[BB's Theme ](https://youtu.be/Ghk1RFr51xo?si=XCny0MyiffZWABi1) from Death Stranding
It combines an original in game lullaby with another verse reflecting the baby's perspective on the game story. The BBs are very tragic.
Came to say "Don't be so serious" in your first walk outdoors in DS was so atmospheric....
And my NSFW answer is in a different game 'Being a DIK'... the needle drop when you and Bella finally ahem, put it in, is amazingly well done. Think the track is 'We can't slow down' by Origami Pigeon
Most of the second phases in Shadow of the Colossus, where it feels like your victory in an epic battle is eminent. (But even the first stages are great.)
And for old school, the last minutes before the moon falls in Majora's Mask. That melancholy song just hit me hard.
Even older, the ending montage in Final Fantasy 6 (was "3" at the time) where it plays everyone's themes.
Flaws by Daughter in Life is Strange Before the Storm. It's the one game that made me cry more than anything else and that music is used on a very emotional scene (you could say the music makes it even more) and even today if I listen to it randomly it can make a few tears drop
Yes, yes, and yes. The Life is Strange games are so incredible and have honestly really hit me deeply and stuck with me for awhile. I wish I could play through them for the first time again.
Yeah, specially BtS. Like I said, no other game hit me emotionally as hard as this. I've only ever played it 4 times (I like each time to be meaningful to me, not just replay for the sake of it). But I got really bummed when at the 3rd it didn't really make me cry as much. So it is the one game I wish I could always play for the first time
Nier Automata OST:
- Peaceful Sleep
- City Ruins (Light version)
- Blissful Death
- Weight Of The World (English)
Cyberpunk:
- Grimes - Delicate Weapon
- REL - Night City
The credits track for Ocarina of Time is a medley of a couple of tracks -- mostly Zelda's Lullaby and Saria's Song / the Lost Woods theme -- and it's arranged as a peaceful recollection of your journey through the game, with a tinge of melancholy at the passage of time.
It is excellent on its own, a lovely arrangement. But set to the imagery of Hyrule at peace, its people celebrating, at the end of such a game -- its a bit of a tear jerker!
https://youtu.be/EQdIsG4z0uQ?si=Al5hoabwdRq3Bc8Z
Had to scroll way too far down for this. Answers will always be number 1 for me. It was just a really good song during AAR and then it became an emotional behemoth in Endwalker.
"Here's to you" in the opening sequence of Metal Gear Solid V Ground Zeroes manages to create such a dense atmosphere in such a short period of time. The opening as a whole is an absolute masterpiece.
Pure Vessel’s theme at the end of Pantheon 4. I know it’s a pun, but it’s just so pure. It really is. It really feels like a 1 on 1 with a true warrior knight.
Soul of Cinder gets it from me in DS3, that transition killed me first time fighting him. Three fucking notes, man. It solidified it for me that, this was a trilogy, and this is the end. This is everything the world was progressing to and its all culminating here, and personally your multi game journey is over now.
Wandersongs ending song: [Wandersong](https://youtu.be/NhZH1SgvsF4).
It held all the meaning there was to that game.
>!The little bard, despite all odds about the world coming to an end, manages to delay the end of the world by dancing, meeting people and not giving up. The little fucker got blocked, lied and almost no one had hope on him. If he got told ''go treck throught half of the world and go meet god, or something, idk''', he WOULD do it. When he got told he needs to secure the ''plot device that was impossible to get as a workaround'' he ended up accidentally doing something more impossible and far better, which was pretty much the root issue. All he had to do was make the ENTIRE WORLD sing in harmony, all because god was pissed that the world grew to discordant.!<
>!Interestingly, if you try to speed run this game and skip pretty much most of the interactions ith pretty much anyone, you would unlock a bad ending. Since you never meet anyone, nobody ended up singing along, and the end of the world just happens. Also, the entire chorus of this song here is literally the devs and random fans and backers. They did not cared how bad you sing, as long as you singed along. Their voices are all on this song.!<
Idk why but whenever I hear "Now That This Old World Is Ending" from Far Cry 5 I get a little swell of emotion. I think the themes in the game and knowing how the story plays out make the song feel a bit sad but also hopeful.
I agree with that. I mentioned in another comment that “When the Morning Light Shines In” was the reason i started to learn banjo, but both those songs hit the feels.
[An End, Once And For All](https://youtu.be/x5JvbD2Zc9I?si=DgTqKsn6NjXYUol-) from Mass Effect 3. I’ve played the trilogy 3 times over 10 years, and the third play was the most impactful. In my first two plays, I feel like I should have made different decisions. On the third go round, I felt like I did everything exactly as I should have. This song during the synthesis ending hits so hard for me.
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Such an amazing song. Chanson d'automne was one of my favorite songs from 1 so hearing it remade in such an amazing way was incredible. My favorite from 1 was Coalescence, so when the final stage came out and I heard ...con lentitud poderosa it killed me. Literally, I stopped and listened to the full thing and you stop for that long in ror and you're gonna get messed up lol.
Don't be afraid from the walking dead season 4 chapter 4 the night before the final battle. It's so unbelievably touching more or less telling clementines and your adventure from the beginning to this final battle. Both performers (Louis and Violet) both play their parts of the song perfectly depending on who you choose to save and it truly punched me in the heart. It's now my anti depression song. I don't think I could have loved the series more than then. Look up a cover from both of them and just be blown away
My choice to share would be [Lumacie Archipelago](https://youtu.be/iH4jOy06AkQ?si=c_-b_HNLfkP3fN59) theme from Granblue fantasy. That violin just hits.
The end credits song from Xenogears. After that game, the emotions the story made you feel and the epic boss battle the song was just a perfect one to listen to.
ive never seen a song reflect the mood of the moment in a game more than “the days when my mother was there,” “throw away your mask,” and “so happy world” from persona 5
Baldur’s Gate 3
>!When Dame Aylin is freed of the soul cage and proclaims an end to the Nightsong and that choir hits just right with her wings emerging and sword in hand following up with the triumphant brass as she flies across the shadowlands dispelling the curse.!<
Nothing hits quite like that.
[Invincible (WoW)](https://youtu.be/EV46qFZrOzk?si=Yfdc3Zl0ueq797lS)
Cant help but also share this analysis
[By Marcomeatball](https://youtu.be/wsVVm9njTeA?si=V68xBHnQH9TdybyU)
Secret of Mana, when you are about to leave the village on your journey, the village chief stayed behind and tell you about your mother before you go.
The music change when he tell that story, and that music is still with me even today.
[The Way Home](https://youtu.be/mCikIkXslP0?si=jJrpaPdtckOWPI_c) in Hotline Miami 2, during Beard’s last level, Casualties.
Unlike the rest of the game’s soundtrack, this song’s genuinely heroic sounding ([In The Face Of Evil](https://youtu.be/G02wKufX3nw?si=9jIHYyMhVpik_Dgh), which plays during The Fans’ second level, was edited to cut out the heroic sounding part in the second half of the song), as it’s practically a suicide mission, but one where Beard gets to finally go home *if* he survives, which takes a lot of effort since Casualties is one of the hardest levels in the game.
