33 thoughts on “Reacting To Video Game Music! | Cyberpunk 2077 – Never Fade Away”
Haha, Im glad that you enjoyed this! I had a feeling you might ;D I listened to this for like a month solid and skewed my Spotify recommended for ages but actually I'm not mad about it. My favourite part is the chorus because melodic guitar bits make the brain go mmmmmm good.
LORE DUMP TIME! Samurai is the name of the In-Universe band, the IRL band is Refused! In Canon, the dual vocals are that of Johnny Silverhand and Kerry Eurodyne- Johnny being the main vocalist and Kerry having 'lived in his shadow' for a long time. There's also many big plot points that revolve around you "dual" theory, too. And no! The soundtrack is incredibly diverse, the orchestral soundtrack is… uhhh… industrial cyberpunk? Chromepunk? But! There are many unique in-game radio stations that are filled with songs, Never Fade Away belongs on Morro Rock, and will play when you have it on in your vehicles and during a kind of nostalgia cutscene. You meet stars like Kerry Eurodyne (Damien Ukeje) and Lizzie Wizzie (Grimes) while you play, and music is no small part of this game, and one of my favourite things about it! This song, the emotional cover of it at least, is the last song you hear while looking at V, the protagonist, no matter which route you choose. It was originally written by Johnny for his then lover, Alt Cunningham, who he may or may not have set off a nuclear bomb for, no biggie; but in the end, it transforms into something for V and their journey.
Hooboy! In regards to the actual game! Now, with over 300hrs in, my opinion is biased, but although its a buggy and sometimes broken game, its a bloody brilliant one. Fun gameplay and smooth, exciting combat. Huge world to explore, even though I wish I could explore it more, story is so good, sidequests are fleshed out and have their own little stories that flesh out Night City. Also you can literally explode people's heads from behind a wall with a THOUGHT so like thats pretty cool. Devs are working to revamp it, as the rumour mill goes. They have already released a few patches that address some key issues, but not all. A fair amount of my big gripes with gameplay are taken care of with a couple of mods on PC, its not like I had to overhaul or anything! Well worth checking out, imo!
I played the game on release and while it was a bit glitchy, I was fortunate enough to not have had a lot of the bugs that detracted from the game. I really, REALLY loved the story and the characters and the music performed by the in-universe band Samurai was all incredible. It was one of those games that left me feeling hollowed out and kind of depressed by the end of it, but in a good way (?)
Next songs you should listen to are Chippin' In and Black Dog. Interesting enough for Chippin' In, when you're creating your character and choosing what type of tattoos you want, there's a tattoo that has the lyrics of Chippin' In. As well Black Dog, for those that have already played the game, can be seen as part of what the main character experiences once getting a certain item. Don't wanna spoil too much, just in case you wanna experience the game yourself.
Cyberpunk's soundtrack is phenomenal. Even the radio stations are absolutely fire. But truly, the original soundtrack is a work of art. "SAMURAI" is an actual in-game/in-world band from the game/tabletop that produces songs focusing on ideas of rebellion and rising up against corporate tyranny in a world that is ruled by corporations – hence the choice of rock & metal as the band's genre.
All of the songs by SAMURAI are amazing. An entire album for this fictional band was produced, so you'll have plenty to listen to if you continue. "Black Dog" and "Chippin' In" are two of my favourites.
As you have observed, the game has had a very polarising effect on the community. It's been hyped up for literal years, both by the community and especially CDPR's – the developer – marketing. CDPR had previously released the Witcher games. 3 in particular has been lauded for its storytelling in an open world setting and the studio did right by it with the expansions released after launch, making CDPR a bit of a darling developer. After several delays, the game released in a decidedly unfinished state. It was buggy, a number of teased features were cut and it ran exceptionally poorly on PS4 and Xbox One to the point of Sony taking it off the Playstation Store and issuing refunds to its customers. It's been patched a number of times by now, of course, and these patches did improve the latent bugginess, but no significant content has been released for it yet.
