Is there any video game music that's actually good on its own and not in the context of the game?
I don't play video games at all fyi I just want to know if there's some hidden gems. No chiptune pls.
I haven't actually played the game that this is from and I love it. So yeah, I'd say so
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ODKKILZiYY
>>64756229
Streets of Rage 2 and 3 have some fucking bangers
Inga Rasen could have been it's own techno single were it produced on something other than a Genesis soundchip
>>64756229
www.youtube.com/iBcg_Yune3U
>>64756229
the hylics ost is really neat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFUQaP7AlpA
>>64756343
I fucked up my link but you get the idea
Can be enjoyed without context:
>Super Meat Boy
>Risk of Rain
>Bastion
>Duck Game (Chiptune, but not in the way you're thinking)
>VVVVVV (chiptune)
>Crypt of the Necrodancer
You should probably have context:
>Nuclear Throne
>The Binding of Isaac (flash)
Maybe Fez?
The Static Speaks my Name has some good drone music as a soundtrack that I listen to by itself
>>64756229
FFVII
>>64756229
Doshin the Giant
>Hotline Miami 1&2
Enjoyed the music way before I played the games, both excellent
>>64757608
That's because the music already existed before the game, except a few tracks.
>>64756229
Good luck trying to find something that's
>Not orchestral
>Not chiptune
>Not EDM
>Not dadrock
Probably Spore music would do it at some points. Brian Eno helped with composition.
>>64756412
I actually don't. What is that even supposed to be
>>64756229
morrowind soundtrack and skyrim soundtrack are amazing
oblivious soundtrack is okay
>>64758456
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBcg_Yune3U
OFF ost by Alias Conrad Coldwood
Really good
Plenty of stuff from Mother 2.
>>64756229
Vagrant Story, it is a spectacular piece of art and it has one of the greatest ost ever made in videogames probably.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyNjhosvg3g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZJC4rhqnL8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOLwWSMenmY
> no one mentions Silent Hill series
>>64758298
2 had an original ost
I know it's been memed to hell, but the Undertale ost is good on it's own right, but with context becomes god-tier
>The World Ends With You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YcZDmbuZOs
>Undertale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz1bfhtKsHM
>999 and/or Virtue's Last Reward
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GLYF5O1gMY
>Jet Set Radio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V4IEV8l-gA
>Sonic Adventure 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5tzmkoesXY
>VVVVVV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25m3Gk7mRQM
>Super Hexagon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q6--7mR6xI
>OlliOlli
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ3itXwrlxU
>>64756229
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRCuIlnGpBY
>ctrl+f "understand"
>0 of 0
Learn your vidya music niggas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugo6ASPVu9g
Every Silent Hill soundtrack.
No Katamari Damacy yet? It's almost as famous as the game itself. Doesn't even sound like a game soundtrack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAA6hq9RL-4
sims ost
Pretty much anything by Nobuo Uematsu. He's the Morricone of Video Game soundtracks
>>64756285
this shit bumps
would actually play @ a party if someone did a "remix" that just added bass hits
The original Guild Wars soundtrack was pretty great. Love me some Jeremy Soule
>no Vib Ribbon
I've never played the game but it's some god-tier wonky, feel good i don't even know what to call it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8EdrcGDzow
Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura had a pretty nice string soundtrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LHLAcd14b4
>>64759001
My ninja :). Loved the whole we love katamari soundtrack as a kid and still love it to this day.
Payday
David Byrne's Fine Time Adventure
>>64759860
you heard the Distant Worlds albums?
Incredible stuff.
>>64761035
Music by New Order and Brian Eno
Following a sperg who treks on a journey of self expression and dealing with chronic paranoia
>>64756229
Metroid Prime's OST is one of my absolute favorites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6Ky2BMVWfs
>>64756448
>Nuclear Throne
my nigga
One of my favs. The game is amazing too
Anyone here listen to the UT99 soundtrack? I think it's great but I never see it mentioned. Playing bot matches with the music going in the background keeps me coming back every once in a while.
