Memorable menu themes

[Barbas]

Ever boot up a game and find yourself just sitting happily in the menu screen for the duration of the intro theme?

Spoiler: Sid Meier's Railroads!

Spoiler: Impossible Creatures

Spoiler: Startopia

What catchy tunes can't you get out of your head? Post 'em!

 

[Glongpre]

Spoiler: Lost Odyssey

Spoiler: Diablo 2

Spoiler: World of Warcraft

Spoiler: Final Fantasy 12

Spoiler: Halo

Spoiler: Wild Arms

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

Once you hear these, they stays with you forever:

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[WhiteFangofWhoa]

Spoiler: Metroid Prime 3

Echoes too.

Spoiler: City of Villains

Heroes too. Good themes to spend hours on the character editor with.

Spoiler: And last but not least

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

Crysis 3 has a epic sounding music in their main menu:

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

Every last one of you is a traitor to gaming and should be ashamed!

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Shame I say! SHAME!

SNIP

Good on you Barbara. I thought I was the only one who remembered Startopia. Great game!

 

[Joccaren]

Spoiler: Civilization IV

There are plenty of great menu themes in games, but this one really stuck with me. Great song on its own merits, and it really fits the feel of the game in general. Watching the Earth spin in the background really made the feel real as well. Quite often I'd load up the game not to play, but to have the song play on loop while I did other things. Considering I'm pretty sure it won non-gaming related music awards too [Might be misremembering], I think I'm not the only one that adored the soundtrack.

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

Every last one of you is a traitor to gaming and should be ashamed!

Spoiler

Shame I say! SHAME!

SNIP

Good on you Barbara. I thought I was the only one who remembered Startopia. Great game!

Have you heard the Orchestral version of the Ocarina of Time title screen?

https://youtu.be/aaYFsuBnr7k?t=2000

Another link to test some thing:


Go in the video's description and pick the one that starts the Ocarina of Time Title theme.

 

[Aeshi]

Glongpre beat me to the punch with the Vanilla WoW login music, so here's my other candidate:

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

Ever boot up a game and find yourself just sitting happily in the menu screen for the duration of the intro theme?

Spoiler: Sid Meier's Railroads!

Spoiler: Impossible Creatures

Spoiler: Startopia

What catchy tunes can't you get out of your head? Post 'em!

Behold when Call of Duty and Medal of Honor AND Battlefield had increadible Orchestral Scores:

 

[CaitSeith]

Spoiler: Metroid Prime 3

Echoes too.

Look what you have done! Now I just want to undust my Wii U and play some Metroid Prime Trilogy.

Spoiler: Not really my favorite, but a curious one. Catherine... after waiting 55 seconds.

You can navigate the menu pretty fast, and the menu theme is pretty slow and boring. But one time something urgent distracted me, and I left the game in the menu screen. When I returned, the theme was a totally different upbeat tune.

 

[09philj]

Super Smash Bros. Melee. 'Nuff said.

 

[Saelune]

9 times out of 10, my answer seems to be Morrowind

Also Duke Nukem 3D, but no one ever likes posting the actual version in the game...so just go play it and enjoy.

 

[Sonmi]

Spoiler: Civilization IV

There are plenty of great menu themes in games, but this one really stuck with me. Great song on its own merits, and it really fits the feel of the game in general. Watching the Earth spin in the background really made the feel real as well. Quite often I'd load up the game not to play, but to have the song play on loop while I did other things. Considering I'm pretty sure it won non-gaming related music awards too [Might be misremembering], I think I'm not the only one that adored the soundtrack.

I'll second that. It won a Grammy for Best World Music IIRC.

Baba Yetu is the greatest theme ever if you ask me.

 

[Weaver]

My absolute favourite is the original Deus Ex menu theme!

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[ShoobieDoobie]

The only correct answer:

 

[Poetic Nova]

Probably because I've spent so much time on this game this year:

 

[Lonely Riddler]

I'm really like the old menu theme from the older Nancy Drew computer games.

 

[Chessrook44]

There is one theme that I remember so clearly, I even created lyrics of a sort that I sung to the main tune of it, that I even sing or mutter or hum to myself all the time... even to this day, long, long after the game came out.

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Spoiler: lyrics

"Alla Tessi
Mesti camo no su riit
Saa neh cresto
Mesticamo no rut sey
Na rai ahsay
Alla nekah mekasen
Mellen corru
Masha kirey shai ra nu

Okku rikkey
Porey kanna sedi ah
Nah reh tenni
Noret sinah nadiah
Na rai ahsay
Alla nekah mekasen
Mellen corru
Masha kirey shai ra nu"

Yeah okay the lyrics aren't actual words or a language, but still...

 

[MysticSlayer]

Spoiler: Xenoblade Chronicles

Spoiler: Mass Effect

Spoiler: L.A. Noire