I played it on release, on PC, and on very powerful hardware to boot. The audiovisual experience was outstanding and some of the game's cast made it an experience I am not likely to forget. The common criticisms outside of the bugs are that the AI is braindead and the open world merely window-dressing. If you get the police to chase you, NPCs will spawn right outside of your view and shoot you in the back. Basically, if you try to play it like GTA you will quickly find that the world isn't very robust in regards to player interactions. This makes it easy to break immersion.
It's a crying shame that nuanced discussion about the game is almost impossible to find.
Hello and nice greetings from Germany. Hope you're doing fine and feeling great. I just was in your live stream and fittingly I can say something to that on this video. You said you're thinking about getting rid of your beard… In my humble opinion… PLEASE DON'T You look like the lovechild if Keanu Reeves and Dave Grohl… and that's AWESOME!!! ^^
I'm glad that I waited several months after the initial release. After the release they had made a huge amount of major fixes to the game and it felt more or less like a game should on release (more finished at least than most AAA games these days but that's not really saying much…). There were minor glitches there and there but I didn't encounter anything game breaking or especially weird. Some of the side quest stuff isn't especially great but I can definitely recommend the game as it currently is. The main story and the more major side quest lines are definitely worth it, especially if you can grab the game when it's on sale (and you have at least a good enough graphics card to run it… It seemed more forgiving for CPU than GPU).
Huh… My mind immediately went to classic Doom right from the start until the singing started. In fact without the singing I could have sworn this music could be heard in classic Doom instead. Say what you will about Cyberpunk 2077, it did nail something at least.
There's a bunch of different type of music in the game. Some really weird but oddly good ones too like "Pain" from Le Destroy and an.. experience called "PonPon Shit" lol. The game itself got a lot of hate but personally I quite like it and am actually doing a new playthrough now. Story is good, combat is fun, there's still a few janky bugs but all in all I'd say it's a good game. Still hoping they add some new content in the form of expansions.
The song lyrics are from a short story for the TTRPG Cyberpunk 2020, to which Cyberpunk 2077 is basically the sequel and they recorded the songs from the short story for the game, which is really cool. The game is actually really faithful to the old TTRPG. And yeah, the song is partially basically played on the dad rock radio (because, well, the song is from 2020 obviously) and specific story moments. There's a few others from Samurai, but there's also more 'cyber' music and original takes on Jpop and such.
Game is buggy and I was not able to play unfortunately but… OST is good, fitting to the world, variety of vibes and stuff. Have few favourites, but it's not my everyday genre 😛
I don't know if it's true, but here is my theory about dual vocals. In lore SAMURAI has 2 singers: Johny Silverhand and Kerry Eurodyne. Johny is ex-military rebel, who fights corporation with both songs and guns. He is visionary of rock, an inspiration for whole generation of rockers. But in reality he was heartless prick ignoring all collateral damage of his anti-corp war. In the end he blow up nuclear bomb in corporation HQ. I believe he is aggressive voice in the song. Kerry on other hand is a uninspiring pop-singer who wanted only fame. He is likeable, but doesn't have a backbone. Before final gig Johny gives him last advise "For once in your life stop being a fucking pussy". I believe he is calm voice in the song. This seen more clearly in song "Chipin' in". It has two versions: original hard rock of Johny and pop-rock of Kerry.
the version done by Olga Jankowska used as the track in the launch trailer for the game is phenomenal and should be a followup listen after this track!
your observation at 6:30 is… "interesting" to say the least. When it comes to state of the game, when I played it back on launch day with a pretty decent PC (1080ti and Ryzen 3600 both at stock speeds), I genuinely had 1 crash whilst I was streaming it to my friend through Discord, had 1 T-Pose in a mission which was fixed in one of the patches, no gamebreaking bugs, no bugs that made me reload the save. I did have clipping issues though, like dying or taking damage while running through piles of garbage and its impact just kills you etc.. Out of 6 people I talked about Cyberpunk, only one had animation bugs, textures loading in late and bugs that made him reload his save. He was the only person played it on an HDD, so I assume SSD makes a huge difference when it comes to your gameplay experience.
