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Lt._nefarious

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*Ahem*

Yes, I know a lot of these types of threads come up but y'know what?



Okay with that out of the way I would like to ask a question; What are your top 5 video game soundtracks? Come on don't be shy...

Mine are (in descending order)

1) WET: It's just an all round great game with an even better soundtrack


2) Hotline Miami: Very much as above. I'm sure if you've played it you'd agree that the sound track is phenomenal.


3) Halo: The orchestral score and heavy drums are just amazing.


4) The Binding of Isaac: You know why...


5) I'm going to cheat and say it's a 3-way split between BlOps, SH2 and Brutal Legend.



 

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Time to pull up the old youtube favorites lists...too many sound tracks to recount. I don't think I have a true number one sound track, but top Five (in no particular order) can be done.

1) The Ys series has some of the best music of any game series I know. Not to mention the fact that Ys was a very important video game series in ragards to music, and not a lot of people relaize that.
Falcom JDK are kick ass musicians, and I can't wait to hear Ys:Celceta's music.

My favorite theme in the entire series:


2) Gravity Rush's music is just fantastic, whimsical, and catchy. I just love it, and indeed one of my favorite sound tracks this generation.
This is my favorite track of them all, love the instrumental version, so damn catchy.


3) Next up is the rock'n man behind Aksys acclaimed fighters Guilty Gear and Blazblue. Disasuke Ishiwatari will fuckin rock you. Guilty Gears sound track is made of 100% awesome, and has the kind of energy that gets you pumped up for a crazy fight.

Video contains the whole sound track, with track list jumps to boot.


4) Apply everything I just said about Guilty Gear to Blazblue.

Gotta give my main here top billing.


5) Of course I can't leave out Final Fantasy. That series has far too many songs to list that are good. Nobuo Uematsu is just an incredible musician, given the limitations of the hardware he had to work with. It's a testament to his talent when the music from those old games can still sound utterly amazing...even with all the updated remixes.

I'll just leave Dancing me here for your enjoyment. A true work of art in terms of game music:

 

Hero in a half shell

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4. Command and Conquer Red Alert 2
3. Skyrim
2. Halo CE
1. Medal Of Honor Frontline

Oh Medal Of Honor what have you become?
 

Fiz_The_Toaster

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Hmm...

I always have problems with these sort of questions because they change for me all the time, but here I go.

1. Silent Hill 3


2. Silent Hill 2 (I just really like the music, okay?)


3. Assassin's Creed II


4. Deus Ex: Human Revolution


5. Diablo II

 

Paladin2905

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1. Star Control II (in glorious 3D0 sound)
2. Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn
3. Chaos Overlords (never has a soundtrack fit a strategy game's setting so well)
4. Mechwarrior 2
5. Can't think of any others...

Honestly, 2-4 even pale in comparison to how well the soundtrack worked in Star Control II. Any game where you pause on a screen just so you can keep listening to the music is an absolute joy.
 

Fractral

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I can't think of all that many soundtracks that have really impressed me, certainly not 5 of them.
Persona 3- The Darkness, Master of Tartarus, Battle for Everyone's Souls, Burn My Dread- all of them stood out for me.
Super Meat Boy (kinda)- Some of the boss themes work really well, as do some of the later level themes. Except cotton alley.
Halo- Skyline from ODST, especially the part that plays when you're defending the tower. Rock anthem for saving the world, from CE, epic. Also Mjolnir Mix is pretty good, and blow me away, from Halo 2.
 

elvor0

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Well...

1)Anything by Nobuno Uematsu, a god amongst men when it comes to video game soundtracks. Some dude already put the original dancing mad, so I'll stick the orchestral version down for your enjoyment. The fact that he managed to get the original to work so damn well is testament to just how great a composer he is. Just listen to it! That's on the frikkin SNES, Fucking Witchcraft I tells ya! It's pretty tragic when you hear how bad the soundtrack is on FF13, I mean his were big shoes to fill, but c'mon they could've at least /tried/ and why did they have to intergrate Leona Lewis into every damn track? Don't ever abandon us again!

Fun Fact: The opening to One Winged Angel was inspired by Purple Haze :)
Dancing Mad

2)The Halo Soundtrack
The Main Theme

3)The Red Alert soundtrack, by the great Frank Klepacki fantastic, and I loved the fact that you could actually set which tracks played in the first two.

