To be fair the term has been overused recently, often in the wrong context. Some people post "hot take" when it's the least controversial, blatantly obvious take, so I can see how you might think it was the other way around.
Clair Obscure's music is so good, almost every single one with lyrics is in my normal everyday playlist. Most VG music doesn't get that honor and stays in their own specific playlist. Having lyrics is a big plus for me.
Transistor's main character is a singer and the soundtrack is basically meant to be her songs. There are several with lyrics too that really are just songs and not backgrounds to the game.
I refuse to buy Satisfactory until Sanctum 3 comes out as my personal protest to how long it's been taking, maybe I'm just being too stubborn tho lol. But it's been 13 years...
Lol, I was forcing everyone I could to listen to the christmas songs they put out in the event. I could listen to a robot voice telling me I'm not working hard enough all day.
I played Satisfactory before Sanctum, so I was already familiar with a bunch of the Sanctum music, which made my mind apply a lot of the good feelings from Satisfactory to Sanctum. Makes me wish there were more opportunities to learn to love a game's soundtrack outside of the game before playing it for the first time.
Though I'm not sure it will work for just any game because Sanctum does have one of the best soundtracks.
It seems the reduced damage option was added at some point after its release, which might explain why I didn't know about it. Maybe I'll give it a go, then.
D2 has a special place of nostalgia in my heart. The first games I ever encountered was watching my dad play D2 and Far Cry when I was a kid. Rogue from the D2 OST has been etched into my neural pathways in a way nothing can ever come close to.
A goal in mind? What do you mean? I'm not saying I don't like music during movies, but buying film scores and listening to them on their own always seemed odd to me.
Not sure what the original poster of the meme (not the op here, but who did the meme originally) is implying. There is, for certain, excellent music in games and also series/movies (originals strictly speaking). Some games I didn't even play but I love to listen to the music because is just that good.
Also, a lot of games and TV stuff made sure the more classic approach does have new music, because if we were stuck to the "originals" i would for sure not even touch it.
God, they screwed Mick Gordon so hard on Eternal and it's just tragic. DOOM 2016 is truly the gold standard for game soundtracks and really kicked off the popularity of the genre...
I have a playlist of video game soundtracks playing quietly 24-7. It keeps my cats company when I'm gone and it's nice to have some background noise when I'm home. It's all music I own and there's over a thousand songs in there.
As a kid pre internet times I'd take my talk boy (the cassette recorder thing from home alone) and record the soundtracks as they came out of the TV. I'd have to ask my brothers to get to certain parts of the game so I could get that track. The quality was garbage but I could listen to Chrono trigger on the school bus. I'd just have to use imagination to hear as a symphony. No lyrics no playlist but that's about as good as I could get.
If you've got the original PS1 disc and the right software, it's not that difficult to extract the soundtracks from some Playstation games. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night has some awesome tracks.
I couldn't remember who owned it when it came out..... Now I'm questioning if the Need for Speed franchise was made by EA or slowly ruined by them.....
But Fierce Battle... https://youtu.be/FqvQ-rfucyc that part at 0:40 is pure frisson. There's a version in 5 and 6. Different compositions though. I like the FF6 version better.
Borderlands 3 & Doom 2016 are both great, but I feel like that's slightly unfair since both are explicitly mixed to be albums and use the dynamic atmospheric music from the games as the basis for the songs - none of the tracks actually show up in game as they are on the album (with a couple weird exceptions in borderlands like Digby Vermouth).
As I understand it, pretty much all modern "video game soundtracks" do it the same way - the game's composer writes an album based on the music from the game.
Which is kind of a shame. I actually like a lot of the atmospheric stuff in Doom 2016, the combat music is awesome but I also love having more ambient pieces run for hours.
I remember in high school I was starting to get into music. "Classic rock" from my parents, metal from my cousins, pop punk from other places. Nothing too esoteric. When I was talking about music one day, one of my friends was like "You wanna see my music collection??" I went sure, and he opened it up. All video game soundtracks. Final Fantasy, mostly.
I'm sorry to say that was a young teenager I was a shit and made fun. I wouldn't do that now, but I still feel a little bad about it. I very rarely would pick a video game soundtrack to listen to, but it's such a harmless joy I should've been nicer.
