Favorite video game music.

ebagg · Nov 2005

What is your favorite soundtrack or song from a game?

Personally I love the orchestral tracks for the Medal of Honor series, Rainbow Six and the intro song for Battlefield 1942, but when it comes to single greatest game song of all time, I'd definitely say One Winged Angel from Final Fantasy 7's final boss fight.

ElysiumGX · Nov 2005

Megaman 2
Earthworm Jim

KDR_11k · Nov 2005

1. Hymn Of The Storm (Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time/Majora's Mask)
2. Eternal Legend (The Legend of Zelda)
3. Level Music (Super Mario Bros.)
4. Theme of Dr. Robotnik (Sonic The Hedgehog)
5. Here Comes a Gigantic Toy! (TUMIKI Fighters)

Hymn Of The Storm is the single greatest piece of videogame music, EVER! That's the one that plays in OOT when you're teenage Link and go into the mill in that village. Where that guy with the music box strapped to his back is playing.

nitzmoff · Nov 2005

Almost anything by Yasunori Mitsuda.
Old Ys OST's
Ico and SotC
Earthbound (Mother 2) ... how can you not dig that one?
Katamari
Any of the Orchestrated sounding Castlevania's (SotN for example, although the butt rock ones are often a guilty pleasure)

I had the incredible fortune of living next to a game music fanatic in college. He would regularly import 3-4 cds a week. I think he had over 500 game music cds in his collection. Many a cds burned that year.

rooster · Nov 2005

this topic seems a bit familiar, but what the hell. I can't pick single tracks from these, but in general:

misc: nes/megaman2, n64/snowboard kids
megadrive: sonic3/sonic and knuckles, zero wing, toejam and earl, bonanza bros, gunstar heroes, streets of rage 2, decap attack, dnd warriors of the eternal sun, outrun, rocketknight adventures,

PC: total annihilation, MDK2, morrowind, quake2 (2 tracks mainly), hardwar(!), darwinia

strange, it seems a lot harder to think of PC titles with good music. I look at my game boxes and can hardly remember any with notable tunes. More games with mainly atmospheric music?

MoP · Nov 2005

All the music from Tyrian 2000 (I have it in my Winamp playlist)!
Morrowind music is wonderful, and the BF1942 theme is also really catchy.
The Threat theme is good too, if anyone's played that.

nitzmoff · Nov 2005

dnd Warriors of the Eternal Sun? No way, I thought my brothers and I were the only ones to ever play that one. Great little story it had.

But yeah, the only PC game ost I own is Alice and the Neverhood.

rooster · Nov 2005

I played it with my best friend for hours on end, till he knocked the megadrive and the savegames gor erased

A while back I looked out the rom and finally completed it

The intro tune rocked! Also the title screen music to chuck rock had an awesome riff in the middle.. gotta go listen

KDR_11k · Nov 2005

The Threat theme is good too, if anyone's played that.

You don't mean X2: The Threat per chance?

Asthane · Nov 2005

Hard to decide, but it's definitely an FF track. I guess I'll go with FFXI's opening theme.

CMB · Nov 2005

N64 Zelda games had great music.
Jade empire has a good sountrack too.

Rhinokey · Nov 2005

absolutely no challenge at all.. the neverhood sound track

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nitzmoff · Nov 2005

Ack, I'm sorry, I didn't read the thread close enough. Favorite single soundtrack of all time is Chrono Cross.

Cubik · Nov 2005

Beyond Good and Evil had some amazing tracks like Thoughtful Reflections, Home Sweet Home and Redemption. Give it a listen.
But the best track has to be To Far Away Times (end track) from Chrono Trigger.

Arthur Green · Nov 2005

Seeing as how it hasn't been mentioned yet, how about the soundtrack for American McGee's Alice?

MoP · Nov 2005

Arthur: Ahh, but it has been mentioned

arshlevon · Nov 2005

Crystalis, everytime i play that game the song is stuck in my head for ever.. also castlevaina 2 simons quest..

Sean McBride · Nov 2005

Quake 2 had a great soundtrack. I wish sonic mayhem hadn't gone all industrial... =\

I really loved all of the metal gear solids music too. I'm sure i missed something major.

