Post your favorite videogame ost

couple of my favs:

mass effect 3 (leaving earth)

modnation racers theme:

pokemon gen 2 (route 26 and 27)

thank you for making this thread too lol i realized it would be good to automatically turn URLs into hyperlinks, so all these links should be clickable now

cave story moon song is an unreal track

A short, perhaps slightly odd, favorite of mine:

Fire Emblem Fates - Flowing Waters (Title Screen)

this is extremely the type of shit i play in the mornings at work

Oh man, there's so many. Hollow Knight is one of my favorites. Hornet and City of Tears are standout hits.

Everything from Touhou is a banger, Reach for the moon, Immortal Smoke is probably my favorite. Cemetery of Onbashira and Fires of Hokkai are incredibly underrated.

Every song from Octopath Traveler is good, but Decisive Battle stands out as my favorite.

I've never actually played Sonic Colors, but This song is good enough to justify the entire game.

On the topic of games I've never played, the Torna Battle Theme from Xenoblade is amazing.

All time GOAT though is Stickerbrush Symphony from Donkey Kong Country II. No other soundtrack is close to me.

disasterpiece's work for hyper light drifter is. so good!

the midnight wood the gauntlet 16 minute slowburn. but it is so impactful once it hits...

hell yeah brother that game's soundtrack rules

the music wanted to make me keep playing this game, but i got bored of it and stopped after a few hours :(

hehe, different tastes then! it's the only game i've 100%-ed. the movement tech you unlock is real sweet. though it's made me ill-equipped to play hades, because hades is clunkier, and so i'll get myself in situations my instincts say i can get out of and then i can't.

on topic, star craft 1 terran campaign. ooh yeah

I play Final Fantasy XIV for the story, and for the symphonic power metal.

Pretty much any FF game up to FFVII. After VII I just cannot get into the games anymore. Played XIV with the wife and sister for about a year and just got over the gameplay, but the music was great.

Old School games though: As before any FF game, the Dragon Warrior game, and someone mentioned above Xenoblade. Also have to give shoutout to ChronoTrigger and Actraiser.

I have never played these games, but they have amazing music:

Furi Transistor

The Sword of Etheria - With Etheria

oh man Planet Wisp. such such a good song. There's this amazing cover by Aivi Tran and Dave Harris that is just so special.

speaking of UFO i really really adore Provincial Makai City Esoteria, Shou's stage theme. The way it switches between 5/4 and 6/4 is so groovy. i've also been playing some DDC lately and i think its title theme might be my favorite in the series. Interesting how it has the Necrofantasia leitmotif but Yukari isn't even involved in the plot (for once). edit: also check out this public piano cover i found while searching for a youtube link god dam

from other recent obsessions, i really loved Emerald Lakeside from Rabbit & Steel, very cute on the surface, and a little heartbreaking with the context of the game's lore. then there's Autumn Chill from uh, Mahjong Soul lol. It's not the most complex track in existence but idk, i'm just a sucker for 5/4 and stinky anime flutes. Europa from Starbound is so immensely comforting. This and Atlas always made me stop whatever i was doing in game and just listen to them with eyes closed.

would you believe that my favorites are from indie rpg inspired by earthbound with themes surrounding mental illness and trauma with routes that vary hugely depending on what in game actions you take anyways, i struggle to pick favorites with music so i picked iconic tracks i love games that alter your brain chemistry <3 undertale came out when i was in middle school so it latched on to my brain Instantly. omitting adjacent game deltarune bc it's not finished yet. omori is a different story obvs, i played it on the recommendation of a friend and i'm so glad i did.

Here's some of my personal faves.

Rise of the Triad, Composed mostly by Lee Jackson of Duke Nukem 3D fame, with some songs by Bobby Prince of Doom and Commander Keen fame. This soundtrack is one of the most well crafted MIDI Game Soundtracks of all time, even better than some Doom tracks (Though not nearly as iconic). The Soundtrack has an orchestral feel to it, despite being made with MIDI sound libraries. There's a grandiose, yet playful feel to most tracks, which I love. Tracks are generally short, but loop very well and it's difficult to get sick of them. If you watch Retro FPS Reviewer Civvie 11, some of these tracks might sound familiar, as he uses the soundtrack extensively in his videos, including his old Intro, as well as his current Outro.

