Under the Ocean

Monkey Target 2

Mic drop

Nier and Clair Obscur have fantastic soundtracks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMmTrCnCMfI
Though honestly a lot of games have amazing soundtracks. I just currently lean into metal.

Who needs the whole Final Fantasy soundtrack when you got Fierce Battle?

Borderlands 3 & Doom 2016 are both great, but I feel like that's slightly unfair since both are explicitly mixed to be albums and use the dynamic atmospheric music from the games as the basis for the songs - none of the tracks actually show up in game as they are on the album (with a couple weird exceptions in borderlands like Digby Vermouth).

As I understand it, pretty much all modern "video game soundtracks" do it the same way - the game's composer writes an album based on the music from the game.

God, they screwed Mick Gordon so hard on Eternal and it's just tragic. DOOM 2016 is truly the gold standard for game soundtracks and really kicked off the popularity of the genre...

Which is kind of a shame. I actually like a lot of the atmospheric stuff in Doom 2016, the combat music is awesome but I also love having more ambient pieces run for hours.

Diablo 2 OST is an OG IMO. I also spent a lot of time with the Oblivion OST running.

Current favourite is the Tunic OST, and I haven't even played the game (I don't have the patience for "git gud").

animal crossing new horizons

stardew valley

witcher 3 +dlc

mario kart 8

tloz botw

hollow knight

hades

the last of us

night in the woods

duck tales

castlevania

skyrim

lelele lele

Okay yeah, Award Ceremony makes me feel like I just woke up from a great sleep.

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=pVvQVlTjHBk&list=PLTmomcjY1VRwCRVmIFw7o4DuQhnHjeSAY&index=0

*What gives this game the right to have such good fucking music?

Journey

Ori and the blind forest

Ori and the Will o the Wisps

Frostpunk

Total War The Three Kingdoms

What the fuuuuck? I need to fight this Joey clown.

I listen to JSR and PSO all the time.

Half my entire saved music collection is video game music.

Yeah we all know they went downhill after the chiptune era.

Bro is missing out.

FTL: Faster Than Light

Sanctum

Bastion

Age of Empires II

Core Keeper

Sonic CD

Clair Obscur

Screamer

All fantastic soundtracks

how to ask for music recommendations on the internet:

You misspelled Clash on the Big Bridge.

My Game soundtrack playlist is 6.5h long.

The Noita OST is such a bop. How could I not?

D2 has a special place of nostalgia in my heart. The first games I ever encountered was watching my dad play D2 and Far Cry when I was a kid. Rogue from the D2 OST has been etched into my neural pathways in a way nothing can ever come close to.

Sanctum Soundtrack in Satisfactory boombox while mindlessly crouch jumping through my factory. I could do that all day.

Not sure what the original poster of the meme (not the op here, but who did the meme originally) is implying. There is, for certain, excellent music in games and also series/movies (originals strictly speaking). Some games I didn't even play but I love to listen to the music because is just that good.
Also, a lot of games and TV stuff made sure the more classic approach does have new music, because if we were stuck to the "originals" i would for sure not even touch it.

If they're good, I cleaned my whole house to the doom soundtrack.

The Sims 1 OST is an absolute must for elegant relaxation!

Some. soundtracks. go. really. hard.

Dark Souls 1 - Firelink shrine is nice to listen to when reading boring work stuff

Well, the Life is strange and Stray Soundtracks took a lot of effort.

wind's howling

Katamari Damacy

https://youtu.be/kKkkh1STZqs

Naaaa na na na na na naa

I wanna roll you up into my life

Clair Obscure's music is so good, almost every single one with lyrics is in my normal everyday playlist. Most VG music doesn't get that honor and stays in their own specific playlist. Having lyrics is a big plus for me.

I thought this was going to be BFG Division or something but I'm pretty happy with what I experienced.

Jet Set Radio's soundtrack is absolutely banging!

Ice cold take.

Portal 2 OST is a banger.

I have a playlist of video game soundtracks playing quietly 24-7. It keeps my cats company when I'm gone and it's nice to have some background noise when I'm home. It's all music I own and there's over a thousand songs in there.

Lil uzi vert sampled a Super Monkey Ball 2 track once

FTL's music is just really nice and I should go reinstall it, thanks!

there's water in the ocean?

Hotline Miami is a banger

I don't see Chrono Cross mentionned, best one IMO.

Hell yeah they do

Outer Wilds, but only when I want to feel a bittersweet melancholy 😅

Don't let the difficulty of TUNIC keep you from the game. There are difficulty sliders in the options menu including god mode.

The game isn't that hard outside of the bosses.

It's one of my top 5 games ever.

The OST is phenomenal, but not something I would listen to outside of the game. For me, it's more atmospheric in the game.

I recently just played Demon Tides and the soundtrack was made by 2 Mello. Good game and good music

ROLLING AROUND AT THE SPEED OF SOUND!
GOT PLACES TO GO!
GOT TO FOLLOW MY RAINBOW!

It seems the reduced damage option was added at some point after its release, which might explain why I didn't know about it. Maybe I'll give it a go, then.

As a kid pre internet times I'd take my talk boy (the cassette recorder thing from home alone) and record the soundtracks as they came out of the TV. I'd have to ask my brothers to get to certain parts of the game so I could get that track. The quality was garbage but I could listen to Chrono trigger on the school bus. I'd just have to use imagination to hear as a symphony. No lyrics no playlist but that's about as good as I could get.