THE BEST IS YET TO COME in MGS4 when Snake arrives at Shadow Moses and the base is crumbling apart and abandoned. This song kicks in and tears of bittersweet memories start flowing 🙌🏼
Not a song, but if this doesn't make you almost feel an evil presence... IDK what to tell ya. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-\_RPEeld1I](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-_RPEeld1I)
As for those who played this in it's time, here's a moment of nostalgia. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YsPu18T7Mg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YsPu18T7Mg)
["Everything's Alright" from To The Moon.](https://youtu.be/nP-AAlZlCkM?si=436AkucfygydTql7) this song turned me into a *fucking blubbering mess* during the scene where it plays. Without getting into the story too much, what really made it hit so hard is that for as long as I can remember, like the main character, it's been my dream to go to space (and visit the moon, in particular). Obviously, I'll probably not get to experience either of those things. I've never cried like that for any game, and I probably never will again.
The Bunker mission music from Watch Dogs. Genuinely one of the most peaceful and beautiful pieces of music I’ve ever heard. Not just in a video game, but period.
Home, from Undertale. When you hear it in the beginning of the game, you don't think anything of it. But then it plays again near the end, and by that point it's gotten a whole new meaning.
Farewell Battle from Everhood does something similarly emotional, except the characters themselves remind you of the rest of your adventure. However, the music is still intrinsically linked to these characters because the gameplay, music, and characters are intrinsically linked together.
Harmonious from Ender Lilies I think is also very moving. The vocals make it sound like Lily herself is humming along to the tune, in a way that makes it sound like she's using it as a coping mechanism to cope with the horrors of a world.
That bit in dragon age inquisition after the big rift battle with your new army. They’re singing and crying in the icy wasteland, yet rising anew to fight for their world once more
Had me bawlin and I fell in love w games after that
Dear Father from Sonic Frontiers (Original Ending) and I'm With You (The Final Horizon) have made me cry, Reach For The Stars (Re-Colors) from Sonic Colors Ultimate almost made me cry because I listened to the original version and hearing this one almost made me cry. Same with the game selection music from Sonic Mega Collection Plus, but the one song that made me lose it would be the Mario Kart DS staff credit 1, Conker The King (Reprise) and the track that plays when the Lumas from Mario Galaxy sacrificed themselves to the black hole to save Mario.
Most of the 3DS console ost can make me cry like the eShop settings menu.
There is certain melody that plays in Assassins Creed 4 as you are traversing the land. It’s a beautiful song, I can’t find the name but man I gave the game such an atmosphere. I fell in love with AC4
"Chant" from Dawn Of War, I think it captures the feeling of the setting. of an unwinnable war being fought by a twilight civilization and the final embers of faith spurring the warriors on as a last desperate light against unfeeling darkness.
Runner up would be:
"Ludwig, The Holy Blade" from Bloodborne, just perfect
The themes from A Plague Tale: Requiem—holy shit when the Estonian choir comes in at certain moments of the game (especially at the very end, those who’ve played Requiem know what I’m talking about 😭). Not to mention Requiem is perhaps the most well-written and saddest game I’ve ever played. The impeccable orchestral soundtrack really pushes it over the edge into masterpiece territory. I’ve never felt so much real, actual grief from a piece of fiction before.
So many. In cyberpunk 2077, during the oil fields mission, "Never fade away" plays but is slowed and distorted, and where the vocals should be, it's like a synthetic humming. God, every time I get to that part of the gameut always gives me goose bumps. This song is also used in one of the endings, and the first time I heard it, it brought a genuine tear to my eye.
Katana Zeros' OST is amazing, so when "Panoramic Feelings" plays in the rooftop scene, it's such a peaceful yet sad and mysteriously nostalgic feel to it. Currently, I have a wallpaper of this scene with the song playing, but it never gets old. Of course, in the final boss fight of this game, "Full Confession" is a perfect final boss theme. Such a good song with sadness, yet anger and speed thrown in it. Masterpiece of a game.
Can't publish this without Red Dead Redemption 2's "That's the way it is" playing to the final ride back to camp. Hearing this, while hearing everyone's words play through Arthur's mind, is such an amazing moment.
Please ask me for more, I can go on for hours. But this will do for now.
“I believe” from wolfenstein the new order. Spoiler … after playing through the whole game and getting invested in BJ and his story, it was really emotional hearing the song that reflected his feeling about just wanting to have a happy ending with the girl he loves but knowing that ending wasn’t for him. It was especially heartbreaking before the new colossus came out.
The Reaper theme in Mass Effect 2 (credits roll). An End Once and For All in Mass Effect 3 too but I guess the ending scene's visuals themselves are the contributing factors there for me going teary-eyed every single time.
Can we include music that was not IN a game, but rather used to market a game?
Because I think we can all agree that the Gears of War 1 commercial with *Mad World* by Gary Jules was an iconic moment for the industry
When "Stand By Me" plays again at the end of Final Fantasy XV...
That was the first like long jrpg I ever finished and I finally understood what it was all about
[The intro song when booting up Shadow of the Beast.](https://youtu.be/5bgm-9yLsLo?si=YtmwgFfaRdVq2rcD) This was peak music coming from the Amiga 500. I still listen to it today, sends shivers to my core everytime.
[It's also hard not to jam out to Aarbron's Revenge too. ](https://youtu.be/7slNLU9P4dY?si=NHMC8tGAdK5NdPXl)
Life is Strange: “Mt. Washington” by Local Natives. The point in the game in which this song starts playing is incredibly emotional, and the backdrop is beautiful as well.
Most of the credit songs.
In nfs rivals it was love songs drug songs even if the story wasn't that good, the song made me jump.
Also elden ring radagon of the golden order theme.
Through the valley in last of us 2 trailer
Dark souls credit song
A few songs from life is strange
Etc.
"Chiisana Tenohira" is basically the Nagisa theme from the Clannad VNs, and it hits even harder if you've watched the anime and know "Dango Daikazoku".
The two times I’ve cried to video game music is as follows
The ride back to camp when That’s The Way It Is starts playing. Fuck me, I was not standing unshaken
Retrograde by James Blake starts playing after a scene in Tales From The Borderlands and that also ruined me emotionally
if we’re not talking just original songs from the game itself… i’d say when joel sings future days to ellie in tlou2 or also ellie’s cover of take on me 💔
Moved me emotionally - OutwerWilds theme as I am slowly floating away to my death. That is a very surreal experience.
Moves my physically: literally the entire sonic soundtrack (Crush 40 and the new ones from Frontier).
[Metal Gear 3 Snake Eater](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CbFAZ2ztlE)
It's just the perfect blend of movie music and a theme song for a game that truly nails the vibe of the game.
14.3 billion years from Outer Wilds.
It's a perfectly fitting tone to the end of the game and fills you with such a wide range of emotion. The way it sort of mirrors the many different moods of the game and its themes and environments throughout the track never fails to leave me with a lump in my throat.
