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Dear patient lemmings, I am in need of your help. I'm searching for games that have some GOD DAAMN OSTs and come with a great story or/and gameplay.
Games that tick these requirements for me:
Xenoblade 1
Xenoblade X
Xenoblade 2
Xenoblade 3
A couple I don't see listed:
The Surviving Mars OST is spectacular, though the gameplay is just good.
Already played it. I really love how they named the songs from one of the elements.
Cyberpunk Bartender Action Va11-Ha11-A The Binding Of Isaac Antibirth Ridge Racer 2 (PSP)
Caveats with hollow Knight story: you won't know a lot about the story until you watch mossbag videos after getting to one of the endings.
Caveats with genshin gameplay: only the exploration and some quests are good. All other gameplay should be ignored (or doused with fire). The exploration is actually one of the best open world exploration I've played, and I've played Witcher 3, botw, AC: black flag, arkham series, and more.
Caveats with genshin story (context: currently on version 4.0+):
similar to genshin: Honkai
the music specifically in the animated shorts is so good
Definitely gonna try Hades, since 2 people already mentioned it prior to you. Actually I'm a sorta genshin regular, and the OST is an absolute masterpiece. Dragonspine is probably my fav. Which region is your fav in terms of OST?
Sumeru, tho I haven't played much Fontaine yet.
Can't argue with that. In some way it reminds me when I started genshin initially with Monstadt's soothing ost.
Undertale in case you haven't played it yet... you've played it, right?
zero escape. going in blind is a must. at least 999 had really banger music and nice puzzles and story. 999 also had its story made for the 3DS, so it's best if you play it on a DS emulator. it's also similar to danganronpa at least stylistically, and makoto has a zero escape logo on his hoodie
bloons td maybe. the music might not be that good but they're still bangers
Loop Hero
For those who are already LoZ fans, Cadence of Hyrule will get your toes tapping for sure.
I love the soundtrack of The Talos Principle
Final Fantasy XIV has a diverse soundtrack and a terrific story, but it is a huge time commitment. The story starts off pretty slow and takes a long time to build up.
A few boss fight themes as examples:
Yeah I've tried FFXIV but it seems MMORPGs aren't made for me. Thank you for the fight themes tho! "Beauty's Wicked Wiles" kinda makes me hyped and chilled at the same time.
It very much depends on your taste in music, but Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice OST is absolutely amazing, especially considering it's all original scores (I think). After beating the game I put the OST on repeat for several days
I've heard some great reviews about it's story. Did you like it?
A lot: amazing environments and scenery, cool combat with great enemy boss designs, very immersive exploration and the actress did an awesome job throughout it. The "puzzles" bits were a little pain to beat, but everything else was top notch; story was also very cool and made me feel the burden Senua's carrying.
Definitely recommended!
Library of Ruina went nuts with its osts
One time they even patched the game just to buff a boss's music, not even the boss itself
I have absolutely jammed to the original Unreal Tournament (UT’99) soundtrack on my commute.
Incredibile Crisis, on PS1.
Admittedly the story is a bit thin… the game play is purposefully enraging… but it gets a big ol’double check mark on the OST requirement thanks to the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra.
On a totally different note and tone, Last of Us. I dig anything Gustavo Santaolalla.
Bionic commando remake
All of the doom remakes
Timberborn
For honor
Jet set radio future
I absolutely loved Pokemon USUM‘s OST and was heartbroken when I found out the OST release was just like 1 minute long tracks that you couldn‘t easily loop (obviously it looped infinitely ingame)
Sonic games usually have great music but Sonic Mania in particular is full of bangers, highly recommend it.
Undertale's soundtrack has been memed to death but it's honestly really good.
If you're still in the mood for visual novels the Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney games have some incredible soundtracks too.
Also, for something slower, I must give a shout out to The Sims 1. It's suave as hell and very, very catchy.
Honestly can't argue. Undertale's OST is really great, even though it's been memed a lot.
I don't see this mentioned enough, but persona 5 (specifically recommend persona 5 Royal) has a really great OST. As you play the game you unlock better versions of the same tracks, including vocals. It's actually really jazzy, and quite catchy! The wife and i will jam to the vocal tracks on road trips.
The game is also very good, with an interesting story! It's kinda weird in a fun way! It's like.. a pokemon-esque turn based jrpg with some like real world maintenance aspects (relationships, work a job, go to school), with great music
Yeah I really loved Persona 5. It really stands out as an unique an catchy game.
The Elder Scrolls series if you haven't played already, battlefield 1, Terraria, Cave Story, The Ori series