Topic: Favorite Video Game Music

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@RogerRoger Ace Attorney's soundtracks just get better as the series goes along, IMO. The third game unmistakably has the best OST of the original trilogy, but the music in the newer games is really good as well. It's the one area in which the series never disappoints, IMO, as even the disappointing Apollo Justice sounds great.

I've played so many games and this is a difficult question to answer really as I have many. for this thread I would have to say Okami both Ori games and Final Fantasy 10, specifically the music that plays before the last boss fight, A Contest of Aeons. That tune moved me in so many ways it's hard to describe.

@RogerRoger yeah the music, like everything else in the game is ‘just’ spot on. I love this one myself:

So I've been playing Team Sonic Racing lately and I've known about its theme song, Green Light Ride, for quite some time and it's really good. But what I didn't know is that there's an absolute killer remix as the game's customisation menu theme:

Holy crap this is such a great remix.

This song has been stuck in my head for the past few days:

I never liked this song before because there are much better Sonic tracks. However, for some reason it's just stuck with me recently and now I can't stop listening to it. Not to mention that the song heavily reminds me of the Wii days, which I'm very nostalgic for. Will probably not be able to stop listening to it for the foreseeable future lol.

@RogerRoger nice selection , especially the last one for me personally , it gives me the feels . Origins music is so powerful sounding , you're definitely right about it sounding better than the movie soundtracks ! its a movie quality game its why i love it so much. well , i love it for alot of things , but still , haha.

thanks for posting these videos though , now i have a good link to the games playlist .

Was just about to stop playing Hotline Miami 2 for today and then this beat dropped:

And then another hour went by, lol. If there's one thing this game excels at, it's getting you pumped up during each level with awesome music. Man, I love this game!

Such a beautiful song. This is the series' theme song but when you get the true ending in Steins;Gate 0, you hear it with lyrics. Was such a pleasant surprise!

So there are rumours that Goldeneye 007 will be receiving a remaster soon on Xbox and it reminded me of the time I spent playing the remake on Wii and constantly hearing this wonderful track play in the menus:

I feel so nostalgic hearing it. I remember spending hundreds of hours playing this game on the Wii since I hadn't played many first-person shooters back then.

I've also been watching people stream Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance and I've forgotten how fantastic the soundtrack is! Here's one song that's stuck with me:

AFRONOVA PRIMEVAL by 8 bit (Naoki Maeda) from Dance Dance Revolution 5th Mix.

@RogerRoger Oh I'll have to check out the soundtrack for Legends as well then. Probably will never play the actual game, but at least I can listen to its music.

Yep, those are awesome tracks as well! MGRR as a whole is such an outstanding package. Great gameplay, great story, great music. I was watching a VTuber stream the game a while back and it was so fun getting to experience the game again as well as seeing another person's reactions to it. Here's a highlight clip that's only 10 minutes if you're interested in a trip down memory lane and some fun reactions:

It's just crazy to me how special the Metal Gear series was. People tend to downplay Kojima a lot, but he is an absolute genius. He basically created The Simpsons of video games with Metal Gear. You just don't see games like this anymore. Makes you appreciate them a lot more.

@RogerRoger You know, I also want to revisit the entire Metal Gear saga as well because of the reason you pointed out, i.e. you don't really reflect about what's being said in the moment. But when you go back, you notice the meaning behind it a lot more clearly, as well as other details. Hopefully the streamer from that clip will go through the rest of the MGS series so I don't have to do it myself because I'd rather be going through my backlog just like you. This way I get some entertainment and can revisit this series all over again. Besides, I still have MGS5 left to play through. One of these days I'll get to it!

I don't watch a lot of streamers in the traditional sense, i.e. people who film themselves on platforms like Twitch. I genuinely think people like those are so obnoxious and they irritate me to no end. But still, I do follow a few who stream on Twitch, one who used to work at the company Rooster Teeth and a couple from Dechart Games (who starred in Detroit: Become Human, for example the actor who played Connor) and they're very entertaining to watch. In fact, Dechart Games are playing through the Mass Effect series now so it's been nice revisiting those games as well.

I've been watching a lot of Vtubers in recent years and the primary reason for that is because this concept originated in Japan and Japanese people are so polite and likeable that I prefer watching them over the typical Western streamers. Not to mention that I have an interest in Japan, its culture, language and so on, so that helps as well. There are English Vtubers as well but I tend to only watch those from the same company as the Vtuber from the aforementioned clip since they're absolutely hilarious. There's another huge company that is more popular but their English Vtubers are literally the most annoying and unfunny people I've ever seen. Basically like Twitch streamers, lol.

Found this quite interesting and a good insight to how a video game soundtrack is made. From Auston Wintory who also did the score for games like Journey and The Pathless.

@RogerRoger No worries, and glad you enjoyed it! I tempted to pick it up, but not sure if is my thing, and I don't really wanna my love for the franchise to be tarnished even further. The recent films have done that enough.

@RogerRoger And there lies one of the problems, I'm not much an online gamer.

Yeah I've played Alien Isolation. Loved it. Kinda didn't know when to end, but yeah it was great.