Snow levels, snow themed music, snow graphics and physics. This stuff is all over the video game industry and today I want to take a long hard look at it. Feel free to put this video while you work, sleep, study, or whatever else it is you need to do. Hope you guys all have a great holiday season. Love ya.
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Stylized Station snow video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYZXOPJPoIo
00:00 – Winter
02:31 – Evolution
10:14 – Music & Ambience
14:49 – Snow Levels
24:09 – Snow Games
27:37 – & More
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If you guys like snowy video game music, check out this 2 hour playlist I put together in tandem with this video over on my second channel – https://youtu.be/BMFSrBStxZg
One of my favorite things/weather patterns/settings in videogames and real life.
Edit: And yes, RDR2's snow is incredible. First time I played, I spent quite a lot of time just plowing through it.
i would add winter tracks from settlers heritage of kings
Waiting desperately for you to mention snowy mountain from jak and daxter
i dont know why Nocturne of Ice just hits right in the feels
The first snow I remember to see in a game (never saw in real life beeing from a tropical part of the planet) was in Megaman legends 2 in the PS one, oh the atmosphere was so cool for me
I live in North Alabama. We get a GOOD snow on average, about once every 2 years, if that. When it happens, the world just stops and slows down for a day or two, and just walking around seeing your neighborhood engulfed in the white snow is always SO magical. THAT'S why snow levels in video games are always my favorite. It's such a rare, magical experience in real life, so the usually one area in a video game that has snow creates a rare, magical experience for me.
While i have experienced so many awsome uses of snow in games, and Mario 64 was a landmark, my all time favourite use of snow which I mmediately thought of when i saw this vid is Banjo Kazooie's Freeze easy peak.
Thatlevel has snow, Christmas thenes and just a whole coxy feeling that i will always love.
Ignoring your thumbnail (RDR2 = GOATED) I thought of MGS's opening scene with the hind-D!
got caught in a snowstorm in Death Stranding and I never felt so lost and helpless before in a game
Big fan of these types of videos, character deep dives are great too but getting a more in depth look at elements of games like this are so much less common
best video game snow hands down: mafia 2. post war twinkly new york city vibes, check it out.
No God of War is crazy
Snow in skyrim, playing on a wintery day…coffee…ganj, kids tucked in, wife watching anime on her laptop
I’m exactly 5 seconds into this video. Just came here to say that the moment I saw the thumbnail, title, and who it was posted by, I let out an audible “Oh, hell yeah” then started the video.
That’s all.
I’m going back in now.
Waking up during winter break as a kid and hopping on Runescape will forever be a memory that I will cherish. All of your friends online, the whole world of Gielnor, covered in snow, holiday events in-game, unique items, and not to mention: SNOWBALLS.
I'm glad you mentioned Foroschel in LOTRO. That was my favourite place in the entire game.
My first notable experience with snow in a video game. Where I actually noticed it and thought “woah”. Was the opening the Rise of the Tomb Raider.
The mountain top view and the interactive snow with the main character was incredible.
Song in the intro?
Jak and Daxter, The Precursor Legacy has a great soundtrack overall. Every song is a banger. But yea, the snow theme is very obviously a snowy level song. That's the first one that popped into my head.
Man I have to say, you are easily one of my favorite video game creators on the platform. So much of the time, when creators make videos breaking down video game themes and mechanics, there is an air of pretentious ego involved, like they are some sort of expert or connoisseur on the subject. These kind of people feel like if I said I enjoyed a certain game, I’d be judged for it if it isn’t a conventionally popular title (like Starfield for example). But somehow your videos have a sense of genuine passion and just positivity for video games and the art and hobby of it. Thanks for being you man, and I love the content!
To be honest the first thing I thought when I saw the video title was RF interference in my video signal.
There is always a place for me in Skyrim. I can simply go to the cold mountains to listen to the music.
Phendrana Drifts is an all time snow location
I'm glad you added in The Long Dark to the video
whenever I think of snow in videogames I immediately think of The Long Dark
My spouse and I watched this together and almost without fail they would mention something and you'd talk about it right away. Perfect alignment!
15:50 This entire speech gave me goosebumps and made me tear up. Nailed it, brother. 🫡
11:15 all of Skyrim is a snow soundtrack.
