The Video Game Music Thread

[markec]

 

[Abu Antar]

 

[d1r]

 

[Malamert]

Shining Resonance Refrain's soundtrack is grand. Just about every track is gold. GOLD!

 

[Sukhāvatī]

 

[Valestein]

TNT Randy boss theme from Huntdown.

 

[Black Plague]

Let's dig up Last Rites as I found you can actually now play .DSF files with the vgmstream plugin (in Foobar2000 etc.)

 

[Sukhāvatī]

 

[good fucking shit happen]

The ZX Spectrum was the home computer for real men. Not all games featured noisecore tho.

Barbarian was THE game but the music was mediocre and typical of what you would get on the platform.



The ZX was no slacker and could produce proper music.

 

[Zariusz]

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

 

[Nathir]

 

[Egosphere]

 

[d1r]

 

[ferratilis]

The soundtrack in Splinter Cell is unremarkable, for most of the game. But then you get to Burma and all different parts of the suite (exploration, detection and combat music) ramp up and make the entire level unforgettable.

Exploration music, especially evocative while following the soldier through the tunnels


This creates great tension when there are soldiers all around


And a great combat theme to top it all off


Great suite that can rival any in Chaos Theory (Kokubo Sosho, Displace, Bank, Battery) and it wasn't even composed by Amon Tobin. Good stuff.

 

[GrafvonMoltke]

Maybe not old enough to be considered monocled around here, but it gets my blood pumping every time.

 

[4249]

Sounds like ultra generic tense "cinematic" music that could be from pretty much any Hollywood movie or AAA game. Whatever floats your boat man ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[GrafvonMoltke]

I am a man of simple tastes.

 

[oldbonebrown]

What are the best David Wise soundtracks outside of DKC?

 

[Ivan]

not sure why but this song is resonating stronger now with me than ever before:

 

[Frank Capicoli]

 

[Wyatt_Derp]

 

[deem]

 

[ELEXmakesMeHard]

Aubrey Hodges released a new version of his QFG4 soundtrack (using real instruments) a few years back.

A few of the tracks sound too different to scratch my nostalgia itch, but there's many pearls there.

It also includes high quality versions of the old school tracks.

 

[BING XI LAO]