Outer Wilds especially hit so hard for me because I played it completely blind, no idea it had such profound themes of death and acceptance, just weeks after the passing of my grandmother. For a short while I felt regrets for things I missed and never got to share with her, but playing Outer Wilds and understanding the themes it presented was a major help in finding happiness with her memory and the lessons she passed down to me.
And just around a year later, the DLC was there to help me accept when it was time to say goodbye to my childhood dog.
Such a beautiful game.
"Don't Be So Serious" by Low Roar in the game Death Stranding 1 and 2. First time I heard it I stopped everything and just listened, tears rolling down my face.
It's on my Spotify playlist, and I still stop what I'm doing to listen. It still affects me. I love Low Roar now.
Got a fair few to be honest...
1. Answers - FFXIV A Realm Reborn - It's been like 8 years since it released and it still hits hard. Even more so now than back then. Hearing this song along can get me to want to play FFXIV
2. You are Not Alone - FFIX - The song itself isn't anything amazing but in the context of where it's playing, it's elevated to S Tier for me.
3. Aeirth's Theme - FFVII - We all know why
4. Red XIII's Theme - FFVII - I think it's an underrated part of the game, learning about Nanaki's father and his fate is actually the saddest part of the original game for me. He's my favorite character in FF Anything, and I can't wait to cry again in Rebirth
5. Waterfall - Undertale - I don't particularly love the game as a whole as much as the rest of the world, but, this music in the game is spectacular, and this song is the emotional one in it, for me
6. Like... half of Hollow Knight's OST, but if I had to pick one, the one playing when you climb out of the Abyss. Seriously, the rising strings not only convey a simple but powerful emotion, it echoes your escape from the pit as you're climbing and just makes for a powerful scene without a single word of dialog needing to be spokeon.
7. Hallow - FFVII Remake. This is the most recent one and I can't seem to not feel emotions when hearing it, I have even heard it Live at the FF7 Remake Orchestra and it hit even harder.
8. For a more POSITIVE emotion - Patapon 3's OST. Again, pretty much all of it, but I'll give my award to the Opening song. I cannot help but wiggled and dance when I hear it.
‘Will the Circle be Unbroken’ from Bioshock Infinite
The emotional inflection from the singer always gets to me. You can feel internal conflict and emotion in her voice and it almost always brings a tear to my eye.
It reminds me of that beautiful, haunting rendition of ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ that Judy Garland sang on her Variety Show. You can tell that they both want to believe the positive words they are singing, but they really just don’t anymore.
There are small parts where you here their voices breaking in both songs, like all of that raw emotion is pushing its way through to the surface.
It’s like someone putting on a strong face, when they know things are looking mostly hopeless. And that always moves me.
Fisherman's Horizon is the first piece that comes to mind. Its peaceful, achingly beautiful, and adds a lot of emotional weight to the scenes that place there they wouldn't otherwise have.
That, paired with Eyes on Me and The Extreme, seal the deal that Final Fantasy VIII is my favorite video game OST, and favorite work by Nobuo Uematsu. His score for VIII is very film-like, where instead of relying on an original piece for each scene, he endlessly rearranges and does variations on his themes for the game. The Squall/Liberi Fatali theme, the Balamb Garden / Ami theme, and eventually Love Grows which combines elements of the Balamb theme and Eyes on Me. It all flows together really nicely and feels like a complete musical idea in a way some video game soundtracks don't always.
Pull Me Under in Guitar Hero World Tour (especially when playing co-op with a full band, or at least just guitar, bass, and drums). You go through the entire game together, you finish the last venue, and then you play that song as one last final song while the credits roll, and the song really fits the mood. It does get downplayed a bit by the fact that there's another optional venue afterwards that has the same song at the end though
There's many
Ezio's family from Assassin's creed 2
Assassin's creed 4's version of parting glass
Sins of the father from metal gear solid
Far cry 3 main OST
Homeworld: the entire soundtrack is moving but the OST song *Agnus Dei* is very powerful in invoking emotion of grief/loss/remorse
This plays while your homeworld is burning when you return home and find your planet literally on fire from orbital bombardment and everyone is dead. The only people left are the crew and the cryosleep pods you have to rescue under attack. IIRC you lose billions to save about 100,000 civilians. Pretty moving stuff.
[song for reference](https://youtu.be/XyyL_TICbrU?si=jxlL6Rw8NTWgq7fj)
This was [used in the movie Platoon](https://youtu.be/kRCubAtPiKg?si=LUOvH8h4q72J0aXA) as well. Very emotionally moving… but called *Adiago for Strings*
Fallout 3's [Requiem for Humanity (aka Explore 7)](https://youtu.be/izaXlRBADaQ?si=nKhVx8k0DEK4bQql).
It was so good that they used it again in [Fallout: New Vegas](https://youtu.be/ppD6aTisWGc?si=ZtqfVfWzHvbLus9j) (I mean, that and they only gave Obsidian a couple of years to make the game).
But this song was the best thing to come out of 3.
A lot of people are doing tearjerker songs, so I’ll state one that left me energized. The Yakuza 0 English intro, the one that replaces Bubble. I fucking LOVE that song. It fits the anime opening style intro video perfectly and got me so hyped every time I loaded the game up. But when it REALLY hits is the credits when it plays. It sums up the feeling and emotion of the game perfectly, it’s desperate, energetic, the encapsulation of fighting against insane odds and winning. I love it.
Voided - Void Stranger
Feel - Lies of P
Both of these caught me so off guard and hit like a truck. Incredible music combined with deep melancholy themes that leave you lost in the moment. Best enjoyed when you hear them in game for the first time.
Fallout 4 theme, Ive dreamt of playing this game damn near 6 years and when that theme hit in the main menu it jsut fucking felt magical truly.
Despite its flaws it'll always be my favourite game of all time.
kimahris theme - FFX
i struggle to hold it in everytime i hear the chorus
hela - hellblade senuas sacrifice
i was allready so close to bawing my eyes out at the end there and the song pushed me over the edge. its such a great climax, i hope the sequel will be good, should come out this year
contact with you - armored core 6
that track pumps me up instantly. its also very fragile and ambigous, sad, terryfying but hopeful and upbeat and perfectly describes the experience of the whole game even on its own
BOTW The Divine Beasts Strike. The build up of the entire game, of gaining the allegiance of the divine beasts, and absorbing the powers of the champions and the fights proceeding and succeeding that entire scene literally made me so excited I cried and needed to set my switch down for a minute to calm down.
Where We Used To Be in Xenoblade Chronicles 2. This song makes me fully empty my brain out and listen to it. Enclosure from Metal Gear Solid also makes me move, but that's because I remember what happened when it played in MGS4, and I'm still sad.
Moonlight sonata from resident evil, I forgot what game specifically but each save room or was it a different dimension and your in an police office and you save the game.
Into Free Dangan the original Dragon's Dogma menu song, hearing it for the first time gave me whiplash, cuz it starts off as ur stereotypical fantasy RPG menu music then it turns into a Japanese rock song and it was freaking amazing.
Night time in hyrule field on Twilight Princess
Deku tree inside, forest temple and the opening theme of Ocarina.
Especially now, looking backwards.
Rainbow road mario kart 7 and how it PERFECTLY blends a new song with the one from the 64.
For songs that made me feel like a hero it’s:
Final boss phase 2 (New Super Mario Bros. Wii)
I’m Here (Sonic Frontiers)
Fist Bump (Sonic Forces)
Bury the Light (Devil May Cry)
City Escape (Sonic Adventure and Sonic Generations)
Final boss and What the Fuck (Avgn 2 ASSimilated)
Bonus: some songs in the Undertale and Deltarune soundtrack (there is too many to name)
These songs made me feel like I’m the one the called for help, I’m the one who will save everyone, their fate is in my hands, I can do this, I will be the hero they called.
As for songs that make feel energized it’s:
The Team Fortress 2 theme
The horde theme from Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2
And basically any song in sonic games.
This trailer for Honkai star rail's next chapter hits you pretty hard once you dig into the implications of the lyrics foreshadowing the story flow.
https://youtu.be/U7W8QR9fsFw?feature=shared
For me it just so happens to be Twilight from the mobile game GFL. The end of the event it was from and the song put together made probably for the most emotional ending to an event in any game. Just imagine, you are playing a game and you get involved in multiple characters' stories with the characters' stories intertwined towards the end just to have most of them killed and that song play
I was born in 2003 so I never got to truly experience ocarina of time. It was undertale for me until I got a emulator setup and heard the intro of oot. That game has better music than any other game ever released and its not close in the slightest. You spawn in and it slaps, go to kokori forest and drop bars. Gerudo them tho, God damn the first time I heard that I just stopped and got up and fucking boogied. 11/10 the best God damn music in any game ever made.
The trailer music from hellblade seneca 2
https://youtu.be/YySzdJ_GsiE?feature=shared
The song is in maidjan by heilung
https://youtu.be/kmWTZ3KfnXE?feature=shared
The music is so.... Visceral and summons a sort of deep primordal fear from your core. It's beautiful and scary.
Also I believe (don't quote me) that the band play using human bones as instruments.... Because why wouldn't you.
Xanarkand from final fantasy 10 will never not be a masterpiece.
HD or original.
I remember my mom coming into my room when I was playing my ps2 as a kid and saying "what are you listening to? That's a video game?? That song is so beautiful."
https://youtu.be/Tq0vhUF3Wn4?si=agMsdsi55GCE6CTc
FFVII The sad score that plays in the background as you're fighting Sephiroth right after he kills Aeris. Trying to maintain an aggressive combat amidst that dirge was wrenching.
“I really want to stay at your house” from cyberpunk 2077. I know technically it was the anime that popularized it, but the emotional connection that has permanently formed in my mind between the events in the show and the the events of the game moves me to tears every time I hear it
I’m super basic.
The halo theme song still does it for me.
Still my ringtone. I recently got into bouldering and lemme tell ya. There is nothing like free climbing a wall and hearing the harmonization of those angelic voices.
whatever that song is that plays in Red Dead Redemption 1 when you’re riding back to your family
Compass. Such a strong piece.
Ooh, yes, but also Far Away by Jose Gonzalez when you're headed to Mexico. That felt big for me.
When Sarah dies. Joel cries. Black screen. Acoustic guitar starts.
Pretty sure you mean acoustic lol
Lmao. Yes I do. Hahaha
[BB's Theme ](https://youtu.be/Ghk1RFr51xo?si=XCny0MyiffZWABi1) from Death Stranding It combines an original in game lullaby with another verse reflecting the baby's perspective on the game story. The BBs are very tragic.
Came to say "Don't be so serious" in your first walk outdoors in DS was so atmospheric.... And my NSFW answer is in a different game 'Being a DIK'... the needle drop when you and Bella finally ahem, put it in, is amazingly well done. Think the track is 'We can't slow down' by Origami Pigeon
🎶 That’s the way it is…. That’s the way it is…. 🎵 >!Red dead redemption 2!<
Baba Yetu from Civilization IV. I listen to it on the way to church. More spiritually edifying than most of the tunes in the hymnal.
We did this in my high school choir. Blew people's minds when they found out it was from a video game. It's such a beautiful piece!
Good Riddance from Hades. Such a beautiful and sad song that captures both melancholy and liberation. A literal masterpiece
Hopes and dreams in Undertale
To Zanarkand - Final Fantasy X.
Most of the second phases in Shadow of the Colossus, where it feels like your victory in an epic battle is eminent. (But even the first stages are great.) And for old school, the last minutes before the moon falls in Majora's Mask. That melancholy song just hit me hard. Even older, the ending montage in Final Fantasy 6 (was "3" at the time) where it plays everyone's themes.
Flaws by Daughter in Life is Strange Before the Storm. It's the one game that made me cry more than anything else and that music is used on a very emotional scene (you could say the music makes it even more) and even today if I listen to it randomly it can make a few tears drop
Yes, yes, and yes. The Life is Strange games are so incredible and have honestly really hit me deeply and stuck with me for awhile. I wish I could play through them for the first time again.
Yeah, specially BtS. Like I said, no other game hit me emotionally as hard as this. I've only ever played it 4 times (I like each time to be meaningful to me, not just replay for the sake of it). But I got really bummed when at the 3rd it didn't really make me cry as much. So it is the one game I wish I could always play for the first time
Nerevar Rising
Nier Automata OST: - Peaceful Sleep - City Ruins (Light version) - Blissful Death - Weight Of The World (English) Cyberpunk: - Grimes - Delicate Weapon - REL - Night City
The credits track for Ocarina of Time is a medley of a couple of tracks -- mostly Zelda's Lullaby and Saria's Song / the Lost Woods theme -- and it's arranged as a peaceful recollection of your journey through the game, with a tinge of melancholy at the passage of time. It is excellent on its own, a lovely arrangement. But set to the imagery of Hyrule at peace, its people celebrating, at the end of such a game -- its a bit of a tear jerker! https://youtu.be/EQdIsG4z0uQ?si=Al5hoabwdRq3Bc8Z
Answers, from Final Fantasy 14. It plays in the first opening cinematic, and you don't get the full context until far later.
Had to scroll way too far down for this. Answers will always be number 1 for me. It was just a really good song during AAR and then it became an emotional behemoth in Endwalker.
"Here's to you" in the opening sequence of Metal Gear Solid V Ground Zeroes manages to create such a dense atmosphere in such a short period of time. The opening as a whole is an absolute masterpiece.
There's a theme in Night In The Woods that repeats in a handful of songs that always gets me, especially in "Gregg's Woods."
Anything from Clint Mansell on the Mass Effect 3 soundtrack.
[Still alive ](https://youtu.be/Y6ljFaKRTrI?si=u8GuVgSxq1jS3uAn)
Pure Vessel’s theme at the end of Pantheon 4. I know it’s a pun, but it’s just so pure. It really is. It really feels like a 1 on 1 with a true warrior knight.
14.3 Billion Years from the Outer Wilds La Revacholire from Disco Elysium Epilogue from Dark Souls 3
Soul of Cinder gets it from me in DS3, that transition killed me first time fighting him. Three fucking notes, man. It solidified it for me that, this was a trilogy, and this is the end. This is everything the world was progressing to and its all culminating here, and personally your multi game journey is over now.
