I am really getting into videogame OSTs lately. The limitation to what they had to work with creates pure soul. They have to make the best out of their limited tools.

love the castlevania osts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqyoTvZ5cOE

I am obsessed with the Nier soundtracks.

I love them. If I could marry an album, it'd be these.

you should look into nobooboo weematsu
I'll post some lesser known old vidya stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY98LiI3Gp8&list=RDxY98LiI3Gp8&start_radio=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdWIsqWL5wk&list=RDEdWIsqWL5wk&start_radio=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdZOdq_yOoA&list=RDXdZOdq_yOoA&start_radio=1

this right here is the best video game soundtrack I've ever heard in my life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIma45whqjc&list=RDBIma45whqjc&start_radio=1

>>127149427 (OP)
>creates pure soul.
Meaningless term.

Aw yesss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UImoQhzaOJk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysPtBjY8o_A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71vm5yd1jqI

i'm so glad i discovered brahms and schumann in high school before anime and video games. it would have permanently ruined my musical worldview and turned me into a larping retard.

>>127149659
you're talking to a hormonal teenager, don't be surprised

>>127151212
chat, what did anon mean by this post?

>>127151281

>>127149650
Came here to post Chrono Cross.
Yasunori Mitsuda worked wonders on this soundtrack. Despite being programmed completely with the PS1 soundchip and using no samples, the sound is incredibly lush. That's not to mention the distinct world music/Celtic flair much of the soundtrack has that makes it standout to this day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jei7rZKPDDY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XJ0GZa5hzo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeDKEh5U5tw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUpXIuN1ztU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJUt0vAzj6Q

As an aside--I'm usually not a big fan of this sort of thing, but Yasunori Mitsuda put together a reunion tour concert for the soundtrack in 2019 and it's absolutely killer. Nails the original's unique sound while adding a bit of prog-rock virtuosity and expanding on certain weaker tracks.
Here's the rendition of Dragon God + the complete playlist. Highly recommend you give a few tracks a listen, anon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9fkiAFnleg&list=OLAK5uy_m1l8YLhkosWsfkpV35tPk3iurXGK_8O5c&index=26

>>127151422
>Despite being programmed completely with the PS1 soundchip
really? I thought some of it was live because I thought I could hear the sound of fingers sliding during some of the acoustic pieces
impressive either way

>>127151449
The absolute madman added the finger-sliding sounds deliberately to make it sound more authentic.
I can't find a source on this so I may be misquoting but I'm fairly certain I read as much--Because that was my first question as well.

>>127149427 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZxDejNkLTI is the best video game song ever (the first half, anyway, which is actually in the game; the second half is not). I especially appreciate the use of erhu in a western-style orchestral piece.
This entire game has banger-ass music, especially for 1994.

>>127149427 (OP)
For me it's my nigga Martin Stig Andersen, his brilliant mix between ambient and noise has no peers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jIhee4Lnq0
The OST and the game sounds intermixing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxYx4ZO3ue8
Dude made the music for Control as well, which was really good, but Limbo/Inside are his magna opera
>>127151422
Chrono Trigger and Secret of Mana were all-time classics. I probably should emulate CCross?

>>127151790
Full soundtrack.
Forgot to link it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzzohr77bVk

>>127151823
Oh shit. It includes the beeps and boops songs too, lmao. I thought it would just play the orchestral pieces like in the American version. The beeps and boops are mostly avoidable so I forget they exist. Here's the actual in game soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hcm3cLPIxc

>>127151212
>turned me into a larping retard.
Classicalfags truly lack self-awareness

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HxtIpqTjzOQ
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tMrkUOHGsII

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAZNr1_ov2s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhreN5xyjkA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZfzyxqVdGI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3yF5HXG9OY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9d7n_RkDH0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8AlVcEvLEE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3kmSJ8obuM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmkun6Bg96Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cq-h677Zt4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsy7M4HNcy8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na0kklT7N4A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWh9l8RSkPk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85JLNFc4eT4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoWU28L_ZmQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxSko6vvWGc

for noobs who dont know how good video game music can be

>>127149458
You have no idea how angry I was when I learned THIS was the way it was supposed to sound the whole fucking time, yet in the US we got the stripped down, pussy, 2 osc and a noise channel version because they wanted to cut costs. This might be the heaviest fucking NES OST ever in its complete state.

