s&d: OSTs

s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KzG4PRHXGw&feature=related

s: mass effect & perfect dark too

blazblue has some stones throw dudes remixes of the player themes

Bioshock
Katamari
Plants vs. Zombies will be getting a P+J vote from me this year

psychonauts is dope too

p vs z - lol had that zombie in on your lawn stuck in my head for weeeeeeks

Earthbound OST kind of fucks up my last.fm listen ratio, one of my 'most listened artists' bcz the songs are all 15 seconds long.

s: jet grind radio

Should we limit this to the last decade? Because otherwise I'll probably just name a bunch of NES games.

This is a pretty difficult thing to do these days, though, since if something's "cult" it basically means EVERYONE loves it due to the internet saying they shuold. Like BG&E would be a great example if it didn't gain traction from EVERY PERSON ON THE INTERNET basically saying "best ps2 game" all the time or whatever.

What's a good comparison to "cult" in this context? Like for example I've heard people call Oldboy a cult film, and yet virtually everyone I speak to about movies around my age has seen it and loves it.

or like Rocky Horror Picture Show gets called a "cult" movie all the time, since people seem to like it well enough but a particular subset of the population BREATHES it (at least one night a year, anyway). I suppose Earthbound is the Rocky Horror Picture Show of games.

i think you posted that on the wrong thread maybe?

haha yeah i was thoroughly confused too

yeah, wow, i saw that "limit to the last decade" thing and I was like "why look at the title? clearly this is the modern cult games thread, or else they wouldn't say past 10 years!"

WELL FOR THIS THREAD it is absolutely vital to mention Angelo Badalamenti's score for Fahrenheit-- far and away (imo) the best non-chippy OST, OAT. for me it honestly ranks almost as well, if not as well, as his work on Twin Peaks (and I can't think of anything else he ever did that good).

OST means we can't bring up Wipeout, right

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz5zgLj03Ic

nothing can beat resi safe room music for melancholy ambient goodness

and i know this is slightly off topic but this is my shit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CMvMM8VIKA

(and I can't think of anything else he ever did that good)

Blue Velvet

ps4's music is a total nostalgia rush for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3OtHdipac4

i dunno whether it's actively 'good' or wut tho

done by same guy who did streets of rage iirc

the two or three vocal themes from persona 4 made me grin intensely the first two or three dozen times i heard them, but i really wished they switched it up a little before the endgame

listening to it kind of weird now i have a bit more of an idea about the sort of musical / technical choice-making required. almost makes me want to find out what kind of control you had with the megadrive sequencer, but not enough to actually start to get into chiptunes

it is kind of interesting the way the chip music deals with aesthetic limitations - 9 out of 10 videogames nowadays would go "oh shit someone died, break out the strings" where psiv has this theme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61IAHniwWWw&feature=related

which was kind of a rare moment where i felt conscious of the aesthetic impact of the music as a kid - def. felt very odd going onto the world-explory theme after that

nothing can beat resi safe room music for melancholy ambient goodness

― michael jatas (r1o natsume), Tuesday, July 7, 2009 4:10 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm

sounds like the monged out bits of jam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEcNTGA5kEk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53aDI5K49F4

haha dj paul & juicy j should sample the resi 2 safe room theme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Dt3QWsJ0Bs

s:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Koji_kondo.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WaAtTDSqMc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jDbBhks7F0

all time fave vid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZC_L2yZtdQ

this shit sounds like coil

again, nothing is better than katamari damacy 1 and 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwn-9IiO3MM

wayyyyyy better than the soundtrack to a sunsoft nes game had any right to be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGRHSyVUbZ4&feature=related

Yeah, all of Koji Kondo's stuff is on point. Back in the day everybody in my circle (that is, nerds) used to trade heavily in Final Fantasy MIDIs. Then when bandwith scaled, the actual OSTs. Kinda funny how "One Winged Angel" has achieved such prominence outside of gamer circles.

I used to have the Zelda: OoT OST on mp3. Also not ashamed to admit I have a bootlegged copy of the Soul Calibur OST from eBay (thought I was getting the real thing for $7.99).

d: the excruciating acid jazz version of the chrono trigger soundtrack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp0zjJJ0Pf8

cool eggs though

awww, i like some of the takes on that one

100% agree with RE4 save room tune and ALL of vib-ribbon and Mass Effect and the Plants vs Zombies song...but I'm here to rep for my all time favourite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx6nOkdeNKs

You could even remix it yourself by moving around the level - jump into the water to get the string pads to join in, go into the underwater cave to start the drums, etc etc. I've spent many happy hours doing that.

The Zelda one at the start of the thread mostly makes me think of Monkey Island. Mind you, so does Ghost Town

So we're just talking scores, then, not licensed soundtracks? Because if not, FALLOUT 3 all the way. Hackin' and wackin' and smackin' that meat!

I honestly can't think of that many scores that really stuck with me, though- maybe the Valve logo theme (the moment In Half-Life 2 where you finally get the HEV suit back and hear the full-length version of the tune is one of my favorite audio moments in any game).

The dead space score is interesting to read up on how they did it. You can buy the soundtrack from EA. but if you ever want to listen to it more than once outside the game, you need to get your self seen to by a professional.

reppin' the Fahrenheit (indigo Prophecy) soundtrack as one that works like a film score not as a series of action cues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PIijGwV5JY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx6nOkdeNKs

tht donkey kong track is something else

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahHBtn71EsE&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPkhhLC1tf8

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bass is sick on this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd1njB6SQok&feature=PlayList&p=4F75052FB06346BB&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=13

this is a masterpiece imo:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPH9bT2Agc0

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM8qhyxwIQo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mqmN6mw4R8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekAIelXtIis

^^^^ love this retarded fucking song

been playing this a lot recently, and love it when the boss music kicks in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoeFEkKSOpo

s: killer7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xi-CxR-a2o

That pokemon viridan forest is fantastic.

"Rave On" really sounds like a merely generic house song, but in the context of the game it's fucking amazing, with that corridor... in fact the music and sound design for that whole game is incredibly unique and well done, if not very catchy or listenable outside of it.

Also goddamn "Indestructable", it's the worst SF song since I'MAHTAKE YOU FOR RIIIYIDE

But Nhex, the falsetto in "all my liife it's my DEEESTINY!"

yeah, otm re: rave on but offtm re: indestructible! <3 tht jam so much

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU53zK47q9A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfsSziHExV0

this is such good times music...no joke but if I had to live in a video game universe it would probably be Wave Race 64's

the entire pokemon red/blue ost is just so good. i've had most of those tunes floating around my head since i was 12, and i can't ever imagine forgetting any of them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWalGTCLECk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGVg_nsYktQ

sounds like music for the masses-era depeche mode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-kKtS44LB8&NR=1

man my tv back then didn't do this amazing bassline justice

i'll take the 16-bit midi metal-pop any day over the later scores

i dunno, i much prefer the gothic choirs and industrial percussion of the ffvii score. seems kinda unique for its time, whereas symphonic rock scores were 10 a penny on the snes

also whatever string pad nobuo uematsu was using is luuuuuuuush

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjwKe6wEpog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPmXaiSVvAk&feature=related