What was the best video game music of all time?
For my money it’s a tie between Eurydice’s song from Hades, any of the tracks from VVVVVV and Still Alive. But what do you think?
For my money it’s a tie between Eurydice’s song from Hades, any of the tracks from VVVVVV and Still Alive. But what do you think?
heliosef, My personal bias is music from the Wild Arms series. Michiko Naruke is a top-tier composer.
devious, Ctrl+F Hotline Miami… No one’s mentioned this banging track yet?
rezz, Easily this. It’s almost functionally a rhythm game with the way the soundtrack effectively pulse drags you through levels, and then smash cuts to a droning track for a “comedown” after the high of each completion.
The Last of Us is the next best for me.
And then I know it’s cheating, but the Theophany Time’s End II cover of Majora’s Mask is a masterpiece. If this was in-game, it’d be my number one.
PP_BOY_, The only OST better than Hotline Miami is Hotline Miami 2. Seriously, that Carpenter Brut track is unreal
GreasyTengu, (edited ) Warhammer 40,000 Mechanicus Just embodies the Techpreist vibe so well, a near perfect hybrid of church organs and industrial music.
Its actually hard to pick a favorite track, it evenly split between Children of the Omnissiah and Noosphere.
chemicalwonka, SNES Wild Guns final theme Song
GenBlob, There’s just way too many to list. A few of my favorite composers are
- Tim Follin
- Jochen Hippel
- Matt Furniss
- David Whittaker
- Jeroen Tel
- Yuzo Koshiro
- Rob Hubbard
Surp, (edited ) Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim soundtracks. Diablo 2. Wow classics soundtrack…hell many expansions in wow have amazing music. Halo 1, 2, 3s soundtrack.
UsernameLost, Morrowind has my favorite overall soundtrack, but Halo 3’s One Final Effort is the best video game music ever written. Cool piano rendition of One Final Effort and Halo’s main theme
Manifish_Destiny, m.youtube.com/watch?v=33ZP8_aAdNI
Kenshi has some of the best ambient music. Scorching wind gives chills every time.
peetabix, Turrican 2 on the Amiga
cyborganism, That’s a tough one. And I don’t think it’s fair. From one generation to the next, music in video games has evolved quite a bit.
And each console had its own quirks for the music chip. Some later consoles played directly from CDs.
On the NES, I think Megaman 2 and Journey to Silius had kick-ass chip tune soundtracks.
On the SNES, I’d say Uniracer had a great rock soundtrack. Star Fox also had an epic soundtrack. Oh and Killer Instinct was fantastic. It even came with a music CD with the soundtrack. But my all time fave has to be the TMNT IV game soundtrack. And I’ll give a special shoutout to Chrono Trigger.
On the Sega Genesis, I think the Sonic series had an amazing newjack and fusion jazz style soundtrack.
On N64, and PlayStation I particularly LOVED the Wipeout racing game soundtracks with music from my all time favorite electronica bands of the time. Goldeneye 007 holds a special place in my heart as well.
After that it gets really hard because so many games have incredible music. It’s hard to choose.
Mr_Dr_Oink, A few i havent seen mentioned.
Sonic 2 and 3 on megadrive. Especially the ice zone with the snowboard on 3. youtu.be/hYxlqTpZ-24
Icewind dale. The kuldahar music is epic. youtu.be/B92P1-OUNJo or easthaven in peace youtu.be/ERd5stTsaBc
DirigibleProtein, I can’t pick just one, but these are among my favourites:
- Prince of Persia 3D
- Grim Fandango
- Descent
- Skyrim
- Far Cry 2
MintyAnt, My fav descent soundtrack youtu.be/AWtWrRvsszY
Presi300, Kinda hard for me. I’m split between NieR:Automata, ultrakill and Doom 2016/Eternal
Then again, I just started Baldur’s Gate 3 and the soundtrack so far is pretty bangin so this might change
Monkeyarson, Almost all the music from :
Castlevania symphony of the night The legend of Zelda wind waker Final fantasy 7 and 8 Metal gear solid Pokémon blue GTA Vice city FTL:faster than light
Some from timesplitters 2 like streets or return to planet x
cam_i_am, Ahhh but which Still Alive?
You probably meant the one from Portal, but I much prefer the one from Mirror’s Edge! Beautiful song!
dmrzl, (edited ) Hotline Miami
Splinter cell - chaos theory
Ori and the blind forest
drewofdoom, Hotline Miami +1
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