Underrated Game Music

[Soviet Heavy]

Some music in games tends to get glossed over. With big sweeping soundtracks and bombastic scores, it is easy to forget that some of the most brilliant music is ambient, quiet, and understated.

So, as a video related thread, post your samples of game music you find underrated.
This has to be one of the best Star Wars related pieces I've heard. So sad, yet so mysterious.

And this gem from Oblivion

Simply breathtaking.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Grandia 1's main theme gets a good amount of love...but the town themes never do. This is quite simply one of the happiest songs I've ever heard.

 

[Palademon]

Well, this is certainly a weird track from TimeSplitters

 

[penguindude42]

Power Plant from One Must Fall 2097.

I don't know how to post videos, so YouTube it yourself.

-TOM

 

[Hunter.Wolf]

One word ... NieR ... it has the most underrated sound track of all time .. damn .. almost every single piece of music/song is exceptional.

Some of my top favs

-Song of the ancients - Fate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrgEoov-RBc&feature=related

-The dark colossus destroys all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEtz4K7JpsE&feature=related

-The wretched automatons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4VA8furPFs&feature=related

-Blu-bird
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQGHOOBAyzQ&feature=related

-The ultimate weapon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7K_9ZyQlyA&feature=related

-The lost forest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMqFV6wdqz0&feature=related

 

[Elvoret]

A lot of the tracks from the Legend of Zelda:CdI games were actually pretty neat. You coul've put them in a good game and it'd be aweseome.

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

Even though LoZ's/Halo's music is not underated, some of the best of those series are the least reconizable ones:

Majora's Mask's music all has a very creepy, nightmareish tone, or starts out nice, then gradually turns into horror. The few that aren't are just somber, ominous, and beautiful.

 

[KungFuCthulhu]

Alone in the Dark 5 has an awesome soundtrack and so does World of Goo.

 

[sturryz]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oZIkQuqd08

Only song you really ever need.

 

[Judgement101]

Persona 4's battle music

 

[SevenForce]

Any music from the original gunstar heroes - here's one of my favorites -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHSCNihHpq4

fucking epic

The music from baldur's gate II is also jizztastic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBArx3AvPkk&feature=related

 

[mireko]

Folklore. Underrated game, underrated music.

Spoiler: I thought what I would do was I would put all the song spoilers behind this spoiler to avoid clogging up the page.

Spoiler: Under a Falling Star

Spoiler: A Mysterious Door

Spoiler: A Voice from the Past

Spoiler: To the Unknown World

Spoiler: Endless Battlefield

Spoiler: Irish Lullaby

 

[fierydemise]

Advent Rising, it was a pretty meh game but it did a number of things right, including music.

Spoiler: Battle Music

Spoiler: Lament

There is a bunch more on youtube and its all good stuff. The other thing it does better then almost any other game is a strong audio motif, if you listen to the whole set you'll hear it.