Is there any video game music that's actually good on its own and not in the context of the game?

[Jeremiah Thomas]

Is there any video game music that's actually good on its own and not in the context of the game?

I don't play video games at all fyi I just want to know if there's some hidden gems. No chiptune pls.

[Carson Brooks]

I haven't actually played the game that this is from and I love it. So yeah, I'd say so

youtube.com/watch?v=3ODKKILZiYY

[Mason Ramirez]

Streets of Rage 2 and 3 have some fucking bangers
Inga Rasen could have been it's own techno single were it produced on something other than a Genesis soundchip

[Parker Sullivan]

www.youtube.com/iBcg_Yune3U

[Oliver Stewart]

the hylics ost is really neat
youtube.com/watch?v=rFUQaP7AlpA

[Samuel Allen]

I fucked up my link but you get the idea

[Blake Martinez]

No

[Cooper Morgan]

Can be enjoyed without context:
>Super Meat Boy
>Risk of Rain
>Bastion
>Duck Game (Chiptune, but not in the way you're thinking)
>VVVVVV (chiptune)
>Crypt of the Necrodancer

You should probably have context:
>Nuclear Throne
>The Binding of Isaac (flash)

[Jayden Moore]

Maybe Fez?

The Static Speaks my Name has some good drone music as a soundtrack that I listen to by itself

[Alexander Thompson]

FFVII

[Christian Jones]

...

[Andrew Garcia]

Doshin the Giant

[Brandon Turner]

>Hotline Miami 1&2
Enjoyed the music way before I played the games, both excellent

[Aiden Young]

That's because the music already existed before the game, except a few tracks.

[Isaac Thomas]

Good luck trying to find something that's
>Not orchestral
>Not chiptune
>Not EDM
>Not dadrock
Probably Spore music would do it at some points. Brian Eno helped with composition.

[Parker Jackson]

I actually don't. What is that even supposed to be

[Xavier Garcia]

morrowind soundtrack and skyrim soundtrack are amazing
oblivious soundtrack is okay

[Evan Phillips]

youtube.com/watch?v=iBcg_Yune3U

[Adrian Lee]

OFF ost by Alias Conrad Coldwood
Really good

[Parker Jenkins]

Plenty of stuff from Mother 2.

[Angel Wilson]

Vagrant Story, it is a spectacular piece of art and it has one of the greatest ost ever made in videogames probably.

youtube.com/watch?v=lyNjhosvg3g
youtube.com/watch?v=DZJC4rhqnL8
youtube.com/watch?v=mOLwWSMenmY

[Joshua Edwards]

> no one mentions Silent Hill series

[Evan Evans]

2 had an original ost

[Austin Robinson]

I know it's been memed to hell, but the Undertale ost is good on it's own right, but with context becomes god-tier

[Brandon Hernandez]

>The World Ends With You
youtube.com/watch?v=4YcZDmbuZOs
>Undertale
youtube.com/watch?v=Zz1bfhtKsHM
>999 and/or Virtue's Last Reward
youtube.com/watch?v=9GLYF5O1gMY
>Jet Set Radio
youtube.com/watch?v=4V4IEV8l-gA
>Sonic Adventure 2
youtube.com/watch?v=S5tzmkoesXY
>VVVVVV
youtube.com/watch?v=25m3Gk7mRQM
>Super Hexagon
youtube.com/watch?v=7q6--7mR6xI
>OlliOlli
youtube.com/watch?v=IQ3itXwrlxU

[Caleb Flores]

youtube.com/watch?v=cRCuIlnGpBY

[Elijah Torres]

>ctrl+f "understand"
>0 of 0
Learn your vidya music niggas
youtube.com/watch?v=ugo6ASPVu9g

[Liam Moore]

Every Silent Hill soundtrack.

[Isaiah Wright]

No Katamari Damacy yet? It's almost as famous as the game itself. Doesn't even sound like a game soundtrack.

youtube.com/watch?v=QAA6hq9RL-4

[Luke Parker]

sims ost

[Jacob Gonzalez]

Pretty much anything by Nobuo Uematsu. He's the Morricone of Video Game soundtracks

[Adam Ramirez]

this shit bumps

would actually play @ a party if someone did a "remix" that just added bass hits

[Carter Nelson]

The original Guild Wars soundtrack was pretty great. Love me some Jeremy Soule

[Luke Morris]

>no Vib Ribbon
I've never played the game but it's some god-tier wonky, feel good i don't even know what to call it
youtube.com/watch?v=r8EdrcGDzow

[Dominic Reyes]

Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura had a pretty nice string soundtrack

youtube.com/watch?v=5LHLAcd14b4

[Owen Flores]

My ninja :). Loved the whole we love katamari soundtrack as a kid and still love it to this day.