Honestly I didn't have too many problems with Cyberpunk on PC! Was not the greatest game ever, but I felt alright spending what I spent on it. Samurai is sick though, I love their sound and their aesthetic lol
Nearly all the songs in Cyberpunk 2077 are amazing, Never Fade away feels like its the main song for the game as it has more than one version and it ties to the main themes in more than one way. You are pretty close with what you guessed about what it implies too, I dunno if you want spoilers so I'll keep it quiet for now xD
One tidbit is that this is actually a song that's referenced in game as one famous song, of numerous, and made by an in-game band called Samurai, the lead singer being called Johnny Silverhand. Their last song I think too iirc. Despite the games flaws even on PC I love this game, for me it was the best game of 2020. It definitely needed more time in the oven tho, I would say it shouldn't have been released until this year.
Fun fact: The same band Samurai also plays (at least in advertisement for the game) in Death Stranding, can be seen in Steam 2nd video the main character listening the song 'Chipping In'.
You should check out the other samurai songs like chippin' In and the ballad of buck rivers. CDPR actually hired the band Refused to portray the in-game band in the OST
Dear friend, you hit the spot! The game deals with the duality between 2 people, and this particular theme is from the year 2013 within the game and if there is part of the past I will leave you this other theme for you to listen to, and you would have to play it, it is no longer broken at present https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMIf7DKzWEM&ab_channel=CarlosAragon
The original band is called Refused is known, and within the game is Samurai
Haha, Im glad that you enjoyed this! I had a feeling you might ;D
I listened to this for like a month solid and skewed my Spotify recommended for ages but actually I'm not mad about it. My favourite part is the chorus because melodic guitar bits make the brain go mmmmmm good.
LORE DUMP TIME!
Samurai is the name of the In-Universe band, the IRL band is Refused!
In Canon, the dual vocals are that of Johnny Silverhand and Kerry Eurodyne- Johnny being the main vocalist and Kerry having 'lived in his shadow' for a long time. There's also many big plot points that revolve around you "dual" theory, too.
And no! The soundtrack is incredibly diverse, the orchestral soundtrack is… uhhh… industrial cyberpunk? Chromepunk? But! There are many unique in-game radio stations that are filled with songs, Never Fade Away belongs on Morro Rock, and will play when you have it on in your vehicles and during a kind of nostalgia cutscene. You meet stars like Kerry Eurodyne (Damien Ukeje) and Lizzie Wizzie (Grimes) while you play, and music is no small part of this game, and one of my favourite things about it!
This song, the emotional cover of it at least, is the last song you hear while looking at V, the protagonist, no matter which route you choose. It was originally written by Johnny for his then lover, Alt Cunningham, who he may or may not have set off a nuclear bomb for, no biggie; but in the end, it transforms into something for V and their journey.
Hooboy!
In regards to the actual game! Now, with over 300hrs in, my opinion is biased, but although its a buggy and sometimes broken game, its a bloody brilliant one. Fun gameplay and smooth, exciting combat. Huge world to explore, even though I wish I could explore it more, story is so good, sidequests are fleshed out and have their own little stories that flesh out Night City. Also you can literally explode people's heads from behind a wall with a THOUGHT so like thats pretty cool.
Devs are working to revamp it, as the rumour mill goes. They have already released a few patches that address some key issues, but not all. A fair amount of my big gripes with gameplay are taken care of with a couple of mods on PC, its not like I had to overhaul or anything! Well worth checking out, imo!
Last but not least, THANK U JESSE ♡
Yeah! All Samurai songs are great but for me, Black dog is the best of them 🙂
Please react to Black Dog from Cyberpunk 2077.
