Best Video Game music

[Manny V]

Love me nostalgiabait

► The original themes

And they even use the majestic Tri victory music first time you beat him:

[Classix]

Played the **** out of this. Mario cart? what's that? huh???



Log in. BIS. Mmm hmm.



Owned this, one of the first GB games I had with Zelda: Links Awakening. This is what the GB was capable of for music. Fuckin beautiful.

This Gameboy game was my FIRST of audio bliss for boss/battle music. I can confidently say this is probably where it all started for 'hype' tracks for me.


...who's next....


!!!!!

[Manny V]

kino

[Manny V]

Monster Hunter will always be the GOAT for video game music to me

► Tri

Main theme

Town themes



Battle themes














Victory theme

► World

Main themes


Town theme (Seliana is good, Astera was meh)

Battle themes







(Vaal Hazak's chase theme is also baller enough to include)

















(Tri's version was better, and wasn't a cringe fight, but i'll include it anyway)




Victory themes

► Wilds

Main theme

Town themes






Battle themes













Victory themes

Phew, that's a lot

Should i have just posted a playlist? Probably. But i wanted to cherry-pick themes

[Tweed]

[Tweed]

This Gameboy game was my FIRST of audio bliss for boss/battle music. I can confidently say this is probably where it all started for 'hype' tracks for me.


...who's next....


!!!!!

You post Belmont's Revenge and completely skip on 4-bit J.S. Bach?

[Classix]

This Gameboy game was my FIRST of audio bliss for boss/battle music. I can confidently say this is probably where it all started for 'hype' tracks for me.


...who's next....


!!!!!

You post Belmont's Revenge and completely skip on 4-bit J.S. Bach?

I know man, it's a beauty track. It stands out from the rest on it's own that feels different from the rest of the stages and especially the boss stage music. It's the only music that has the 'human' aspect 'sound' to it that sets it apart from the stage music and bosses you face, I just never appreciated it as a kid ( hype track wise ) as I preferred the track leading up to him:

[Kalarion]

Final Fantasy Legend 2: Save the World

[Tweed]

Paper Sorcerer had some bangers:

► Show Spoiler

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[Tweed]

The theme that plays in my head whenever I'm trying to do something sneaky.

[DrSneed]

This is all you hear for HOURS in this game

[J-12]

[Tweed]

This is all you hear for HOURS in this game

I think the NES version had the better last boss theme, even if it was a stupid computer instead of the mech.

[swbgtoc]

The picture is from the Green Dragonshrine in Dragonblight but ironically that music doesn't trigger there, it triggers in Sholazar Basin and in the Red Dragonshrine.

Also it's very similar to the DQIX Observatory Theme:

[Tweed]

Japanese and Euro Mega CD:

You're going to have so much F U N!!

American Sega CD:

You're going to have the kind of fun that other kids can only dream of!

American Sega CD 2.0:

Fun? Who cares about crap like that? You're the cool kid with rich parents and all your friends are envious sub-humanoids. Now load up that FMV game you already have memorized and play it again!

[Tweed]

When enemies are so annoying and dangerous that they need their own theme to warn you when they're nearby.

[Tweed]

[CornCake]

The riff in Hunting is absolute class. Never gets old.

[Tweed]

Imagine it's only a matter of time before Atlus remasters DDS.

[MrTwinkls]

Sometimes I suddenly recall that EA used to write good original OSTs for their games instead of just using licensed tracks or some dynamic sound slop.

[Tweed]

[Tweed]

Heard this from a romhack of F-Zero called F-Zero Hybrid that merges a lot of tracks into larger ones. Thought it sounded nice and luckily for me the romhack had the pcms outside of the actual rom file. All I had to do was convert it to wav, make a cozy loop in Vegas, and then...

[Tweed]

Spoopy game, not so spoopy music, but David Wise is spoopy gud at what he does.

[GhostShiroyama]

[Finarfin]

[Kolgrim]

One of my favorite themes of all time. I hear it every time I see art for the game.

[Reichspepe]

One of my favorite themes of all time. I hear it every time I see art for the game.

Soul

[Finarfin]

[CornCake]

Everyone knows that Dark Souls has great music, but FromSoft was always brilliant when it came to the OST. If you have yet to play Armored Core, do it for the soundtrack alone.

[Breathe]

I was listening to Look Outside’s soundtrack and it’s pretty cool so far.




Also I’ve been listening to Parasite Eve’s ost lately.