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Video Game soundtracks

IcedhopeIcedhope
edited December 2009 in General Chat
I know a lot of us on the forums have played a lot of games over the years, I just wanted to find out what are some of your favorite video game soundtracks or just favorite songs from video games.

Mine are as follows.

The Best is Yet to come~ Metal Gear Solid
Father and Son~ MGS4
Sam&Max Hit the road
Music From The Entire MI Series
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  • HaydenHayden
    edited November 2009
    Full Throttle had a brilliant soundtrack! Gone Jackals - what a band! Too bad they weren't around for longer : ( But there's also plenty of other great music in the game that isn't by Gone Jackals.
  • dentbudsdentbuds
    edited November 2009
    the kid icarus main theme remains my favorite
  • MusicallyInspiredMusicallyInspired
    edited November 2009
    All Sierra soundtracks by Mark Seibert, Ken Allen, and Chris Brayman are sublime.
  • IcedhopeIcedhope
    edited November 2009
    MusicallyInspired wrote: »
    All Sierra soundtracks by Mark Seibert, Ken Allen, and Chris Brayman are sublime.

    You know, I have to agree. Sometimes I'll catch my self whispering the kings quest theme.
  • SHODANFreemanSHODANFreeman
    edited November 2009
    Icedhope wrote: »
    You know, I have to agree. Sometimes I'll catch my self whispering the kings quest theme.

    Whispering?
  • IcedhopeIcedhope
    edited November 2009
    Pale Man wrote: »
    Whispering?

    whistling, and or the leisure suit larry theme..whisper larry quotes to girls though.
  • der_ketzerder_ketzer
    edited November 2009
    The best game-soundtrack ever?
    Sam & Max Season 1.

    Close second place: World of Goo
    http://kylegabler.com/WorldOfGooSoundtrack/
  • ShaggEShaggE
    edited November 2009
    The Silent Hill series is my all-time favorite. Mainly the vocal tracks, although the ambient pieces are great as well.

    In close second comes anything by Bobby Prince or Lee Jackson. The "Rise of the Triad" soundtrack in particular is a masterpiece of early MIDI.
  • puzzleboxpuzzlebox Telltale Alumni
    edited November 2009
    MusicallyInspired wrote: »
    All Sierra soundtracks by Mark Seibert, Ken Allen, and Chris Brayman are sublime.

    I don't know if any of them worked on the Shivers score, but the music in that game is incredibly atmospheric. I still remember most of the tunes despite it being years since I've heard them.
  • Secret FawfulSecret Fawful
    edited November 2009
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKlJmUg5uZU
    Super Mario Galaxy
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlnWSA_elzU
    The Legend of Zelda - Ocarina of Time
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM8C7EYtXX8
    New Super Mario Bros. Wii
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoQex8CB9eA
    Super Castlevania 4
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4JlNJWv-PM
    Castlevania 2 - Simon's Quest
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFbdwxLDzMA&feature=related
    Paper Mario
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HaYZsc66Bk
    Day of the Tentacle
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fhuy0_TaanA
    Monkey Island 2 - LeChuck's Revenge (it's so 80s!)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AawQvD8L_h4
    The Curse of Monkey Island
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgYVTBC4Ptg&feature=related
    Tales of Monkey Island
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qzPW0UQYoU
    Super Mario World
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50uUuVyq5m4
    Luigi's Mansion

    I'm sure there's more but can't think off the top of my head.
  • MusicallyInspiredMusicallyInspired
    edited November 2009
    No, I don't think any of those three made the soundtrack for Shivers, but I've heard that the music in that game was really good. I haven't played through them yet, however. Will have to do that sometime.

    Also, yes. The Bobby Prince and Lee Jackson scores are incredible. I prefer Bobby Prince for the most part, though I think. But Lee did make some amazing soundtracks as well. Also, the Metroid series soundtracks are quite good. Metroid Metal anyone?
  • HomestarloverHomestarlover
    edited November 2009
    I think the Katamari Damacy series has a wide variety of songs, and a LOVE probably half of all their songs!!!
  • BrainiacBrainiac
    edited November 2009
    MusicallyInspired wrote: »
    Metroid Metal anyone?

