Favorite Game Music TRACKS (blast from the past?)

**Random_Taffer** · 13th Oct 2016 19:00

Every track from all the DKC games, but one of my favorites:

Plenty of great remixes as well.

**faetal** · 13th Oct 2016 20:12

Since I'm playing this at the moment:

I really find that the whole OST, while lacking too much variety is really evocative, really fits with the game environment and when it crescendos, it crescendos hard.

**Thirith** · 18th Oct 2016 03:11

I love The Witcher 3's tunes in Skellige. Very atmospheric. I think I should play some wearing headphones, because with tunes like these (and with the great sound design overall) I like to have as little outside distraction as possible.

Also, having just finished Uncharted 4, I'm torn on its music. It's got some great moody tunes, especially in the latter part (I'm thinking especially of the music that plays around Chapter 17, "For Better or Worse"), but I hate that they didn't once play Nathan Drake's theme in a version closer to the ones played in the first three games. The new composer, who generally does a good job, went somewhat overboard in making the music foreboding and melancholy - in general, there's a lot in the game that seems to foreshadow a much grimmer ending - even though storywise they could've easily done a version of the original theme that still sounds triumphant and exciting. What we get sounds so pensive and wistful, it ends up feeling too drab for my tastes.

**Sulphur** · 18th Oct 2016 03:35

They didn't get Edmondson? Dammit. His scores were an integral part of the flavour to the first three, even if the cues themselves don't stand out much on their own. Overall, I can't remember any 'moody' things from Edmondson, but this bit from UC1 is memorable because of the location the fight happens in, coupled with the sudden shuffle of the music into a tense percussive march bursting with woodwinds.

If they wanted moody, they should've gotten Edmondson or Gustavo Santaolalla again. The Last of Us' soundtrack was wonderful (and also has a very similar track to the above).

**Thirith** · 18th Oct 2016 03:52

They got Henry Jackman. He did Captain America: Winter Soldier and Civil War, among other things, and he's got some very nice moments that fit where the story seems to be going, but I did miss Edmondson's theme - it's there, but it's changed into something very different. It felt a bit like they were going for an orchestral soundtrack that picks up Edmondson's work but turns it into something more along the lines of Santaolalla's work on The Last of Us in terms of mood. Sometimes it works very well, but at the very least Nate's theme in its original form was sorely missed.