Submitted 7 months ago by BurntWits@sh.itjust.works to patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
Give me your favourite OSTs, individual tracks, whatever.
Persona 3/4/5 are goated on their own ways in my opinion.
The Final Fantasy X soundtrack is great too
but rn my obsession soundtrack is Neon White, I love machine girl www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9X15iDR7z8
Persona 3/4/5
Final Fantasy X
Thank you!!!
Mirror’s Edge, as well as Hardspace Shipbreaker
Mirror’s Edge
www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Mirror’s+Edg…
Hardspace Shipbreaker
Linked elsewhere.
I loved Mirror’s Edge. The sequel was decent too. I kind of want to replay it again.
Hyperlight Drifter
Cobalt Core
They’re in the same vein but it’s some of the best chiptune-esque music I’ve ever heard. They’re not these one note, one tempo, same vibe over and over again tracks. They have feeling and movement. Almost melancholic at times. Scary in the case of HLD. They remind me a lot of mid 2010s prog metal in some respects. Not the heaviness or the distorted guitars, but the melodies and creativity with sound that pushed music forward in those years. Like the last track of the Cobalt Core ost flows right into My Last Serenade by Killswitch Engage and it’s a chefs kiss of greatness. They’re both top 5 video game ost for me.
Hyper Light Drifter’s soundtrack is truly a masterpiece. Same guy did FEZ too; another excellent soundtrack.
Risk of Rain 2, by Chris Chris, is such a fucking bop! I particularly recommend The raindrop that fell to the sky and The rain formerly known as purple
RoR one is good too, but not as much
Rimworld
Starsector
Project Zomboid
Rimworld - P-music Nimbostratus is fire
Rimworld
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzueZWB_oec&list=PLh4Eme5…
Starsector
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d04GT3w_aMo&list=PLeRKoD9…
Project Zomboid
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Not sure if mentioned yet, but EVE Online has an amazing soundtrack. Their 10 Year Anniversary Symphony is just the cream on top.
I would like to throw in Terranigma’s OST. Specifically, the Hometown theme song.
Quake 2
Guild Wars 1
Quake 2
Jugga jugga nene nene jugga nene jugga nene
Jugga jugga jugga nene jugga nene jugga nene
The factorio space age dlc. Particularly track 06 from Fulgora.
Jetset radio
Dustforce
Scott Pilgrim vs the Wolrd the Game
Okami
Jetset radio
Linked elsewhere.
Dustforce
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXH5G_bqrlc&list=PLBB4108…
Scott Pilgrim vs the Wolrd the Game
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoahM8bBwy0&list=PLvNp0Bo…
River City Girls 1 and 2
River City Girls: linked elsewhere.
Okami
Ty <3
Ape Escape. I think Cryptic Relics is my favorite track but they’re all so good. They’re all drum and bass bangers.
I play that game just for the soundtrack basically. It’s a great game anyway gameplay wise but that soundtrack is killer.
Subnautica. Love the atmosphere that the music conveys.
Batman the Videogame on the NES, FFVII, the entire WipEout series, original soundtrack for Crazy Taxi, Sonic the Hedgehog 3/Sonic & Knuckles, X-Men on the Sega Genesis, WET, Omega Boost, Zone of the Enders, BurnOut 3: Takedown, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Lost War Chronicles, Roommania #203, Street Fighter Alpha 3, Mega Man 2 & 3, Doom, SSX Tricky, Xenogears.
Holy shit, how did I forget Wipeout and Zone of the Enders in my list? Great picks beyond those too.
For entire OSTs: any of the FromSoft soulslikes, Lies of P, Diablo 2 + Lord of Destruction, any Monster Hunter game really (especially the ones in Pokke village, so Freedom 2 and Freedom Unite/Portable 2nd G), Hollow Knight, currently enjoying Ridge Racer’s (PSP) soundtrack for working out, Deltarune and Undertale, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 and Bboy the Game for some perfect-vibe licensed music…
Disco Elysium’s is my current favourite OST, but the game itself might also just be current favourite game.
As for individual tracks, I like the Spanish guitar portion of “The Drive/First Contact” off the RE4 soundtrack. Back when I started out with breaking (“breakdance”), think 2008/9ish, we had a remix of that specific part of the song that would play often - I’ve got very fond memories of that. The song itself, its remixes and the remake versions actually are some of my favourite running music for the gym.
