Depends on what kind of mood I'm in. Like if I want to listen to something rock or techno I'd say either Metal Gear Rising or F-Zero. Honorable mention to the Sonic soundtrack.
NieR automata is a masterpiece of a soundtrack, and you only need to listen to Pascal’s Village to know it (though the whole thing is incredible) The theme itself is so Thematically appropriate that if you hadn’t played the game and just heard the track, you would probably understand the point it’s making immediately. To start, for the fact it’s a essentially a brand new children’s society as they are new to the idea of living freely and breaking away from the collective, so the Marimba represents the woods they are in and trying to live among nature, the children’s voices are their attempt at true life/purity as a living being, as well as the made up language meaning they are forming their own idealized collective, and the digitized voice is their innate programming fighting to hold them back or remind them that they aren’t truly alive - the duple meter between the children singing and the robot voice shows it’s a constant struggle as the children voices sometimes sync up to the robot voice and then break away again.
This is one of those soundtracks that shows how great JRPGs can be for music. It really is beautiful music. One of the best in recent years beyond a doubt.
David Wise mastered some amazing technical feats working on the soundtrack for this trilogy. The sound and quality of this music is unlike anything else on the Super Nintendo. It still holds up today; compare to a soundtrack like Super Mario World’s, which has great composition but definitely sounds like an SNES game.
Anything shoji meguro touches turns to gold. The entire persona series and Catherine have such amazing soundtracks that no only fit the situations they're used in in-game but also stand in thier own as good music
Hades has probably the best use of music in a game I've ever played. The basic songs as you work your way through the levels are great, but as the game progresses new music is part of the plot, leading to some fantastic moments where hearing a great song coincides with finally achieving a big challenge. Great game.
Yup....every THPS game had amazing soundtracks. Favourite song i learned from this series is Frog One "Blah blah".....pretty sure its from one of the Underground games
A thing about Witcher 3 is just the sheer number of tracks it has, each fitting and matching perfectly with the situation on the screen. There are many games with awesome soundtracks but few of them have SO MANY good tracks all in one place
Witcher 3 's ambiance is incredible ! My brother plays and DM's some tabletop rpgs and I showed him the Nilfgaard camp and palace theme and he just nodded and said "Yep, using that !!"
It's an amazing soundtrack. It's definitely the best sound design out of any game. Every piece of music is so immersive and real that it grabs you and makes you feel like you're actually rocketing around the sun at a water planet covered in tornados, or lost in the void of space forever.
Nothing hits like when you boot up the game for the first time in months and somehow the login music got unmuted and is just blasting through your speakers.
For me it's Devil May Cry 3, Shadow of the Colossus, From Software games, Monster Hunter World, Metal Gear Rising, Hollow Knight, Nier Automata and many more. Honestly soundtrack is a very under appreciated aspect of gaming.
Genuinely can't get over how good Bloodborne's soundtrack is. Even the generic stuff is great, and the signature pieces *cough*Ludwig*cough* are just exceptional. Even the bad bosses have incredible music (looking at you Living Failures)
Transistor is, hands down, my favorite game ever. And the soundtrack plays a huge role in that. The incorporation of music into the game world makes it all feel alive, even as you're in this dying, empty place.
Here's the thing about the VC soundtrack: You may not like 80s music, but VC's soundtrack is fits the goddamn game like a fuckin bespoke velvet glove made by a Milanese master craftsman.
The fact I had to scroll this far down is criminal. NieR (2010), NieR Replicant with the remastered sound tracks and NieR Automata have outstanding music. Automata and Replicant didn't win best music & score of 2017 and 2021 at the game awards for nothing.
Actually Hans only composed some opening themes and then handed it off to a junior associate (as he does with a lot of work his studio puts its name on). Lorne Balfe of Pirates fame actually composed most of it.
Nostalgia wants me to say the Mass Effect trilogy but honestly, I think Destiny 2 has topped it now. Some of the pieces Destiny has churned out over the years are just beyond exceptional.
Glad to see someone shares my opinion. There is not a single bad Xenoblade song. I really only played XC2, but in that game alone, “The Power of Jin”, “Mor Ardain Roaming the Wastes”, “ “Song of Giga Rosa”, “Tantal”, “Argentum”, “Alba Cavanich” (Especially night), “Fonsa Myma”, “Kingdom of Uraya”, “Death Match With Torna”, “Counterattack” “Drifting Souls”, “Walking With You”, “Friendship”, “One Last You”, “Land of Morytha”, “Spirit Crucible Elpys”, “Garfont”, “Gormott”, “Torigoth”, “The Tomorrow With You”, “A Faint Hope”, “Elysium The Blue Sky” and “After Despair and Hope” (that one still gives me PTSD) all really stood out to me.
