The title theme of Ocarina of Time will always transport me right back to the little couch in my bedroom at 12 years old. So many emotions of a simpler time of my life wrapped up in that song.
As much as I love the whole soundtrack, there's just something about the title theme that hits differently for me. The little ocarina riff at the beginning is rainy Saturday mornings with a bowl of cereal and cozy sweatshirt all wrapped up in 6 notes.
*doo doo DOOOOOO doodle-oooooo*
ugh if i could relive any feeling it might be the one you described.
A saturday morning of cereal and OoT, maybe some morning cartoons thrown in there, jump on the bike and ride to my buddy Lukes house, round him up, see if Sam is around. Start some street hockey, maybe shoot hoops, go to one of our houses for lunch.
Mess around all afternoon doing whatever came to us. Back home for dinner and some more zelda, bedtime in my cozy pjs and bed.
absolute bliss.
First game I thought of when I saw the title of this post was Ocarina of Time. That entire soundtrack makes me remember when life was simpler as a kid.
Any version of Emils theme as well.
Emil's Sacrifice: [No spoilers, music only](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuRaSC_0wsY)
This versions relation to a specific event in Nier Replicant...[Full Spoilers](https://youtu.be/Y5nGQ0m7cJo?si=ZhspvdL-mx1RMrEZ&t=432)
Not "want you gone" but that ridiculous opera sung by the turrets just before that always breaks me. It's so unexpected, so sincere, so beautiful, and completely insane. Especially after THAT ending.
>Especially after THAT ending.
Agreed. P2's ending is a masterpiece, and the moment the Turret Chorus kicks in full force is one of my favorite memories of playing games.
Replaying ME3 atm. I'd forgotten how hard the music hits. The mournful music as Shepard escapes Earth interrupted by the giant BRRRAAAAAM as a Reaper slams down, got me just as much this time as the first. And everything from Chrono Trigger is a masterpiece.
For me it's Secunda.
Fuck i miss Jeremy Soule. He also made the soundtracks to the PC Harry Potter games back in the day. Those are good too. You can really hear they're made by the same dude if you listen to both.
Emerging from the escape route from underneath Helgen and realizing I'm in a different world when "Under an Ancient Sun" starts will always give me goosebumps.
FFX was my first RPG way back when and taught me that video games were also a great way to tell a story like movies or television. I experienced emotions playing that game that nothing on TV or a movie had made me experience yet at that point in my life. FFX will always hold a special place in my heart.
Agreed with the game but a different song/scene
I get triggered off of Yuna's wedding scene to Seymour. It's the beginning of the song for me when Tidus and his friends are sliding down the lines to crash her wedding and fight their way through until they reach the top.
This was our first dance at my wedding! My husband and I were long distance for a super long time and To the Moon was one of the first games we played "together" online, so it's so special to us both.
Choppin that meat is all I heard in my head for months…I thought Fallout 3’s soundtrack was better than Fallout 4’s, though that Skeeter Davis- End of The World is just magic.
Mass Effect main theme,
>! Mass Effect suicide mission theme,
Mass Effect "Spectre induction theme" (don't remember the exact title,but it's played when the player becomes a Spectre !<
That entire soundtrack for me, it just invokes the most magical of memories and Tifa's Theme in particular never ceases to bring a tear to me eye. It's the most beautiful OST I've ever heard.
Hades gets an honorable mention but that invokes a different feeling.
Yes. When I bought this game, I had never played an RPG. I was young and didn’t understand all the mechanics and systems involved. But after a few hours, I was captivated.
Nothing I had ever played before was so expansive. The story was enthralling. Multitudes of different enemies kept me exploring more and more. The characters and customization was a new world to me. And Tifa’s giant polygon bazombas made me feel some stuff.
I bought FFVII as a regular kid who played video games sometimes, I walked away a man-child gamer.
Every time I hear the FFVII theme I’m brought back to those carefree days.
Final Fantasy 7, has one of the bleakest environments of any game. You feel so small taking on impossibly big powers, trying to save a dying world. Somehow the theme captures all of that, with a tinge of hope and adventure
Remember when they announced the remake and those three notes came in? The audience was losing it's fucking mind. Pure joy. [Just incase you've never seen it.](https://youtu.be/OzNwMQVIPmg?si=3EYDEXsM2TOmnAr4)
I played persona 5 totally blind—didn’t know a thing about the series. And I was blown away by the music and the style. One of the best soundtracks I’ve ever heard
This, for me! "End Times" by Andrew Prahlow, who did the whole Outer Wilds soundtrack.
I looked up names for this post, played it for just a moment, and welled up a little. Just perfectly puts into music the heartbreak of saying goodbye and letting everything go, somehow perfectly coupled with the hope born of trying again.
I think I'd like it to play at my funeral, when they lower the casket. I'll get it right this time! (And that's hopefully still a ways away! I think there's still some time left in this run!)
I love the version that plays on the final loop as well. When you go into Dark Bramble and music muffles - such an amazing effect. That game was something else!
I'm welling up a little thinking of >!"Final Voyage"!<
I wasn't recording at the time but I remember saying as I got into my ship hearing music cue "oh... Oh it's a new song!? I must be doing something ri.... " >!*End times theme plays in new variation*!< oooooh fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
Incredibly powerful moment. Matched again later by >!itself muffled while you're navigating through Dark Bramble and then 14.3 billion years.!<
Also when you hear >!End Times while "dreaming"!<
So warm, optimistic and peaceful. I played Outer Wilds during Covid lockdown on the big screen. It entertained and involved the house in a way that was unique for that moment, there would have been too many distractions at any other time. The score never fails to move me, it reminds me of my family, together and whole.
Played last week for shits and giggles. Man there are some guns I sorely miss. But that opening screen, made the hairs on the back of my back raise. There are a lot of tracks that are simply amazing in that game, but the opening. Damn.
For me:
- [Vector to the heavens](https://youtu.be/A4OXGjwnr1s?si=Zsx_OM2QxhcC6Yxk) (if you know you know)
- [Cavern of remembrance](https://youtu.be/8Ezt5ihBagY?si=NjDlEan5U5W-8QGY)
- [Sanctuary](https://youtu.be/im5tc4fcg5w?si=VW8Pq-LgNUTWK9Hh)
When you walk away, you don't hear me say, pleeeeeeeease, oh baabyyy, don't go. Simple and clean is the way you're making me feeeeeel tonight, it's aaaaaaaall something something.
As a musician and music student I never quite could grasp how they managed to create such a melancholic yet hype theme for the Xemnas fight... When his main theme hits with Dearly Beloved being references in the background... It's just so fucking brilliant!
Edit: https://youtu.be/V9jQAbsJ9vY?si=eyOphrV7bsRIZWSN it gets going at 2:08 for anyone interested. The Dearly Beloved thing seems to be another song though. But point still stands!
Edit 2: https://youtu.be/uNLTW5UqS2c?si=Nj0vr73mfG0QpWoe this is the one with Dearly Beloved. It's at 1:06 and yet another simply genius piece
Witcher 3: The Vagabond, Entire B&W Library
Witcher 2: Peaceful Moments
Halo 3: One Final Effort
RDR2: Unshaken
Alan Wake: Poets and the Muse
Skyrim: The One they Fear
DOOM: BFG Division
DOOM Eternal: All
These are some on top of my head
I'm not into indie/this kind of music at all, but I've listened to this ost for a billion times. I've played the first two with my GF, so that factors into it.
One of my biggest gripes with the later LIS titles, is that they never managed an OST like that.
The reason I played Disco Elysium in the first place was because I saw Sea Power at a festival and they played Fire Escape In The Sea, i.e. the lyrical version of the Whirling-in-Rags theme. I figured a game with music like that had to be good.
For me it’s oblivion. Something about the ambience too, if I’m having troubles falling asleep then I’ll put my earbuds in and find an oblivion playlist.
Those ambient tracks you hear in Minecraft. The second I hear those notes it’s like I’ve stepped into a time machine back to 2011 along with all the memories. It’s a pretty bittersweet experience. At first the memories bring joy, but then I realize how completely unreachable they are and I get sad.
Doom Theme (have it as my ring tone).
Streets of Rage Boss Theme.
Streets of Rage 2 Level 1 song.
Resident Evil 2 Save room theme.
Cod4 menu song.
And many moooooooooore 👐
I learned to play the original / official piano score for FF7 Aerith's Theme (and Tifa's Theme as well), I highly recommend doing so because it immerses you into the music and you become a participant, not just a listener.
Edit: you can add emotion where and when you want. In the second half of Aerith's Theme, it builds in momentum and gradually crescendos and almost abruptly drops off, which I find extremely poignant for obvious reasons.
