Favorite game soundtracks?

[Leon]

Warhammer 40k: Mechanicus
Eve Online
Ori and the Blind Forest

[DeTess]

Eve Online

Yeah, the Eve soundtrack doesn't get nearly as much love as it deserves. It's just really great at creating that 'space' mood, to balance out the adrenaline spike from narrowly avoiding getting ganked and slipping through gate camps in my little cloaky exploration vessel while sneaking around null-sec looking for an opportunity to get rich. There's a lot of great stuff in there, but this one's probably one of my favorites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbcsz8sb7Cg

[Taevyr]

Considering a lot of my favourites have already been named, I'll stick to ones I haven't seen yet:

Mirror's Edge has an excellent soundtrack; perhaps not everyone's cup of tea for background music, but its pretty great.

I also haven't seen Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines mentioned yet. You need community patches to get the entire soundtrack in-game, but it's an excellent one. The guitar work is great.

And I also have to mention Pillars of Eternity I/Deadfire. While I won't be listening to the combat themes in my spare time, the remainder of the soundtrack is just beautiful to listen to. And the sea shanties of Deadfire are great fun.

[LibraryOgre]

Terragenesis, a phone game, has a really nice soundtrack... sort of lazy strings, reminiscent of Memoirs of a Geisha, in my mind.

[Red Fel]

I'll add two things here.

One, Final Fantasy VI. FF has been mentioned a lot here, and for good reason, but this one stands out. Why? Because this game had a track for almost every character (or multiple related characters), and a MASSIVE cast of playable characters. That was a feat even before taking into account that it was done in the SNES era. And those motifs weave together beautifully, as shown in the end credits theme.

Which leads me to my second choice, Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. Despite being a Game Boy game, it had a great soundtrack, full of life and emotion. And even in its remakes, that soundtrack sings. Don't believe me? Try it. For some reason, even hearing it all these years later...

... ah, it looks like it's beginning to rain.

[Necrowolf]

I'd have to give it to Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey. Its a heavier kind of soundtrack that I atleast don't see being used in many other titles. Most go for some high octane riffs and tracks to hype you up. But the weight of Strange Journey's soundtrack just helps add to the entire games feeling of importance, that every fight and journey is one step closer to deciding the fate of the entire planet and who wins the eternal war.

[zlefin]

Terragenesis, a phone game, has a really nice soundtrack... sort of lazy strings, reminiscent of Memoirs of a Geisha, in my mind.

that reminds me of Terranigma, one of the many good SNES era rpgs. I think it had some very nice pieces, that well fit the plot of the game; though it's been so long it's a bit hard to remember.

[Arcane_Secrets]

Bloodborne. My two favorite themes from it are Hail the Nightmare and the theme from the Living Failures boss fight.

Final Fantasy 7

X-Men 4 player arcade (I used to be able to do a single loop of this game on one credit).

Super mario 3D world (especially Bleep Blocks)

Lightning Fighters.

[crowhaven]

Oblivion soundtrack

FF9 soundtrack

[Ionathus]

Hollow Knight
Hades
Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (HIGHLY recommend the recent Theophany remix albums if you've never heard them!)
Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker
Assassin's Creed (2? 2.5? 2.75? I can't remember 100% but there's just plenty of easygoing but pumped-up synth tracks)
Baldur's Gate 2 & Throne of Bhaal. (That final battle music... *chefs kiss*)
Super Mario 64

[Amechra]

Turrican. Just... Turrican.

That second song is on the Amiga. If you notice that you have different music coming out of each speaker/headphone... from what I understand, that's because they had 4 channels to work with (for both music and sound effects), and they needed 8. So they made themselves 8.

[veti]

I have no idea how it's taken me so long to remember Tropico. The only game I can think of whose soundtrack is worthy of listening to even when you're not playing.

[Laughing Dog]

I'm slightly vexed that no one has brought up the Fire Emblem Series. Some of my personal favorites from the series are from Radiant Dawn, although there has yet to be game in that series that hasn't had at least one good track.
Beyond that? I'm partial to music from Age of Mythology and Age of Empires III. Oh, and Tales of Symphonia. Cannot forget about Tales of Symphonia.

[Psyren]

Megaman, F-Zero, Bayonetta... come to think of it, Smash Brothers as a whole has a lot of my favorites.

