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Your favourite OST from a game?

MacBizzle · 2014-06-22 13:37:56

As a music lover I always prefer a game when it has a decent soundtrack, what are your favourites? :) Mine are: The Sims 2 - Really suited the quirkiness of the game Mass Effect - It's just too cool Silent Hill 2 Silent Hill 3 Super Hexagon - The OST is really the thing that makes the game what it is The Binding of Isaac

22-06-2014 01:37PM

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MacBizzle

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As a music lover I always prefer a game when it has a decent soundtrack, what are your favourites?

Mine are:
The Sims 2 - Really suited the quirkiness of the game
Mass Effect - It's just too cool
Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill 3
Super Hexagon - The OST is really the thing that makes the game what it is
The Binding of Isaac

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#2 22-06-2014 01:51PM

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Skyrim for me.

It was the first CD I'd bought in over 12 years though. Came signed by Jeremy Soule too

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#3 22-06-2014 01:56PM

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Mass Effect - love the 80's cyber punk scifi vibe to it. The Faunts for the end credits just fit perfectly.

Deus Ex - again, cyber punk dystopian feel to it.

Unreal Tournament - some class tracks in that game.

Metal Gear Solid - just pure art.

The Wipeout games had some great dance/house tunes in them that really made those games.

The Halo OST- A Walk in the Woods and Under Cover of Night are tow top ones for me.

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#4 22-06-2014 02:20PM

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Red alert/tiberian sun had some great tunes on it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb-gI_pFog0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkxbbfIg8uQ

Man I miss westwood studios

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#5 22-06-2014 02:20PM

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Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon:

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

The sheer 80'sness of the soundtrack is great.

FTL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quwBEzrwXSU

You don't really notice it much when you're playing. It's great though. It manages to both fit in with the retro graphics and sound great in it's own right.

Homeworld:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTKakINXjl8

Homeworld 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeniBzkK2HU

Homeworld 1 and 2 have the best scores of any games I've ever played. Despite not having played either in about 5 years, I still catch myself humming some of the tunes from it from time to time.

Whatever about games having yet to mature as a storytelling medium, they mastered music a long time ago and even low budget games often have incredible soundtracks.

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#6 22-06-2014 02:23PM

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Last Ninja 2
Skyrim
Fallout 3
Hotline Miami
Mass Effect 2
FarCry: Blood Dragon
Halo

I write a lot of sci fi dystopian stuff myself, so I love hearing it in games.

Also anything by Jesper Kyd from Hitman and Assassin's Creed.

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#7 22-06-2014 02:29PM

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To be a little predictable Dark Souls - I think the music (and in parts lack of it) catch the mood perfectly.

Of course Wipeout 2097 atom bomb being my favourite.(Edit:Not an OST but still good)

I did like FFVII score especially the ending.

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#8 22-06-2014 02:32PM

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The Halo 3 OST stands apart for me. It was the first game I played were I actually felt anything for a soundtrack and hearing it today triggers some great nostalgia. There's some truly epic pieces in there, my favourites being "Greatest Journey and "Never Forget"

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#9 22-06-2014 02:33PM

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MGS 2 theme has to be the best ever.

The whole Skyrim OST is also worth a mention.

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#10 22-06-2014 02:38PM

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To Zanarkand -FFX

Baba Yetu - Civ 4

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#11 22-06-2014 02:50PM

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For me Nier had the best soundtrack in years.

Shin Megami Tesei IV is pretty epic in terms of soundtrack as are persona 3 and 4.

Old school, nothing beats megaman 2

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#12 22-06-2014 03:18PM

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWB8P4jbsAA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWVij6r4QBw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nZVkilo52s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oplzMrgPA4I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mqmN6mw4R8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4QHpEn_zRM

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#13 22-06-2014 03:25PM

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In terms of music fitting the theme, I thought the Last of Us was fantastic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y97u-U0nvJM

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#14 22-06-2014 05:50PM

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Shadow of the Colossus for me, ordered the cd from Japan after playing the game for about 2hrs

Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 have both amazing scores, Fluffy Bluff Galaxy and Gusty Garden are two tracks that sum up the utter joy those games are to play.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEIWhy-urqM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0izkufICrK8

and for sheer retro awesomeness special mentions to Bubble Bobble and Double Dragon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C97ho4X5tVE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4rLtxzle6k

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#15 22-06-2014 05:59PM

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Metal Gear Rising is a good one. RULES OF NATURE.

