Your favourite game soundtrack(s) / OSTs

new boy · 15 Sep 2020 at 22:35

hat games, in your opinion, had the greatest soundtracks?
I was considering titling The thread "best" instead of "your favourite", but there's no need to take your rose tinted glasses off to post in this thread. If it makes your shortlist due to your fond memories of playing the game, then go ahead and post it. Whilst this is posted in the console section, I think PC / whatever games are fine too.
Both "real" songs and digital / MIDI soundtracks are fine.
I'll start off;
games with "real" music
- Need for speed underground 2 (PS2)
- Snoop dogg - riders on the storm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VAF-4Er7_A
- Queens of the stoneage - In my head
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69e8oa85F3g
- Spiderbait - Black Betty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU1VfYYKMDk
- Dave Mirra Freestyle Bmx (PSX)
- Rancid - Maxwell Murder (!!! never would have heard this song if not for this game and its great)

- Sublime - What I Got

- Dropkick Murphys - Never Alone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lsTreTfgNs
Games with digital soundtracks
- Final Fantasy... I'm going to go with X (PS2), though its a hard choice which! VII (PSX) Brings back so memories too!
- Besaid Island (So relaxing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBmv-qc5DnA
- Otherworld (Ok, not digital, but pretty bad ass)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlssH5taZrk
- The sight of spira (tough choice, tons of other great tracks)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai841xucDPE
- Zelda ocarina of time (N64)
- cant even be bothered to pick out tracks, partly because this post has already taken much longer than I expected and partly because the whole game sounds great.
- Pokemon gen1 and gen2 (GB / GBC)
- Spent SO much time playing these when I was young. The tracks are burnt deep into my mind. Some genuinely fantastic tracks in those games IMO.
- Super Mario world (SNES)
- Simply timeless, and probably the first game I ever got absorbed into.

KraniX · 15 Sep 2020 at 23:07

Vice City is an obvious choice but one of my all-time favourite games.

Always been an 80s fan but I remember playing this on PC just after release and pulling the car over and just sitting and listening to a track on more than one occasion.

Or driving along the main strip of Ocean Beach while the sun was setting... Amazing. Would love a remake in the GTA5 engine.

Mario 3D World on the Wii U (and soon to be the Switch) is fantastic, the big band tracks combined with inspired level design is just something else.

ic1male · 15 Sep 2020 at 23:08

I’m in a spell of drifting asleep to game soundtracks at night in Spotify.

Past few nights have been the Mass Effect trilogy, Elder Scrolls IV/V, Borderlands and Deus Ex Human Revolution.

BenjiSayers · 16 Sep 2020 at 08:02

Nier: Automata has an amazing OST. There's a really good Youtube video of them performing it live in concert which I've put on in the background while working from home.

Digital X · 16 Sep 2020 at 08:47

Wipeout 2097 and Tekken 3 for me. Love playing the OST on Youtube.

C64 · 16 Sep 2020 at 13:10

super ghouls n ghosts super nintendo

thepigf@rmer · 16 Sep 2020 at 15:38

Equinox - SNES (Tim Follin is a legend)
FFVII - PS/PC
GTA V (Radio Mirror Park)

TallPaul_S · 16 Sep 2020 at 15:40

Max payne 3.

ic1male · 16 Sep 2020 at 15:41

Hollow Knight is probably one of my favourites. I hate piano music in general but this is a total exception.

Mobius 1 · 16 Sep 2020 at 18:43

Ace Combat 4, 5, Zero, 6 and 7. All fantastic.

(5, 6 and 7 are my favourites though)

Also, I really used to dig the U.N Squadron / Area 88 soundtrack on snes.

McBain · 16 Sep 2020 at 18:47

Crazy Taxi
GTA5
Mafia 2/3
Hotline Miami 1/2

the_dead_parrot · 16 Sep 2020 at 19:43

Viva Pinata
Stardew Valley
Bastion

cheesyboy · 16 Sep 2020 at 19:51

I've not actually played them, but do often listen to the Subsurface Circular and Quarantine Circular soundtracks. Both OSTs by Dan le Sac.

The_Arbiter · 16 Sep 2020 at 22:17

An OST that i really like from a game i never even played is Age of Empires 2. But have always enjoyed video game OSTs, ones that i've not played too. There's so many to listen to on youtube.

Stalker and Water World on Duke Nukem 3d are quite special. I like the whole OST though.

I think most games will get brought up at some point, Quake 2, C&C, Painkiller, Sonic 2, etc

xraycat87 · 16 Sep 2020 at 23:09

new boy said:
What games, in your opinion, had the greatest soundtracks?

I was considering titling The thread "best" instead of "your favourite", but there's no need to take your rose tinted glasses off to post in this thread. If it makes your shortlist due to your fond memories of playing the game, then go ahead and post it. Whilst this is posted in the console section, I think PC / whatever games are fine too.

Both "real" songs and digital / MIDI soundtracks are fine.
I'll start off;

games with "real" music

- Need for speed underground 2 (PS2)
- Snoop dogg - riders on the storm
- Queens of the stoneage - In my head
- Spiderbait - Black Betty

- Dave Mirra Freestyle Bmx (PSX)
- Rancid - Maxwell Murder (!!! never would have heard this song if not for this game and its great)
- Sublime - What I Got
- Dropkick Murphys - Never Alone

Games with digital soundtracks

- Final Fantasy... I'm going to go with X (PS2), though its a hard choice which! VII (PSX) Brings back so memories too!
- Besaid Island (So relaxing)
- Otherworld (Ok, not digital, but pretty bad ass)
- The sight of spira (tough choice, tons of other great tracks)

- Zelda ocarina of time (N64)
- cant even be bothered to pick out tracks, partly because this post has already taken much longer than I expected and partly because the whole game sounds great.

- Pokemon gen1 and gen2 (GB / GBC)
- Spent SO much time playing these when I was young. The tracks are burnt deep into my mind. Some genuinely fantastic tracks in those games IMO.

- Super Mario world (SNES)
- Simply timeless, and probably the first game I ever got absorbed into.

Did we just become best friends

Gee · 17 Sep 2020 at 00:36

Mobius 1 · 17 Sep 2020 at 12:48

A cover of all un squadron songs done on guitar. So good :cool:

Martynt74 · 17 Sep 2020 at 13:28

Disappointed not to see Tony Hawks 1 and 2 in here.

Great shout on Dave Mirra BMX. I loved that game.

As mentioned. Vice City was also excellent. Wish someone would remaster that!

new boy · 17 Sep 2020 at 23:21

xraycat87 said:
Did we just become best friends

My heart's telling me yes but my heads telling me no :S

Marvt74 said:
Disappointed not to see Tony Hawks 1 and 2 in here.

Great shout on Dave Mirra BMX. I loved that game.

As mentioned. Vice City was also excellent. Wish someone would remaster that!

I considered THPS2. Papa roach - Blood brothers is incredible!

I'm really struggling to remember how I ended up with the Dave Mirra game... I can remember I somehow had a demo (remember those?) and enjoyed it a lot and then somehow ended up with the full game (and enjoyed that a lot too).

Shawreyboy · 18 Sep 2020 at 09:02

No love for FF9 in here?