Thread 127149427

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

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?

>>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

>>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

>>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

>>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

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

>>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

>>127149650
Came here to see this posted.
For me it's Guldove Another
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwsraomzVsk
...And Guldove
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbFoN0g4kqg
Love PPF.

>>127151506
Holy shit.
I used to listen to this while folding clothes and the finger slides are all different too.

>>127149604
>Madara
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T9lSICIMWg
Never played this game and stumbled across this song.
Felt nostalgia pain that I never had. And now the nostalgia is real because I committed to whistling it correctly and my old cat would come in my room when I whistled songs.

>>127164852
Uematsu by far. He is genuinely a genius

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZBoiW460nU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtzMEBth-jo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOh3h0a4yLM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn9trJXUrp0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysPtBjY8o_A

Final fantasy 10 OST >>>> anything else

https://youtu.be/VmRIG7aKfuk?si=vPlAS6ThC-0FPRhW

I was born in 1986. I still think people who listen to video game music are faggots

I’m sure it’s a boring and trite answer but I absolutely love the Final Fantasy 7 OST
That, Kingdom Hearts and FF 10 OSTs were basically my childhood

>>127162709
>>127162815
Name 15.

>>127168558
half of the pokemons
every dragenkard
every nier
silent hill 4
smt iv (the boss theme is admittedly a banger, but most of the soundtrack is just generic video game ost designed to get you feeling le HYPE)
from software games, all of them. only some of those songs have melodies and instrumentation that feels truly orchestral and well arranged, the rest is just le heavy and le spooky action figure hype music but on cellos instead of guitar

there, that should be like 30 games

>>127157088
1 minute in
>hey this is pretty cool wow i need to listen to more
5 minutes later
>cool so once again we're not allowed to fully develop any of our ideas, just let the form and harmony fade out of existence and become repetitive background music for explosions and gunfire

god video games fucking suck lmao

>>127149427 (OP)
thing about vgm in the past was that the composers experimented a lot, you'd have drum and bass / acid jazz / ambient techno all in one game. Like Ape Escape for instance, what a masterpiece.

There's a guy who DJs full sets on YouTube, I would recommend him

https://youtu.be/Kufqq1v7XFo
https://youtu.be/Fp07SxPU6q8

Sonic music has always been great but Sonic Unleased in some parts surpasses it all I feel, it's straight up Drum and Bass Bossa Nova, never heard anything like it

https://youtu.be/2b8TKhIz_ZY

>>127168550
FF7 had a strong OST and an iconic lead motif, nothing to be anxious about.

>>127149458
>randomly skips to 37 minutes
My favorite VGM song is playing. Thanks for posting anon

Bump

I think the Evergrace OST is genuinely great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm17vgmh854

>>127151212
I only got into classical as a teenager because it reminded me of video game music lmao

>>127171820
Isn't this the weird/awkward game out of some JRPG series? I remember seeing it cause somewhat of a furor on (((/v/))), but from what people were saying about it the music was at least a saving grace if it was good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsdkSeTAGYs

>>127168733
>every dragenkard
>every nier
You will retract those words, ser

>>127149427 (OP)
how do you guys feel about Winifred Philips?

Jazz Jackrabbit (1994) is a DOS game with a very underrated soundtrack. Personal favorite tracks: Crysilis, Tubelectric, Medivo, Scraparap, Sluggion, Deserto, Nippius, Candion, Battleships

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7D70C4037DA3ADA4

Who knew that a freaking SAO game of all things had such a comfy, introspective, desolate track
https://youtu.be/7_7l-D2WLDo

>>127149458
The amount of time I waste thinking, "Man, what if the NES had 2 more sound channels plus one that could layer the sound effects on top?"

>>127149458
For me, it's https://youtu.be/AogIjT0T4ik?list=RDAogIjT0T4ik&t=66

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6UFRJEX-BI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYD8Akq1r5A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvcqGH_8Usk

>>127175104
Not familiar
Post some of her body of work

>>127155473
>not a single Nier or Guilty Gear track
>or even obvious picks like Undertale and Hotline Miami

>>127175882
she did soundtracks like first god of war, assassin's creed 3, and little big planet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeNHH6pxNGw

>>127173818
It was made by From Software AKA the Dark Souls guys, but the composer is different. As far as I know it only had a sequel called Evergrace 2 in Japan and Forever Kingdom in the west, the OST is also incredible
https://youtu.be/XjEhb0DLv3s?si=kR0b8vzgWIH_1CH2

>>127175104
She's alright, >>127176584 had a nice atmosphere.

>>127149427 (OP)
YUZO KOSHIRO/THREAD

It's me. I'm going to say the cringe thing.
Hate me. I'm right.
Nobuo Uematsu is this century's great composer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJgU63ONfPU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQYEF_TShPU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fBOQdbWcRY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd_FyPn6SuQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH-Pddk-_4w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpWvIpAtPd4

Screw cowards who won't post or play the hits.
You cannot hurt me.

>>127162953
>Liar Game 2
Never heard of it, but the music's solid

>>127176172
>not a single track of reddit music

Thankfully

Genuinely some of the best music I've ever heard, the man is a modern day Nobuo Uematsu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEdoMoV4D6k&list=PLwjEXrvFo-2B7iCX61eOThc_oGihi84l9

right in the childhood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enXE-5Nr9Jo&list=PLZt3TYxayo_3Y0p-pwYoVECN9yUr38nOY&index=2

>>127179593
I wuv Toby Cocks

>>127178387
pure pleb

>>127149591
Based
>>127149427 (OP)
Never played castlevania but bloodstained had a banger soundtrack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVjptMGdJT4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oINBummt51Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrDmGst-jas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL-55_0W7xA

>>127180907
Give SOTN and Super Castlevania 4 a try

>>127177891
These are from the last century thoughever

I think this might be one of the most underrated Nobuo Uematsu pieces. No one ever talks about it since it was tied to FFXI and the live concerts, but it's fucking beautiful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAiFyvro5-4

>>127149680
If only the game was half as good as it's OST...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S73sumMd3nQ
My contributon

>>127162709
this. kids who play video games are desperate for validation and they have no taste. all the stuff that gets propelled forward as good music tends to be boring final fantasy-style quasi-classical shit because that's what sounds serious and important to them. earthbound is easily the greatest video game OST ever made, it's not even close

>>127183598
earthbound doesn't even have the best ost in its own series, pleb

>>127183632
>mother 3 zoomerfag

>>127177891
As I said in >>127166346, Uematsu is the only video game composer who I would describe as a genius. He is genuinely an artist like nobody else in his chosen medium. Final Fantasy would be nothing without Uematsu.