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I'm a huge fan of great soundtracks to games, even if the game is terrible. I got over 500 songs in my library. I also like remixes and special presentations. Let's share a couple of our favorite ones, shall we? It doesn't have to be anything special, just music that gets you going! Oh yeah, youtube that shit!

(oh limit 3 per post please)

Here's a few of my favorite ones on my playlist :



Don't understand a damn word she says but she sounds heavenly and really compliments this great track from a fun game.



Ignore the getup but I love anyone will to play some of that sweet SNES Lufia music which is on my top 5 list of all time.



This is a Icewind Dale 2 Soundtrack composed by Inon Zur. This truly is an outstanding piece and quite frankly is inspiring and beautiful. This is also the Theme Song for my D&D campaign played at key moments, which I hoped resounded heavily to my players.


Share away!

The Half Life games are full of awesome music, but Nuclear Mission Jam is so awesome they used it in Opposing Force and Half Life 2 as well.



I'm also a fan of Final Fantasy 8's music, with this one being my favorite. It brings to mind a warm cup of cocoa, a fire in a fireplace, while snuggling with your lady friend.




Finally, this song alone justified the purchase price for the Orange Box.

I like a lot from the Beyond Good & Evil soundtrack, but this one came to mind first.



Again, a lot to love from Grim Fandango, but the I love the Bone Wagon.



Heh, this always makes me laugh. I love a lot of Jared Emerson Johnson's work though, on Sam & Max, Bone, Tales of Monkey Island and more.

Oh, I could go on. World of Goo, Planescape: Torment, Legend of Zelda, there's so much good video game music out there. Someday I need to grab the Pyschonauts soundtrack. *sigh* It's sad that doesn't come with the GOG version, like other game's soundtracks do. (Which reminds me, I just downloaded a bunch of songs from the Magicka soundtrack, I need to give them a listen.)

I don't have one favorite but here are some I like

Final Fantasy IX The Rose General OC ReMix [Rose of May]



Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Prayer OC ReMix [Forest Temple]



Chrono Trigger Behind the Sealed Door OC ReMix [Sealed Door, The Prelude]

Only three? I don't know how I can pick only three from an artist alone, let alone the entire spectrum of wonderful game music.

Ooh! A few more vocal selections:

This one's hilarious, and contains some bad words, so if you're at work...


And two classic songs from L4D2:

Yes only three at a time.

Nice stuff guys, some of these selections are very nice indeed.

Here's a few more from my library and why.



I created this video a year ago, a tribute to Escusion's girlfriend's D&D game. The music however is a remake from a great artist who converted Lufia's soundtrack. Named Lufia 2: Rise of the Sinistrals Symphonic Rock Remix: "The Very End"



I bet you won't recall this old gaming gem. ZILLION! What did I find out recently? It had an anime and I started watching it.... not bad for an anime for 20 years ago. Working more on nostalgia more than anything (heck this was one of my first games ever before some of you were probably born).




Phantasy..... Star..... 4! Ever played it? If your answer is NO, fix that. Download the rom and the emulator and play this classic RPG. I've played and finished this game on 3 continents thus far. YEAAAHHHHHH

Never played the game, but I like this song



Also, pretty much anything from the Minibosses

Hmm... well here are a few of mine.



Anamanaguchi did a fantastic job with the Scott Pilgrim game soundtrack and Another Winter is probably my favorite track from the game.



Professor Layton is probably in my Top 3 Favorite game characters, so I gotta include the theme from curious Village. The very retro European inspired soundtracks add a lot to each game.



Mother is a fantastic series, even if people outside of Japan need to go to extraordinary lengths to play something we've been denied time and time again. I think this is my favorite rendition of Eight Melodies, the song from the first game that eventually helps save mankind.

I had determined my three before I'd even scrolled to the bottom of the page.

Seriously, does anyone else know of any other game that made the NES' sound chip go Super-Saiyan better than this?


Here's one that made me make the switch to playing my SNES through my television v. playing it through my stereo system. Every time the guiro comes in, I get all nostalgic.