Hell March

4) The Guilty Gear games


5) The Megaman soundtrack of course, for being a 8 bit track on the Gameboy Color, it really kicked ass. Also FUCK that stage. Seriously as X I could never do that fucking level as a kid.

 

Mister K

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Pfft. Easy:
1. Final Fantasy X

2. Blazblue
3. Guilty Gear
4. Brutal Legend (a finest selection of metal)

5. Any future game, that will have Gavine Dunne as it's music composer.
 

WoW Killer

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The obvious one:


For the atmosphere:


The arranger's favourite:


Still IMO the best:


Was there even any music in Final Fantasy?
I can't think of any beyond those awful jingles on the title screen.

Kidding.

This is one of my favourites:

 

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1. Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil.
I wish I could play this still, but my PS2 broke long ago. A lot of the music was great though. Favourite would be between the two final boos themes. The King of Sorrow and Cursed Leorina. She wins it though. Both are kinda classical in parts.


2. Advance Wars: Dual Strike
There's so many good themes that I'm hard-pressed to go with a single one. I'll go for this one though as the sample:


And if you know what the tag power involves, you'd know why this could be a pretty scary theme. :p

3. Klonoa: Door to Phantomile.
Yes, another Klonoa game. But this has music like this in it:


I wouldn't even know what genre that is, but it's awesome.

4. Tomb Raider
Tomb Raider didn't play music all the time, it used it sparingly... and when it did, it would be something like this.


Okay, that one was played all the time what with it being the title music, but when music came on in-game it was pretty impressive. That song still is amazingly peaceful.

5. Crash Bandicoot
A third PS1 game. Whole game had good music, but at the moment I'm liking this one best:


I could go for Hog-Wild, and I'd be tempted to go for the jetpack levels music from Crash 2 as a favourite too, but this one is kindof different. Very suitable as final-boss music. Kinda intimidating.

Now I've probably put far too much effort into this for a single post, but it gave me an excuse to go back and listen to some great music. :D
 

Doopliss64

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I don't have a top 5, but my off the top of my head, Wind Waker and Halo 3: ODST are definite favorites, and Metroid Prime is very memorable. Oh! And Sonic Adventure 2. And, of course, Super Mario Galaxy. Actually, since I just mentioned 5, I'll go with those.
 

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Game soundtracks, huh?

Let me have a try at my Top 5:

1. The one I didn't mute
2. The one I didn't mute before 3 hours in
3. The one I didn't mute before ...
4. you get
5. the idea

While I appreciate nice game music, I ultimately and inevitably switch it off in every single game all the time. The best in-game music is the one which goes unnoticed. Like, a brilliant indicator for 'I am watching a shit movie' is when the music (usually gloomy orchestra stuff) never fucking stops.

A classic:Recently:

edit: this post was written in complete disregard for anything GTA. Duh.
 

Twyce

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In no particular order...

5. Silent Hill 2

4. .hack//G.U.

3. Shadow Hearts: Covenant

2. American McGee's Alice

1. Digital Devil Saga (Any of them)

Honorable Mention to the Dear Esther soundtrack.
 

Mikeyfell

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How's about I just save everybody a little trouble and just say any 5 random Rock Band or Guitar Hero games.
Why? Because those are the only games where the soundtrack is used in the core mechanics. booyeah?
Okay no cop out answers.

5 Grand Theft Auto Vice City: If you're going to spend 65% of the game time listening to the radio it better be wroth it.
4 Guitar Hero: Doy.
3 Halo 2: Just about the only game that's Score is memorable enough for me to give 2 shits about.
2 Silent Hill 2: Two words. Akira Yamaoka. Deal with it
1 Rock Band 2: It's still going at the top because fuck...
 

