Disc 02

*Track selected by me

Some true blasts from the past here. The radio in GTA was one of the best thing about the games. As for the Witcher 3, apparently there was a whole RPG outside the taverns?? I hadn't thought of Total Overdose in decades but the mind doesn't forget the music. I haven't yet listened to the Cyberpunk 2077 ost (because I wanted to experience this one in game) but who can forget this absolute banger from the trailer.

Ah Journey... one of many Playstation exclusives that I finally got to play years after once it got a PC release. The OST for this one is definitely the highlight of my experience with it, since I played it solo. I think I lost something of the experience playing it that way. The last time I recall feeling something similar though is playing The Outer Wilds. Talk about music perfectly fitting a game. Haunting, beautiful, hopeful, other adjectives invoking a sense of awe.

Played this one last year (and gave a copy away here as well!) and since I have a soft spot for songs that build into a crescendo, "The End of the Process" was right up my alley.

Had a listen and now I want an updated take on "Sooth my Soul."

The first MMO I played with my friends and still the only one where I enjoyed playing a healer. This was a good memory and a reminder that I need to listen to more Guild Wars music!

+1 for awesome song. The Guild Wars soundtrack is perfect for its setting.

That they do and I wish I could get past the "have to replay the game" to get the full story of Nier. Someday...

In fact as I was thinking of this topic, and the cobwebs from my mind were getting dusted, a song surfaced that's now stuck in my head and I've since been trying to identify. The Japanese vocals are not helping.

I haven't tried any of the modern gacha games yet (Maplestory is probably the closest thing), but Wuthering Waves recently released on Steam and I've been kind of interested in giving that one a go.

"Vista Point" was quite nice from this one.

Doom mentioned. Great, now I got to listen to all of my favorites again. We've all heard "BFG Division", but when this is your main menu/pause track, you know you got something truly special. I bounced off Doom Eternal and as a result, the soundtrack didn't get as much airtime for me, but the riffs continue!

I feel Supergiant's OSTs hit hardest whilst you're playing them (you'll actually see Supergiant recommend to play the games first on the Transistor and Pyre soundtracks) but there's some good stuff in there for the lay person as well. Bastion's got the western vibes, Transistor's got this which is unlike anything in the rest of the soundtrack, Pyre has "Path to Glory", and Hades has this banger.

After giving Path of Exile a fair shake (some 50 hours, I'm hoping PoE 2 will be more my speed), the least I could've done was give the soundtrack a listen. And now I won't be forgetting this one anytime soon.

Since you're the first to recommend something from an RTS, I'm going to have to mention this classic here.

I played this back on the Playstation but don't recall beating it. It was why I eventually picked up and beat Ace Combat 7 last year. Listening to the soundtracks now though, three looks to absolutely smoke seven's.

Me looking at this list. When will they port Grandia 2 to PC? Must I continue to look longingly at Dreamcasts through shop windows?? WHE-- ...what was that? It was ported? Grandia 1 as well? I was under a rock you say? Well, that's another two games on my waitlist. From the OST though, I'm going to pick "Opening Act". Just some beautiful vocals on that one.

Somehow I haven't yet played the original Devil May Cry trilogy. Four was my first Devil May Cry game (it was the first one ported to PC if I'm remembering this right) and I went on to beat DmC and Devil May Cry 5 as well. I've put the HD collection on my wailtlist now.

Dead Cells and Roboquest belong to a genre I don't normally play, so appreciate being able to experience them in this fashion. From Dead Cells, "Astrolab" was my jam and Roboquest had "Guardian".

That title track from Dread Templar worked for me. I also liked "Bloodstained Hollows".

Wow. Colour me surprised hearing this opening the soundtrack to one of survival horror's finest. It's a game genre I primarily experience through let's plays and lore videos due to being supernaturally challenged, so I'm glad you decided to share this one.
I think I prefer the remake version though, I just can't pass up a guitar solo.

So it was you. The one who didn't remind me sooner just how smooth the music from World of Goo could be. In other news, World of Goo 2 released last month??

That's some discussion you've linked there. Truly a treasure trove of titular tracks. Bookmarked and will be revisiting over the coming days.

Some thoughts on the other recommendations:

The Witcher 3. On a rare occasion I'll come across a game, and I'll know. Booting this one up and listening to this in the start menu, and I knew. This game was going to be special. And it was.

I'm holding off to listening to anything from Hollow Knight, I plan to play this one soon™ and would like to know as little as possible.

This track convinced me to add Mirror's Edge to my waitlist. The soundtrack is just a mood.

Full Throttle reminded me how much I enjoyed the song selection in another Tim Schafer game, Brütal Legend (quite a variety here if you're into metal).

Finally, "Nerevar Rising" is a classic that I'm glad is still iterated on today.

Nice to see World of Goo mentioned here. Imo the soundtrack doesn't get enough love. And it's free to download (on the artists site and Steam!

I actually won the first game on here! That settles it, this is going to be the next game I play.

Edit: Whew. Just rolled credits on this one. There was a point where I thought, "Is the game getting easier with the levels?" and I'd promptly get roadblocked by a level for an hour. The music really keeps you going though.

From the soundtrack, I enjoyed "Triumph" but "Blackout City" sounded like something right out of the Scott Pilgrim vs The World: The Game OST. Turned out that was because the composer for Scott Pilgrim was also a guest composer for Bit.Trip Runner as well (Anamanaguchi).

Trauma's guitar (?) at the start makes me think of Midnight Mountain from Spyro 3.

Of course, everything makes me think of the Spyro trilogy, because I'm fairly obsessed with it.

You're the first here to have some Nintendo picks! That Mario & Luigi theme is called "Try, try, again". It gives me a very 'first level' or 'hub world' vibes, but getting to hear it more often through battles is the gift that keeps giving. Listening to some of these tracks from older games, I couldn't help wishing they could get modern renditions, free from hardware limitations, but this one actually does and... it missed the mark for me.

Ghost Trick I still remember fondly. It was back when I thought little of the Phoenix Wright games and I thought this game did the 'visual novel' thing much better (I had little knowledge of VNs then and was mostly thinking from a gameplay standpoint). I would eventually come around to Phoenix Wright when I got older and broadened my gaming tastes. The game's OST sounds like it would easily fit in a cyberpunk setting and in this case, I think they did a good job with the arranged version.

The composers for Hotel Dusk nailed their assignment. Understood what they were working with and what we got here is something that still holds up almost two decades later. Good stuff.

So many games trapped on consoles... Put them on PC so that newer (and older) generations can still experience them!

For Lost Odyssey, I quite enjoyed the softer melancholic tracks, notably "Parting Forever" and "A Return, Indeed".

That Hundred Line (or Danganronpa with more gameplay from the looks of it) track was quite groovy. I liked "Carousel" as well. I went back to listen to some tracks from the Danganronpa OST and I'm enjoying The Hundred Lines soundtrack a lot more.

I enjoyed "Hope Star" from the Digimon Story soundtrack. Just a fun track.

You might've picked this up already, but the soundtracks for both The Hundred Line and Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth were composed by the same guy, Masafumi Takada.

Breath of Fire IV goes on my long list of JRPG's I started but never completed on the Playstation 1 (looking back I just didn't see many games to completion on this console despite liking them). I saw it got a recent release on GoG which was great news to fans and I hope it finds its way to Steam as well. From this soundtrack I found myself enjoying "Opening Animation". Curiously though, the soundtrack for the game can be found on Steam.

That LunarLux track was a surprise. Had to listen to more and I'm going to have to pick "Battle VS Mad Scientist" for me.

That track from Conker's Bad Fur Day was ironically, Rock Solid. Back from the good ol' days when Rare was on fire with their games. It also begs the question, Microsoft, why won't you put Rare Replay on PC?