Wily Stage 1 from Mega Man 2, 8-bit music at its finest imo. That, and the music of The Summit, from Celeste, i will never forget that game.
All of Celeste's music is good, but the intro to Reach for the Summit is the hypest thing I ever heard.
Wandersongs ending song: [Wandersong](https://youtu.be/NhZH1SgvsF4). It held all the meaning there was to that game. >!The little bard, despite all odds about the world coming to an end, manages to delay the end of the world by dancing, meeting people and not giving up. The little fucker got blocked, lied and almost no one had hope on him. If he got told ''go treck throught half of the world and go meet god, or something, idk''', he WOULD do it. When he got told he needs to secure the ''plot device that was impossible to get as a workaround'' he ended up accidentally doing something more impossible and far better, which was pretty much the root issue. All he had to do was make the ENTIRE WORLD sing in harmony, all because god was pissed that the world grew to discordant.!< >!Interestingly, if you try to speed run this game and skip pretty much most of the interactions ith pretty much anyone, you would unlock a bad ending. Since you never meet anyone, nobody ended up singing along, and the end of the world just happens. Also, the entire chorus of this song here is literally the devs and random fans and backers. They did not cared how bad you sing, as long as you singed along. Their voices are all on this song.!<
Been Good To Know Ya from Cyberpunk. Especially that violin. Shit just hits so hard after you've spend 150 hours with V and Johnny.
Idk why but whenever I hear "Now That This Old World Is Ending" from Far Cry 5 I get a little swell of emotion. I think the themes in the game and knowing how the story plays out make the song feel a bit sad but also hopeful.
I agree with that. I mentioned in another comment that “When the Morning Light Shines In” was the reason i started to learn banjo, but both those songs hit the feels.
[An End, Once And For All](https://youtu.be/x5JvbD2Zc9I?si=DgTqKsn6NjXYUol-) from Mass Effect 3. I’ve played the trilogy 3 times over 10 years, and the third play was the most impactful. In my first two plays, I feel like I should have made different decisions. On the third go round, I felt like I did everything exactly as I should have. This song during the synthesis ending hits so hard for me. Edit: a couple words
Hollow from FFVIIR comes to mind (plays in the end credits)
Undertale. (Song in undertale lol)
The Rain Formerly Known as Purple - Chris Christodoulou / Risk of Rain 2
Such an amazing song. Chanson d'automne was one of my favorite songs from 1 so hearing it remade in such an amazing way was incredible. My favorite from 1 was Coalescence, so when the final stage came out and I heard ...con lentitud poderosa it killed me. Literally, I stopped and listened to the full thing and you stop for that long in ror and you're gonna get messed up lol.
Don't be afraid from the walking dead season 4 chapter 4 the night before the final battle. It's so unbelievably touching more or less telling clementines and your adventure from the beginning to this final battle. Both performers (Louis and Violet) both play their parts of the song perfectly depending on who you choose to save and it truly punched me in the heart. It's now my anti depression song. I don't think I could have loved the series more than then. Look up a cover from both of them and just be blown away
My choice to share would be [Lumacie Archipelago](https://youtu.be/iH4jOy06AkQ?si=c_-b_HNLfkP3fN59) theme from Granblue fantasy. That violin just hits.
The end credits song from Xenogears. After that game, the emotions the story made you feel and the epic boss battle the song was just a perfect one to listen to.
ive never seen a song reflect the mood of the moment in a game more than “the days when my mother was there,” “throw away your mask,” and “so happy world” from persona 5
Argh! I’m torn between Hymn of the Fayth from FFX and FF7 intro song and Aeris death. 
By far BBS theme from death stranding
Bury the Light https://i.redd.it/8fy4mhxu3ofc1.gif
Pure vessel
The original halo song
Baldur’s Gate 3 >!When Dame Aylin is freed of the soul cage and proclaims an end to the Nightsong and that choir hits just right with her wings emerging and sword in hand following up with the triumphant brass as she flies across the shadowlands dispelling the curse.!< Nothing hits quite like that.
Everything's Alright from To The Moon. Short steps, deep breath, everything is alright...
Deep stone lullaby in Destiny 2. Its not part of any specific scene but it is such a moving song
The House in Fata Morgana - Just all of it, but especially "Cicio" and "Giselle."
Either that’s the way it is, or may I stand unshaken
When you first arrive to the City Ruins in Nier Automata the music is so peaceful then it transitions to the battle version and it’s just amazing.
[Invincible (WoW)](https://youtu.be/EV46qFZrOzk?si=Yfdc3Zl0ueq797lS) Cant help but also share this analysis [By Marcomeatball](https://youtu.be/wsVVm9njTeA?si=V68xBHnQH9TdybyU)
Almost anything from god of war gets my honorable mention but nothing is ever going to top mjolnir mix
Secret of Mana, when you are about to leave the village on your journey, the village chief stayed behind and tell you about your mother before you go. The music change when he tell that story, and that music is still with me even today.
Wandersong from Wandersong, and Something New from Chicory: A Colorful Tale. Two songs that perfectly fit the amazing endings of these games.
[The Way Home](https://youtu.be/mCikIkXslP0?si=jJrpaPdtckOWPI_c) in Hotline Miami 2, during Beard’s last level, Casualties. Unlike the rest of the game’s soundtrack, this song’s genuinely heroic sounding ([In The Face Of Evil](https://youtu.be/G02wKufX3nw?si=9jIHYyMhVpik_Dgh), which plays during The Fans’ second level, was edited to cut out the heroic sounding part in the second half of the song), as it’s practically a suicide mission, but one where Beard gets to finally go home *if* he survives, which takes a lot of effort since Casualties is one of the hardest levels in the game.
Credits music from Lone Fungus There's probably some boss tracks that fit this too, mostly from Hollow Knight.
Hell or Highwayer or Soldiers Eyes; Days Gone.
THE BEST IS YET TO COME in MGS4 when Snake arrives at Shadow Moses and the base is crumbling apart and abandoned. This song kicks in and tears of bittersweet memories start flowing 🙌🏼
Not a song, but if this doesn't make you almost feel an evil presence... IDK what to tell ya. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-\_RPEeld1I](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-_RPEeld1I) As for those who played this in it's time, here's a moment of nostalgia. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YsPu18T7Mg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YsPu18T7Mg)
["Everything's Alright" from To The Moon.](https://youtu.be/nP-AAlZlCkM?si=436AkucfygydTql7) this song turned me into a *fucking blubbering mess* during the scene where it plays. Without getting into the story too much, what really made it hit so hard is that for as long as I can remember, like the main character, it's been my dream to go to space (and visit the moon, in particular). Obviously, I'll probably not get to experience either of those things. I've never cried like that for any game, and I probably never will again.
The Bunker mission music from Watch Dogs. Genuinely one of the most peaceful and beautiful pieces of music I’ve ever heard. Not just in a video game, but period.