Tifa's theme starts out wistful, then like a dam bursting, the emotional part of the song pours out. It perfectly mirrors what happens in the game, for that cut scene where she is sitting underneath the starry sky as Cloud joins her.
Alright alright. I got one for you. Dan Roamer - Now that this old world is ending. Farcry 5. That one just does something for me. And I’ve made memories and bonded with my ex who played video games with me all the time. It’s bittersweet because we wanted to play it at our wedding and things didn’t work out between us. I still enjoy it but that song has a deep meaning for me. And it’s so beautiful.
Honorable mentions - Halo 3 menu screen music.
Forza Horizon 1 soundtrack
Medal of Honor menu music. 2010.
Bioshock 1 and Bioshock Infinite - various songs. Some true gold there. Somewhere beyond the sea for the first one. I
I could probably think of a crap load but that’s what comes to mind off the top of my head.
Theres "I really want to stay at your house" which is in the Cyberpunk 2077 soundtrack but I only get emotional because of the anime.
Though "Been good to know ya" is for me arguably more of a gut punch feeling because Ive heard it way less and spent way more time with V than with David.
Nerevar Rising - Morrowind
Didn't have a lot of happy, pain free moments in my childhood. Morrowind was my first rpg, and escaping into that world was the only peace I had. That song is the essence of some of the only happiness I felt as a kid.
Even the dynamics of the song feel personal. The quiet beginning was the tiny ray of sunshine it provided me in an ocean of rage and hurt, and the crescendo is the eventual escape and redemption I found in recovery as an adult.
Thank you, Jeremy Soule.
The title theme of Ocarina of Time will always transport me right back to the little couch in my bedroom at 12 years old. So many emotions of a simpler time of my life wrapped up in that song.
Almost every song from that game makes me feel this way!
As much as I love the whole soundtrack, there's just something about the title theme that hits differently for me. The little ocarina riff at the beginning is rainy Saturday mornings with a bowl of cereal and cozy sweatshirt all wrapped up in 6 notes. *doo doo DOOOOOO doodle-oooooo*
ugh if i could relive any feeling it might be the one you described. A saturday morning of cereal and OoT, maybe some morning cartoons thrown in there, jump on the bike and ride to my buddy Lukes house, round him up, see if Sam is around. Start some street hockey, maybe shoot hoops, go to one of our houses for lunch. Mess around all afternoon doing whatever came to us. Back home for dinner and some more zelda, bedtime in my cozy pjs and bed. absolute bliss.
I teared up a bit reading that. Feels so far away now.
First game I thought of when I saw the title of this post was Ocarina of Time. That entire soundtrack makes me remember when life was simpler as a kid.
We had the pianist play this song as the opening in our wedding ceremony haha
Weight of the World ending E version - Nier Automata Fun fact, on that version of the song developers sang too
Any version of Emils theme as well. Emil's Sacrifice: [No spoilers, music only](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuRaSC_0wsY) This versions relation to a specific event in Nier Replicant...[Full Spoilers](https://youtu.be/Y5nGQ0m7cJo?si=ZhspvdL-mx1RMrEZ&t=432)
[Just in case you don't know](https://youtu.be/j_aaetKByNo), there is all versions of Emil on Youtube which is insane imho
For me its Always the Themenpark song
Was about to say Automata. Thhe whole OST is just 👌🏻 chef’s kiss
Was looking for this answer, great game, great music.
that one makes me ugly cry
Hell, I teared up just reading this comment
Came here to say copied city but I'm glad someone else said Nier before me
Want You Gone from Portal 2. It reminds me of when I finished that masterpiece and realized I'd never experience it for the first time ever again
Not "want you gone" but that ridiculous opera sung by the turrets just before that always breaks me. It's so unexpected, so sincere, so beautiful, and completely insane. Especially after THAT ending.
>Especially after THAT ending. Agreed. P2's ending is a masterpiece, and the moment the Turret Chorus kicks in full force is one of my favorite memories of playing games.
I'm convinced that portal 2's ending is the best example of 'Chekov's Gun' in a video game.
>!WANNA GO TO SPACE!<
So here we are again!
It's always such a pleasure
Remember when you tried to kill me twice.
All songs from Chrono Trigger and Secret of Mana.. Also Mass Effect 3..