And here's one that I'm including more for the performance than the song itself. If you've played the game (and who hasn't?) you'll really appreciate his performance.


--Patrick

Aww yay Conker!
Did anyone ever play The Neverhood? Loved the music from that game! I'd YouTube it but I'm on an iPad so that's a lot of work... >.>

Yasunori Mitsuda time!


This is the original track from the game, no remix or reorchestration, and I just love its slow build and ominous nature.


Kind of a two-fer, Select Start covers part of Radical Dreamers and Time's Scar, both from Chrono Cross. A good friend is one of the violinists and I adore Select Start's orchestration of the music.


Orchestration of the Ocean Palace theme from Chrono Trigger, this was for the Resurrection project that Square shut down a few years ago. They had redone some of the music, and I think they did a great job on one of my favorite tracks from Chrono Trigger.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgH-hFSOMGo


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg-PeVbuBIc


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXGBh_3J25g

Those are some of my favourites from the series, but check them all out, they're pretty good (Heroes 5 failed at making most of the music as iconic among other things).

Dang. Completely upgraded and has the grail structure. I loved playing necro. We still dive back into the series when current games get boring, and HoMM always had some good tunes. And story (if you paid attention).

--Patrick

It is my fervent wish that this game would be adapted into a movie that could do it justice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpEfS_1yoPo

fav all time

NO, no, no, no.... if you're gonna use 40k then this is where you start(i have them on my phone too):


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOXe0RfMHvo


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjrfAfbt72Y


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG-ukxyr5Ug

Smurfs or not.

Here's some more from me...



Godhand really should have gotten more love than it did, but I'll admit the the controls were a bit odd until you got used to them. Still, I loved the progressive difficulty and absolute variety they gave you.



Morrowind had some great music but the best clearly was Nerevar Rising, the theme of the hero of the story (sort of an elven messiah figure). I was a little surprised to see them use it again in the trailer for Skyrim. For me, the music is always going to be tied to the strange and wonderful continent of Vvardenfall.



Gitaroo Man is probably the best music themed game out there that doesn't feature covers of normal songs. It's story was weird and it's characters eccentric, but it's underlying message of hope and learning to stand up for yourself was delivered in such a way as to not seem heavy handed. Truly a game that needs a sequel.

AshburnerX said:

Here's some more from me...

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I was wondering if someone would post that. You do realize it's just a complete paraphrase of/homage to this , don't you?

Does explain why it's awesome, amright?

--Patrick

Shadow of the Colossus has lots of great music, but this tune is my favorite. The rising and falling strings feel like the climb along a colossus.



This tune from Assassin's Creed 2 is gorgeous. I'd get into the optional races just to listen to this.



How could I forget Silent Hill? I love this song... and many more... Honestly, you should listen to all the Silent Hill songs, and a bunch of the music is great too (particularly for Silent Hill 2).

PatrThom said:

I was wondering if someone would post that. You do realize it's just a complete paraphrase of/homage to this , don't you?

Does explain why it's awesome, amright?

--Patrick

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You think thats odd? The credits music is based/inspired by the Mazinger Z opening!

Okay on a normal computer now! Here's 3 from The Neverhood! Probably my favorite game from my childhood. <3 Even as a child, I appreciated the music from this game.

Klaymen's Theme


The Weasel Chase


Pulling of the Pin

heatherling said:

Okay on a normal computer now! Here's 3 from The Neverhood! Probably my favorite game from my childhood. <3 Even as a child, I appreciated the music from this game.

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This is one of those classics I missed playing back in the day. I really wish it were available on GOG, Steam or some other digital distribution site. I'd snap it up immediately.

More of my picks:

Planescape: Torment is one of my favorite games. It really is an amazing game.



Psychonauts is a brilliant game, and I really wish I'd bought it when it first came out, rather than later on. I've played it twice now to 100% completion, and a third time continually beckons. There's a lot of good music, but when I love a level just for the music, that song is something special.