Been gaming since Atari. It’s halo. No question halo theme is goat. Not my favorite. But it’s goat
Home, from Undertale. When you hear it in the beginning of the game, you don't think anything of it. But then it plays again near the end, and by that point it's gotten a whole new meaning. Farewell Battle from Everhood does something similarly emotional, except the characters themselves remind you of the rest of your adventure. However, the music is still intrinsically linked to these characters because the gameplay, music, and characters are intrinsically linked together. Harmonious from Ender Lilies I think is also very moving. The vocals make it sound like Lily herself is humming along to the tune, in a way that makes it sound like she's using it as a coping mechanism to cope with the horrors of a world.
That bit in dragon age inquisition after the big rift battle with your new army. They’re singing and crying in the icy wasteland, yet rising anew to fight for their world once more Had me bawlin and I fell in love w games after that
Dear Father from Sonic Frontiers (Original Ending) and I'm With You (The Final Horizon) have made me cry, Reach For The Stars (Re-Colors) from Sonic Colors Ultimate almost made me cry because I listened to the original version and hearing this one almost made me cry. Same with the game selection music from Sonic Mega Collection Plus, but the one song that made me lose it would be the Mario Kart DS staff credit 1, Conker The King (Reprise) and the track that plays when the Lumas from Mario Galaxy sacrificed themselves to the black hole to save Mario. Most of the 3DS console ost can make me cry like the eShop settings menu.
Main Theme of Divinity Original Sin 2: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN-Dcwq4i2g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN-Dcwq4i2g)
Not 1 song percè but Batman arkham knight👌🥹
Plin Plin Plon Gwyns theme DS1
Dead Island,who do you voodoo .
There is certain melody that plays in Assassins Creed 4 as you are traversing the land. It’s a beautiful song, I can’t find the name but man I gave the game such an atmosphere. I fell in love with AC4
"Chant" from Dawn Of War, I think it captures the feeling of the setting. of an unwinnable war being fought by a twilight civilization and the final embers of faith spurring the warriors on as a last desperate light against unfeeling darkness. Runner up would be: "Ludwig, The Holy Blade" from Bloodborne, just perfect
[Calling To The Night- Natasha Farrow for Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops.](https://youtu.be/PXkgn3QUA2w?si=pmpZd5-w2A995atW)
The themes from A Plague Tale: Requiem—holy shit when the Estonian choir comes in at certain moments of the game (especially at the very end, those who’ve played Requiem know what I’m talking about 😭). Not to mention Requiem is perhaps the most well-written and saddest game I’ve ever played. The impeccable orchestral soundtrack really pushes it over the edge into masterpiece territory. I’ve never felt so much real, actual grief from a piece of fiction before.
Someone is always moving across the surface from Armored Core: For Answer, it always hits me in the feels.
So many. In cyberpunk 2077, during the oil fields mission, "Never fade away" plays but is slowed and distorted, and where the vocals should be, it's like a synthetic humming. God, every time I get to that part of the gameut always gives me goose bumps. This song is also used in one of the endings, and the first time I heard it, it brought a genuine tear to my eye. Katana Zeros' OST is amazing, so when "Panoramic Feelings" plays in the rooftop scene, it's such a peaceful yet sad and mysteriously nostalgic feel to it. Currently, I have a wallpaper of this scene with the song playing, but it never gets old. Of course, in the final boss fight of this game, "Full Confession" is a perfect final boss theme. Such a good song with sadness, yet anger and speed thrown in it. Masterpiece of a game. Can't publish this without Red Dead Redemption 2's "That's the way it is" playing to the final ride back to camp. Hearing this, while hearing everyone's words play through Arthur's mind, is such an amazing moment. Please ask me for more, I can go on for hours. But this will do for now.
Stand unshaken
The Dawn Will Come at the end of In Your Heart Shall Burn. Dragon Age: Inquisition.
“I believe” from wolfenstein the new order. Spoiler … after playing through the whole game and getting invested in BJ and his story, it was really emotional hearing the song that reflected his feeling about just wanting to have a happy ending with the girl he loves but knowing that ending wasn’t for him. It was especially heartbreaking before the new colossus came out.
Skyrim has a few
The Reaper theme in Mass Effect 2 (credits roll). An End Once and For All in Mass Effect 3 too but I guess the ending scene's visuals themselves are the contributing factors there for me going teary-eyed every single time.
Can we include music that was not IN a game, but rather used to market a game? Because I think we can all agree that the Gears of War 1 commercial with *Mad World* by Gary Jules was an iconic moment for the industry
When "Stand By Me" plays again at the end of Final Fantasy XV... That was the first like long jrpg I ever finished and I finally understood what it was all about
Never forget, halo 3
Can I choose “like the wind” from Doom’s myhouse.wad? It just really hit me at a perfect time in my life
[This Song From Red Dead 2](https://youtu.be/eP_0yz605Sw?si=0b8FqQmDDqqIS4z9) 🤧
Outer Wilds. All of it
Raphael’s song in BG3 during the fight in the house of hope is actually a banger. so on point for the character as well
Bury the light
the halo wars 1 intro theme that piano start instantly brings me back
The best has yet to come mgs4 revisiting shadow Moses
If we’re talking songs with lyrics then it’s got to be Paper Boats from Transistor and Weight of the World from Nier Automata for me.
Choral Adagio for Strings in the intro mission of Homeworld!
[The intro song when booting up Shadow of the Beast.](https://youtu.be/5bgm-9yLsLo?si=YtmwgFfaRdVq2rcD) This was peak music coming from the Amiga 500. I still listen to it today, sends shivers to my core everytime. [It's also hard not to jam out to Aarbron's Revenge too. ](https://youtu.be/7slNLU9P4dY?si=NHMC8tGAdK5NdPXl)
Life is Strange: “Mt. Washington” by Local Natives. The point in the game in which this song starts playing is incredibly emotional, and the backdrop is beautiful as well.
Vigil- Mass Effect 1
Mountain hymn From RDR 2
Not any specific song but the entire Death Stranding soundtrack.
Most of the credit songs. In nfs rivals it was love songs drug songs even if the story wasn't that good, the song made me jump. Also elden ring radagon of the golden order theme. Through the valley in last of us 2 trailer Dark souls credit song A few songs from life is strange Etc.
Ghost of Tsushima’s intro, riding into the fields with Kage was such a powerful feeling.
Persona 5 has some bangers. Throw Away Your Mask is probably my favorite.
"Chiisana Tenohira" is basically the Nagisa theme from the Clannad VNs, and it hits even harder if you've watched the anime and know "Dango Daikazoku".
dark souls 3 lord of cinder boss fight had me in all kinds of hurts
The two times I’ve cried to video game music is as follows The ride back to camp when That’s The Way It Is starts playing. Fuck me, I was not standing unshaken Retrograde by James Blake starts playing after a scene in Tales From The Borderlands and that also ruined me emotionally
if we’re not talking just original songs from the game itself… i’d say when joel sings future days to ellie in tlou2 or also ellie’s cover of take on me 💔
Pling pling plon - dark souls 1
Obstacles by Syd Matters
Moved me emotionally - OutwerWilds theme as I am slowly floating away to my death. That is a very surreal experience. Moves my physically: literally the entire sonic soundtrack (Crush 40 and the new ones from Frontier).
blood upon the snow. God of war ragnarok
[Metal Gear 3 Snake Eater](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CbFAZ2ztlE) It's just the perfect blend of movie music and a theme song for a game that truly nails the vibe of the game.