Mongrelman · Nov 2005

I liked some of the orchestral music from Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries, some great stuff in there. Also I quite enjoyed a lot of the music in Hardwar.

Slayerjerman · Nov 2005

Crystalis, Final Fantasy2, Dragonwarrior and Fzero

Ninjas · Nov 2005

The Xenogears soundtrack. I find it amazing that the same guys wrote the completely forgettable Xenosaga music.

Dukester · Nov 2005

oooh
Shadow of the Beast

Marine · Nov 2005

usually the music doesn't register, but i remember the duke nukem theme, so i'll have to say that.

shotgun · Nov 2005

DIABLO!!

and the quake 1 ambient NiN made,
perfect for teeth gritting.

adam · Nov 2005

Zelda theme. It's also my ring-tone.

pogonip · Nov 2005

Ha I agree adam also Super Mario bros music !

AstroZombie · Nov 2005

Alice

FAT_CAP · Nov 2005

The "Cannon Foodder" Music... with the infamous lyrics "War never been so much fuuuuuuunnnnnnnn" ... that's really stuck in my head even though I never owned an Amiga/ ST and only played it at my friends house a couple of times.

Oh yeah - and the original Mario Bros. music is definately a classic.

JO420 · Nov 2005

final fantasy 7 ,especially the song of the one winged angel.

EmAr · Nov 2005

Hell March (Red Alert) absolutely!!! Also the Discworld 2, Gran Turismo and Grim Fandango soundtracks sound pretty awesome to me

Mehehe I like the Super Mario Bros theme too

LordScottish · Nov 2005

Yes, grim fandango had a great soundtrack! Monkey Island too, all of them.

Super · Nov 2005

Surprised no-one mentioned MGS. Metal Gear Solid 2's opening music (and everything else really) is something else.

Harry-Gregson Williams does fantastic work with the series.

Asherr · Nov 2005

Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines

Rick Stirling · Nov 2005

Vice City.

killingpeople · Nov 2005

http://www.vgmusic.com/

i liked the half-life and mechwarrior soundtracks. i used to draw to them when i was in high school.

nitzmoff · Nov 2005

That's a cool site killing, but none of those seem to be the originals. They're re-makes people recorded themselves.

danr · Nov 2005

the music that played on the Rainbow Islands hi-score name entry screen

Josh_Singh · Nov 2005

I like the western stuff from Outlaws and Red dead revolver. Im sure gun probably has some sweet western tunes as well. I'll find out when I pick it up.

oXYnary · Nov 2005

Jesper Kyd's Soundtrack for Freedom Fighters.

The game was so so. The Music made it.

The same with Quake. Trent Reznor defined it.

The3DGuy · Nov 2005

Megaman 2
Legend of Zelda OoT
Shadow of the Colossus
FZero GX Gamecube
Castlevania Symphony of the Night
Final Fantasy VII
Katamari Damacy
We Heart Katamari
Kingdom Hearts
Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3
Metroid Prime

CheapAlert · Nov 2005

Doom, Heretic, Demon's Crest and the original C&C (most tracks sound cheezy now) are faves.

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Vice City.

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Rick Stirling · Nov 2005

Sucks your brainmatter.

steady · Nov 2005

Bubbleman stage
Megaman2 w00t w00000t

rooster · Nov 2005

woodman is the best!

diZzyWalnut · Nov 2005

the music and sounds of Silent Hill 1

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I will never forget.

JKMakowka · Nov 2005

Aleste for the Genesis had really cool music.

rooster · Nov 2005

good call JK! the first levels tune is perfect action music

Rick Stirling · Nov 2005

Space Harrier.

Dukester · Nov 2005

Lemmings

animatr · Nov 2005

i picked up Myst IV soundtrack and it was great. never played the game though. I'd have to agree with a few, the Xenogears soundtrack and xenosaga II as well.
Chrono Trigger also awesome...and i really like most of the Halo soundtrack

FAT_CAP · Nov 2005

Oooooh - yeah - The first level's music on "We love Katamri Damacy" - with the Japanese guy singing.... bahahahah - easily the funniest song I've heard in a while, videogame related or not.

Favorite video game music.

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