song written somewhere in 1800s Cris Tin Made the Orchestral Arragments look for Sogno di Volari From Cris Tin Himself with Awesome Footages...
Every time hear this, I teared up and reinstall the game, and when I feel down, I always listen to this specific song to uplift myself. It helped me many times and had a very special place in my heart. It's incredible how legendary their song and also their intro cinematic.
When I hear this theme I feel honor for humanity! No matter how cruel was our history. Doesn't matter how much bad thing we did to each other's. But at the end we built the world we know right now. This game and music represent how much humanity been through.
Listening to glorious and beautiful music like this I get very conflicted. I feel the same as you, but also I'm sad since there is also this deep darkness and depravity in humanity. Regardless, we should always be striving for this glorious, light and hopeful incarnation of humanity. And I feel like stories and music like this can help capture and guide you towards that feeling and mindset. If we didn't have these glances into / towards our better versions, it would be that much harder to reach for them.
What a beautiful, soaring, hopeful piece. Perfect for a game about leading a civilisation from the Stone Age, all the way through to the modern age. A song about the potential of humanity.
The feeling the song gave you is very accurate as for the game you choose a civilization and build them up to greatness from the stone age to the modern era, rising them to greatness, or failing through the tribulations of building your empire. You manage various aspects of the government, and move units around on a hex map, deciding where to settle cities and defending your borders, or attacking other civilizations. The paths to victory are numerous, and it's a very addicting game.
So it's been a while since I've played Civilization 6, but if I remember correctly, this is the opening theme for the game. The Civilization game series is a 4x strategy game that is about establishing a nation (One that does or has existed) from the beginning of known civilization to modern (and somewhat future) times. You settle a city, develop it and research technologies while constructing units and exploring the world. There are other civilizations on the map as well that you compete against to claim land for more cities, resources, and strategic locations. victory is achieved in many ways, such as cultural dominance, military dominance, or even science dominance by being the first to space, and each civilization has their own perks and special units. If you've ever seen the meme about Ghandi threatening to nuke people, its origin is this series because of a glitch in the original game making him extremely aggressive instead of pacifist. And as for Sid Meier, he is the original creator of the series and continues to work as a founder and director in Firaxis games, the company that makes the series currently. Looking forward to your future reactions to Civilization songs, they all are generally representative of the civilizations in the game they are themes of throughout the ages!
Spot on! Also worth noting that most (if not all) civ's unique themes are done by musicians native to those areas/countries on traditional/accurate instruments for the older era themes! I love that, excited for some to eventually pop up.
Playing this for our upcoming concert for my community ensemble (New Jersey Gamer Symphony Orchestra) and my lord it gives me goosebumps every time I hear it
Well to state the obvious the song and lyrics are about mankinds advancements... and our curious, intelligent nature yearning to fly, to grow, to invent and to be where we belong... high above the clouds species risen from mud and caves to the heavens!
The Entire game soundtrack is phenomenal. There are many civilizations from ancient to modern times and they all have unique themed music and it's top notch. "Sogno di Volare" is a tribute to Leonardo da Vinci (a great engineer that provides bonus culture and eurekas in Civ 6). It's about his attempts at flight using the mountain Monte Ceceri. Civilization 6 is a grand strategy 4x game where you start off with a settler and build an empire throughout the changing eras. Every game is unique even with the exact same game seed and map script. Extreme replayability. The soundtrack puts it over the top
Aww mate, it would be a dream come true if one day Jesse reacts to a full civilisation’s theme from ‘ancient’ to ‘atomic’. I don’t even really care which one! He needs to hear how Christopher Tin develops and builds the melody from one era to the next, absolute masterpieces, every one!
Never thought I'd see Civ requested, typically when I play I sort of tune out the Civ bgm, like it's there but I don't think I ever go "oh wow that part was nice". But I guess with enough hours in the game this stuff just sort of drones out compared to louder stuff or jrpg music.
There is so much hope, optimism and expectation for a glorious future bound up in this song. May we one day shake off the shackles of gravity and find our true home among the stars.
