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I'll start off with Raiden II's Repeated Tragedy.

A local restaurant had this game, and every time we went, I'd beg my parents for money so that I could play it. I wasn't very good at the game, so I never got past the first stage, and so I heard this song a lot. Really gives me nostalgia.

Also got to shout out Streets, from Timesplitters too. I put a lot of time into this game as a kid, and this song is what got me into futurepop (love me some VNV Nation).

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[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

๐ŸŽต ๐ŸŽต

This was a triumph

I'm making a note here: Huge. Success.

It's hard to overstate my satisfactionnnnn

๐ŸŽต ๐ŸŽต

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

been listening to Repeated Tragedy, good one

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

The Whirling in Rags theme and Martinaise theme (the one with the distorted horn) from Disco Elysium.

Every boss theme from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.

About half of the character themes from Guilty Gear: Strive (and I haven't even played the game!).

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

IMO Pyre is criminally underrated. The story is leftist and emotional as fuck and it kills me that it nobody has played it. I am also a huge sucker for Ashley Barrett and Darren Korb harmonizing.

Also bonus Undertale

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

It's hard to sell nerds on magic basketball

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I never played Pyre, but the two of them have definitely done some great songs. Zulf and Zia's songs in Bastion were great.

EDIT: the scene at the end where you

spoilerSave Zulf while his song plays

brought a tear to my eye the first time through.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

I liked Pyre but I've still played it the least of Supergiant's offerings. Transistor is probably my favorite OST.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The ambient music from Mass Effect 2 that plays while you're probing for resources. I know lots of people hated that mini-game, but I found it extremely soothing and spent hours and hours doing it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The galaxy map song from that game is what got me into ambient music and changed my life for the better. It just hits my brain perfectly

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

I probably spent so much time during my formative years (and some of my adulthood) playing Age of Empires II and Age of Mythology that these were the only ones I could remember off the top of my head. Many others I can remember if I think about the game, but not as easy.

Also, Asylum Demon, Firelink Shrine, Ornstein and Smough and Gwyn Lord of Cinder from Dark Souls 1. I've probably beat that game dozens, if not hundreds of times, and have used a ton of playthroughs as background noise before going to bed.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Risk of Rain 2 menu theme, I will get this song stuck on a loop inside my head for hours at a time.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I stumbled on the OST for the unreleased Jazz Jackrabbit 3 recently, and I keep playing this track every now and again, it's such a banger. This whole subgenre from Epic Games' early efforts (and stuff those composers did for other companies) is really cool, I with there more games beyond the Unreals and Deus Ex with that style. This track from Unreal 2 is another great one

The cut Downtown theme from Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines, it's just such a vibe

Fertile Rondo from Bayonetta 3 is also just chefs-kiss, great 5th Element vibes

Brain Freeze from Yuri's Revenge, I miss the "just stick some old movie/TV quotes in" era of electronic music

This track from Descent (this particular recording off a Roland SC-55, I'm pretty sure I originally found it on youtube but it seems like that upload may have been taken down, and a lot of the other ones I could find don't sound as good)

The whole Neotokyo soundtrack really, just an absolute masterpiece composed for a free mod for some reason. Some standouts: Beacon, Imbrium, Tachi, I just absolutely love the combination of more electronic sounds with strings and piano in a lot of these.

On the more ambient side of things, STALKER has some great ones, Call of Pripyat especially, like the Pripyat theme

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

FTL: Faster Than Light

MechWarrior 2

Total Annihilation

Hotline Miami

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

FTL soundtrack is great

A friend of mine plays video games on speakers and has the Hotline Miami soundtrack playing in the background of all games, so whenever he mics in, I hear that playing in the background

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Lots of songs from the Zelda games. Gerudo Valley and Lost Woods from Ocarina of Time come to mind.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Terraria. Just the normal daytime outside theme. I can perfectly hear it in my mind.

https://youtu.be/x23I8f9PwlI

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

On Christmas Day of 1999, I was gifted a copy of Homeworld. A few days later I was treated to a very groovy credits track by Yes, a band I had never heard of... but now wanted to hear more of. So I decided to give this new thing called Napster a try, and my first search was Homeworld Yes. The rest is history - in a real sense, I discovered music that day.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I listen to a lot of game soundtracks at work. Atm, this song is stuck in my head because so many YouTubers/streamers play it: Steam Gardens - Super Mario Odyssey

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Okay, the songs that are belovedly burned into my brain are coming from FF7 Original, Disco Elysium, Civ 4, and so on. They're great songs from great games.

But this is permanently burned into my brain because it's just so fucking weird.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

novalis theme from ratchet and clank and pretty much all of sim city 4, but shout out to rush hour

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

The Mario Galaxy beach music

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

Mickey Rourke's voice lines in the atrociously bad game Rogue Warrior, spliced by the Devs into a rap for the end credits: https://youtu.be/OVoyGUcXepc I would do it for karaoke if anywhere had it as a track.

GoldenEye pause music. Press pause, Bond flicks his wrist to look at his watch. This plays: https://youtu.be/qoWCB8AUiP4 Insanely hard beat.

Bonus mention to Zerg Free Radio in Starcraft, a parody of Radio Free propaganda channels: https://youtu.be/o7XV9fRAhu0

BF2's MEC (Middle East) theme goes pretty hard: https://youtu.be/S0aXAm0jqd0

Battlefield Play4Free's loading theme: https://youtu.be/5lcQntE4JuY

DOTA 2 had some bangers. Patches The Pirate theme from Hearthstone (the WoW pirate theme). Really I could go on for days.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

oooh for me it's gonna have to be dark hollow from spyro the dragon!

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

obligatory Skyrim soundtrack mention

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

THERE ONCE WAS A HERO NAMED RAGNAR THE RED WHO CAME RIDING TO WHITERUN FROM OLD RORIKSTEAD...

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

this is both cruel and unusual

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (3 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Gotta follow my rainbow

Honestly Sonic Adventure 2 had some bangers. Live and Learn, That's the way I like it, all the Knuckles raps, classic

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Street Fighter 3 Third Strike - Character Select theme I don't have nostalgia since I don't really play it, but it's probably one of my fav character select theme for some reason

C&C Tiberian Sun - Lone Trooper All C&C games have bangers but I particularly like the Tiberian Sun soundtrack

Guilty Gear Strive - Requiem [I-No's theme] I just love the character and I just wished they added her boss theme from the Korean OST of GGXX

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Shit I'm too late to the party, but Banjo Tooie soundtrack runs through my mind constantly. Glitter Gulch Mine was my shit you ever heard a donkey used as an instrument? Well now you have

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I never felt like

So miserable

I never felt like thinking this would last forever

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The super mario 2 song because of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv6RbEOlqRo

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