Firelink Shrine from Dark Souls, it's so peaceful and melancholic
this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2023
188 points (92.3% liked)
Ask Lemmy
26980 readers
1245 users here now
A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions
Please don't post about US Politics. If you need to do this, try [email protected]
Rules: (interactive)
1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them
2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?
3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.
4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either [email protected] or [email protected].
NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].
5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email [email protected]. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Partnered Communities:
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
The Super Mario Galaxy duology has the best overall OST in my opinion. The orchestral music is amazing for so many of the tracks.
For any individual song, however. It would be Weight of the World from Nier Automata. For context:
spoiler
it's the very emotional song that plays during the credits scene of the game, after you complete all 5 of the main endings
EDIT: I want to give an honorable mention to the Ace Attorney OST, across all of their games. A lot of people may know the Pursuit - Cornered theme, but every game in that series has banger tracks. Not as widely praised, and very underrated imo, hence the honorable mention.
Kinda hard for me. I'm split between NieR:Automata, ultrakill and Doom 2016/Eternal
Then again, I just started Baldur's Gate 3 and the soundtrack so far is pretty bangin so this might change
I've barely played the game, it wasn't for me, but I fell instantly in love with the Bastion and Transistor soundtracks the moment I heard them.
It is my second most played game soundtrack right behind the metal songs from the Alan Wake series. Third is all 3 Hell March songs from Red Alert series. Fourth and oldest is probably Unreal Return to Na Pali and generally all of the two Unreal and four Unreal Tournament game tracks. And the Frozen Synapse series and Uplink soundtracks is probably close to the top too. And I don't know if it counts but the artist behind the Wheel of Time game soundtrack released a separate almost-soundtrack, which I played A LOT while reading the book series.
And thats just a few of my favorite tracks. I love video game music! I can't really decide on a single best one.
load more comments
(1 replies)
FFXIV
There's just way too many to list. A few of my favorite composers are
- Tim Follin
- Jochen Hippel
- Matt Furniss
- David Whittaker
- Jeroen Tel
- Yuzo Koshiro
- Rob Hubbard
Final Fantasy VI
Goldeneye on N64
some of my favourites
streets of rage 1 and 2 wave race 64 aerobiz supersonic platoon nes donkey country snes katamari damacy ps2 earthbound snes pictionary nes ristar genesis bomberman hero n64 castlevania 3 nes
Bro, you put a Super Giant game and don't mention "Build that Wall" from Bastion, tsk tsk.
load more comments
(1 replies)
The Last Of Us.
FF IX for me
Space Harrier or Outrun, for sure.
Special award for Ghost n Goblins or Commando and some others like Dragon's Lair.
Here's an obscure one.
The Batman game for NES.
That stage 1 & 2 song was like no other game music on the NES before or since.
Also, shout out to Blaster Master.
load more comments
(1 replies)
MegaMan 2 Tony Hawk franchise Halo (Bungie days)
In my opinion no video game soundtrack slaps harder than Hotline Miami 1&2 OST
Persona 5 Royal
Lots of great answers here already. To me not only is this extremely subjective, this is highly dependent on how you define "best".
Is it the one that exposed me to the most new music, and most help shape my music tastes today? Then I'm going with Tony Hawk or Guitar Hero.
Is it the best entire original soundtrack, the one that best creates the aesthetic of the game? Bastion comes to mind, but I think there are good arguments to be made for quite a few RPGs.
Is it the most technically impressive? I'm going with the original Mario soundtrack. What they did with so few possible notes and so little memory to create different sounds is nothing short of miraculous, and they are tunes and riffs that are instantly recognizable worldwide.
Is it the best individual song? Hard pick but I really adore the main theme of Skyrim to this day.
Is it just my favorite overall? I think I'd go with Earthbound.
It is ** Brütal Legend** by far!!
Always forget about this game! Also one of the best for sure
load more comments
(1 replies)
There are many great ones. Off the top of my head, each with a sample:
- Baldur's Gate 3 (recent addition)
- Return of the Obra Dinn
- Portal 2
- Deep Rock Galactic
- Doom Eternal
- Deus Ex - Human Revolution
- Ori and the Will of Wisps (haven't played it enough yet but music stood out)
(All links point to a Piped Instance, which is a privacy-friendly YouTube frontend/proxy. If you want to visit YouTube directly and tell Google what you're watching, just change the domain name)
load more comments
(1 replies)
For the whole soundtrack Shadow of the Collosus. For a specific track the one I listen to most often is Instrument of Surrender, or Off We Go Into The Wild Pale Yonder from Disco Elysium
aquatic ambiance from Donkey Kong country is up there. Also IGN made an actually cool video about it recently.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Objectively speaking the answer has gotta be something from FFXIV. But which one?? Too many candidates....
load more comments
(1 replies)
So many great answers already, but one I don't think I've seen mentioned yet is the soundtrack for Bastion
load more comments
(1 replies)
Not sure about best but the music the black mesa game did for the half life remaster was amazing.
Warhammer 40,000 Mechanicus Just embodies the Techpreist vibe so well, a near perfect hybrid of church organs and industrial music.
Its actually hard to pick a favorite track, it evenly split between Children of the Omnissiah and Noosphere.
Team Fortress 2 OST
The song from the first level of Sonic Adventure 2 (the one about escaping the city). It catchy to listen to while all of the action of Sonic unfolds.
Awesome for the Amiga