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Dear patient lemmings, I am in need of your help. I'm searching for games that have some GOD DAAMN OSTs and come with a great story or/and gameplay.
Games that tick these requirements for me:
Library of Ruina went nuts with its osts
One time they even patched the game just to buff a boss's music, not even the boss itself
Caveats with hollow Knight story: you won't know a lot about the story until you watch mossbag videos after getting to one of the endings.
Caveats with genshin gameplay: only the exploration and some quests are good. All other gameplay should be ignored (or doused with fire). The exploration is actually one of the best open world exploration I've played, and I've played Witcher 3, botw, AC: black flag, arkham series, and more.
Caveats with genshin story (context: currently on version 4.0+):
Definitely gonna try Hades, since 2 people already mentioned it prior to you. Actually I'm a sorta genshin regular, and the OST is an absolute masterpiece. Dragonspine is probably my fav. Which region is your fav in terms of OST?
Sumeru, tho I haven't played much Fontaine yet.
Can't argue with that. In some way it reminds me when I started genshin initially with Monstadt's soothing ost.
Some quick ones off the top of my head right now:
Golden Sun & GS:TLA
Megaman X
Saints Row the Third
Dynasty Warriors 4
Deus Ex
Castle Crashers
The Sam & Max games by Telltale have an absolute banger jazz soundtrack
How did you feel about Celeste? It felt pretty hard for me on the first level already. Might pick back up then!
Celeste is hard, but so rewarding! And the OST is stunning
As a 196 regular, it would be a sin not to finish it.
Tough game, but the learning curve isn't too bad. Keep trying and you'll do it 💪
I feel like I'm a little old school in this thread compared to most other replies, but idgaf:
Castlevania: Symphony of the night has the best soundtrack ever, or maybe on par with the first three Silent Hills and its just an awesome game
Also Alundra. Great story, great soundtrack, great everything.
Punch Club 1&2
Final Fantasy XIV has a diverse soundtrack and a terrific story, but it is a huge time commitment. The story starts off pretty slow and takes a long time to build up.
A few boss fight themes as examples:
Yeah I've tried FFXIV but it seems MMORPGs aren't made for me. Thank you for the fight themes tho! "Beauty's Wicked Wiles" kinda makes me hyped and chilled at the same time.
Sea of Stars had some really catchy tunes.
The Surviving Mars OST is spectacular, though the gameplay is just good.
Already played it. I really love how they named the songs from one of the elements.
You will love MAX PAYNE 3. Badass shootouts inspired by John Woo action films, eargasmic soundtrack composed by legendary noise band HEALTH and some of the best acting seen in story-driven video games.
Bionic commando remake
All of the doom remakes
Timberborn
For honor
Jet set radio future
Incredibile Crisis, on PS1.
Admittedly the story is a bit thin… the game play is purposefully enraging… but it gets a big ol’double check mark on the OST requirement thanks to the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra.
On a totally different note and tone, Last of Us. I dig anything Gustavo Santaolalla.
Sonic games usually have great music but Sonic Mania in particular is full of bangers, highly recommend it.
Undertale's soundtrack has been memed to death but it's honestly really good.
If you're still in the mood for visual novels the Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney games have some incredible soundtracks too.
Also, for something slower, I must give a shout out to The Sims 1. It's suave as hell and very, very catchy.
Honestly can't argue. Undertale's OST is really great, even though it's been memed a lot.
I absolutely loved Pokemon USUM‘s OST and was heartbroken when I found out the OST release was just like 1 minute long tracks that you couldn‘t easily loop (obviously it looped infinitely ingame)
I don't see this mentioned enough, but persona 5 (specifically recommend persona 5 Royal) has a really great OST. As you play the game you unlock better versions of the same tracks, including vocals. It's actually really jazzy, and quite catchy! The wife and i will jam to the vocal tracks on road trips.
The game is also very good, with an interesting story! It's kinda weird in a fun way! It's like.. a pokemon-esque turn based jrpg with some like real world maintenance aspects (relationships, work a job, go to school), with great music
The Elder Scrolls series if you haven't played already, battlefield 1, Terraria, Cave Story, The Ori series