Goin' Down the Fast Way, used in the First level of the Shareware Exclusive chapter, The Hunt Begins, this is the most iconic ROTT track to some. It is very high tempo, getting you in the mood to shoot some totally-not-nazis with various explosive weapons. It is a complex composition with a lot of layers, and sounds amazing even now.

Oww!!! is, for lack of a better word, an absolute banger, with a very groovy guitar mixed with lovely synths.

There's a great deal of Classical Rearrangements in the soundtrack, including Funeral for Queen Mary, God Rest ye, Merry Gentlemen (Though this one is more of a reimagining, and it remains on top of my list of Christmas Ass-Kicking Bangers), as well as my personal favourite, Adagio for Strings, which is also a reimagining, pairing a gorgeous drumbeat and synths alongside a classical masterpiece. Immaculate.

Also check out Andrew Hulshult's Remix of the Soundtrack for the painfully mediocre 2013 remake of Rise of the Triad, which is saved by Andrew's Soundtrack, that leans more into Metal than Orchestral, though there are still some orchestral leaning songs!

Another one of my favourite Soundtracks is also a retro FPS series, Unreal 1998, as well as the first in its lineage of the more successful spinoff, Unreal Tournament. The soundtrack is composed by Alexander "Siren" Brandon, who worked on Epic's earlier games, such as Jazz Jackrabbit, as well as Tyrian, and later working on Ion Storm's Deus Ex, along with the other major composer of the first 2 Unreal games, Michiel "M.C.A" van den Bos. Unreal Tournament also features some guest composers such as Andrew "Necros" Sega, Peter "Skaven" Hajba, and Dan "Basehead" Gardopée. The first two Unreal games utilised Tracker music, and all the composers were very experienced in this format. There's a good variety of genres in here, and each track feels wholly unique.

Ending, composed by Brandon, was initially designed to play in the main menu, before being replaced with the Castle flyover animation, which had its own music composed for it. This track is grandiose, utilising many gorgeous sounding samples, and is befitting as both the start of an epic journey, as well as the end. It is otherworldly, and beautiful.

Shared Dig is a bopping tune with a sturdy beat to it, befitting a mineshaft where plenty work was done. One interesting fact of note is that Unreal has a Dynamic soundtrack, with certain sequences in a tracker file set to play during certain places. the part at 2:34 plays during a tense encounter with a new enemy, a Skaarj warrior, which flips the track on its head during a tense, cramped fight for survival. I adore dynamic soundtracks. It always hits for me.

Nightvision is an utter banger composed by Brandon, which was retooled to use in the game. It's intense, high tempo track which gets you raring to go, and just sounds so fucking good. I really wanna hear this played in a nightclub. It goes so hard.

Over in Unreal Tournament, Foregone Destruction is definitely one of the series' most famous tracks, Composed by van den Bos and played on the famous Capture the Flag map, CTF_Face, also known as Facing Worlds. It is the face of Chill DnB, a serene synthbeat with a bangin' amen break. Gorgeous, and iconic.

Mechanism 8 is one of my personal favourites in the series. I'm not as well versed on music terminology as i should be but the siren-y sound played throughout the whole track makes the track feel like part of a gigantic machine, mixed with a bangin drumbeat, and beautiful samples. It's difficult to put into words all the parts that make this song such a memorable one for me, but it stands that this track is beautiful and I fuckin' love it.

Save Me is in my opinion a testament to how strong a short loop can be. It is one minute and thirty seconds long with a ten second intro, but it's utterly mesmerizing, no matter how many times it loops. The distorted guitar gives this track such a unique, feel, an intense explosion of energy that never fails to give me goosebumps. Check out this looped version!

There's so many tracks in these two games that I love and I'm running out of words to describe how much I love them, so i'll just throw a bunch more in your face. Interlude II - Unreal, Return to Na Pali, Surfacing - Unreal, Three Wheels Turning - Unreal Tournament, Razorback - Unreal Tournament, Seeker - Unreal Tournament, All Hallows Sunset - Unreal.

There's other soundtracks I wanna talk about but this post is already long enough so I'll leave it at these 2.