Well it's been almost a year since the last post, time for some advanced necromancy!
Because honestly, I can't believe we haven't mentioned THE video game song to end all video game songs: Snake Eater.
It's one of my favorite songs, period. This opening cutscene is also one of the best there is, which is appropriate for one of my favorite games. Also, listen to these lyrics. There are so many dick jokes to be made! What's not to love, really?
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"Nobody exists on purpose. Nobody belongs anywhere. Everybody’s gonna die. Come watch TV?"
"I'll die soon. But the last twenty minutes have been the best years of my life."
Edits: These specific examples are my personal favourites, but the soundtracks as a whole for all of these games are amazing.
Further Edit: I will also mention the as yet incomplete soundtrack for TESR Skywind, which is shaping up to be awesome in ways not seen since Morrowind itself:
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"Tusser, they tell me, when thou wert alive, Thou, teaching thrift, thyselfe couldst never thrive. So, like the whetstone, many men are wont To sharpen others, when themselves are blunt."
Anyone who has any kind of opinion fucking disgusts me.
Not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet, but fans of the soundtracks of Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas will almost certainly love the radio tracks for Mafia 2. For reference, it's GTA-style mobster game set between the 40's and 60's; pretty much Goodfellas: The Game. There are about 160 tracks on the three in-game radio stations, most of which can be found compiled in a single YouTube playlist.
My favorite track from Crusader Kings 2 because I love medieval music:
The theme song of Papers Please is completely awesome:
I also like a lot of the WoW soundtracks from the time I played it, vanilla to WotLK. Some absolute favorites:
Eversong woods, very beautiful, haunting and melancholy music:
Ghostlands, uses themes from Eversong but makes them slower and more ominous. I especially like the track at 22 min in:
Dragonblight music impressed me the most in WotLK, beautifully eerie and sad:
Lake Wintergrasp:
Tanaris, one of the most memorable zones in vanilla WoW for me, in no small part thanks to the incredibly fitting music to create a desolate desert athmosphere:
I could go on but you get the idea. Last bonus one, the tavern in Brill used to have this fun little unique track not heard anywhere else in Azeroth:
Can't believe I forgot the original Binding of Isaac soundtrack, it is absolutely brilliant!
Fallout 1 and 2, unlike 3, use ambient tracks. You can hear some in NV. A lot are rather creepy, but these are good for non-ambiance
Khans of the New California- It's badass. That's all really.
The Metallic Monks- This song is in Freeside in NV and Brotherhood HQ in 1. It gives the ambiance of a world in solitude.
My Chryslus Highwayman- The Car acts as fast travel in 2. It has its own themesong.
Vats of Goo- Easily the most iconic song in the series.
Not a song. "YOU MOROON! YOU ARE NOT TO QUESTION MY ORDERS! WHEN I SAY JUMP YOU JUMP, WHEN I SAY FIGHT YOU FIGHT, WHEN I TELL YOU TO DIE FOR YOUR COUNTRY, THEN YOU WILL MOST CERTAINLY DIE! HAVE I MADE MYSELF CLE-AH!
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"Operation Prepare Your Anus is considered to have been the most thoughtfully planned and masterfully executed humanitarian intervention in American history."-DTanza, alternatehistory.com
Now as a very moral person, I would never sell a pot brownie to a toddler. I.. I would just GIVE it to them.- CMSellers.
Just another TESR song, but I felt guilty about not including it the first time. I promise I'll stop now.
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"Tusser, they tell me, when thou wert alive, Thou, teaching thrift, thyselfe couldst never thrive. So, like the whetstone, many men are wont To sharpen others, when themselves are blunt."
Anyone who has any kind of opinion fucking disgusts me.
TwoSheds wrote:Not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet, but fans of the soundtracks of Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas will almost certainly love the radio tracks for Mafia 2. For reference, it's GTA-style mobster game set between the 40's and 60's; pretty much Goodfellas: The Game. There are about 160 tracks on the three in-game radio stations, most of which can be found compiled in a single YouTube playlist.
I'd like to add the CONELRAD Civil Defense Radio and Radio New Vegas: Secret Stash mods for Fallout: New Vegas. Many quests (and even aspects of the Fallout lore like the Mr Sandman perk and the Fatman*) are named after Jazz songs from the 1950s era and the Secret Stash mod adds these songs to Radio New Vegas. CONELRAD is just this, really.
I've not played Mafia but I'll address that in time.
* I understand it was named after that bomb that got dropped on Japan, but there actually is a 50s rock and roll song called The Fatman and that's included with the mod.
This was used in Sonic 1 Megamix. The team behind this hack ported and remixed various tracks from old Genesis, Game Gear and Nintendo games. A nearly-complete list of tracks can be found here: