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?
Tetris
Why? Because upon having said that I know its now playing in all of your heads.
I liked the ‘B’ music best. ‘A’ is a classic but ‘B’ was my jam.
Check out this remix of it from years ago.
The Halo Trilogy I truly believe is the best video game music. The original from CE instantly became iconic and felt pivotal to the game. Then each iteration tweaked the formula in a way that represented the respective game. The heavy rock Breaking Benjamin style from Halo 2 represents the rebellious nature of the story (and honestly it represented gaming culture at the time). Then the music really matured with a heavy piano theme for Halo 3. The score made you feel the sacrifice of the characters and us saying goodbye to a brilliant story.
Some great tracks:
Katamari Damacy. It’s got one of the most infectiously joyous soundtracks of all time – an eccentric, richly-produced, and incredibly catchy melange of funk, salsa, bossa nova, experimental electronica, J-Pop, swing, lounge, bamboo flute, hair metal, buoyant parade music, soaring children’s choirs, Macintalk fanfares, and the single best theme song this side of Super Mario Bros. And beyond being insane earworms, many of the tracks have surprisingly deep and meaningful lyrics.; my favorite is probably the beautiful “Cherry Tree Times”, which I’ve seen described as “[using] the gameplay mechanics as a metaphor both for the twinge of nostalgia we could feel even in childhood toward our younger selves and for the experience of falling in love.”
How can anything beat Tetris?
Guess what I’m humming right now after reading tetris?
You will all hum it the whole day: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tetris_theme.ogg
First instinct was to say Chrono Trigger. My second choice is Tony Hawks Pro skater.
Donkey Kong Country and Diddy’s Kong Quest set some bars when they dropped.
I bought the DK Country album when it came out
DKC3 also had a killer soundtrack.
The entire soundtrack of Nier Automata, for a more recent contender.
Final fantasy 6! The renditions of the victory fanfare and chocobo theme are terrific and multiple other songs are dramatic, exciting, enthralling. And there are some legit jams on the soundtrack, too. The Veldt, Magitek Factory, and Zozo all are amazing.
Other games music that are great are Tropico, Frostpunk, and RimWorld.
Final fantasy 6. Probably did the most with the least. It is an all-time banger for that along with super Mario 3.
I shouldn’t have had to scroll this far but I guess the average gamer is younger than this masterpiece now.
Mass Effect.
That opening scene, with that music playing… it really hooked me from the first second.
Katamari Damacy!!!
FFX To Zanarkand is gut wrenching. Powerful and moving. The song captures completely what the story is about.
Came here just to make sure this one was mentioned.
Has anyone said Minecraft? I haven’t played games myself for years (well before Minecraft) but live in a house where it was played for hours at a time. Soundtrack never became annoying & whenever I hear it it instantly takes me back in time.
Either Halo or the new Doom games.
Very few themes are more iconic than Halos chanting and basically all of those are simple themes without depth. Halos theme makes you feel a flood of emotion when you hear it.
And nothing on this earth nothing is more bad ass than the Doom music. Just hearing it makes you feel like you could go to hell and kill gods.
For me it’s is:
- Final Fantasy 7 (sheer volume of classics, listen to it regularly)
- Resident Evil 2 (PSX)
- Tekken 3
- Silent Hill 2
- Spyro (come on, it’s Stewart Copeland!)
Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim soundtracks. Diablo 2. Wow classics soundtrack…hell many expansions in wow have amazing music. Halo 1, 2, 3s soundtrack.
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
