Soundtracks from bundles

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I love videogame soundtracks. I even listened to some soundtracks from games I never played (like the Shenmue OST, for example).
With the purchase of some bundles I obtained a few soundtracks from those games. But I did not play most of those games yet.

My question is, WHEN do you think should I listen these OSTs?
Before playing the game, after complete the game, after I played the game some time but not completed it yet...

I will also post here the name of all the OSTs I acquired via bundles, just to have a complete organized list for myself.

Beat Hazard Ultra
BIT.TRIP RUNNER
Canabalt
Cave Story+
Closure
Cogs
Crayon Physics Deluxe
Droidscape: Basilica
Dungeon Defenders
Dustforce
Eufloria HD
Gratuitous Space Battles
Indie Game: The Movie
Jamestown
Legend of Grimrock
Machinarium
Night Sky
Offspring Fling
Rochard
Shadows on the Vatican
Shank 2
Shatter
Snapshot
Solar 2
Space Pirates and Zombies
Splice
St. Chicken
Sugar Cube: Bittersweet Factory
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP
Swords & Soldiers HD
The Adventures of Shuggy (OST & Comic)
The Basement Collection
The Path
Tobe's Vertical Adventure
Torchlight
Waking Mars
Wizorb
Zen Bound 2

Last edit: 25 March 2013

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16 Comments

SoulNibbler

I always listen to soundtracks after I beat the game, or don't intend to finish it. It sounds dumb, but somehow knowing the music before playing it spoils it for me >.<

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kataztrophik

I personally disagree, I think recognizing the music while you're playing through a game can add considerable enjoyment to the game itself. I feel like it helps connect you with the game on another level.

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Zirun

Buy a music-based game like Audiosurf or Symphony, listen to them then. :P

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L1NU5

That's an amazing idea! The only rhythm games I own by now are Sequence and Bit Trip, though. But I'll take that into consideration.

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TheGreenFairy

BIT.TRIP VOID and CORE have some amazing soundtracks, defo getting them someday, bundle or not.

From your list definitely listen to the following: Canabalt, Swords & Sworcery, BIT.TRIP RUNNER and for completion's sake maybe Indie Game: The Movie too (seeing as it's done by Jim Guthrie, and some of Swords & Sworcery's songs are in there too). For me the best soundtracks were these 4 from various bundles though:

Swords & Sworcery - not a big fan of Mr. Guthrie, but crap, this was pretty amazing.
EDGE - surprisingly, it made its way onto my MP3 player (poor man's iPod, if you will)
Messiah (GOG's Interplay promo) - gives you a Fear Factory album. Go for it.
Descent 1+2 (Interplay promo again) - soundtrack has Skinny Puppy, no reason not to go for it.

I listened a lot to Painkiller's soundtrack before playing the game itself like, 2 years I think, so you're not alone with that. If you want you can go for these soundtracks too: Carmageddon + TDR 2000 (has Fear Factory again, TDR has Plague which is decent), Quake (Nine Inch Nails, a must get), Hitman 1-4 (love Jesper Kyd), Freedom Fighters (Jesper Kyd again), HalfQuake: Amen (OST written and performed by the creators of the mod; completely authentic, and pretty good if you don't take the singing into account. Also free), Fallout 2 (or just get Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works: Volume 2 as it's a complete ripoff of it), and for non-authentic music, the GTA and Need For Speed series hosted a plethora of amazing songs, even The Run had this adrenaline-pumping masterpiece from the nineties.

And on the topic of bundle music, I'll never forgive Humble for not including any kind of soundtrack for Braid.

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L1NU5

I agree about the GTA saga, I met some great groups just playing the game.
Thank you for your recomendations, it seems I have so work to do, lol.
About the last line of your post, I didn't know that. In the most recent HIB they included Binding of Isaac + its DLC but not its OST. I hope they will include it next week with the extra games!

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Chaps2k2

I love Limbo's and Hotline Miami's soundtrack. I'd recommend listening to the OST's after finishing the game.

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L1NU5

The Hotline Miami soundtrack is good, but for me the music turns kinda annoying after playing the same level a thousand times because you get killed again and again.

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DrHouse

With Canabalt it doesn't really matter.
With the rest I ALWAYS play the game first.

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L1NU5

Why is Canabalt special?

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