Here’s the remix in question if anyone’s interested: youtu.be/SMWV-3pbcLE
As for one favourite individual song from each of the aforementioned OSTs:
This was lots of fun to think about. I hope anyone reading can find something of value here. :)
Faster Than Light
Going through the lists everyone has posted I realized I’m surprised I haven’t seen anything from the Medal of Honor franchise posted. I only ever played Medal of Honor: Frontline because a roommate had it, but it was scored by Michael Giacchino, who also composed the scores for the original Medal of Honor, Medal of Honor: Underground, Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, and Medal of Honor: Airborne. Giacchino won awards for the first four soundtracks in the series and it was his video game work that caught J. J. Abrams’s attention and led to him scoring Alias and Lost, starting his TV and movie career.
Also, if you enjoy soundtracks, you might like StreamingSoundtracks.com. It’s been around since 2001 and features soundtracks from movies, tv shows, and video games. It’s a free streaming radio service with the playlist queued by listeners along with limits on how frequently any track can be played, so you won’t hear repeats very often. A manager at a past job played it most days. One year someone took advantage of the “No repeats” rules and played all the horror tracks throughout October so that on Halloween there were basically no horror tracks available, angering many when they realized what had happened. I found it one of the more impressively planned and executed pranks I’ve personally witnessed.
I loved Airborne. It was the only one I ever played though. Maybe I’ll revisit the series sometimes soon.
A lot of great ones have already been mentioned: (Old School) Runescape, Bastion, Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, Braid, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Celeste, Chrono Cross, Chrono Trigger, Crypt of the NecroDancer, Cyberpunk 2077, Deus Ex (2000), Donkey Kong Country 1 and 2, Doom 2016, Earthbound, F-Zero GX, FTL, Hades, Halo, Hi Fi Rush, Hotline Miami, Jet Set Radio and JSR Future, Kirby (any of them), Legend of Mana, Mother 3, Neotokyo, Nier: Automata, Pizza Tower, Quake, Ratchet & Clank (any of them), Risk of Rain 1 and 2, Shadow of the Colossus, Shantae (any of them), Shatter, Shovel Knight, SimCity 3000, Sonic 3 & Knuckles, Sonic Adventure, Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic CD (Japan), Sonic Mania, Sonic Rush, Sonic Rush, Stardew Valley, Sword of Mana, Tower of Heaven, Transistor, Trine, and VVVVVV
Here’s some that haven’t been mentioned yet:
Ape Escape
Final Fantasy Legends III / SaGa 3 Jikū no Hasha: Shadow or Light
Ghost Trick
Gunpoint
Megaman ZX
And I’ve spent way too much time on this comment. Here’s more not mentioned so far that I don’t have time to do a writeup for: Skies of Arcadia, Super Meat Boy, Tomba 2: The Evil Swine Returns, Uplink, XCOM (Original), XCOM (Reboot), XCOM 2 (Reboot)
Deus ex Soundtrack was brilliant, the NES megaman 2 and 3 soundtracks are also pure gold
Skies of Arcadia
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrIb4DX5E8k&list=PLYKywKg…
Super Meat Boy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWY7ndruY2c&list=PL1A86CA…
Tomba 2: The Evil Swine Returns
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2SEtD9XnaY&list=PLhPt7n-…
Uplink
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH2ZXZxx0Ik&list=PLMW5DKp…
XCOM (Original)
Assuming X-COM: UFO Defense/UFO: Enemy Unknown:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHBr7J4pgVk&list=PLhPt7n-…
XCOM (Reboot)
Assuming X-COM: Enemy Unknown:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-cdXsAAme0&list=PLnwZoae…
XCOM 2 (Reboot)
Thanks so much!
+1 for gunpoint, I absolutely loved that game and its soundtrack. That might be the best one commented so far.
So happy to see Ape Escape get the credit it deserves.
FTL has already been mentioned, but Ben Prunty does amazing work, so I’ll add Into the Breach
My favorites:
Pillars of eternity 1 and 2, octopath traveler, Chrono trigger, streets of rage, sonic 1-3, and doom eternal were all pretty amazing
Pillars of eternity 1 and 2
octopath traveler
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQHDq9anOeY&list=RDDQHDq9…
Chrono trigger
Linked elsewhere.
streets of rage
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Saqqm7QmlDw&list=PLv1tYJb…
sonic 1-3
doom eternal
Linked elsewhere.
Journey
The game is a piece of art and the soundtrack plays a big part of it.
Marathon 2: Durandal has only one song, the title theme, but I do like it! From the band Power of Seven.
I’ve seen a lot of good mentions here already but haven’t seen Nier: Automata yet. I thought the game was overrated, but there are a lot of great audio tracks
I’ve seen a lot of good mentions here already but haven’t seen Nier: Automata yet.
