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Good game soundtracks? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by MacedWindow@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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I've been looking for some more instrumental music to listen to while working, besides putting FF and Stardew on loop.

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[–] Cringe2793@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

The persona series has some great songs

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

Lots of Elder Scrolls and Elder Scrolls Online

Lots of Metal Gear stuff

Kingdoms of Amalur

Shadow of the Colossus

Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon (badass 80s music)

Assassins Creed 3

[–] kinkles@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The Nitronic Rush soundtrack is some really awesome techno. It feels very Tron-esque at times.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 7 months ago

Any Fromsoft soulsborne game.

[–] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 3 points 7 months ago

Diablo 2, Deus Ex Human Revolution, Mass Effect 1

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Everything by Jeremy Soule. Especially Guild Wars 2 and Skyrim.

Crysis 2

Overwatch

A Hat In Time

[–] blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io 2 points 7 months ago

Total Annihilation

[–] effakcuL@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

How is there not a Single mention of celeste? It is one of the few things that can keep me focussed for hours.

[–] the_tab_key@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

VVVVVV

[–] BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Any of Marty O'Donnell's Halo soundtracks

[–] erie09@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Shadow of the Colossus OST https://youtu.be/57jIlw6HmCE?si=Lf3pXvLo7vT1DAeB

[–] blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

- little big adventure 2
- sim city 4
- starbound

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[–] tuckerm@supermeter.social 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The Dead Cells soundtrack. Especially:

[–] cRazi_man@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

You missed some great ones:

Promanade of the Condemned

Prison Rooftop

Formerly Known as Assassin

The Castle

Hand of the King

The whole soundtrack is one banger after another. The two best are Clocktower and Hand of the King.

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[–] felykiosa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

Minecraft

[–] Klanky@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Star Control 2: The Ur-Quan Masters has some great tunes.

Edit: and The Talos Principle

[–] simonced@lemmy.one 2 points 7 months ago

I would suggest "quake 2", it's rock /metal and put me in a good mood when I work. Now if you like instrumental metal, it's no game music, but I would suggest Aephenemer (their official instrumental playlist is on YouTube).

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

starfield the game is divisive to say the least, but i cant imagine anyone would talk bad about the soundtrack. inon zur's best work so far, and the death metal songs in there are fucking awesome too

[–] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

Portal 2, Minecraft, Half Life 2, Black Mesa, Team Fortress 2, Battle Block Theatre, Doom 2016, Doom Eternal,...

[–] birbs@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Offworld Trading Company. Haven't played the game but it's a great sci-fi soundtrack by Christopher Tin of Civ IV fame.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

Cloudpunk OST for a Blade Runner vibe.

[–] pushECX@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The Battlefield V soundtrack is pretty great, in my opinion.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

BF1 also has a really great soundtrack made by the same people.

[–] MelastSB@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

Civilization Beyond Earth and Battletech have marvelous soundtracks

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Spiritfarer has an excellent soundtrack, which is utterly wasted on such a mediocre game.

As an added bonus, some of the tracks on the OST are longer than you'll ever experience in game because they cut them short for some reason.

[–] B0NK3RS@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Shenmue: Orchestral Soundtrack

Neotokyo Soundtrack

Those are my favourites but I'll also put something different here too,

Jet Set Radio Live

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I know it's a little obscure, but if you like Kamen Rider and ancient games, the music from this game is awesome

[–] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Can't go wrong with pretty much any pre-Skyward Sword Zelda. SS itself also has Ballad of the Goddess, which was good, but I can't remember any other tunes from it or BOTW that aren't just reprises of tracks from previous games.

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

Stellaris. Absolutely fantastic.

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Commenting here because I tend to enjoy game soundtracks and want to look these up.

[–] DaleGribble88@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago

Rise of Nations soundtrack is fantastic sandis the only "video game music" that I semi-regularly listen to.

Especially check out "High Strung" that would always play in multiplayer whenever a player dropped a nuke on another player.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL829D6AF91A5C465E&si=yvPeVG9kuDx71mZb

[–] NOOBMASTER@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

[–] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I prefer Sci-fi background noise so Surviving Mars is my favorite. Mass Effect is ok but I find it gets a little too cinematic and bombastic at times. FTL and Into The Breach, or really anything by Ben Prunty is good too

[–] Tearcell@mastodon.gamedev.place 2 points 7 months ago

@MacedWindow Diablo 2 for sure

[–] Ashtear@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

Overall, Surviving Mars might be my favorite work soundtrack. Assorted tracks from Stellaris plus the Age of Wonders and Civilization series are also good. Something about the soundtracks in 4X games and games like them always puts me in a productive mood while not making me emotional and thus distracted like RPG soundtracks can sometimes.

Since you like FF, I'd suggest looking into Uematsu's other works as well, especially Lost Odyssey. For similar ones in the genre, there's also Yasunori Mitsuda's work in the Chrono and Xeno series.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

Wh40k: Mechanicus has some amazing music.

[–] Quazatron@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Portal / Portal 2

"Science Is Fun" is a great track, as are the end songs "Still Alive" and "I Want You Gone".

[–] ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I liked the music in La-Mulana 1&2.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

No-one has suggested Baldur's Gate 3?

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