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[Marcinkowski]

 

[violence]

Pretty much the whole soundtrack is good. Artist coldstorage does nice stuff. You could put the PC version in a music player and it would play. Used to listen to it every day.

 

[Sethbacca]

All of Ni No Kuni for sure. I'm a big Joe Hisaishi guy from the Studio Ghibli movies though so I'm biased.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

Anything FF, one of hundreds of tracks I will go back and listen to from the series.

 

[Pimpollo818]

 

[Heisenberg007]

Pretty much any track from TLOU P1 and P2.

Sharing Allowed to be Happy as it remains of the under-rated ones, but it is as beautiful as the best of the best nevertheless.

 

[Rudius]

 

[midnightAI]

 

[Magic Carpet]

All the good music today is being wasted on blocky 8bit pixel art games.
Using high quality music in a game that looks like it was from the 1980's.
If your going to go retro you need to retro your music and sounds too.

 

[_Ex_]

 

[Boralf]

 

[tomato shrub]

Always brings me back to better times (and makes me melancholy thinking about them).

 

[Juza]

 

[Wolves hunt in packs]

Couple that comes to mind..
Dragon's Dogma - Into Free, such a weird and pumping intro, i would listen to it a few times before playing each time i launched the game, shame they removed it in DA.



Also same feeling with Bayonetta - Fly Me To The Moon



And lastly Nier Gestalt has the best full soundtrack ever made imo, loved every track to bits.

 

[DragoonKain]

Probably Time's Scar or Dancing Mad. Dancing Mad for a piece made for an SNES game and the fact that it's like a real orchestral piece with several movements made it so ahead of its time. And it sounds amazing adopted for live orchestra.

 

[kevboard]

Hans Zimmer's work on Crysis 2 was pretty epic at the time.

 

[Roni]

Michael McCann's work is phenomenal. Deus Ex, Splinter Cell, XCOM. This guy should be in way more stuff

 

[rodrigolfp]

 

[Strategize]

The OP isn't even the official version of Nate's UC4 theme, it's a fan one.

This is the official version.

 

[Pasta la Vista]

Just staying in the menu for the music when not playing

Didn't this artist do stuff for the Metal Gear series also?

 

[Parazels]

Moon over the castle

 

[Parazels]

Metal Gear Solid

 

[Ogbert]

I have three young boys. This is their bath time music. Just the happiest song ever.

 

[Aion002]

FFVII - Aerith's Theme:

 

[Hrk69]

 

[StreetsofBeige]

There’s a few great licensed songs in there from Steve vai and Joe satriani, but most of Formula One’s songs were done in house at Psygnosis. Awesome tracks from their audio crew.

YT playlist.

 

[rodrigolfp]

 

[Trilobit]

Island Swing is so remarkable in its energy and how it also switches to the calmer end portion. It still to this day never fails to make me beat my chest whenever I hear it.

Klomp's Romp is also amazing and together with Jib Jig my favourite from DKC2.

 

[Judge Magister]

 

[Soodanim]

This track alone has more going for it than so much of the soulless orchestral background music that games so often put out.

Not original, but one of the best uses of music in a video game.

Very effective song choice by Kojima's team. Not many can use songs as well as they did.

One has to consider constraints.

I don't think constraints should be considered in terms of taking pity on them, if that's what you meant. These songs (and the rest of their soundtracks) are amazing at conveying what they need to convey. Koji Kondo's N64 music is a master at work.

 

[Gambit2483]

Metal Gear Solid

Too bad they retired this theme song...