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Kinda hard for me. I'm split between NieR:Automata, ultrakill and Doom 2016/Eternal

Then again, I just started Baldur's Gate 3 and the soundtrack so far is pretty bangin so this might change

I've barely played the game, it wasn't for me, but I fell instantly in love with the Bastion and Transistor soundtracks the moment I heard them.

It is my second most played game soundtrack right behind the metal songs from the Alan Wake series. Third is all 3 Hell March songs from Red Alert series. Fourth and oldest is probably Unreal Return to Na Pali and generally all of the two Unreal and four Unreal Tournament game tracks. And the Frozen Synapse series and Uplink soundtracks is probably close to the top too. And I don't know if it counts but the artist behind the Wheel of Time game soundtrack released a separate almost-soundtrack, which I played A LOT while reading the book series.

And thats just a few of my favorite tracks. I love video game music! I can't really decide on a single best one.

FFXIV

Final Fantasy VI

There's just way too many to list. A few of my favorite composers are

• Tim Follin
• Jochen Hippel
• Matt Furniss
• David Whittaker
• Jeroen Tel
• Yuzo Koshiro
• Rob Hubbard

The Super Mario Galaxy duology has the best overall OST in my opinion. The orchestral music is amazing for so many of the tracks.

For any individual song, however. It would be Weight of the World from Nier Automata. For context:

EDIT: I want to give an honorable mention to the Ace Attorney OST, across all of their games. A lot of people may know the Pursuit - Cornered theme, but every game in that series has banger tracks. Not as widely praised, and very underrated imo, hence the honorable mention.

The Last Of Us.

Firelink Shrine from Dark Souls, it's so peaceful and melancholic

Bro, you put a Super Giant game and don't mention "Build that Wall" from Bastion, tsk tsk.

Space Harrier or Outrun, for sure.

Special award for Ghost n Goblins or Commando and some others like Dragon's Lair.

some of my favourites

streets of rage 1 and 2 wave race 64 aerobiz supersonic platoon nes donkey country snes katamari damacy ps2 earthbound snes pictionary nes ristar genesis bomberman hero n64 castlevania 3 nes

Here's an obscure one.

The Batman game for NES.

That stage 1 & 2 song was like no other game music on the NES before or since.

Also, shout out to Blaster Master.

In my opinion no video game soundtrack slaps harder than Hotline Miami 1&2 OST

Hotline Miami 1&2 - Workout Mix

Lots of great answers here already. To me not only is this extremely subjective, this is highly dependent on how you define "best".

Is it the one that exposed me to the most new music, and most help shape my music tastes today? Then I'm going with Tony Hawk or Guitar Hero.

Is it the best entire original soundtrack, the one that best creates the aesthetic of the game? Bastion comes to mind, but I think there are good arguments to be made for quite a few RPGs. Mass Effect doesn't have a lot of hummable tunes, but damn do they nail the feel of the world.

Is it the most technically impressive? I'm going with the original Mario soundtrack. What they did with so few possible notes and so little memory to create different sounds is nothing short of miraculous, and they are tunes and riffs that are instantly recognizable worldwide.

Is it the best individual song? Hard pick but I really adore the main theme of Skyrim to this day.

Is it just my favorite overall? I think I'd go with Earthbound.

Persona 5 Royal

There are many great ones. Off the top of my head, each with a sample:

• Baldur's Gate 3 (recent addition)
• Return of the Obra Dinn
• Portal 2
• Deep Rock Galactic
• Doom Eternal
• Deus Ex - Human Revolution
• Ori and the Will of Wisps (haven't played it enough yet but music stood out)

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MegaMan 2 Tony Hawk franchise Halo (Bungie days)

aquatic ambiance from Donkey Kong country is up there. Also IGN made an actually cool video about it recently.

Ori And The Blind Forest is definitely up there

Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Lelelelelele.... need I say more?

Goldeneye on N64

For the whole soundtrack Shadow of the Collosus. For a specific track the one I listen to most often is Instrument of Surrender, or Off We Go Into The Wild Pale Yonder from Disco Elysium

FF IX for me

It is ** Brütal Legend** by far!!

Objectively speaking the answer has gotta be something from FFXIV. But which one?? Too many candidates....

So many great answers already, but one I don't think I've seen mentioned yet is the soundtrack for Bastion

Not sure about best but the music the black mesa game did for the half life remaster was amazing.

Awesome for the Amiga

Warhammer 40,000 Mechanicus Just embodies the Techpreist vibe so well, a near perfect hybrid of church organs and industrial music.

Its actually hard to pick a favorite track, it evenly split between Children of the Omnissiah and Noosphere.

Team Fortress 2 OST

Outer Worlds - Hope

Super Mario Galaxy has an amazing soundtrack!