Favourite game music

UT2003 has some ok tracks i suppose but what i like is jesper jyds work in hitman2 and freedom fighters, done with full orchestras and quires and stuff its very dramatic, i love it.

Quake3 had good music (by Front Line Assembly).
Rez has one of the best soundtracks. Ken Ishii is awesome :D
JSR ans JSRF have really cool soundtracks.
Wipeout was really good in it's day. It is a little dated now.
American McGee's Alice had a fantastic soundtrack. Chris Vrenna is awesome and the remix of Flying On The Wings Of Steam is just sweet as :)
I like a lot of the Squaresoft/Square-Enix soundtracks.
DDR also has some decent tracks. Mainly the Smile d.k. tracks though.

ANYTHING from Resident Evil on the Cube.

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and if it applies, then sidology 1 & 3, and the great gianna sisters
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oh yeah the JSRF music was pretty catchy :P

Check out www.ocremix.org
Very cool site.

I love just about anything from Sonic, Chrono Trigger, Castlevania, Zelda, Metroid, Mario or Yoshi's Island.

Then again, i'm nuts.

Wasn't quake3 done by Sonic Animation - or did they do quake2?

Nine inch nails did quake 1, and doom 1 & 2 has metallica from their good period...

Now I usually just listen to mp3's when I'm playing games - unless they're sneakers or good story based games... Haven't noticed that great a music tho.

Redneck Rampage, can't go past 'i've got a pig' and 'babies liquered up'..... (yes, i am being serious)

I haven't been totally out of the loop with recent games, but the only memorable music I recall is from the C64 era! Certainly RPG's like Final Fantasy have brilliant scores, but from a genre like FPS's, music is pushed aside for atmospherics... which is understandable, and more suitable for that type of game where you need to hear things happening.
Anyway, like I said, C64 games had brilliant tunes from some great musicians like Rob Hubbard, Martin Galway etc.. games like Auf Wiedersehen Monty, Crazy Comets, Commando, International Karate, Last Ninja, Robocop, Ghost 'n Goblins, Exploding Fist.. there's tonnes more, but I won't bore everyone with my list [:)]. I love the music in Outrun (arcade).

quote:Originally posted by Daemin

Wasn't quake3 done by Sonic Animation - or did they do quake2?

Nine inch nails did quake 1, and doom 1 & 2 has metallica from their good period...

Now I usually just listen to mp3's when I'm playing games - unless they're sneakers or good story based games... Haven't noticed that great a music tho.

If you open the .pk3 file to get all the music. The first six tracks were done by Sonic animation (actually ends up being four songs because of the way they recorded the music), and FLA did the last six. The FLA ones were the better ones though. Grttier and bassier :D Rob Zombie did Quake2. The Quake1&2 soundtracks were okay, but not that great.

The sims jukebox. It's hilarious just get the sims to song along with it.

i cant beleive i forgot, Time Splitters 2!!!!

that has probably the best music from any game and ive gotten a few tracks.

I would have to say Chrono Trigger for super nintendo, my god was that game the greatest game ever made? I dont think no other game has had music like it and for the super nintendo my god was it good.

So what im saying is go to http://www.zsnes.com A awesome Super Nintendo emulator then go and find the Chrono Trigger game (Chrono Trigger rom) and boot it up.

Sonic Mayhem worked on q2 and 3, not sonic animation.
And Bobby Prince worked on the Doom games.

cheers

He may have worked on the doom games, but the music is metallica, you can easily tell that.

im into bouncy game songs like in Mario and Yoshi games...theres a Sega Mega Drive 2 game called Chiki Chiki Boys that has some funny music too...

Ah thanks Smeg. I didn't mean to write animation. An Aus dance duo didn't work on an id game :p I'm pretty sure that Zombie also did some work on Quake2. I may have read incorrectly though.

All 8bit and 16bit console games had great music. Street Fighter 2 was one of the first games I listened to without playing the game. The music from the Chemical Plant Zone of Sonic2 was kick arse :D

Ah SF2. I still humm Ryu's music to this day (mainly to annoy people). :D

heh i still "doo doo doo" along to the tunes of wario world 1 on the gameboy (pre colour gameboy)

Personally, I've always felt The Dig had an incredible soundtrack.

Other notable mentions: Diablo II: Lord of Destruction, Planescape: Torment, Ultima VII, Gabriel Knight & Grim Fandango.

Most annoying tune ever: The Astro Chicken Theme from Space Quest III.

My favourites would have to be:

Old School:
Prince of Persia
Sam & Max
Mortal Kombat (1 & 2 mainly)
Doom 1 & 2
Space Quest (with the possible exception of Astro Chicken)
Monkey Island 1 & 2

New School:
Quake3
UT2003. (The Phobos Track rocks... "Chemical Burn" I think its called).
Diablo (1 & 2)
Max Payne (1 & 2)

Thats all I can think of for now.

By the way, has anyone ever noticed the similarity between one of the doom2 riffs and the main riff from "This Love" by Pantera? They're almost identical and would've been released around the same year I think. As far as I know Pantera never worked on the doom music.. Maybe I'm wrong.

Streets of Rage 1 and 2 (not 3) -> Megadrive.
Chronno Trigger -> SNES
FF6/7/10 -> SNES/PS1/PS2 respectively.
Gain Ground -> Megadrive
Sonic the Hedgehog -> Megadrive
Castlevania 4/X/Symphony -? SNES/PS1

Another old thread comin back!

Just finished playing Freedom Fighters and it's soundtrack kix arse. It's like russian choir to techno music. It's the best soundtrack i've heard for anything.

Final fantasy Wooot. All of them. Thats the top of the chart followed closely by Wild Arms 1 2 and 3. Umm not sure that this counts but DDR and last but definetly not least SECRET OF MANA on the snes. Thats got some kick ass music not to mention the story and gameplay as well. There are other but I have no idea which games they belong to.

Wipeout, PS1

All of them.

I actually love all the artists that appeared on the Wipeout soundtrack, but I didn't like the songs that they chose by those artists. Go figure :)

bullet, the theme music for freedom fighters (which i also own) was composed by jesper kyd, he also did the hitman1/2 music which is unsuprisingly by the same developer. But for some damn reason i cant remember the name of the orchestra/choir that performs it for the life of me. Really awesome though isnt it.

actually on that topic, if you didnt know danny elfmans going to be making the theme for the ever delayed xbox rpg fable. Elfman traditionaly works in film with movies like the batman series, edward sciscor hands, beetle juice, pretty much all the recent super hero flicks (spiderman, hulk etc), sleepy hollow and so on to his credit (those who are movie buffs will notice that bar two, those were all tim burton movies, its just cause i love tim burton and consequently there the only ones i know!) aswell as the super famous simpsons theme!!!! though i dont think hell use that style on fable... :D

I loved the music from MOHAA, very emotive, so too COD.

Diablo 2 is nice and very suited to the different acts, but $hits me because it repeats often.

Zelda OoT & MM Rocks! Music and all!

Hey moonunit, was the name by any chance the red army choir, i've heard some of there stuff it's great, and it does sound similar.