[Luke Perry]

Payday

[Mason Cruz]

David Byrne's Fine Time Adventure

[Liam Wood]

you heard the Distant Worlds albums?

Incredible stuff.

[Brody Roberts]

Music by New Order and Brian Eno
Following a sperg who treks on a journey of self expression and dealing with chronic paranoia

[Gabriel Gonzalez]

Metroid Prime's OST is one of my absolute favorites: youtube.com/watch?v=V6Ky2BMVWfs

>Nuclear Throne
my nigga
One of my favs. The game is amazing too

[Adam Flores]

Anyone here listen to the UT99 soundtrack? I think it's great but I never see it mentioned. Playing bot matches with the music going in the background keeps me coming back every once in a while.

Here's the 2 most popular songs
youtube.com/watch?v=Ql8GWBkA7L0
youtube.com/watch?v=DmdWFQAD5ho

And my favorites
youtube.com/watch?v=P-aM200Z7Qc
youtube.com/watch?v=J_6cZzjfjSs

[Blake Young]

The Crash Bandicoot OSTs by Mothersbaugh and the Spyro the Dragon OST by Stewart Copeland.

[Matthew Bell]

god fucking damn it i wish this was a real game so badly

>ywn play a game where you're david byrne getting mugged in brooklyn and shouting uh-oh

[Owen Jackson]

>Skyrim soundtrack
>Better than Oblivion
Have you listened to more than just the main themes of both?

[Evan Reyes]

dark souls 3 OST is good but probably not what you're looking for

Amon Tobin has done some stuff
Floex have done some stuff
There's a dark ambient guy that does Forza, don't remember who

that's all I know

[Wyatt Gutierrez]

Halo, Martin O'Donnell is a brilliant composer

[Connor Gray]

Autechre are under NDA for involvement in Metroid Prime's soundtrack, so I bet that's good. they probably didn't do jack shit on it though.

[Isaac Jenkins]

Final fantasy x has a really good ost

[Leo Lee]

The rez soundtrack is good on its own desu. I prefer the arranged versions in the actual game to the album tracks.

[Isaiah Thomas]

youtube.com/watch?v=83rh5-EeqvE

[Austin Russell]

Bloodborne has a pretty good soundtrack but it's a lot of orchestral stuff, and I'm not entirely sure if it works outside the game or not and I just can't tell
youtube.com/watch?v=7RzA_Oomra8
youtube.com/watch?v=tuHzagjqOLU&list=PLKzg0DeoAjD-cGZOEspgvDGpFal8S2aS-&index=9
youtube.com/watch?v=1EISe-WdZYE&index=3&list=PLKzg0DeoAjD-cGZOEspgvDGpFal8S2aS-

[Jayden Bailey]

>ywn strike up slow awkward in-game dialogue with young Adelle Lutz as Age of Consent fades in
>ywn anxiously wait in a virtual airport listening to Music for Airplanes
>ywn exchange flirty banter with Tina Weymouth while Genius of Love plays in the distance
Just fucking kill me

[Brody Ramirez]

Sonic 2 OST, Metropolis Zone is god-tier.

[Easton Diaz]

It's great music but a lot of it is better within the context of the game because of the nature of when it's used, and how it changes within the battle.

Ludwig's theme is great, but it's one of the best video game tracks ever in the context of the boss battle.

It's kinda like MGR except the music isn't shit outside of the game.

[Jayden Moore]

Seconding Fez. Listened to the soundtrack a lot before I got the game, and it definitely can stand on its own.

Always post this in these types of threads. Glad I didn't have to be the one to post it this time.

youtube.com/watch?v=aFeL7kTw2CU
Stage 1 of Wily's castle from Mega Man 2 will always have a special place in my heart. I want it to be transformed into the hard rock banger that it is, but few things can capture it like the NES chip can.

[Charles Sanchez]

Nier's OST is one of the best things I have ever heard in a game

youtube.com/watch?v=6gilH6f2hHk
youtube.com/watch?v=u5xZbJDZZo4
youtube.com/watch?v=p2lwFiIaMAE

Nier is a weird game. From a gameplay perspective and a technical perspective and from most perspectives it's absolute shit but the music and atmosphere and story put it into the stratosphere

[Adam Richardson]

Yes.

-Mirror's Edge
-Streets of Rage (especially the Boss themes)
-Mass Effect
-Donkey Kong Country 1 and 2
-Metroid. More or less all of them, but primarily Primes.
-Alice: Madness Returns
-Bastion
-Transistor
-FTL
-Deus Ex: Human Revolution
-Bioshock
-Chrono Trigger
-Sonic 1,2,3,Knuckles, etc.
-Legend of Zelda. Though this diminished after the Gamecube when they started preferring forgettable orchestral stuff.
-Unreal 1 and all the Unreal Tournaments.
-Zeno Clash
-A few tracks from Remember Me

Probably more that isn't coming to mind. I feel like an amnesia'd husk that only thinks it knows where it is and what it's doing half the time. Feels subpar, but fine enough.

Anime is the same way. Half my music, at least, is soundtracks.

[Eli Brooks]

youtube.com/watch?v=AB6sOhQan9Y

This. It's good enough on its own, but in the context in which the song plays... oh my friggin god

[Brandon Diaz]

Bomberman Hero
youtube.com/watch?v=HQ-DJd-57Lo

or anything by Tim Follin
youtube.com/watch?v=ypNPxwnppU0

[Carter Stewart]

Anything made by Andreas Waldetoft.

youtube.com/watch?v=sVz2JMnYzD0

[Joseph Rodriguez]

Both Jet Set Radio soundtracks are liquid gold.

[Jason Morales]

Donkey Kong Country trilogy
Chrono Trigger
Super Metroid (though it is much better with the atmosphere the game conveys)
Super Mario Galaxy

[Liam Ortiz]

Catherine had great soundtrack
Shoji Meguro is pretty good he has a distinct sound

youtube.com/watch?v=VXeL4Iwh11w

[Hudson Peterson]

Shadow Of Colossus has a pretty cool ost

youtube.com/watch?v=pmoYLtObCtY

A lot of SNES games have really cool music as well. F Zero especially.

youtube.com/watch?v=A4YeAdyYq4M

[Landon Wright]

Journey had a great OST
was nominated for a grammy

[Tyler Gutierrez]

old taito music

[Luis Myers]

essential morning music

[Isaiah Martin]

...

[Michael Stewart]

bravely default soundtrack

[Easton Cooper]

I like some songs on "The Neverhood" OST

[John Martin]

>Probably Spore music would do it at some points. Brian Eno helped with composition.
the Spore music is actually god-tier
biology: the music
it's some of Eno's best work, if only they issued it in soundtrack form somehow

[Aiden Nelson]

ASSASSINS CREED 2 ASSJUSNS CRED 2 ASDUISND CTEAD 2 PIC IS ME WHEN I LISTEN TO THIS SOUNDTRACK LISTEN TO THIS SOUNDTRACK

[Josiah Rogers]

This a thousand times

[Nathan Carter]

the banjo kazooie soundtrack is incredible.

youtube.com/watch?v=aS40K53JQIg

[Jason Barnes]

I always thought tf2 along with tf2c had kickass soundtracks

youtube.com/watch?v=1sLx3GPzFPM

[Andrew Morris]

Phantom Dust OST
youtube.com/watch?v=t4VxYpWBKzM
I don't think I ever heard this track in the game though

[William Lewis]

Super Mario RPG! Easily the most underrated videogame OST.

[Austin Nguyen]

I have compiled some that I like.

Donkey Kong Country 2:
youtube.com/watch?v=J67nkzoJ_2M
youtube.com/watch?v=oYOdCD4mWsk
youtube.com/watch?v=FP5Ct6ma00g

Zeno Clash:
youtube.com/watch?v=UuKMg-NCqgM
youtube.com/watch?v=QBuwRuwHUnE

Half-Life 2
youtube.com/watch?v=fmh8C9toW7w
youtube.com/watch?v=8irRSLVYgFI
youtube.com/watch?v=QsjJmvANWn8
youtube.com/watch?v=w3TCuXdMpAo

Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask:
youtube.com/watch?v=50agA5EPJfo
youtube.com/watch?v=fNDLoncWz30

Bioshock:
youtube.com/watch?v=wp6QpMWaKpE
youtube.com/watch?v=sEFIZh_Zscc

Streets of Rage:
youtube.com/watch?v=aAXLlyt8GLs
youtube.com/watch?v=UeTe-hHoAOg
youtube.com/watch?v=M_wQZR3r43M

Alice Madness Returns:
youtube.com/watch?v=AOP26WOOMbc
youtube.com/watch?v=yIt8ti_LDkY
youtube.com/watch?v=Ev0lRLhsS_E
youtube.com/watch?v=7gn8w59V_IU

Bastion:
youtube.com/watch?v=Jz8c17upEwM
youtube.com/watch?v=yUVTafn01h0

Chrono Trigger:
youtube.com/watch?v=bNzYIEY-CcM
youtube.com/watch?v=HZl1KZW4z_U

Mirror's Edge:
youtube.com/watch?v=1_XmY09uRJ4 (Hits more with the context)
Whole soundtrack, really.

Sonic:
youtube.com/watch?v=3mqmN6mw4R8

Sonic & Knuckles:
youtube.com/watch?v=oNXBpzDp1K8
youtube.com/watch?v=tlV6sFcMtcA

Sonic 2:
youtube.com/watch?v=1cKV8SF-oSo

Sonic 3D Blast:
youtube.com/watch?v=FeusABq1au4

Unreal:
youtube.com/watch?v=YeydRJxaCzU
youtube.com/watch?v=Bd67viF7Q54

Unreal Tournament:
youtube.com/watch?v=PLgSo90JhAQ

Unreal Tournament 3:
youtube.com/watch?v=W98w4q8T-e0

[Wyatt Taylor]

Xenogears is the alpha and omega

youtube.com/watch?v=YDslx2n7tEw

[Angel Walker]

>tfw you really enjoyed Xenogears' story but you lost your save file and you don't remember where you left off on Disc 1 but you really don't want to slog through all the boring generic JRPG shit again

At least Nier is pretty to look at

[Parker Robinson]

FFXIII and XIII-2 have amazing OSTs

[William Reyes]

the original spyro trilogy music
youtube.com/watch?v=f4IbvdqyNcQ
it was even made by the police's drummer!

listen to that and tell me its not fucking awesome! the way it starts off all eerie and begins to build up...then BOOM rock riff

[Isaiah Perry]

youtube.com/watch?v=OuytyUvv2pk

[Wyatt Brown]

Might just be me, but I used to listen to the Cave Story soundtrack a lot before I ever played the game, and it was still pretty great.

youtube.com/watch?v=S2tAindOZuc

youtube.com/watch?v=1SgBffK9Phg

youtube.com/watch?v=IdAzVhCof_4

[Robert Wright]

I fucking love the OST to Majora's Mask, but that's probably heavily tied to my memories of the game. I wouldn't be able to rate it as a stand alone piece of music, I don't think.

[Jack Carter]

xenogears has the most fitting music ever

[Joseph Myers]

this

[Benjamin Stewart]

>Ctrl+F
>No Ace Combat

youtube.com/watch?v=mjY6awCr2_c&index=55&list=PLB5A294C912C49005

youtube.com/watch?v=Py9zOYngt2g&list=PLB5A294C912C49005&index=57

youtube.com/watch?v=llo0hfxXYEQ&list=PLB5A294C912C49005&index=77

[Grayson Smith]

youtu.be/sGQWRUOsu6A
Fav track from a game called The Getaway

[Landon Mitchell]

youtube.com/watch?v=SUNt8E8EWrA
10/10

[Eli Wilson]

youtube.com/watch?v=-Zi5InWwr_U

[Eli Peterson]

Every MOTHER soundtrack

[Luis Robinson]

max payne soundtrack
heavy rain , ethan marsh theme

[Cameron Wilson]

my negro

[Jace Hall]

>Ctrl + F Sonic R
>not a single fucking result
holy shit Sup Forums is underaged

[Jacob Jones]

those fucking synths man

youtube.com/watch?v=OtXrxAB6XT4

youtube.com/watch?v=yY_yZ081EkM

[David Ramirez]

really love the Xenoblade soundtrack, though it's really even better in the context, but even without it it's pretty great.

Ans of course Earthbound, stating the obvious

[Thomas Martinez]

Forgot about this game entirely. Playing as the velociraptor was interesting.

[James Anderson]

JSRF Soundtrack desu