Thread 2182514

I know videogame music is a little passe, but do some STRATEGY game tracks really hit you? The music in these games is often focused on the grand endeavours of nations juxtaposed with the quiet, tragic fate of individuals ground up in brutal war. I think that's really evocative. I've cried to some of this music.

Bird of Time from Shogun 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gcdy-lxqi50

Forever from RTW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UApsdueSYQ0

A Cruce Victoria from EU3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cCB7nrhaKE

Maybe most of all:
Sogno di Volare from Civ 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQYN2P3E06s

>>2182514 (OP)
To Constantinople for me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXSk-WVLS2A

/mu/ is that-a-way

Song of Mountains, trapped in fucking Civilization Online of all games.
Sucks that (to my knowledge) it never got a proper CD release and only exists as ripped directly from game.

https://youtu.be/xIuzjui58rA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpv8vaq583w
Rome Total War main menu theme always gives me chills whenever I start up the game. I don't think any other Total War game comes close to the atmosphere RTW had.

yep and the link to sign-up?

>>2182662
bot post?

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=LOUYllJLYLY&si=jeGJncwGUA7EiVUC
Hard not to get hyped up by this one

>>2182583
nigger do you think the most normalfag-shit board on this website knows what grand strategy is?

>>2182585
Cool song but the fuck are these leaders?

>>2182585
>>2182754
I've never heard of that game, wtf
a Sid Meier's Civ MMO with cute sexy women leaders sounds like some bizarro world shit, not surprised it was cancelled and apparently only known to koreans.
i want to fuck all 4 of those leaders, though they could've made the mesoamerican and egyptian ones more tastefully brown

I love the Victoria 2 renditions of US civil war and reconstruction era songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T69cZctB81I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73BWbW77lM4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DIrS9R8kCw

and last but not least,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FapbUcVb6vk
I'm surprised even 2011 paradox put that song in the game, though it sounds quite different orchestrated and doesn't have the lyrics for which the song is known for.

>>2182754
>>2182796
It was a shameless coomer game that indeed only launched in Korea and lasted like a year before it was shut down. Also good music to not be offtopic.

https://youtu.be/fUJpoy0zJO0

>>2182514 (OP)
>>2182544
The highland wanderer for me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igELmb5iyVc&list=RDigELmb5iyVc&start_radio=1

>>2182514 (OP)
All Paradox games up to CK2 have really good soundtracks. IDK about the recents, I dropped the newer ones.

I forget what the game is called but there's a few sci-fi tracks that are godly. I'll go look.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1812C6773713CC79&si=YhQ3Pp_tfKocLsXM

>>2183460

Also Endless space ain't it, but I love that soundtrack anyways. https://youtu.be/5KysITV4t5E?si=o9cSaKhNFvVjtWXc

>>2183464
For me it's Cygnus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeGv-QtHyaA

The original Cossacks had a really solid soundtrack that never really gets mentioned. IIRC the Kyiv symphonic orchestra was involved.
I highly recommend you listen to the whole thing, it's only like 40 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkPCEUWJspOlYKOHrayCNMkUlf6P54d2T

>>2182585
holy fuck I want to toil my life away for Aztec mommy

>>2182514 (OP)
>EU3
I'm a basic bitch and the main theme is still my favorite
https://youtu.be/fBKER_kgw9c

>>2182514 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_IgXqieQE0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5A7hwjYXFw
I really liked the original Civ 5 title theme, it really gave the vibe that you were embarking on a grand adventure to build a civilization. The title music replaced by the DLCs isn't bad but it just doesn't hold up to the vanilla one.

Hoi3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qyms4cVEVY

EU3 as OP's example makes me sad, because EU2 had a wonderful soundtrack of real historical music, and it was reactive to the timeperiod you were playing in. The start of the game had medieval music, up through the renaissance, and the late game had baroque music. There were some killer Bach tunes, and who can forget fa-la-la-lan?
Paradox dropped this on their subsequent games for generic slop.