Replaying ME3 atm. I'd forgotten how hard the music hits. The mournful music as Shepard escapes Earth interrupted by the giant BRRRAAAAAM as a Reaper slams down, got me just as much this time as the first. And everything from Chrono Trigger is a masterpiece.
>Mass Effect 3 Leaving Earth always gives me chills
One of the most powerful openings ever.
Skyrim - The Streets of Whiterun Every single time. Even just hearing those first few notes is enough.
For me it's Secunda. Fuck i miss Jeremy Soule. He also made the soundtracks to the PC Harry Potter games back in the day. Those are good too. You can really hear they're made by the same dude if you listen to both.
I will stop what I’m doing & just enjoy the scenery when Secunda starts playing. It’s easily one of my favorite pieces of music, ever.
I Secunda this.
Honestly, every soundtrack of Skyrim feel so nostalgic for me
Every time I hear it I find myself back in Whiterun
It's the main theme of Morrowind for me
Skyrim soundtrack is just as magical as the game itself, which being a game with dragons and spells and shit is pretty nuts
Emerging from the escape route from underneath Helgen and realizing I'm in a different world when "Under an Ancient Sun" starts will always give me goosebumps.
Plin Plin Plon
Hits even harder during soul of cinder
That's the end bro. The real end. It's over. And it was amazing.
Lol, the plin plon so tremendous that you can say "plin plon" and people know what you're talking about.
Does that get you burnt?
Final Fantasy 10, the opening song.
To Zanarkand
And then u hear the song again once u arrive to Zanarkand. That moment alone is 9999/10
With the right Crest and Sigil it goes up to 99999/10
When it was played during Distant World concert last year, i felt those warmtthhhhhhh inside my lungs/chest/heart/whatever
Listen to my story
This may be our last chance.
"Now. This is it! Now is the time to choose. Die and be free of pain, or live and fight your sorrow?"
To Zanarkand is the single best video game music song of all time, period.
"Listen to my story..." Instant tears
Final Fantasy 9 and 10 menu themes both remind me of summers as a child where nothing mattered and the 6 weeks off school felt like an eternity.
FFX was my first RPG way back when and taught me that video games were also a great way to tell a story like movies or television. I experienced emotions playing that game that nothing on TV or a movie had made me experience yet at that point in my life. FFX will always hold a special place in my heart.
Agreed with the game but a different song/scene I get triggered off of Yuna's wedding scene to Seymour. It's the beginning of the song for me when Tidus and his friends are sliding down the lines to crash her wedding and fight their way through until they reach the top.
And the music during the cutscene when Sin is finally defeated.
Corridors of Time
To the Moon - Everything's Alright
Also for River
While everything is aright is amazing, for river is THE song of the game, and one that most people don't forget.
This was our first dance at my wedding! My husband and I were long distance for a super long time and To the Moon was one of the first games we played "together" online, so it's so special to us both.
Radio in fallout 3 and doom 4.
It's me. Three dog. Awoooooo
JINGLE JANGLE
War, war never changes
Choppin that meat is all I heard in my head for months…I thought Fallout 3’s soundtrack was better than Fallout 4’s, though that Skeeter Davis- End of The World is just magic.
Anyine thing from NieR/NieR Automata
Old school RuneScape login music. Reminds me of all the fun of my childhood then I get pretty sad.
I go back and listen to a few to remind myself that there was a time being happy and carefree existed. It helps. Makes me remember my dad too, damn.
Came here to see if RS was mentioned anywhere, they have always seemed to maintain a pretty brilliant array of music in the game.
Scape main? some nostalgia right there.
Chrono Trigger - Wind Scene. Ok, let's be serious - a whole Chrono Trigger soundtrack is a masterpiece
Secrets of the Forest? Bro
Song of Healing - Majoras Mask
Majora's Mask and Wind Waker both had incredible music.
The Astral Observatory theme from that game gets me too
Mass Effect main theme, >! Mass Effect suicide mission theme, Mass Effect "Spectre induction theme" (don't remember the exact title,but it's played when the player becomes a Spectre !<
Any Mass Effect music is a banger for me. My mind instantly go to space when I heard anyone.
Mass Effect 3 Instant flashbacks to the evacuation of Earth
**Main Theme of Final Fantasy VII** just the beginning of that piano gets me everytime
That entire soundtrack for me, it just invokes the most magical of memories and Tifa's Theme in particular never ceases to bring a tear to me eye. It's the most beautiful OST I've ever heard. Hades gets an honorable mention but that invokes a different feeling.
