Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures

This choice combines a title from my favorites list and my most memorable list. I listen to this soundtrack often because it really is amazing. It always brings back memories of many things that happened in the game. What makes it unique for me is when I listen to it is those memories seem to change from looking like a video game to looking like an epic movie. Age of Conan: Rise of the Godslayer is also excellent and different in sound.

StarCraft
Because even as a 14 year old who was already loving the well rounded Warcraft 2, nothing could prepare for the complete immersion and style of the next big Blizzard title. It exceeded all expectations in gameplay, multiplayer, design, and especially soundtrack. Even the simplicity of the synthetic track titles like "terran 1" couldn't detract from their timeless impact on gaming.

Ben Houge's score for Arcanum is really special to me. Just the fact that it's written almost entirely for string quartet, makes it stand out. Furthermore the music is beautiful, and stands perfectly well on it's own.

It's also freely awailable online, curtesy of the composer.

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Persona 5 Strikers. I have been playing games for over 30 years and the songs of this one have stuck out the most for me. The game transitions from P5's jazz soundtrack to a more rock inspired one. Daredevil shows the shift of the cast's role from an insecure group of misfits to a more confidant one that can't be messed with. Counterstrike and the P5 remixes are also amazing too.

It's YOUR turn to be the mouse! (which is also a reference to the last game in which they had to turn into mice to solve puzzles in the main villain's palace aka dungeon).

https://youtu.be/3YuFYnShUl0

My per sonal best is Heroes of might and magic 3's menu music.

Eminem

Look, if you had one shot
Or one opportunity
To seize everything you ever wanted
One moment
Would you capture it, or just let it slip? Yo

His palms are sweaty
Knees weak, arms are heavy
There's vomit on his sweater already
Mom's spaghetti, he's nervous
But on the surface he looks calm
And ready to drop bombs
But he keeps on forgetting what he wrote down
The whole crowd goes so loud
He opens his mouth but the words won't come out
He's choking, how?
Everybody's jokin' now
The clock's run out, time's up, over Blow!

Snap back to reality
Oh there goes gravity
Oh there goes Rabbit, he choked, he's so mad
But he won't, give up that easy, no
He won't have it
He knows his whole back's to these ropes
It don't matter, he's dope, he knows that
But he's broke, he's so sad that he knows
When he goes back to this mobile home
That's when it's back to the lab again, yo
This whole rhapsody
He better go capture this moment
And hope it don't pass him

You better lose yourself in the music
The moment that you own it
you better never let it go
You only get one shot
Do not miss your chance to blow
'Cause opportunity comes once in a lifetime go
You better lose yourself in the music
The moment that you own it
you better never let it go
You only get one shot
Do not miss your chance to blow
'Cause opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo
You better

Soul's escapin'
Through this hole that is gaping
This world is mine for the taking
Make me king
As we move toward a new world order
A normal life is boring
But superstardom's close to post mortem
It only grows harder
Homie grows hotter
He blows us all over
These hoes is all on him
Coast to coast shows
He's known as the Globetrotter
Lonely roads
God only knows
He's grown farther from home, he's no father
He goes home and barely knows his own daughter
But hold ya nose
'Cause here goes the cold water
These hoes don't want him no mo'
He's cold product
And they moved on to the next schmoe who flows
And he knows dove and sold nada
And so the soap opera is told and unfolds
I suppose it's old partner, but the beat goes on
Da da dum da dum da da

You better lose yourself in the music
The moment that you own it
you better never let it go, oh
You only get one shot
Do not miss your chance to blow
'Cause opportunity comes once in a lifetime go
You better lose yourself in the music
The moment that you own it
you better never let it go, oh
You only get one shot
Do not miss your chance to blow
'Cause opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo
You better

