What's your favorite game music of 2014?

Transistor. The vocal tracks are stunning and the instrumental stuff is pretty amazing too. The Corrupted songs are interesting as well if not exactly pleasing to listen to. The Hum button is a really cool completely useless thing.

pretty simple fight but epic theme to go along with it and oddly made it more "epic" than fighting Malthael

@mystyr_e: I've never played Diablo 3 with the music on.

Nidhogg takes it with a pretty big margin:

Shovel Knight is just too cool.

Persona 3, Persona 4, and Persona Q.

Transistor and Pix the Cat are the only music in games I remember. Both have fantastic soundtracks.

@fisk0: Totally. Daedelus is great.

Destiny, fight me.

I really liked the industrial stuff that plays during the tutorial and when you first fly to the Moon, but other than that I don't think anything was particularly memorable.

@mystyr_e: Yes, I loved this song. That fight felt soooo epic when I first did it. The fight lasted like 10 minutes and it felt like an endurance run. Awesome stuff.

If I had to pick, it'd be two soundtracks. It wasn't just a specific song but the overall soundtracks were just so good. I'll just pick one song from each to sample.

Bravely Default (This music is for some limit break kinda thing in Bravely Default)

And

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn (kiinnnda cheating? But F you. It came out on PS4 this year. And the game is constantly updated so its always new :P)

Easy.

and...

yesssssssssss agreed, but I'd say the whole soundtrack is amazing. all of it.

@elmerglue: Shovel Knight is my game OST of the year. The whole soundtrack is phenomenal.

@fisk0: Yep, that is pretty great.

Transistor.

Huh. It's kind of been an excellent year for video game music

Shovel Knight

It was such a goddamn shame the only person that could've nominated Bravely Default was Brad (and of course he didn't), because the battle theme alone should've put it on at least nomination.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1ClcFbMk0o

Bayonetta 2

Crypt of the Necrodancer

Kentucky Route Zero is a great shout and so is the Bomb guys' choice of Luftrausers. Dunno if I should include Crypt of the Necrodancer as it's not a full release but it's been my fave this year.

I'll include a different level to @zlimness

Does licensed music count? Never shown much interest in D&B before. After 30 or so hours with nothing but Hospital Records Radio playing on Forza Horizon 2, I found myself on their site, buying CDs.

I guess that's my fault for not playing more indie/Nintendo games, right?

The entirety of the Shovel Knight soundtrack.

Castlevania Lords of Shadow 2 has some of the best music I've heard in video games. I mean, come one, how can you not love this?!

Alien Isolation, nice use of jerry goldsmith's original motifs, in a soundscape that is quite rich for that kind of a moody approach, and it sounds more orchestra based than electronic to me.

i'm always going to pick underlying music designed to illicit emotions other than "YEAH!" for this category.

Bravely Default, the battle music in particular.