The Video Game Music Thread

[Valestein]

 

[catfood]

 

[Valestein]

 

[Valestein]

 

[Ivan]

PLATINUM does it again

 

[United Nations]

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver was and still is the best videogame ever made.

Here's the main theme:



The whole STALKER series I like too:

 

[Great Deceiver]

And now for something a little different.

On a whim, I looked up "Video Game Music Quiz" on YouTube and found a bunch of videos which all seem to be Nintendo/console circlejerks.

Eventually I did find the one I'm linking below. 60 music tracks, each track being given 30 seconds. Try to guess as many as possible, you get 1 point for a fully correct answer, and half a point for the right game series/franchise.


Pros? A decent balance between PC and console tracks.

Cons? A clear Finnish bias, as at least three tracks come from Finnish games (of which two I had never heard of) as well as there being at least one game with a Finnish composer. The tracks also gravitate heavily towards the 1990s, so keep that in mind.

Anyway, I scored 30/60, see how well you do.

Believe it or not, I got the exact same score. 30/60 but I fucked up, I should have gotten the

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Chrono Trigger

point, I was playing that yesterday! Was fun, thanks for the link. I think the most fun was reading my notes after I took the test, I wrote down silly stuff for the games I didn't know or didn't remember like "amiga something crazy euros" or "pc game strategy prob turn based"

 

[Dr Skeleton]

Rayman Origins

 

[catfood]

And just plain old Rayman:

 

[MediantSamuel]

Played a bit more of Shadowrun: Hong Kong following the recent update, man I love this track.

 

[Valestein]

 

[e-mailio estevez]

 

[Hiisi]

Evergrace's OST is quite weird and amazing:

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[Valestein]

 

[Axe Father]

My favourite pinball game is Necronomicon on the Sega Saturn. It has a high energy metal soundtrack that really ups the adrenaline and draws you into the action of smacking tiny metal balls with plastic flippers. John Petrucci of Dream Theater did nice opening and epilogue tracks, but the ingame music doesn't slouch either:

 

[Sjukob]

 

[dunno lah]

YT Comment from Alex Brandon: Alianger, it IS heavily influenced by Thunder Force 3. While not a straight rip of course (the melodic composition and chorus are different) it's essentially a remix of that tune using very similar instrumentation.

 

[The Fish]

Some tracks from Seiken Densetsu 3 are good

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Axelay:



I couldn't find f-zero: mute city in this thread.



or earthbound oddly enough. I assume it's here but whatever.

 

[CryptRat]

Blackwell 2 has an awesome jazzy atmosphere.

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[CryptRat]

Dropsy's soundtrack is great too.

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[Eirikur]

This music from The Witcher 3...



... sounds very much like this one from The Witcher 1.



Both are extremely atmospheric.

 

[warpig]

The music from Witcher 1 and 3 is really good imo. Especially Twitcher 1.

 

[e-mailio estevez]

 

[Astral Rag]

 

[Sjukob]