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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The WWE SmackDown VS RAW series had some great soundtracks.

Especially SvR 2007

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Animal I Have Become is a banger in that game.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

There are many I love but I gotta go with Evergrace. I know it's great because I've never played the game and am still always putting this one on.

Though if best means best in the context of the game then I'd probably have to go with Sim City 3000. The OST sounds fantastic and really captures the vibe of a city that is wires and plumbing sprouting into something living and breathing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

No Man's Sky

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Half Life 1 and Forsaken (1998).

Both of those CDROMs worked in normal CD players and they lived in my hifi for AGES

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Hear me out.

MechWarrier 2.

[–] GreasyTengu 4 points 2 years ago

for me, WH40k Mechanicus probably has the best. Every track is awsome and fits the setting perfectly.

Here is a playlist of the soundtrack if you want a listen.

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GTA 4. Dark, gloomy, realistic

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Katana Zero and Celeste both had great soundtracks. Persona 5’s soundtrack is amazing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Golden Sun. Despite some other masterpieces, I still maintain that the trilogy of games represent Motoi Sakuraba's magnum opus. Nothing else from the life of the GBA came anywhere close to even touching it, and even now tracks will randomly get stuck in my head, more than I can say for any other game soundtrack I've ever heard.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

simcity 2000.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

An older one, but Fahrenheit had such a great soundtrack.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I'm going to go deep cut here with Outlaws (Lucasarts, 1997). If you don't have time to listen, imagine an Ennio Morricone Spaghetti Western score, but with John Williams-like melodic leitmotifs. It was done really well, and lived on my various MP3 players for many years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

ULTRAKILL has a phenomenal OST. Fast paced and very breakcore for a stupidly fast FPS set in hell with crunchy PSX graphics, but still with these weighty almost sad moments of calm.

On the complete other end of the spectrum, Project Moon. They've done two turn based deck builders that force you to slow the fuck down and read, and are also a fan of using "actual" songs (made a group called Mili) for boss fights that are slow, melancholic, and Really Good. they've also done the main themes for Both Games but idk if they strictly count as 'OST'.

Also I know Persona gets all the love, but the mainline SMT series has some fucking bangers too, just more in the Club and/or Hell yeah tubular bells genre

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Genshin Impact has an incredible soundtrack.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

It really does. I think their music budget is probably larger than some AAA games' entire budget.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

ehh fuck it, im gonna say its space funeral. It's a bunch of music lifted from the 70's BBC sound archives. Its clearly not the most expensive or masterfully produced soundtrack, but that's nowhere near the point. Its the dichotomy between the ugly visuals of scum vullage and the melancholic first track that persuaded me to stick around, and then it went in all sorts of different directions over the course of an hour long game.

that's super, dracula.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Some of my favorites include

Minecraft (nostalgia and calming slow paced)

Subnautica 1 and below zero (super calming to listen too and also fit the vibe really well)

No man's sky (music fits the atmosphere of the game really well)

Payday 2 (very good kinda electronic songs)

Superliminal (very good calming piano)

Boneworks and bonelab (these are absolutely phenomenal like electronic tracks, Michael Wyckoff fucking nailed the sound track for both games and both are perfect)

Red dead redemption 2 (the entire game is perfect and so is the sound track) (haven't played the first one)

But I swear it's always the tiny little indie games that hire some guy off of fiverr or something like make some masterpieces.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Shout-out to Xenoblade Chronicles X. I really wish Nintendo would port it to Switch , since the only way to play it is on Wii U..

https://youtu.be/SuVRnUvdmz4

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Hunt: Showdown

Spotify

Youtube

Its insane how much the soundtrack makes this game. Probably the best use of music in a game outside of musicaly focused games. It's not just a few moments where the music is used effectively, its every single moment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Payday 2 leads the industry with countless bangers and implements music in a way that keys you in on what phase you're currently in.

'Evil eye' 'Hot pursuit' 'Break the rules' 'Ode to greed' 'I will give you my all' 'The gauntlet'

Not to mention the Christmas track.

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Though Castlevania: Lords of Shadow was a divisive game, its art direction and soundtrack are incredible. Oscar Araujo’s score combined with some great vistas and setpieces elevates the mediocre gameplay to actually make this game one of my favorites.

I also loved the songs from Death Stranding. Low Roar’s tracks fit the atmosphere of the game perfectly, and the few tracks from other artists really stand out in a nice contrast to Low Roar’s calmer feeling.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Planescape: Torment by Mark Morgan

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I always liked the music written for the original Fable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I’m very nostalgic for the Paper Mario games’ soundtracks, especially The Thousand Year Door’s.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Reznor did a great job with the soundtrack for quake 1.

[–] PitzNR 2 points 2 years ago

Maple story!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Commando for C64

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Outer Wilds

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