Help me make a videogame music playlist

[Johnny Novgorod]

It's for the bookstore where I work.
I'm going for stuff that doesn't necessarily scream videogames and can pass for a "normal" music (including songs that may or may not have been composed for a specific game but are primarily associated with it anyway). The idea is to alternate between upbeat/trippy rock and something more slow and mellow but nothing too creepy. Chiptune is fine so long as it's not too strident.
This is what I have so far for example, 50 minutes. Ideally I'd like to at least double that.

 

[Asita]

I feel obliged to suggest Undertale.

Spoiler

There's even a jazz album for at least some of the songs.

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[American Tanker]

Is it wrong of me to suggest the inclusion of the F-Zero X renditions of "Mute City" and "Big Blue"(known on the F-Zero X Soundtrack album as "Endless Challenge" and "Decide in the Eyes", respectively)?

I'm also going to suggest "Allied Nations" from Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction, as well as "Shipyards of Lorient" from Medal of Honor: Frontline.

 

[Queen Michael]

This song from MGS is a favorite of mine.

 

[savageoblivi0n]

The payday 2 soundtrack is excellent, my personal favorites are "Ode to Greed" And "And Now We Run"
If those are too techno heavy though my main obsession from the soundtrack right now is "Break the Rules" which just screams 80s rock, and has a great instrumental version and even better lyrics version

 

[MrCalavera_v1legacy]

I see you don't plan to include only game OSTs. Well then:

MGSV - never played it, but Kojima has a good taste when it comes to soundtracks:
Elegia - New Order
Nuclear - Mike Oldfield
Not your kind of people - Garbage
Diamond Dogs - David Bowie

Bastion soundtrack - Setting Sail, Coming Home

Bayonetta - Fly me to the Moon cover
Bayonetta 2 - Moon River cover

Borderlands 2
Short Change Hero - The Heavy

Hotline Miami
Hydrogen - MOON
Hotline Miami 2
Roller Mobster - Carpenter Brut

Fallout NV
I got spurs - Gene Autry

GTA IV
Soviet Connection - Michael Hunter
GTA V OST - We were set up

We've been set up - Michael Hunter

That's it for now. Will maybe add more examples later.

 

[DeadProxy]

After over 200 hours of gameplay, can't say I'm tired of anything from Persona 5 yet. And I just saw you wanting something to go from upbeat to slow and whatnot...Yeah I think P5 has some of that to offer. Just search at your own peril, cause if you plan to play at any point, I'm sure you'll find spoilers in thumbnails and maybe even song titles.

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[Imre Csete]

Slow and mellow you say?


Amplitude's Endless games have beautiful soundtracks.

 

[Ogoid]

Well, I'm more of a tinny 8- or 16-bit chiptune kind of guy, but let's see...

*loads up own "Video Game Music" playlist*

Castlevania: Curse of Darkness has an amazing soundtrack; I'm particularly fond of

Spoiler: Mortvia Aqueduct

and

Spoiler: Garibaldi Temple

PSX/Saturn Earthworm Jim 2, for Tommy Tallarico's particular brand of awesome:

Spoiler: Anything But Tangerines

Spoiler: Lorenzo's Soil

Sonic 3D Blast wasn't all that great a game, but I still love this tune to this day:

Spoiler: Rusty Ruins Act 2

Old as all hell, but an ambient classic from Myst:

Spoiler: The Last Message

Saturn classic Guardian Heroes, as criminally overlooked as its glorious ost:

Spoiler: Rough and Ready

Spoiler: Shuffler in the Dark

Yuzo Koshiro's sheer brilliance on Legend of Oasis/Story of Thor 2:

Spoiler: Aquaria

And I'll always second already-mentioned God-tier Hotline Miami's and Hotline Miami 2's soundtrack.

 

[Xan Krieger]

Pick something from there, that series in general had great soundtracks, really makes me wish I could find my old skateboard.

 

[Hartland]

Nier - Song of Ancients. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUBvYYsM-lo] Or most other songs on the Gestalt/Replicant ost. Don't know about Automata, haven't listened to it yet. Though it is bound to contain at least some gems.

The album Creid by Yasunori Mitsuda and the millennial fair contains good sounding irish folk music~ish and is tied to Xenogears, an old psx game. Creid [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycqNpRpB_tc] is the title track and perhaps one of the more mellow one. Other recommendations from the album is Balto and Lahan since both are instrumental.

I'll think a while and come back if I remember something more rock-y but you obviously know of silent hill and it's sound tracks and that would have been my first stop.

 

[Wintermute_v1legacy]

Faunts - M4 Part II - Mass Effect
Lisa Miskovsky - Still Alive - Mirror's Edge

And the Papers, Please theme when you open the store.

 

[Souplex]

Are weird covers of OSTs ok?
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpNzehgvxh3CNURyEDM-5DV6mWXp_6ccU

 

[pookie101]

anything from the life is strange sound track works

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

Killer fuckin Instinct:

 

[Adam Locking]

Klonoa 2, for something upbeat

Edit: fixed

 

[Wintermute_v1legacy]

anything from the life is strange sound track works

Yeah, forgot about that. The Life is Strange OST sounds very Bookstore-ish if that makes any sense.

 

[Oinodaemon]

Are you familiar with Supradarky's playlist on youtube?

 

[Natemans]

Pretty much a majority of Chrono Trigger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDZ2W0GpP_E&list=PL21BAA7C6EDEB63A3

 

[Kyrian007]

I've always enjoyed Chrono Cross' "Time's Scar," and as a bonus it starts off ambient and becomes upbeat. Also for a little western ambiance, "The Outlaws" from Lucasarts' Outlaws soundtrack. And of course the best song from any GTA soundtrack, "The Ballad of Chapped Lips Calhoun" by the late Sideways Hank O'Malley and the Alabama Bottle Boys.