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Anonymous
Best Soundtracks 04/11/26(Sat)11:46:13 No.2377022

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Best Soundtracks Anonymous 04/11/26(Sat)11:46:13 No.2377022

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

Anonymous
04/11/26(Sat)12:53:14 No.2377058

Anonymous 04/11/26(Sat)12:53:14 No.2377058

Speaking of cookie cutter C&C copypaste RTS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3YzmjmAGoI

Anonymous
04/11/26(Sat)13:55:50 No.2377090

Anonymous 04/11/26(Sat)13:55:50 No.2377090

>>2377058
what game

Anonymous
04/11/26(Sat)13:56:53 No.2377092

Anonymous 04/11/26(Sat)13:56:53 No.2377092

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>>2377090

Anonymous
04/11/26(Sat)14:12:48 No.2377103

Anonymous 04/11/26(Sat)14:12:48 No.2377103

For me it's Rise of Legends
https://youtu.be/5dzEkIRQsek

Anonymous
04/11/26(Sat)14:16:47 No.2377106

Anonymous 04/11/26(Sat)14:16:47 No.2377106

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7cNyw4n0sA

Oxi-glow !vEMC2a8736
04/11/26(Sat)14:37:32 No.2377117

Oxi-glow !vEMC2a8736 04/11/26(Sat)14:37:32 No.2377117

>>2377022
Langrisser 1 and 2.
Civ 4.

Oxi-glow !vEMC2a8736
04/11/26(Sat)14:41:07 No.2377118

Oxi-glow !vEMC2a8736 04/11/26(Sat)14:41:07 No.2377118

>>2377090
Heaven and Hell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu-4Csqii0o

Anonymous
04/13/26(Mon)15:55:03 No.2378409

Anonymous 04/13/26(Mon)15:55:03 No.2378409

no way man. dune 2 had the best soundtrack. frank shredded that 16 bit virtual guitar

Anonymous
04/14/26(Tue)10:23:42 No.2378721

Anonymous 04/14/26(Tue)10:23:42 No.2378721

>>2377022
The Adlib Gold version of the soundtrack is even better
I couldn't get into Westwood's Dune since I played that one first and the music was such a step down

Anonymous
04/14/26(Tue)16:00:35 No.2378805

Anonymous 04/14/26(Tue)16:00:35 No.2378805

>>2377103
For me, it's Lenora's Theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4QfXb1fPHQ

>miss that game like you wouldn't believe

Anonymous
04/14/26(Tue)19:31:22 No.2378863

Anonymous 04/14/26(Tue)19:31:22 No.2378863

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.

Anonymous
04/14/26(Tue)21:26:37 No.2378884

Anonymous 04/14/26(Tue)21:26:37 No.2378884

Empire Earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djppQrxwnDo&list=OLAK5uy_l8KyivMJUBgCuUT6mMUWlkS3OggW4rLl8

Jagged Alliance 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fdwa9i21is&list=PLE8EEBC601D994079

Worms: Armageddon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxQXmji0LSQ&list=RDCxQXmji0LSQ

Anonymous
04/19/26(Sun)07:01:53 No.2381357

Anonymous 04/19/26(Sun)07:01:53 No.2381357

>>2378884
>Empire Earth
TEEEEEEERAAAA IMPEEEEERRIUM

Anonymous
04/19/26(Sun)07:19:28 No.2381364

Anonymous 04/19/26(Sun)07:19:28 No.2381364

For me it's Age of Empires 1
https://youtu.be/nOciUztoshk
and Lords of Magic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTG3m9M1lYo

Anonymous
04/20/26(Mon)03:21:35 No.2381960

Anonymous 04/20/26(Mon)03:21:35 No.2381960

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEQrIEusIzY

Anonymous
04/20/26(Mon)05:29:42 No.2381993

Anonymous 04/20/26(Mon)05:29:42 No.2381993

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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

Oxi-glow !vEMC2a8736
04/20/26(Mon)08:30:27 No.2382060

Oxi-glow !vEMC2a8736 04/20/26(Mon)08:30:27 No.2382060

>>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.

