Gaming Soundtracks

[toby.lawrence]

What game do you think was empowered by it's soundtrack? And where was the music used particularly well?
I have a gaming soundtrack channel on youtube.
soundtracksforgames
if you wanna check it out

 

[Joe Matsuda]

Persona 3

...oh, and Persona 4

...and I guess Persona 3 FES

 

[Frybird]

Beyond Good and Evil
Shadow of the Colossus
Ico
Mass Effect 1+2
Max Payne 1+2
REZ (naturally)

and i guess a bunch of other games.

 

[Axeli]

Pretty much anything by Yasunori Mitsuda or Nobuo Uematsu. You can hate Square all you want, but you have to admit they've had some pretty awesome composers working for them.

 

[Coldfreeze]

Wild arms 1. Still the best soundtrack i have ever heard.

 

[lettucethesallad]

Bioshock's soundtrack totally adds to the feeling of creepiness with the cello and just general melancholy sound. Also the Silent Hill soundtracks succeed in scaring me silly.

 

[wooty]

-The Zelda theme, back in the day of 8 bit gaming, it was the shit!
-FF7 sephiroth theme at the end was something new indeed
-FF13 (which came today!) the battle music in that is pretty damn good
-MGS the part with sniper wolf in the snowfield, just beautiful
-Some instances of Bayonetta had pretty good music
-Terminator on the Sega CD had some pretty cool music, for its time at least

thats all I can think of really

 

[Firenz]

don't mean to be a facist but did you search bar this? I'm pretty sure one of these threads pop up per week.

On topic though:

The following:
DOOM

is good

Psychonauts.

Great game but soundtrack is the smallest part of the greatness.

Alternatively:
Quake II
Steve Jablonsky's C&C3 Tib wars soundtrack is pretty good as well but not as good as his Sims 3 one.

Civ IV (especially the track Baba Yetu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G30MhXmlZGE) FTW

 

[dls182]

I really like Jesper Kyd's work on Hitman: Blood Money and Assassin's Creed 2. The Hitman score is one of my all time favourite scores (for a movie or game)
I also quite like Garry Schyman's work on Bioshock 1&2

And, of course, Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask both have excellent scores, as does Goldeneye

 

[UPRC]

TES3: Morrowind has the most beautiful soundtrack for a video game of all time. I would love to her those compositions played live. I would get chills!

 

[dls182]

Oh! The soundtrack to Quake was pretty awesome too! I'm a little biased as I'm somewhat in love with Trent Reznor though...

 

[Yossarian1507]

Battlefield Vietnam has an amazing one.

Assassins Creed II OST is awesome as well, especially Venice Rooftops [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG-WSPRC1e0].

Several Castlevania games (especially SotN).

Also, Heavy Rain OST lately, since I'm working on mystery based, modern day story-tell RPG for my friends and HR music fits in like a glove. It's good just to listen as well.

 

[GrimTruth]

Half Life 2, The music kicks in right when its needed

 

[NEVRINx54]

Halo 2, Half-Life 2, and Modern Warfare 1.

 

[TriggerHappyAngel]

The Last Remnant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn9xEVyfx0Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0UPRlZfLXg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZfJP_bAeYU
- really some of the best battle themes ever made

 

[The Great Zegrool]

Bioshock, or, more specifically, Cohen's outburst.

The dissonance between a song like Waltz of the Flowers and the splicer battle you're having just propel it into the level of amazing.

 

[scrambledeggs]

Everytime, I say MGS. Spine tingling stuff.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Wild arms 1. Still the best soundtrack i have ever heard.

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