Talking about good music we heard while playing videogames

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  1. justwannadownload

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    A fairly recent addition.

    This is an Ambient D&B gem. I would not even hesitate to ping @aymat.
     
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    For Wipeout here is a cool video, aka I watched the entire thing actually, of the making of it.

     
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    More often than not, I had the cracktro on for several minutes before loading the game.
     
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    Fallout | Full Soundtrack


    RPG Legendary Soundtracks - Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game Full OST (Original Soundtrack)
    Developer: Interplay Entertainment and Black Isle Studios

    Music by Mark Morgan
    00:00 Metallic Monks (Lost Hills)
    03:25 Desert Wind (The Wasteland)
    06:45 A Trader's Life (The Hub)
    10:49 The Vault of the Future (Vault 13)
    14:51 Industrial Junk (Junktown)
    18:16 Moribund World (World Map)
    21:19 Vats of Goo (Fallout intro)
    24:38 City of the Dead (Necropolis)
    28:02 Second Chance (Shady Sands)
    32:07 Underground Troubles (Caves)
    36:00 City of Lost Angels (Boneyard)
    39:47 Followers' Credo (L.A. Public Library)
    42:46 Radiation Storm (The Glow)
    46:45 Acolytes of the New God (The Cathedral)
    50:02 Flame of the Ancient World (L.A. Vault)
    53:10 Khans of New California (Khan Base)
    56:29 Maybe - The Ink Spots (Bonus Track)
     
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    I could list a bunch, but here's one that I've found to have been overlooked by a lot of people I know, even people who dig game soundtracks, possibly because a lot of people are burnt on the wave of Retro games in the past decade-plus.
    The soundtracks, like the game, are in the vein of the Chrono Trigger/Secret Of Manna/Final Fantasy III, a tasteful homage not just another rehashing/remixing of nostalgic tunes, with all of it beautifully orchestrated.
    One guy created the game and DLC/Expansion, outside of the soundtracks which were done by Eddie Marianukroh.

    Bandcamp:






     
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  6. Plendix

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    Found one of my favorites on yt:
     
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    from the golden days of both video games and video game music!
     
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    Hades & Hades 2 are both excellent games, though they're roguelites so not for everybody. But the whole sound & music design in these is just goddamn genius. First the voice acting is great, overtly dramatic petty Greek deities and all. Sound effects are meaty and there are plenty of fun musical stings that touch up the thing.

    But the music is absolutely stellar, the scale is from scary ambient to folksy laments and ballads, some snatches of 70s prog rock and more modern chunky metal, sometimes with electronic beats.

    There's also some, uh, mediterranean stringed instruments and percussion to give a Greek feel, but I wouldn't go as far to call it Greek music as I wouldn't know that even if it bit me in the ass.

    Also nice touches like you enter combat and the music kicks in and after the fight the music carries on but it's stripped just to electric bass noodling on the same theme.

    Hades Soundtrack - No Escape - composed by Darren Korb



    Hades Soundtrack - Out of Tartarus - composed by Darren Korb



    Hades Soundtrack - Wretched Shades - composed by Darren Korb



    Hades Soundtrack - God of the Dead - composed by Darren Korb




    I'd highly recommend to pick up the games, or at least Hades which is now fairly often on sale. Hades 2 is out on Early Access, due to release later this year. They might not be art, but the design and production on these is absolutely out of this world (heh).
     
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    I spent a lot of time playing this game, It was the best battlefield simulator available in 2001.
     
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    If you've never played any of the Ridge Racer games, you're missing out on a ton of amazing varied electronic, dnb and chillout tracks.

    Specifically Hiroshi Okubo has made some of my favorite.

    Here's some to check out:





    Non Ridge Racer but an absolute DnB banger:



    Smooth Progressive Jazz from Ridge Racer:



     
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    All of the games by Supergiant have solid soundtracks. Transistor might be my favorite of their games' OSTs. I think that it may be the most... well-integrated?—the best marriage of music to the story/environment.

     
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    I remember hearing this track at the friends house after school, it was crazy, i remembered it immediately and hummed it for like a decade.
    These soundtracks really make an impact on a person specially in youth, i wonder how kids feel with new games that are maybe a bit more sterile nowdays...
     
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    You guys should listen to Cult of the Lamb soundtrack, it might give off inspiring ideas :invision:
     
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