What is your absolute favourite track from a video game?
-
Not one track, but I love all the biome specific music in Terraria.
-
That would be the opening prelude of Final Fantasy VII. You immediately understand what the themes of the game are when listening to it, it's highly effective in portraying things/feelings like loss, despair, melancholy, overcome, hope. And all of that with a rather limited set of instruments (compared to other compositions). It's pure and sincere without being kitschy. Nothing is hidden or ambiguous or pretentious. It wears its big broken heart on its sleeve in the best possible way. It's a masterpiece.
-
Shadow of the Colossus - The Opened Way
-
wrote last edited by [email protected]
I'll give you two albums worth:
*Bastion OST
*Transistor OST
-
Probably Stickerbush Symphony from Donkey Kong Country 2.
Lots of good Final Fantasy tracks from Nobuo Uematsu and Chrono Trigger/Cross ones from Yasunori Mitsuda too. But Stickerbush Symphony was the first video game music that really moved me, like more than your average SNES soundtrack. David Wise went hard on those Donkey Kong Country games.
-
Gotta be Tubelectric.
-
I couldn't pick just one.
- From The Witcher 3:
- Whiterun theme (unforgivably absent from the OST albums)
- Fields of Ard Skellig (a version of the folk song "Fear a Bhata")
- From Skyrim... hard to pick out favourites
- From Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance (Jeremy Soule again): The Art of War. It opens boldly but there's a moment when it's just twinkling in the strings, percussion and a little piano with almost no melody. If at that moment you happen to be watching the trajectory of your artillery arcing towards the enemy, and then the theme comes back as they land... sublime.
- From The Witcher 3:
-
Red Alert, Hell March
-
wrote last edited by [email protected]
Definitly Black Fairy by Akira Yamaoka from Silent Hill 2. If you played it you know how powerful this track is.
-
Demon Hunter - Collapsing from Killing Floor 2 was a real gem.
-
Presidium and Uncharted Worlds are also really good.
M4 Faunts is genuinely one of my favorite credits songs too. Mass Effect soundtrack is just way too good.
-
wrote last edited by [email protected]
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon - Through the sea of time
-
It's nothing flashy, but I think my favorite track is "Vermillion wasteland" from Crosscode. It really sets the mood to one of the best experiences I've had in a video game period.
-
Baba Yetu from Civilization 2005 is the first video track to win a Grammy.
-
I almost always mute in-game music as the first step before even playing, sorry.
-
I could not even describe this song when I first heard it as a kid. As an adult, I realize this is the funkiest shit ever.
-
Song2 by Blur
wrote last edited by [email protected]Oh man, this comment just brought back a memory from decades ago of watching a Warthog-launching trick compliation video from the original Halo set to Song2. I haven't thought about that video in probably fifteen years.
Edit: Here's the video lol. Wow that was a blast from the past.
-
Tim Follin's music for the first level of Bionic Commando on C64. It sounds like coming up on acid.
-
Hidden character from Tekken 3
-
Alpha by C418 - The background music to the End Poem in Minecraft
Great pick. This track is transcendent.
If I had to choose one song, it would probably have to be Undertale from Undertale. The acoustic guitar brought me to tears. Honorable mentions to Rith Essa Mime from Jet Force Gemini, Stone Tower Temple from Majora's Mask, Smiles and Tears from Earthbound, Fear the Dark from Aquaria, and Ocean Planet Aquanid from Bomberman 64: The Second Attack.
