For me definitely The world ends with you. It completely shaped my modern taste in funk, pop, rap and hip hop. That and Jet set radio.
FFX back in the PS2 day’s was when I discovered I really love heavy metal.
So many
Half life.
Thief 1/2
Wing Commander 3
I may have a sweet spot for industrial music.
Tony Hawks proskater.
Portal 2. Absolute banger of a soundtrack that I have listened to over and over, and I absolutely loved Exile Vilify by The National, which frustratingly is not on Spotify.
Star Control 2
Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue! and Final Fantasy VII.
Then later on you obviously have all of the Guitar Heros and Rock Bands (I’m so excited for Stage Tour)
Myst and Riven. Became homework music for a long time
Symphony of the night of course, bust before that also games like streets of rage (1,2) and thunder force 4.
SuperTux
I don’t know if it was necessarily an awakening, but I’ve had the music from Super Mario Brothers in my head for 40 years. It’s so damn catchy.
Tony hawks pro skater series and gta vice city mostly
Libertycityhardcore!
Libertycityhardcore!
Libertycityhardcore!
Fuck!
You!
And then My War plays
Tony Hawk Undergound 1 and 2 for me, someone made a Spotify playlist for their soundtracks and I use it on at least a weekly basis
Ah, I used to just drive around like a normal driver listening to the radio stations in GTA vice City. Damn they were so good
The stations were just MP3 files on the game disc. I burned them to an audio CD and had them in my car.
Love fist
Mass Effect 1’s credit outro song led to a rabbit hole of me getting into electronic music over the next six months. It’s not even super dancey but it was enough lol
If you put the install disk for Warcraft 2 in a cd player, you had a kick ass orchestral soundtrack.
Fallout Soundtrack is the only reason I know who the ink spots are.
Both let me appreciate styles I had never given a chance.
Came looking for Fallout! I don’t know about you but before Fallout3 I kind of had the impression that catchy music began with rock and roll in the 50s. Fallout’s 1940s music was quite an education and a great jumping off point to find more pre-rock and proto-rock music. These days my oldies playlist is one of my favourites. For anyone curious check out the Ink spots, Mills Brothers, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Fats Waller and The Platters; Not to mention all of the great big band and jazz music from that era!
put the install disk for Warcraft 2 in a cd player,
I forgot about that! My mind was blown that you could use the same disk for mac and pc.
Kingdom Hearts for sure. Has inspired my love of pop and j-pop to a large degree.
I honestly think FF7 made get into classical music and contemporary composers.
Legend of Zelda - Ocarina of Time, and nothing else even comes close. Koji Kondo is a genius.
