If you mean music, it depends on how you can define 'from a video game. If it has to be in the game, The Last of Us by Gustavo Santolalla. If you can allow a bit of a stretch to gameplay-adjacent spaces, it’s Daylight’s End from League of Legends. Lots of fun music in the LoL space but, without exaggeration, that one was so beautiful I wept when I heard it.
Now if you mean race track: probably Mist Falls from Ridge Racer 7. So much SPEED and adrenaline next to a calm buddha.
I think the main theme from the second is better. Really reminds me of Feel Good Lost by BSS. I mean, he song, but that whole album is very much a similar vibe and I think you should check it out if you havent
I still prefer the original, but it’s still Santolalla so it’s good.
Hadn’t heard of BSS before. Thanks.
Legend of zelda theme for the NES. I’ll never get tired of it
Recent favorite:
The track when you fight Consort Radahn in Elden Ring. I am absolutely OBSESSED with the man who sings that one part… You’d have to listen to it and you’ll spot who I mean. He has such a powerful voice, you can hear him over the rest. It’s just awe inspiring.
(So glad I can finally gush about that song)
i don’t even play racing games but i immediately though you were referring to a race track, not a music one, haha.
regardless, one of my favorite tracks is THE WORLD REVOLVING from Deltarune: Chapter 1 OST.
Current one is this one: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IunbXWab1_Y from Clair Obscur Expedition 33.
(But I’m overall in the fucking bag for this game at the moment.)
The Trent Reznor music from Doom III. Gets my blood pumping, ready to fight!
The Halo theme is a close runner up.
Wet hands
Hidden character from Tekken 3
Tim Follin’s music for the first level of Bionic Commando on C64. It sounds like coming up on acid.
I could not even describe this song when I first heard it as a kid. As an adult, I realize this is the funkiest shit ever.
Baba Yetu from Civilization 2005 is the first video track to win a Grammy.
Definitly Black Fairy by Akira Yamaoka from Silent Hill 2. If you played it you know how powerful this track is.
Red Alert, Hell March
I couldn’t pick just one.
- From The Witcher 3:
- Whiterun theme (unforgivably absent from the OST albums)
- Fields of Ard Skellig (a version of the folk song “Fear a Bhata”)
- From Skyrim… hard to pick out favourites
- From Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance (Jeremy Soule again): The Art of War. It opens boldly but there’s a moment when it’s just twinkling in the strings, percussion and a little piano with almost no melody. If at that moment you happen to be watching the trajectory of your artillery arcing towards the enemy, and then the theme comes back as they land… sublime.
- From The Witcher 3:
Probably Stickerbush Symphony from Donkey Kong Country 2.
Lots of good Final Fantasy tracks from Nobuo Uematsu and Chrono Trigger/Cross ones from Yasunori Mitsuda too. But Stickerbush Symphony was the first video game music that really moved me, like more than your average SNES soundtrack. David Wise went hard on those Donkey Kong Country games.
Probably Stickerbush Symphony from Donkey Kong Country 2.
I didn’t play the game back in the days, heck until now I have only played the 1st title, but this song sounds so good and I have 0 nostalgia googles about it (although weirdly it emits some nostalgia to me regardless).
They definitely cooked with the DKC OST.
That’s one of my favorites! Also Aquatic Ambience from DKC. I used to pause the game on that level and just listen to the track.
The whole DKC2 soundtrack is solid gold. I’m hard pressed to find tracks that aren’t amazing.
Very true, of the 3 DKC snes games DKC2 had the best music overall.
