Still Alive
That’s the video game song that gets in my head the most.
Interestingly, despite how it’s not as good of a song, I probably think about Want You Gone about as often as Still Alive. It doesn’t really come through as a song, just the phrases. “Now I only want you gone.” “You’ve got your short sad life left. […] I’ll let you get right to it.”
I wish Want You Gone was more popular, because it’s genuinely a better song and plays the relationship double entendre so well.
Shoutout to You Wouldn’t Know, which rounds out the trilogy of songs.
Goodbye, my only friend
Oh, did you think I meant you?
That would be funny
If it weren’t so sad
Probably Stickerbush Symphony from Donkey Kong Country 2.
Lots of good Final Fantasy tracks from Nobuo Uematsu and Chrono Trigger/Cross ones from Yasunori Mitsuda too. But Stickerbush Symphony was the first video game music that really moved me, like more than your average SNES soundtrack. David Wise went hard on those Donkey Kong Country games.
That’s one of my favorites! Also Aquatic Ambience from DKC. I used to pause the game on that level and just listen to the track.
Baba Yetu from Civilization 2005 is the first video track to win a Grammy.
Only right answer
It’s hard to choose an absolute favorite, but I really like First Steps from Celeste.
Music track or racetrack? ;)
Interesting. If they had said, “What is your absolute favorite track from a racing game?” I would have interpreted the question differently.
Vigil - Mass Effect
The End Run from Mass Effect 2 is also high up there.
Recency bias, but Lumiere from Expedition 33 is also incredible.
Presidium and Uncharted Worlds are also really good.
M4 Faunts is genuinely one of my favorite credits songs too. Mass Effect soundtrack is just way too good.
Had a listen and yeah it is so good. The first Mass Effect really nailed the old scifi vibe. Later OST was good too yet drifted towards more sounding more like Hollywood soundtracks.
Completely agree. The orchestral shift still produced great songs, but the synth music has a special place in my heart.
Hmmm.
Maybe Dragon Roost Island from The Legend Of Zelda: The Wind Waker.
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Alpha by C418 - The background music to the End Poem in Minecraft
Great pick. This track is transcendent.
If I had to choose one song, it would probably have to be Undertale from Undertale. The acoustic guitar brought me to tears. Honorable mentions to Rith Essa Mime from Jet Force Gemini, Stone Tower Temple from Majora’s Mask, Smiles and Tears from Earthbound, Fear the Dark from Aquaria, and Ocean Planet Aquanid from Bomberman 64: The Second Attack.
Too many favourites to name, but here are a few examples
- lots of Nobuo Uematsu songs in lots of games
- small two of pieces from xenogears
- simple and clean from kingdom hearts
- xenoblade chronicles 2 Ost, especially gormott when the ‘vocals’ kick in
- take control from control
- wide awake from Alan wake 2
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You can’t do this to me. Don’t make me pick just one.
Let me have six at least.
I couldn’t pick just one.
- From The Witcher 3:
- Whiterun theme (unforgivably absent from the OST albums)
- Fields of Ard Skellig (a version of the folk song “Fear a Bhata”)
- From Skyrim… hard to pick out favourites
- From Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance (Jeremy Soule again): The Art of War. It opens boldly but there’s a moment when it’s just twinkling in the strings, percussion and a little piano with almost no melody. If at that moment you happen to be watching the trajectory of your artillery arcing towards the enemy, and then the theme comes back as they land… sublime.
- From The Witcher 3:
Not one track, but I love all the biome specific music in Terraria.
Aerith’s Theme and all of its variants in every FFVII game (and movie)
So many great ones, but if i had to pick only one
The CD-rom for Mechwarrior 2 could play in a standard CD player. Track one was the data for the game, but the remaining 22-odd tracks were the in-game music. We used to listen to the Mechwarrior 2 soundtrack while playing everything else. I still love that music.