A number of people have suggested it. I linked to the playlists on one comment here. Note that if you’re using the Lemmy Web UI, it — unfortunately, in my opinion — uses AJAX “infinite scroll” loading for comments, and has no way to disable this functionality. Thus, if you are using a web browser and search for text further down in comments, you won’t find it, as the web browser doesn’t know that it should load the rest of the comments to search through them. You have to scroll all the way to the end of the page, then do a search. One of my irritations with the AJAX “infinite scroll” design. I’m not saying that there’s never utility to it, but I’d generally rather have the ability to turn it off for situations where the list I’m loading is bounded and where I have a fast connection.
Reddit’s old Web UI at least had a one-click link to load all comments on a post; it would load the first 200 and then have a single click that would load all comments. Lemmy’s Web UI presently lacks this functionality.
axiom verge 1 and 2 - good in different ways. i liked to put first on for long coding sessions, and the second expanded in interesting directions transistor & pyre & hades - all scored by Darren Korb, but different genres. from first moment, transistor has such vibe in big part thanks to it’s soundtrack, and is among my all time top games Nier automata - won awards for it’s soundtrack, clear to hear why crypt of the necrodancer - rhythm game should have a good soundtrack, and it does witcher 3 - the battle themes - like “silver for monsters” are unique style of action-y folk, very rare to find anything else that scratches that itch. dusk - awesome and dynamic metal risk of rain 1&2 - first game itself didn’t click with me, but, oh man, that solo in “Monsoon” get me every time, and “Coalescence” is poignantly melancholic in a similar way to “song of the ancients” from nier - which is (a very high praise and) much more expected from nier’s type of game than a “risk of rain”'s. “face of the deep” from ror2 from second is head-spinning in a good way no man’s sky - it introduced me to 65dos, for which i’m very grateful. that soundtrack is still probably my favourite album of theirs noita - low-key psychedelic, very vibes unreal tournament 99 - and i think it’s not just nostalgia, because one of my favourites - “mechanism 8” - is from the map i almost never played “Ultrakill” - good soundtrack, and yet cyber grind tracks from guest composers are still my favourites. “The cyber grind” in particular is just exhilarating
old “touhou project” games - their soundtrack is full of gems, even if it’s not my genre of game system shock 2’s “Med Sci 1” and “Engineering” - very nice, i want more of that and can’t find “Clair Obscur: Expedition 33”'s “Lumière” - made me wishlist the game just for having it “Final Fantasy IX”'s “You’re not alone” - very nice melody i like to whistle sometimes. considering playing it just for having it original “Castlevania”'s “Vampire killer” rocks
wait, i remembered more:
“Trine 2”
Divinity: Original Sin 2
Pinball space cadet
“Rama”: Main theme
“Dishonored 2”: Main theme
Super hexagon
“Red alert 2”: namely Hell march 2, In deep
now, following games used existing albums, which feels like cheating… but they are games with good soundtracks so:
“Capsized” used edited “Solar Fields - Movements”
“Neurovoider” used “Dan Ternimus - Wrath of code”
Re: Transistor. I put Spine on our office playlist and it was awesome when someone else recognized it. That game’s soundtrack is incredible. Also how dare you not include Bastion in the Darren Korb list
cause i never played the game🤷 . But now that you mentioned it, I did hear and like “The pantheon” and “Setting sail, Coming home”
axiom verge 1 and 2
Linked elsewhere.
transistor
Linked elsewhere.
pyre
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAWmSzN7Uf8&list=PL53mjgV…
hades
Linked elsewhere.
Nier automata
Linked elsewhere.
crypt of the necrodancer
Linked elsewhere.
witcher 3
Linked elsewhere.
dusk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKCrkg7Kcdc&list=RDDKCrkg…
risk of rain 1&2
Linked elsewhere.
no man’s sky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS-soP5sRdA&list=RDMS-soP…
unreal tournament 99
Linked elsewhere.
Ultrakill
Linked elsewhere.
Shovel Knight.
Outstanding compositions and Famitracker work by Virt.
Outer Wilds - The way this game uses music and ambient sound to foster a sense of wonder, dread, excitement, sorrow, and much more is nothing short of incredible. Probably the best game I have ever played.
Subnautica - Equally impressive use of music as Outer Wilds, many of the same feelings, but a much much different vibe and genre.
Return of the Obra Dinn - A grim game where the soundtrack with church bells and heavy string instruments really underscore the mood.
Lucas Pope is so fucking talented it makes me mad. Not only has he designed genius level compelling gameplay out of ostensibly boring professions (border guard and insurance inspector?!), but he also composes absolute bangers for the soundtracks.
There’s a dude who plays the Obra Dinn main theme on a carillon I saw at my local renn fest.
Outer Wilds
Already linked elsewhere.
Subnautica
Already linked elsewhere.
Return of the Obra Dinn
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Chrono Cross.