What happened to great music in games ?

[mrbios]

Basically that entire playlist of Harkonnen music from emporer battle for dune was amazing. Makes me nostalgic to play it.

 

[Guest2]

One of the reasons me for spending a fair bit of money on an older Soundblaster 16 card. Descent!

 

[scorchedbee]

I have lots of nostalgia from the Commodore 64 and Amiga era but there are two that stand out from PC gaming.

GTR, the build up to the electric guitar at around 1:30 is just excellent.

And Morrowind. I played the game for so many hours, and the music is perfect.

ah morrowind, the music in that was incredible!

 

[D4N]

If I go in an arcade, and there happens to be a Daytona 2 cabinet there, I have to play it. Always go for the medium track as I love the music on it

 

[lltfdaniel]

For me it has to be grinder from command and conquer red alert 2.

 

[hairyfeet]

One of my few (more recent) guilty pleasures Fantastic little game if you can get it cheap too

Its also beautifully fitting in the current climate if you listen to it properly

 

[Frubeling]

Nothing happened to great music in games at all
I'd file this under the same phenomenon as "why aren't games fun anymore?". Your taste is stuck in the past, you got old and set in your ways, you stopped finding joy in things as easily as you used to? I don't know which or why but it certainly isn't because good video game music is a thing of the past.

 

[ThundyCat]

Great soundtrack to an amazing game!!

 

[StrongSad]

The 80's Perfectly summed up in a C64 soundtrack. Plus Kraftwerk 400!!!!

 

[Haggisman]

Ori and the blind forest.

Modern game with stunning music, Will of the Wisps was just as good!

Ori and the Blind Forest – Main Theme [Menu Music] - YouTube

Got Will of the Wisps a couple of months ago, so been replaying the original... Forgot how good the soundtrack was, but have been listening to it on repeat the last few weeks!

Subnautica has a pretty nice score, lots of ambient creepiness with a few psytrance/electro tracks thrown in for when **** goes wrong

 

[Scougar]

Mass Effect music was great. Battlefield music has always been pretty darn good. Horizon Zero dawn music is good. Recent Doom music has been pretty good (Although I didn't like Doom Eternal game itself).

One of the reasons me for spending a fair bit of money on an older Soundblaster 16 card. Descent!

Amazing game. We used to have the entire class playing multiplayer during class at college with the networked computers lol. (I'll take the blame on that one).

 

[TonyTurbo78]

it disappeared after the 90s. Do what I do, get your fix by listening to C64 and Amiga music longplays lol

 

[Digital X]

One of my faves. Need to rebuy the game once I get all the Amigas sorted.

 

[skiersteve12345]

going to disagree I think theres still some bangers out there,

I mean some games even throw music into skins that sound great

 

[Doppleganger]

I think there's a lot of good PC music out there. I'm a musician and it's something I always look for in a game.

Another Jeremy Soule effort

I never played this game but Lineage II had some nice music

Unreal had a pretty decent sound track, especially Dusk Horizon

Good game but the soundtrack was better

Some of the WoW soundtracks over the years have been good too.

There's loads of great music around in PC games, these are just off the top of my head.

 

[mattyfez]

Death stranding has a superb sound track, a lot of songs from a group called Low roar:

 

[Smokey Deza]

I think music in games is these days is utterly woeful. When they remade Colonization they didn't even use the original soundtrack :|

 

[prjwebb]

 

[tang0]

I think Rimworld has the one of the best soundtracks of any game, it's so fitting with the game too

 

[HippoTank]

This was a banger