At the moment, it's Maya's theme from Killer Instinct 2013. It's an 8-minute long banger and I never get tired of it. But, my absolute favorite track changes every time I think about it.
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That would be the opening prelude of Final Fantasy VII. You immediately understand what the themes of the game are when listening to it, it's highly effective in portraying things/feelings like loss, despair, melancholy, overcome, hope. And all of that with a rather limited set of instruments (compared to other compositions). It's pure and sincere without being kitschy. Nothing is hidden or ambiguous or pretentious. It wears its big broken heart on its sleeve in the best possible way. It's a masterpiece.
Probably Stickerbush Symphony from Donkey Kong Country 2.
Lots of good Final Fantasy tracks from Nobuo Uematsu and Chrono Trigger/Cross ones from Yasunori Mitsuda too. But Stickerbush Symphony was the first video game music that really moved me, like more than your average SNES soundtrack. David Wise went hard on those Donkey Kong Country games.
I'll give you two albums worth:
*Bastion OST
*Transistor OST
I couldn't pick just one.
- From The Witcher 3:
- Whiterun theme (unforgivably absent from the OST albums)
- Fields of Ard Skellig (a version of the folk song "Fear a Bhata")
- From Skyrim... hard to pick out favourites
- From Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance (Jeremy Soule again): The Art of War. It opens boldly but there's a moment when it's just twinkling in the strings, percussion and a little piano with almost no melody. If at that moment you happen to be watching the trajectory of your artillery arcing towards the enemy, and then the theme comes back as they land... sublime.
Not one track, but I love all the biome specific music in Terraria.
Shadow of the Colossus - The Opened Way
Too many favourites to name, but here are a few examples
- lots of Nobuo Uematsu songs in lots of games
- small two of pieces from xenogears
- simple and clean from kingdom hearts
- xenoblade chronicles 2 Ost, especially gormott when the 'vocals' kick in
- take control from control
- wide awake from Alan wake 2
...
The track that played the first time I landed in Mexico on Red Dead Redemption
So emotional
Far Away by Jose Gonzalez.
The CD-rom for Mechwarrior 2 could play in a standard CD player. Track one was the data for the game, but the remaining 22-odd tracks were the in-game music. We used to listen to the Mechwarrior 2 soundtrack while playing everything else. I still love that music.
Song2 by Blur
Fifa 98?
I remember never being able to tape it anywhere except for my friends football game. Fifa 97, I think?
Chrono Trigger - Corridors of Time
Lots of great music in that game
Alpha by C418 - The background music to the End Poem in Minecraft
Still Alive
Still Alive from Mirror's Edge is also excellent.
They really had to give the ending credits song the same name huh.
That's the video game song that gets in my head the most.
Interestingly, despite how it's not as good of a song, I probably think about Want You Gone about as often as Still Alive. It doesn't really come through as a song, just the phrases. "Now I only want you gone." "You've got your short sad life left. [...] I'll let you get right to it."
Vigil - Mass Effect
The End Run from Mass Effect 2 is also high up there.
Recency bias, but Lumiere from Expedition 33 is also incredible.
Need For Speed 2 - Headless Horse
One of the two songs that can play during Proving Grounds oval track or on the results screen. It's random.
Hmmm.
Maybe Dragon Roost Island from The Legend Of Zelda: The Wind Waker.
Breathing by Yellowcard in flatout 2
Nordschleife
It's a piece of music featured in surviv.io, a browser 2D battle royale that has a tragic story of being acquired by a stupid company who ran it to the ground.
Occasionally a Desert Rain Map rotation would happen, and this track is played on loops in a saloon, which there is only one. The relaxing vibes contrast so much with the battle royale.
Music track or racetrack? ;)
Interesting. If they had said, "What is your absolute favorite track from a racing game?" I would have interpreted the question differently.
Aerith's Theme and all of its variants in every FFVII game (and movie)
You can't do this to me. Don't make me pick just one.
Let me have six at least.
The title song of Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon
The shift in tone about halfway through is insane and gives me goosebumps every single time.
Weird one - the labyrinth music from BotW. I used to listen to extended versions of that for hours at work, just to make things feel tense and intriguing.
P.T. Adamczyk - Never Looking Back | Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty