My favorites:
- Command & Conquer (the first one)
- Hearts of Iron 2
- TES Morrowind
- Valheim
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People talk up hell march but nothing beats just do it up https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=cfAalQu9hvY
I'm more of a Prepare for Battle kind of guy... that slow buildup preceding the awesome metalesque riff. chefs kiss
The Ghost of Tsushima soundtrack takes me back to the game every time
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.
Jet Set Radio Future is up there for me. Even twenty years later it sounds like it came from the future.
Risk of Rain 2 for GOAT Any supergiant game, but Transistor and Hades are a cut above
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.
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.
I have the soundtrack from the first two games on my phone!
Haven't played the third yet, maybe I should go find a good DS emulator
Genshin Impact has an incredible soundtrack.
It really does. I think their music budget is probably larger than some AAA games' entire budget.
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Katana Zero and Celeste both had great soundtracks. Persona 5’s soundtrack is amazing.
simcity 2000.
Portal 2. It's music told me more about aperture than I could discover with my eyes.
An older one, but Fahrenheit had such a great soundtrack.
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
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.
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.
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..
GTA 4. Dark, gloomy, realistic
Diablo 2. Easy
Planescape: Torment by Mark Morgan
- Ace Attorney: Gyakuten meets orchestra
- Ace Attorney: Turnabout Jazz Soul
- Any Castlevania soundtrack
Reznor did a great job with the soundtrack for quake 1.
I’m very nostalgic for the Paper Mario games’ soundtracks, especially The Thousand Year Door’s.
Skate 2. So many bangers.
Outer Wilds
Maple story!
Commando for C64