ITT: Strategy games disproportionately remembered for their soundtracks.For me, it's the original Dune. Much superior to Dune 2, if you ask me, even though the latter started the cookie cutter C&C copypaste RTS era. I barely played it as a kid because I was spooked by the death scene where not-Kale turns into a skellington from dehydration in the desert.But I will always remember the soundtrack.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUrTfzTIM4E
Speaking of cookie cutter C&C copypaste RTS:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3YzmjmAGoI
>>2377058what game
>>2377090
For me it's Rise of Legendshttps://youtu.be/5dzEkIRQsek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7cNyw4n0sA
>>2377022Langrisser 1 and 2.Civ 4.
>>2377090Heaven and Hellhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu-4Csqii0o
no way man. dune 2 had the best soundtrack. frank shredded that 16 bit virtual guitar
>>2377022The Adlib Gold version of the soundtrack is even betterI couldn't get into Westwood's Dune since I played that one first and the music was such a step down
>>2377103For me, it's Lenora's Themehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4QfXb1fPHQ>miss that game like you wouldn't believe
WarCraft 1 was great, WC2 better but I go back to 1 more often thanks to warm bitcrush.Obviously HoMM series, Paul Romero has more aura than Klepacki.CiV2 has a few great tracks, like Hammurabi's code.While not a strategy, Lost Eden has the absolute best vidya soundtrack of all times, and it is relative of Dune 1, therefore must be mentioned. Rip Stephane Picq, you are missed.
Empire Earthhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djppQrxwnDo&list=OLAK5uy_l8KyivMJUBgCuUT6mMUWlkS3OggW4rLl8Jagged Alliance 2https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fdwa9i21is&list=PLE8EEBC601D994079Worms: Armageddonhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxQXmji0LSQ&list=RDCxQXmji0LSQ
>>2378884>Empire EarthTEEEEEEERAAAA IMPEEEEERRIUM
For me it's Age of Empires 1https://youtu.be/nOciUztoshkand Lords of Magichttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTG3m9M1lYo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEQrIEusIzY
Its a shame the Starship Troopers RTS is flying under the radar. The campaigns have fun premises and the OST is godlike at emulating the Starship Troopers atmosphere.https://youtu.be/3NLNEnxt6Ks?is=3vM33wCKIdHKOV_D
>>2381993>Starship Troopers atmosphere.the power suits in the Sony movies were more canonical to the OG novels. RTS was based on the liveaction movies which is all mookish human infantry with shit armour.
>>2381364Good taste.Only recently started listening to Lords of Magic.Age of Empires 1 has consistently felt like a top tier soundtrack to me.Despite playing so much more aoe2, whenever I try to imagine aoe tracks I just think of aoe1 tracks.
>Knights of Honorhttps://youtu.be/aYM36JhkG4w?si=haEPRYmdenMX_UeWDoesn't have a bad track in the OST. Made by the Baldur's Gayte 3 composer.
>>2381364>Age of Empires 1https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTqsBuTkz_QI never got into 2nd one and I'm not a boomer either. For me it's 1>3>2>4
>no Total Annihilation mentionedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CepFgRY-8yI&list=PLrwWaT3GWAEdMVCnJr-Q-TVwRtKm8GQ9M&index=6
>>2377022>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUrTfzTIM4Ecool track
>>2382487whatever they used for the flute did not work
>>2382505i can just see my t1 bombers flying to their pointless ineffectual deaths to this track
you've all heard it, but WC2's soundtrack is hard to beathttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_f8UFv_Ytc
>>2382509>lil bro hears real instruments for the first time
>>2382519it's a shitty fucking recording
>>2378805Don't cry because it's gone, smile because it happened.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WbQ5WEVGCY
>>2377022https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7BhRHlD1dICiv 4 Bach tracks.>https://inv.nadeko.net/playlist?list=PLFKDUPVhA6nghozYxEyMNdEVF_d08QVsn
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>>2382060There's an old Starship Troopers Microprose game (which is currently abandonware, since it wasn't republished anywhere) which has different classes of power suits.
>>2377022>DEFCON>Homeworld Series>Any Total War game Van Dyck wrote music forI always loved Dawn of War's campaign theme though, so haunting:https://youtu.be/0AwEhD-B7wc?si=CeYMI4J5Jxx2VJt3
>>2377090Learn to read
>>2377022The original Dune is not a strategy game, it's an old-school early 90s point and click adventure game.
>>2385362you didn't play the game.... or watch the youtuber's let's play.
>>2377022Civ 6. Civ V changed the tracks for the worse (Seriously just compare their versions for Arirang, 6 is more authentic), while Civ IV is too eurocentric (outside their personal civ themes which only played in the diplomacy screen)
>>2385961>Civ IV is too eurocentricthat is good thing. did you expect to heard licensed kpopz in the modern era?
>>2386020>did you expect to HEAR licensed kpopz in the modern era?
Harkonnen OST from Emperor the Battle For Dune
>>2377118Oh shit I played this, it's one of those games from my childhood I wasn't sure was real or just imagined.
>>2391508have you also played Afterlife? it's a sim game though.https://www.mobygames.com/game/202/afterlife/>The player has to make it work by managing heaven and hell simultaneously.
>>2392138https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LSTO7vpJg4anyways, the Cannon Fodder funky reggae intro.i doubt daffy duck n mario approved of this.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUDrfqBeG8sWarsong's Phase 2, metal cover.
Frankly, when I play my strategy games these days, I turn off the soundtrack, sorry not sorry.
>>2391098Good
@2377090
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hrqqld2Aewhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzMHvvBqVuYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdtGbNhbtaw
>>2391098Not disagreeing but you SHOULD have mentioned Dune 2000 as well.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ2mUSz-8W0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxHKo35J010&list=RDDxHKo35J010&start_radio=1Apparently Flank put extra effort in the Harkonnen tracks because he liked that faction the most.
Not claiming the entire OST in these games are great (some of them are though), but these are some of my singular favorites:>Evil Genius: Main themehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFw_48vv5NQ&list=RDSFw_48vv5NQ&start_radio=1>Supreme Commander: Bellum Infinitushttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4XmcVfsUjM&list=RDB4XmcVfsUjM&start_radio=1>Divinity: Dragon Commander: Missing track 8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4yOiHLzwCg&list=RDd4yOiHLzwCg&start_radio=1>Red Alert 3: Soviet Marchhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_rbFhbcbT8&list=RDl_rbFhbcbT8&start_radio=1>Red Alert 3: Uprising: Main menu themehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC0WSu-bqBc&list=RDFC0WSu-bqBc&start_radio=1>Europa Universalis 4: Ride Forth Victoriouslyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycl0vpbMfWw&list=RDYcl0vpbMfWw&start_radio=1>Galactic Civilizations 2: Menu themehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyhSShv3noA&list=RDGyhSShv3noA&start_radio=1>Heroes of Might & Magic 2 Gold: Warlock themehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO0_bCYHU50&list=RDFO0_bCYHU50&start_radio=1It took forever to make this post since I had to fully listen to each track again
