Every Supergiant game should be on this list,
NieR:Automata
FFVII (especially the 10 minute FFVII remake of One-Winged Angel)
Cyberpunk 2077 had some good ones. I'm digging I Really Want to Stay at Your House
Hades
Kingdom Hearts (Wave of Darkness is pretty great)
It's not my normal thing, but Doom's soundtrack really gets the juices flowing and fits beautifully with fast paced frantic gameplay.
Edit: 2016 Mick Gordon
If you like DOOM's OST, have you looked at ULTRAKILL? It's similarly stupid high energy (though maybe less metal and more breakcore) for a similarly stupidly fast pace bloody shooter set in Hell
Chrono Trigger, of course. Some legendary tracks in there that transcend their limitations. The Deadbolt OST, Katana ZERO's OST. Nier Automata, Street Fighter V.
Oblivion and Skyrim as well. Really there are too many excellent game soundtracks to possibly list in a comment
GTA Vice City
Bloodborne has an amazing soundtrack. Here's an example of one of the epic songs:
I swear every fromsoft game has a 10/10 soundtrack
Here are my personal favorites:
AI War / AI War 2 - Pablo Vega
Dragon Quest series - Koichi Sugiyama
Final Fantasy VII - Nobuo Uematsu
Final Fantasy XI - Nobuo Uematsu and others
The Last of Us - Gustavo Santaolalla
Medal of Honor - Michael Giacchino
Offworld Trading Company - Christopher Tin
Stellaris - Andreas Waldetoft (I didn't notice that this game was just an idle clicker for a long time because the music was so damn good)
Tidalis - Pablo Vega (especially the piano versions)
A Valley Without Wind - Pablo Vega
Donkey Kong Country. Good Jams!
- Battleblock Theater (goat main menu track)
- Hades (amazing combat music)
- Hollow Knight (most atmospheric)
- Undertale + Deltarune (great range, captures a lot of emotions throughout the story)
Cyberpunk 2077,Doom 2016, Doom Eternal, Horizon Zero Dawn and Forbidden West, Zelda Breath of the Wild, and the Metal Gear Series.
For licensed tracks, Burnout 3 Takedown wins it for me. Great driving music (obvs) and generally just a blast of uplifting pop punk.
Sonic Mania is one I always fall back on, the tracks are fun as hell and I don't think there's a single one I don't like. Shoutout to the Studiopolis act 1, Studiopolis act 2, and Press Garden act 2 tracks.
Resident Evil Outbreak -- Main Theme
Ico – You Were There
Tomb Raider -- Main Theme
MGS 3 – Way to Fall (Starsailor)
MGS 4 – Love Theme
Hollow Knight -- City of Tears
Grand Theft Auto III -- Main Theme
Furi – You're mine (Carpenter Brut)
Red Dead Redemption -- El Club de los Cuerpos (Bill Elm and Woody Jackson)
Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec -- Light Velocity (Isamu Ohira)
Commandos 2 -- A Storm is Coming (Mateo Pascual)
Assassin's Creed 2 – Ezio's Family (Jesper Kyd)
Hitman Contracts -- Main Menu Theme
Death Stranding – Death Stranding (CHVRCHES)
Mafia -- Running Man Song (Latcho Drom - La Verdine)
Fallout New Vegas -- Jingle Jangle Jingle
Age of Empires 2: Age of Kings -- Track 1
Age of Mythology -- Chocolate Outline, prostagma?
Silent Hill 2 – Promises/Theme of Laura
Tactics Ogre – Theme of Black Knight
Project Wingman – Kings (Jose Pavli)
Ace Combat 7 – Hush
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Vagrant Story -- Wyvern Battle Theme
Final Fantasy Tactics -- Antipyretic
Final Fantasy XII – Battle on the Big Bridge
Furi – You’re mine (Carpenter Brut)
That's a hard banger right there. Thanks for sharing !
Witcher 3. Surprised I haven't seen it yet. The vase game is totally the best in my ears, especially the Skellige soundtrack but the expansions are also a blast!
Final Fantasy XIV
Just of the top of my head:
- Doom (2016) - BFG Division - Mick Gordon
- Nier: Automata - 美シキ歌 (A beautiful Song) - Keigo Hoashi
- Super Meat Boy - The Battle of Lil Slugger - Danny Baranowsky
- Metal Gear Solid - Encounter - Takanari Ishiyama, Gigi Meroni, Kazuki Muraoka, Lee Jeon Myung and Hiroyuki Togo
- Hades - No Escape - Darren Korb
And remember you can purchase most of the game OST for download on Steam ! (Nier I've found on Amazon Music and Super Meat Boy on Bandcamp).
Darren Korb is the master of video game music. Still listening to the Bastion OST on the regular.
Uncharted for original soundtrack.
Burnout Paradise for licensed soundtrack.
The legend of Zelda always had the most iconic themes (personal favorite is Dragonroost island from Wind waker, but they really all have some amazing music).
I also listen to the Chrono Trigger and Octopath traveler OSTs on my free time.
Besides many of the ones others have listed, I really enjoy a lot of the music from Katamari Damacy.
Maybe this answer is cheating, but Smash Bros Ultimate has the best soundtrack of all time. It's got over 1000 tracks, including some of the most recognizable video games music of all time, and some amazing remixes.
C418 - Sweden
Some of my favourites:
- NieR Automata
- Katamari Damacy
- Chrono Trigger
- DOOM 2016
- Celeste
- Sonic Adventure 2
Life is Strange soundtrack. That is, including all the licensed songs.
Was so good, got me into playing guitar.
Mega Man 2. Can't believe I scrolled the whole comments and did not see Mega Man 2.
Everything else here 100% deserves the credit but I didn't see anyone mention Divinity: Original Sin 2, which is also amazing.
Tons of little songs I found myself idly humming for days/weeks after playing and a thoroughly epic main theme.
The finale of the game where time slows down and the music swells is one of my favorite gaming moments.
Doom 2016, hotline Miami, neon white
Castlevania, Metroid.
Jet Set Radio Future is up there for me. Even twenty years later it sounds like it came from the future.
Hear me out.
MechWarrier 2.
The Ghost of Tsushima soundtrack takes me back to the game every time
for me, WH40k Mechanicus probably has the best. Every track is awsome and fits the setting perfectly.
Here is a playlist of the soundtrack if you want a listen.
Killer Instinct (original and 2013).
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.
Risk of Rain 2 for GOAT Any supergiant game, but Transistor and Hades are a cut above
No Man's Sky
Valheim!
My favorites:
- Command & Conquer (the first one)
- Hearts of Iron 2
- TES Morrowind
- Valheim
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.
Tyrian 2000
The WWE SmackDown VS RAW series had some great soundtracks.
Especially SvR 2007
Half Life 1 and Forsaken (1998).
Both of those CDROMs worked in normal CD players and they lived in my hifi for AGES
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