I played the game on release and while it was a bit glitchy, I was fortunate enough to not have had a lot of the bugs that detracted from the game. I really, REALLY loved the story and the characters and the music performed by the in-universe band Samurai was all incredible. It was one of those games that left me feeling hollowed out and kind of depressed by the end of it, but in a good way (?)
since you're doing cyberpunk 2077 ost, you must listen to A Like Supreme, Cyberninja, V, and Upgrade
https://youtu.be/P4bKZT_Eg4A
The End Credits Version of this song is just as good if not better in my opinion. also different mood
The whole Samurai album is worth listening too, pure banger
Still waiting for CD project Red to release "Samurai – Archangel" 😭
This song is incredibly deep once you understand the context of it from the story.
While this is about as awesome as it was when I first heard it, MAN Little Vs cover just sounds better for me…
Next songs you should listen to are Chippin' In and Black Dog. Interesting enough for Chippin' In, when you're creating your character and choosing what type of tattoos you want, there's a tattoo that has the lyrics of Chippin' In. As well Black Dog, for those that have already played the game, can be seen as part of what the main character experiences once getting a certain item. Don't wanna spoil too much, just in case you wanna experience the game yourself.
Cyberpunk's soundtrack is phenomenal. Even the radio stations are absolutely fire. But truly, the original soundtrack is a work of art. "SAMURAI" is an actual in-game/in-world band from the game/tabletop that produces songs focusing on ideas of rebellion and rising up against corporate tyranny in a world that is ruled by corporations – hence the choice of rock & metal as the band's genre.
All of the songs by SAMURAI are amazing. An entire album for this fictional band was produced, so you'll have plenty to listen to if you continue. "Black Dog" and "Chippin' In" are two of my favourites.
As you have observed, the game has had a very polarising effect on the community. It's been hyped up for literal years, both by the community and especially CDPR's – the developer – marketing. CDPR had previously released the Witcher games. 3 in particular has been lauded for its storytelling in an open world setting and the studio did right by it with the expansions released after launch, making CDPR a bit of a darling developer. After several delays, the game released in a decidedly unfinished state. It was buggy, a number of teased features were cut and it ran exceptionally poorly on PS4 and Xbox One to the point of Sony taking it off the Playstation Store and issuing refunds to its customers. It's been patched a number of times by now, of course, and these patches did improve the latent bugginess, but no significant content has been released for it yet.
I played it on release, on PC, and on very powerful hardware to boot. The audiovisual experience was outstanding and some of the game's cast made it an experience I am not likely to forget. The common criticisms outside of the bugs are that the AI is braindead and the open world merely window-dressing. If you get the police to chase you, NPCs will spawn right outside of your view and shoot you in the back. Basically, if you try to play it like GTA you will quickly find that the world isn't very robust in regards to player interactions. This makes it easy to break immersion.
It's a crying shame that nuanced discussion about the game is almost impossible to find.
Hello and nice greetings from Germany. Hope you're doing fine and feeling great.
I just was in your live stream and fittingly I can say something to that on this video.
You said you're thinking about getting rid of your beard…
In my humble opinion…
PLEASE DON'T
You look like the lovechild if Keanu Reeves and Dave Grohl… and that's AWESOME!!! ^^
I'm glad that I waited several months after the initial release. After the release they had made a huge amount of major fixes to the game and it felt more or less like a game should on release (more finished at least than most AAA games these days but that's not really saying much…). There were minor glitches there and there but I didn't encounter anything game breaking or especially weird. Some of the side quest stuff isn't especially great but I can definitely recommend the game as it currently is. The main story and the more major side quest lines are definitely worth it, especially if you can grab the game when it's on sale (and you have at least a good enough graphics card to run it… It seemed more forgiving for CPU than GPU).
Samurai is an invented band of the game, pretty crazy but cool
Huh… My mind immediately went to classic Doom right from the start until the singing started. In fact without the singing I could have sworn this music could be heard in classic Doom instead. Say what you will about Cyberpunk 2077, it did nail something at least.
There's a bunch of different type of music in the game. Some really weird but oddly good ones too like "Pain" from Le Destroy and an.. experience called "PonPon Shit" lol. The game itself got a lot of hate but personally I quite like it and am actually doing a new playthrough now. Story is good, combat is fun, there's still a few janky bugs but all in all I'd say it's a good game. Still hoping they add some new content in the form of expansions.