Disco Elysium will always hold a special place for me, as it was the first CRPG I was able to beat. I've tried many over the years, but this one was one of those games where I knew it would be different from the get go. Now that I'm older and wiser (jury's still deliberating on the latter), I've been able to go back and experience some of the older games in the genre to relative success. From the OST, I'm going to have to pick "Whirling-In-Rags, 8 AM" as a favourite.

Won Rebel Galaxy on here and it's one I hope to get to soon. The song reminded me of the one used in the intro for the first Borderlands.

That Desert Child track is funky. Love the saxophone.

Didn't think I'd be adding a song from a game called Super Fancy Pants Adventure to my playlist, but here we are. Really liked that one.

"The Arcana is the means by which all is revealed."

I played Persona 3 Portable way too much when I was younger. The Shin Megami Tensei series and its parallel Persona games are pretty much all great and there's such a huge variety to choose from. I started off with Devil Survivor on the DS from a GameFly rental, tried out Persona 3 Portable afterwards because I liked it and wanted more SMT stuff, and I've rarely been disappointed with anything I've played since. Persona 4, Persona 5, Persona Q, SMT Devil Survivor 2, SMT 1 on SNES, SMT 3 on PS2, etc. etc. Great gameplay, often great soundtracks, and a whole lot of playtime to keep you occupied.

But yeah, P3P was one of my earliest entries into the world of SMT, and though I've had trouble replaying it these days because I've played it to death, I still love it unconditionally. I hope to someday get Reload and I really hope that's enough to get me to finally replay it properly.

I beat my first Persona game earlier this year (Persona 4 Golden). I'll admit, my first experiences with the Shin Megami Tensei (which coincidentally was Shin Megami Tensei IV) and Persona franchise didn't quite land with me. Still want to give their respective series' another chance and have the other Persona games and SMT V on my waitlist.

I'm also liking this Persona 3 soundtrack more than Persona 4's. That battle theme was great and so is this song.

Expedition 33 I plan to play at some point. It's not a matter of if with this one, just when. So I don't want to listen to too much of the soundtrack just yet, but loving the Jazz in "Monoco". I'll plug "Liquidity" here for no other reason than it's from the game Monaco and I have a caveman brain.

Took longer than expected, but we finally got a Halo mention! I've only just managed to beat the original trilogy in the past two years thanks to the Master Chief Collection, but I had listened to various tracks from the soundtracks since it's often recommended. I'm going to pick "One Final Effort"; just seems to have all the Halo themes in there.

Looks like there's quite a few good tracks in the Furi soundtrack. I liked the one you recommended and "My Only Chance" stuck with me.

I've never played a Dynasty Warriors game, but got the new one on my waitlist. Those tracks got me intrigued enough to explore, which brought me to Dynasty Warriors 4 and "Eve".

The new Shinobi game comes out in a few months and aside from having my eye on the game, I want that track they used in the trailer!

That Binding of Isaac track is, fittingly, anxiety inducing. Lots of interesting stuff in this OST, but I'm going to pick "Foreigner in Zeal (Flooded Caves)". Digging the ethereal vibes this track puts out.

The Hunt Showdown is just all vibes. I'll have to go with "Rise up Dead Man" from this one. Can easily see how if you like a track from this soundtrack, you'll probably like the whole thing.

Unreal Tournament... that takes me back. Used to play quite a lot of it offline against bots."Skyward Fire" is just smooth beats all around.

The Dicey Dungeons OST definitely punching above it's weight class. Couldn't help but checking a lot more on this one, but for now I'll have to pick "Fortune Favours the Bold". Love how free-form this one feels and how it just keeps changing as the track goes along.

Frozen Synapse I remember being curious about back when it came out, got distracted and the next thing I remember Frozen Synapse 2 had released as well. From the soundtrack, I'll have to pick "Triumph". Found it rather soothing and mellow.