Board 8 > What are your favorite video game OSTs?

(+) Yeah! (+)

Im looking for stuff to listen to at work.

FFVIII
Both Niers
Chrono Cross
Smash is kinda cheating but still yeah lotta good stuff
Sonic 3 & Knuckles
Both Mario Galaxies

For listenability, Kingdom Hearts, Sonic Rush, Neon White (Thousand Pound Butterfly)

Outer Wilds and Persona 5 Royal come to mind

Final Fantasy Tactics
Umineko
The House in Fata Morgana
Signalis

There's a reason I own vinyl records for the latter 2 (I would murder a man for Umineko on Vinyl, but there's some legal problems there I think).

I would recommend:

Opoona
Kirby Triple Deluxe
Panzer Dragoon Orta
CrossCode
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
Cure Hunters
Unlimited SaGa
NeoTokyo
G-Darius
Klonoa 1 & 2 (haven't listened to 2 yet, but it's supposedly better than 1 music-wise)
Blue Reflection: Second Light (granted, I haven't heard the OST for the first and third games... for all I know, maybe those are just as good)

Silent Hill 2 / 3 / 4
Resident Evil 1 / 2 / 3 / CV / 4
Parasite Eve
Koudelka
Devil May Cry 1 / 3
Bloodborne
Metal Gear Solid

Both of the La-Mulana games.

Chrono Trigger
Chrono Cross
Both Nier
Ys 7
Radiant Historia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVmdUKbbYoE&t

Super Mario RPG
Mega Man X
Donkey Kong Country 2

Jet Set Radio/Future (if you like those I second Sonic Rush)
FFXIV

Persona 3
The Sims
Umineko no Naku Koro Ni

As far as listen-at-work goes, I can just put the Genshin Impact soundtrack on at the start of the week and still have music to listen to by Friday.

Advance Wars
Danganronpa series
TWEWY

Mega Man 2, Arcana, Two Worlds, Ys: The Oath In Felghana, 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim

Phantasy Star Online 2
Terraria Calamtiy Mod (not good work music)
Trails in the Sky FC/SC/3rd
Atelier Ayesha (or basically any of them really)
Caravan Stories
G-Darius (not good work music)
Drakengard (so bad for being work music it wraps around to being good)
Any Exa Pico (vocal albums not good work music)
Evergrace/2 (not good work music)

World of Goo
Shadow of the Beast (Amiga)

Xenosaga III
EXA_PICO series (Ar tonelico trilogy, Ciel nosurge, Ar nosurge)
.hack series (particularly G.U.)
Falcom generally (not been as hot on their most recent stuff as the older stuff tho)
Caligula Effect series (though for the most part only the vocal songs)
Limbus Company
Nier/Nier Automata/Drakengard 3
NeoTokyo
Blue Reflection 1+2

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Final Fantasy Tactics
Umineko
The House in Fata Morgana
Signalis

There's a reason I own vinyl records for the latter 2 (I would murder a man for Umineko on Vinyl, but there's some legal problems there I think).

whoa there's vinyl for fata morgana? sweet

at least umineko is almost entirely on spotify (the only song i've wanted to listen to but can't find is Fortitude oops)

PANZER DRAGOON ORTA

I'm so stupid. When nobody's got me, Haste has got me

I'll also throw in VA-11 HALL-A and Zeroranger (but mostly so you can listen to Zeroranger Green Arrange)

Sonic Rush
Mega Man ZX
Chrono Cross
Outer Wilds
Guilty Gear X2
Tetris Effect

Faster Than Light
Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy XIII
Halo 3: ODST
Kingdom Hearts II
Oblivion
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelists of the Roses

Guilty Gear X2, Xrd, Strive, Isuka, etc.
Final Fantasy, especially V and VIII
Bayonetta series
GOD HAND
Gitaroo Man
Killer7
NMH series
Kirby series
Zone of the Enders: The Second Runner

It's hard to narrow down, really.

Guilty Gear Strive
Umineko
NieR Automata and Replicant
Granblue Fantasy
Arcaea
13 Sentinels
Persona 5 Royal
Hades
Ender Lilies series
Wheels of Aurelia
Furi
Everhood
Paradise Killer
Super Cloudbuilt
SaGa Frontier
Risk of Rain 1 and 2
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
Symphony of the Night
Hypnospace Outlaw
Celeste
Library of Ruina
Final Fantasy 14
Sanabi

Nier

MGR Revengeance and Library of Ruina are good ones. Somehow remembered to put down Limbus Company but forgot LoR lol.