Chakan: The Forever Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xd2zqHfTZs

>>127149427 (OP)
>Nobody has posted Hylics 2
https://youtu.be/bevahaYrec8?si=mCreKIsZ2uh8v3eE

>>127153187
https://youtu.be/Gcfm1PGX_gg?si=YiEh939O8jmpXZji

>>127149427 (OP)
>>127149458
>>127149680
>>127152250
>>127153187
>>127153269
Based

>>127153312
https://youtu.be/XkA95Gmpg0k?si=WlT7rXL6J_b9Sjoq

https://youtu.be/2aPSLqJ341g?si=985lewzT2PTns7ja

>>127149427 (OP)

Nothing like the classic Sega sound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcJa1oJ7txo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezLfbwt-Tno
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaO2xJEJBqg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hjTdQyhml4

If you haven't listened to this the whole way through in a while, you owe it to yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15NfezuqHRs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Itz7hBabQ70
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmkRj9P35JM

Bloodborne is the best Soulsbourne OST hands down:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STEZL2rzvLo

>>127154627
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaUq8QiIb-U This track almost made me quit the game. Soothing Hymn my fucking ass

>>127149427 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tuk1xtlV77c

>>127149427 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtsUjZEQNqU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sfVo3sfRjs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRenPK7ZnEs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs-WS1l5Lhw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcoLNTG1tTo

>>127152250
some more good ones, more "video gamey" centric now though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es0hQCceeHw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZEpGtePF4M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67TkzPeenMQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq7w4RTDF48
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI3bI0hvl-U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfsNt5oZrqw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cKy5Qk0QMM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo7ZU679tBw

last 2 are a bit different, one is a remix, one is an actual rap but technically still from a game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQwKlR8jaN4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19Yz42vIZmU

Great recordings directly from a SNES on this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xKzGFezAqQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtQD5pkFTjY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTuSy1xl4Wc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb54CeOR-cM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GibS34vGiQ

>>127149427 (OP)
A collection of the greatest tracks (170+) of videogame music ever made in terms of compositional quality and originality.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1ATGs6yBikUpW41yEaPfSe3VdkoPYTb3&si=hRQQFahM4QFGgscz

>>127149659
>>127151280
Sounds like you're soulless if you think that is meaningless

>>127151925
No actually, he is pretty self aware. Look at this thread, bunch of mental children pretending children's toys are some sort of art rofl

>>127155473
Very good selection

>>127149427 (OP)
>E N T E R
https://youtu.be/1UW9FP_MEWM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHtZM2370Eg
Dude's been making excellent music on his own as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX_jeZE1qMQ

>>127155636
>still with the lack of self-awareness

>>127149427 (OP)
>Finnish space rock and autism intensifying
https://youtu.be/MoHI3A4v_Ag

>>127157037
Stating the truth isn't a larp, as much as you'd like it to be. fag

>>127155585
Go study for math class Timmy, you can listen to your action figure soundtracks when you're done

>>127149427 (OP)
>today I will remind them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGf-4dNriBo

https://youtu.be/bBpuQ_9Cp2c?si=_BabVGB67j5QD7PD

>>127154736
These guys were legends back in the day, true trailblazers.
>>127153269
This was pretty funky. I've been aware of the game though picrel discussions but seems the music's good enough on its own.

https://youtu.be/VDWAd1C_AvU?si=dyBXN634ns0l1svA
https://youtu.be/1LXeA9p19ig?si=dBrtdRVLPC9EZnfy

This soundtrack is pretty great.

>>127157933
>Timmy
Indian detected

TERRANIGGA
https://youtu.be/cQdSDt4dMJ4
https://youtu.be/cTrtafl7epc
https://youtu.be/uaqdn8tNDSI
https://youtu.be/2sUJYtmS3Fw
https://youtu.be/wAXD8GjvcFw

>>127149427 (OP)
Some of my favorites
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyk4Qso7rpM&list=RDoyk4Qso7rpM&start_radio=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHLsolltIJ8&list=RDCHLsolltIJ8&start_radio=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnMR6SOBa9k&list=RDAnMR6SOBa9k&start_radio=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5IBL05pMew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D61WyANq7MA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzVqZxeHNWQ&
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgNGtGI-XbM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBKhqPwbxCg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCmTJVew_tY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRHiTWhgwjY

>Indian detected

My top 3 games are:
>Shadow of the Colossus
>Hotline Miami
>Super Mario Galaxy
and they all have god-tier soundtracks

>>127160601
>Hotline Miami
Full of great music for sure, but it's all just licensed music: Nothing composed specifically for the game (which is what the OST in the OP refers to).

>>127149427 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us89iCZJuCQ

>celebrated videogame ost
>it's just some knock off try hard choral + barebone orchestra + minimal effort low paid failed musicians

many such cases

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI60yCYZx04

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVXpQ7_Vauk

>>127162709
/thread

>127162709
>127162815
It's so easy identifying disingenuous niggers with no idea what they're talking about...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36k428uBXSc

>>127155473
>only one (1, una) track in total from both Pathologic games
Utterly shameful.

The Willow nes game had some surprisingly good music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZipksXzTeMU

>>127149427 (OP)
i've been listening to quite a bit of yoko shimomura lately, mainly the sf2 and kingdom hearts stuff

between her, nobuo uematsu, and koji kondo, who is the true number 1 great in vidya music?

>>127164852
nobuo

>>127164852
Add in Norihiko Hibino as well

>>127164428
Capcom and Konami NES games in general had god tier music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=352mao9kLX0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsqYHqQDEgA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27fYSz70ydM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geVuWi6B3QE