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Tony hawks pro skater series and gta vice city mostly

Do the Guitar Hero games count? Because those

Chrono Trigger.

lol… genuinely, DOOM. I grew up with just the radio and a mom who made weird and arbitrary rules about music so my music exposure was terrible. I found a journal from when I was ten talking about how excited I was to listen to the “top ten soft rock hits” of the week with Delilah. Hearing DOOM and going omfg this ROCKS!! made me realize there was other music out there, big music, epic sounds, distortion, heavvvvvy sounds I love it all, I’m also a bass head as it turns out. DOOM opened the door and I’ve spent my adult life exploring all the different kinds of music I never got exposed to as a kid.

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.

I honestly think FF7 made get into classical music and contemporary composers.

Pick any game in the Final Fantasy series. For me it was the overworld in FF6 and the battle songs from VII and VIII. I Also really vibed with the Uncharted games, which used an orchestra of interesting folk instruments to create a really cool musical soundscape for adventure.

FF9, Vamo' alla Flamenco taught me I really like spanish guitar.

StarCraft’s iconic Terran soundtrack is the earliest game where the music really got me hooked into that 80’s synth rock/metal. Of course there’s also Mick Gordon’s Doom soundtracks, but that came in later and I was already listening to metal by that time.

Damn, I can't believe Halo CE hasn't been mentioned yet. That game was a musical awakening for the entire industry.

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, Tony Hawk's Underground 2, Kingdom Hearts II, and GTA San Andreas all come to mind. Also a more recently Lethal League and Bomb Rush Cyberfunk

Everything from Supergiant is fantastic, worth a listen even if you don't play the games. Also, Burnout Revenge had such a good soundtrack. Completely shaped my preference for music in highschool.

Tony Hawks proskater.

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

Diablo/Diablo 2

Though this tune isn't quite part of their soundtrack (that I know of), it highly resembles their style on this otherwise hidden track...

Dawn Of Tears - Blood On Verona (Hidden track timestamp 11:43)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63WxrVmquJw&t=703s

Red Alert 2. I did not know what metal was up to then.

The Sims building music: A great example of music improving the experience without getting in the way but still making a big impact on all players. It opened the door for more instrumental music like Windham Hill records and similar.

I was in a hospital for a few days when I was 8-year-old. I was not allowed to leave my bed. But they had a kind of a moveable shelf with a TV and NES on it.

And therefore, to this day, I've got the Bubble Bobble music as an earworm. A kind of an awakening, right? 🙃

Beat Saber custom charts were how I discovered Vylet Pony, who was my favorite artist throughout my teen years.

Morrowind for sure.

One Winged Angel, Sephiroth's theme from Final Fantasy 7 blew my mind! I did a report on it in high school I loved it so much!

Ocarina of Time Need for Speed

hey. you asked.

Mick Gordon's music in Wolfenstien and Doom. In particular, his version of the Partisan, Blazco Kill the Nazis, and of course, The Only Thing They Fear is You. That was what allowed me to get into metal.

Hotline Miami.

need for speed underground for obvious reasons

Stubbs the zombie got me into indie rock

Chrono Cross!

Wondering if Project Mirai DX would also count....

Adding a few more to my list.

Spyro (PS1) - Stewart Copeland's genius cannot he understated, and subsuqently got me into his original band The Police (I'm seennddinngg out an S O S)

Final Fantasy VII and IX both sound tracks I go back to frequently

Kingdom Hearts definitely started my love for JPop

Lots of songs from Tony Hawk (the PS1 era)

Super Mario Bros 3.

That airship theme.

Morrowind & Skyrim. Nothing really comes close to Jeremy Soule's music.

I still listen to the Riven soundtrack, 29 years later. It's so rich and atmospheric, and composed and performed by one of the game's co-designers Robyn Miller.

Everything about that game was beautiful. Still holds up today.

Jet Set Radio (+Future) soundtrack goes hard. Most of the tracks are still on my favorites playlists

Homestuck is more webcomic than videogame, but it did its best to blur the line. It introduced me to the genre of chip music. I got pretty involved in that and even made a few tracks that were released on netlabels (and lots more that weren't).

For a proper video game, Doom 2016. The genre is called "argent metal" by enthusiasts.

I always liked electronic music but Machinarium made me consciously realize how much I liked ambient music and how much could be done with it.

Kingdom Hearts for sure. Has inspired my love of pop and j-pop to a large degree.

Both the OST and gameplay Jetset Radio Future blew me away as a kid.

Cyberpunk Bomb Rush and it's OST was great experience recently too.

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.

Myst and Riven. Became homework music for a long time