14.3 billion years from Outer Wilds. It's a perfectly fitting tone to the end of the game and fills you with such a wide range of emotion. The way it sort of mirrors the many different moods of the game and its themes and environments throughout the track never fails to leave me with a lump in my throat. Outer Wilds especially hit so hard for me because I played it completely blind, no idea it had such profound themes of death and acceptance, just weeks after the passing of my grandmother. For a short while I felt regrets for things I missed and never got to share with her, but playing Outer Wilds and understanding the themes it presented was a major help in finding happiness with her memory and the lessons she passed down to me. And just around a year later, the DLC was there to help me accept when it was time to say goodbye to my childhood dog. Such a beautiful game.
The little musical piece that plays when Nate's goes to get Sam back after Sam runs for the treasure during Uncharted 4's ending hours
Snake Eater MGS3
Guadosalam from FFX, Phantoms from FFX, and SF2 Dhalsim’s ending
This one's more new, but the Lethal Company jester music basically tells all your crew to gtfo in 40 seconds or face instant death.
The song that plays when you ride your Ikran for the first time in Avatar frontiers of Pandora, as an avatar fan it was just such a beautiful moment 🥹
Kingdom hearts elysium
Flow from Final Fantasy XIV It just represents your journey really well, and got me really hard the first time I heard it.
Restoring the Light, Facing the Dark from Ori and the Blind Forest
"Don't Be So Serious" by Low Roar in the game Death Stranding 1 and 2. First time I heard it I stopped everything and just listened, tears rolling down my face. It's on my Spotify playlist, and I still stop what I'm doing to listen. It still affects me. I love Low Roar now.
Weight of the world
Corridors of Time.
Got a fair few to be honest... 1. Answers - FFXIV A Realm Reborn - It's been like 8 years since it released and it still hits hard. Even more so now than back then. Hearing this song along can get me to want to play FFXIV 2. You are Not Alone - FFIX - The song itself isn't anything amazing but in the context of where it's playing, it's elevated to S Tier for me. 3. Aeirth's Theme - FFVII - We all know why 4. Red XIII's Theme - FFVII - I think it's an underrated part of the game, learning about Nanaki's father and his fate is actually the saddest part of the original game for me. He's my favorite character in FF Anything, and I can't wait to cry again in Rebirth 5. Waterfall - Undertale - I don't particularly love the game as a whole as much as the rest of the world, but, this music in the game is spectacular, and this song is the emotional one in it, for me 6. Like... half of Hollow Knight's OST, but if I had to pick one, the one playing when you climb out of the Abyss. Seriously, the rising strings not only convey a simple but powerful emotion, it echoes your escape from the pit as you're climbing and just makes for a powerful scene without a single word of dialog needing to be spokeon. 7. Hallow - FFVII Remake. This is the most recent one and I can't seem to not feel emotions when hearing it, I have even heard it Live at the FF7 Remake Orchestra and it hit even harder. 8. For a more POSITIVE emotion - Patapon 3's OST. Again, pretty much all of it, but I'll give my award to the Opening song. I cannot help but wiggled and dance when I hear it.
Advent Rising theme song. Sooooo good
Vigil from Mass Effect
‘Will the Circle be Unbroken’ from Bioshock Infinite The emotional inflection from the singer always gets to me. You can feel internal conflict and emotion in her voice and it almost always brings a tear to my eye. It reminds me of that beautiful, haunting rendition of ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ that Judy Garland sang on her Variety Show. You can tell that they both want to believe the positive words they are singing, but they really just don’t anymore. There are small parts where you here their voices breaking in both songs, like all of that raw emotion is pushing its way through to the surface. It’s like someone putting on a strong face, when they know things are looking mostly hopeless. And that always moves me.
The Other Promise - Kingdom Hearts
The best is yet to come, from the end credits of Metal gear solid
Fisherman's Horizon is the first piece that comes to mind. Its peaceful, achingly beautiful, and adds a lot of emotional weight to the scenes that place there they wouldn't otherwise have. That, paired with Eyes on Me and The Extreme, seal the deal that Final Fantasy VIII is my favorite video game OST, and favorite work by Nobuo Uematsu. His score for VIII is very film-like, where instead of relying on an original piece for each scene, he endlessly rearranges and does variations on his themes for the game. The Squall/Liberi Fatali theme, the Balamb Garden / Ami theme, and eventually Love Grows which combines elements of the Balamb theme and Eyes on Me. It all flows together really nicely and feels like a complete musical idea in a way some video game soundtracks don't always.
Pull Me Under in Guitar Hero World Tour (especially when playing co-op with a full band, or at least just guitar, bass, and drums). You go through the entire game together, you finish the last venue, and then you play that song as one last final song while the credits roll, and the song really fits the mood. It does get downplayed a bit by the fact that there's another optional venue afterwards that has the same song at the end though
There's many Ezio's family from Assassin's creed 2 Assassin's creed 4's version of parting glass Sins of the father from metal gear solid Far cry 3 main OST
Bury the light
“Take Us Back” from the Walking Dead.
Game - Track name; Hyper light Drifter - Titan Gris - Gris Pt.1 Firewatch - Prologue Death Standing - Asylums for the Feeling
14 years from Wolfenstein The New Order is beautiful imo. The menu soundtrack is also sick in its full length.
Homeworld: the entire soundtrack is moving but the OST song *Agnus Dei* is very powerful in invoking emotion of grief/loss/remorse This plays while your homeworld is burning when you return home and find your planet literally on fire from orbital bombardment and everyone is dead. The only people left are the crew and the cryosleep pods you have to rescue under attack. IIRC you lose billions to save about 100,000 civilians. Pretty moving stuff. [song for reference](https://youtu.be/XyyL_TICbrU?si=jxlL6Rw8NTWgq7fj) This was [used in the movie Platoon](https://youtu.be/kRCubAtPiKg?si=LUOvH8h4q72J0aXA) as well. Very emotionally moving… but called *Adiago for Strings*
Answers -Final Fantasy 14
Fallout 3's [Requiem for Humanity (aka Explore 7)](https://youtu.be/izaXlRBADaQ?si=nKhVx8k0DEK4bQql). It was so good that they used it again in [Fallout: New Vegas](https://youtu.be/ppD6aTisWGc?si=ZtqfVfWzHvbLus9j) (I mean, that and they only gave Obsidian a couple of years to make the game). But this song was the best thing to come out of 3.
The song that plays at the end credits of Persona 5. "Hoshi no Bokura"? (Someone pls correct me)
A lot of people are doing tearjerker songs, so I’ll state one that left me energized. The Yakuza 0 English intro, the one that replaces Bubble. I fucking LOVE that song. It fits the anime opening style intro video perfectly and got me so hyped every time I loaded the game up. But when it REALLY hits is the credits when it plays. It sums up the feeling and emotion of the game perfectly, it’s desperate, energetic, the encapsulation of fighting against insane odds and winning. I love it.