Civilization games are turn-based strategy, you pick a historical civilization and basically manage them through history competing against a load of other civilizations. Christopher Tin was roommates at College with one of the game designers of Civilization 4, and wrote the title music for that game as well, Baba Yetu, which is an orchestral arrangement of the Lord's Prayer in Swahili, and is the first video game song to win a Grammy. I haven't checked but I am sure it's on your request list. Tin has an album from the late 00s that I think you'd like to listen to, "Calling All Dawns". It's 12 songs in 3 movements and every song is written in a different language. Edit: oh and a really cool thing about Civ 6's music is that in-game, there are four different themes for each Civ depending on how advanced through history you currently are, each one is basically a development of the previous era, and the tune they use is usually related to that Civ. So for England, they use the melody to Scarborough Fair, the first tune is just the basic melody on a flute(?). By the time you get to the Atomic Era at the end of the game it's this full orchestral piece that goes on for 4+ minutes. While you're in a game you hear all the tunes of the other Civs that you've met (game normally has 6-10 depending on map size), and there's about 50 civs to choose from in 6! My personal favourite is the Zulu theme, which is this really uplifting chant which by the Atomic era becomes this really fun autotuned(!) anthem.
What I really like about civ 6's OST is how we can find the same leitmotifs adapted for each regional instruments, depending of the era on top with classics remastered. My personal favorites are the Babylonian, Chinese, Zulu and Russian ones
I love how Jesse couldn't hold back his smile at 2:04 because that is exactly how the song gets you feeling, this all-consuming joy. 'I felt that in my chest' EXACTLY
Wait, WHAT? You've not heard Baba Yetu from Civilization 4? It's the theme song of humanity. It was also the first piece of video game music to win a Grammy.
The very first Civ was a strategy, turn-based board game. Now it's a popular video game franchise, that plays similar to a board game. Usually between 4 to 8 players. Basically you pick a Civ with a leader (can go from Gilgamesh leading the Sumerian to Lincoln leading the Americans), each with their own unique perks, start the game in the Ancient Era, and can go even beyond our current era. The goal is to have the most prosperous civilization, either by conquering space, crushing your enemies, spreading your religion... You can also make alliances and ennemies. Sounds addictive? It's worse than you imagine. "Just one more turn" is a popular saying in the community. Oh and each Civ has their own theme song, which evolves as the game progresses through the ages.
Christopher Tin wrote an album called "Calling All Dawns" soon after doing his masterpiece "Baba Yetu" and that album was a spiritual experience for me in all aspects. Still inspires me greatly to this day. Christopher and his music have a special place in my heart, especially since Baba Yetu was one of my first entries into gaming music and Civilization 4 was one of my first gaming experiences overall. I probably won't lie if I say that Christopher shows us that there's still much to be explored and done even in terms of "classical" music. With new cultures being explored by people all around the world it can evolve too, by including new instruments like traditional instruments of different peoples, their languages and poetry, their styles of music (see Baba Yetu and give a listen to the entire album "Calling All Dawns" because that is the entire idea behind it, exploring different cultures and exposing the fact that all cultures have things that everyone on Earth can sympathize with).
Civ is such a relaxing game. It can kick your ass but i rarely ever feel stressed playing it. Not sure how you feel about turn based strategy games but civ is still one of the major power houses in the genre. Its music is always amazing
The song sounding like a countries anthem makes sense since civilization is a game where you play as a leader of one of many real world historic empires and countries as you try to lead it through the evolution of mankind from weapons made from sticks and stones to nuclear weapons and modern infantry.
It's funny. I used to listen to this track all the time and only vaguely knew it was from a game so I was very surprised to see it show up on this channel. Made my day, honestly.
Christopher Tin has a beautiful album called Calling All Dawns. Each song of that album is sung in a different language and they're all beautiful. One of them if Baba Yetu, which has been mentioned here in the comments.
3:12 What represents the entire Civ series of games for me is this video, which I listen to sometimes: v=5B9r7leWO0g It's a collection of famous quotes that are spoken whenever a technology is researched in Civ V. Soothing for the science/history/philosophy nerd in me.
Curiously enough, you were close enough with your idea about Frostpunk, just scale it up from "city dying from the cold" to "nation trying to reach Alpha Centauri". Also, if you loved this, in your spare time you could listen to the "expansion" album that Christopher Tin made based solely on this piece (or rather, this piece was so big that he thought it warranted it's own full blown album). I believe it's also called Sogno di Volare, so that's easy to find.
It's a little surprising if you haven't heard of Civilization, but most others. It's infamous for the 'one more turn' meme. Basically it's addicting and people lose hours to 'just one more turn' that turns into another. And another. If Frostpunk is a basebuilder, then Civ is an empire builder. 'Build a civilization that will stand the test of time' i think was there tagline. Commonly start in the stone age and progress through human history until you build a space program and start interstellar flight, or take over the world. Among other win conditions.
