Half my entire saved music collection is video game music.

Ice cold take.

Portal 2 OST is a banger.

Katamari Damacy

Nier and Clair Obscur have fantastic soundtracks

Bro is missing out.

FTL: Faster Than Light

Sanctum

Bastion

Age of Empires II

Core Keeper

Sonic CD

Clair Obscur

Screamer

All fantastic soundtracks

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

C418

My brother really hasn't listened to the music of our lord Mick Gordon's DOOM & DOOM ETERNAL

Surprised anything by Supergiant Games isn't mentioned here, their soundtracks rock! Bastion and Hades really come to mind.

Jet Set Radio's soundtrack is absolutely banging!

Buddy must be trolling. That or he only plays sports games

Nine Inch Nails did the soundtrack to Quake... And I still have that in my music collection

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

Donkey Kong Country 1,2&3

Its not that different from movie sound tracks.

Hotline Miami is a banger

Some. soundtracks. go. really. hard.

Portal 2!

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.

I listen to the Disco Elysium soundtrack by Sea Power consistently. It's such a great album in its own right.

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

Burnout takedown

there's water in the ocean?

Persona 5

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

how to ask for music recommendations on the internet:

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.

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

This mf hasn't listened to Destiny 2's "Journey" and it shows

Journey

Ori and the blind forest

Ori and the Will o the Wisps

Frostpunk

Total War The Three Kingdoms

Lil uzi vert sampled a Super Monkey Ball 2 track once

Under the Ocean

Monkey Target 2

Mic drop

Fucking yes we do!

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

I remember in high school I was starting to get into music. "Classic rock" from my parents, metal from my cousins, pop punk from other places. Nothing too esoteric. When I was talking about music one day, one of my friends was like "You wanna see my music collection??" I went sure, and he opened it up. All video game soundtracks. Final Fantasy, mostly.

I'm sorry to say that was a young teenager I was a shit and made fun. I wouldn't do that now, but I still feel a little bad about it. I very rarely would pick a video game soundtrack to listen to, but it's such a harmless joy I should've been nicer.

The Bloodborne OST is a masterpiece.

They've been pretty good lately

This person clearly never listened to the Halo soundtracks (specifically Martin O'Donnell's for Halo CE through Reach)

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.

If you've got the original PS1 disc and the right software, it's not that difficult to extract the soundtracks from some Playstation games. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night has some awesome tracks.

Nier Automata still is in my rotation.

Nothing like having an existential crisis when "City Ruins" or

comes on while I'm on my way to work

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

Straftat has some really good ambient jungle as soundtrack. Actually just bought it today on bandcamp lol

Also the doom (2016) soundtrack is just exceptional

Game OSTs I've gone out of my way to acquire at some point or another:

Diablo II (I think it was specifically the new Tristram song that made me do it, but all the hours I put into that game led to all of them being on my playlist at the time)

FFVII (haven't played the game in decades but I still randomly start humming or singing some of these songs)

Zelda: OOT (same as FFVII but even more so)

Metroid Prime (this game has the genre defining music for lava and winter stages IMO, and if I had to pick a top one, I'd probably pick this one)

Subnautica (this soundtrack was perfect for the game, plus the extra songs you could play in the jukebox were great, and I loved that you could listen to them on the go in the second game)

Sanctum/Satisfactory (they are connected in my mind because playing Satisfactory was where I was first exposed to Sanctum's music)

Risk of Rain (curious if this one would be enjoyed by people who haven't played the games... Anyone willing to do so, listen to The Rain Formerly Known as Purple and let me know if it still sounds awesome without it also meaning you've made it through 4 or so levels to hear it)

Also, honourable mentions for every Guitar Hero and Rock Band game for exposing me to a lot of great non-game music that I hadn't otherwise been exposed to, as well as let me pretend to play along with ones I already loved and gain more tolerance/appreciation for ones I didn't really like before. Green Grass and High Tides and Through the Fire and Flames especially.

And Rocksmith for doing that except with a real guitar and I didn't get as advanced.

Warframe and Atomic Heart both have killer sound tracks!

https://youtu.be/kKkkh1STZqs

Ever since I played Chrono Trigger I've had Peaceful days as my ringtone. https://youtu.be/wYp_UsDzgxM still like the song.

DS1. Firelink Shrine on repeat.

Oblivion

Skyrim

Minecraft is chef's kiss.

You kids these days with your video game music! ...You're alright.

[my zoomer sons have gotten me addicted some of the game music the good folks mention here.]

I played my mom some jazzy ocarina of time covers. She had no idea what she was listening to and she loved it.

Plus bit brigade's mega man 2 album is sick. Mom didn't like that though.

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?

Some of y'all have never played any GOOD EA games, and it shows.

https://youtu.be/e3YzmjmAGoI

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

I listen to JSR and PSO all the time.

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?

My Game soundtrack playlist is 6.5h long.

I just really enjoy Persona’s soundtracks, okay?! They won an award for it ya know! ;-P

rainwave.cc pretty much every day for the last 3 decades

Monochroma had a really good soundtrack by Gevende.

FZero GX and Cel Damage soundtracks are way better than they have any right to be.

https://youtu.be/U0TmPUNNlfc

https://youtu.be/UF0wQeqqsZ0

Bro you like Super Monkey Ball? I knew I liked you man, bring it in

Deltarune

Rocket League soundtrack is good most seasons.

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

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