Best Game Music?

Thansal · January 2004

VRock <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'> (the rock radio station from GTA:VC)

playlist including:
Quite Riot
Ozzy
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
etc etc etc <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

The other staitons also range form good music to just funny <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

but then there arn't many better songs to run people over with then those played on VRock <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

Zig · January 2004

tales of phantasia (for SNES) by namco had reaaally good music.. so did seiken denetsu 3

but whoever mentioned super metroid and halo, they're my runner ups <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

Testament · January 2004

Game Over - Nintendo Metal

BEST. GAME. MUSIC. EVER.

Gyahahaha. BEATEN BY A TECHNICALITY, BIZZATCHES!

Tequila · January 2004

I can't pinpoint a certain game, but I recall the boss theme of Final Fantasy 7 was fantastically funky.

Here's a midi of it (the OST .wav is far superior, natch).

<a href='http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/sony/ps1/ff7_boss_mix2.mid' target='_blank'>FF7 Boss Theme</a>

Testament · January 2004

That sounds god awful in MIDI. The best FF7 song is the orchestrated version of "One Winged Angel"

DragonMech · January 2004

Halo
Scorched Planet; Battle Theme (An oldy but a goody. Too bad it won't run on my PC anymore... Drat)
True Crime: Streets of LA, for the rap fans. (A shame the game's good-guy plotline was so horrid)

raz0r · January 2004

i liked the musc in bf1942, dont know why

Thansal · January 2004

b/c its bad a**ed kill s*** music?

I ussed to play BF1942 in the Comp Sci Lab at school.

Every map change those of use with headphones would start drumming out the music on the desks <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

cshank4 · January 2004

Neocron
Public Enemy
FF series (love Celes Orchestrted theme)
Freedom Fighters
Call of Duty (somewhat)
Bomberman (during the ice caves or whatever for the 64 version. I love that drum beat.)
CnC (I LOVE some of the music from Tib. Sun)

Bleeding_Me · January 2004

Anyone remember Star control II? I think it had the best sountrack, very original tunes and with my brand new shiny GUS soundcard (oh those were the days..) even better <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'> .

Tequila · January 2004

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Testament @ Jan 9 2004, 05:02 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> That sounds god awful in MIDI. The best FF7 song is the orchestrated version of "One Winged Angel"  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Nah, I still like that battle tune better than One WInged Angel, which although good, is overrated.

r4m3n_n00dles · January 2004

<img src='http://www.metroid.com/prime/images/detect/logo_metroid.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

and

Prince of Persia

Nuketheplace · January 2004

I'm surprised no ones mentioned Chrono Trigger yet. That has to have one of the best scores I've ever heard. Other than that I would have to say that Morrowind is coming in a close second.

Also could someone give me a link to One WInged Angel. Its so talked about I feel like I'm missing out on something.

Burr · January 2004

hmmmm...let me think...

Halo
Homeworld
Full Throttle (yay Heavy Metal!!)
Metriod Prime (yay for Gamecube as a Xmas present...to myself <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'> )
FF7 - One WInged Angel, Red XIIIs theme...I can still hear it.

Probably some other that I haven't though of.

Testament · January 2004

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Tequila @ Jan 9 2004, 11:11 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Testament @ Jan 9 2004, 05:02 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> That sounds god awful in MIDI. The best FF7 song is the orchestrated version of "One Winged Angel" </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
Nah, I still like that battle tune better than One WInged Angel, which although good, is overrated.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Well I love almost any kind of orchestral music.

twoflow · January 2004

Some of my favourite individual tracks include:

Secret of Mana main theme
Skies of Arcadia credits theme
Metroid Prime main theme
Gitaroo Man "Sanbone Trio" theme
Grim Fandango OST
Parappa the Rapper (I, forgot, to close, the door)
Balloon Fight 'Balloon Trip' theme
Super Smash Bros Melee OST
GTA country song ("menfolk find their women scary 'cos they were so big and hairy!")
Bomberman anthem
Super Mario Kart - Koopa Beach

There's about a hojillion others I've criminally overlooked, I expect.

Edit - like Green Hill Zone and Star Light Zone (Sonic), for chrissakes! And the Space Harrier theme! And Magical Sound Shower (Outrun)! And Shenmue, who could forget Shenmue! And.. forget it.

