Favourite game soundtrack

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2004-12-23 04:15pm

FF6 always tops my list closley covered by C&C Red Alert
Total Annihilation and Chrono Trigger round out my top four with Halo being my number five for the Greogrian

Post by **Edi** » 2004-12-23 04:22pm

Almost everything from the original Age of Wonders game, especially Battle Macabre.

Ultima series soundtracks
Heroes of Might and Magic II soundtrack.

Edi

Mad · Post by **Mad** » 2004-12-23 05:29pm

Oh, man, so many, and I'm still going to forget some...

MechWarrior II - The ambience was just great... I've played the CD while driving. I think one of the tracks has a homage to the SNES MechWarrior game, as well.

Command & Conquer and Red Alert - More classics. I've got the Red Alert soundtrack on CD, but I'm more partial to C&C's soundtrack (mostly Act on Instinct and Warfare).

Battledrome - Not much music, but it was fun from what I could remember.

FreeSpace and FreeSpace 2 - FS2's music is better, but FS1's fits the mood of the game perfectly. FS2 feels MechWarrior II-ish at times, which I consider a very good thing.

TIE Fighter, Dark Forces and other SW games - TIE Fighter and Dark Forces get special mention because of the original music they had in addition to the film music.

Goldeneye - much the same way, just with Bond instead of SW.

Final Fantasy 1 - What? The music was actually pretty good. Final Fantasy 6 was good, too, even though I haven't finished the game yet.

The Legend of Zelda series - Zelda 1-3 and OoT were the ones I've played, and they all had great music.

Super Smash Bros. and Super Smash Bros Melee - Classic game music redone? Perfect.

Mega Man X, Megaman 2, and Megaman 3 - X was my favorite, but MM2 and 3 have spawned some of the best remixes as well as being good on their own.

Street Fighter II - More consistently high-quality music from Capcom.

Actraiser - Haven't played it? Too bad, great symphonic music for an SNES game.

F-Zero - Don't tell me Mute City or Big Blue isn't stuck in your head now.

Metroid series - Metroid 1 in particular is great remixed.

Life Force - Konami had quite good music, too.

Any I forgot? More than likely.

Lt. Dan · Post by **Lt. Dan** » 2004-12-23 06:43pm

The Zelda games had very cool music.

Halo

FFVII

C&C

MW2

Tetris music is great.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-12-23 07:15pm

Stravo wrote:Final Fantasy VII

Seriously? The FFVII score is generally considered one of the worst entries in the series.

Personally, I think that the composition was excellent, some of Uematsu's best, but the low quality of the samples undermined the overall quality of the score. It's too bad, because the FFVII Main Theme is one the most memorable pieces of video game music ever written.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2004-12-23 08:51pm

RogueIce wrote:Homeworld also has that great ambient kind of stuff. I swear I heard Adagio for Strings (Choral) at one point, but I can't be sure (it was on the main menu or something and my friend went by too fast)...

Yes, Adagio for Strings is in the credits, also figures on IMDB. I think they played it every two missions or so

thecreech · Post by **thecreech** » 2004-12-23 09:14pm

Mad wrote: SNIP

Man if you are going old school than Lighting Force 4 had some wicked music for its time.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-12-24 12:50am

Descent (the original midi songs)
Descent 2 (lvl 4 midi and redbook audio for both the original and expansion pack "Vertigo Series")
Freespace
Freespace2

Anything else is over-rated.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2004-12-24 12:51am

Vertigo1 wrote:Descent (the original midi songs)
Descent 2 (lvl 4 midi and redbook audio for both the original and expansion pack "Vertigo Series")
Freespace
Freespace2

Anything else is over-rated.

Lets be fair, Homeworld 2 has good stuff.

Batman · Post by **Batman** » 2004-12-24 01:17am

Am I the only one who loved the soundtrack of the IWD games?
Anyways,
-the IWD games
-BG2
-MW2 (great ambience)
-DSA 1 & 2
-the title themes to CrossOut and Grand Monster Slam

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2004-12-24 03:50am

Does GTA: Vice City count? I mean, most of the game's music wasn't created specifically for the game except for the songs by Love Fist.

