Spotting Super Mario RPG in there, you might appreciate knowing some people actually recreated some songs with the original synths used by Yoko Shimomura herself.

I’m honestly a bigger fan of the classic DOOM I/II (199X) soundtracks. Despite being obvious parodies of existing rock/metal songs, they had a certain appeal. Especially when someone makes a very good cover.

I get why people like 2016’s DOOM’s more “metal” approach, but for me nothing beats an adrenaline-rush song when ripping and tearing those damned demons.

any game with a story

Minecraft, Terraria, Factorio, Satisfactory, Rimworld, Starbound…

Super Mario Galaxy (1+2). Orchestrated music should be a must for main Nintendo games at this point, outside of Zelda (and the Pokémon anime, although that one’s not strictly Nintendo or used in actual games, sadly).

The Prevue channel definitely wow’d me with using an SQL database for the data and SDL to render that.

Exactly my thoughts. I was looking to see if he had any possible contact options to ask him to consider that, but haven’t been able to find any to this date.

• Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (Refunded as it got cheaper during the sale - then got it for even less than the original sale price with the soundtrack on GOG)
• Caesar 3 (Got that recommended along with my earlier purchase of Pharaoh + Cleopatra)
• Deus Ex™ GOTY Edition (Literally 1 buck + I’ve heard it got a great modding community)
• Lollypop (Had my eye on it since it launched on GOG - looks like a neat DOS game)
• Yakuza Complete Series (Already got Yakuza 0 on Steam, but couldn’t pass this. Especially at the all-time low price point. Funnily enough, I believe these games are one of the first to use GOG’s new Steam SDK wrapper to make it easier to port. Denuvo was already ripped out before by SEGA, and only having to recompile the game once to point to GOG’s own .DLL probably made the release a hell lot easier than before.)
• Hypnospace Outlaw (Indie game that’s been on my Steam watchlist for a while.)
• Cuphead with The Delicious Last Course and its Soundtrack (Double-dipping because I got the base game on Switch and the soundtrack through Steam. But didn’t wanna rely on Switch emulation to play the DLC after buying it. So GOG release it is!)
• True Love '95 (An older Visual Novel that got recently re-released on GOG. Seemed interesting enough to give it a shot.)

Had a bigger haul at GOG, but for Steam I got:

• Persona 5 Royal (through Humble because of my Choice discount making it just under 30 bucks)
• Another World (double-dip on Steam because the GOG release doesn’t have the original Amiga ROMs as bonus content)
• Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum (a new NES homebrew game published by Digital Eclipse - always been a decent emulation publisher)
• NOMAD (another classic emulated title)
• Castle Crashers (one of my “indie titles to get” games on the old list)
• Battleblock Theater (same reason as Castle Crashers!)