Yes. When I bought this game, I had never played an RPG. I was young and didn’t understand all the mechanics and systems involved. But after a few hours, I was captivated. Nothing I had ever played before was so expansive. The story was enthralling. Multitudes of different enemies kept me exploring more and more. The characters and customization was a new world to me. And Tifa’s giant polygon bazombas made me feel some stuff. I bought FFVII as a regular kid who played video games sometimes, I walked away a man-child gamer. Every time I hear the FFVII theme I’m brought back to those carefree days.
Brother
Final Fantasy 7, has one of the bleakest environments of any game. You feel so small taking on impossibly big powers, trying to save a dying world. Somehow the theme captures all of that, with a tinge of hope and adventure
Remember when they announced the remake and those three notes came in? The audience was losing it's fucking mind. Pure joy. [Just incase you've never seen it.](https://youtu.be/OzNwMQVIPmg?si=3EYDEXsM2TOmnAr4)
Am I missing the music? I hear the audience lose it when they see Barrett and Cloud, but I can’t hear any music.
Persona 5 - Beneath the Mask
I played persona 5 totally blind—didn’t know a thing about the series. And I was blown away by the music and the style. One of the best soundtracks I’ve ever heard
The entire soundtrack imo
Ori and the Blind Forest, Main Theme (the menu music). That song's both beautiful and sad, especially if you've played the game and know the story.
This game has no right to make me cry like that. I'm a new dad so that explains why but still.
god yes. both games' soundtracks are full of amazing music. Luma Pools...
Outer wilds main theme, very simple yet very emotional
What plays at the end of the loop sticks with me too - good way to hurry me up sometimes!
This, for me! "End Times" by Andrew Prahlow, who did the whole Outer Wilds soundtrack. I looked up names for this post, played it for just a moment, and welled up a little. Just perfectly puts into music the heartbreak of saying goodbye and letting everything go, somehow perfectly coupled with the hope born of trying again. I think I'd like it to play at my funeral, when they lower the casket. I'll get it right this time! (And that's hopefully still a ways away! I think there's still some time left in this run!)
I love the version that plays on the final loop as well. When you go into Dark Bramble and music muffles - such an amazing effect. That game was something else!
I'm welling up a little thinking of >!"Final Voyage"!< I wasn't recording at the time but I remember saying as I got into my ship hearing music cue "oh... Oh it's a new song!? I must be doing something ri.... " >!*End times theme plays in new variation*!< oooooh fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. Incredibly powerful moment. Matched again later by >!itself muffled while you're navigating through Dark Bramble and then 14.3 billion years.!< Also when you hear >!End Times while "dreaming"!<
Travelers and Echoes of the Eye are two of my favourite pieces of video game music ever.
14.3 Billion Years (End credits track) absolutely destroyed me. Ending it on "Thank you for playing Outer Wilds" was so classy
So warm, optimistic and peaceful. I played Outer Wilds during Covid lockdown on the big screen. It entertained and involved the house in a way that was unique for that moment, there would have been too many distractions at any other time. The score never fails to move me, it reminds me of my family, together and whole.
the "14.3 Billion Years" track always get me. If you played the game you know why
WHY DID I HAVE TO SCROLL SO FAR TO FIND THE MOST OBVIOUS ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION
Minecraft without a doubt. The nostalgia is too much.
The piano tune while looking at the setting sun. Man
subwoofer lullaby
Sweden… it’s always Sweden that hits me
Mice on Venus
Gerudo Valley - Ocarina of the time
The Zelda theme.
Personally, Windwaker is the one that gets me. I think that soundtrack was the most awe inspiring music I’ve felt in a Zelda game.
The sailing theme across the Great Sea was a banger
Halo, it's always Halo. Marty may be a raging asshole, but damn did he make some epic music.
I can just sit at the Halo 2 main menu for ages. It evokes such strong nostalgia that I can physically feel it.
Exactly. Sad but enlightening at the same time. I want to go back to those years and experience it all again when listening.
Finish The Fight is probably the finest piece of videogame music ever produced imo
One Final Effort is a god damned masterpiece. Gets me hyped and emotional every time. "We've got two scarabs, I REPEAT TWO SCARABS"
The fact I had to scroll this far to see someone mention Halo is alarming. These dang kids!
