What is your absolute favourite track from a video game?

Original music: probably everything Solar Fields did for Mirror's Edge. Not original: Ain't No Rest for the Wicked is perfect for Borderlands. Hard choices though, there's a lot of good shit out there.

Probably Coalescence from Risk of Rain 1

My mind landed on Stickerbush Symphony from Donkey Kong Country 2 and kinda settled there. David Wise is damn good at composing video game music.

It has to one of these two for me, hard to pick: The Chersonese soundtrack from Outward or Fear Not Night from Guild Wars 2.

The Outward one hits especially hard while adventuring through Chersonese!

Missing You - Kingdom Hearts II

NieR: Automata - Weight of the World

This is at first so beautiful, and later on it just hits so hart. And listening to the other versions, japanese where the performer even cries, and chaos (a fantasy language) (video with spoilers, sadly), this is such a great piece of art. The perfect bittersweet song.

Danger from Secret of Mana / Seiken Densetsu 2. I love me some boss battle music!

Gotta say, nobody knows this game and rare are thoses who even played it, can it even be considered as a video game track, but i will say the first theme from Irisu Syndrome!

Max Payne 2: ”Late Goodbye” by Poets of the Fall.

https://youtu.be/GYLdQZQ0YT8 Distant Worlds II: The Prelude, if that counts as a video game track.

https://youtu.be/STPnXPSirT0 With this as continuation.

https://youtu.be/lndBgOrTWxo Otherwise Stickerbush Symphony.

Red Alert Hell March

https://youtu.be/e3YzmjmAGoI

I'm partial to the original Dwarf Fortress music

A classic! I do also love Simon Swerwer's work on the official steam DF OST

Hard to pick just 1, so here's a list of ones I deem notable from a few different games:

14.3 Billion Years — Outer Wilds
Undertale — Undertale
City of Tears — Hollow Knight
- (with in-game ambiance)
Under the Eye of Kibenya — Heaven's Vault
- No publicly available version of this one; but the game and soundtrack are good, so they're worth a buy
Private Room — Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location
Tiny's Theme — Mario Golf
Cleopactra — Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness
Dive Into the Mellow — Sonic Adventure 2
Fathomless Tomb — Deep Rock Galactic
They Might As Well Be Dead — Risk of Rain 2
xX_TF_CNS_FloatingBits_Mp3_Xx (Floating Bits) — The Finals

To me it's always been the B version of the original Tetris. This and most of Megaman X

Dude! My most unpopular opinion has always been that b track of tetris was more of a banger than the version! I've received dozens of down votes over it!
The Boomer Kuwanger theme is a banger. This might be my favorite version though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqMqOIa9vnk

Humm hard to pick, my recent top two favourites are

The Legacy of Bhaal (BG3) https://youtu.be/kbQQAg3IPM8

Lord of Frenzied Flame (Elden Ring SOTE) actually, this whole OST is insanely good. Base game slaps as well

https://youtu.be/SHwLbyDlqG0

'Trial Of Thunder (5-3)' from the 'Crypt of the Necrodancer' (Metal Soundtrack). I'm not a fan of this type of game and have never played it, but Familyjules totally shreds the original 8-bit soundtrack it had.

To Zanarkand just does something...

This is gonna be an old cut but Paperboy the arcade by Atari frickin slaps.

Chiptunes hit different

Metroid Prime OST, too many good options to pick just one.

The perfect synchronicity of the Metal song and the player character pumping their shotgun at the end of the opening sequence of DOOM (2016) when they exit the elevator towards the surface of Mars.

The soundtrack for that game was absolutely incredible. I still listen to the BFG song on Spotify all the time lol
I remember most people thought that the Metallica tune they used for the original doom was Master of Puppets but the devs said it was No Remorse, heavily tweaked of course.

It's a deep cut but I used to play a ton of The Incredible Machine as a kid and the Zydeco song has always been a banger.
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\ Higher quality remixed version from the 3DO version

A lot of the old Apple II game sounds mainly due to just growing up playing on an Apple II. The Ultima series had some of the best music. Ultima III Ultima IV

Skyrim OST "unbroken road". It fits the open world vibes perfectly.

The speedy/daredevil comets in super mario galaxy

Keke animation on top

Menu screen for crackdown

"I wanna take ya for a riddee~"

Mario star sound

I don’t know about “absolute favorite”, but the Spanish Waltz / Shop theme from Castle Crashers routinely loops in my head

https://youtu.be/dLchXp8FCbI

Vigil from Mass Effect. I think it's the song playing when you first get the galaxy map, and playing that game and seeing the world open up while hearing that song really put me in a great mood.

Chemical Plant Zone, Sonic 2.

