For my money it’s a tie between Eurydice’s song from Hades, any of the tracks from VVVVVV and Still Alive. But what do you think?
For me it’s is:
- Final Fantasy 7 (sheer volume of classics, listen to it regularly)
- Resident Evil 2 (PSX)
- Tekken 3
- Silent Hill 2
- Spyro (come on, it’s Stewart Copeland!)
have you listened to ff7 lofi remixes on YouTube though? 👀
Thankyou! I have a lofi playlist and this is going to be added immediately.
I have not, but am going there right now! Any particular playlist?
apologies for the YouTube links but I really dig [this one] (https://youtu.be/0nBYI0owpeY?si=uf8046PS4jv28y5l) by Rifti Beats. Every track is gold on that.
This one is pretty good and has neat, nostalgic visuals to go with it.
If you like a little bit more trippy synthwave style this one is very cool too. There’s an FF8 one too.
Or Team Teamworks’ Vinyl Fantasy 7?
First instinct was to say Chrono Trigger. My second choice is Tony Hawks Pro skater.
Outer Wilds.
The whole soundtrack is just so atmospheric, I regularly listen to it while working as a kind of focus music, but some tracks are so good I get the chills while listening.
Has anyone said Minecraft? I haven’t played games myself for years (well before Minecraft) but live in a house where it was played for hours at a time. Soundtrack never became annoying & whenever I hear it it instantly takes me back in time.
Command and Conquer Red Alert and the fact that this isn’t top comment, yet alone already mentioned has me seriously doubting the taste of this establishment.
RA2 music better than RA1 music for me.
RA2 is the best RTS of all time, no question.
I don’t care which one it is, all 3 had an excellent Hell March.
And while I loved both RA2 and RA3 for their style, CnC Generals was the better RTS just for being better balanced. Unfortunately no memorable music in Generals.
Yeah TibSun and Red Alert 2 basically defined my music taste in life. Halo got me into orchestra, but everything else can be traced back to C&C
The entire soundtrack of Nier Automata, for a more recent contender.
Game: Masterpiece. Soundtrack: Masterpiece.
Had to scroll way too far for this
Either Halo or the new Doom games.
Very few themes are more iconic than Halos chanting and basically all of those are simple themes without depth. Halos theme makes you feel a flood of emotion when you hear it.
And nothing on this earth nothing is more bad ass than the Doom music. Just hearing it makes you feel like you could go to hell and kill gods.
Also the old Doom games.
Now I’ve got E1M1 in my head
Mass Effect.
That opening scene, with that music playing… it really hooked me from the first second.
Love the reaper sounds. I think my favorite scene is from mass effect 2 when the reapers are coming to a planet you’re on and destroying everything.
Baba Yetu from Civilization IV is the correct answer. First video game composition to win a Grammy (before there was even a video game category).
FFX To Zanarkand is gut wrenching. Powerful and moving. The song captures completely what the story is about.
Came here just to make sure this one was mentioned.
Shit, just the home screen music gets me man.
My vote for best - Secret of Mana
My personal favorite - Jet Set Radio Future
Chrono Trigger.
In no particular order.
OSTs:
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DOOM 2016
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FTL: Faster Than Light
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Halo (most, but especially 1-3 and Reach)
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Command and Conquer series, especially Yuri’s Revenge and prior.
Non-OST games:
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Gran Turismo 2
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TRAIL:OUT
I listen to all of these in my free time fairly regularly.
Scrolled through to see if someone would mention doom, I was gunna post it if not.
That OST was a big part of the game.
NEDM
Doom 2016’s soundtrack is so incredible not only because the tracks themselves are great but how well it combines with the game itself
Ftl is such good chip tunes
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Hotline Miami Splinter cell - chaos theory Ori and the blind forest
Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim soundtracks. Diablo 2. Wow classics soundtrack…hell many expansions in wow have amazing music. Halo 1, 2, 3s soundtrack.
Morrowind has my favorite overall soundtrack, but Halo 3’s One Final Effort is the best video game music ever written. Cool piano rendition of One Final Effort and Halo’s main theme
