You always remind me that music in games isn’t just passive and self evident, but a really complex and nuanced dimension for expression. I appreciate that a lot, video games as a medium just have more to offer than I can even comprehend.
Thanks for another great video! I’d love to hear a 5-second snippet of every song you’re talking about. Also, I miss the quirky edits you used to do-they gave that perfect vibe of lightheartedness that so many channels lack. Anyway, thanks again! Love your channel
Hey thanks for coming back! Doing snippets would for sure be best, It's just hard to do and not get copyright struck 😅 And yeah! The video editing style is always evolving and changing, so I'm glad to hear you liked the old style. We'll see where it goes in the future !
@@SimonZinzovski Of course! Yeah, I get that copyright stuff can be such a pain. I’ve seen some UA-cam music channels using little 3-6 second clips of songs they’re talking about, and I thought it was just that simple ;(
Excellent as always but I feel like this video could have been 5x longer and still have stuff to talk about. Also Inon Zur is underrated imo - hardly a household name but between fallout and BG2 and a bunch of other games I have a fond memories of a lot of his work
Another gem of a video mate, I love Fallout (especially 1, 2 and NV). The music in these 3 games especially are excellent. Another topic I'd like to see your take on would be the music of Timesplitters and Second Sight! Keep it up :)
these videos are great and really help me understand music better its something that just never really clicked with me and goes over my head most of time p.s have you ever looked at the music from Splatoon it's always been super unique a the composers clearly put a lot of effort into it.
In this game i find music that i never think i gonna love. Why Don't You Do Right · Peggy Lee /Soundies Legends/ and Heartaches by the numbers Guy Mitchell, are songs that were never going to go anywhere near my radar, but I fell in love with these songs thanks to this game. Thanks you again for the content. I know it's a little late, but happy holidays
Wtf dude you didn’t talk about Johny guitar. JK But regarding Race Ryder it may be the first movie to start using that method but it’s not the first to make it famous and trendy. American Graffiti was the first to make this style of using licensed pop music especially the 50’s and 60’s ones and then Full Metal Jacket afterwards Goodfellas pushed that calumniating Tarintino’s masterpiece Pulp Fiction. All that of course inspired Rockstars to adapt this style
FNVs soundtrack is very nice, I love the Mojave Music Radio. Midnight Range - Johnny Bond and Ride into the sunset together - Tony Vice & Jerry Burnham are my favourites.
Thanks for the awesome video and all the work you put into it! 💕 In New Vegas, I could hardly get enough of the radio music and only turned it off in places where, contextually, it felt out of place-like during stealth or in mysterious vaults. Lately, in RPGs like Baldur's Gate 3 or The Outer Worlds, I find myself turning off the music even though it's beautiful. It sometimes feels a bit too melodic and repetitive. In Baldur's Gate 3, I even accidentally missed the spectacular musical number during the boss fight with Raphael because I had the music turned off. 😩 I’m curious, what’s your take on the use of music in Red Dead Redemption 2? It feels similarly melodic but leans more toward the ambient style you described in your video about the early Fallout games. Of course, progress doesn’t stand still, and there are moments where the music contextually becomes more dynamic and rhythmic, like during chases or heists. But I’m constantly amazed by how perfectly it fits the "quiet" moments, like when I’m wandering through the world without any specific goal. Again, love your work and analysis! 😍
great thoughts there on contextually appropriate music! I'm not intimately familiar with RD2's music (I have played ~10 hours of the game), but my thoughts are basically: - Anything western has to take it's music ques from ennio morricone, which rd2 does - rd2 has heaps and heaps of music, and is outfitted with a very expensive dynamic music system. it works really hard to try and make the music as contextually appropriate as possible. It's keying all of it's music ques off of what's happening in game, which is insanely resource intensive to create and implement. - rd2 basically wants to be a filmic experience in every way, and we see that manifest in the music too. Basically, i think rockstar put infinite money into rd2 and kitted it out with perhaps the most impressive dynamic music system in video game history (to this point). so you get to enjoy a customised and reactive film-score-like experience that's idiomatically influenced by ennio morricone and his ridiculously outsized impact on scoring for Westerns also! glad to see you in my comments again !
I understand the New Vegas meme songs are bangers, lord knows how many times I've called a revolver a Big Iron because of Marty Robins, but I always took a liking to the tracks that Mojave plays but New Vegas doesn't. The Gerhard Trede tracks specifically are in my personal music rotation. It's always a pleasure when I'm having downtime in a game and Wonderland Romance comes on. Sometimes I'll even just put the controller down and just soak in the vibe.
