Game series with the best music.

[southparkdudez]

No More Heroes.(both 1 and 2) Assassin's Creed II, GTA(any of them), Fallout(any of them), Yakuza 4,Metal Gear Solid(any of them)

 

[thesilentman]

Easy. Assassin's Creed. I've also started playing Ys Origins, and the music is PHENOMENAL. Emphasized not enough.

 

[Rad Party God]

Every single Zelda ever made, that series never fails in it's soundtrack department.

Halo. I always get an eargasm when I play those games.

Sonic, it's already mentioned, but good God, that series has a constant level of awesomeness in it's soundtrack.

Metal Gear. 'Nuff said.

Mario games. I'm having a hard time thinking about a Mario game with an awful soundtrack, sometimes it's pretty forgettable (Mario Kart Wii's new levels comes to mind), but not awful in any sense.

Okami, there's only 2 games and that makes it into a series, so yeah, absolutely the best music I've ever heard in a videogame, bar none.

Super Smash Bros. Yeah, it's a compilation of music from a myrad of other games, but what I like about Smash Bros' soundtrack, are it's very own arrangements of those soundtracks, be it in the form of remixes or fully orchestrated.

 

[jdogtwodolla]

Graeme Norgate makes Timesplitters. Appropriate, seeing that he collabed with Grant Kirkhope on Goldeneye, the obvious inspiration for the series.

Spoiler: TS2 Music

 

[Dr Pussymagnet]

Metal Gear Rising's soundtrack was basically a battlefield of guitars. It also showed how god damn effective gradually stacking lyrics can be in making a boss battle so much more amazing.

Spoiler

 

[putowtin]

Theoretically, someone could cheat here and say "GTA".

But I'm not going to do that.

I'm going to say, Assassin's Creed. The music is probably the best thing about the series.

Agree, I love all the soundtracks, the music just works so well with the different games and there settings. You've covered
1 and 2 so here's two of my favourites from:

Spoiler: AC:Brotherhood

Spoiler: AC:Revelations

Oh and just to add something new,

Spoiler: Fade Away from inFAMOUS 2

 

[Guffe]

I think (J)RPGs generally have good music, mainly some slow melodic stuff while travelling / in cities while in battles stuff that will get you more pumped up.
I think Xenoblade and Tales of Symphonia both have great music in their games.

And the Zelda games are of course masterpieces when it comes to this genre as well as gameplay

 

[Mordekaien]

I'm going to say, Assassin's Creed. The music is probably the best thing about the series.

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Second that. This series is really pretty good with music, even though I find other parts pretty "meh".

Also, the music in Legend of Grimrock is pretty awesome

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And reciever is having some pretty great tune too.

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There are others, probably, and most that I wanted to mention were mentioned already, so yeah.

 

[Mikeyfell]

Halo.
All except Halo 4, Halo 4 was abysmal, just a god awful score.
Well that's score

As far as themes go Tales of (blank) has some great Jrock themes, and not bad battle scores either

 

[Verkula]

Well, since Megaman wins by default

Spoiler: (here's 2% of the best tracks)

I guess I have to go with God of War

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[Happiness Assassin]

I have to throw in Mass Effect. All three games have amazing music, from the synth music of 1 to the grandiose and emotional pieces from 3.

Spoiler: Mass Effect music

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

Got to go with the early Sonic games just based off the Mystic Cave Zone alone.

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Honourable mention for the original Deus Ex's and Human Revolution's music.

The worst has music has got to be, the later Sonic games. Escape from the City made my ears bleed, but the main theme from Sonic Heroes tested my sanity to the very limit.

 

[Jfswift]

Zelda

But I say that as a huge Zelda fanboy. Some subjective contamination may have occured.

I actually went to that live Zelda concert last year. I'll second this, its pretty amazing when played with an actual orchestra.

 

[IGetNoSlack]

Snip

Ninja'd.

OT: Shadow of the Colossus

Spoiler: Those Who Remain

And that's not even the best piece.

 

[LucidGrifter]

I gotta go with Bastion. That game had some great music.

 

[Frankster]

Mmm id say it would be a draw between Command and Conquer series and Castlevania for my tastes.

Actually nay, castlevania wins it, i dont know what the genre of music is (gothic music?), but its a genre of music i dont hear at all outside the games themselves. Though granted im an ignoramus when it comes to music in general.

 

[Rooster893]

Metal Gear.

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[mxfox408]

As growing up as a gamer, I have heard tons of music out of games. The most memorable tho came from the final fantasy series, and I have to say even the modern final fantasy games hold up when it comes to the music.

 

[Altefforr]

I'd say EVE Online has some of the best music scores and ambient soundtracks that you could ask for!

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[tkioz]

Both the Assassin's Creed and Mass Effect series had some really awesome music.