Game OSTs I've gone out of my way to acquire at some point or another:
Diablo II (I think it was specifically the new Tristram song that made me do it, but all the hours I put into that game led to all of them being on my playlist at the time)
FFVII (haven't played the game in decades but I still randomly start humming or singing some of these songs)
Zelda: OOT (same as FFVII but even more so)
Metroid Prime (this game has the genre defining music for lava and winter stages IMO, and if I had to pick a top one, I'd probably pick this one)
Subnautica (this soundtrack was perfect for the game, plus the extra songs you could play in the jukebox were great, and I loved that you could listen to them on the go in the second game)
Sanctum/Satisfactory (they are connected in my mind because playing Satisfactory was where I was first exposed to Sanctum's music)
Risk of Rain (curious if this one would be enjoyed by people who haven't played the games... Anyone willing to do so, listen to The Rain Formerly Known as Purple and let me know if it still sounds awesome without it also meaning you've made it through 4 or so levels to hear it)
Also, honourable mentions for every Guitar Hero and Rock Band game for exposing me to a lot of great non-game music that I hadn't otherwise been exposed to, as well as let me pretend to play along with ones I already loved and gain more tolerance/appreciation for ones I didn't really like before. Green Grass and High Tides and Through the Fire and Flames especially.
And Rocksmith for doing that except with a real guitar and I didn't get as advanced.
Almost the entirety of my physical music collection is game soundtracks. I like to put them on while working or doing chores. It's more relaxing than regular music for me.
Half my entire saved music collection is video game music.
Katamari Damacy
Naaaa na na na na na naa
I wanna roll you up into my life
Ice cold take.
Portal 2 OST is a banger.
The Friendly Faith Plate...
A hot take then?
I can never get the slang right it seems
To be fair the term has been overused recently, often in the wrong context. Some people post "hot take" when it's the least controversial, blatantly obvious take, so I can see how you might think it was the other way around.
Nier and Clair Obscur have fantastic soundtracks
Bro is missing out.
FTL: Faster Than Light
Sanctum
Bastion
Age of Empires II
Core Keeper
Sonic CD
Clair Obscur
Screamer
All fantastic soundtracks
Clair Obscure's music is so good, almost every single one with lyrics is in my normal everyday playlist. Most VG music doesn't get that honor and stays in their own specific playlist. Having lyrics is a big plus for me.
Transistor's main character is a singer and the soundtrack is basically meant to be her songs. There are several with lyrics too that really are just songs and not backgrounds to the game.
Sanctum Soundtrack in Satisfactory boombox while mindlessly crouch jumping through my factory. I could do that all day.
I refuse to buy Satisfactory until Sanctum 3 comes out as my personal protest to how long it's been taking, maybe I'm just being too stubborn tho lol. But it's been 13 years...
Lol, I was forcing everyone I could to listen to the christmas songs they put out in the event. I could listen to a robot voice telling me I'm not working hard enough all day.
I played Satisfactory before Sanctum, so I was already familiar with a bunch of the Sanctum music, which made my mind apply a lot of the good feelings from Satisfactory to Sanctum. Makes me wish there were more opportunities to learn to love a game's soundtrack outside of the game before playing it for the first time.
Though I'm not sure it will work for just any game because Sanctum does have one of the best soundtracks.
FTL's music is just really nice and I should go reinstall it, thanks!
ROLLING AROUND AT THE SPEED OF SOUND!
GOT PLACES TO GO!
GOT TO FOLLOW MY RAINBOW!
Lol, I have that front and center on one of my playlists. My partner did a doubletake when I put it on.
C418
i have it on vinyl...
Me too
My brother really hasn't listened to the music of our lord Mick Gordon's DOOM & DOOM ETERNAL
Jet Set Radio's soundtrack is absolutely banging!
Hellooo Allison!
Surprised anything by Supergiant Games isn't mentioned here, their soundtracks rock! Bastion and Hades really come to mind.
I love the song when you start each run in Hades in that first hallway
animal crossing new horizons
stardew valley
witcher 3 +dlc
mario kart 8
tloz botw
hollow knight
hades
the last of us
night in the woods
duck tales
castlevania
skyrim
lelele lele
wind's howling
Buddy must be trolling. That or he only plays sports games
Journey
Ori and the blind forest
Ori and the Will o the Wisps
Frostpunk
Total War The Three Kingdoms
Diablo 2 OST is an OG IMO. I also spent a lot of time with the Oblivion OST running.
Current favourite is the Tunic OST, and I haven't even played the game (I don't have the patience for "git gud").
Don't let the difficulty of TUNIC keep you from the game. There are difficulty sliders in the options menu including god mode.
The game isn't that hard outside of the bosses.
It's one of my top 5 games ever.
The OST is phenomenal, but not something I would listen to outside of the game. For me, it's more atmospheric in the game.
It seems the reduced damage option was added at some point after its release, which might explain why I didn't know about it. Maybe I'll give it a go, then.
D2 has a special place of nostalgia in my heart. The first games I ever encountered was watching my dad play D2 and Far Cry when I was a kid. Rogue from the D2 OST has been etched into my neural pathways in a way nothing can ever come close to.
Nine Inch Nails did the soundtrack to Quake... And I still have that in my music collection
Or Mick Gordans Doom. I havent even played that version of doom but have listened to the OST multiple times.
