Favourite game music?
Favourite game music?
Ok continuing on from my last thread, he's a different question.
What is your favourite music from a Video Game?
So for me, there are two answers to this for me.
One: The opening theme songs for the VR Games, I expect you to Die. They are absolute and fantastic, and certainly channel that classic James Bond spy feeling. Cannot help but sing them.
Second, multiple songs from Final Fantasy XIV. To The Edge, Endwalker - Footfalls, Shadowbringers, some of the songs from the Alexander Raids , there's too many to name, but these are all great, and seriously can't stop myself singing along to any of them when they come on.
Zelda music, specifically from BOTW and TOTK. But all the Zelda games have great music.
For me it's Doom 2016, it's just insane! Mick Gordon is a genius.
I think the Katamari Damacy soundtrack is the one I return to the most. It's distilled joy.
I can't pick one so here's some of my favorites:
Ludwig, the Holy Blade
Devils Never Cry
Tenebre Rosso Sangue
The Hot Wind Blowing
And of course, Bury The LightIt's hard to pick a favorite but I find myself listening to the Hollow Knight soundtrack a lot while writing. It's fantastic!
Shout out to the Hades soundtrack though, I play that while playing D&D and my whole group loves it
Corridors of Time - Chrono Trigger
I find Inon Zur’s tracks on fallout to be superb and can’t wait to see how the Starfield OST ends up, also Mick Gordon’s Doom OST is absolute perfection.
Licensed tracks in the Wipeout series are excellent, including the originals from Cold Storage. Such good memories playing the best AG racer.
It's probably cliche, but when it comes to pure catchiness and memorability, my go-to is Undertale.
Fallout 4 theme music just is great. The game not so much but that menu with that music is awesome.
Risk of Rain2. Especially the soundtrack for the Survivors of the Void dlc.
The whole album is amazing, but A Placid Island of Ignorance and Once in a Lullaby are epic. The way the ending and the beginning of the album use Prelude to D-Flat Major is so satisfying.
Chris Christodoulou is an amazing musician.
Pretty much anything from the first Ratchet and Clank game - Metropolis, Gemlik Base and Gaspar are some of my favourites
The music from Myst is probably my favorite
The masterpiece, Tenchu: stealth assassins
The Persona 5 and Hollow Knight soundtracks are excellent to me, followed closely by Celeste. Hollow Knight's music just sets the mood perfectly for the game.
My fav, mostly because of nostalgia, has to be the final fantasy 9 soundtrack.
Battlefield OST
I listen to my vinyl of the Skyrim soundtrack on a very regular basis.
Runner up would be Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White WitchI can listen to the soundtrack from The Messenger. RainbowDragonEyes just absolutely knocked that one out of the park.
Probably Crypt Of The Necrodancer, I don't have a favourite track though.
The Ultratron OST by Allicorn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBGa_w7TiKU&list=PLrNIBo_FmPQL3HB198VLSiO5FhztGXQYy
For me, it's Final Fantasy 8, killer7, and Medieval: Total War.
Minecraft. If I had to pick a song specifically, I'm gonna say Subwoofer Lullaby. It just really captures the calm, familiar feeling of "living" in Minecraft. Farming, renovating, adventuring, spelunking, etc. Whenever I'm working on something, ranging from just building the first rendition of a house in a new world to developing an automatic redstone-powered bamboo farm to supply a mass smelting furnace at the bottom of the world that uses water elevators for access, the soundtrack is unmatched.
It also just helps that it's an iconic game for people my age and I've spent years on and off playing it since alpha.
Chiming in with the Professor Layton games on DS. It's a whole vibe, sort of jazzy and woody and folky. Specially love the live versions
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAO5Rhuesqh_AF94WPJyjwhlmDRRG-ybk
Chrono Trigger's soundtrack is a personal favorite.
Venus lighthouse from golden sun. It's still my ringtone!
Max Payne 3: Specifically this part
The Last of Us is definitely the one soundtrack I listen to the most.
Honourable mentions: Mass Effect, Red Dead Redemption 2, Far Cry 5, Heavy Rain.
Cyberpunk 2077 has pretty damn good music with a large variety of styles. I love that they have almost exclusively artists Ive never heard of and whose great music Ive discovered that way.
Ultima VIII also had really good music, so perfectly eerie for this bromen world. From the same artist also Wing Commander: Privateer.
Tyrian had a great soundtrack that sounded really oldschool 8 bitty and perfectly supported, nay made the athmosphere of the game.
Dune though, that has to be one if the best. What that artist produced using just the measley OPL3 FM synthesizers of the first soundcards? Absolutely incredible.
Probably not the most unique take, but I still really love Minecraft's soundtrack (and other C418 tracks for that matter).
Ghost of Tsushima has a very great soundtrack.
I also really appreciate all of the sea shanties in the various Assassin's Creed entries, but especially Black Flag
World of Warcraft, Undertale, Stardew Valley, Sonic Mania, Halo, Hollow Knight
Nintendo is cheating
Perhaps some lesser known soundtracks would be those composed for the Samorost games by Floex. They're all fantastic, weird, and minimal but organic sounding. I love them a lot.
Riding the Solar Wind - Stellaris.
Ace Combat 7 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kVdCaczLE8
Project Wingman - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgcap-5IBsY
Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous - Almost all of their mythic path themes and then some. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCpTyQU3Vt4&list=PL5LsN8A6ix5qmFLYtrjWxP7zZOoffuuDr&index=8And of course people here mentioned a few good ones like Undertale, Stellaris and stuff like that.
The OST from Persona 5, easily my most listened to soundtrack.
Descent II OST
Just finished playing through Cassette Beasts and the music absolutely slaps.
