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Does any know where I can DL some creepy, spooky, scary vid game music/sound tracks?.
Going to write a horror/SF story and I would like to have some good tunes to put me in the proper frame of mind.
Thanks in advance for your help.

you can find wicked remixes of almost any VG song you can think of at ocremix dot org.

The existence of scary videogames is theoretical. Most use minimalistic, environmental 'music' so I'm not sure how inspirational they would be.

The Thing soundtrack, if you can find it, is excellent in this regard. Same for the original Alien soundtrack.

Stark wrote:The existence of scary videogames is theoretical. Most use minimalistic, environmental 'music' so I'm not sure how inspirational they would be.

That's so true. Dead Space, anyone?

Chardok wrote:you can find wicked remixes of almost any VG song you can think of at ocremix dot org.

Much thanks, I know this is going to sound strange but what in the unholy black hells is VG?

'Video Game'.

Stark wrote:The existence of scary videogames is theoretical. Most use minimalistic, environmental 'music' so I'm not sure how inspirational they would be.

I see well I do have the ST/Enviro music from Sys Shock2 and that does help

Stark wrote:'Video Game'.

Oh LOL I thought he was talking about a single game that had VG in it's name.

Shit like Thief, FEAR, Metro, etc have similar 'environmental' soundtracks if that's what you're after.

Stark wrote:Shit like Thief, FEAR, Metro, etc have similar 'environmental' soundtracks if that's what you're after.

Thanks, I'll have to look them up, I wonder if Stalker and Dead Space have good enviro music

oh and the first person to suggest anything from Resident Evil gets shanked.

Generally speaking, even on games that are horrible, the soundtracks tend to be pretty good. where game deisgners fail, composers, by and large, generally don't. (There are some exceptions - so I'll thank you rubes not to toss terrible examples of terrible soundtracks in my face.)

The soundtrack for Eternal Darkness. End of discussion.

Yeah, that's a good one, especially the 'normal world' levels.

The Giygas theme from Earthbound is typically held up as the scariest video game music of all time.

Youtube

General Zod wrote:The soundtrack for Eternal Darkness. End of discussion.

Yes, I'll second (or third) this. However I feel most of the songs on the soundtrack aren't very scary, but they have a nice mood (and they're probably scarier than most other game music, so). The music that plays in-game in the mansion, and especially when zombies start appearing, don't seem to be on the soundtrack though, which is a shame.

Dooey Jo wrote:The music that plays in-game in the mansion, and especially when zombies start appearing, don't seem to be on the soundtrack though, which is a shame.

Ninja edit: Ten minutes later that track actually starts playing here, so never mind
The mansion music as it plays in the beginning still isn't on there though, only parts of it. It's on youtube, however.

http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Scratches/

This had some pretty unnerving music. But I was listening to it while reading the LP while the sun slowly set on a November evening, so I don't know what the full effect would be.

Paradoxical wrote:The Giygas theme from Earthbound is typically held up as the scariest video game music of all time.

Youtube

I have to know. By who?

Stark wrote:

Paradoxical wrote:The Giygas theme from Earthbound is typically held up as the scariest video game music of all time.

Youtube

I have to know. By who?

The unquestionable authority of random people on the Internet. That's who.