Favorite Game Scores/Soundtracks

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The soundtrack adds so much to the game. The obvious winner for me is Final Fantasy 7 (also probably my favorite game). Also love Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Lots of other Squaresoft RPGs in general like Xenogears and Parasite Eve.

Agreed on Final Fantasy VII

Ori was also pretty good. I used to love the one in the old Ninja Gaiden Black, it really kept me involved.

I love soundtracks...sometimes even more than the games themselves. Here are some of my favorite:

Hyper Light Drifter
God of War (PS4)
The Witcher 3: Wildhunt
The Banner Saga 2
Shadow of the Colossus
Halo: Reach

Doom

Hotline Miami

Hmm...yeah, Doom is a classic for sure, very unsettling. Hotline Miami I only looked at briefly but I heard it's a great game. I liked the Gran Turismo soundtracks as well, they had some catchy songs from popular bands. Quake also has a great soundtrack that was done by NIN.

Yeah I liked the God of War soundtrack...those are epic games, I never played PS4 version though.

Yeah, how could I forget about Quake?

I've had my first encounter with NIN while watching Beavis&Butthead when I was 8 maybe? Loved them ever since

Yep, they're an awesome band...also loved them since I was a kid, probably around that same time. Beavis and Butthead as well, such a classic. Random fact...as an adult (several years ago), I had an older woman on a dating site offer to take me to see them live, because she had an extra ticket...but I had to refuse because I wasn't interested in her romantically. She said we could just go as friends but I felt it'd be awkward, but I would've enjoyed the show for sure!

Quake was a cereal when I was a kid in the 60s.

The Wind Waker and Twilight Princess soundtracks are very well done and fit both of the games very well. The soundtrack for the original Animal Crossing also really solidified the vibes of that game and I don't think the newer soundtracks compare as well.

I think we share very similar tastes in soundtracks. Animal Crossing for the gamecube and its soundtrack are very nostalgic to me, I still listen to the OST whenever I need to relax for a bit.

Undertale is amazing

Stardew Valley

Super Princess Peach

I love the soundtracks to Celeste, Final Fantasy 6, Touhou 7 Perfect Cherry Blossom, Undertale and Umineko When They Cry.

I always thought my favorite composer was Nobuo Uematsu, and he is one of my favorites, but I really like the music from Final Fantasy X, my favorite in the series, and I learned some of my favorite tracks were actually done by Masashi Hamauzu, so now I'm listening to his piano works. Hamauzu also did the music to FFXIII which is amazing, there is something ethereal and otherworldly about it I can't put my finger on.

Koji Kondo is also really good, I think he's the master at actually making video game music (as opposed to just good music in a video game). There is an interactive element to a lot of it, such as the "secret found" or "correct solution" music from the Zelda series, or how in Super Mario World bongos join in when Mario is riding Yoshi.

Grant Kirkope is good at this too, I love the music from Banjo Kazooie, it's so lively and it changes depending on the context (such as how it slows down and becomes a marimba solo underwater).

A lot of modern indie games have great soundtracks too, FTL, Celeste, Stardew Valley... there is too much to talk about. There is something video game music has that is lacking in movies these days, VG music is less concerned with being ambient and is more in your face and catchy, this is why I don't like it when video games try to imitate modern movie soundtracks with brassy melodramatic scores.

I like the Super Princess Peach OST, alone with the older Pokemon games. The new stuff doesn’t do it for me.

I also enjoy Persona 5’s soundtrack.


Animal Crossing had some stellar songs but the new game is lacking it.

Arcanum: of Steamworks and Magic Obscura has a score performed by an actual string quartet. Very atmospheric.


Jets'n'guns has a score by Swedish metal band Machinae Supremacy. Quite awesome.