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There's just way too many to list. A few of my favorite composers are

• Tim Follin
• Jochen Hippel
• Matt Furniss
• David Whittaker
• Jeroen Tel
• Yuzo Koshiro
• Rob Hubbard

Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Lelelelelele.... need I say more?

It is ** Brütal Legend** by far!!

Ctrl+F Hotline Miami.... No one's mentioned this banging track yet?

Space Harrier or Outrun, for sure.

Special award for Ghost n Goblins or Commando and some others like Dragon's Lair.

The Super Mario Galaxy duology has the best overall OST in my opinion. The orchestral music is amazing for so many of the tracks.

For any individual song, however. It would be Weight of the World from Nier Automata. For context:

EDIT: I want to give an honorable mention to the Ace Attorney OST, across all of their games. A lot of people may know the Pursuit - Cornered theme, but every game in that series has banger tracks. Not as widely praised, and very underrated imo, hence the honorable mention.

The Last Of Us.

FF IX for me

I think Zelda: Wind Waker's ost is one of the greats. I'm also surprised nobody has mentioned Earthbound and Mother 3 yet. They have amazing atmospheric tracks like nothing else.

Here's an obscure one.

The Batman game for NES.

That stage 1 & 2 song was like no other game music on the NES before or since.

Also, shout out to Blaster Master.

Castlevania games have the best music hands down in my opinion

Persona 5 Royal

I've barely played the game, it wasn't for me, but I fell instantly in love with the Bastion and Transistor soundtracks the moment I heard them.

It is my second most played game soundtrack right behind the metal songs from the Alan Wake series. Third is all 3 Hell March songs from Red Alert series. Fourth and oldest is probably Unreal Return to Na Pali and generally all of the two Unreal and four Unreal Tournament game tracks. And the Frozen Synapse series and Uplink soundtracks is probably close to the top too. And I don't know if it counts but the artist behind the Wheel of Time game soundtrack released a separate almost-soundtrack, which I played A LOT while reading the book series.

And thats just a few of my favorite tracks. I love video game music! I can't really decide on a single best one.

MegaMan 2 Tony Hawk franchise Halo (Bungie days)

Super Mario Galaxy has an amazing soundtrack!

There are many great ones. Off the top of my head, each with a sample:

• Baldur's Gate 3 (recent addition)
• Return of the Obra Dinn
• Portal 2
• Deep Rock Galactic
• Doom Eternal
• Deus Ex - Human Revolution
• Ori and the Will of Wisps (haven't played it enough yet but music stood out)

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Bro, you put a Super Giant game and don't mention "Build that Wall" from Bastion, tsk tsk.

aquatic ambiance from Donkey Kong country is up there. Also IGN made an actually cool video about it recently.

In my opinion no video game soundtrack slaps harder than Hotline Miami 1&2 OST

Hotline Miami 1&2 - Workout Mix

For the wbole soundtrack Shadow of the Collosus. For a specific track the one I listen to most often is Instrument of Surrender, or Off We Go Into The Wild Pale Yonder from Disco Elysium

Objectively speaking the answer has gotta be something from FFXIV. But which one?? Too many candidates....

So many great answers already, but one I don't think I've seen mentioned yet is the soundtrack for Bastion

Chrono Cross OST

The song from the first level of Sonic Adventure 2 (the one about escaping the city). It catchy to listen to while all of the action of Sonic unfolds.

Goldeneye on N64

Others have mentioned kingdom hearts, donkey Kong country and Jet Set Radio Future which are some of my favorites, but another one I love is Maplestory. Great simplistic map BGMs that I still listen to quite often when studying or focusing

Im a sucker for the witcher 1& 2. Also stardew valley/minecraft are both worth mentioning

I love soundtracks from Splatoon, all series. Especially Chip Damage/Blitz it! is my favourite.

Not sure about best but the music the black mesa game did for the half life remaster was amazing.

MW2: Mercenaries was pretty awesome.

Other ones that come to mind are Crazy Taxi and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater.

Total Annihilation

Almost all Deus Ex soundtrack, and maybe the Synapse level was the best of them.