Baba Yatu made history years ago with the first ever video game song to win a Grammy. I suggest that one next- the civ 4 theme song to boot. As for the games. They are a 4x turn based strategy game also known as empire building. It's just based on human history.
It's funny because i was curious if anybody will sometime suggest this game and it finally happend. My personal favorite soundtrack is the Medievial France theme
The game is basically You choose a country and start with it on a map in ancient time. You build up your empire, expand, choose your politics and destroy/make alliances with others. You can play it with 8 Players or AI bots
Personally, I like Baba Yetu slightly more, but only slightly. Baba Yetu is the title soundtrack for Civilization IV. And Sogno Di Volare is for Civ VI. Both are exceptionally good. But in my estimation, Baba Yetu definitely caught on more in Choirs around the world.
The game is a civilization building game. You start as nomads in the stone age, found a city, and expand as you progress through the different eras of human history, researching new technologies and adapting different government styles. You can win the game through conquest, culture, Diplomacy, Science, or Religion. The game is pretty great, and is nefarious for pulling you into an all night gaming binge without you realizing it. I've had a few times where I sit down and I'm like, ok, I'm gonna play a few hours then go to bed, then next thing you know you hear birds chirping outside and you look to see the sun rising. TIP: DO NOT TRUST GANDHI
Christopher Tin has some kind of Midas Hand when it comes to game music. The moment he touches it, it turns to gold. I didn't know he was responsible for the op of civ6, but when I learned it, I was like "so that's why I like it so much, makes sense"
There are likely two main reasons you, personally, haven't heard of this franchise.... Firstly, you seem to pay more attention to console gaming, but while there are one or two console entries in the franchise (more spin-off titles than one of the major numbered ones), but this is series is more popular for the PC/home computer style market. Secondly, this franchise is highly focused on relatively deep or expansive, turn based strategy... You seem more interested in flashy action games... Not to say that there is anything wrong with that or that you couldn't enjoy the game regardless, but it likely wouldn't be the sort of thing you were looking out for... Within overall gaming it's a bit niche, but if you're into this type of game, it's one of the bigger titles, I think... Sid Meier is mostly known for the Civilisation series now, but he had various other games... He's been working in the games industry since the early 80s... Probably best known for strategy and simulation games... He helped found Microprose, then later he left and formed Firaxis games, I think... I don't know if you'd be familiar with either, but maybe you might have bumped into those at some point... He probably didn't invent the 4X genre, but he probably was one that helped popularise it... His companies created a bunch of them... Civ games have a lot of cool and chill, yet also epic soundtracks... I think you could possibly even enjoy the game... That said, I'm not sure you'd appreciate how much of a time sink it can be lol. Turns can go pretty quickly at the start, but as your empire grows, suddenly you have a load to manage... More recent titles can help you automate things more, but if you're playing a big map, things can get crazy, especially if you're at war and having to direct your armies or whatever... And you always have to be careful about upsetting Ghandi, because he can get trigger happy lol .
Civ VI is both the best and worst 4x strategy game, to the point where new 4x games are marketed as "Civ Killers" Essentially, you build your empire from the Stone Age to the "Future Era" and battle for dominance over other Civilizations in Religion, War, Science and Tourism
Hey Jesse! I have a request for you my friend 👍 Could you please listen to this masterpiece : Koudelka incantation again (combat theme) I'd really love you to take a look at it 🎵🎶
Civ, the game you sit down to play for a couple hours and suddenly it's morning
"Just one more turn."
*after one turn*
"Just one more turn."
And before you know it, you're playing the game while sleeping.
@@IceRulerthe vidya version known by readers as "just one more page".
It's never just one more page or turn.
Forever doing deals with yourself ... "OK Turn 223 ... might as well go to 250. That'll give me time to finish this wonder, research Astronmy, hopefully get to the Industrial era, THEN I'll go to bed!".
Two hours later, you're locked into a war with Shakka, theres a barbarian uprising in the mountains north of your capital, and it's turn 294...
Yeah, morning…. Two days later XD
as you wait to get off the title screen LoL.
Literally havent gotten this to run since I bought it.
At least the music is fire.
Funny story how Christopher Tin got hired by the Washington National Opera: The director was cooking dinner in the kitchen. Her son was playing Civilization 6 in the next room and she heard this song. She went in there and demanded to know what the song was and where to find the guy who made it
That is amazing lol
i think all of us civ players felt that. honestly his music is way too good for the title screen of a video game. you just sit there for hours listening to it and not playing.
@@oldfrend It's illegal to own a copy of the game with this amount of godly soundtrack. I'm grateful for the team that perfectly represents our history, our humanity.
@@oldfrend 100 hours of my time in Civ is listening to this song on the title screen
Please stand for the anthem of planet earth
1. This is based on a poem by Leonardo da Vinci.
2. The game covers all of human history from the invention of agriculture in the stone age to space flight. It was created by Sid Meier who is a notorious history buff. Some of his games cover specific times and places (e.g. games about pirates or railroad tycoons), but this one covers absolutely everything from a fairly macroscopic view. Cultures from every continent, world wonders, technological upheavals, all of it.
It used to be that games would put the most impressive music in the intro movie, but most people only watch that once and only once. Civilization 4 started the trend of putting the best music in the title screen, where you get to hear it every time you launch the game. Civilization 4 used Baba Yetu by the same composer. That song is based on the Lord's Prayer translated to Swahili, and it's also worth checking out.
I've played this game over a thousand hours at this point and thus have heard this song hundreds of times, and yet it still gets me excited whenever I start up a new game. There's so much to this game that every playthrough feels fresh and unique, even after 7 years.
Yeah I always let the song finish before hitting play
Hopefully Baba Yetu is up on the list somewhere. Volare is absolutely stunning, I'm so glad you enjoyed. But man, Baba Yetu holds the most special of places in my heart.
If he hasn't heard Baba Yetu that is definitely a must.
Not to mention it holds the prestigious claim of being the first song from a video game ost to win a Grammy, followed by the 8-bit Big Band's rendition of Meta Knight's Revenge
Agreed, both songs are great, but while Volaire makes me feel grand and important, Baba Yetu inspires joy, and we all need more of that in our lives.
@@ThisTinSoldier what’s cool, is baba yetu is the Lord’s Prayer in Swahili.
I'll say "Terra nova" is also upthere for me.
Eyyyy it's insane how long ago I requested this! Glad it's finally here, something different for Jesse to hear :D
Grammy award winning composer Christopher Tin wrote several albums, one representing the unification of the world, one to represent the flow and life of water, and one to represent mankind's potential to reach the skies and soar. Recently he wrote an album that serves as an elergy to the extinction of birds. What's amazing is that all of these albums is a musical ear-scape that seeks to tell stories or images as you listen through the songlists.
Sogno Di Volare and Baba Yetu are the only songs he wrote specifically for the Civ games, but there's an amazing amount of tracks that you likely won't hear since they're not "video game" music so you should definitely check out others!
Christopher Tin is also such a nice person, interacting with people on UA-cam and Twitter.
As much as "Baba Yetu" from Civ 4 gets all the praise, this right here is my favorite theme in the entire series. It's just so grand and fulfilling.
Honestly, I agree with you, Baba Yetu is a banger on it's own, but for people that aren't that religious, this song of which is made from a I think a poem or text written by Leonardo da Vinci, can have that much more impact, as it doesn't really depend on faith, but the dream of flying and filling the universe with wonder.
I remember when I first got Civ 6. I left the title screen idle for an hour just so I could listen to this whilst getting other jobs done. Absolutely love it
Civilization is the titular "Just one more turn," game. This is the title screen.
It's a turn based game where you send out settlers and build up a nation from scratch up through the space age, exploring, exploiting resorces and making friends or enemies of your neighboring countries as you see fit.
Its a blast
Welcome to the world of 4X, EXplore, EXpand, EXploit and EXterminate.
This genre of games have by necessity amazingly epic music.
Since we're conquering the Country, World, Galaxy. Or if you use mods in certain games, Galaxies plural.
Christopher Tin is a maestro. I'd suggest checking out all of his suites as they're all masterpieces. The main theme of Civ 4 (Baba Yetu) is the first (and only?) video game score that won a Grammy.
All of his symphonic suites are sung in all kinds of languages from all around the world and have various world music and/or very hopeful, celebrating classical vibes. They all carry incredible imagery imo. Actually when you say anthem, this is a perfect word to describe it all: it's an Anthem to humanity, history and discovery.