"A Pirate I Was Meant to Be" lots of good music in the Monkey Island, but this may be one of the funniest. Well, maybe one song is better...
Oh, there's a monkey in my pocket
and he's stealing all my change
his stare is blank and glassy
I suspect that he's deranged!

figmentPez said:

This is one of those classics I missed playing back in the day. I really wish it were available on GOG, Steam or some other digital distribution site. I'd snap it up immediately.

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You're in luck! I was at ECCC, walking around the artist area trying to snag signatures for the Monsters & Dames book, when I saw a banner with Klaymen's face on it! It was Doug TenNapel, the guy who created The Neverhood! I was freaking out and had to buy a sketch asap!
ANYWAY, he said they've almost got the rights back to the game now and are probably going to be re-releasing it soon! Not anything fancy, just so that it'll be playable on newer computers and possibly the iPad as well! SO EXCITED for this to happen.

heatherling said:

You're in luck! I was at ECCC, walking around the artist area trying to snag signatures for the Monsters & Dames book, when I saw a banner with Klaymen's face on it! It was Doug TenNapel, the guy who created The Neverhood! I was freaking out and had to buy a sketch asap!
ANYWAY, he said they've almost got the rights back to the game now and are probably going to be re-releasing it soon! Not anything fancy, just so that it'll be playable on newer computers and possibly the iPad as well! SO EXCITED for this to happen.

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That is AWESOME! How fun for you, and what great news for adventure game fans. Now if only LucasArts will stop being stupid and release Grim Fandango.

AshburnerX said:

You think thats odd? The credits music is based/inspired by the Mazinger Z opening!

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Heh. Never watched that one (though I did get some of the toys waaaaaay back when for Xmas from someone who didn't know what they were...and neither did I, they're long lost/broken/gone).

Dang, someone else beat me to posting SoTC (I bought the import soundtrack after being touched by the music/story). So here's three more:


Needs no introduction...because it is the introduction. It was also the cause for losing a week's worth of sleep.

That Psychonauts tune reminds me of this:

Ah, the good ol' days of FPS.

And there were times I'd install the demo just to play the theme from this:

(The original video has been removed from YouTube, so here's a Guitar Hero adaptation instead)
Not bad for 1996. The full soundtrack can be downloaded from here, if you're interested. Also, there's an OSX port (of sorts) here.

--Patrick

Is probably my favorite of all time.
Followed closely by:

Super Mario World Super Mario Western Show OC ReMix



Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past A Rose for Zelda OC ReMix



Chrono Trigger Town Life in Piano OC ReMix

Pinball machines should not have soundtracks this epic.
This one does (especially for 1989). I'd stand around just for the tune.

(link to just the theme, if you're interested)

Another retro classic.

(choppy gameplay video, if you're interested)

And with all the attention this song received recently*, I'm kind of shocked it hasn't been mentioned yet.

This is the sort of thing that can get you going in the morning. Play it LOUD.

--Patrick
(*it won a Grammy)

Do you ever notice that some older games had way better music than they ever deserved to have.

Yoko Shimomura time! Although, she has a lot of awesome tracks, so this is very, very narrow.

Recently Radiant Historia came out as an awesome RPG on the DS, and Shimomura's music was a great part of it. Final boss music (no spoiler in title):



Beautiful opening to Parasite Eve (not the bit when of trailer stuff you see when you put the disc in, but I mean when you start the game proper). It's a soft piano that feels like something big and bad is about to happen despite the peaceful setting.



Not a lot of people like Legend of Mana as far as I know, but I enjoyed it for the time and I certainly loved the music. There are MANY good tracks on this score and anyone should try listening to some of its better bits, but here's one encompassing a few of themes.

I've been going through my crates of games since I'm getting close to being done here and will need to be moving soon. I was going through my old sack of gameboy games and was reminded of Belmont's Revenge. Man, even the gameboy Castlevanias had good music.