    Varia Suite, please. Sponsors for the site also have access to the newest remix track, the ending music for Super Metroid (everyone else should be able to grab it sometime around/after this weekend).
  • Javi-Wan KenobiJavi-Wan Kenobi
    edited November 2009
    Secret Fawful wrote: »
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fhuy0_TaanA
    Monkey Island 2 - LeChuck's Revenge (it's so 80s!)
    The first notes always reminds me the Star Trek theme
  • IcedhopeIcedhope
    edited November 2009
    Secret Fawful wrote: »
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    Super Castlevania 4

    I love Bloody tears, and this version makes my heart jump with pride.
  • TheMandingoTheMandingo
    edited November 2009
    The new indie adventure game Machinarium actually has a really good, kinda weird mellow electronica soundtrack.
  • Lena_PLena_P
    edited November 2009
    Nobuo Uematsu, Jared Emerson-Johnson and Peter McConnell. There are a lot of great composers who work in games, but their work I listen to over and over again. Especially Uematsu since my mom always plays the "battle music" from FFVII when she's driving.
  • Ray-The-SunRay-The-Sun
    edited November 2009
    I personally am in love with the soundtracks from the Starfox series (I wonder why...) and pretty much any valve game. No way you can hate this. It is impossible.
  • GaryCXJkGaryCXJk
    edited November 2009
    I'm more of specific songs from series, for example, Corneria from Star Fox, Mona Pizza Song from the WarioWare series, Faye Wong's Eyes On Me from Final Fantasy VIII (both versions, spoilers), both songs from Final Fantasy X-2, Rainbow Road from the original Super Mario Kart, mostly too much to name. But the Kingdom Hearts series does have a lot of cool songs.
  • MatakuMataku
    edited November 2009
    King's quest 6 had one of the best overall scores i've ever heard, especially for a midi music. Seriously, such epicness was rare at the time, you can tell they were really trying to put up a fight for the lucasarts games that came out the same years. "Leisure suit larry 7" also had some great tunes, not 'epic' per se, but very well organized and atmospheric for the locations. Also, 'the neverhood' had great ost. And lately, Machinarium soundtrack really stuck with me. Oh, and Red alert, the first game. I remember looking up an extractor to listen to the tunes on my windows 95. :cool: If you liked Full Throttle's score, you would LOVE that.
  • Ash735Ash735
    edited November 2009
    I'm a complete soundtrack geek :p I'm going to give a mention for the music from the Crash Bandicoot games (Naughty Dog era), the arrangements done by Josh Mancell on those games, especially Crash Bandicoot 2 and 3 were just catchy and always got the vibe and feeling of the levels down in a perfect way. Sadly Crash Bandicoot is now a whored out franchise but I really think the first three games are under appreciated, the amount of detail that went into the artwork and music was immense.

    Music examples:
    Underwater Levels: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWa-oR9i6DE
    Ruin Levels: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOc935LCDMI
    Jet Pack Levels: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khC_TU6ogsY
  • ShaggEShaggE
    edited November 2009
    Mataku wrote: »
    Also, 'the neverhood' had great ost.

    Oh man, how did I forget that? I'm always going on about how much I love The Neverhood, and I forget to mention the soundtrack? I'm a bad, bad ShaggE... :(
  • Secret FawfulSecret Fawful
    edited November 2009
    Lena_P wrote: »
    Nobuo Uematsu, Jared Emerson-Johnson and Peter McConnell. There are a lot of great composers who work in games, but their work I listen to over and over again. Especially Uematsu since my mom always plays the "battle music" from FFVII when she's driving.

    I think Uematsu also did music for Super Smash Bros. Brawl, didn't he.
  • DoctorCelloDoctorCello
    edited November 2009
    Just a few of my favorites:

    The Poem of Everyone's Souls (from the Persona series)
    Silent Hill (from... Silent Hill)
    The True Mirror (from Baten Kaitos)
    Staff Credits (from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker)
    Theme of the Professor (from Professor Layton and the Curious Village)

    ...I'll probably think of some more later.
  • BlankCanvasDJBlankCanvasDJ
    edited November 2009
    Man, that Professor Layton theme gets stuck in my head for days everytime I play those games.
  • puzzleboxpuzzlebox Telltale Alumni
    edited November 2009
    The ballroom music from Professor Layton and Pandora's Box was very pretty too.
  • S@breS@bre
    edited November 2009
    Hitman 2 had an awesome selection of classically-based themes for various countries, many kudos to Jesper Kyd for that. Shame the later games never really matched up to it, though Blood Money came close. The Witcher also had a great fantasy-based soundtrack, somewhat reminiscent of Lord of the Rings, but original enough in its own right. Some very good dark and ominous pieces and quiet relaxing tracks, punctuated by short, fast-pasted combat music. Also quite liked the Mafia soundtrack: very grand classical stuff, appropriate to the 1920s/30s setting. And in my mind, Jesse Harlin's Republic Commando soundtrack gets a lot of credit for deviating from just remixing John Williams' Star Wars soundtrack (though there's some of that) to actually creating some new, and significantly darker and militaristic. LucasArts did release the whole soundtrack for free on the official site, but the site's gone down. You should be able to pick it up here if so inclined.
  • ScrawfflerScrawffler
    edited November 2009
    The Full Throttle soundtrack is amazing. The songs by Gone Jackals is the kind of stuff I listen to anyway, so hearing heavy rock music in an adventure game was paradise for me! And the MIDI tunes were really great in the game too.

