I’ll start it off - Legend of Dragoon has my heart with this one
The Ghost Recon theme has been stuck in my head off and on ever since it came out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwLIHqkqHcw
I didn’t even play the game that much – I think I beat it once, played the multiplayer a little, and moved on. But the music is catchy.
That one was so good.
Haven’t played this game in decades but instantly started hearing the song in my head when I saw your post.
Woah, wasn’t expecting to see this answer here! OMF is my favorite one hands down.
A close second would be the music for Jazz Jackrabbit.
For me it’s Civ 5’s theme, always gives me chills
Such a fantastic song. Not at all surprising that it was the first piece of music from a video game to not only be nominated for but to win a Grammy.
I like this video with it.
Super Metroid.
Spooky AF
Arcanum’s main theme gets my vote.
It’s weird. It’s terrible as music - just random strings with almost no recognizable tune outside of the first few seconds - but it sets a mood better than any other. It’s distilled melancholy in music form.
💯 percent this piece of music makes me feel things
Definitely the original main menu music for Dragon’s Dogma.
I remember booting it up on the PS3 back in the day and was like “Wha-?” but after playing the game so many times it’s definitely become a favorite. Both for how out of place it is but also how perfect it fits after all the context of the game.
Sad they replaced it for the Dark Arisen version but luckily there is a mod for PC that restores it in all its glory. :P
Literally the first thing that came to kind. Any time I go to start anything im excited about my brain just starts up the piano.
Dark Souls 3
Even years later, having completed the game many times, that opening song still gives me the chills! So haunting, so beautiful!
Skyrim has to be on the list for the pure joy of it
Duke Nukem 3D Gets me pumped to this day.
The tune’s but also the crisp crackly sound effects of the main menu navigation are inexorably tied up with it (in a good way)
Syndicate was a really niche entry into the Cyberpunk genre that flopped commercially but had some interesting ideas about corp-ocracy and the way businesses of the future would wage warfare against each other like nations used to.
That main menu music has echoed in my brain for years. Deus Ex: Human Revolution would have been first but Syndicate is less well known and I figured someone already mentioned DE:HR at some point here.
Uncharted 2 main theme for me… So short but so damn good.
Max Payne. It sets the tone of the game at once.