>>2183666
Yeah but EU2 is a worse game

>>2183614
>booting up civ5 for the first time when it was new and hearing this
I think it may have been one of the last times I felt hyped when starting a new game.

>>2183826
>mfw playing civ 2 with the redbook audio for the soundtrack of Mechwarrior 2 mercenaries in the drive

Vic 2 will always be the GOAT for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1voIshdKj8

>>2182514 (OP)
Civ 6 has such amazing music, but after hearing the main theme so often I’ve come to hate it

>>2184765
as long as you can hear it over the
TINK TINK TINK
VROOOOSH
*SPLOOOOSH*
CHOO CHOO

>>2184765
Yikes

any of you niggas remember this?
https://youtu.be/Q6niREbHhgE?list=PL5mq4opM1_3iLwQwR3vVGyegG5OmCfDEx

>>2183666
>defending EU2 of all games

I genuinely sometimes booted up the game just to listen to the main menu music. I was so upset when the expansion changed it. At least until I found the option in the settings to turn it back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e0Qelqp-Cc

>>2182514 (OP)
a cruce victoria alone made me mod eu3 music into eu4

>>2183695
>>2185162
>I don’t understand the question. I did eat breakfast this morning.
Fuck you two are dense. Zero comprehension of what the thread is about or even what the post you’re replying to is saying. I am trapped in hell with brown zoomers.

universalambients

>>2185358
Yeah it's called a conversation, brother
You begin with a topic and discussion evolves to cover new topics
>How DARE you mention gameplay in a thread on a strategy game board

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6N1jKvQZ34
I like EU IV's OST.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg8ayzRqc4c
Stellaris's (I know) is also good.

>>2185358
Okay then I think it was a funny complaint they didn't use open source music for their game, stuff you could put in yourself. That it makes you sad that others you have no relation to listens to this music during gameplay and finds it enjoyable. Really like an old men yelling at clouds.

really most songs in generals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlgQm6ugKYU&list=RDYlgQm6ugKYU&start_radio=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JETo2oqTQxk&list=PL3Szag_056kYP9w8XCTQUcOwqrb11a4ZV

Sometimes I'd revolt just for the music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmq8_3kC_B8&list=PLh4Eme5gACZE6ByzEijnDTncv92sHSlBu&index=21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB1R5s3PVEM&list=RDjB1R5s3PVEM&start_radio=1

https://youtu.be/WhLfu6R3YUY?list=PLEF263883C970B1D4

https://youtu.be/3uYuBuFES6s?list=PL6N1UyX9iZquQFWsM6YHLyuD0-op_uqnE

>>2182824
i hate the war is so politicized/propagandized and counter politicized/propagandized
the amount of stories that could be told and perspectives seen would be a amazing

euv ost shapes to be bretty gud
https://youtu.be/OLdEOqfEouw?si=SiAXax_ObsY3ApdQ&t=1211

>>2186057
linked to 20:11 in case it does not work, that one track is a literal 10/10 out of all paradox games

Noosphere from Mechanicus is a great track
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asr6_eNCuoU

If you weren't on the edge of your seat when The City Must Survive came on during Frostpunk's final storm then I don't know what to say to you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpaFE6_nDJw

>>2182514 (OP)
Mandatory HoMM3, Romero is an absolute legend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDB1b1tvBBw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lQTbRY2xWY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbcHCHnf2YU
I randomly get this stuck in my head sometimes despite not having played mountain blade in years.
The soundtrack as a whole is very nostalgic.

Great fucken thread. Strategy game OST's pluck the strings of my soul. Vic 2 and Eu3 especially have great soundtracks. Rome 1 has a really special soundtrack too.
https://youtu.be/d3-7wjri_QE

>>2182514 (OP)
I mute every strategy game upon loading it for the first time and game with radio playing in the background.
It's a station playing instrumental movie music and actual classical music interchangeably, with news every two full hours.
Been doing that since, dunno, Civ 3 came out? Something like that.