I’ll give you two albums worth:
*Bastion OST
*Transistor OST
I’ll add Hades OST, Supergiant generally do amazing soundtracks.
Recent favorite:
The track when you fight Consort Radahn in Elden Ring. I am absolutely OBSESSED with the man who sings that one part… You’d have to listen to it and you’ll spot who I mean. He has such a powerful voice, you can hear him over the rest. It’s just awe inspiring.
(So glad I can finally gush about that song)
Red Alert, Hell March
I couldn’t pick just one.
- From The Witcher 3:
- Whiterun theme (unforgivably absent from the OST albums)
- Fields of Ard Skellig (a version of the folk song “Fear a Bhata”)
- From Skyrim… hard to pick out favourites
- From Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance (Jeremy Soule again): The Art of War. It opens boldly but there’s a moment when it’s just twinkling in the strings, percussion and a little piano with almost no melody. If at that moment you happen to be watching the trajectory of your artillery arcing towards the enemy, and then the theme comes back as they land… sublime.
- From The Witcher 3:
Legend of zelda theme for the NES. I’ll never get tired of it
Song2 by Blur
Oh man, this comment just brought back a memory from decades ago of watching a Warthog-launching trick compliation video from the original Halo set to Song2. I haven’t thought about that video in probably fifteen years.
Edit: Here’s the video lol. Wow that was a blast from the past.
Alpha by C418 - The background music to the End Poem in Minecraft
Great pick. This track is transcendent.
If I had to choose one song, it would probably have to be Undertale from Undertale. The acoustic guitar brought me to tears. Honorable mentions to Rith Essa Mime from Jet Force Gemini, Stone Tower Temple from Majora’s Mask, Smiles and Tears from Earthbound, Fear the Dark from Aquaria, and Ocean Planet Aquanid from Bomberman 64: The Second Attack.
If you mean music, it depends on how you can define 'from a video game. If it has to be in the game, The Last of Us by Gustavo Santolalla. If you can allow a bit of a stretch to gameplay-adjacent spaces, it’s Daylight’s End from League of Legends. Lots of fun music in the LoL space but, without exaggeration, that one was so beautiful I wept when I heard it.
Now if you mean race track: probably Mist Falls from Ridge Racer 7. So much SPEED and adrenaline next to a calm buddha.
I think the main theme from the second is better. Really reminds me of Feel Good Lost by BSS. I mean, he song, but that whole album is very much a similar vibe and I think you should check it out if you havent
I still prefer the original, but it’s still Santolalla so it’s good.
Hadn’t heard of BSS before. Thanks.
Probably Stickerbush Symphony from Donkey Kong Country 2.
Lots of good Final Fantasy tracks from Nobuo Uematsu and Chrono Trigger/Cross ones from Yasunori Mitsuda too. But Stickerbush Symphony was the first video game music that really moved me, like more than your average SNES soundtrack. David Wise went hard on those Donkey Kong Country games.
Probably Stickerbush Symphony from Donkey Kong Country 2.
I didn’t play the game back in the days, heck until now I have only played the 1st title, but this song sounds so good and I have 0 nostalgia googles about it (although weirdly it emits some nostalgia to me regardless).
They definitely cooked with the DKC OST.
Vigil - Mass Effect
The End Run from Mass Effect 2 is also high up there.
Recency bias, but Lumiere from Expedition 33 is also incredible.
Presidium and Uncharted Worlds are also really good.
M4 Faunts is genuinely one of my favorite credits songs too. Mass Effect soundtrack is just way too good.
Had a listen and yeah it is so good. The first Mass Effect really nailed the old scifi vibe. Later OST was good too yet drifted towards more sounding more like Hollywood soundtracks.
Completely agree. The orchestral shift still produced great songs, but the synth music has a special place in my heart.
Baba Yetu from Civilization 2005 is the first video track to win a Grammy.
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