The song "Snowflakes" from Persona 4 Golden always comes to mind. A somber piece for the end of the year, as well as the end of the game.
Donkey Kong country, metal gear solid, Undertale, rdr2. Done, let’s get outta here
Snowrunner – snow that deforms and is a core gameplay element
1080 SNOWBOARDING MENTIONED
Beautifully written and narrated, great job. To answer your question and help with the algorithm, Assassins creed 3 is the first game to impress me with its snow
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Definitely the first time going through the northern regions of skyrim, that first blizzard and rushing wind when approaching the ancient ruins nestled in the snowy mountains…that was a magical moment.
Mr. Charm, I promise to watch this the very first minute of us getting snow. I want to watch this video so badly, but I can't do it in good consciousness when it's sunny.
for me the best ice levels and areas in games from my childhood coem from Megaman X, the penguin boss level, and tales of destiny, where you start in a ship that then crash-lands into a snowy area where you spend the better portion of the start of the game before moving onto opering the larger world.
can not believe you didnt mention The Division
Thanks for the shout-out for The Long Dark, one of my favorite of all games. Recommend people watch Jacob Geller's video "Fear of Cold" which discusses TLD and Frost Punk further. And TLD is due to get its final updates to both Story and Survival modes in the next couple months, the player base is pretty hyped for it now.
hey like that any austin video
Although several of the games that come to my head instantly are named in this list (Skyrim of course is the big nail that got hit, Stardew Valley as well), I have a couple that I go back to for various reasons in games not mentioned. I grow along the great lakes, where snow is frequent and plentiful, so lots of snowy memories were made just cozying up in the house while several feet of snow pile up in a day, hoping that the next day will also be a school snow day.
Command and Conquer Red Alert ('95) was the first game I remember seeing with snow in it. I remember sneaking to watch my father play the game, watching him defend his Mammoth tanks in fields of snow. Of course I'm sure he knew I was watching, but it didn't change how much it reverberates in my mind.
Celeste- Summit is another major snow covered landscape that I go to frequently for snow. Celeste is one of my favorite games of all time, resonating with me on many levels, with it's amazing gameplay that keeps me going back for more, torturing myself with harder and harder challenges, such as going through each level completely deathless, quite a difficult task. Ending the main story in a push for the summit in a surreal snowy environment just keeps it there.
A couple other ones I think of are Snowrunner, another game where it's the trudging through snow that's the joy, Persona games, specifically 4 Golden, The games are so well written and the joys of feeling like a kid wanting to go on adventures with friends in the snow really bring me back so much in that game, even if not much is done in the snow itself. Super Mario Galaxy has multiple levels in it that bring me back to the snowy joys soon after Christmas of getting that game, playing through Shiverburn Galaxy.
On light snowfalls, where the roads are just freshly slick, one of my favorite things still is just to go driving with Mario 64 or Mario Kart 64 music playing (admittedly probably too loudly), while I bring back how it felt to race the penguin in M64 or spin out in MK to my little young kid brain. As a teacher, my views on snow days have changed some, wanting to actually be able to help students, especially those who have troubles at home, but there is still that part of me that just hopes for a little bit longer of the snow days, to relax and not have to prepare a lesson plan as quickly as I otherwise would have.
Can someone please remind me where the music at the end comes from, it revives an old memory but I cannot remember it. Thanks for the great content !
it just started snowing where i am perfect timing :^)
love how you talked about music, would love to see a video of you just talking about music in games.
my own thought that makes music sound snowy is persistent layers, like the strings ostinato in skyrim's tundra theme, slightly symbolizing wind. makes things sound colder. its all about layering baby, got a layer for wind, got a layer for ice, got a layer for water, and all of those layers mixed together creates the mental image of snow and cold.
Man this video was just it.
My fav snow level has gotta be from Rockstar's Bully. It was tied to the calendar so it was temporary but it was so much fun that I made saves specifically on those dates just to play in the snow.
You've got to try medieval dynasty, if you even slightly enjoy a season changing game it's the best experience!
i’m all for this series. fire must be next!!! :3
Yay
The horror of the cold isn't that the world is out to get you. It's the knowledge that the world is entirely ambivalent to your existence. It can not be killed nor convinced. It's existence being formed by the very absence of energy.