[Junbug]

I'm sure Transistor has been mentioned in this thread already, but I absolutely adore it. Supergiant doesn't mess around with their soundtracks, so I recommend Bastion and Hades as well.

Another surprising favorite of mine is the soundtrack for Arknights. They have a lot of variety and they really pour a lot of heart into their production for a mobile game.

[PoeticallyPsyco]

Hard to go wrong with the Halo soundtrack. I haven't played Undertale, yet (I know, shame on me), but it's got some great tunes. Oh, and Cave Story has a fantastically catchy theme.

[Man_Over_Game]

Not a game, but all of Dance With the Dead's music sounds like it belongs in almost any game you can think of.

I was playing Risk of Rain 2 with DWtD playing, and I kept getting confused why my music didn't stop when I paused the game. Solid artist for when you want something to rock to in the background (which is good for RoR2, as its music is kinda all over the place).

Although, for an actual game soundtrack, can't go wrong with Furi. All of the songs were written specifically around the thematic fights and the vibe of the game.

[darkdragoon]

Xenogears

Castlevania SOTN
Super Castlevania IV

Tactics Ogre
FF Tactics
FFXII
I'd also point out Crimson Shroud's "They Don't Look That Tough"


I only have Dark Souls Remastered but I've liked most of what I've heard from DS III's soundtrack.

An Underlying Problem is probably my favorite from Shovel Knight.

[agustin1987]

To be fair, there are quite a few. But, the best ones have to be boss themes, right? Especially in Japanese games-the game composers really know how to make their music!

Serpent Eating the Ground-Bravely Default series. This is one of the best examples of a good boss theme. With a choir to start, the theme slowly turned more and more metal. There’s also a lot of smooth and surprising transitions!

[DavidSh]

I'd have to say my favorite game soundtracks belong to the Ar Tonelico games. The games have their issues, but when I completed an early quest, and the recipient sang at me, I was hooked.

[PhoenixPhyre]

The more I listen to the Nier:Automata soundtrack, the more I like it. Especially Weight of the World.

[Amechra]

I really like Killing Time's soundtrack. Spines But No Pages is a real standout, but the music is generally pretty solid.

[danzibr]

Usually I'm one to prefer the original (I mean... the very title implies soundtracks of the games themselves), and also not one to really like heavy metal, but heavy metal remixes of those oh-****-epic boss fights can work really well (e.g., Phantasy Star IV's Ooze)

[Drasius]

Halo and the various FF's have already been mentioned, but I'm a little surprised that Total Annhiliation hasn't gotten a mention, god that has a killer soundtrack, and was some of Jeremy Soule's early work (You may also know him from any one of Dungeon Siege, Morrowind/Oblivion/Skyrim, Neverwinter Nights, Dawn of War, Knights of the Old Republic, Guild Wars or many others). There's an interesting story out there on the intertubes about him making a bet of his entire pay for the job on TA with Chris Taylor that the instrumental tracks he'd come up with were the way to go instead of the heavy metal/techno stuff that most other RTS's were doing at the time, and won.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljDyp__ejco

The various Halo's, FF's, TA and Mechwarrior 2 : Mercenaries are the ones that I can recall off the top of my head that I will often put on for background noise, though a rather hourable mention goes out to BFG Division for being something very special and unexpected.

[Rynjin]

Man, I wish I'd known about that song Monday so I could've played it when the party's Druid got one-shotted by a giant ooze.

[factotum]

Man, I wish I'd known about that song Monday so I could've played it when the party's Druid got one-shotted by a giant ooze.

Nah, this is the one you want to play in that situation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c4hnA8jXwo

[Rynjin]

Nah, I used that last time someone died.

[Cygnia]

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Grim Dawn
"Eyes On Me" from FFVIII

I will say I had to do a double-take when I recognized the Skyrim soundtrack coming from my in-laws' "Celtic Songs" Pandora channel one day...

[danzibr]

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Grim Dawn
"Eyes On Me" from FFVIII

I will say I had to do a double-take when I recognized the Skyrim soundtrack coming from my in-laws' "Celtic Songs" Pandora channel one day...

A fellow Eyes On Me lover. Nice.

[Cygnia]

I keep hoping to find it on karaoke one of these days...