The song lyrics are from a short story for the TTRPG Cyberpunk 2020, to which Cyberpunk 2077 is basically the sequel and they recorded the songs from the short story for the game, which is really cool. The game is actually really faithful to the old TTRPG. And yeah, the song is partially basically played on the dad rock radio (because, well, the song is from 2020 obviously) and specific story moments. There's a few others from Samurai, but there's also more 'cyber' music and original takes on Jpop and such.
Would recommend "Resist and disorder " from cyberpunk 2077
Game is buggy and I was not able to play unfortunately but… OST is good, fitting to the world, variety of vibes and stuff. Have few favourites, but it's not my everyday genre 😛
My favourite since beginning was PAIN – La Destroy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=099vXkwAWDs
I don't know if it's true, but here is my theory about dual vocals.
In lore SAMURAI has 2 singers: Johny Silverhand and Kerry Eurodyne.
Johny is ex-military rebel, who fights corporation with both songs and guns. He is visionary of rock, an inspiration for whole generation of rockers. But in reality he was heartless prick ignoring all collateral damage of his anti-corp war. In the end he blow up nuclear bomb in corporation HQ. I believe he is aggressive voice in the song.
Kerry on other hand is a uninspiring pop-singer who wanted only fame. He is likeable, but doesn't have a backbone. Before final gig Johny gives him last advise "For once in your life stop being a fucking pussy". I believe he is calm voice in the song.
This seen more clearly in song "Chipin' in". It has two versions: original hard rock of Johny and pop-rock of Kerry.
More cyberpunk 2077 reactions please
the version done by Olga Jankowska used as the track in the launch trailer for the game is phenomenal and should be a followup listen after this track!
your observation at 6:30 is… "interesting" to say the least. When it comes to state of the game, when I played it back on launch day with a pretty decent PC (1080ti and Ryzen 3600 both at stock speeds), I genuinely had 1 crash whilst I was streaming it to my friend through Discord, had 1 T-Pose in a mission which was fixed in one of the patches, no gamebreaking bugs, no bugs that made me reload the save. I did have clipping issues though, like dying or taking damage while running through piles of garbage and its impact just kills you etc.. Out of 6 people I talked about Cyberpunk, only one had animation bugs, textures loading in late and bugs that made him reload his save. He was the only person played it on an HDD, so I assume SSD makes a huge difference when it comes to your gameplay experience.
Hell yeah!
Honestly I didn't have too many problems with Cyberpunk on PC! Was not the greatest game ever, but I felt alright spending what I spent on it. Samurai is sick though, I love their sound and their aesthetic lol
Please react to Ballad of Buck Ravers, Black Dog, A Like Supreme, and Chippin In by SAMURAI 🙏🏻😩😩
Nearly all the songs in Cyberpunk 2077 are amazing, Never Fade away feels like its the main song for the game as it has more than one version and it ties to the main themes in more than one way. You are pretty close with what you guessed about what it implies too, I dunno if you want spoilers so I'll keep it quiet for now xD
One tidbit is that this is actually a song that's referenced in game as one famous song, of numerous, and made by an in-game band called Samurai, the lead singer being called Johnny Silverhand. Their last song I think too iirc. Despite the games flaws even on PC I love this game, for me it was the best game of 2020. It definitely needed more time in the oven tho, I would say it shouldn't have been released until this year.
Fun fact: The same band Samurai also plays (at least in advertisement for the game) in Death Stranding, can be seen in Steam 2nd video the main character listening the song 'Chipping In'.
You should check out the other samurai songs like chippin' In and the ballad of buck rivers. CDPR actually hired the band Refused to portray the in-game band in the OST
This song was a bit of a snooze for me
Dear friend, you hit the spot! The game deals with the duality between 2 people, and this particular theme is from the year 2013 within the game and if there is part of the past I will leave you this other theme for you to listen to, and you would have to play it, it is no longer broken at present https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMIf7DKzWEM&ab_channel=CarlosAragon
The original band is called Refused is known, and within the game is Samurai