Your favorite OST for a game and recommendations

[MeChaNiZ3D]

I think I've seen this thread before in some form or other.

Spoiler: Monster Hunter

Spoiler: Armored Core (the whole series pretty much, this is just 3 at random from my long list)

And a few others, but those are the main ones. I tend to like those sort of uplifting empowering types.

 

[gravian]

The Final Fantasy games have some really good ones, I feel. Dancing Mad in FFVI and Memoria in FFIX are a couple which give great atmosphere and characterisation.

I also searched through Youtube a few weeks ago for some old Spyro the Dragon music for a nostalgia trip and was blown away by the standard of music for a child's video game way back then. I think each level was given its own individual track distinct from others (in the PAL version at least) that suits the environment while staying varied and catchy. Some of its nostalgia, probably, but the sound for the game is definitely one of its best parts. Don't know how to paste a link in, but try searching for Icy Cavern or Haunted Towers for some good examples.

 

[an annoyed writer]

Bastion, Halo, Cave Story, Zelda, Persona, Dark Souls all deserve honorable mentions but the winner for me will always be Neotokyo* the Source mod. Every single track from that mod is a fucking masterpiece.

Spoiler

Oh godf. Everything on that soundtrack is absolutely sublime. I mean WOW. Thank you so much. While I'd heard of the mod through the folks over at facepunch I'd never known about the brilliance of the soundtrack.

 

[WhiteFangofWhoa]

All of the Mega Man Zero games had good albums, particularly 3 and 4. I really love the Demon's Crest OST, but much like the game itself it's not for everyone:

Spoiler: Not for haters of Gothic

 

[Bealzibob]

SNIP

Oh godf. Everything on that soundtrack is absolutely sublime. I mean WOW. Thank you so much. While I'd heard of the mod through the folks over at facepunch I'd never known about the brilliance of the soundtrack.

No problem. First heard Departure on these forums and that's how I fell in love with the Ost. I consider it my civic duty to spread it in every one of these threads that I see. ;D

 

[The Madman]

Another game I'd like to bring forward is HoMM 4. The game might not have been the best in the series, but the music probably was

Wow, really digging those HoMM themes. That's some really great stuff. [...]

You might also want to try HoMM 2. Has a low production quality due to limitations at the time - but it has opera singers instead

Spoiler: HoMM2 - Castle Town

Spoiler: HoMM2 - Barbarian Town

Also, there's this handy playlist [http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB1DA969E8C03AD7B&feature=plcp] of all the all the HoMM town-themes on youtube. I've got that one bookmarked

Since I'am at it, my personal favourite from HoMM4:

Spoiler

You're all talking HoMM music and no ones even mentioned 5's haven theme yet? Tisk tisk. 5 Might not have been the best of the series, but the soundtrack was excellent!


The main title theme was also spectacular. Seriously, first time I booted the game up I just sat there gawping like an idiot till the music was done. Probably one of the best 'title' screen out there too for what it's worth.

Spoiler: title screen and music in question

 

[ArdoNorrin]

The game was pretty terrible, if I remember correctly, but the soundtrack for Advent Rising is absolutely amazing.

Spoiler: Some samples

 

[Yggdraz0r]

Not a single mention of either Metroid Prime or Baten Kaits: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean?
I'd pay a silly amount of cash to anyone that can get me a CD of the latter. :x

Spoiler: Metroid Prime: Overworld Theme

Spoiler: Baten Kaitos, one of many:

The latter game had some silly hard bosses :x. That, and some luck really decided your battles :x. But that combat <3.

 

[lunavixen]

The Final Fantasy series, Bastion, Beyond Good and Evil and Kingdom Hearts are all my favourites, I didn't mind Bayonetta's soundtrack either.

 

[Black Reaper]

Since you mention it in a later post, my vote is spoken for.

Daisuke Ishiwatari, the mastermind behind the Guilty Gear soundtracks. The best soundtrack out there.

Suck A Sage, Awe of She, The Midnight Carnival, Meet Again, Writhe in Pain, Still in the Dark, Existence, Nothing Out of the Ordinary, In The Arms of Death, Irony of Chaste

All of them are amazing. Even the lesser ones are still good.

I agree with this post,,Daisuke Ishiwatari is fucking awesome,and i buy any game he makes just for the soundtrack,Games like:
Hard Corps Uprising

Spoiler: Stage 5 Capital laboratory theme

and Blazblue

Spoiler: Relius's theme

Also,i would add

Spoiler: Love Letter From...

Spoiler: Diva

and

Spoiler: The Man,That Man's theme

To the Guilty Gear list

 

[IckleMissMayhem]

Final Fantasy VIII, IX, X, X-2, XIII and XIII-2, all cracking OSTs! Also Kingdom Hearts, Mass Effect and the AC2 quadrilogy.

 

[Xaio30]

Assassins Creed 2
Final Fantasy IX
Chrono Trigger
Bastion
Braid

There are my absolute favorites, in no particular order.

 

[Zantos]

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Good choices, very good ones, but the best song on the whole soundtrack is "What's Left Undone"

Spoiler: Bastion

Erm. Aside from Bastion, Timesplitters was pretty good. Yeah, they don't make em like that any more

Spoiler: Wild West

There are plenty more, Red Dead Redemption especially, but those are the 2 I've played most recently.

Oh, oh, before I forget, Giana Sisters - Twisted Dreams. I like the dark/punk tracks.

Spoiler: Giana Sisters

 

[cojo965]

As always in these threads: Anything Dynamedion does! Particularly Paraworld.

Great sound to that track, though not enough games feature dnosaurs any more.

Dark souls has this amazing song I cannot stop listening to. >>

Nah I think Nameless Song tops it:


My vote goes to Dragon's Dogma:

 

[Moth_Monk]

This.

 

[Mortier]

SNIP

Oh, you failed to mention this?!:
Sort of low quality but it does wonders to show the genius behind the HoMM soundtracks; that man is a legend as far as I'm concerned making such music (and if you go to the youtube video itself, you can see all the music performed in the description).
I really have no words for the music; I have no favourites, 'cos they're all amazing really ^^.

Other than being a complete sucker for HoMMM 2-5 (Heroes of Might and Magic and Music), I thoroughly enjoy music from the Elder Scrolls series, Journey, Shadow of the Colossus and others I'm likely forgetting right now.

Probably most notably:

Spoiler: Skyrim

Spoiler: Journey

Spoiler: Shadow of the Colossus

 

[RedDeadFred]

I mentioned the Mass Effect series earlier in the thread but I'll add another piece of music from it that isn't as well known because not everyone who played ME2 bought Lair of the Shadow Broker.
The music in the final boss fight made everything so much more awesome.