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Depending on who you ask, Tron: Legacy.

(I personally love the movie and rewatch it every couple years but it didn't do well, IIRC.)

I murdered a lot of reapas in Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer to some of those songs.

The fountain (2006). The soundtrack was partially produced by the band Mogwai.

Imagine slotting

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into your SNES in 1993 and hearing THIS. The game kinda sucks but the music keeps you going.

Lazarus, it was an anime written by the same guy that made Cowboy Bepop. It was alright, but they hired Bonobo to do the soundtrack for it and it's just amazing...

I want to mention like three different games, but for each one someone would rightfully come after me for saying the game itself is mediocre. So I'll just say I personally love these games, but I see with pretty clear eyes that aspects of them haven't stood the test of time.

Mirror's Edge, The Neverhood, and Yuri's Revenge all have amazing soundtracks.

And after that disclaimer if you still try to pick a fight about how they're not mediocre games, I'm going to also pretend I'm fighting the person who called them mediocre and then crawl out of our cartoon fight cloud.

Movies

• Sucker Punch
• Transformer 2 and beyond. The movies were shit but the score was top notch
• Blue Hawaii

Tv Shows

• The Book Of Bobba Fett
• Star Trek Enterprise

Jeez. I must be getting old. Mortal Kombat from 1995.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5S7GSgBgqcQzcDaNokY7rvibI_N6hDmQ

Huniepop is a porn game with the barest of stories between the titties, juvenile humor, and honestly the porn itself is just so-so. This is all wrapped around what is admittedly a pretty good match 3 puzzle game, but the soundtrack! For chill atmospheric music, that shit is fucking incredible.

The ‘80s Conan the Barbarian film with Arnie.

Utterly awesome soundtrack by Basil Poledouris.

Pictionary

Just thought of another answer.

Queen of the Damned movie.

Wore out the CD back in the early 00s. Had some pretty damn big names doing songs for the OST, Kidney Thieves: Before I'm Dead is still something I listen to on occasion to this day.

Might be a bit of nostalgia and bias in this answer though.

Waterworld for the SNES

Silver Surfer on the NES

Plok (SNES) The boss theme in particular.

I forget the guy's name but he did both OSTs for the above two games and he has a reputation for giving bad games amazing soundtracks.

Mechanicus Not a bad game by any means but the music and sound design punch way above their weight for a game of this scope.

Tunic (Also very good but probably very niche)

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Void War Probably not bad but self-admittedly very derivative of both its inspirations (FTL and Warhammer 40K)

Remember Me. See for yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYXfIgywXknHjMdirPIkDaEOM4cCyceDE

https://tidal.com/browse/album/41708231?u

If I remember correctly, they blew too much budget on the orchestra and it affected the game quality.

Not exactly the soundtrack, it was fine, but nothing special and overall forgettable

But I want to give a small shout-out to Morbius for having really good sound mixing. I definitely expected it to be a "whispers and explosions" kind of movie where you couldn't hear the conversations, and action scenes blew your eardrums out, and the background music was all over the place

But no, everything was at a reasonable volume, I could hear everything crystal clear.

There was just nothing worth hearing unfortunately.

I wouldn't say mediocre, it was a pretty fun game for its time, but the Sanctum soundtrack by Coffee Stain Studios was fantastic

Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura

https://youtu.be/vQdr6zmpM8E

Crysis 2. I don’t think the game would’ve been much without the bombastic Hans Zimmer theme.

Batman & Robin

A mediocre movie, but the soundtrack featured Smashing Pumpkins, Bone Thugs n' Harmony, Jewel, Goo Goo Dolls, Underworld, and Moloko among others. Incredible collection.

Also, R. Kelly with a great song, but, well...

Homeworld 1, and to a lesser extent Homeworld ~~Cataclysm~~ Emergence

Willow for the NES has some songs that will still randomly take over the ol' jukebox of the brain to this day.

Shatter. Got the OST alongisde the game from one of the early Humble Indie Bundles, spent far more time listening to that OST than playing it.

starfield's soundtrack is absolutely jaw dropping, probably zur's best work yet

I liked Stealth's soundtrack when it came out. Radio had gotten quite corporate-stale at the time, and the tracks had a upbeat rock personality I did not know I wanted to explore. I'm no audiophile, and it is not something I actually pursued. It was just something I noticed at the time. I rarely take notice of stuff like that.

In terms of movie music in general, anything from John Williams is amazing to me. I think it is because John has a knack for communicating logical empathy and emotions in music that tells a parallel story within the scenes of the movie. He is not creating a simple background soundscape or echoing the emotions the visual storytelling. Instead, he is sneaking in behind you from the shadows and taking on a staring role in your experience without ever announcing himself or allowing you to see how he expands the performing stage. After that initial experience of the film, when you hear any small part of John's score, that entity he conjured comes to life again, reminding you of his unspoken staring role in ways no one else I know of is capable. Some others certainly create beautiful backgrounds and soundscapes, but I have never experienced anyone else that conjures a presence in the same way as John Williams.

I personally love Killer7, but I won't pretend that most people would enjoy it. However the soundtrack is great.

Not a mediocre game but the opening track of Civilization IV, The Lord's Prayer, is magnificent. It won a Grammy.

Expedition 33

This is tricky because I always find thst the best art, no matter the funding or size of a team behind it, is paired with great music. I'll try and get one for each category though.

(Spoiler tags are just to condense the comment)

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Shows:

• il Medici a Netflix original