Sure it also won something like "Song Of The World" too, or something...
There were two others in the years following Baba Yetu, and then in 2023 they added the Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media category to the Grammys, so now there'll be one every year (Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor so far). But yes, Christopher Tin's win of Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) for a video game composition was unprecedented at the time.
One of the best main menu themes. Really gets across the hopeful and adventurous sides of humanity, that have always been a part of Civ.
Civilization is a tile-based turn-based strategy game where you build up your civilization and try to advance your's to victory through conquest, science, religion or culture.
Hopeful and adventurous until Ghandi wakes up and decides to do violence.
@@TehParismio I still love how this happened because of a bug in the first came, and the dev's decided, this... this we will keep
The first time i heard this it brought tears to my eyes. Still feels like pure joy.
In addition to what others have said: this song not only plays in the main menu, but while you're loading up a game. While your game is loading, there's a small narration about the era of the world that you're currently in in game, as well as about the the leader of the civilization you're playing as in that game. And both of those narrations are voiced by Sean Bean. So this song just makes me think of Sean Bean, lol
I subcounsciously hear "From the first stirrings of life beneath water" during the intro
Civ 6's OST is a masterpiece. My personal favorites from the soundtrack are the Maori themes and the Zulu themes.
I really dig the Cree theme with the badass Native American chanting mixed with western orchestra
The Maori theme! Haka with an orchestra? It's almost inconcievable, but it worked so good!
Lyrics by Leonardo Da Vinci. 😮
Dream of Flight is an Italian Song written somewhere in 1800s Cris Tin Made the Orchestral Arragments look for Sogno di Volari From Cris Tin Himself with Awesome Footages...
1400s
You can tell its a good song when Jesse says "Is that it?!" Regardless of whether its actually the end or not
Also shout out to Frostpunk!
Every time hear this, I teared up and reinstall the game, and when I feel down, I always listen to this specific song to uplift myself. It helped me many times and had a very special place in my heart. It's incredible how legendary their song and also their intro cinematic.
When I hear this theme I feel honor for humanity! No matter how cruel was our history. Doesn't matter how much bad thing we did to each other's. But at the end we built the world we know right now. This game and music represent how much humanity been through.
Listening to glorious and beautiful music like this I get very conflicted. I feel the same as you, but also I'm sad since there is also this deep darkness and depravity in humanity. Regardless, we should always be striving for this glorious, light and hopeful incarnation of humanity. And I feel like stories and music like this can help capture and guide you towards that feeling and mindset. If we didn't have these glances into / towards our better versions, it would be that much harder to reach for them.
You DEFINITELY need to listen to CIV6's Civilisation themes now, especially the mediaeval themes.
They're all great!
My favourite is the civ game on PS3, the one that's not part of the main line. Can't remember the name.
Oh wait I meant baba yetu, which is civ 4.
What a beautiful, soaring, hopeful piece. Perfect for a game about leading a civilisation from the Stone Age, all the way through to the modern age. A song about the potential of humanity.
This Song always gives me goosebumps. Not only because its beautiful, but because of what it represents.
The feeling the song gave you is very accurate as for the game you choose a civilization and build them up to greatness from the stone age to the modern era, rising them to greatness, or failing through the tribulations of building your empire. You manage various aspects of the government, and move units around on a hex map, deciding where to settle cities and defending your borders, or attacking other civilizations. The paths to victory are numerous, and it's a very addicting game.
So it's been a while since I've played Civilization 6, but if I remember correctly, this is the opening theme for the game. The Civilization game series is a 4x strategy game that is about establishing a nation (One that does or has existed) from the beginning of known civilization to modern (and somewhat future) times. You settle a city, develop it and research technologies while constructing units and exploring the world. There are other civilizations on the map as well that you compete against to claim land for more cities, resources, and strategic locations. victory is achieved in many ways, such as cultural dominance, military dominance, or even science dominance by being the first to space, and each civilization has their own perks and special units. If you've ever seen the meme about Ghandi threatening to nuke people, its origin is this series because of a glitch in the original game making him extremely aggressive instead of pacifist. And as for Sid Meier, he is the original creator of the series and continues to work as a founder and director in Firaxis games, the company that makes the series currently. Looking forward to your future reactions to Civilization songs, they all are generally representative of the civilizations in the game they are themes of throughout the ages!