To paraphrase Shamus Young, Fallout has never been about the 1950's per se. It "was about the future that the 1950’s anticipated. It was a game that took place in the future of the past. " Realized by people who grew up in the 1970's and 1980's. And I think that's a rather unique cultural synthesis where you can get away with playing A Kiss to Build a Dream On right before a family is mowed down by a minigun. Fear that tomorrow isn't coming, and nostalgia for what America perhaps once was. Or was imagined as. Old World Blues.
Great video though! I just remembered that I read somewhere that New Vegas also uses some parts of the Fallout Tactics OST. Can't remember where I read it so I can't confirm it :/
Ah, New Vegas. I will never admit to how many hours are listed on my Steam account. I had an idea. The last game to really impress me music wise was Cyberpunk 2077. I mean there were a few great instrumental tracks when it was first released and Phantom Liberty knocked it out of the park in that area but those were not what really stuck with me. It was the songs created for the game radio stations. I don't think I have heard a game have such a wide variety of songs created by talented artists specifically to fit in its world. It is expensive but man does it leave an impression.
Underrated channel. Keep up the good work mate!
thank you homie fed 🤝🤝🤝🤝
I still remember those goosebumps when Mark Morgan's "City of the Dead" played when I've met members of Caeser's legion in Nipton for the first time
"Yeah! Who won the lottery? I did!"
top 10 moment in the franchise?
You always remind me that music in games isn’t just passive and self evident, but a really complex and nuanced dimension for expression.
I appreciate that a lot, video games as a medium just have more to offer than I can even comprehend.
Commenting for algorithm purposes. Great vid as always.
too kind too kind
oh my god you finally did a video for new vegas ohmygodohmygodohmygod
i finally did !
Thanks for another great video! I’d love to hear a 5-second snippet of every song you’re talking about. Also, I miss the quirky edits you used to do-they gave that perfect vibe of lightheartedness that so many channels lack.
Anyway, thanks again! Love your channel
Hey thanks for coming back!
Doing snippets would for sure be best, It's just hard to do and not get copyright struck 😅
And yeah! The video editing style is always evolving and changing, so I'm glad to hear you liked the old style. We'll see where it goes in the future !
@@SimonZinzovski Of course! Yeah, I get that copyright stuff can be such a pain. I’ve seen some UA-cam music channels using little 3-6 second clips of songs they’re talking about, and I thought it was just that simple ;(
Been eagerly waiting for another upload
Thank you Simon for a great video ! Upload from you is always a treat, and double that with the fact that it’s about Fallout universe!
im glad to hear you liked it!!!
Your videos are always a treat thank you so much
That's so nice of you to say!
I am always happy when you upload a new video. Keep it up man.
thank you dude! i really appreciate the positive vibes
Excellent as always but I feel like this video could have been 5x longer and still have stuff to talk about.
Also Inon Zur is underrated imo - hardly a household name but between fallout and BG2 and a bunch of other games I have a fond memories of a lot of his work
yo good to see you again DS! and yeha, i think Inon Zur will become way less underrated if/when he does the score for Skyrim 2
@SimonZinzovski haha ofc! Gotta keep my 100% watch streak even if I don't always comment
Another gem of a video mate, I love Fallout (especially 1, 2 and NV). The music in these 3 games especially are excellent. Another topic I'd like to see your take on would be the music of Timesplitters and Second Sight! Keep it up :)
thank you dude!!! i'll keep the suggestions in mind 😁
Oh hell yes, looking forward to watching this!
Good to see you again Vistalgia!
Love the video as always!!
thank you Star! always good to see you in the comments my friend
these videos are great and really help me understand music better its something that just never really clicked with me and goes over my head most of time
p.s have you ever looked at the music from Splatoon it's always been super unique a the composers clearly put a lot of effort into it.
you know what dude, i've never actually played splatoon :o
This man is merely gtowing in power before our very eyes and ears
goku type shit
In this game i find music that i never think i gonna love. Why Don't You Do Right · Peggy Lee /Soundies Legends/ and Heartaches by the numbers Guy Mitchell, are songs that were never going to go anywhere near my radar, but I fell in love with these songs thanks to this game.
Thanks you again for the content. I know it's a little late, but happy holidays
thank you!!! hope you had a lovely holidays as well
"Ave, true to Caesar's Palace" - Frank Sinatra, probably
certainly musta been thinking it
Sick vid man
Thank you dude
love this channel
thank you OG
The legend is back.
thank u kindly brother
Love your videos
thank you dude!
The goat is back!!
sorry to have left you!
