secret tip: Fez
Came here to say this! Also Bastion, kind of the same generation of indie games, I feel.
Minecraft
Nier Automata
Subnautica
The Sims 2
I’ve started recognizing when a section of a game feels baller, but it’s 99% because of the soundtrack. They can have the most generic basis for an emotional scene, and then as long as the music nails the mood it could be just blocks on a screen.
Final Fantasy XIV has had awe-inspiring tracks for the finales of each expansion since Shadowbringers; pretty much starting at the final zone through the final dungeon and trial.
Ace Attorney always gets it with its confrontation tracks; it could just be two people arguing in a hallway and it turns the battle of words into the most epic thing.
I’ll also give a shout out to Ori and the Blind Forest / Will of the Wisps. For both of those, it’s not just a few banger tracks for the exciting moments; even the downtime tracks are so memorable.
No game will ever have a better soundtrack than Halo 3
Mechanicus and
Ixion
Both games came out fairly recent and have OSTs by Guillaume David. They are both good games on their own, but get great due to the OST.
You can check tehm out here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLsX9WUdYnU&list=PLnSG0OA5vYnTLQ77f5EmLoW52vIX5jAAK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhTXyUERugQ&list=PLLIWYDpOq7WJYefSkcfYujE5JaLmB0Ezf
I’ve been listening to alot of Amateur composers like Boris Harazanov, Baltic House Orchestra, Mathias Fritsch and Filip Lakovic.
The old Deus Ex and Endless Space are the ones I listen to the most.
Is 2016 old enough now?
The DOOM 2016 soundtrack fucking rips.And tears
Until it is done
it’s been almost a decade. def old enough imo.
Idk, the jury is still out on that one… :)
Original DOOM!
NEDM
NEDM
This immediately brought me back to the YTMND era. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVBalxt3NEU
My DUUUDE hahahaha
Let’s try and keep it below
1011 entries:- Disco Elysium
- Outer Wilds
- Hollow Knight
- Shadow of the Colossus + Ico
- Pyre (+all other Supergiant games)
- Valkyrie Profile
- Banner Saga trilogy
- Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
- Chrono Trigger + Cross
- Eastshade
Honestly nowadays so many games have great soundtracks, it is a joy to behold! Makes it harder to chose favorites though…
Really good list. I wanna add stardew valley and Nier automata aswell.
Als I’m gonna check out valkyrie profile tomorrow, I’ve never heard of that game.
Hollow Knight is pure art
Bastion, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, Mirror’s Edge.
and Hades, although I refuse to call it a “patient gamer” game
BGE soundtrack is so good.
Propaganda
Hades, although I refuse to call it a “patient gamer” game
Why? It’s 6 years old at this point so I think it qualifies.
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All the hades osts are so good. They just don’t miss.
Oh man the Mirrors Edge soundtrack is so good
All of Persona OSTs, if i had to pick one it would be 5, but all of them have songs on my playlist that i hear to this day.
I also love Devil May Cry OSTs, i heard bury the light on repeat for months
Persona 5 - Beneath the Mask. Still listening to this on a rainy days !
Last month i was on the bus back home and as the rain started to fall that music started to play, literal perfect timing
Persona 3 OST for me
- Halo Combat Evolved
- Mirror’s Edge
- Sim City 3000
- The Sims
- The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time
- Fez
- Flatout 2
- Jet Set Radio
- Sword and Sorcery LP
OOT has such incredibly nostalgic music for me.
We’re on the same page as far as Mirrors EdgeI The Sims and SC3 goes, so I’ll trust your taste and listen to the other ones aswell. I’d want to add Portal 2 and Team Fortress 2 aswell.
Nier Automata. The entire discograpy
Replicant/Gestalt OST is also great.
- Chrono Trigger
- Undertale/Deltarune
- The World Ends With You
- Jet Set Radio
- Them’s Fightin’ Herds
- F-Zero GX
- VVVVVV
- CrossCode
- Crypt of the Necrodancer
- Shatter