Anonymous
04/20/26(Mon)13:41:02 No.2382237

Anonymous 04/20/26(Mon)13:41:02 No.2382237

>>2381364
Good 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.

Anonymous
04/20/26(Mon)17:52:24 No.2382487

Anonymous 04/20/26(Mon)17:52:24 No.2382487

>Knights of Honor
https://youtu.be/aYM36JhkG4w?si=haEPRYmdenMX_UeW
Doesn't have a bad track in the OST. Made by the Baldur's Gayte 3 composer.

Anonymous
04/20/26(Mon)18:08:26 No.2382497

Anonymous 04/20/26(Mon)18:08:26 No.2382497

>>2381364
>Age of Empires 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTqsBuTkz_Q

I never got into 2nd one and I'm not a boomer either.
For me it's 1>3>2>4

Anonymous
04/20/26(Mon)18:20:41 No.2382505

Anonymous 04/20/26(Mon)18:20:41 No.2382505

>no Total Annihilation mentioned
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CepFgRY-8yI&list=PLrwWaT3GWAEdMVCnJr-Q-TVwRtKm8GQ9M&index=6

Anonymous
04/20/26(Mon)18:28:14 No.2382508

Anonymous 04/20/26(Mon)18:28:14 No.2382508

>>2377022
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUrTfzTIM4E
cool track

Anonymous
04/20/26(Mon)18:29:17 No.2382509

Anonymous 04/20/26(Mon)18:29:17 No.2382509

>>2382487
whatever they used for the flute did not work

Anonymous
04/20/26(Mon)18:30:51 No.2382510

Anonymous 04/20/26(Mon)18:30:51 No.2382510

>>2382505
i can just see my t1 bombers flying to their pointless ineffectual deaths to this track

Anonymous
04/20/26(Mon)18:37:13 No.2382514

Anonymous 04/20/26(Mon)18:37:13 No.2382514

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you've all heard it, but WC2's soundtrack is hard to beat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_f8UFv_Ytc

Anonymous
04/20/26(Mon)18:38:44 No.2382519

Anonymous 04/20/26(Mon)18:38:44 No.2382519

>>2382509
>lil bro hears real instruments for the first time

Anonymous
04/20/26(Mon)18:39:36 No.2382521

Anonymous 04/20/26(Mon)18:39:36 No.2382521

>>2382519
it's a shitty fucking recording

Anonymous
04/20/26(Mon)22:53:57 No.2382618

Anonymous 04/20/26(Mon)22:53:57 No.2382618

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>>2378805
Don't cry because it's gone, smile because it happened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WbQ5WEVGCY

Oxi-glow !vEMC2a8736
04/21/26(Tue)02:32:17 No.2382704

Oxi-glow !vEMC2a8736 04/21/26(Tue)02:32:17 No.2382704

>>2377022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7BhRHlD1dI
Civ 4 Bach tracks.
>https://inv.nadeko.net/playlist?list=PLFKDUPVhA6nghozYxEyMNdEVF_d08QVsn

Anonymous
04/21/26(Tue)02:36:15 No.2382705

Anonymous 04/21/26(Tue)02:36:15 No.2382705

>>2377090
bot post

Anonymous
04/21/26(Tue)15:25:46 No.2383087

Anonymous 04/21/26(Tue)15:25:46 No.2383087

>>2382060
There's an old Starship Troopers Microprose game (which is currently abandonware, since it wasn't republished anywhere) which has different classes of power suits.

Anonymous
04/21/26(Tue)15:54:45 No.2383118

Anonymous 04/21/26(Tue)15:54:45 No.2383118

>>2377022
>DEFCON
>Homeworld Series
>Any Total War game Van Dyck wrote music for
I always loved Dawn of War's campaign theme though, so haunting:
https://youtu.be/0AwEhD-B7wc?si=CeYMI4J5Jxx2VJt3

Anonymous
04/24/26(Fri)13:24:08 No.2385261

Anonymous 04/24/26(Fri)13:24:08 No.2385261

>>2377090
Learn to read

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