Most Maudlin Game Music?

Ryoga · Post by **Ryoga** » 2005-03-22 07:49pm

So, yeah, what video game tune do you think is the most depressing? You know, the kind of music that almost makes ya tear up or at least something similar?

I'd have to say it's really tough to choose between Into The Dusk (Ace Combat 5), the ending theme from FFX (not Suteki Da Ne, the one before that), Aeris' theme, and Sage Raruto from Wind Waker.

What about you?

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » 2005-03-23 07:30pm

"Enclosure" from Metal Gear Solid.

(The track that plays after the second Sniper Wolf battle)

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2005-03-23 08:45pm

Planescape: Torment's soundtrack is nicely maudlin, melencholy, and fatalistic.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2005-03-23 11:12pm

Metal Gear Solid, The Best is Yet to Come.

Chrono Trigger, Marle's Theme I believe it is. The sad music.

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2005-03-24 12:49am

In Homeworld, as the planet Kharrak is destroyed from an orbital bombardment, a choral version of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings plays. It's a depressing scene.

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2005-03-24 01:23am

IRG CommandoJoe wrote:In Homeworld, as the planet Kharrak is destroyed from an orbital bombardment, a choral version of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings plays. It's a depressing scene.

Seconded, one of the most traumatizing moments for me in a computer or video game.

Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2005-03-24 11:22am

It could because what kind of games I have, but the capture of Azzameen home base in X-Wing Alliance (I can't remember was Music made for the movies, but fitted scene perfectly

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2005-03-24 11:25am

various squaresoft themes come to mind, notably ones from chrono trigger and xenogears.

Julhelm · Post by **Julhelm** » 2005-03-24 02:36pm

The loader theme to Green Beret.

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2005-03-24 03:42pm

Lord Revan wrote:It could because what kind of games I have, but the capture of Azzameen home base in X-Wing Alliance (I can't remember was Music made for the movies, but fitted scene perfectly

IIRC, I think part of it might have been the music to the final duel between Vader and Luke from RotJ. I say part of it, because XWA's music is just a bunch of William's compositions spliced together. Whoever the music editor for that game was did a damned good job of it. It's not easy to seemlessly blend music together like that.

The music was also used in the final duel between Katarn and Dessan in Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, but somehow it didn't come off as well as I hoped it would.

Post by **Dalton** » 2005-03-24 11:30pm

That alternate version of Lavos's Theme from Chrono Trigger. The one when Crono, Marle and Lucca discover the record of the Day of Lavos in 2300AD.