If you mean music, it depends on how you can define 'from a video game. If it has to be in the game, The Last of Us by Gustavo Santolalla. If you can allow a bit of a stretch to gameplay-adjacent spaces, it’s Daylight’s End from League of Legends. Lots of fun music in the LoL space but, without exaggeration, that one was so beautiful I wept when I heard it.
Now if you mean race track: probably Mist Falls from Ridge Racer 7. So much SPEED and adrenaline next to a calm buddha.
Legend of zelda theme for the NES. I’ll never get tired of it
i don’t even play racing games but i immediately though you were referring to a race track, not a music one, haha.
regardless, one of my favorite tracks is THE WORLD REVOLVING from Deltarune: Chapter 1 OST.
My life basically feels like that.
Everytime something absurd happens, that plays in my head.
Recent favorite:
The track when you fight Consort Radahn in Elden Ring. I am absolutely OBSESSED with the man who sings that one part… You’d have to listen to it and you’ll spot who I mean. He has such a powerful voice, you can hear him over the rest. It’s just awe inspiring.
(So glad I can finally gush about that song)
I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire.
There are some great answers here already, but nothing else makes me want to kick off a new run-through like this does.
The version of Rooftop Run from Sonic Generations
Really most Sonic music, but that song along with the excitement of that level perfectly captures what I love about those games.
Hidden character from Tekken 3.
Current one is this one: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IunbXWab1_Y from Clair Obscur Expedition 33.
(But I’m overall in the fucking bag for this game at the moment.)
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There’s so many good songs out there. I love the soundtrack for all the Kingdom hearts games, both games in the Chrono series, Minecraft, and Stardew Valley. My favorites would have to be the winter songs in Stardew.
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.”
I wish Want You Gone was more popular, because it’s genuinely a better song and plays the relationship double entendre so well.
Shoutout to You Wouldn’t Know, which rounds out the trilogy of songs.
Goodbye, my only friend
Oh, did you think I meant you?
That would be funny
If it weren’t so sad
Baba Yetu from Civilization 2005 is the first video track to win a Grammy.
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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.
Probably Stickerbush Symphony from Donkey Kong Country 2.
I didn’t play the game back in the days, heck until now I have only played the 1st title, but this song sounds so good and I have 0 nostalgia googles about it (although weirdly it emits some nostalgia to me regardless).
They definitely cooked with the DKC OST.
That’s one of my favorites! Also Aquatic Ambience from DKC. I used to pause the game on that level and just listen to the track.
The whole DKC2 soundtrack is solid gold. I’m hard pressed to find tracks that aren’t amazing.
Very true, of the 3 DKC snes games DKC2 had the best music overall.
Chrono Trigger - Corridors of Time
Lots of great music in that game
