I’ll start off with Raiden II’s Repeated Tragedy.
A local restaurant had this game, and every time we went, I’d beg my parents for money so that I could play it. I wasn’t very good at the game, so I never got past the first stage, and so I heard this song a lot. Really gives me nostalgia.
Also got to shout out Streets, from Timesplitters too. I put a lot of time into this game as a kid, and this song is what got me into futurepop (love me some VNV Nation).
been listening to Repeated Tragedy, good one
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This was a triumph
I’m making a note here: Huge. Success.
It’s hard to overstate my satisfactionnnnn
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The Whirling in Rags theme and Martinaise theme (the one with the distorted horn) from Disco Elysium.
Every boss theme from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
About half of the character themes from Guilty Gear: Strive (and I haven’t even played the game!).
The ambient music from Mass Effect 2 that plays while you’re probing for resources. I know lots of people hated that mini-game, but I found it extremely soothing and spent hours and hours doing it.
The galaxy map song from that game is what got me into ambient music and changed my life for the better. It just hits my brain perfectly
IMO Pyre is criminally underrated. The story is leftist and emotional as fuck and it kills me that it nobody has played it. I am also a huge sucker for Ashley Barrett and Darren Korb harmonizing.
It’s hard to sell nerds on magic basketball
I never played Pyre, but the two of them have definitely done some great songs. Zulf and Zia’s songs in Bastion were great.
EDIT: the scene at the end where you
spoiler
Save Zulf while his song plays
brought a tear to my eye the first time through.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAWmSzN7Uf8 is probably my favorite Pyre song
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I liked Pyre but I’ve still played it the least of Supergiant’s offerings. Transistor is probably my favorite OST.
Pyre is the only supergiant I haven’t played, probably because it’s the least “Normal” of them
I probably spent so much time during my formative years (and some of my adulthood) playing Age of Empires II and Age of Mythology that these were the only ones I could remember off the top of my head. Many others I can remember if I think about the game, but not as easy.
Also, Asylum Demon, Firelink Shrine, Ornstein and Smough and Gwyn Lord of Cinder from Dark Souls 1. I’ve probably beat that game dozens, if not hundreds of times, and have used a ton of playthroughs as background noise before going to bed.
I stumbled on the OST for the unreleased Jazz Jackrabbit 3 recently, and I keep playing this track every now and again, it’s such a banger. This whole subgenre from Epic Games’ early efforts (and stuff those composers did for other companies) is really cool, I with there more games beyond the Unreals and Deus Ex with that style. This track from Unreal 2 is another great one
The cut Downtown theme from Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines, it’s just such a vibe
Fertile Rondo from Bayonetta 3 is also just
, great 5th Element vibesBrain Freeze from Yuri’s Revenge, I miss the “just stick some old movie/TV quotes in” era of electronic music
This track from Descent (this particular recording off a Roland SC-55, I’m pretty sure I originally found it on youtube but it seems like that upload may have been taken down, and a lot of the other ones I could find don’t sound as good)
The whole Neotokyo soundtrack really, just an absolute masterpiece composed for a free mod for some reason. Some standouts: Beacon, Imbrium, Tachi, I just absolutely love the combination of more electronic sounds with strings and piano in a lot of these.
On the more ambient side of things, STALKER has some great ones, Call of Pripyat especially, like the Pripyat theme
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I listen to a lot of game soundtracks at work. Atm, this song is stuck in my head because so many YouTubers/streamers play it: Steam Gardens - Super Mario Odyssey
Risk of Rain 2 menu theme, I will get this song stuck on a loop inside my head for hours at a time.
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FTL: Faster Than Light
MechWarrior 2
Total Annihilation
Hotline Miami
FTL soundtrack is great
A friend of mine plays video games on speakers and has the Hotline Miami soundtrack playing in the background of all games, so whenever he mics in, I hear that playing in the background
Lots of songs from the Zelda games. Gerudo Valley and Lost Woods from Ocarina of Time come to mind.
Oh yeah, Windmill Hut is another song that will bounce around inside my skull unbidden
Yup, that’s another one! Some of the tunes from Windwaker and other games in the series also.
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novalis theme from ratchet and clank and pretty much all of sim city 4, but shout out to rush hour
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On Christmas Day of 1999, I was gifted a copy of Homeworld. A few days later I was treated to a very groovy credits track by Yes, a band I had never heard of… but now wanted to hear more of. So I decided to give this new thing called Napster a try, and my first search was Homeworld Yes. The rest is history - in a real sense, I discovered music that day.
Terraria. Just the normal daytime outside theme. I can perfectly hear it in my mind.
Dun dun dun, dun-dun-dun-dun-dun, ba da-da-da-da-da…da! So iconic.
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So true bestie
Okay, the songs that are belovedly burned into my brain are coming from FF7 Original, Disco Elysium, Civ 4, and so on. They’re great songs from great games.
But this is permanently burned into my brain because it’s just so fucking weird.
Ah, video game songs that are just plain weird are one of my guilty pleasures. Here’s one that lives rent-free in my head.
I meant to say, holy shit, that was horrific.
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