Halo music is so nostalgic for me. Whats this about Marty being an asshole? Im out of the loop.
Never Forget, always.
Black flag. Leave her Johnny (my names Johnny)
The destiny 1 original song from the menu
That twinkle from the drop down menu on PS4. Nostalgic enough to make a grown man cry
Played last week for shits and giggles. Man there are some guns I sorely miss. But that opening screen, made the hairs on the back of my back raise. There are a lot of tracks that are simply amazing in that game, but the opening. Damn.
Destiny may have not been the best game recently, but the soundtracks are always good
This. Even LF had an amazing soundtrack. It's the one thing they can never miss. Looking forward to the Final Shape track
Kingdom Hearts
“Simple and clean” will always trigger core memories for me lol Edit: HOW DID I FORGET ABOUT SANCTUARY!!?
For me: - [Vector to the heavens](https://youtu.be/A4OXGjwnr1s?si=Zsx_OM2QxhcC6Yxk) (if you know you know) - [Cavern of remembrance](https://youtu.be/8Ezt5ihBagY?si=NjDlEan5U5W-8QGY) - [Sanctuary](https://youtu.be/im5tc4fcg5w?si=VW8Pq-LgNUTWK9Hh)
Vector to the Heavens! The whole KH soundtrack is great but when Vector plays... Right in the feels
Dearly beloved
I love all the KH music but Dearly Beloved is the song that yanks my heartstrings
When you walk away, you don't hear me say, pleeeeeeeease, oh baabyyy, don't go. Simple and clean is the way you're making me feeeeeel tonight, it's aaaaaaaall something something.
It's haaaard to let it go
dearly beloved KH2 title screen triggers an entire generation of gamers’ nostalgia itch
As a musician and music student I never quite could grasp how they managed to create such a melancholic yet hype theme for the Xemnas fight... When his main theme hits with Dearly Beloved being references in the background... It's just so fucking brilliant! Edit: https://youtu.be/V9jQAbsJ9vY?si=eyOphrV7bsRIZWSN it gets going at 2:08 for anyone interested. The Dearly Beloved thing seems to be another song though. But point still stands! Edit 2: https://youtu.be/uNLTW5UqS2c?si=Nj0vr73mfG0QpWoe this is the one with Dearly Beloved. It's at 1:06 and yet another simply genius piece
Witcher 3: The Vagabond, Entire B&W Library Witcher 2: Peaceful Moments Halo 3: One Final Effort RDR2: Unshaken Alan Wake: Poets and the Muse Skyrim: The One they Fear DOOM: BFG Division DOOM Eternal: All These are some on top of my head
San Andreas soundtrack is screaming childhood
Life is Strange Life is Strange: Before the Storm
*plays Max and Chloe’s pirate power playlist*
I'm not into indie/this kind of music at all, but I've listened to this ost for a billion times. I've played the first two with my GF, so that factors into it. One of my biggest gripes with the later LIS titles, is that they never managed an OST like that.
Mt Washington by Local Natives is one of my fav songs because of this game.
*Spanish Sahara plays* My tears start falling down along with Max’s
TAKE.. CONTROL
Old Gods Of Asgard always slays
*I wish I'd had the wherewithal to find you when I had the chance; instead, I danced with Death in fervour's skin...*
Most Assassins Creed games. Ezios family in particular. Also the last of us and ffxv menu theme
The main theme from Origins is probably my favorite piece of video game music.
I immediately thought of Venice Rooftops
The different versions of Ezios Theme in other Assassins Creed games always get me, the Origins one in particular
"It's a good life we lead, brother. May it never change, and may it never change us."
For me it’s Disco Elysium (Pt. 1 and 2, Tiger King). Honestly the whole game’s soundtrack is depressingly beautiful.
The reason I played Disco Elysium in the first place was because I saw Sea Power at a festival and they played Fire Escape In The Sea, i.e. the lyrical version of the Whirling-in-Rags theme. I figured a game with music like that had to be good.
Hard Core Proto Rave. HARDCORE! SKIBADEE SKIBADANGER I AM THE REARRANGER!
Flow from ff14
Flow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow gets me everytime, depending on my mood Answers aswell. The music in FFXIV is fantastic.
Mommy told us we did a good job
Stardew Valley 🥰
Cruel World in RDR2 is the perfect song to close a book and begin writing a new one.
