Understanding the Music of Half-Life
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Published 2020-12-13
Discussing the music of Half-Life, and what the silence in-between songs did for the series, and us.
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
2:38 Half-Life
13:12 Half-Life 2
29:02 The Episodes
35:12 Half-Life: Alyx
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All Comments (21)
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I will make a video on Black Mesa
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Finally another person that cant shut up about Half Life just like me.
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24:02 "But you press onward." backwards longjumping at mach 4
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still beyond pissed alyx wasnt even nominated for goty 2020
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Vague Voices: As you arrive late for work, something doesn't feel right.... Klaxon Beat: look at cool suit
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Finally, these osts are getting the love they deserve😌
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I feel like it's important to note that a lot of the most iconic sounds that Kelly used were directly lifted from a bunch of sample packs. Not to say that selecting the appropriate samples to make something isn't a skill in itself, there's a reason why the Half-Life Soundtracks are some of my absolute favorites. I just found it funny how you pointed at some of them as if Kelly made them himself lol. He of course broke away from the in most of HL2 and the episodes. Episodes 1 and 2 are godly in that regard.
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The music makes me go recover health
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The Half-Life score makes me so nostalgic, it has such a weird but interesting vibe to it. Very alien, mysterious, ominous, existential, otherworldly. Hard to describe with our limited vocabulary.
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Triage at Dawn lovers unite!!
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Me: about to go to sleep Liam: "I am going to stop you right there."
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26:28 The echoes of the howling wind when I crossed the scaffoldings beneath the Highway 17 bridge, and then that harrowing music starts playing.... That sound has been itched into my soul.
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Half life music has a special feeling since its the right music in the right time, the music around atmospheric areas fits amazingly.
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P L E A S E DO PORTAL AND PORTAL 2. I think those games have the BEST soundtrack designs.
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Triage at dawn is the theme of my teenage years. I struggled a lot in school and half life 2 (and the orange box) was an escape from life. It is a song that I that reminded me there was a safe haven for me when I was down
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14:13 When you try to abuse the physics engine and the game abuses you back
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26:30 You're so right on Lab Practicum. It can't be explained though. I've been fascinated by it since 2004 and listen to it at least a couple of times a week. I feel like even trying to describe the "alien" or weird depersonalization experience in words does it great injustice. I've always wondered whether others experienced similarly deep, indescribable feelings in that moment. It's a beautiful yet horrifying piece of ambient that feels like it's revealing something deeper about the nature of consciousness and reality itself.
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I like to think the HEV suit has these songs built into it, and the AI system just plays them at appropriate times. Great vid btw. :)
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Extremely well produced documentary video! It actually got me into that Half Life mood and here I am now, sitting in my room, wanting to replay Half Life for the 86th time.
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11:46 "my final message. change the world. goodbye"