Here's the 2 most popular songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql8GWBkA7L0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmdWFQAD5ho
And my favorites
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-aM200Z7Qc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_6cZzjfjSs
The Crash Bandicoot OSTs by Mothersbaugh and the Spyro the Dragon OST by Stewart Copeland.
>>64761035
>>64761071
god fucking damn it i wish this was a real game so badly
>ywn play a game where you're david byrne getting mugged in brooklyn and shouting uh-oh
>>64758491
>Skyrim soundtrack
>Better than Oblivion
Have you listened to more than just the main themes of both?
dark souls 3 OST is good but probably not what you're looking for
Amon Tobin has done some stuff
Floex have done some stuff
There's a dark ambient guy that does Forza, don't remember who
that's all I know
>>64756229
Halo, Martin O'Donnell is a brilliant composer
Autechre are under NDA for involvement in Metroid Prime's soundtrack, so I bet that's good. they probably didn't do jack shit on it though.
Final fantasy x has a really good ost
>>64756229
The rez soundtrack is good on its own desu. I prefer the arranged versions in the actual game to the album tracks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83rh5-EeqvE
Bloodborne has a pretty good soundtrack but it's a lot of orchestral stuff, and I'm not entirely sure if it works outside the game or not and I just can't tell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RzA_Oomra8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuHzagjqOLU&list=PLKzg0DeoAjD-cGZOEspgvDGpFal8S2aS-&index=9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EISe-WdZYE&index=3&list=PLKzg0DeoAjD-cGZOEspgvDGpFal8S2aS-
>>64761316
>ywn strike up slow awkward in-game dialogue with young Adelle Lutz as Age of Consent fades in
>ywn anxiously wait in a virtual airport listening to Music for Airplanes
>ywn exchange flirty banter with Tina Weymouth while Genius of Love plays in the distance
Just fucking kill me
Sonic 2 OST, Metropolis Zone is god-tier.
>>64763641
It's great music but a lot of it is better within the context of the game because of the nature of when it's used, and how it changes within the battle.
Ludwig's theme is great, but it's one of the best video game tracks ever in the context of the boss battle.
It's kinda like MGR except the music isn't shit outside of the game.
>>64756569
Seconding Fez. Listened to the soundtrack a lot before I got the game, and it definitely can stand on its own.
>>64759001
Always post this in these types of threads. Glad I didn't have to be the one to post it this time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFeL7kTw2CU
Stage 1 of Wily's castle from Mega Man 2 will always have a special place in my heart. I want it to be transformed into the hard rock banger that it is, but few things can capture it like the NES chip can.
Nier's OST is one of the best things I have ever heard in a game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gilH6f2hHk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5xZbJDZZo4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2lwFiIaMAE
Nier is a weird game. From a gameplay perspective and a technical perspective and from most perspectives it's absolute shit but the music and atmosphere and story put it into the stratosphere
Yes.
-Mirror's Edge
-Streets of Rage (especially the Boss themes)
-Mass Effect
-Donkey Kong Country 1 and 2
-Metroid. More or less all of them, but primarily Primes.
-Alice: Madness Returns
-Bastion
-Transistor
-FTL
-Deus Ex: Human Revolution
-Bioshock
-Chrono Trigger
-Sonic 1,2,3,Knuckles, etc.
-Legend of Zelda. Though this diminished after the Gamecube when they started preferring forgettable orchestral stuff.
-Unreal 1 and all the Unreal Tournaments.
-Zeno Clash
-A few tracks from Remember Me
Probably more that isn't coming to mind. I feel like an amnesia'd husk that only thinks it knows where it is and what it's doing half the time. Feels subpar, but fine enough.
Anime is the same way. Half my music, at least, is soundtracks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB6sOhQan9Y
This. It's good enough on its own, but in the context in which the song plays... oh my friggin god
Bomberman Hero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ-DJd-57Lo
or anything by Tim Follin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypNPxwnppU0
Anything made by Andreas Waldetoft.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVz2JMnYzD0
>>64756229
Both Jet Set Radio soundtracks are liquid gold.
Donkey Kong Country trilogy
Chrono Trigger
Super Metroid (though it is much better with the atmosphere the game conveys)
Super Mario Galaxy
Catherine had great soundtrack
Shoji Meguro is pretty good he has a distinct sound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXeL4Iwh11w
>>64756229
Shadow Of Colossus has a pretty cool ost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmoYLtObCtY
A lot of SNES games have really cool music as well. F Zero especially.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4YeAdyYq4M
Journey had a great OST
was nominated for a grammy
old taito music
essential morning music
bravely default soundtrack
I like some songs on "The Neverhood" OST
>>64758372
>Probably Spore music would do it at some points. Brian Eno helped with composition.
the Spore music is actually god-tier
biology: the music
it's some of Eno's best work, if only they issued it in soundtrack form somehow
ASSASSINS CREED 2 ASSJUSNS CRED 2 ASDUISND CTEAD 2 PIC IS ME WHEN I LISTEN TO THIS SOUNDTRACK LISTEN TO THIS SOUNDTRACK
>>64757479
This a thousand times
the banjo kazooie soundtrack is incredible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS40K53JQIg
>>64756229
I always thought tf2 along with tf2c had kickass soundtracks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sLx3GPzFPM
Phantom Dust OST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4VxYpWBKzM
I don't think I ever heard this track in the game though
Super Mario RPG! Easily the most underrated videogame OST.
>>64764808
I have compiled some that I like.
Donkey Kong Country 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J67nkzoJ_2M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYOdCD4mWsk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP5Ct6ma00g
Zeno Clash:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuKMg-NCqgM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBuwRuwHUnE
Half-Life 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmh8C9toW7w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8irRSLVYgFI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsjJmvANWn8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3TCuXdMpAo
Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50agA5EPJfo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNDLoncWz30
Bioshock:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp6QpMWaKpE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEFIZh_Zscc
Streets of Rage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAXLlyt8GLs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeTe-hHoAOg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_wQZR3r43M
Alice Madness Returns:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOP26WOOMbc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIt8ti_LDkY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev0lRLhsS_E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gn8w59V_IU
Bastion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz8c17upEwM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUVTafn01h0
Chrono Trigger:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNzYIEY-CcM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZl1KZW4z_U
Mirror's Edge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_XmY09uRJ4 (Hits more with the context)
Whole soundtrack, really.
Sonic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mqmN6mw4R8
Sonic & Knuckles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNXBpzDp1K8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlV6sFcMtcA
Sonic 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cKV8SF-oSo
Sonic 3D Blast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeusABq1au4
Unreal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeydRJxaCzU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd67viF7Q54
Unreal Tournament:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLgSo90JhAQ
Unreal Tournament 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W98w4q8T-e0
Xenogears is the alpha and omega
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDslx2n7tEw
>>64766685
>tfw you really enjoyed Xenogears' story but you lost your save file and you don't remember where you left off on Disc 1 but you really don't want to slog through all the boring generic JRPG shit again
At least Nier is pretty to look at
>>64756229
FFXIII and XIII-2 have amazing OSTs
the original spyro trilogy music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4IbvdqyNcQ
it was even made by the police's drummer!
listen to that and tell me its not fucking awesome! the way it starts off all eerie and begins to build up...then BOOM rock riff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuytyUvv2pk
Might just be me, but I used to listen to the Cave Story soundtrack a lot before I ever played the game, and it was still pretty great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2tAindOZuc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SgBffK9Phg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdAzVhCof_4
I fucking love the OST to Majora's Mask, but that's probably heavily tied to my memories of the game. I wouldn't be able to rate it as a stand alone piece of music, I don't think.
>>64766685
xenogears has the most fitting music ever
>>64758744
this
>Ctrl+F
>No Ace Combat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjY6awCr2_c&index=55&list=PLB5A294C912C49005
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py9zOYngt2g&list=PLB5A294C912C49005&index=57
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llo0hfxXYEQ&list=PLB5A294C912C49005&index=77
https://youtu.be/sGQWRUOsu6A
Fav track from a game called The Getaway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUNt8E8EWrA
10/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zi5InWwr_U
>>64756229
Every MOTHER soundtrack
max payne soundtrack
heavy rain , ethan marsh theme
>>64764791
my negro
>Ctrl + F Sonic R
>not a single fucking result
holy shit /mu/ is underaged
those fucking synths man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtXrxAB6XT4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY_yZ081EkM
really love the Xenoblade soundtrack, though it's really even better in the context, but even without it it's pretty great.