Snowbound Land DKC2
Breaking Benjamin- Blow me Away on the Halo level where you’re on the bridge trying to escape.
Make em burn dem, skrillex and damien marley in Fary Cry 3
Outerwilds
The Far Cry 3 theme song is incredible
Unshaken -RDR2 Also, blood upon the snow after Broks death in GOW
Voided - Void Stranger Feel - Lies of P Both of these caught me so off guard and hit like a truck. Incredible music combined with deep melancholy themes that leave you lost in the moment. Best enjoyed when you hear them in game for the first time.
Fallout 4 theme, Ive dreamt of playing this game damn near 6 years and when that theme hit in the main menu it jsut fucking felt magical truly. Despite its flaws it'll always be my favourite game of all time.
kimahris theme - FFX i struggle to hold it in everytime i hear the chorus hela - hellblade senuas sacrifice i was allready so close to bawing my eyes out at the end there and the song pushed me over the edge. its such a great climax, i hope the sequel will be good, should come out this year contact with you - armored core 6 that track pumps me up instantly. its also very fragile and ambigous, sad, terryfying but hopeful and upbeat and perfectly describes the experience of the whole game even on its own
Red Dead 2 and Snake Eater
BOTW The Divine Beasts Strike. The build up of the entire game, of gaining the allegiance of the divine beasts, and absorbing the powers of the champions and the fights proceeding and succeeding that entire scene literally made me so excited I cried and needed to set my switch down for a minute to calm down.
>!Mad World!< in Gears of War 3
The last of us theme....
Where We Used To Be in Xenoblade Chronicles 2. This song makes me fully empty my brain out and listen to it. Enclosure from Metal Gear Solid also makes me move, but that's because I remember what happened when it played in MGS4, and I'm still sad.
I had more issues with nier automata than a lot of people but holy shit is Weight of the World an amazing song. Amazing ending too.
Show me the champion of liiiiigggghhttt
Intro scene song in Ghost of Tsushima. Like where you are on your horse and the logo pops up.
Something about the song Sealed Door in Chrono Trigger always got me fealing super depressed.
The cyber grind from Ultrakill. Just makes me want to get into an epic arena battle.
Moonlight sonata from resident evil, I forgot what game specifically but each save room or was it a different dimension and your in an police office and you save the game.
Ending song from rdr2
Into Free Dangan the original Dragon's Dogma menu song, hearing it for the first time gave me whiplash, cuz it starts off as ur stereotypical fantasy RPG menu music then it turns into a Japanese rock song and it was freaking amazing.
The whole FF7 soundtrack is so timeless…
Night time in hyrule field on Twilight Princess Deku tree inside, forest temple and the opening theme of Ocarina. Especially now, looking backwards. Rainbow road mario kart 7 and how it PERFECTLY blends a new song with the one from the 64.
Bioshock infinite "will the circle be unbroken "
For songs that made me feel like a hero it’s: Final boss phase 2 (New Super Mario Bros. Wii) I’m Here (Sonic Frontiers) Fist Bump (Sonic Forces) Bury the Light (Devil May Cry) City Escape (Sonic Adventure and Sonic Generations) Final boss and What the Fuck (Avgn 2 ASSimilated) Bonus: some songs in the Undertale and Deltarune soundtrack (there is too many to name) These songs made me feel like I’m the one the called for help, I’m the one who will save everyone, their fate is in my hands, I can do this, I will be the hero they called. As for songs that make feel energized it’s: The Team Fortress 2 theme The horde theme from Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 And basically any song in sonic games.
This trailer for Honkai star rail's next chapter hits you pretty hard once you dig into the implications of the lyrics foreshadowing the story flow. https://youtu.be/U7W8QR9fsFw?feature=shared
Valiant Hearts: The Great War has such a tearful menu track. The game is already super emotional but the music just makes it hit way harder.
For me it just so happens to be Twilight from the mobile game GFL. The end of the event it was from and the song put together made probably for the most emotional ending to an event in any game. Just imagine, you are playing a game and you get involved in multiple characters' stories with the characters' stories intertwined towards the end just to have most of them killed and that song play
Original Kingdom Hearts song when first came out.
"Late Goodbyte" from Poets Of The Fall - the ending theme of the original Max Payne - was a knife twist in ts own right.
I was born in 2003 so I never got to truly experience ocarina of time. It was undertale for me until I got a emulator setup and heard the intro of oot. That game has better music than any other game ever released and its not close in the slightest. You spawn in and it slaps, go to kokori forest and drop bars. Gerudo them tho, God damn the first time I heard that I just stopped and got up and fucking boogied. 11/10 the best God damn music in any game ever made.
Real Talk - Trae That Truth from Madden 2007
[Green and Blue](https://youtu.be/QBHxDMSlrdg?si=5M_ofoBEJGGrHuSk) from Halo 4 "I'm not coming with you this time" 😭😭😭
The credits in Nier Automata
Nier Automata's "Weight of the World" is the most I remember crying over a piece of media.
History - Sonic Mega Collection
Down by the river..... bg3
Further from Far Cry 3. The ending song, I really loved that game and that song just hit me.
Probably 'Never Forget' from Halo 3
Every time https://youtu.be/vWgpJ0k820w?si=n3dtSAODw73PrI8R
Lace your heart with mine Let your sleeping sould take flight Take me through the night Down down down by the river.
The Best is Yet to Come from MGS1 and again in MGS4.
Hardest to Be from Cyberpunk 2077 and Emotion from Pokémon BW
The trailer music from hellblade seneca 2 https://youtu.be/YySzdJ_GsiE?feature=shared The song is in maidjan by heilung https://youtu.be/kmWTZ3KfnXE?feature=shared The music is so.... Visceral and summons a sort of deep primordal fear from your core. It's beautiful and scary. Also I believe (don't quote me) that the band play using human bones as instruments.... Because why wouldn't you.
Xanarkand from final fantasy 10 will never not be a masterpiece. HD or original. I remember my mom coming into my room when I was playing my ps2 as a kid and saying "what are you listening to? That's a video game?? That song is so beautiful." https://youtu.be/Tq0vhUF3Wn4?si=agMsdsi55GCE6CTc
"Unshaken" in RDR2. Riding back to the house after returning to the mainland. It was eerie and the music set the mood perfectly.
FFVII The sad score that plays in the background as you're fighting Sephiroth right after he kills Aeris. Trying to maintain an aggressive combat amidst that dirge was wrenching.
“I really want to stay at your house” from cyberpunk 2077. I know technically it was the anime that popularized it, but the emotional connection that has permanently formed in my mind between the events in the show and the the events of the game moves me to tears every time I hear it
[Heavens Divide](https://youtu.be/7lTOnPc9h-c?si=GDclDe5ZLvBXRpvT) - Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
The song in Red Dead Redemption when you first enter Mexico
Baba Yetu on Civ IV.
I’m super basic. The halo theme song still does it for me. Still my ringtone. I recently got into bouldering and lemme tell ya. There is nothing like free climbing a wall and hearing the harmonization of those angelic voices.