DragonMech · January 2004

I can't believe I forgot this: <a href='http://www.metalarms.com/home.html' target='_blank'>Click song 2.</a>

BizZy_9mm_Messiah · January 2004

Breath of Fire 4

The part when Elena was dying, the music kinda made you feel a little bit sad.

Secret of Mana

Chrono Trigger

SoulSkorpion · January 2004

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (cshank4 @ Jan 10 2004, 06:34 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> CnC (I LOVE some of the music from Tib. Sun)  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Ugh. They ranged from boring, to irritating, to actually painful to listen to.

Confuzor · January 2004

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Bleeding Me @ Jan 9 2004, 02:54 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Anyone remember Star control II? I think it had the best sountrack, very original tunes and with my brand new shiny GUS soundcard (oh those were the days..) even better <img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'> .</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
<b>YES, I DO.</b>

I have them; I also have the 3DO version of the Battle Theme and Hyperspace music on mp3 format.

Speaking of MOD music, as I have often repeated...

<a href='http://gamemusic.emugaming.com/music/PC/Crusader%20No%20Remorse/Menu.MOD' target='_blank'>Crusader: No Remorse's</a> <a href='http://gamemusic.emugaming.com/music/PC/Crusader%20No%20Remorse/Credits.MOD' target='_blank'>Music</a> <a href='http://gamemusic.emugaming.com/music/PC/Crusader%20No%20Remorse/Mission%2001.MOD' target='_blank'>Rocks!</a>

<img src='http://www3.telus.net/confuzor/sitshottrans.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

Sprengi · January 2004

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Bleeding Me @ Jan 9 2004, 05:54 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Anyone remember Star control II? I think it had the best sountrack, very original tunes and with my brand new shiny GUS soundcard (oh those were the days..) even better <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'> .  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
"remember"?! its burned into my brain!

hyperspace theme & end theme = pwn.

/me goes to listen good old SC2 MOD's

kida · January 2004

I liked some command and conquer music, ummm, x wing vs tie fighter, metroid, mario..

Newer stuff: I liked some music from maxpayne, bg2, dunno..

TychoCelchuuu · January 2004

Warcraft 2
Sim City 2000 and 3000 had nice music
Warlords Battlecry had AMAZING music, IMHO
The Deus Ex theme song was nice
Medal of Honor was pretty nice
The Legend of Zelda, all those Zelda games had good music
Rogue Spear has some good tracks
Starsiege: Tribes actually had some good music in it
Almost all the Star Wars games have great music

And for BEST MUSIC EVER EVER EVER it's a three way tie:

No One Lives Forever/Crimson Skies/Tropico

I bought the soundtracks to NOLF and Tropico, and probably would have if Crimson Skies had sold it.

Tykjen · January 2004

morrowind
deus ex
grand theft auto series
sw:kotor
command and conquer series

<a href='http://www.ocremix.org/index.php' target='_blank'>http://www.ocremix.org/index.php</a> old game tunes remixed <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

CplDavis · January 2004

oh yea i forgot, I like most of the tracks on the Need for Speed: Underground soundtrack.
The tracks by Fuel, static X, Story of the Year etc

Last · January 2004

Chrono Trigger, by far. Especially the frog theme. I actually had the entire CT soundtrack on my playlist at one point ... don't ask <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>. NO snes game had music as great as CT, period.

edit: WTH me, i wrote CS instead of CT...

raz0r · January 2004

i cant believe i forgot zelda and metroid prime, those games pwnt me, matroid prime was frickin hard on hard(surprising enough)

elchinesetourist · January 2004

Mechwarrior 2
FF 6
some Wipeout songs
some Unreal Tournament songs
some Morrowind
Warcraft 1 + 2
Simcity 2k
Star Control 2 - well done and very appropriate to the game, if not necessarily applicable IRL <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'>
some C & C (early stuff, have not played any of their games of the past 6 years)

perhaps not the bestest of them all since I have not heard everything. But definitely <i>very</i> good music. Better than professional, competitive with commercial standalone music since I don't bother to listen to most of that <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

DEFINITELY listen to Mechwarrior 2 music though. If you like electronic music also listen to some UT and some Wipeout and some CnC. FF6 is real nice orchestral music but tends to be sad. Warcraft is also very good orchestral, and not so much sadness. SimCity 2k has great chillout tracks

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