A lot of good music on the Genesis Sega games.
There were some bangers in that game, Mystic Cave and Metropolis had killer tracks also

FTL

There are a lot of good songs, but today I will pick Megalovania by Toby Fox. https://youtu.be/KK3KXAECte4

Gran tursimo 4 menu music.

Cassette Beasts OST is amazing. "Wherever we are now" is probably my favorite.

Tristram from Diablo

Guile's theme from Street Fighter 2

they still play in my head regularly, 30 or so years later

Mick Gordon and Tex Perkins track from Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, called The Partisan. Fantastic end piece to the game.

https://mickgordon.bandcamp.com/album/the-partisan-feat-tex-perkins

Later found out it's steeped in history as it's a cover/adaptation of a 1943 anti-fascist song written in French by Russian-born Anna Marly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Marly

I have a Mick Gordon from Doom in my regular playlist

I have a new obsession: Sea of Stars

https://youtu.be/Xer_vasWKGQ

I really love the Soundtrack from Yoshis Island. Especially the beginning from the second Level. That bass is Burnt into my memories.

Easily Mythic Power from Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. Especially in the context in-game the track is first dropped, it's incredible.

Plok - Beach

Some really good beats packed into the SNES.

The entire Megaman 2 soundtrack.

Double Dragon

Punch Out

Ocarina of time - lost woods

MegaMan X soundtrack
MegaMan 3 was the one that did it for me.
Super Glove Ball on NES had a banger soundtrack as well

Sonic 3: Ice Cap Zone Act 1

Yes the old one. I don’t know what they decided to replace it for origins.

Three way tie:

The Last of US : Horizon Zero Dawn: Morrowind

Morrowind title song is etched forever in my brain, bom bom bom bom tuuh duuh duh tuuh duuh duh plays and the yearn for adventure starts
- I love how slowly it builds too.

Too many to list.

Main theme from Assassins Creed Valhalla
OST from both Ori games. Seriously, they're all awesome
OST from Journey
Bastion Theme (and all other tracks too)

Bonus:

Super Mario Galaxy
Tetris

Gareth Coker, Austin Wintory, Darren Korb, Chris Christodolou, and Lena Raine are the absolute gods of videogame composers. Honourable mention for disasterpeace and C418.
- David Wise would like a word. And Koji Kondo. Also I hate to say it but Jeremy Soule too.

“Duh nuh nuh naaaaaah! Dun nuh nuh naaaaah! Dun nuh nuh naaaah!….”

The early sneaking into the castle during the rain music from the beginning of A Link to the Past?
- The Halo warthog run music.

Fortress of Doors from the American McGee's Alice OST.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz8dOeZCMjE&list=PLE6593A6F00DB9E4B&index=4

race against fate from metro exodus

Towards Utopia (Nova Flare) from Stellaris, but I will say one of my favorite things in a video game is when suddenly a character sings a musical number, like The Great Mighty Poo from Conkers Bad Fur Day or Cosmic I from Psychonauts 2

Been getting into bullet hells lately and the OST for Espgaluda slaps so hard, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJSlYmeW_es&list=PL6N1UyX9iZqvHkgNTslgU0ivl2jiLjNk2&index=6

The whole game is a wild, 2000's anime fever dream and worth checking out even if you're not into bullet hells. The primary mechanic involves building up gems from enemy kills that allow you to activate a power up to slow time. When time is slowed, any enemy you kill has their bullets cancelled and added to your score, so it encourages you to build up insane amounts of bullets on screen before going bullet time and killing everything. With this insane, trance-y soundtrack playing in the background it is a V I B E.

The Great Sea from Wind Waker.

I'm sure nostalgia plays a part, but I'm a sucker for those classic Kondo tracks.

Dragon roost island had such a hooking melody

Stoic Porridge (Grit Gate) - Caves of Qud OST

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

Solace.

I remember the Re/Volt track. All their track kinda got me into electronic music growing up.

Metal Gear Solid ending theme, the best is yet to come.

25 years later, it still gives me goosebumps and tears.

Thank you M. Kojima.

I'm just gonna say Rainbow Cliffs from the Ty the Tasmanian Tiger OST, just because it has been my ringtone for a few years now and I still can't get enough of it.

Runner up is probably The Reverse Will from the Silent Hill 2 OST (original, not remake)

Razorback - motorstorm Pacific rift

Riversong - Tonto's Expanding Head Band (Universal Paperclip)

I don't know why my brain refuses to let it go, but Graeme Norgate's Astrolander from Timesplitters 2 is short and very sweet.

Also theres the opening theme from Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters.

Oh actually also the Italy round of Road Rash 3. I once worked in an Italian restaurant and would whistle this without knowing it was taken from some famous Italian opera, and the owner asked me how I knew the music, and I didn't have the heart to tell him.

Ordinary from NFS:Hot Pursuit 2