Wtf dude you didn’t talk about Johny guitar. JK
But regarding Race Ryder it may be the first movie to start using that method but it’s not the first to make it famous and trendy. American Graffiti was the first to make this style of using licensed pop music especially the 50’s and 60’s ones and then Full Metal Jacket afterwards Goodfellas pushed that calumniating Tarintino’s masterpiece Pulp Fiction. All that of course inspired Rockstars to adapt this style
He is back!
yessirrrrr i stay back
FNVs soundtrack is very nice, I love the Mojave Music Radio. Midnight Range - Johnny Bond and Ride into the sunset together - Tony Vice & Jerry Burnham are my favourites.
good picks shady 🤝
Thanks for the awesome video and all the work you put into it! 💕
In New Vegas, I could hardly get enough of the radio music and only turned it off in places where, contextually, it felt out of place-like during stealth or in mysterious vaults. Lately, in RPGs like Baldur's Gate 3 or The Outer Worlds, I find myself turning off the music even though it's beautiful. It sometimes feels a bit too melodic and repetitive. In Baldur's Gate 3, I even accidentally missed the spectacular musical number during the boss fight with Raphael because I had the music turned off. 😩
I’m curious, what’s your take on the use of music in Red Dead Redemption 2? It feels similarly melodic but leans more toward the ambient style you described in your video about the early Fallout games. Of course, progress doesn’t stand still, and there are moments where the music contextually becomes more dynamic and rhythmic, like during chases or heists. But I’m constantly amazed by how perfectly it fits the "quiet" moments, like when I’m wandering through the world without any specific goal.
Again, love your work and analysis! 😍
The radio actually does make you more easy to detect so the game actually mechanically incentives you to turn off the radio in stealth contexts.
great thoughts there on contextually appropriate music!
I'm not intimately familiar with RD2's music (I have played ~10 hours of the game), but my thoughts are basically:
- Anything western has to take it's music ques from ennio morricone, which rd2 does
- rd2 has heaps and heaps of music, and is outfitted with a very expensive dynamic music system. it works really hard to try and make the music as contextually appropriate as possible. It's keying all of it's music ques off of what's happening in game, which is insanely resource intensive to create and implement.
- rd2 basically wants to be a filmic experience in every way, and we see that manifest in the music too.
Basically, i think rockstar put infinite money into rd2 and kitted it out with perhaps the most impressive dynamic music system in video game history (to this point). so you get to enjoy a customised and reactive film-score-like experience that's idiomatically influenced by ennio morricone and his ridiculously outsized impact on scoring for Westerns
also! glad to see you in my comments again !
Yeah dude
edud heay
I understand the New Vegas meme songs are bangers, lord knows how many times I've called a revolver a Big Iron because of Marty Robins, but I always took a liking to the tracks that Mojave plays but New Vegas doesn't. The Gerhard Trede tracks specifically are in my personal music rotation. It's always a pleasure when I'm having downtime in a game and Wonderland Romance comes on. Sometimes I'll even just put the controller down and just soak in the vibe.
respectable deep cut enjoter spotted
To paraphrase Shamus Young, Fallout has never been about the 1950's per se. It "was about the future that the 1950’s anticipated. It was a game that took place in the future of the past. " Realized by people who grew up in the 1970's and 1980's. And I think that's a rather unique cultural synthesis where you can get away with playing A Kiss to Build a Dream On right before a family is mowed down by a minigun. Fear that tomorrow isn't coming, and nostalgia for what America perhaps once was. Or was imagined as. Old World Blues.
perhaps the best franchise ever in terms of addressing retro futurism and hauntology. idk if those themes have ever been done better on such a scale
its fallout new vegasing time
yes brofer
The game also uses some tracks from Fallout 3 (made by Inon Zur so it's good).
Also, no Johnny Guitar mention?🤨🤨🤨
yeah it does do that! johnny guitar was almost in the video but didn't make the final cut 😅
maybe a mistake on my part!
Great video though!
I just remembered that I read somewhere that New Vegas also uses some parts of the Fallout Tactics OST. Can't remember where I read it so I can't confirm it :/
Patrolling the Mojave Almost Makes You Wish For a Nuclear Winter
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Let's gooooooooo
yes sirrrr
Some songs like “Lone Star” and “Let’s Ride into the sunset together” were released in 1998 🌚🌚🌚🌚
The year fallout 2 came!!!!! 🤗🤗🤗🤗
I would argue that the best song on the radio is lone star
cool
boss
probably because its associated with an actual good game
Ah, New Vegas. I will never admit to how many hours are listed on my Steam account.
I had an idea. The last game to really impress me music wise was Cyberpunk 2077. I mean there were a few great instrumental tracks when it was first released and Phantom Liberty knocked it out of the park in that area but those were not what really stuck with me. It was the songs created for the game radio stations. I don't think I have heard a game have such a wide variety of songs created by talented artists specifically to fit in its world. It is expensive but man does it leave an impression.
the cyberpunk 2077 radio stuff is suuuuuuper awesome, like really really cool. so i 100% agree
false information. I can't remember any music from new vegas.
soundless game