Jet Set Radio Future is up there for me. Even twenty years later it sounds like it came from the future.
Killer Instinct (original and 2013).
-Assassin's Creed Odyssey: Legend of the Eagle Bearer, The 300, Odyssey(Greek version).
-Assassin’s Creed Origins: Main theme, Return of the Medjay, Bayek of Siwa, The Shimmering Sands, The Battle of Krokodilopolis.
-Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Main theme, Shadow Walker, Out of the North.
-Battlefield 1: Nothing Is Written, Avanti Savoia, Hunted, Cape Helles, Zeebrugge Harbour, Sand and Dust, In the Name of the Tsar, Grace and Glory, Sword in Hand.
-Battlefield V: Legacy Theme, Under No Flag, Far From Home, Spitfires, Rotterdam In Ruins, Devestation, I Vow To Thee My Country
-Battlefield 4: Warsaw Theme, Stutter theme, Jin Jie's Revolution, A Theme For Kjell, Fishing in Baku.
-Battlefield Bad Company 2: The Storm, Snowy Mountains, Operation Aurora.
-Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2: Opening Titles, Extraction Point, Coup de Grace, Chain of Command, Esprit de Corps, Protocol.
I thought Mass Effect had a great soundtrack that really fit the game perfectly. Moody in parts and rousing in others.
Lots of good answers in this thread. Thank you for wording this in a way that allows me to post more than one answer, lol. I'll name a few I didn't see reading through here:
Golden Sun. Despite some other masterpieces, I still maintain that the trilogy of games represent Motoi Sakuraba's magnum opus. Nothing else from the life of the GBA came anywhere close to even touching it, and even now tracks will randomly get stuck in my head, more than I can say for any other game soundtrack I've ever heard.
I have the soundtrack from the first two games on my phone!
Haven't played the third yet, maybe I should go find a good DS emulator
Shout-out to Xenoblade Chronicles X. I really wish Nintendo would port it to Switch , since the only way to play it is on Wii U..
ULTRAKILL has a phenomenal OST. Fast paced and very breakcore for a stupidly fast FPS set in hell with crunchy PSX graphics, but still with these weighty almost sad moments of calm.
On the complete other end of the spectrum, Project Moon. They've done two turn based deck builders that force you to slow the fuck down and read, and are also a fan of using "actual" songs (made a group called Mili) for boss fights that are slow, melancholic, and Really Good. they've also done the main themes for Both Games but idk if they strictly count as 'OST'.
Also I know Persona gets all the love, but the mainline SMT series has some fucking bangers too, just more in the Club and/or Hell yeah tubular bells genre
Payday 2 leads the industry with countless bangers and implements music in a way that keys you in on what phase you're currently in.
'Evil eye' 'Hot pursuit' 'Break the rules' 'Ode to greed' 'I will give you my all' 'The gauntlet'
Not to mention the Christmas track.
Portal 2. It's music told me more about aperture than I could discover with my eyes.
I'm going to go deep cut here with Outlaws (Lucasarts, 1997). If you don't have time to listen, imagine an Ennio Morricone Spaghetti Western score, but with John Williams-like melodic leitmotifs. It was done really well, and lived on my various MP3 players for many years.
Genshin Impact has an incredible soundtrack.
It really does. I think their music budget is probably larger than some AAA games' entire budget.
An older one, but Fahrenheit had such a great soundtrack.
simcity 2000.
I’ll limit myself to recently released games. Blasphemous and Dead Cells have really good soundtracks. I think Axiom Verge’s soundtrack is very cool too but not something I listen to often.
ehh fuck it, im gonna say its space funeral. It's a bunch of music lifted from the 70's BBC sound archives. Its clearly not the most expensive or masterfully produced soundtrack, but that's nowhere near the point. Its the dichotomy between the ugly visuals of scum vullage and the melancholic first track that persuaded me to stick around, and then it went in all sorts of different directions over the course of an hour long game.
that's super, dracula.
Katana Zero and Celeste both had great soundtracks. Persona 5’s soundtrack is amazing.
GTA 4. Dark, gloomy, realistic
Some of my favorites include
Minecraft (nostalgia and calming slow paced)
Subnautica 1 and below zero (super calming to listen too and also fit the vibe really well)
No man's sky (music fits the atmosphere of the game really well)
Payday 2 (very good kinda electronic songs)
Superliminal (very good calming piano)
Boneworks and bonelab (these are absolutely phenomenal like electronic tracks, Michael Wyckoff fucking nailed the sound track for both games and both are perfect)
Red dead redemption 2 (the entire game is perfect and so is the sound track) (haven't played the first one)
But I swear it's always the tiny little indie games that hire some guy off of fiverr or something like make some masterpieces.
Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, FFVI and Xenogears top out the list for me. You can't beat them. If you want something a little off the beaten path, the soundtrack to Ruiner is pretty fucking rad.
I’m very nostalgic for the Paper Mario games’ soundtracks, especially The Thousand Year Door’s.
I always liked the music written for the original Fable.
Planescape: Torment by Mark Morgan
Though Castlevania: Lords of Shadow was a divisive game, its art direction and soundtrack are incredible. Oscar Araujo’s score combined with some great vistas and setpieces elevates the mediocre gameplay to actually make this game one of my favorites.
I also loved the songs from Death Stranding. Low Roar’s tracks fit the atmosphere of the game perfectly, and the few tracks from other artists really stand out in a nice contrast to Low Roar’s calmer feeling.
Reznor did a great job with the soundtrack for quake 1.
Not a single vote for dark souls 3 or bloodborne? barbaric!
Skate 2. So many bangers.
Diablo 2. Easy
Katamari
Outer Wilds
Commando for C64
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