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#16 22-06-2014 06:48PM

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Mechwarrior 2 had an amazing soundtrack.

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#17 22-06-2014 07:02PM

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH4XH-AEYzo

Morrowind for me.

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#18 22-06-2014 07:07PM

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for a game that merged its soundtracks mood and overall experience with the gameplay, this goes down as one of my favs
Bastion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLA0vB9LCTM&feature=kp

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#19 22-06-2014 07:08PM

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Metal Gear Solid 2 - Sons of Liberty - Hands down the best soundtrack ever. Improved massively on the midi original.

Final Fantasy 7 - Sadly all midi but still an awesome soundtrack.

Super Mario World - Hard to pick a winner out of the mario titles but this is where it started for me and that soundtrack is just timeless.

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#20 22-06-2014 07:09PM

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Loads of great scores from this title!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vw2d3_aEC8

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#21 22-06-2014 07:32PM

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsG80RGxzNM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVBM3bX7xdw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4vCEHpv6Hg

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

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#22 23-06-2014 05:21AM

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New: (well, 5 years ago, but eh, newish no?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2VDHLWFrFo

Old: (almost 10 years earlier...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i38_6oNPE24

The last one brings back a lot of memories arguing with my brother about who got to use the PC this evening (because there's so such thing as a quick game of BGII ).

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#23 23-06-2014 05:45AM

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My favourites are any of the ones from any of the previous threads that we have....

[URL="http://www.My favourites are any of the ones from any of the previous threads that we have....

Game Music
Best Game Songs
Video game soundtracks
Games Official Soundtracks

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#24 23-06-2014 07:00AM

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Wipeout series was a constant source of awesomeness.

Homeworld and Berber's Adagio for Strings d brilliant.
But the big one for me, as mad as it sounds, was Everything Must Go, by the Manic Street Preachers, the Chemical Bros remix.
It was used in the opening cinema of Gran Turismo and I spent a number of years trying to find it, eventually I found the alternate CD single it only appears on, some 6 years later!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lICvGXiyl6A

As for original soundtracks nothing comes close to Super Mario World, that is brilliant stuff.

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#25 23-06-2014 07:16AM

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As said already, the Command & Conquer series has some awesome tracks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNAilFa9rC8

Also, MechWarrior 2 had some nice music, and some unnerving music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp87Jc6k1w4

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#26 23-06-2014 07:40AM

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Ridge Racer Type 4 - (PlayStation 1999) Not the most accomplished soundtrack, but it puts me in a time and place with a discreet pinch of adrenalin and endorphins.. :pac:

Nice audio CD release for it too..

Ridge Racer Type 4 Direct Audio (Wikipedia)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMZ872rsa90

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#27 23-06-2014 08:06AM

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Half-Life 1 OST from original CD.

Oh and can never forget this Jem;

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#28 23-06-2014 09:07AM

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a few spring to mind, ones like...

The whole Advent Rising soundtrack is great, but this one really stands out.

The Deus Ex theme...

Obviously the Mass Effect games and Final Fantasy 7, though i won't link those as half the posters here already have.

I do have one guilty pleasure though (don't judge me!)

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#29 23-06-2014 11:19AM

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCQn7PGVopI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q09quI356sQ

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#30 23-06-2014 11:29AM

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Quake
GTA Vice City

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#31 23-06-2014 11:39AM

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Definitely FFVII. I know everyone says it, but half the experience of that game was the soundtrack.

I was listening to the Distant Worlds II album on Spotify the other day and this came on. Honest to God, I nearly burst into tears. My heart! It's so beautiful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPSdaQW97rA

I'll second Bastion as well. Great soundtrack, matches the game perfectly, plus I love this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz8c17upEwM

I also have a special place in my heart for the soundtrack of Tekken 2. There were a LOT of great tracks on that. At the time I had no way to copy things from cds so I actually stood with my Talkboy up to the telly (:eek:) on the practice screen recording the tracks I liked! This was my favourite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV77owpNVcg

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