    Most LucasArts classics have awesome music (in addition to Full Throttle, there's Sam and Max Hit the Road, Day of the Tentacle, the Monkey Island games and Loom, all of which I listen to the soundtracks regularly).

    When I was a kid I had an Amiga, and there were plenty of Amiga games with great music. Due to the limited quality they sound dated now, but the composition side of them are still good. Some of my favourite Amiga game soundtracks are: Fire & Ice, Bubble and Squeak, Hoi, Benefactor, and Chuck Rock (it only had 1 piece of music, but what a great piece it was!). I doubt many people will be familiar with those games now, but kudos to anyone who has. Three of those games (Fire & Ice, Bubble and Squeak, and Benefactor) were brought out on CD-ROM with better quality music (tracks on the CD). Some tracks were completely re-composed but were still very good.

    For some reason, I also love the music from Simon the Sorcerer 2. It's another MIDI-based one, and some of the tunes aren't as good as others, but again credit goes to the way it was composed. Great tunes and nicely arranged!

    Another very unknown game I love the soundtrack of is Arcade America. It was a PC/Mac game made in 1996, and is very cartoony (imagine Day of the Tentacle as a platform game). The music's a bit fast and crazy, but the more I listen to it the more I like it!
  • MatakuMataku
    edited November 2009
    S@bre wrote: »
    Hitman 2 had an awesome selection of classically-based themes for various countries, many kudos to Jesper Kyd for that. Shame the later games never really matched up to it, though Blood Money came close.

    that's so weird, when i played those hitman games (quite religiously you might say), i was obsessed with the music, but now, I can't even remember one tune from either of the games. =\ I guess memorable it was not.
  • ShaggEShaggE
    edited November 2009
    Mataku wrote: »
    I can't even remember one tune from either of the games. =\

    Same here, but only because I was too busy cursing every time one of my carefully planned assassinations turned into a wholesale massacre... :( That happened quite often... especially in Hitman 2.
  • nikasaurnikasaur Telltale Alumni
    edited November 2009
    American McGee's Alice - Chris Vrenna (He also did the Tabula Rasa soundtrack which was incredible)

    Original Spyro Soundtrack - Stewart Copeland (#2 was pretty good too)

    Soft place in my heart whenever I hear the music from Ocarina of Time...

    And Splinter Cell Chaos Theory OST by Amon Tobin.

    <3 <3 <3
  • patterspatters
    edited November 2009
    nikasaur wrote: »
    And Splinter Cell Chaos Theory OST by Amon Tobin.

    <3 <3 <3

    Very much so, it was so perfect for the game. Got me into Amon Tobin also.

    Also I would like to add the Halo 3: ODST soundtrack, some fantastically scored music.
  • SHODANFreemanSHODANFreeman
    edited November 2009
    Mataku wrote: »
    Oh, and Red alert, the first game. I remember looking up an extractor to listen to the tunes on my windows 95. :cool: If you liked Full Throttle's score, you would LOVE that.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3rGO2WhZGg

    This is my favorite.
  • ShaggEShaggE
    edited November 2009
    nikasaur wrote: »
    American McGee's Alice - Chris Vrenna (He also did the Tabula Rasa soundtrack which was incredible)

    I didn't know Chris Vrenna did that soundtrack! Hot diggity! :D
  • IcedhopeIcedhope
    edited November 2009
    ShaggE wrote: »
    I didn't know Chris Vrenna did that soundtrack! Hot diggity! :D

    I didn't either, that is very diggity, now I want to play Alice again.
  • AndorxorAndorxor
    edited November 2009
    The intro of Atelier Iris 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDqzcJTfWNw
    The song they perform in Final Fantasy X-2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvCQfWr7C9Y
    All songs from Grandia 2 they where all great,i should realy reinstall it just for the music http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A78E4846A0F3C3AE&search_query=grandia+2
  • PimPamPetPimPamPet
    edited November 2009
    Scrawffler wrote: »
    When I was a kid I had an Amiga, and there were plenty of Amiga games with great music.

    Same here. Some of my all-time favorite video game music was on the Amiga.
  • AndorxorAndorxor
    edited November 2009
    I just remebered some other great game music, the intro of Civilization:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlwVsUHahPw
  • IcedhopeIcedhope
    edited November 2009
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ysDV9POBXE (Doom3 theme.)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poyWs95UYCI ( Duke Nukem them.)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU9SNOvLW6E( The Duck Tales Moon theme.)
  • MatrixCreationsMatrixCreations
    edited November 2009
    I would have to say that I am in love with most of the Final Fantasy soundtracks; they are all so good! I also, of course, enjoyed the Monkey Island 2 and 3 soundtracks, of course back during the time of MI2 my computer was utter crap and so it didn't quite play right.

    Plus I was 5-years-old so... not sure if my tastes were developed anyways.
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