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Patient Gamers
A gaming community free from the hype and oversaturation of current releases, catering to gamers who wait at least 12 months after release to play a game. Whether it's price, waiting for bugs/issues to be patched, DLC to be released, don't meet the system requirements, or just haven't had the time to keep up with the latest releases.
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- Cave Story
- Chrono Trigger
- CrossCode
- Crypt of the Necrodancer
- F-Zero GX
- Guilty Gear
- Jet Set Radio
- Land Maker
- Lethal League
- Shatter
- Splatoon
- Them's Fightin' Herds
- Tower of Heaven
- Undertale/Deltarune
- VVVVVV
- The World Ends With You
Risk of Rain 2, by Chris Chris, is such a fucking bop! I particularly recommend The raindrop that fell to the sky and The rain formerly known as purple
RoR one is good too, but not as much
Jetset radio
Dustforce
Scott Pilgrim vs the Wolrd the Game
River City Girls 1 and 2
Okami
/u/tal@lemmy.world is a hero for linking all the tracks in this thread.
Grim Fandango.
Seriously, it's one of the only games I consider to even HAVE a soundtrack. It's absolutely next-level.
I’ve seen a lot of good mentions here already but haven’t seen Nier: Automata yet. I thought the game was overrated, but there are a lot of great audio tracks
I’ve seen a lot of good mentions here already but haven’t seen Nier: Automata yet.
A number of people have suggested it. I linked to the playlists on one comment here. Note that if you're using the Lemmy Web UI, it
unfortunately, in my opinion
uses AJAX "infinite scroll" loading for comments, and has no way to disable this functionality. Thus, if you are using a web browser and search for text further down in comments, you won't find it, as the web browser doesn't know that it should load the rest of the comments to search through them. You have to scroll all the way to the end of the page, keeping yourself at the bottom to force the Javascript on the page to load all the content chunk-by-chunk until it's done, then do a search. This is one of my irritations with the AJAX "infinite scroll" design, that it breaks browser "find in page" functionality. I'm not saying that there's never utility to it, but I'd generally rather have the ability to turn it off for situations where the list I'm loading is bounded in size and where I have a fast connection.
Reddit's old Web UI at least had a one-click link to load all comments on a post; it would load the first 200 and then have a single click that would load all comments. Lemmy's Web UI presently lacks this functionality.
OST ones:
- Pizza tower
- Jet Set Radio/Future
- Doom 2016
- Psychonauts 1 and 2
- The Binding of Isaac Rebirth and DLC
With licensed music:
- Pretty much any GTA
- THPS series
- NFS Series from 2 SE up until Most Wanted 2005
Just comented this in another thread, but Amon Tobin's soundtrack for Splinter Cell Chaos Theory goes fucking hard.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nphWymI_0f4SxcEak39sDr0k0CxujIOws
Anything Xenoblade, but especially 1 and X.
I got bored of Undertale quickly, but the OST is an all-time great.
Shovel Knight is really good.
Anything by David Wise, especially Donkey Kong Country 1 and 2.
Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest has the best music in the entire series, don't @ me.
The Grandia theme.
The Nier games have gorgeous music.
- Bravely Default kicks with both special and battle themes (go give vagrant of love a try)
-Gran Turismo 4 suuper nice menu themes i especially like hypnosis, the motorious zone, don't kick yourself and be at home
Citizen Sleeper
Alright i'll try to go with things that has not been submitted yet.
- Ace combat 7 has consistent bangers. Also project wingman in the same style, slightly less consistent, but the best tracks are absolutely amazing (showdown and redline are in my opinion)
- I did not play Mighty Switch Force and Mighty Switch Force 2, but this game has really good tracks
- ULTRAKILL is not really out yet, but its soundtrack is already amazing
- Turrican 2 has some pretty damn good chiptune tracks
- VA-11 HALL-A which also acts as an amazing background music to work
- Tekken tag 2 / Tekken 8
- Distance (this one is probably a bit personal though)
Aaand i'll stop there otherwise this will be a way too long post
Night in the Woods
Hollow Knight
CrossCode
Minecraft
Cult of the Lamb
Chicory (Lena Raine is goated with the sauce)
Kirby's Dream Course
Gen 3 and 4 Pokemon games
Anything Toby Fox touches
Later Alligator
Stardew Valley
Guitar Hero: Modern Hits for the DS baybee
Pretty much any Nintendo game since the NES
Night in the Woods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snkpaeNGSnE&list=PLNuuWO3uUJZ0enw1oh-Vo5TQZYpIZinmK
Hollow Knight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=243Uguc-6mQ&list=PLmOldskd2VbL7_t-NE9p6rEboq_v0AHko
CrossCode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmWJ3M25F_w&list=PLtlMDRDo_s5_vW6k48EdujoUW7dgbPPO9
Minecraft
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg0IjOzopYU&list=RDDg0IjOzopYU&start_radio=1
Chicory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNhL0ufsGdI&list=RDdNhL0ufsGdI&start_radio=1
Kirby's Dream Course
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA0pvjsGpCM&list=PLE19F8C36718653D3
Gen 3 and 4 Pokemon games
Anything Toby Fox touches
Later Alligator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMwry4NZYmQ&list=PLaxFoZ8rz3_eLmcgKOe21n3CyErtTep_S
Stardew Valley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQSHcl6TJb4&list=PLKDOdCjxOjzIFucHobwJpSK4-vAVXST90
Guitar Hero: Modern Hits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb0mItGtTyc&list=PLocte0jbHBRjjw7baipXO_Vze3M0KdxzG
So many good answers here. Not patient gaming, but Clair Obscur this year absolutely killed it with the soundtrack.
Patient games:
All Nobuo Ouematsu Final Fantasy games.
Fable
The Elder Scrolls Games
Doom 2016/eternal
Cyberpunk
Divinity Orginal Sin 2
Cuphead
i'm ngl most nintendo games really got banger music. i esp love mario kart 8's soundtrack, peak fusion
Ape Escape. I think Cryptic Relics is my favorite track but they're all so good. They're all drum and bass bangers.
Persona 3/4/5 are goated on their own ways in my opinion.
The Final Fantasy X soundtrack is great too
but rn my obsession soundtrack is Neon White, I love machine girl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9X15iDR7z8
axiom verge 1 and 2 - good in different ways. i liked to put first on for long coding sessions, and the second expanded in interesting directions
transistor & pyre & hades - all scored by Darren Korb, but different genres. from first moment, transistor has such vibe in big part thanks to it's soundtrack, and is among my all time top games
Nier automata - won awards for it's soundtrack, clear to hear why
crypt of the necrodancer - rhythm game should have a good soundtrack, and it does
witcher 3 - the battle themes - like "silver for monsters" are unique style of action-y folk, very rare to find anything else that scratches that itch.
dusk - awesome and dynamic metal
risk of rain 1&2 - first game itself didn't click with me, but, oh man, that solo in "Monsoon" get me every time, and "Coalescence" is poignantly melancholic in a similar way to "song of the ancients" from nier - which is (a very high praise and) much more expected from nier's type of game than a "risk of rain"'s. "face of the deep" from ror2 from second is head-spinning in a good way
no man's sky - it introduced me to 65dos, for which i'm very grateful. that soundtrack is still probably my favourite album of theirs
noita - low-key psychedelic, very vibes
unreal tournament 99 - and i think it's not just nostalgia, because one of my favourites - "mechanism 8" - is from the map i almost never played
"Ultrakill" - good soundtrack, and yet cyber grind tracks from guest composers are still my favourites. "The cyber grind" in particular is just exhilarating
individual tracks i overheard from games i haven't played:
old "touhou project" games - their soundtrack is full of gems, even if it's not my genre of game
system shock 2's "Med Sci 1" and "Engineering" - very nice, i want more of that and can't find
"Clair Obscur: Expedition 33"'s "Lumière" - made me wishlist the game just for having it
"Final Fantasy IX"'s "You're not alone" - very nice melody i like to whistle sometimes. considering playing it just for having it
original "Castlevania"'s "Vampire killer" rocks
For entire OSTs: any of the FromSoft soulslikes, Lies of P, Diablo 2 + Lord of Destruction, any Monster Hunter game really (especially the ones in Pokke village, so Freedom 2 and Freedom Unite/Portable 2nd G), Hollow Knight, currently enjoying Ridge Racer's (PSP) soundtrack for working out, Deltarune and Undertale, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 and Bboy the Game for some perfect-vibe licensed music...