Depends on what kind of mood I'm in. Like if I want to listen to something rock or techno I'd say either Metal Gear Rising or F-Zero. Honorable mention to the Sonic soundtrack.
RULES OF NATURE!
F-zero GX: Wait, that song is just the replay music? Holy shit...
Katamari Damacy
I had to scroll waaaaay too far to see this.
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Braid has a great
I recall Jonathan Blow saying it took him a year just to hand pick all those songs
Nier Automata
My first thought was: "there are so many different kinds of OSTs, it's impossible to pick one universal best."
City ruins and grandma always help me when I have trouble falling asleep. They are depressingly peaceful and simply just beautiful
NieR automata is a masterpiece of a soundtrack, and you only need to listen to Pascal’s Village to know it (though the whole thing is incredible) The theme itself is so Thematically appropriate that if you hadn’t played the game and just heard the track, you would probably understand the point it’s making immediately. To start, for the fact it’s a essentially a brand new children’s society as they are new to the idea of living freely and breaking away from the collective, so the Marimba represents the woods they are in and trying to live among nature, the children’s voices are their attempt at true life/purity as a living being, as well as the made up language meaning they are forming their own idealized collective, and the digitized voice is their innate programming fighting to hold them back or remind them that they aren’t truly alive - the duple meter between the children singing and the robot voice shows it’s a constant struggle as the children voices sometimes sync up to the robot voice and then break away again.
This is one of those soundtracks that shows how great JRPGs can be for music. It really is beautiful music. One of the best in recent years beyond a doubt.
Donkey Kong Country 2
David Wise mastered some amazing technical feats working on the soundtrack for this trilogy. The sound and quality of this music is unlike anything else on the Super Nintendo. It still holds up today; compare to a soundtrack like Super Mario World’s, which has great composition but definitely sounds like an SNES game.
Stickerbush symphony is iconic
I hear you big dawg, an absolute banger
Persona 5
Anything shoji meguro touches turns to gold. The entire persona series and Catherine have such amazing soundtracks that no only fit the situations they're used in in-game but also stand in thier own as good music
my man
You'll never see it coming!
WAAAAAKE UP!!!GEEEET UP!! GET OUT THERE!!!!!!
persona and the nier series have top tier soundtracks
Amazing soundtrack to an amazing game. I always loved the theme played when entering the palace the final time to steal the heart.
Ori and the will of the wisps
Original had fantastic music as well
Hotline: Miami
Hotline Miami 2 also had a banging soundtrack
Only VG soundtrack I’ll listen to outside of the game
NFS Underground (2?) & Tony Hawks
Id add to the list GTA Vice City (fever)and San Andreas (los santos) and thats music i lisn' only lol
NFS underground 2 hands down!
Barum dum dum
Halo is iconic for a reason
My little toddler brother used to go up to the TV wide eyed when Dad was playing halo and go"ohh ahh ohh, ohhHHOhoo" singing along
I like Halo. I've played all the good ones.
Yea I don’t know if there are many games so tied to their soundtracks. Amazing sound design all over that series
Halo 2 though - those Incubus jam tracks are dope.
ODST's Deference for Darkness is my go to bgm
Name me another game with Breaking Benjamin on the soundtrack
Most of the Ace Combat games
Terraria.
Sonic adventure series still has the best music out of any video games from the early 2000s.
The pumpkin hill rap, slaps.
Rouge’s and Knuckle’s themes were and are still bangers. Shadow’s final level and Final Chase are all fucking amazing.
The pumpkin hill rap, slaps.
Oh it definitely does. Escape from the City, Open Your Heart, and Live and Learn are all amazing.
Journey
Austin wintory has my heart
Should be way up!
Undertale. Honestly, most songs are catchy bops that remix well.
Exactly.
bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum’s in the tune of death by glamour
ASSGORE goes hard
I spent so much of high school studying to that soundtrack. It calmed my ADHD brain in a way that nothing else would.
Toss-up between Final Fantasy VI and Chrono Trigger. Very tough choice.
My opinion is CT is a better as a game, but FFVI had better story and music.
The decisive battle intensifies
Portal 2 soundtrack will be up there for me.
Well, this is the part where he kills us.
I like that the music reacts and changes based on what the player is doing.
Risk of rain 1 and 2
I frequently listen to ror music in the car and around the house.
What is your favorite song from the risk of rains?
Tetris
Hades has probably the best use of music in a game I've ever played. The basic songs as you work your way through the levels are great, but as the game progresses new music is part of the plot, leading to some fantastic moments where hearing a great song coincides with finally achieving a big challenge. Great game.
Yeah Hades is my vote too. Though all the Supergiant Games have great soundtracks.