Spot on! Also worth noting that most (if not all) civ's unique themes are done by musicians native to those areas/countries on traditional/accurate instruments for the older era themes! I love that, excited for some to eventually pop up.
Playing this for our upcoming concert for my community ensemble (New Jersey Gamer Symphony Orchestra) and my lord it gives me goosebumps every time I hear it
Civilization 6 has an incredible Soundtrack, highly recommended to listen.
I have been playing this series almost every Christmas Holliday since 1991 when the first game released on the Amiga.
Well to state the obvious the song and lyrics are about mankinds advancements... and our curious, intelligent nature yearning to fly, to grow, to invent and to be where we belong... high above the clouds species risen from mud and caves to the heavens!
The Entire game soundtrack is phenomenal. There are many civilizations from ancient to modern times and they all have unique themed music and it's top notch.
"Sogno di Volare" is a tribute to Leonardo da Vinci (a great engineer that provides bonus culture and eurekas in Civ 6). It's about his attempts at flight using the mountain Monte Ceceri.
Civilization 6 is a grand strategy 4x game where you start off with a settler and build an empire throughout the changing eras. Every game is unique even with the exact same game seed and map script. Extreme replayability.
The soundtrack puts it over the top
Aww mate, it would be a dream come true if one day Jesse reacts to a full civilisation’s theme from ‘ancient’ to ‘atomic’.
I don’t even really care which one! He needs to hear how Christopher Tin develops and builds the melody from one era to the next, absolute masterpieces, every one!
Tin only did Sogno di Volare and the Intro theme for Civ 6. Geoff Knorr did most with some help from Roland Rizzo for the Atomic themes.
Never thought I'd see Civ requested, typically when I play I sort of tune out the Civ bgm, like it's there but I don't think I ever go "oh wow that part was nice". But I guess with enough hours in the game this stuff just sort of drones out compared to louder stuff or jrpg music.
There is so much hope, optimism and expectation for a glorious future bound up in this song. May we one day shake off the shackles of gravity and find our true home among the stars.
Civilization games are turn-based strategy, you pick a historical civilization and basically manage them through history competing against a load of other civilizations.
Christopher Tin was roommates at College with one of the game designers of Civilization 4, and wrote the title music for that game as well, Baba Yetu, which is an orchestral arrangement of the Lord's Prayer in Swahili, and is the first video game song to win a Grammy. I haven't checked but I am sure it's on your request list.
Tin has an album from the late 00s that I think you'd like to listen to, "Calling All Dawns". It's 12 songs in 3 movements and every song is written in a different language.
Edit: oh and a really cool thing about Civ 6's music is that in-game, there are four different themes for each Civ depending on how advanced through history you currently are, each one is basically a development of the previous era, and the tune they use is usually related to that Civ. So for England, they use the melody to Scarborough Fair, the first tune is just the basic melody on a flute(?). By the time you get to the Atomic Era at the end of the game it's this full orchestral piece that goes on for 4+ minutes. While you're in a game you hear all the tunes of the other Civs that you've met (game normally has 6-10 depending on map size), and there's about 50 civs to choose from in 6! My personal favourite is the Zulu theme, which is this really uplifting chant which by the Atomic era becomes this really fun autotuned(!) anthem.
What I really like about civ 6's OST is how we can find the same leitmotifs adapted for each regional instruments, depending of the era on top with classics remastered.
My personal favorites are the Babylonian, Chinese, Zulu and Russian ones
the Inca "Siempre macho" (Atomic Era) song is also kickass :)
I love how Jesse couldn't hold back his smile at 2:04 because that is exactly how the song gets you feeling, this all-consuming joy. 'I felt that in my chest' EXACTLY
Wait, WHAT? You've not heard Baba Yetu from Civilization 4? It's the theme song of humanity. It was also the first piece of video game music to win a Grammy.
The very first Civ was a strategy, turn-based board game. Now it's a popular video game franchise, that plays similar to a board game. Usually between 4 to 8 players.
Basically you pick a Civ with a leader (can go from Gilgamesh leading the Sumerian to Lincoln leading the Americans), each with their own unique perks, start the game in the Ancient Era, and can go even beyond our current era.
The goal is to have the most prosperous civilization, either by conquering space, crushing your enemies, spreading your religion...
You can also make alliances and ennemies.
Sounds addictive? It's worse than you imagine. "Just one more turn" is a popular saying in the community.
Oh and each Civ has their own theme song, which evolves as the game progresses through the ages.