The Messenger has amazing music harkening back to the 8 and 16bit stuff from the MegaMan games. Underrated game in general too.
Super Mario Galaxy
Ori and the Blind Forest + Will of the Wisps, hands down
I love the Final Fantasy theme, in all its incarnations. But given how much I've played X4 Foundations, the original main menu music has really taken hold in my brain. And more recently, the Kingdom End DLC main menu theme.
The Chrono Cross soundtrack is just beautiful. I particularly like the opening song "Scars left by time"
Kk Slider slaps
This will be unconventional, but I loved the music from Darksiders Genesis by Gareth Coker, the same composer who did Ori.
Best 3 tracks in my opinion are tracks The Beacons, Astarte's theme, and the Credits/trailer theme.The Outer Wilds soundtrack is something I go back to regularly. Even considered buying the Vinyl...and I have no way of playing it.
Age of Mythology has a weirdly good soundtrack, especially Eat Your Potatoes.
My favorite game music comes from A Dance of Fire and Ice, although it may seem obvious that a rhythm game would have to have good music. Divine Intervention is one of the highlights for me.
Ori and the Blind Forest
The Marble Gallery theme from SotN is aboslutely burned into my mind still.
Hard to pick just a few tracks, but some of my favorite original soundtracks are:
Nier Gestalt
Persona 5
The Witcher 3
StellarisFor licensed ones, I particularly like Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Life is Strange: Before the Storm.
Oh, man. So many good ones, especially in the indie space. Celeste and Eastward both have spectacular, eerie, synthy soundtracks that are wonderful. Another indie game, Flinthook, has a theme song that absolutely slaps. Katana Zero had a rad OST, too.
Undertale goes without saying.
Obv Nintendo games, especially ones composed by Koji Kondo, have amazing soundtracks. OoT is one of my favorites, but there are many good ones. Basically any classic Zelda, Mario, Donkey Kong, etc. Even the newer games, like Mario Odyssey and TotK, have great soundtracks. While not first-party Nintendo, the first couple gens of the Pokémon games' music will live in my brain forever more.
I'm also gonna shout-out Grant Kirkhope because he is a genius and basically composed the soundtrack to my childhood. You know him from Banjo-Kazooie, Donkey Kong 64, Mario + Rabbids, and many more games. They aren't soundtracks I'd walk around listening to on Spotify (probably), but in the context of the game world, they are perfection.
I could go on, but I'm just gonna shout out my faves and walk away before this becomes a giant wall of text.
EDIT: Oh lord, how did I forget Halo 2's theme (Mjolnir mix)?
Subwoofer Lulldlaby from Minecraft, Basically all of the Alpha album Minecraft music
I have five fingers on one hand so here are five favorites:
- Far Cry 2 (especially title track)
- Jagged Alliance 2 (especially laptop music)
- Tie Fighter (it’s Star Wars)
- Assassin’s Creed Origins (Just beautiful, Sarah Schachner rocks)
- Crysis (Good example of why music and sound is like 50% of a good game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIFPHVAvOXs&t=203s)
The only game soundtrack I ever recall make a point of listening to is from Faster Than Light, it's some really good ambient music.
Tbh any remix track from rythm heaven. Yesterday Rythm Heaven Reanimated (a fanimation) popped up on my yt feed and I cried listening to (I'm also unclear as to why. Some music just does that to me when I really like it)
Maximum Anarchy's soundtrack
(Old fuck here) Final Fantasy 6 and Castlevania Symphony of the Night. And it's not even close. Other games I like have some solid bangers (Halo, Doom, Zelda, etc), but I love those 2 games whole OSTs.
Xenogears and Chrono Trigger soundtracks, a lot of that is how they evoke good memories of playing the games long ago.
The Xenoblade series has such great OSTs in general. If I have to pick just one track it's probably Engage the Enemy
The works of Frank Klepacki in the Command & Conquer series. Banger after banger.
Umm...let's try going through the ages
I was like 4: Gizmos & Gadgets ending theme. I'm pretty sure it's one of the few original songs The Learning Company did, there's very few clips of it because it was before even .wav was commonly used for music (due to file-size issues), it's a really cheerful song
Early Childhood: Space Quest 6 Main Theme is a bop, also Human 3 from the base game of Warcraft 2, and Orc 6 from the expansion. I miss the less ambient and more intense Warcraft music.
Listened to a lot of anime music around wc3's time...but peak music at the time was Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2, plus Phantasy Star Online thanks to the dreamcast. Especially 'Pray For IDOLA The Holy'. Grandia II also giving the Ver.3 and Ver.4 boss fights.
Nowadays with great music being everywhere? Probably Persona 5 in general.
I regularly listen to the Subnautica OST while working.
The Furi OST is banger after banger. It's a who's who of syntheave artists. It's my go-to listen when I'm caffeinated and need to be productive.
silent hill and no more heroes are both franchises with amazing soundtracks.
Favorite instrumental soundtrack themes are from the early Silent Hill games. The theme from SH1 and the Theme of Laura from SH2 are classics.
Favorite lyrical songs used within the game for plot: Alan Wake has characters in it who are 70s rock gods called Old Gods of Asgard, and the creators got a group named Poets of the Fall to actually write the two songs that were featured from the game and they are actually really great songs. Poet and the Muse is a plot point and Children of the Elder God is played during a really good sequence.
Darksiders II has a phenomenal OST. I still listen to that regularly.
That being said the Burnout 3 music was great but obviously not an OSTDiablo IV has a killer soundtrack.
I'm currently hooked on the Bomberman 64 soundtrack again. That intro cutscene music and the world select still please my eardrums!