Jade Falcon · Post by **Jade Falcon** » 2004-12-24 12:27pm

Has no one heard the music from the Gabriel Knight games, specifically Gabriel Knight 2, I'd love to get my hands on a soundtrack of that game.

Alferd Packer · Post by **Alferd Packer** » 2004-12-24 12:35pm

Thre words: Secret of Mana

Man, talk about sad. The closing song could make me cry like a little bitch. And, of course, the Dark Lich music is fucking badass.

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2004-12-24 12:40pm

Guilty Gear X2 #Reload
TIE Fighter
C&C
Sonic 3 & Knuckles

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2004-12-24 03:38pm

Homeworld had the most atmospheric music ever. I almost shed a tear as young fleet fought for it's life in the space above Karrack(sp?)

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2004-12-24 05:15pm

Lord Pounder wrote:Homeworld had the most atmospheric music ever. I almost shed a tear as young fleet fought for it's life in the space above Karrack(sp?)

Damn right- when that choral version of Adagio for strings kicked in I definately felt a tug on the ol' heartstrings.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-12-24 05:18pm

Lord Pounder wrote:Homeworld had the most atmospheric music ever. I almost shed a tear as young fleet fought for it's life in the space above Karrack(sp?)

Then you steal all of the enemy's Assault Frigates

Post by **Kuja** » 2004-12-25 01:40am

Anything by Nobuo Uemetsu ranks up there: which includes pretty much the whole FF series and Chrono Trigger. Halo and Halo 2 come right after that I think.

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2004-12-25 05:39am

Armada 2, Mechwarrior 2, Interstate 76, Starlancer.

Gunhead · Post by **Gunhead** » 2004-12-25 09:05am

Star Control II
SW Games
System Shock I/II
Outlaws
Quite a few lucas adventure games. DIG, Full throttle and monkey island I/II to name a few
Alice had some freaky tunes
Cannon Fodder opening theme

These come to mind

-Gunhead

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2004-12-25 09:38am

Europa Universalis II and Victoria both had good period music. Victoria's soundtrack really made you want tu go out and "civilize" some corner of Africa. Medieval: Total War's awesome soundtrack was great too, when you start moving your armies and the thunderous drums start up (or in the case of the Muslim factions, the haunting beautiful singers and woodwinds) heralding the imminent destruction of your enemies.

Damaramu · Post by **Damaramu** » 2004-12-25 10:19pm

STREETS OF RAGE 2

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman · Post by **Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman** » 2004-12-26 07:53am

RogueIce wrote:
Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:Eyes on Me from Final Fantasy VIII (alright, don't laugh!).

Stones from Ultima series.
Ditto to these.

Do you prefer Ultima VI's Stones or Ultima VII's? Personally I like Ultima VI's better. Less intruments, but more melodious.

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman · Post by **Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman** » 2004-12-26 08:12am

Mad wrote: Battledrome - Not much music, but it was fun from what I could remember.

Battledrome!!!!! I remember it now, one of best soudtracks during the era of floppies, FM synthesis, and low-res VGA. Thanks for reminding!

See, the "techno" tracks are cool (especially the first one), but I enjoyed the rock tracks as well. They're not particularly "rock", though (what could you do with SB FM, anyway?), they're more akin to non-house techno. Probably that's why I like the soundtrack so much.

Anyway, I guess there are some more favorites I left:

Vega theme from Street Fighter II.

Widow theme from Super Fighter (the piano tunes is kinda... eerie, you know).

In-game music from Wibarm. FYI, the game was EGA and only supported PC speaker, but the soundtrack was unbelievably enjoyable, reminiscent of many Anime soundtracks, which greatly enhanced the game theme.

StarCraft's Terran theme songs is quite enjoyable, although I don't understand why they put anime-style music for those "Space Rednecks". I think country-rocks (like the one they use for the intro movie) is more appropriate.

And another of my favorites is Under Construction from Dune II and Dune 2000. Beware, though. The song is very repetitive and may drive you crazy if you keep listening to it over and over again....

Post by **The Wookiee** » 2004-12-26 10:35am

Zelda. *masturbates*

Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy, naturally. Skies of Arcadia is moderately neato. I also liked the music in Luigi's Mansion.