Not sure if they are my top two but I want to throw out a couple of niche favorites in Pokemon Trading Card Game and Diddy Kong Racing. Both of those are chock full of bops. Probably both in or near my top 10.

Assassin's Creed II

Almost forgot Doom and Doom Eternal, not my usual type of music but great for blasting and doing some work to once in a while
And omg of course Katamari Damacy.

Xenoblade 1-3
Nier/Nier A

13 Sentinels
Nier(s)
Octopath(s)
Neon White (if you're into trance/house type music)

kaze no notam

Guilty Gear (whole series)
Devil May Cry 5
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
Final Fantasy X, XIII, XIII-2
Chrono Cross

I would say like 90% of my vg soundtrack listening is from this pool.

Guilty Gear X > X2 > Xrd >> Strive > Sign

and if live albums count, the Sound Alive one is incredibly good. my favorite piece of music from the series was that, the arranged versions of a couple tracks change so much of the feel it's perfect. Boom Town Blues played live is also just a crazy good tune.

also i somehow forgot the Ar Tonelico series, or Ciel Nosurge. all related to Gust which eventually struck gold with the later Atelier games but for music, those stood out better.

SUGURI series (SUGURI, Acceleration of SUGURI, Acceleration of Suguri X-Edition, Sora, Acceleration of SUGURI 2)
Senko no Ronde series (Senko no Ronde, Senko no Ronde Rev.X, Senko no Ronde DUO, Senko no Ronde 2)
Misc games from Katatema (Murasaki, Murasaki Tsurugi, Pudding, Irisu Syndrome)
ANOS series (Ano, Subarashii wo Mou Ichido, Sora no Fudousan, LOSTCOLORS, Darayo, Darayo 3, Out Of Frame, and arguably Tales of the Fragmented Star)

and a lot of others too, many already mentioned, many not

I keep forgetting... it's Unlimited Saga, not Unlimited SaGa. (darn series inconsistency)

Xenoblade 1 and 2
Nier
Guild Wars 2

13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
Airport CEO
Alto's Odyssey
Ar tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica
Battle Garegga
Caravan Stories
Cave Story
Chrono Trigger
Dandara
Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory
Drakengard
Dune (AdLib Gold)
Elebits
Far Fetched
Fez
Flywrench
G-Darius
Get Together
Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure
Hypnospace Outlaw
Idola: Phantasy Star Saga
Ikenfell
Kaze no NOTAM
Knytt Underground
Mighty Switch Force! 1 & 2
NeoTokyo
Opoona
Phantasy Star Online 2
Platypus (a bunch of licensed C64 remixes from soundtracks too small to list individually, like Sanxion)
Plok!
Saira
Sonic Unleashed
Spelunky (2012)
TASOMACHI: Behind the Twilight
The 7th Guest & The 11th Hour
Waterworld
Within a Deep Forest
Yume Nikki

Ace Attorney Investigations

...what kind of work is it

Persona 5/Royal
Final Fantasy X
Trails from Zero
Umihara Kawase
Sonic Adventure 2

Katamari series
Guilty Gear series
Most Pokemon games

Thanks all

PIayer_0 posted...

...what kind of work is it

Quantum computing stuff (mostly coding, some pen and paper math)

LordoftheMorons posted...

Thanks all

Quantum computing stuff (mostly coding, some pen and paper math)

As somebody with a quantum computing exam Monday, I'm so sorry

The Sims
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
Sonic 2
FFVII
Most Castlevania games (especially NES & Game Boy)
Mario 64
GoldenEye
TMNT 3 (NES & Game Boy)
some other random Game Boy ones like Double Dragon 1 & 2, Kirby's Dream Land, Mickey's Dangerous Chase

Symphony of the Night
Rocket League (Original)
Mega Man 2

I've been listening to a lot of FFVII Rebirth and FFVII Remake at work recently. Especially the below track when i want some space to think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D9Y0XEmebM

I listen to quite a few other VG tracks at work but I don't think there's any whole OST I would put on (except the Persona 4 Reincarnation tracklist).

For coding I like:
The Minecraft Aquatic songs (Axolotl, Dragon Fish, Shuniji)
Shredders ("Nowhere, Now Here" on Spotify)
Tunic
Outer Wilds
Fez

Hmm how long do topics live these days without bumping

11 days