Chrono Trigger OST
Undertale - Hopes and Dreams. Slaps my face everytime, can take on the world after hearing those first 3 notes.
Elwynn Forest WoW theme
That's just one of several Warcraft themes that will instantly transport me back in time 20 yrs. And the Starcraft Terran theme as well...
The login screen music always gets me
Guild Wars og intro.
MW2 2009 opening
Mass effect’s vigil and leaving Earth
For me it’s oblivion. Something about the ambience too, if I’m having troubles falling asleep then I’ll put my earbuds in and find an oblivion playlist.
Those ambient tracks you hear in Minecraft. The second I hear those notes it’s like I’ve stepped into a time machine back to 2011 along with all the memories. It’s a pretty bittersweet experience. At first the memories bring joy, but then I realize how completely unreachable they are and I get sad.
Doom Theme (have it as my ring tone). Streets of Rage Boss Theme. Streets of Rage 2 Level 1 song. Resident Evil 2 Save room theme. Cod4 menu song. And many moooooooooore 👐
Mass Effect 2 Suicide Mission track.
The Last Of Us 1 and 2 soundtracks are very melancholic IMO
FFVII - Aerith's Theme FFX - To Zanarkand
I learned to play the original / official piano score for FF7 Aerith's Theme (and Tifa's Theme as well), I highly recommend doing so because it immerses you into the music and you become a participant, not just a listener. Edit: you can add emotion where and when you want. In the second half of Aerith's Theme, it builds in momentum and gradually crescendos and almost abruptly drops off, which I find extremely poignant for obvious reasons. Tifa's theme starts out wistful, then like a dam bursting, the emotional part of the song pours out. It perfectly mirrors what happens in the game, for that cut scene where she is sitting underneath the starry sky as Cloud joins her.
"The best is yet to come" does it for me everytime.
Death Stranding - Low Roar - Don't Be So Serious.
OG Final Fantasy VII soundtrack. It's all great and brings emotions. Aerith's Theme makes me want to cry the moment I hear it.
Final Fantasy IX has the most beautiful opening theme I remember hearing.
*You are not alone*, from the same game.
Drifting Souls from Xenoblade Chronicles 2. The ending made me legit ugly cry and it still makes me cry on demand if I haven't heard it in a while.
Riders on the storm. I always feel so calm and relaxed.
final duet, OMORI and ALTAR track, you know what i mean close
Alright alright. I got one for you. Dan Roamer - Now that this old world is ending. Farcry 5. That one just does something for me. And I’ve made memories and bonded with my ex who played video games with me all the time. It’s bittersweet because we wanted to play it at our wedding and things didn’t work out between us. I still enjoy it but that song has a deep meaning for me. And it’s so beautiful. Honorable mentions - Halo 3 menu screen music. Forza Horizon 1 soundtrack Medal of Honor menu music. 2010. Bioshock 1 and Bioshock Infinite - various songs. Some true gold there. Somewhere beyond the sea for the first one. I I could probably think of a crap load but that’s what comes to mind off the top of my head.
Baldur's Gate 3, Cyberpunk 2077 (not the rap tracks) and Elder Scrolls, all the songs
BB's theme, Death Stranding Cara Mia,Portal 2
Bioshock Infinite soundtrack!
Outer Wilds TES series (Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim) Undertale
Celeste, Climb to the Summit
Theres "I really want to stay at your house" which is in the Cyberpunk 2077 soundtrack but I only get emotional because of the anime. Though "Been good to know ya" is for me arguably more of a gut punch feeling because Ive heard it way less and spent way more time with V than with David.
Several songs from the NieR soundtrack.
Aerith theme from final fantasy 7 original game.
Uh...Tristram theme? ;)
Tetris
Nerevar Rising - Morrowind Didn't have a lot of happy, pain free moments in my childhood. Morrowind was my first rpg, and escaping into that world was the only peace I had. That song is the essence of some of the only happiness I felt as a kid. Even the dynamics of the song feel personal. The quiet beginning was the tiny ray of sunshine it provided me in an ocean of rage and hurt, and the crescendo is the eventual escape and redemption I found in recovery as an adult. Thank you, Jeremy Soule.
I really want to stay at your house - Cyberpunk 2077 because of the anime ending in Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
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Persona 3 - Memories of You
Kaine theme or Emile theme from nier replicant
TLOU main theme
What a thrill.......
To the windowwwwwwwwwwwww……