Because it IS

The Dame Was Loaded game was a classic FMV (somewhat cheesy yet entertaining), but my wife loved the song at the end. Pity of it is that I've since tried to download the soundtrack, but this one is long gone. Guess I could try to capture it myself...(The song starts at 3:23, which is why I supplied the link. Apparently we can't embed at a particular point in a video. Pity.)



http://youtu.be/v2q2bA_CF1E?t=3m23s

I completely forgot about this:


This theme always made me feel great when it was at the end of a Final Fantasy game's credits, even a shitty one.

Continuing my shitty old games with way better music than they ever deserved theme

I'm gonna throw out the Machinarium soundtrack as one of my favorites.

Shit games, good music

Heh, holy necrothreads. Good thread though. I guess it should surprise no-one that so many video game music fans would be here, and I'm one of em. Like you all, I've got hundreds and hundreds, but I'll throw out a couple remixed morsels I haven't seen in this thread -

Remember Major Stryker? The shareware apogee scrolling shooter?


The best game nobody remembers that came between wolfenstein 3d and Doom: Rise of the Triad

I loved RotT, but I had no idea it came before Doom.

Here I am, shooting torrents of sticky white Nintendo shitty game, awesome music jizz all over this thread.

Frankie Williamson said:

I loved RotT, but I had no idea it came before Doom.

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It was actually, in its original conception, supposed to be the sequel to Wolfenstein 3D... and here's the mindblowing part - it actually used a modified version of the wolf3D engine.

But I was in error. ROTT came out in 1994, Doom in 93.

To one of my oldest friends, who I used to play Triad with, I will still mock the God hand mode super power thing sound.

Hwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh

There's nothing really important going on here, it's just an area music, but I would let my game sit and let this song play over and over again. Once of my favorite gaming soundtracks and definitely one of my favourite songs from any game.

So I've been listening to the Bastion soundtrack... gotta say, it's hands down the best of the year. Here's my two favorite tracks.

No Build That Wall?

Yeah, that's a good one too, but Setting Sail, Coming Home is basically the two themes combined.

heatherling said:

Okay on a normal computer now! Here's 3 from The Neverhood! Probably my favorite game from my childhood. <3 Even as a child, I appreciated the music from this game.

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I LOOOOOOVED The NeverHood!!!!!

I generally don't like Jpop, but one of my favorite things about KH 1 was the music.

Inon Zur's a heck of a composer.

This, remixing the most beautiful part of Final Fantasy VI/III's intro, with the marching Magitek mecha. I was in love with that piece of music before I ever even played the game, and this remix captures the spirit of it wonderfully.

Huh. I thought I posted here. Well, we'll just fix that. Music has always been a big factor in my enjoyment of a game. If I get it stuck in my head or listening to it constantly, then it's usually from some of my favourite games. So here's a few:

One of my all-time favourite adventure games, Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father. When I first booted it up and heard this theme, I knew I would love it.


Frog's theme from Chrono Trigger. The whole game is packed with great music, but this was just blew me away the first time I heard it.


When I first heard Legacy by Gone Jackals in the LucasArts game, Full Throttle, I was flipping pumped to play the game.


A few others I haven't mentioned since the limit is three: the Monkey Island theme, both airship music from Final Fantasy VI, pretty much all of Final Fantasy IV's soundtrack (one of the reasons it's my fave in the series).

The soundtrack for Full Throttle doesn't get nearly enough love. That game had some awesome sound design. I love "The Ride of the Valkyries" played when the wind up bunnies are used.

Great, now I have to go dig up Full Throttle.

Officer_Charon said:

This, remixing the most beautiful part of Final Fantasy VI/III's intro, with the marching Magitek mecha. I was in love with that piece of music before I ever even played the game, and this remix captures the spirit of it wonderfully.

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Aaaand let me make it so you'll never hear that song again without wondering where your other pants are.

(starts at :50)

I'm biased, but I adore this soundtrack:

Ace Combat games had some superb GD music.







Seriously, I think half the reason I want to fly is because of these games.

Don't mind me. Just moving these over here.



Easily the best theme to come out of Super Nintendo.


I think the music in Sonic was great. This song would always get stuck in my head and is genuinely cheery.


Duh.

