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Does any retro game come close to these when it comes to OST? They are in a league of their own it feels like.
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>>11491130
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdvJtSroRSw
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>>11491130
Good soundtracks for sure but nowhere near among the best. There were much larger and more ambitious soundtracks before and not too long after it, like Grandia, Shenmue, any given Final Fantasy game.
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>>11491130
The soundtrack of the first American McGee's Alice is up there
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4qGyrXvgN0
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>>11491189
Ffvii in particular is absolutely fantastic and then I'd say Morrowind.
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>>11491214
They didn't have to go this hard
https://youtu.be/9JPzyjMQ-rI?si=AjcVCHbqDUs-LoOY
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wntotA1WnTE
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>>11491130
Namco PS1 era music was just on another level
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A few 10/10 soundtracks. Enjoy.

Out Run (1986) - Hiroshi Kawaguchi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEz1BVeGO2o

Sorcerian (1987) - Yuzo Koshiro, Mieko Ishikawa, Reiko Takebayashi, Hideya Nagata, Takahito Abe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6dvdodkBnM&list=PLzFTGYa_evXg_mejQVBzi-QUoMAyfRlZo

Star Cruiser (1988) - Toshiya Yamanaka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdJqczRfzGM

Dragon Saber (1990) - Shinji Hosoe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-e1FPEAa-M&list=PL85A23D6D037A5A61

Age of Wonders (1999) - Michiel van den Bos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o-7rPnZhXo
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>>11491130
This is one of my favorites on N64. Lots of cool tracks.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtsUjZEQNqU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFGKnk_JLPQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sfVo3sfRjs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRenPK7ZnEs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs-WS1l5Lhw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jynzITok72E
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>>11491130
There's many good ones but on the same exact caliber? No, I don't think so.
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>>11491669
Look I love OoT just as much as the next guy but to say its soundtrack is untouchable just makes me think you haven't played very many videogames or are just a Nintoddler that refuses to play anything that doesn't have Miyamotos name slapped on it. Its a fine soundtrack but its quite small and really doesn't have anything I would care to listen to on its own, its best music is all atmospheric stuff that Im not exactly bumping on my stereo.
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>>11491679
>muh consolewars
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>>11491130

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVjptMGdJT4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrDmGst-jas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRKaXGNOVE4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l-T20xMYq8
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Pokemon G/S/C OST
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jqv3No98j5M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq0S3qo1t-E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D30M_vLMvWk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DuvYC3zENI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWgf7p3_z8w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpwzpWM0bQI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JswUaksvSK8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRrC_P2aHsw
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>people posting yt links expecting me to listen to their shit
Kek
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDX5t4efHK4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qswMrzI4eS4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0NlVypWHTQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUSxabS5_qM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJsLDL8NQAk
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>>11491189
It's the way the soundtrack is integrated into the game that really makes it special though. OoT's music is something like a natural part of the world that you interact with, affect and use with your instrument, and that's what set it apart from others.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoLG1R3j3mI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMCOyYIhsTs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfpGlxYzKMM
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>>11491130
Zelda soundtracks have always been consistently mediocre. They're very simplistic, uncreative, lazy and sound like MIDIs. Even TPs songs sounded like MIDIs despite not being limited by cartridges anymore. We didn't have a Zelda game with properly produced music until Skyward, and the compositions were still just average.
If Zelda's songs belonged to any random jrpg from any random company that isn't Nintendo, no one would claim there's nothing special about them.
Nintendo in general has never excelled at soundtracks. Among all the big Japanese companies, Nintendo is very clearly the one that produces the lamest and dullest music. Sega and Square in particular are light years above Nintendo.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdswOSUOjVI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRUUnjAQr4U
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>>11491130
SotN
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxAZfLenfa0
DKC 1 and 2
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>>11491679
It’s not that serious man. It’s literally just a game lol.
I don’t even enjoy Zelda and I consider OoT’s soundtrack in my Top 10. It’s really great. A video game soundtrack doesn’t need to be symphonic to be considered great. A midi track can evoke just as much emotion.
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>>11491130
the actual sound quality of oot/mm is fucking dogshit. actual osts of the snes (like chrono trigger) blow it out of the fucking water. legend of mana too. the sheet music and modern arrangements of oot's soundtrack are good, but the ACTUAL game music is fucking awful.
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>>11493806
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7mkGC_1yF0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ6Fq-LfDZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHiYTYkqWCE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEDgd5h-GwY

I like the music in Oot. Most of it is pretty simple but I think it's fitting for the kind of game.
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>>11491130
Any tim follin destroys this overrated tripe
https://youtu.be/SJwh3erQlyE?=eboXT8gRSgpVtKwU
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>>11494026
At least post Tim at his best, for fuck's sake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_gObHt1uZA
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GibS34vGiQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Myd3oEl3hfo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb54CeOR-cM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7Y23ORA42E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRk57dve0pA
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZY5rBIgklA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPJFN83a4Uc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la6jfmNuKfs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8Ww_4ekKxQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5exz3CpbN0
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Bomberman Hero
Banjo Kazooie
Wipeout
Pokemon Silver
Sonic CD
Daytona USA
Mega Man III
Super Mario Bros 2
Yoshi's Island
Pepsiman
The Sims
Virtua Cop
Metroid
Pac man
Tetris
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>>11491130
>Does any retro game come close to these when it comes to OST?
https://youtu.be/KOuVKxzW4Do
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>>11494024
im not a music expert, so i dont know if its supposed to be brass or woodwind, but there is a specific set of instruments that just have an AWFUL whine to them.
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https://youtu.be/aGSxt60K1mA?si=s1pcakcucHdUVpvc
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Anyone play this one? Loved the soundtrack.

The original composer uploaded remasters of the songs on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/g1NYJ3AyP5I?si=st3ppV5rVHNLG45D
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcJa1oJ7txo
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>>11495501
holy shit I haven't heard about this game in nearly 30 years. I used to play this back in the day, never got to finish the game.
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>>11491130
It is madness to suggest these are among the best Zelda scores let alone the best game soundtracks. Let's quickly toss Majora out of the way because despite a few really good songs, most of the soundtrack is just bad or recycled from Ocarina, which brings me to THAT soundtrack.

Ocarina's soundtrack largely consists of repetitive loops that long overstay their welcome by the end of a dungeon. The ocarina songs are by design too short to be fleshed out pieces, and most of them are just arpeggio variations. I'm sorry but you can't have played many games if you are so cosmically impressed by such an undiverse, unmelodic and short OST as this.

FF6's music is one of my least favourite in all of FF, but thinking about how a Super Nintendo game had a 3+ hour soundtrack with orchestral, prog rock, western, opera, ethnic, ragtime, jazz, and more, makes me wonder why a game that came out 4 years later on superior hardware gets so much praise for its mediocre and limited music.
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>>11491130
Donkey Kong Country 1 & 2
Goldeneye 007
Perfect Dark
Banjo Kazooie & Tooie

All coincidentally Rare games
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>>11491130
>Does any retro game come close to these when it comes to OST?
Yeah, a lot do. Even more surpass them.
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>>11491130
Do American millennials who owned an N64 actually believe this?



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