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.
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.
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
D1’s main theme (edit: the town theme) hit me so hard as a kid
I still stay for a while and listen
Came here to rave about those two as well! I remember whiling away my downtime at school reading Mat Uelman’s liner notes on the old Battle.net website and finally waking up to how video games didn’t need their soundtrack to fit in a neat little “box” of low-fidelity synth loops (though I still love that style)
One of the tracks had a comment from him about how he relishes any opportunity to break the rules of the genre he’s composing for. The quote was something along the lines of “More lasers in Hell. Hell needs lasers!” It just stuck with me for decades since