What the hell happened to video game music though? It used to be fun and not afraid to sound nothing like any other genre. How did we go from (1) (2) to the sterile sameness where everybody tries to imitate either Hollywood'ish orchestra, hiphop or mainstream rock? I have to go far into the past to recall the last time the soundtrack of a Western game stuck with me.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBES0jOmbCs&list=OLAK5uy_noi...
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFzPW2mlg28&list=PLh4Eme5gAC...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAzIuxldPhE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CunwtlgsU1U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhesDs6FWpo
If you want music that sounds videogamey but isn't in an actual videogame:
https://elmc.bandcamp.com/track/ridebreak-170
https://archive.org/details/Hadron_Collider/TDS010/2)+Lacera...
[1] FTL OST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pKamecDZco [2] Bastion OST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPWmrwF4MOI [3] Transistor OST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41tIUr_ex3g [4] Cave Story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q09KoR7g018
It's still possible to find great creativity, but it's less likely in the mainstream.