Disco Elysium's is my current favourite OST, but the game itself might also just be current favourite game.
As for individual tracks, I like the Spanish guitar portion of "The Drive/First Contact" off the RE4 soundtrack. Back when I started out with breaking ("breakdance"), think 2008/9ish, we had a remix of that specific part of the song that would play often - I've got very fond memories of that. The song itself, its remixes and the remake versions actually are some of my favourite running music for the gym.
Here's the remix in question if anyone's interested: https://youtu.be/SMWV-3pbcLE
As for one favourite individual song from each of the aforementioned OSTs:
- Hunter's Dream (Bloodborne)
- Shadow Flower (Lies of P)
- Rogue (Diablo 2) + Lord of Destruction intro
- Pokke Village theme (MH Freedom 2/Unite/Generations (Ultimate)) and Mizutsune theme (first fought in Generations)
- Mantis Lords (Hollow Knight)
- Rotterdam Nation - Remix (Ridge Racer)
- Ruins (Undertale) and My Castle Town (Deltarune)
- I'm a Swing It by House of Pain or Ace of Spades by Motörhead (THPS3)
- Don't Sweat the Technique by Rakim or Apache by Incredible Bongo Band (Bboy the Game)
This was lots of fun to think about. I hope anyone reading can find something of value here. :)
FTL, diablo II, The Sims (build music), ecco the dolphin (sega cd), hardspace shipbreaker
Going through the lists everyone has posted I realized I’m surprised I haven’t seen anything from the Medal of Honor franchise posted. I only ever played Medal of Honor: Frontline because a roommate had it, but it was scored by Michael Giacchino, who also composed the scores for the original Medal of Honor, Medal of Honor: Underground, Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, and Medal of Honor: Airborne. Giacchino won awards for the first four soundtracks in the series and it was his video game work that caught J. J. Abrams’s attention and led to him scoring Alias and Lost, starting his TV and movie career.
Also, if you enjoy soundtracks, you might like StreamingSoundtracks.com. It’s been around since 2001 and features soundtracks from movies, tv shows, and video games. It’s a free streaming radio service with the playlist queued by listeners along with limits on how frequently any track can be played, so you won’t hear repeats very often. A manager at a past job played it most days. One year someone took advantage of the “No repeats” rules and played all the horror tracks throughout October so that on Halloween there were basically no horror tracks available, angering many when they realized what had happened. I found it one of the more impressively planned and executed pranks I’ve personally witnessed.
- All of the Zelda games
- All of the Ori games
- All of the Horizon games
- All of the Mario Galaxy games
So good.
Nier Automata
Edit: it was mentioned already but I'm keeping it
Journey
The game is a piece of art and the soundtrack plays a big part of it.
Not sure if mentioned yet, but EVE Online has an amazing soundtrack. Their 10 Year Anniversary Symphony is just the cream on top.
Before games had full epic soundtracks, you still got quality "intro tracks", occasionally with a few other songs for whilst you're playing.
Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe intro music (youtube link)
From the same Atari ST/Amiga era: Chaos Engine, Frontier Elite 2, Xenon 2 Megablast, Syndicate Wars
For newer stuff with "full soundtracks", you can't beat Stellaris OST (youtube link)
Literally every Supergiant game.