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templar1138a

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Took me less than a second to have an answer:

I first played it back when I was in high school and fell in love (after downloading better bodies and heads mods, of course). It was my first open-world RPG that wasn't party-based. That piece of music was a strong indicator of what I was in for, and with each new single-player Elder Scrolls game, I get sentimental joy out of hearing its variation on the main theme. The first character I beat Skyrim with was an Argonian who - in my head-canon - was descended from the first character I beat Morrowind with. I even decked her out in war paint that was colored to refer to locations and events.
 

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I don't know if I could narrow it down to a single favorite, but I've always (well, ever sine I played the game) been partial to one theme from Daggerfall. I've harshly criticized the newer games in the series (the older ones, too, come to think of it), but they've all had great music. If you ask a Daggerfall player what their favorite piece of music from the game was, 90% percent of them will say the snow theme, and I'm no different.

Catch is, there are two: the music that plays when snow is falling (which sounds like "In the House of the Rising Sun", if it had been written in Tamriel), and the music that plays when you're walking over snow which has already fallen (which sounds like "Jingle Bells" if it had been written in Hell); as snow can and frequently does fall on top of existing snow, it's easy to get them confused (life on the dial-up-era internet was challenging in many ways).
 

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Mine would be this:


Yes, you may categorize it under: Pretentious Piano Jazz Music.

But I think its brilliant. So. So. Brilliant.
 

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Still gonna have to give it my favorite game series Kingdom Hearts... I mean...
Basically, the entire series's original soundtrack is one of my favorite pieces of videogame music, broken into various sections that evoke different emotions depending on the situation in general...
 

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the max payne theme.
skyrim is the best soundtrack i have heard though.
 

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Oh my God. All this music... It's making me... FEEL. UUUUUGGGGHHHH. NOOOOOOO. I CAN'T HANDLE ALL THIS FEELING.

OT: Jeez. This is a hard one for me. I rarely ever notice the music in the games I play because I'm so focused on the game. So, usually, I have to look up the music after I play the game. Regardless, here are some of my favorites.




 

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From what I've played recently, both Shovel Knight and Ori and the Blind Forest, while very different styles of platformer, both have wonderful soundtracks, and worth a listen. In particular, Shovel Knight's [https://virt.bandcamp.com/album/shovel-knight-original-soundtrack] soundtrack is pay what you want on Bandcamp, which is ridiculously good.

I'll give one from each just to show them off a bit since they're in the mind.




Now for some "old" favourites (some may not actually be that old). And I'll try to name only one from each game I pick a song for, just to leave space for anyone else.










And I'll stop there before I don't stop.
 

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I would have an easier time finding a lucrative career with my history degree than naming my all time favorite. It's shifted around from World of Goo to Phantasy Star to Kirby to Red Dead. The closest I could give to favorite would be a genre. I really like Overworld Music and the excitement that brings.
 

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Just to keep me from crashing browsers, I'll try to go with just one song from each game, maybe two tops per franchise.

I've always liked atmospheric music, something that captures the mood of the setting. I love Super Metroid not just because it's one of the most solid games ever made, but because the series has excellent music to go with both the ominous and peaceful sides to the franchise's theme of isolation.
A very relaxing piece that shows there is beauty, even in such a hostile world, also quite the contrast to the equally excellent, but high energy, music of Brinstar's Plant Overgrowth Area
Prime's gorgeous equivalent to Super's Red Soil Area
and the HD remake's:
Would have went with "The End Begins," but this has that atmosphere I love.
Second choice would of course be Lava Reef Zone Act 1.
Ok. I better stop, too. Just assume I added some tracks from some Elder Scrolls games, and maybe the Great Mighty Poo opera.
 

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Whoever decided to create 'Strike The Earth!' deserves a lifetime supply of free ice cream. That music very seriously pumped me up for the game.


I would mention Deus Ex and the MGS 3 Snake Eater soundtracks but it looks like others have already beaten me to it :p

Red Dead Redemption, the part where you enter Mexico with that long journey, this happens :

L.A. Noire:

NFS Underground 2:

Wolfenstein The New Order really does have an under-appreciated soundtrack(song is okay on its own, but the context of the scene makes this short track feel incredible) :

Silent Hills:

Brutal Legend had Judas Priest, that is all.
 

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One of my favorite soundtracks of all time
Still cant believe this hasn't come up yet.

I'll let it explain itself.
 

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A music thread!, my one weakness! (one of many at least...)

I just can't pick a single track, I end up flooding the thread with songs and I always forget to add more songs D:

But what the heck, I'll bite :)

Many already posted Steel Thy Shovel and I absolutely agree with them, it's a wonderful track, but then why I chose this one?, this one is simply catchy, it always puts me on the right mood to start shovelin' to my hearts content and I just love it.

This one was actually a pretty tough call, between Hisako's theme [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is_gHx55kfo], Spinal's theme [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICKrtbT3PqE] and Cinder, but ultimately, I think this one better represents the game as a whole, relentless, brutal and fast paced. That and this track is actually better than the original one from KI1, so there's that too.

This is another tough call, if it were for me, I'd post the entire friggin' soundtrack, expansions included. To me, this is Jeremy Soule's absolute best soundtrack, and that's saying something with a guy with such an impressive record. To me, this track always gets me on the mood to traverse and explore the Krytan wilds, it's just an elegant track that ramps up more and more, this one just feels grand, without feeling epic, if that makes sense. Also the end just feels like a nice breath of fresh air after so much epicness.

No, I'm not cheating... well, maybe a little, since GW2 includes almost every track from the first game and that's great!, why fix something that isn't broken in the first place?. But not this time, I'm gonna pick the main theme of the game, wich by itself is a re-arrangement from the first game's theme [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMUdPF260Uk], but it's like saying that Skyrim's theme is the same as Morrowind, extremely similar, but different in their own way. Once again, Jeremy Soule nails every new track in GW2, but the main theme is just spectacular, epic, grand, bombastic, something that truly puts you into the mood to click on that login button and start doing epic stuff!... or grind it, or whatever you like to do!.

This underrated MMO has one of the best soundtracks I've ever heard, not just on videogames, but really on anything, ever. You just have to listen to this with a good pair of headphones or speakers, it's a brilliant track that perfectly portrays the harsh beauty of Hyboria. Plus Helene Boksle is an extremely talented singer. And she's hot :)

I'm not particularly a fan of the first Witcher game, I like it, but I just can't bring myself to play it for more than 30 minutes at a time. Regardless of my personal opinion on this game, the one thing that always stick out the most with me is the game's main theme, I absolutely love it, this right here might be the absolute best main theme I've heard from a single player RPG (eat your heart out Dragon Age). Slowly but surely, celtic tunes colide with modern basses, I just love everything about it.

Once again, I'd like to post the entire friggin' soundtrack, but I arbitrarily can't. Mark Morgan is just as a friggin' genious as Jeremy Soule, but for different reasons. Soule focuses on epic and bombastic stuff, but Mark Morgan is a little more intimate, this one IMO encapsules everything about Fallout perfectly, the vocals at the beginning that almost resembles a plea of help, while slowly ramping up to something that could've been fitted on a spaghetti western film. I absolutely love it.

This right here is my favorite track from FFVII. There are some others that are great, the badassness of the boss battle theme [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxUzIrhINP4], the Cosmo Canyon theme [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZBGmN5obkk], the hopelessness and coldness of the Shinra Corporation [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj0F2KfCvhg] and many, many others, but this is my favorite of the whole game.
 

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It is so cheating, but everything on Galaxy News Radio in Fallout 3 and Everything on Radio New Vegas in Fallout: New Vegas.

But in particular:
 

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best theme song any hero ever had
relevant sequence at 10:00, song is at 16:50. I highly, HIGHLY recommend this game. It ain't perfect, but any game where you can drive a hot rod so badass the Devil only wishes he owned one at suicide speed through terrain that looks like an album cover, zapping dudes with frickin' lightning bolts while heavy metal blares out of the stereo is okay by me. Play it for the soundtrack alone, they licensed about 100 songs and like 85 of them are just killer. There's also this. I found a version with gameplay but you can't hardly hear the song. And this.
And because I can't pick just one.....
This song just makes me happy, I cannot explain it.
Pretty good music throughout this title. This is a great one to try sometime on an emul--cough, I mean, on your legitimately purchased vintage Sega CD. Be warned, takes a while to finish.
Lots of good music in Civ 5. This one makes me think of warfare, the good guys losing a desperate, heartbreaking battle, shown in slow motion with no sound.
In addition to going with a brilliantly absurd game, this was basically my introduction to J-.
As old as this is, it still conjures epic boss battle.
Sounds better when you're firing prototype miniguns into a tide of creeping alien flesh. Perfectly hits the tone of an endless battle fought alone. I always picture a mountain of smoking shell casings.
 

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I'm pretty sure plenty of people love Daisuke Ishiwatari's work in both Guilty Gear and BlazBlue. It's got some pretty damn cool tracks and it's some of my favorite music in video games. But my favorite out of all of his work is probably this.
Bloodborne had a track that recently left a huge impression on me, but...
yeah.

Huge fan of a majority of the music in Castlevania titles.
Shoji Meguro is wonderful as well.


It's difficult for me to choose individual favorites when it comes to music, especially when I can't immediately recall a lot of stuff I'd put pretty high up in my list of memorable and most personally loved tracks. But that's a taste of what I still generally listen to.
 

R.K. Meades

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This song was a nice way to thank people for playing the game.

 

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templar1138a said:
Took me less than a second to have an answer:

I first played it back when I was in high school and fell in love (after downloading better bodies and heads mods, of course). It was my first open-world RPG that wasn't party-based. That piece of music was a strong indicator of what I was in for, and with each new single-player Elder Scrolls game, I get sentimental joy out of hearing its variation on the main theme. The first character I beat Skyrim with was an Argonian who - in my head-canon - was descended from the first character I beat Morrowind with. I even decked her out in war paint that was colored to refer to locations and events.
This. Love the music. Every time i hear it it makes me want to replay that game again.
 

Little Woodsman

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I know what the piece is, though I've never been able to find it (been a while since I searched though...)

It's 'Sorrow, long day' from the PS1 game Evil Zone.

Probably my favorite instrumental piece of all time.
Guess I should try looking for it again....