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I have to agree. I love the music in the old Sonic games. The new ones? Not so much. But man, Sonic 1- Sonic and Knuckles had some pretty underrated compositions.
I always liked Metropolis Zone's music (I hated the damn zone though. THREE ACTS, with those friggin' annoying praying mantis bots, and one of the hardest bosses in all of Sonic at the end? FRIG)

Oh! And Mystic Cave Zone! The music was surprisingly creepy:

What do I win? (Yes, that says 10hrs)

I'll just add some more LucasArts stuff.

checkeredhat said:

I always liked Metropolis Zone's music (I hated the damn zone though. THREE ACTS, with those friggin' annoying praying mantis bots, and one of the hardest bosses in all of Sonic at the end? FRIG)
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The Sonic themes were the best. Also, Metropolis Zone was a bitch. Also, the music reminds me of "Walk Idiot Walk":

Never heard that before, but man that really does sound similar.
Also, I'm actually surprised there aren't WAY Sonic more mashups like this one out there:

BananaHands said:

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The new sonic music is terrible, although I enjoyed this theme.



Also the Scott Pilgrim game had some AMAZING music.

One thing Soul Calibur has always had going for it is an epic soundtrack in every game.


COME WITH ME TO HELL!!

BananaHands said:

I think the music in Sonic was great. This song would always get stuck in my head and is genuinely cheery.

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So I'm going through this thread, and this is the first one I play without headphones on, and without looking up, Kati says, "Why are you playing the Star Light Zone music?"

It's probably been more than 10 years since she last played Sonic.

I Love her.

--Patrick

I have almost no good Genesis music memories. Other than a few exceptions, the Genesis' soundchip was just so shitty.

To this day, I still consider Bravely Folk Song (Cervantes' theme from Soul Blade) to be the official theme of evil piratey adventure. Sorry, Lechuck.

I think the SEGA games had some of the best music at the time.

Yeah, you had to dig into it's single best soundtrack to defend it. The Genesis had a God awful soundchip that sounded like trash 99% of the time.

That the Streets of Rage games had such good soundtracks is owed more to Yuzo Koshiro who made a lot of the best soundtracks of the 16 bit era.

But yeah I get your point.

I don't know, I still love Genesis sounds:

The bass in that Vectorman tune sounds like a computer farting.

farting like a sweet jam perfect for playing a videogame when you're ten.

Earthbound had an insane and catchy soundtrack (almost final boss music):


I always found that FFX's music made me think of water, which considering how much of the game takes place in/on/near oceans and the like makes sense:


Lunar: Silver Star Story was probably the first JRPG to give me a taste of real difficulty, but it's still tasty as hell:

Just started Ys - The Oath in Felghana. The overworld theme? BAD. ASS.

Just wait, the game's filled with amazing music and it gets better and better.

In this topic Genesis music is still shitty and Hotline Miami has a fantastic effing sountrack.

What? Genesis music isn't that bad. Granted I don't remember a lot as I never owned one, but the Sonic music is fantastic.

However nothing tops NES/SNES music in terms of longevity. Mega Man 2 and 3 have some of, if not THE, most memorable music ever created. I've always felt the Kirby games' music deserved more credit as well.

Genesis music is notorious for being inferior to the SNES because the Genesis had a fundamentally worse sound chip. It's more a historic thing.

AshburnerX said:

Genesis music is notorious for being inferior to the SNES because the Genesis and a fundamentally worse sound chip. It's more a historic thing.

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That makes sense. Considering again Sonic, you can hear sounds used as in-game fx also being used in the BGM (specifically the ring gathering sound).

You don't like Hotline Miami's soundtrack Jay ? It's actually really good.

Frank said:

In this topic Genesis music is still shitty and Hotline Miami has a fantastic effing sountrack.

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It's as if Tangerine Dream and Depeche Mode had a lyrics-challenged baby together.

--Patrick

Can never go wrong with a little Sam and Max.

I woulda' posted that Monkey Island 3 song but my man figmentPez posted it first. Damn that was a good game.