Stellaris
Assassins creed black flag
Sea shanties!!! They were the best part of an amazing game.
Brotherhood is also really good. Especially, when Ezio rides to a battle to kill Cesare Borgia.
Ezio s family still the best
Subnautica is pretty good
For background like that, Subnautica is my go-to now, second is the Persona 5 tracks, and third is FTL. Productivity x 10.
Below Zero has even better music (game isn't exactly a dud either)
Tony hawks pro skater 2
Saw a Tony Hawk's Pro Skater cover band a couple of months ago and had a great night. The whole crowd was going wild.
You know we're getting old when this is so far down... sad times.
I regularly listen to songs from this game. I discovered a few of my favourite bands in this game as well. (Rage Against the Machine, Bad Religion)
NHPS 1, THE ACE OF SPADES!
Yup....every THPS game had amazing soundtracks. Favourite song i learned from this series is Frog One "Blah blah".....pretty sure its from one of the Underground games
Witcher 3 was the first one I fell in love with. God of War and Bloodborne I thought were also beautiful
The Fields Of Ard Skelig 👌
A thing about Witcher 3 is just the sheer number of tracks it has, each fitting and matching perfectly with the situation on the screen. There are many games with awesome soundtracks but few of them have SO MANY good tracks all in one place
LELELLELEELELEEELEELELLEE
Witcher 3 's ambiance is incredible ! My brother plays and DM's some tabletop rpgs and I showed him the Nilfgaard camp and palace theme and he just nodded and said "Yep, using that !!"
Ludwig and his personal orchestra make me feel things.
The Fields of Ard Skellige really makes me feel like randomly declaring "Winds Howling" for no reason.
Outer Wilds has a great soundtrack.
It's an amazing soundtrack. It's definitely the best sound design out of any game. Every piece of music is so immersive and real that it grabs you and makes you feel like you're actually rocketing around the sun at a water planet covered in tornados, or lost in the void of space forever.
Chrono Cross Chrono Trigger
FF7, both original and remake honestly, such a good soundtrack
Kudos to Nobuo Uematsu and The Black Mages
The Airbuster, High Five, J-E-N-O-V-A - Quickening, Hell House, Smash ‘Em, Rip ‘Em, One - Winged Angel - Rebirth, the whole soundtrack slaps!
This and Final Fantasy X are the best. Slight edge to FFX in my book.
I can't believe I had to go down that far to find someone talking about Final Fantasy.
FF8 is the goat soundtrack
Cosmo Canyon is one of my favourite tracks of all time in a game.
Yeeeeeeee, the remake sound track was mind blowing, all of the old songs and feelings with so much polish <3
Oof... Stardew Valley, Doom & Doom Eternal, Journey
I love that Austin Wintry of Journey teamed up with Darren Korb. Like Isaac Newton and Einstein teaming up :)
I love the Stardew Soundtrack! each season is so much fun.
Runescape
Nothing hits like when you boot up the game for the first time in months and somehow the login music got unmuted and is just blasting through your speakers.
And it has like a thousand songs and they all slap.
In terms of inspiring themed music then the Dragon Age and Mass Effect Games are perfect, both with some great pieces.
Mass Effect 1 had a brilliant soundtrack. I loved just hanging out and doing RPG things on Noveria for that music.
The Dark Solas theme from the Inquisition Tresspasser DLC is AMAZING.
THPS 1. By far.
The Witcher 3
For me it's Devil May Cry 3, Shadow of the Colossus, From Software games, Monster Hunter World, Metal Gear Rising, Hollow Knight, Nier Automata and many more. Honestly soundtrack is a very under appreciated aspect of gaming.
MGRR or BloodBorne
Oh, Rising Revengeance was so amazing I downloaded the soundtrack and still sing the songs in my shower to this day
Genuinely can't get over how good Bloodborne's soundtrack is. Even the generic stuff is great, and the signature pieces *cough*Ludwig*cough* are just exceptional. Even the bad bosses have incredible music (looking at you Living Failures)
Any game from The Legend of Zelda series
Life is Strange 1
Before The Storm’s soundtrack by Daughter was incredible tho
I don't know, but it was definitely made by Supergiant Games.
Bastion, Transistor, hell any of thier games have amazing soundtracks.
Darren Korb is a genius. I've had Hades's soundtrack on loop forever.
Transistor is, hands down, my favorite game ever. And the soundtrack plays a huge role in that. The incorporation of music into the game world makes it all feel alive, even as you're in this dying, empty place.
I can't narrow down to just one!
GTA: Vice City
This is the game that got me into video games
Here's the thing about the VC soundtrack: You may not like 80s music, but VC's soundtrack is fits the goddamn game like a fuckin bespoke velvet glove made by a Milanese master craftsman.
