• neidu3@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
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      12 days ago

      I remember never being able to tape it anywhere except for my friends football game. Fifa 97, I think?

    • hakase@lemmy.zip
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      12 days ago

      Oh man, this comment just brought back a memory from decades ago of watching a Warthog-launching trick compliation video from the original Halo set to Song2. I haven’t thought about that video in probably fifteen years.

      Edit: Here’s the video lol. Wow that was a blast from the past.

    • 🔍🦘🛎@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      12 days ago

      Great pick. This track is transcendent.

      If I had to choose one song, it would probably have to be Undertale from Undertale. The acoustic guitar brought me to tears. Honorable mentions to Rith Essa Mime from Jet Force Gemini, Stone Tower Temple from Majora’s Mask, Smiles and Tears from Earthbound, Fear the Dark from Aquaria, and Ocean Planet Aquanid from Bomberman 64: The Second Attack.

  • zeropointone@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    That would be the opening prelude of Final Fantasy VII. You immediately understand what the themes of the game are when listening to it, it’s highly effective in portraying things/feelings like loss, despair, melancholy, overcome, hope. And all of that with a rather limited set of instruments (compared to other compositions). It’s pure and sincere without being kitschy. Nothing is hidden or ambiguous or pretentious. It wears its big broken heart on its sleeve in the best possible way. It’s a masterpiece.

  • Strider@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    Too many favourites to name, but here are a few examples

    • lots of Nobuo Uematsu songs in lots of games
    • small two of pieces from xenogears
    • simple and clean from kingdom hearts
    • xenoblade chronicles 2 Ost, especially gormott when the ‘vocals’ kick in
    • take control from control
    • wide awake from Alan wake 2

    …

  • wazoobi@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    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.

    • kratoz29@lemmy.zip
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      10 days ago

      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.

    • Guitarfun@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      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.

  • SkaraBrae@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days ago

    The CD-rom for Mechwarrior 2 could play in a standard CD player. Track one was the data for the game, but the remaining 22-odd tracks were the in-game music. We used to listen to the Mechwarrior 2 soundtrack while playing everything else. I still love that music.

  • FishFace@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    I couldn’t pick just one.

    1. From The Witcher 3:
      1. Whiterun theme (unforgivably absent from the OST albums)
      2. Fields of Ard Skellig (a version of the folk song “Fear a Bhata”)
    2. From Skyrim… hard to pick out favourites
    3. 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.