I don't see Chrono Cross mentionned, best one IMO.
Hotline Miami is a banger
Its not that different from movie sound tracks.
And I've always thought listening to movie soundtracks is weird too.
Its just music made with a goal in mind. Not weird at all
A goal in mind? What do you mean? I'm not saying I don't like music during movies, but buying film scores and listening to them on their own always seemed odd to me.
Titanic or gladiator. Listen to those. Its just music really
O Brother Where Art Thou? has an incredible soundtrack.
It does, but that's a musical. The songs in that movie are just regular songs. It's like a mix tape of old bluegrass stuff.
Donkey Kong Country 1,2&3
Some. soundtracks. go. really. hard.
I thought this was going to be BFG Division or something but I'm pretty happy with what I experienced.
Hell yeah they do
Not sure what the original poster of the meme (not the op here, but who did the meme originally) is implying. There is, for certain, excellent music in games and also series/movies (originals strictly speaking). Some games I didn't even play but I love to listen to the music because is just that good. Also, a lot of games and TV stuff made sure the more classic approach does have new music, because if we were stuck to the "originals" i would for sure not even touch it.
Portal 2!
Did not find it in the comments til now: The Metal Hellsinger Soundtrack is great.
Nier Automata still is in my rotation.
Nothing like having an existential crisis when "City Ruins" or
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler Weight of the World :::
comes on while I'm on my way to work
Burnout takedown
SO very good.
This mf hasn't listened to Destiny 2's "Journey" and it shows
how to ask for music recommendations on the internet:
If they're good, I cleaned my whole house to the doom soundtrack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMmTrCnCMfI Though honestly a lot of games have amazing soundtracks. I just currently lean into metal.
God, they screwed Mick Gordon so hard on Eternal and it's just tragic. DOOM 2016 is truly the gold standard for game soundtracks and really kicked off the popularity of the genre...
They've been pretty good lately
I listen to the Disco Elysium soundtrack by Sea Power consistently. It's such a great album in its own right.
Persona 5
I have a playlist of video game soundtracks playing quietly 24-7. It keeps my cats company when I'm gone and it's nice to have some background noise when I'm home. It's all music I own and there's over a thousand songs in there.
there's water in the ocean?
Outer Wilds, but only when I want to feel a bittersweet melancholy 😅
I recently just played Demon Tides and the soundtrack was made by 2 Mello. Good game and good music
2 Mello is so good. I go through their whole discog once in a while and struggle to find a track that isn't excellent
As a kid pre internet times I'd take my talk boy (the cassette recorder thing from home alone) and record the soundtracks as they came out of the TV. I'd have to ask my brothers to get to certain parts of the game so I could get that track. The quality was garbage but I could listen to Chrono trigger on the school bus. I'd just have to use imagination to hear as a symphony. No lyrics no playlist but that's about as good as I could get.
What the fuuuuck? I need to fight this Joey clown.
I listen to JSR and PSO all the time.
Fucking yes we do!
This person clearly never listened to the Halo soundtracks (specifically Martin O'Donnell's for Halo CE through Reach)
Under the Ocean
Monkey Target 2
Mic drop
If you've got the original PS1 disc and the right software, it's not that difficult to extract the soundtracks from some Playstation games. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night has some awesome tracks.
The Bloodborne OST is a masterpiece.
The Noita OST is such a bop. How could I not?
Lil uzi vert sampled a Super Monkey Ball 2 track once
Yeah we all know they went downhill after the chiptune era.
Some of y'all have never played any GOOD EA games, and it shows.
https://youtu.be/e3YzmjmAGoI
I couldn't remember who owned it when it came out..... Now I'm questioning if the Need for Speed franchise was made by EA or slowly ruined by them.....
Check out the Loop Hero soundtrack, it's such a banger
Okay yeah, Award Ceremony makes me feel like I just woke up from a great sleep.
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=pVvQVlTjHBk&list=PLTmomcjY1VRwCRVmIFw7o4DuQhnHjeSAY&index=0
*What gives this game the right to have such good fucking music?
Who needs the whole Final Fantasy soundtrack when you got Fierce Battle?
You misspelled Clash on the Big Bridge.
I dunno.... That's definitely a banger. https://youtu.be/-rMPAjH5vzE
But Fierce Battle... https://youtu.be/FqvQ-rfucyc that part at 0:40 is pure frisson. There's a version in 5 and 6. Different compositions though. I like the FF6 version better.
Nobuo loves metal. 🤘
Borderlands 3 & Doom 2016 are both great, but I feel like that's slightly unfair since both are explicitly mixed to be albums and use the dynamic atmospheric music from the games as the basis for the songs - none of the tracks actually show up in game as they are on the album (with a couple weird exceptions in borderlands like Digby Vermouth).
As I understand it, pretty much all modern "video game soundtracks" do it the same way - the game's composer writes an album based on the music from the game.
