Best Game Music [merged]

I s'pose this could techinically be in the music forum, but personally, I feel it's more appropriate in the games forum. Mods, feel free to move it if you think so.

Anyways...some games just have great music in them, and this thread is to recognize such games. You can name games, or levels from games, that has music you like.

This is gonna be a lot for me, though I'm going to try and ignore the Final Fantasy games because those have a lot as well.

Twisted Metal Black: The Menu Screen, and the Prisson Passage Ambience

Jak 2: When you're being chased by something (the tank in the ammo dump and the spiders later in the game) and the theme in Mar's Tomb is pretty neat as well

Stacraft: All the Zerg Themes

Super Mario: C'mon, you gotta love the themes from Super Mario 1, 2, 3, and Super Mario World. And the castle themes for SMW as well 😂

er...there'll be more as I remember them

I got me the Halo soundtrack and is pretty cool! 😄

I like the music in SW Knights of the Old Republic. All that symphony musics gives the game a pretty good background.

Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy have excellent Star Wars soundtracks 😄

Also, you can't forget the Final Fantasy series. Nobuo Uematsu (yes, I know his name and how to spell it) is an amazing man who created the music for FF's I-X. I don't think he did X-2, but he might revert back for XII. He never had formal music lessons either, which I find remarkable. So many remixes have come out of the Final Fantasy music, it's amazing. I'll bump my thread on the Black Mages, they play FF Rock 😎

*snaps fingers* now I remember...there's a battle music thing in Devil May Cry where it sounds like there's a siren going off in the background--that's one's pretty cool

i'll check out that black mage thing 😛

Originally posted by Flying Orange
Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy have excellent Star Wars soundtracks 😄

Also, you can't forget the Final Fantasy series. Nobuo Uematsu (yes, I know his name and how to spell it) is an amazing man who created the music for FF's I-X. I don't think he did X-2, but he might revert back for XII. He never had formal music lessons either, which I find remarkable. So many remixes have come out of the Final Fantasy music, it's amazing. I'll bump my thread on the Black Mages, they play FF Rock 😎

Nope, Uematsu didn't do FFX-2, I can't remember the names of the people who did the music for it 😑 But I love Final Fantasy music ✅ Jedi Academy's got good music, I haven't started playing Jedi Outcast yet even though I have it :/

Mario and Zelda are also some of my favorites when it comes to video game music.

Unreal Tournament '04 rocks!: because you can add music from your comp. and make tons of playlists and listen to it while you kill people. Haha, just for fun I played a song by Louis Armstrong"What a wonderful world" while I was slaughtering people with the Minigun and Flak. 😈

Might I suggest www.ocremix.org ?
very good site full of video game music remixes.. and free to boot 🙂

Sonic 2(ok, most of them)and Goldeneye had music i loved. and Chrono Trigger - Schala's Theme is f*cking awesome[the bubbly version found on Kazaa](i burned it several times) I also liked the Strider music

several music theory proffessors use the Castlevania series as a musical aid

the original megaman games are equally impressive.

oh, and let us not forget the x-men arcade game

The Final Fantasy series, particularly FF7. Metal Gear Solid (the PSX version, didn't like the second ones music much), Halo, Twisted Metal Black (stones baby).

I loved the music in Vice City, nice that someone took it back to the 80's. I always thought the nintendo tunes were great as well. Simple enough yet brainwashingly powerful. Think mario tune

The music itself to Zelda OOT and WW is good... It sounds kinda crappy on the games because it's just MIDI there but I've heard the hyrule field song played by a full symphonic orchestra and it sounded really really good... Whoever did that must've had a lot of time on their hands 😄

And the music in "Crazy Taxi" was good because it was the Offspring 😄

I have a techno remixed version of the Great Fairy's Fountain from Zelda OOT, it's really cool.

i like some of the super smash bros melee music

A lot of those came from the games that they're based off though (The Mario 2 landscape has the Mario 2 theme, for example)

I like it when the music fits the game.
Like in the last level of Call of Duty. Its this huge string thingy and your taking back Berlin and its all very cinematic.

OK thought this had been done before but the search thingy didn't turn nothin up so here goes.

What game in your opinion has the best soundtrack?
I know a bunch of you are going to go with Final Fantasy, but My vote goes to the Tony Hawk pro skater games. They had the best soundtrack ever. Rage, Chili peppers, others I can't remember(all thats from THPS 2). It was just kickass, and still is.

Chrono Cross

Final Fantasy VI...i havent heard anything that can top it!

Madden 2004 or MVP Baseball 2004, any EA game always has great music.