I don’t think I ever finished the game 100% but I played hundreds of hours just doing things around the city
This is the correct answer. All these other guesses are cute though.
Doom 2016
Eternal steps it up imo,
Zelda Ocarina Of Time for N-64
This is mine too. Although there are a few songs from Windwaker that are right up there.
You got it before me. Definitely, My favorite video game soundtrack
Tie between undertale and hollow knight.
Did you know that to get the "about to explode" noise for infected bugs, the composer fried tomatoes?
Can't believe I had to scroll this far down to find Hollow Knight.
Ace Combat 5. Some of the songs in that game are beautiful. That's the first soundtrack that came to mind.
Skyrim.
Secunda is such a hauntingly beautiful theme.
Oblivion.
I was searching for the comment
Minecraft
Yes. I'm not sure if it's just nostalgia but I love listening to the old Minecraft soundtrack.
I can't believe I had to scroll this far
It's been a while since I played Minecraft with music on, and I regret not doing it.
Red dead redemption 2 for me
Unshaken
American Venom, need I say more
The Housebuilding song! My man!
Streets of Rage
Finally someone who actually recognizes that that gane exists
Came here to say SoR or SoR 2
Cuphead
Floral Fury is an absolute heater
Civilization VI has great music all around.
Command and Conquer: Tiberium Dawn
NiER
The fact I had to scroll this far down is criminal. NieR (2010), NieR Replicant with the remastered sound tracks and NieR Automata have outstanding music. Automata and Replicant didn't win best music & score of 2017 and 2021 at the game awards for nothing.
Specifically, NieR: Automata. Very evocative and emotional.
Pokémon, especially diamond/pearl/platinum
Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005)
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The orchestral version of Simple and Clean gets me every time.
I'm sad I had to scroll so far to find this. Absolute gem, the game and sequels were epic too but lacked the punch the original soundtrack provided
The original Quake from the late 90s? I mean, for fuck's sake it was Nine Inch Nails.
Nier Replicant/Gestalt, Nier Automata, Hollow Knight, Persona 5 and Last of Us.
Modern warfare 2, Hans Zimmer did amazing.
Actually Hans only composed some opening themes and then handed it off to a junior associate (as he does with a lot of work his studio puts its name on). Lorne Balfe of Pirates fame actually composed most of it.
Rayman 2
Bloodborne, NieR, anything from Supergiant. Pyre’s OST is sorely underrated.
Doom eternal
Nostalgia wants me to say the Mass Effect trilogy but honestly, I think Destiny 2 has topped it now. Some of the pieces Destiny has churned out over the years are just beyond exceptional.
the WII home menu
The last of us
Can’t believe I had to scroll so far down to see this. Gustavo is brilliant.
SSX 3
Persona 3, 4, and 5, and the spinoffs
Wow...almost 200 comments in and I haven't seen either of my favorites yet
Guilty Gear if you're looking for metal/hard rock
Nier Automata.
Earthbound.
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I came here expecting no one to even mention Xenoblade. Pleasantly surprised, both games’ OSTs kinda slap
Glad to see someone shares my opinion. There is not a single bad Xenoblade song. I really only played XC2, but in that game alone, “The Power of Jin”, “Mor Ardain Roaming the Wastes”, “ “Song of Giga Rosa”, “Tantal”, “Argentum”, “Alba Cavanich” (Especially night), “Fonsa Myma”, “Kingdom of Uraya”, “Death Match With Torna”, “Counterattack” “Drifting Souls”, “Walking With You”, “Friendship”, “One Last You”, “Land of Morytha”, “Spirit Crucible Elpys”, “Garfont”, “Gormott”, “Torigoth”, “The Tomorrow With You”, “A Faint Hope”, “Elysium The Blue Sky” and “After Despair and Hope” (that one still gives me PTSD) all really stood out to me.
Old nes Capcom games. Simon's quest was lit.
Mechanicus
Horizon Zero Dawn
This gets my vote too. The soundtrack to this game is haunting.
Hyperlight Drifter. It's so pleasantly distorted.
Ocarina of time
Chrono Cross has one of the best soundtracks released during the PS1 era. Mitsuda at some of his very best.
Fallout New Vegas
Big Iron on his hiiiiiip
Tetris
Hollow Knight
Cod black ops 2
Red Dead Redemption 2. Just listen to "Unshaken", "The Housebuilding Song", "Crash of the worlds", "Cruel World".. It's baffling.
"Mountain Hymn" just hits for me.
American venom is great too
Dark souls 3
nearly every fromsoft game has an amazing soundtrack imo, but the dancer's soundtrack will always be one of my favourites