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1. Grim Fandango

This is quite literary the game that got me to start listening to video game music. Now this is a game which I love, even though I never got that far in it. I think I never got to the first case. So much fun, and this was me failing. Peter McConnell does such a good job, and I think I never got past Swanky Maximino in game. Listen to the whole thing constantly because of having the soundtrack. I love what Peter says on the song. Since I don't know how do the spoiler just going to give a link instead. I would have to say Peter McConnel is one of my favorites, since I love his work on Psycronauts and hate how underplayed his stuff is in Brutal Legend. Though no matter what work he has done, I keep going back to Grim Fandango as the soundtrack that got me to appreciate music in games. It is so well done, that I keep coming back to it.

http://youtu.be/Pd7oo1biPBE

"This piece is called Swanky Maximino, and It plays in the office of Maximino, the gambling kingpin in Year 2. I wanted to evoke the sounds of speakeasies of the Prohibition Era, those of the smaller "big" bands that played in clubs in such places as Harlem in the heyday of the Thompson gun-toting gangster. Maximino to me is an archetypal gangster character, a man who prides himself on having arrived in the world, and he has spared no expense in decking out his gambling club to show it. The music he would listen to, and the kinds of bands he would hire to play at the club, would reflect that sense of opulence as well. The main part of the music is inspired by recordings of the early Ellington band, when the Duke led the musical part of the Harlem Renaissance in the late twenties. The bridge, or middle section of the tune, is inspired by the aristocratic sound of bands you might hear in the old Thin Man movies of the early thirties. For the most part, we used live musicians for this recording, and I think they did a great job of capturing the style and musical feel of that era. Their use of period-style mutes and plunger effects on the trumpet and trombones is to me particularly authentic, and gives the tune a comic kind of menace, perfect for Maximino's personality."
-Peter McConnell


2. Gunstringer

Another game which most of my experience is threw the soundtrack. I have a large love for Ennio Morricone work, and Gunstringer gives that feel while creating the same feel of Segeroni's movies such as Good The Bad and The Ugly, Duck You Sucker, My name is Nobody, and A Fistfull of Dollars. Most Ennio Morricone worked on. Il Mercenario by Ennio Morricone seems to be a direct tribute to with Bayou-Rollin' Down the River. Red Dead Redemption would come in second place here, because it does a lot of things similar. The only problem was that not all worked outside of the game. Gunstringer on the other hand can listen to day after day with it sounding good. Not the same case with Red Dead Redemption, but that had the same problem as Max Payne. Lots of good atmospheric songs, that created a mood so perfectly in game.

http://youtu.be/4OeQPHCscIE

3. Ilomilo

This is one, that comes from great sound direction. Each sound seems to be a little movement. Much like the music that was in nature. Not only that would always lead to this light hearten move. Each time I hear it in game or outside, it sounds so beautiful nature. I keep thinking of this as little bells and wistles I might hear walking down the street. The drum the footsteps, the taps the things in my pocket shaking. Adding in the kazoo which sounds like little bugs scattering around.

http://youtu.be/2UUpBLviT1k

And to download some of that for free.

http://blog.ilomilo.com/2010/07/ilomilo-loves-music/

4. Sudeki

One I list because I don't think Tom Colvin gets enough love. This is one of the first video game soundtracks I bought. This was back when you could find them in the soundtrack section at a Walmart. Every music, big or small paints a picture of what you will see visually. Take the first town you are roaming about of New Brightwater. Get this warm and happy feeling. A place of home, then you are shown this bright town. This is the cd I have in the car for when I need to wait for someone. I get utterly lost in music. I can't drive simply because I can't pay attention to the road most of the time.

http://youtu.be/gKr_SmUA63E

5. Mass Effect 3
This is the one, you know why. I don't really have to explain. The series as a whole worked well. The first one generic sounding, the second just building to the Suicide Mission. It is played over and over threw out in small parts. So when you hear it, it has just an emotional pull. It is done so well, but it is mostly that one track. Now with the third having so many of these representation pieces. That set the emotion. This is right out the gate with Leaving Earth.

http://youtu.be/iasrOjeOVaI

Still one of the most powerful peices where I get taking back to this emotion every time I hear it. That is just starting out, they have so many moments threw out that you don't notice. Work so well on their own. The Ardat Yakshi Monastery for example.

http://youtu.be/-IIOnY_-tbY

So sublimely done, giving this feeling of dread. It made getting the special edition worth while for the soundtrack alone.

Now this is based off of what I own. Maybe if I took a longer while I might say differently, but this is the list I love and listen to. Enough that I paid for a good lot, and still listen to it.