Expand Your Video Game Music Tastes

[Ichiban]

monolith stays peak

 

[Drawdler]

Let me put this at one per series/game but I recommend looking at more musuc from all of these

Spoiler

Street Fighter 3 - 3rd Strike (series is a mixed bag with music but 3rd Strike doesn’t miss)

Ratchet & Clank, Spyro The Dragon (The remakes of these two very much butchered the music)

OFF (indie rpg)

Lethal League (if you like this look uo Hideki Naganuma and keep an eye on Bomb Rush Cyberfunk)

Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure (entire series has great music except for Imaginators which literally only adds stock music, Swap Force soundtrack is worse than others but enjoyable)
https://youtu.be/BsHUmnRScNA

CTR Nitro-Fuelled (original trilogy, 4 and TwinSanity also have good music)
https://youtu.be/FGtPc3R5BW4

Guilty Gear series
https://youtu.be/Z9X1Ta1jN8E

Gran Turismo series (if you like it, check out the band Casiopea and Masayoshi Takanaka music)
https://youtu.be/adzUSH1vZYU

Anything with Tim Follin
https://youtu.be/6_IJYc9t3vQ

Hades (and anything from Supergiant)
https://youtu.be/xXgeGHiZnBE

PaRappa but mostly 2
https://youtu.be/Jjs9C8Gb0Xw

Inscryption (you can’t really look through the soundtrack without spoilers, so if you care about that, play + beat the game first)
https://youtu.be/9ieNHByzhHs

 

[DarthGohan1]

classic SNES racing music

 

[Bui]

Bringing this thread back from the depths with a couple of great songs from Transport Fever, a city builder/transport tycoon type game with music that ended up being way better than I would've expected.

 

[DarthGohan1]

 

[Midoriya]

When you know it's about to go down for real. Such a bop to be honest.

 

[Khaoticnoize187]

from anonymous code

 

[Ichiban]

 

[Khaoticnoize187]

 

[Midoriya]

 

[Khaoticnoize187]

 

[kisaker39]

 

[Bui]

Considering that this is from a minigame within the 3DS's StreetPass Plaza, this song goes way harder than it has any right doing.

 

[G0DFlesh_88]

 

[ShinyDungeoneer]

*looks over at the Puyo Puyo series* yeah, I know a few songs. Surge of Crimson Shouts, Ultimate Legend of the Untrained Demon King (yes that's it's title), literally ANY of the Fever Mode themes, Great Transformation Mode! from 7, etc. A puzzle game franchise should not have this good of an OST!

 

[Midoriya]

 

[TN4U]

For some reason, Gran Turismo 4 came back into my mind seemingly at random. I played this game many times growing up on my PS2, and the original soundtrack brings back a lot of memories. This is the arcade theme, and I spent a whole lotta time just looking at the cars I could drive while listening to this gem:

There's 5 different main GT Mode menu themes, and this one below is the best in my opinion. A Mellotron was used, and that's one of my favorite synthesizers:

And then there's this. If you played GT Mode regularly, this will make you tear up, I guarantee it:

Fantastic soundtrack overall by Isamu Ohira.

 

[TN4U]

Toy Story 2 is one of my all-time favorite movies, and I grew up playing the video game tie-in for the PlayStation, Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue!. Also released on the Nintendo 64 and Dreamcast, it's a 3D platformer where you explore and fight enemies in various places seen in the movie alongside some new areas like "Construction Yard" and "Al's Space Land". It's very fun, and it also has a fantastic soundtrack that features all-original compositions made just for this game. Some of my personal favorites are heard in the levels "Alleys and Gullies", "Al's Space Land", "Al's Penthouse" and "Airport Infiltration".

If you own a PS5, the original PlayStation game was re-released on the PS Store with upscaled graphics and save state capabilities. I highly recommend it if you're a fan of retro 3D platformers.

 

[Mayor Jack]

This is probably my favourite theme from Fantasy Life but the whole soundtrack is amazing, the main theme is great too.

 

[ribbitribbon]

this thread is so up my alley, unfortunately i’m too lazy to find these on youtube so sorry for the soundclouds lol

Spoiler: the good stuff

https://soundcloud.com/holylilium%2Fharvest-moon-ds-opening

so nostalgic o: harvest moon ds, if you didn’t eat my save data i would play you every day…

https://soundcloud.com/alexagide-schmitt%2Fnew-battle-full-version

this is so good i… i have probably talked about it too much but it is just,

https://soundcloud.com/joe-2-426753639%2Ffire-emblem-engage-fell-3

heck yeah, this is always a bop