What Game/Game Series do You think has the best music?

[drummond13]

Final Fantasy VI

Xenogears

Chrono Trigger

(Chrono Cross had some good tunes, but I felt Trigger still beat it by a hefty margin (shrugs))

 

[solemnwar]

Dead Space. Dead Space FOREVER. Especially 2. HNNGH.
The Elder Scrolls series has some pretty good ones... I like Sons of Skyrim a ridiculous amount lol.

 

[Fifty-One]

Morrowind. This is biased to the fact that it is one of my favorite games, but Jeremy Soule has composed some great music for TES: III, IV and V.

 

[AtmaPhil]

Chrono Trigger probably has one of the best overall OST.
the Blaze Blue games also have realy good OSTs.

 

[museofdoom]

Legend of Zelda games have had some pretty lovely tunes. Also, Jet Set Radio Future had an amazing soundtrack. There's something special about the sound of pirate radio. Kingdom hearts had nice music as well.

 

[shrekfan246]

Spoiler

I'm going to pick the Sonic series. Even when the games weren't particularly great, they still had brilliant music.

Some examples:

Spoiler: I'll start with some from the Mega Drive

Spoiler: Some from the Dreamcast now

Trust me I could post a lot more in there if I really felt like it. I think that Dreamcast era was my favourite for Sonic music.

Spoiler: And now the more recent games (except for Sonic Generations, as much as I like some of the remixes, that would be cheating)

Again I probably could've added more, but I wanted to keep the amount of songs down.

However LoZ and MGS also have very good music overall as well and probably contain my two favourite pieces of gaming music with these two pieces.

I don't think using Sonic Generations would be cheating, depending on what you pick. The "Classic Sonic" remix for Crisis City's music track was hands-down my favorite track in the entire game, and that was not only one of the worst levels in the otherwise great game itself, but also one of the most frustrating levels in the horribly broken Sonic '06.


Also, I agree with you on The Legend of Zelda and Metal Gear Solid. LoZ has a very iconic soundtrack that, while easily distinguishable at being "Zelda", always sounds different from game to game, and Metal Gear Solid is *insert mindless fanboy ranting about how amazing it is here.*

I also love Nobuo Uematsu's work with the Final Fantasy series.

Spoiler

and my personal favorite song from any Final Fantasy game:

 

[Vykrel]

Bastion has the best soundtrack ive ever heard.

 

[Ectoplasmicz]

TES for sure. In particular, the Oblivion soundtrack was incredible.

 

[Smeggs]

Kingdom Hearts. Especially when done on the piano.

Spoiler: Four Examples

 

[omicron1]

The Anno series.
The following list is kept to one song per game for brevity.

For individual games, Age of Empires 1 is made of win.

Playlist of AoE music [http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC519A9086A816819]

 

[Dragon Zero]

There is absolutely no question in my mind, it has to be the Castlevania series, from the first game to Symphony of the Night, to Lament of Innocence, and even Lords of Shadow has a few very good tracks. I'd show each song worth listening to but it'd take too long.

EDIT: Oh, what the hell... I'll show some pretty good ones.

Spoiler

 

[I Love Dogs]

No question in my mind: the No More Heroes games.

Just kickass.

 

[GameMaNiAC]

Call of Duty. The Modern Warfare series has some amazing, adrenaline-pumping epic music.

 

[Arfonious]

In my oppinion:

Outlaws. Never heard better game music ever.

Two examples:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhoM0nph_fE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRiiCegL9GI&feature=related

 

[Astiahl]

As has been said, Legend of Zelda all the way. Never before has a game series' music been so finely ingrained in my mind that it has a little penthouse suite with a hot tub. Bastion also receives special mention just because it's so brilliant in so many ways...

 

[Googenstien]

Best arcade game series ever and love the music..

 

[Platypus540]

The Anno series.
The following list is kept to one song per game for brevity.

For individual games, Age of Empires 1 is made of win.

Playlist of AoE music [http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC519A9086A816819]

What are the Anno games? I've never heard of them, but the soundtrack and screenshots sound/look good.

 

[omicron1]

The Anno series.
The following list is kept to one song per game for brevity.

For individual games, Age of Empires 1 is made of win.

Playlist of AoE music [http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC519A9086A816819]

What are the Anno games? I've never heard of them, but the soundtrack and screenshots sound/look good.

They are a series of city-builders/economic management games/RTS lite. They've managed to retain relevance long past when their entire genre died, garnering 80-90% scores when their last true contemporary, the Settlers series, had faded into mediocrity.

Also, they're great "relaxing" games.

 

[Leemaster777]

Shame on you, Escapist. Why no Persona?

 

[Vern5]

Saga Frontier 2 (a truly unknown gem of the PS1) has some of the best music I have ever heard. When I first heard the in game music, I assumed they were classical pieces that had been transcribed into a more game-ish quality.