Celeste and bastion are nice as well ~
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Star Ocean 3, Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Final Fantasy XIV is my singular favorite, but given all its expansions that might be cheating a touch. ;) The Final Fantasy series in general tends to have great music.
Nier series, chrono trigger, Skyrim, and there are a lot of others I've liked as well, but I think that covers all my favorites. :)
Nier Automata and FFXIV immediately spring to mind
The first Fable game has such an amazing soundtrack. Every one of those tunes is etched into my brain. They capture the feeling of the areas they play in so well.
It’s got to be Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross, and really everything by Nobuo Uematsu.
Also you can’t go past Koji Kondo. Ocarina of Time is a great example of how talented he is.
Chorus is an underrated game with an amazing main theme
Ctrl + f, F, U, R, I.
Ok nevermind take me back Reddit I was wrong.
In the beginning it was Day of the Tentacle and Transport Tycoon. For the longest time it was Red Dead Redemption 1 and then 2.
Then suddenly Desperados III came along and is so far winning.
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Ar Tonelico 2 has one of the most beautiful musics I've heard, not limited by music. Not too surprising, given how the entire franchise is basically about glorifying music to divine levels and brings top notch singers like Shikata Akiko and Shimotsuki Haruka to sing songs like METHOD_IMPLANTA and EXEC_SOL=Fage/.. The BGM is also great, with tracks like Rustling Throb Cloche.
Other great OSTs that never leaves my phone:
-Einhander (Sample: Bloody Battle)
-Omega Boost (Sample: Orbital Flight)
-HellSinker. (Sample: Apostle of the Seed)
Finally, special mention to Space Invaders Extreme 2. I wouldn't say it's the best OST but it's the most fun example of adaptive music I've seem (heard?).
Mega Man X for SNES is one of my favorites. In the PSP remake, the re-recorded all the original 16-bit songs with live instruments. It's amazing.
Child of Light, Hades, Bastion, Icewind Dale, Dragon Age (any of them really), Heroes of Might and Magic 3-5, Dead Cells, Endless Legend, Pillars of Eternity, Pokemon Violet. Also Warframe, especially from The Second Dream and further period.
It just has to be Undertale. I constantly keep coming back to it. Deltarune is nice too but the Undertale OST is just so good.
Guild Wars 2
- Digital devil saga: The tracks brings me to a very cozy dystopia everytime
- Mega man zero 2: The sound track of the opening stage is just so damn good
- Ghost trick: Can't wait for the new arranged version for the remake
That one single song that played on the load screen of Boiling Point - Road to Hell. It was incredibly good and I still listen to it from time to time. Boiling Point Road to Hell Main Theme
Sim City 4 is definitely in my top five - love the chilled out jazzy stuff. Also, this is kind of out there, but does anybody remember the Harry Potter RPGs on gameboy color? Those had some great magical 8-bit tunes!
Star Control 2. 4 musicians contributed without collaborating directly, resulting in many creative alien races having unique and memorable theme music.
What immediately comes to mind are Final Fantasy IV and Castlevania Symphony of the Night.
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The Trine series is an underappreciated masterpiece. I've never heard so many waltzes in a game before.
Genshin Impact's soundtrack is also gorgeous.
I'm a huge fan of Destiny 2's OSTs - the game definitely has some issues every now and then, but the art of the game (the music, the sounds, the environmental skyboxes, textures, etc) never fail me. I especially like the OSTs for each of the game's raids.
Here's my favorite song from the newest raid, "Root of Nightmares" - it ties in so well with what is actually occurring in that encounter, you get to move the planets of our solar system around! There's also an "Action" phase to the song that starts to play as you begin making the boss vulnerable, which most of the raid encounter songs tend to have.
Similarly, this song belongs to the final boss encounter for that same raid.
Then there's this song which wasn't from a raid, but one of the early expansions. It still gives me shivers when I hear the beginning of it, and then it starts to really ramp up towards the last third of the track.
Seriously, Destiny's music never ceases to amaze me! I didn't ever expect a whole season themed around pirates (though we did get a dungeon that was pirate themed before this), and got some killer music to go with it!
I could listen to pretty much any music in the world (except country) but I find myself coming back to Shin Megami Tensei games lately. But especially Digital Devil Saga 1. I haven't even finished that game yet but the guitars are heavenly.
The Firewatch OST is pretty good and emotional
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Divinity Original Sin 2 is my go-to.
Outer Wilds is great. Have so many songs on my list of favourites!