Incline What is best soundtrack of a game?

[laclongquan]

It's time of the year again and we should discuss which is best soundtrack and why! DiSCuSsssssssss!!!!

1. Name a youtube video/playlist of soundtrack from a game.
2. Sound, so file with visual component is no more advantageous than file without.
3. Check rule one

May the best game win

 

[Severian Silk]

The best soundtrack of a game is the one you can hear.

 

[Nekot-The-Brave]

 

[Ivan]

 

[Robespierre]

I really like Arcanum soundtrack. Melancholic, sad, languishing... It grasps so well this feeling of desolation. The lamentations of a dying world. Plus, I have a soft spot for stringed instruments. And Arcanum was my first cRPG, what a blast it was.

 

[luj1]

 

[Karellen]

I think I may have reached, without hesitation, for a low-hanging, yet blasphemous fruit here. But really, I could redo my pick a dozen times and it'd still end up in the general vicinity - if not Vagrant Story, then another Sakimoto soundtrack, or a Mitsuda soundtrack, or an Uematsu soundtrack, or maybe a Naruke or Shimomura. On and on it goes - SNES- to PSX era JRPGs had such an overwhelming glut of talent attached to them when it came to music. I keep wondering why that is, but I think that the Japanese, developing on consoles, could take advantage very early on of having a single sound chip to write music on, whereas contemporary PCs had a multitude so writing good music was that much harder and less of a priority. So by the time CDs came in and games had proper audio tracks, PC games would have voice acting, so they'd tend to mainly have ambient soundtracks and only a handful of good tracks, whereas the Japanese already had developed a genre and culture out of videogame music.

But even if that weren't the case, Vagrant Story's soundtrack is amazing.

 

[GrainWetski]

 

[Neanderthal]

Off top o me head i'd go wi Revenant, soundtrack were arguably better than game itsen:

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Icewind Dale an Witcher are right up there an all:

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Keep on thinkin o more an more, original Diablo, Dungeon Siege, Ultima 6 intro music yadda yadda.

 

[Ovg]

I must say I loved chaos gate soundtrack. Perfectly fitting with the game.

 

[felipepepe]

 

[Grotesque]

Diablo

 

[Starwars]

The Banner Saga has an absolutely amazing soundtrack that I actually think carried the game in many ways. Second game is also good but not as good as the first I think.



Child of Light has some amazing themes also. This one is my favorite from it.

 

[Dayyālu]

It's almost better than the game.

 

[Baardhaas]

There are games that have a better song or piece of music at a given point. Judging a whole soundtrack though, it's Gothic 3 for me.

 

[Astral Rag]

The excellent 2010 remaster: https://archive.org/details/AURAL01

 

[Tito Anic]

Everything that was born in the mind of "Straylight Productions"

 

[Durandal]

Just beautiful

 

[Dr Skeleton]

If only the game was as good.

Edit: also watch the intro, it alternates between tracks.

 

[Obsequious Approbation]

 

[Lord Rocket]

PCfags get out

(spoiler'd to not take up too much space)

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[Lord Rocket]

More

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[Lord Rocket]

Even more

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(skip to 13:12 if you're in a hurry, that's the best one iirc)

fuck off with this embed limit btw

 

[Unkillable Cat]

For me there's only one game soundtrack where every single track is memorable and recognizable.

(Even though the soundtrack as a whole sounds like a lunatic asylum.)

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Complete playlist here.[/media]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsPtKynO_1k&list=PL070C2821EF87B676&index=1

 

[Ivan]

I HAD TO DO IT