Ans of course Earthbound, stating the obvious
>>64769586
Forgot about this game entirely. Playing as the velociraptor was interesting.
>>64756229
JSRF Soundtrack desu
Chrono Cross
Nier
Silent Hill 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
>>64756229
hotline miami is dope, never played it, love the tracks
I genuinely like the more chilled tracks on Far Cry 4's OST and i wish i knew of more music like it. chill, downtempo electronica mixed superficially with traditional indian/Himalayan music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL6E3u2PpOQ&index=8&list=PLu6_FOgZp3ej3tHaGyDsWYu_TPYmTn542
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=welUaSIxUC0&index=9&list=PLu6_FOgZp3ej3tHaGyDsWYu_TPYmTn542
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slq4PctrR0Q&index=10&list=PLu6_FOgZp3ej3tHaGyDsWYu_TPYmTn542
>>64756229
Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 6, Hotline Miami, Silent Hill 2, and Megaman Legends
Also if you ever want to piss off your gamer friends, shit on the Metal Gear Rising soundtrack, they discredit your taste faster than you can say "Queen sucked outside of a few singles and some lesser talked about deep cuts"
>>64756229
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYZgIM0haJA
chiptune instrumental
Sonic Unleashed, fuckin hands down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHDNWvTFIsY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uixF6EJH7WM
>still no mention of Sonic Rush
https://youtu.be/zP1DLKBiEU4
>>64756229
Nier gestalt & replacant. Amazing soundtrack to listen to
>>64759001
came here to post this
Metal Gear Solid 4
Silent Hill 2
Gran Turismo 4
Katamary Damacy
Sonic the H. 1 & 2
>>64771505
LOL
>>64773103
>Metal Gear Solid 4
Fuck you don't remind me that turd exists
>>64756448
Fez
Minecraft (anything by C418)
>>64772011
yeah man niiiiiiceeee
>thinking music engineered to be catchy or evoke your simple brain into a certain mood is worth listening to outside the videogame
There are very few actual talented videogame composers, and they are long gone since their mastery was mostly working with technical limitation
there was this woodkid song, it was good
Okami ost
Guilty Gear XX (both korean and jap)
Metal Gear Rising
Crypt of the Necrodancer
God Hand
Persona series
>>64773679
also Jet Set Radio and Future
>>64756229
Any game with music by Alexander Brandon
>>64773627
that was not originally from asscreed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcFIR6Bft9g&list=PLzjxg51LpxEHKl778z5kCsxr66NIuGkQx&index=8
>>64773103
>LOL
??
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Hyrule Field
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeceNyutg8Q
No nostalgia goggles needed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On_p0JLNIN0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMgjrJga7FI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0IWB6qEn9o
Up until Halo 4, the soundtrack has been pretty fucking good.
>>64756229
If a track in a video game isn't good on its own then it isn't good at all. Adequate at best.
>>64773580
>thinking music engineered to be catchy or evoke your simple brain into a certain mood is worth listening to outside the videogame
Many, many people listen to all kinds of video game music outside the games, regardless of your opinion on the matter.
>There are very few actual talented videogame composers, and they are long gone since their mastery was mostly working with technical limitation
Good video game music hasn't gone anywhere.
Dropsy's OST is super smooth
https://schlarb.bandcamp.com/album/dropsy
There's a song called "In the Court of the Junkyard King"
Lisa.
Patrician game. Patrician soundtrack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjFr_vW8kwc
>>64758838
I miss that beautiful period from like, last September to November when it wasn't infested by tumblr - because it's a really fun narrative, albeit boring gameplay
>fighting pacifist boss
>Hopes & Dreams / His Theme comes on
>>64756229
>7 years since I played Kingdom Hearts. Still one of my favorite OST
https://youtu.be/Y9n0qhetgDQ?t=11m20s
>>64761051
I went to one of the first Distant Worlds concerts when I was a teenager, and also saw the Black Mages at the first FFFF.
So many of these guys are absolute rockers that happened to end up in software companies.