No more games
I'ma change what you call rage
Tear this muthafuckin' roof off
Like two dogs caged
I was playin' in the beginnin'
The mood all changed
I've been chewed up and spit out
And booed off stage
But I kept rhymin'
And stepwritin' the next cipher
Best believe somebody's payin' the pied piper
All the pain inside amplified by the
Fact that I can't get by with my nine to five
And I can't provide the right type of
Life for my family 'cause man
These Goddamn food stamps don't buy diapers
And there's no movie, there's no Mekhi Phifer
This is my life and these times are so hard
And it's gettin' even harder
Tryin' to feed and water my seed
Plus teeter-totter
Caught up between bein' a father and a primadonna
Baby momma drama, screamin' on her
Too much for me to wanna stay in one spot
Another day of monotony
Has gotten me to the point I'm like a snail
I've got to formulate a plot
'Fore end up in jail or shot
Success is my only muthafuckin' option
Failure's not
Mom I love you but this trailer's got to go
I cannot grow old in Salem's Lot
So here I go, it's my shot
Feet fail me not
'Cause maybe the only opportunity that I got
You better

Lose yourself in the music
The moment that you own it
you better never let it go, oh
You only get one shot
Do not miss your chance to blow
'Cause opportunity comes once in a lifetime go
You better lose yourself in the music
The moment that you own it
you better never let it go, oh
You only get one shot
Do not miss your chance to blow
'Cause opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo
You better

You can do anything if you set your mind to man

Perhaps Minecraft as it is so iconic. There are way too many good ones to say definitively though.

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Standout video games soundtrack, off the top of my head, would be those of The Elder Scrolls Chapter II: Daggerfall and The Sims (the PlayStation 2 version, though I would guess the music is mostly from the PC version). Barony's music is also quite good. Honorable mention to the music of King of Dragon Pass for being not only particularly fitting for the (fantasy) Bronze Age setting, but nearly unique...even if it's not always as pleasant as other types of music they could have used.

In general, I get sick of game soundtracks being done in certain "same old" styles of music -- particularly Classical-style orchestral music and, to a lesser extent, heavy metal. Those are fine sometimes, but mix it up a bit, game studios!

They forgot to update that part of the post from one of their previous contests. This is not the first time, either. =D

Castlevania Symphony of the Night. Simply the best video game OST of all time.

Serious sam The First Encounter

It has a perfect balance between quiet tracks to fill the ambience and intense music when the action begins. Each track shows the intensity of the battle ahead

GTA series, great and iconic tunes.
Diablo 2, Warcraft 3 always gives me chills.

Baldur's Gate I.

It's just epic. When you explore the Sword Coast, every single music give you this sense of adventure. When you battle some monsters, the music is there to show how high the challenge is. When you relax in a tavern, the atmosphere becomes playful because of the music.

It's a beautiful soundtrack, fitting perfectly the D&D world.

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Among all the (in-game) video-game soundtracks I've listened through, I will have go with "Final Fantasy VII (7)":

There really is nothing new to say about FFVII in overall.
But it certainly still is one of the biggest "firsts" in the video-game-history with the amount of indisputable impactfulness alongside the influentiality when also considering the amount of risk taken to have this game being pushed fully worldwide and making sure there was surplus copies to be sold for pretty much everyone especially as "Platinum"-prints.

(( Worth also mention so far I've yet to see another game with as many varied minigames in which the gameplay is clearly distinct from each other:
In case of FFVII I am specifically referring to"Fort Condor"-RTS, Chocobo Racing, Submarine, G-Bike, and Snowboarding. ))

At the time of the release massive cinematical 85-tune-soundtrack clocking for over 4-hours covers pretty much any emotional-range one can imagine, such as "Anxiety" fittingly played during all the sorrowful-anxiety inducing moments.

"J-E-N-O-V-A" is an obvious favourite of mine considering I've yet to hear anything similar ever since when it comes to boss-fight-tunes, specifically thematics and unexpectfulnes-wise.
(( Like specifically nowadays we tend to get all sorts of bombastics choir-tunes most of the times;
not saying they're necessarily bad tunes. But they certainly are nothing like "J-E-N-O-V-A". ))

So yeah, a very-super-important game alongside a very-super-important soundtrack;
I really don't anything extra to write for now.
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The soundtracks to the original Spyro the Dragon games. Legendary composer and performer (Stewart Copeland!), music felt bouncy, comforting, and slightly otherworldly all at the same time. Unforgettable tunes that perfectly captured the spirit of the games.