I’ll start off with Raiden II’s Repeated Tragedy.
A local restaurant had this game, and every time we went, I’d beg my parents for money so that I could play it. I wasn’t very good at the game, so I never got past the first stage, and so I heard this song a lot. Really gives me nostalgia.
Also got to shout out Streets, from Timesplitters too. I put a lot of time into this game as a kid, and this song is what got me into futurepop (love me some VNV Nation).
been listening to Repeated Tragedy, good one
I stumbled on the OST for the unreleased Jazz Jackrabbit 3 recently, and I keep playing this track every now and again, it’s such a banger. This whole subgenre from Epic Games’ early efforts (and stuff those composers did for other companies) is really cool, I with there more games beyond the Unreals and Deus Ex with that style. This track from Unreal 2 is another great one
The cut Downtown theme from Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines, it’s just such a vibe
Fertile Rondo from Bayonetta 3 is also just
, great 5th Element vibesBrain Freeze from Yuri’s Revenge, I miss the “just stick some old movie/TV quotes in” era of electronic music
This track from Descent (this particular recording off a Roland SC-55, I’m pretty sure I originally found it on youtube but it seems like that upload may have been taken down, and a lot of the other ones I could find don’t sound as good)
The whole Neotokyo soundtrack really, just an absolute masterpiece composed for a free mod for some reason. Some standouts: Beacon, Imbrium, Tachi, I just absolutely love the combination of more electronic sounds with strings and piano in a lot of these.
On the more ambient side of things, STALKER has some great ones, Call of Pripyat especially, like the Pripyat theme
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I listen to a lot of game soundtracks at work. Atm, this song is stuck in my head because so many YouTubers/streamers play it: Steam Gardens - Super Mario Odyssey
Shit I’m too late to the party, but Banjo Tooie soundtrack runs through my mind constantly. Glitter Gulch Mine was my shit you ever heard a donkey used as an instrument? Well now you have
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I’m making a note here: Huge. Success.
It’s hard to overstate my satisfactionnnnn
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The ambient music from Mass Effect 2 that plays while you’re probing for resources. I know lots of people hated that mini-game, but I found it extremely soothing and spent hours and hours doing it.
The galaxy map song from that game is what got me into ambient music and changed my life for the better. It just hits my brain perfectly
novalis theme from ratchet and clank and pretty much all of sim city 4, but shout out to rush hour
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I probably spent so much time during my formative years (and some of my adulthood) playing Age of Empires II and Age of Mythology that these were the only ones I could remember off the top of my head. Many others I can remember if I think about the game, but not as easy.
Also, Asylum Demon, Firelink Shrine, Ornstein and Smough and Gwyn Lord of Cinder from Dark Souls 1. I’ve probably beat that game dozens, if not hundreds of times, and have used a ton of playthroughs as background noise before going to bed.
for burned into brain it’s definitely chiptune music from NES games I played as a kid like:
Big Nose the Caveman - Level 2
Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy - Pirate Ship
The Jetsons - Cogswells Caper! Level 1
also I guess the Quake 3 Rocket Arena 3 theme from back in the day
when parts of this or this come on while playing ESO in the Morrowind region it feels special
There’s also a lot of game music I like but from games I never played so I won’t list any of those
The Whirling in Rags theme and Martinaise theme (the one with the distorted horn) from Disco Elysium.
Every boss theme from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
About half of the character themes from Guilty Gear: Strive (and I haven’t even played the game!).
The Mario Galaxy beach music
Risk of Rain 2 menu theme, I will get this song stuck on a loop inside my head for hours at a time.
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IMO Pyre is criminally underrated. The story is leftist and emotional as fuck and it kills me that it nobody has played it. I am also a huge sucker for Ashley Barrett and Darren Korb harmonizing.
It’s hard to sell nerds on magic basketball
I never played Pyre, but the two of them have definitely done some great songs. Zulf and Zia’s songs in Bastion were great.
EDIT: the scene at the end where you
spoiler
Save Zulf while his song plays
brought a tear to my eye the first time through.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAWmSzN7Uf8 is probably my favorite Pyre song
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I liked Pyre but I’ve still played it the least of Supergiant’s offerings. Transistor is probably my favorite OST.
Pyre is the only supergiant I haven’t played, probably because it’s the least “Normal” of them
FTL: Faster Than Light
MechWarrior 2
Total Annihilation
Hotline Miami
FTL soundtrack is great
A friend of mine plays video games on speakers and has the Hotline Miami soundtrack playing in the background of all games, so whenever he mics in, I hear that playing in the background
oooh for me it’s gonna have to be dark hollow from spyro the dragon!