Christopher Tin wrote an album called "Calling All Dawns" soon after doing his masterpiece "Baba Yetu" and that album was a spiritual experience for me in all aspects. Still inspires me greatly to this day. Christopher and his music have a special place in my heart, especially since Baba Yetu was one of my first entries into gaming music and Civilization 4 was one of my first gaming experiences overall.
I probably won't lie if I say that Christopher shows us that there's still much to be explored and done even in terms of "classical" music. With new cultures being explored by people all around the world it can evolve too, by including new instruments like traditional instruments of different peoples, their languages and poetry, their styles of music (see Baba Yetu and give a listen to the entire album "Calling All Dawns" because that is the entire idea behind it, exploring different cultures and exposing the fact that all cultures have things that everyone on Earth can sympathize with).
Looks like I'm rewatching the civ cinematic now.
One of my favorite tracks from one of my favorite franchises. Nice!
Civ is such a relaxing game. It can kick your ass but i rarely ever feel stressed playing it. Not sure how you feel about turn based strategy games but civ is still one of the major power houses in the genre.
Its music is always amazing
I've wasted days worth of time on Civ games
Absolutely worth it
The song sounding like a countries anthem makes sense since civilization is a game where you play as a leader of one of many real world historic empires and countries as you try to lead it through the evolution of mankind from weapons made from sticks and stones to nuclear weapons and modern infantry.
i love Christopher Tin, his music just makes me feel happy yk
I still cry with joy each time i hear this song... wich makes the game quite unplayable at times XD
It's funny. I used to listen to this track all the time and only vaguely knew it was from a game so I was very surprised to see it show up on this channel. Made my day, honestly.
Civilization is a conquest type video game. Take over the world(map) with your Civilization.
Christopher Tin has a beautiful album called Calling All Dawns. Each song of that album is sung in a different language and they're all beautiful. One of them if Baba Yetu, which has been mentioned here in the comments.
Humanity's Anthem
3:12 What represents the entire Civ series of games for me is this video, which I listen to sometimes: v=5B9r7leWO0g
It's a collection of famous quotes that are spoken whenever a technology is researched in Civ V. Soothing for the science/history/philosophy nerd in me.
Curiously enough, you were close enough with your idea about Frostpunk, just scale it up from "city dying from the cold" to "nation trying to reach Alpha Centauri".
Also, if you loved this, in your spare time you could listen to the "expansion" album that Christopher Tin made based solely on this piece (or rather, this piece was so big that he thought it warranted it's own full blown album). I believe it's also called Sogno di Volare, so that's easy to find.
Christopher Tin also did Baa Yetu for Civ 4 and it's a gorgeous song. It's a Swahili language song of the Lord's Prayer, very cool.
Galileo Galilei was italian. The song is dedicated to him.
Glad you liked this. You really need to try Baba Yetu, the first video game music to win the Grammy Awards
What an amazing piece!
It's a little surprising if you haven't heard of Civilization, but most others. It's infamous for the 'one more turn' meme. Basically it's addicting and people lose hours to 'just one more turn' that turns into another. And another. If Frostpunk is a basebuilder, then Civ is an empire builder. 'Build a civilization that will stand the test of time' i think was there tagline. Commonly start in the stone age and progress through human history until you build a space program and start interstellar flight, or take over the world. Among other win conditions.
Baba Yatu made history years ago with the first ever video game song to win a Grammy. I suggest that one next- the civ 4 theme song to boot. As for the games. They are a 4x turn based strategy game also known as empire building. It's just based on human history.
I have been waiting so long for Jesse to react to a Christopher tin song.
The mongol's theme feels good man, the medieval i think, it's like riding a horse.
It's funny because i was curious if anybody will sometime suggest this game and it finally happend. My personal favorite soundtrack is the Medievial France theme
When Jesse holds his nose in the thumbnail, you know it's gonna be good.
Christopher Tin first job was to listen to John Williams music and write it down for a music sheet company.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSS!
Civ 6’s Sumeria theme is the adapted from the Hurrian Hymn, the oldest known written music ever discovered (from tablets c.1400BC). Incredible shit.
The game is basically
You choose a country and start with it on a map in ancient time. You build up your empire, expand, choose your politics and destroy/make alliances with others. You can play it with 8 Players or AI bots
Thanks
Personally, I like Baba Yetu slightly more, but only slightly. Baba Yetu is the title soundtrack for Civilization IV. And Sogno Di Volare is for Civ VI. Both are exceptionally good. But in my estimation, Baba Yetu definitely caught on more in Choirs around the world.