Which is kind of a shame. I actually like a lot of the atmospheric stuff in Doom 2016, the combat music is awesome but I also love having more ambient pieces run for hours.
I played my mom some jazzy ocarina of time covers. She had no idea what she was listening to and she loved it.
Plus bit brigade's mega man 2 album is sick. Mom didn't like that though.
Warframe and Atomic Heart both have killer sound tracks!
Dark Souls 1 - Firelink shrine is nice to listen to when reading boring work stuff
I remember in high school I was starting to get into music. "Classic rock" from my parents, metal from my cousins, pop punk from other places. Nothing too esoteric. When I was talking about music one day, one of my friends was like "You wanna see my music collection??" I went sure, and he opened it up. All video game soundtracks. Final Fantasy, mostly.
I'm sorry to say that was a young teenager I was a shit and made fun. I wouldn't do that now, but I still feel a little bad about it. I very rarely would pick a video game soundtrack to listen to, but it's such a harmless joy I should've been nicer.
https://youtu.be/kKkkh1STZqs
Game OSTs I've gone out of my way to acquire at some point or another:
Diablo II (I think it was specifically the new Tristram song that made me do it, but all the hours I put into that game led to all of them being on my playlist at the time)
FFVII (haven't played the game in decades but I still randomly start humming or singing some of these songs)
Zelda: OOT (same as FFVII but even more so)
Metroid Prime (this game has the genre defining music for lava and winter stages IMO, and if I had to pick a top one, I'd probably pick this one)
Subnautica (this soundtrack was perfect for the game, plus the extra songs you could play in the jukebox were great, and I loved that you could listen to them on the go in the second game)
Sanctum/Satisfactory (they are connected in my mind because playing Satisfactory was where I was first exposed to Sanctum's music)
Risk of Rain (curious if this one would be enjoyed by people who haven't played the games... Anyone willing to do so, listen to The Rain Formerly Known as Purple and let me know if it still sounds awesome without it also meaning you've made it through 4 or so levels to hear it)
Also, honourable mentions for every Guitar Hero and Rock Band game for exposing me to a lot of great non-game music that I hadn't otherwise been exposed to, as well as let me pretend to play along with ones I already loved and gain more tolerance/appreciation for ones I didn't really like before. Green Grass and High Tides and Through the Fire and Flames especially.
And Rocksmith for doing that except with a real guitar and I didn't get as advanced.
Oblivion
Skyrim
Minecraft is chef's kiss.
Straftat has some really good ambient jungle as soundtrack. Actually just bought it today on bandcamp lol
Also the doom (2016) soundtrack is just exceptional
DS1. Firelink Shrine on repeat.
You kids these days with your video game music! ...You're alright.
[my zoomer sons have gotten me addicted some of the game music the good folks mention here.]
Ever since I played Chrono Trigger I've had Peaceful days as my ringtone. https://youtu.be/wYp_UsDzgxM still like the song.
The Sims 1 OST is an absolute must for elegant relaxation!
Rocket League soundtrack is good most seasons.
Barbie beauty boutique
https://youtu.be/CQoIh4VUB9s
Bro you like Super Monkey Ball? I knew I liked you man, bring it in
My Game soundtrack playlist is 6.5h long.
I just really enjoy Persona’s soundtracks, okay?! They won an award for it ya know! ;-P
rainwave.cc pretty much every day for the last 3 decades
Well, the Life is strange and Stray Soundtracks took a lot of effort.
Hyper Light Drifter
Marble Master
Monochroma had a really good soundtrack by Gevende.
FZero GX and Cel Damage soundtracks are way better than they have any right to be.
https://youtu.be/U0TmPUNNlfc
https://youtu.be/UF0wQeqqsZ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAA6hq9RL-4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLMC2TdMH9U
Been hooked on God of War Ragnarok soundtrack since I finished the DLC a week ago, it’s amazing
Almost the entirety of my physical music collection is game soundtracks. I like to put them on while working or doing chores. It's more relaxing than regular music for me.
Yeah I do 🤘
Chris Vrenna of Nine Inch Nails did the soundtrack for American McGee's Alice, and it is amazing!
It's my focus music.
No of course not. I'm a geek but I have standards.
https://youtu.be/346rm-hPLA4
https://youtu.be/0AzlCbnQpsY
Deltarune
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPfuvPlVCEte53QBIMjzyuhKaOeljxh5L
start with the caves music
Yup, some selections from my navidrome: Sim City 4, VVVVVV, Gunpoint, Rimworld, Europa Universalis IV.
Lego Rock Raiders
The only gaming soundtrack I went out of my way to buy was Night In The Woods.
Been replaying Half Life 2 and I forgot how good the music was
I regularly play video game OSTs while I work/chill. To list some of my favorites: