Post video game songs that have been permanently burned into your brain
Post video game songs that have been permanently burned into your brain
I'll start off with Raiden II's Repeated Tragedy.
A local restaurant had this game, and every time we went, I'd beg my parents for money so that I could play it. I wasn't very good at the game, so I never got past the first stage, and so I heard this song a lot. Really gives me nostalgia.
Also got to shout out Streets, from Timesplitters too. I put a lot of time into this game as a kid, and this song is what got me into futurepop (love me some VNV Nation).
🎵 🎵
This was a triumph
I'm making a note here: Huge. Success.
It's hard to overstate my satisfactionnnnn
🎵 🎵
The Whirling in Rags theme and Martinaise theme (the one with the distorted horn) from Disco Elysium.
Every boss theme from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
About half of the character themes from Guilty Gear: Strive (and I haven't even played the game!).
IMO Pyre is criminally underrated. The story is leftist and emotional as fuck and it kills me that it nobody has played it. I am also a huge sucker for Ashley Barrett and Darren Korb harmonizing.
I probably spent so much time during my formative years (and some of my adulthood) playing Age of Empires II and Age of Mythology that these were the only ones I could remember off the top of my head. Many others I can remember if I think about the game, but not as easy.
Also, Asylum Demon, Firelink Shrine, Ornstein and Smough and Gwyn Lord of Cinder from Dark Souls 1. I've probably beat that game dozens, if not hundreds of times, and have used a ton of playthroughs as background noise before going to bed.
Risk of Rain 2 menu theme, I will get this song stuck on a loop inside my head for hours at a time.
The Only Thing They Fear Is You from Doom Eternal
This isn't an official release, but the gamerip of Damnation from Doom 2016 is leagues better than the soundtrack release
The Way of the Ghost from Ghost of Tsushima
Down by the River and Raphael's Final Act from Baldur's Gate 3
Vode An from Star Wars: Republic Commando
The main theme from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Basically everything from Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, but especially this one
This forgotten gem from Call of Duty: Finest Hour
The one that plays when you fight King Dedede in Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland
I would've put in something from Disco Elysium, but I figure that goes without saying around here
Okay, the songs that are belovedly burned into my brain are coming from FF7 Original, Disco Elysium, Civ 4, and so on. They're great songs from great games.
But this is permanently burned into my brain because it's just so fucking weird.
On Christmas Day of 1999, I was gifted a copy of Homeworld. A few days later I was treated to a very groovy credits track by Yes, a band I had never heard of... but now wanted to hear more of. So I decided to give this new thing called Napster a try, and my first search was Homeworld Yes. The rest is history - in a real sense, I discovered music that day.
Mickey Rourke's voice lines in the atrociously bad game Rogue Warrior, spliced by the Devs into a rap for the end credits: https://youtu.be/OVoyGUcXepc I would do it for karaoke if anywhere had it as a track.
GoldenEye pause music. Press pause, Bond flicks his wrist to look at his watch. This plays: https://youtu.be/qoWCB8AUiP4 Insanely hard beat.
Bonus mention to Zerg Free Radio in Starcraft, a parody of Radio Free propaganda channels: https://youtu.be/o7XV9fRAhu0
BF2's MEC (Middle East) theme goes pretty hard: https://youtu.be/S0aXAm0jqd0
Battlefield Play4Free's loading theme: https://youtu.be/5lcQntE4JuY
DOTA 2 had some bangers. Patches The Pirate theme from Hearthstone (the WoW pirate theme). Really I could go on for days.
Honestly Sonic Adventure 2 had some bangers. Live and Learn, That's the way I like it, all the Knuckles raps, classic
The Mario Galaxy beach music
Terraria. Just the normal daytime outside theme. I can perfectly hear it in my mind.
I have so many of these so going to just share my very first one. When I even think about this old gem the song starts playing in my head.
World of Warcraft log in screen music is the one that is the most burnt into my brain probably.
oooh for me it's gonna have to be dark hollow from spyro the dragon!
I have a soft spot for Half-life's soundtrack specifically:
You're Not Supposed to be Here
Outside of Half-life:
BFG Division from DOOM (2016).
Sisters of Battle from Hollow Knight.
Gwyn Lord of Cinder from Dark Souls.
Majula theme from Dark Souls 2.
Divinitus from Rome Total War, literally rent free in my head since 2004.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMQ1CzJYumA
Dota 2 Main Menu Theme (addict)
Hollow Knight
about half the Yakuza soundtrack
Withing the inner heart I plead.
For you to talk to me, I wanna hear all the good and bad
The new stories you have
The super mario 2 song because of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv6RbEOlqRo
@HexReplyBot@hexbear.net working overtime and not getting paid
lots of atmospheric and funky tunes in there
Street Fighter 3 Third Strike - Character Select theme I don't have nostalgia since I don't really play it, but it's probably one of my fav character select theme for some reason
C&C Tiberian Sun - Lone Trooper All C&C games have bangers but I particularly like the Tiberian Sun soundtrack
Guilty Gear Strive - Requiem [I-No's theme] I just love the character and I just wished they added her boss theme from the Korean OST of GGXX
I never felt like
So miserable
I never felt like thinking this would last forever
novalis theme from ratchet and clank and pretty much all of sim city 4, but shout out to rush hour
The entire ULTRAKILL soundtrack. great mix of metal and breakbeat.
Hard to pick one track so might as well begin at the start:
FFX Hymn of the fayth, always singing it when i get stressed
Otherwise, the entire soundtracks of ff7,ff9,ffX, xenogears, chrono cross, Suikoden 2
Played River City Ransom with a friend and it got to a point where we simply could not ignore the vibes of the Streets theme.
The Queen's High Seas from Divinity Original Sin 2
Mythic Power from Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. At risk of sounding like a redditor, it's easily the most epic track from a game's OST I've ever heard.
@mechwarrior2@hexbear.net alright this is our time to shine
Shit I'm too late to the party, but Banjo Tooie soundtrack runs through my mind constantly. Glitter Gulch Mine was my shit you ever heard a donkey used as an instrument? Well now you have
for burned into brain it's definitely chiptune music from NES games I played as a kid like:
Big Nose the Caveman - Level 2
Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy - Pirate Ship
The Jetsons - Cogswells Caper! Level 1
also I guess the Quake 3 Rocket Arena 3 theme from back in the day
when parts of this or this come on while playing ESO in the Morrowind region it feels special
There's also a lot of game music I like but from games I never played so I won't list any of those
Good song: Fear Mountain Shrine ambient track from Shadows of Valentia OST. Really sets the mood for the dungeon, and it makes it that much better that the dungeon is windy and massive. If Fire Emblem brought back dungeons, they have a model to work off of.
Bad song: The HORRIBLE Fire Emblem Engage Anime Opening song. I don't want to remember this song and I wish I had never heard it. If you say "Emblem, Engage!" to anybody who listened to that song before, it will play in their heads as you both collapse to the ground.
I listen to a lot of game soundtracks at work. Atm, this song is stuck in my head because so many YouTubers/streamers play it: Steam Gardens - Super Mario Odyssey
I stumbled on the OST for the unreleased Jazz Jackrabbit 3 recently, and I keep playing this track every now and again, it's such a banger. This whole subgenre from Epic Games' early efforts (and stuff those composers did for other companies) is really cool, I with there more games beyond the Unreals and Deus Ex with that style. This track from Unreal 2 is another great one
The cut Downtown theme from Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines, it's just such a vibe
Fertile Rondo from Bayonetta 3 is also just
, great 5th Element vibesBrain Freeze from Yuri's Revenge, I miss the "just stick some old movie/TV quotes in" era of electronic music
This track from Descent (this particular recording off a Roland SC-55, I'm pretty sure I originally found it on youtube but it seems like that upload may have been taken down, and a lot of the other ones I could find don't sound as good)
The whole Neotokyo soundtrack really, just an absolute masterpiece composed for a free mod for some reason. Some standouts: Beacon, Imbrium, Tachi, I just absolutely love the combination of more electronic sounds with strings and piano in a lot of these.
On the more ambient side of things, STALKER has some great ones, Call of Pripyat especially, like the Pripyat theme
been listening to Repeated Tragedy, good one
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
"This is it, the final wave, defend MANN Co. at all costs!"
Ever since I was a kid I've loved Rose of May from FF9.
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=QOJUxX6tvjw&si=BafGEM_PmnS0EYb4
EDIT:
Somehow spaced on this completely but my kid and I played through Cassette Beasts recently and a ton of the songs from that are really good. He regularly requests them in the car when we're driving somewhere.
EDIT 2: hopefully better link
Mall Music 3 from Dead Rising