You literally said "sonno di valore" , which means "sleep of valor" XDXD
But your video is great, keep going.
As everyone else has said, do Baba Yetu next
The game is a civilization building game. You start as nomads in the stone age, found a city, and expand as you progress through the different eras of human history, researching new technologies and adapting different government styles. You can win the game through conquest, culture, Diplomacy, Science, or Religion.
The game is pretty great, and is nefarious for pulling you into an all night gaming binge without you realizing it. I've had a few times where I sit down and I'm like, ok, I'm gonna play a few hours then go to bed, then next thing you know you hear birds chirping outside and you look to see the sun rising.
TIP: DO NOT TRUST GANDHI
Imagine being stuck in pause menu listening to this
Some Patreon sort give him a chance to see Baba Yetu pls
Crazy this got through before Baba Yetu. I love this song, but fingers crossed Baba Yetu isnt far behind!
So called freethinkers when the Indomitable Human Spirit walks into the room.
K. Time to play some civilization v again now 😅😅😅
I helped to kickstart the album. Too bad the rest isn't in the game.
I could have sworn you’ve listened to Baba Yetu before- that’s Civilization 4’s equivalent to this.
I don't think he has, might be confusing it with 'Civilizations/La hee', but now I have to see him react to 'Baba Yetu' since he likes this so much :)
theres hardly a civilisation theme better than baba yetu from civ4
E io che ci gioco dagli anni 90 a oggi
I cant believe you've never heard of Civilisation! It's THE strategy game.
Inspiration
Christopher Tin has some kind of Midas Hand when it comes to game music. The moment he touches it, it turns to gold.
I didn't know he was responsible for the op of civ6, but when I learned it, I was like "so that's why I like it so much, makes sense"
The music is by Christopher Tin, but the lyrics are by one Leonardo Da Vinci.
@7:22 Perhaps "Lofty"...
There are likely two main reasons you, personally, haven't heard of this franchise....
Firstly, you seem to pay more attention to console gaming, but while there are one or two console entries in the franchise (more spin-off titles than one of the major numbered ones), but this is series is more popular for the PC/home computer style market.
Secondly, this franchise is highly focused on relatively deep or expansive, turn based strategy... You seem more interested in flashy action games... Not to say that there is anything wrong with that or that you couldn't enjoy the game regardless, but it likely wouldn't be the sort of thing you were looking out for... Within overall gaming it's a bit niche, but if you're into this type of game, it's one of the bigger titles, I think...
Sid Meier is mostly known for the Civilisation series now, but he had various other games... He's been working in the games industry since the early 80s... Probably best known for strategy and simulation games... He helped found Microprose, then later he left and formed Firaxis games, I think... I don't know if you'd be familiar with either, but maybe you might have bumped into those at some point... He probably didn't invent the 4X genre, but he probably was one that helped popularise it... His companies created a bunch of them...
Civ games have a lot of cool and chill, yet also epic soundtracks... I think you could possibly even enjoy the game... That said, I'm not sure you'd appreciate how much of a time sink it can be lol. Turns can go pretty quickly at the start, but as your empire grows, suddenly you have a load to manage... More recent titles can help you automate things more, but if you're playing a big map, things can get crazy, especially if you're at war and having to direct your armies or whatever... And you always have to be careful about upsetting Ghandi, because he can get trigger happy lol .
My request is Mind in a program from kirby planet robobot or drawcia soul.
Its a 4X strategy game
If you haven't played this game then don't do it, its the most addictive thing out there lol
Italian 'gn' is pronounced like 'ny' as in 'lasagna'.
Civ VI is both the best and worst 4x strategy game, to the point where new 4x games are marketed as "Civ Killers"
Essentially, you build your empire from the Stone Age to the "Future Era" and battle for dominance over other Civilizations in Religion, War, Science and Tourism
Hey Jesse! I have a request for you my friend 👍
Could you please listen to this masterpiece : Koudelka incantation again (combat theme)
I'd really love you to take a look at it 🎵🎶
Escuché bien? El tío Jesse habla español? :0
this is in italian and the words is taken from the manuscript of leonardo da vinci.
check out DRAGON BLADE ROMAN song called LIGHT OF ROME and this is similar.