xxnevmorexx Posted December 19, 2010 Report Share Posted December 19, 2010 What are some of your favorite game soundtracks of all time? one of my favorite soundtracks is 15 years old and thats from Mechwarrior 2 and its expansions. I love the rockish technoey stuff i cant describe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainetemplar Posted December 19, 2010 Report Share Posted December 19, 2010 I'd have to go with the Persona series and Final Fantasy. In particular FF8, because that game holds the most memories to me. Nobuo Uematsu = Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pheermee Posted December 19, 2010 Report Share Posted December 19, 2010 Too lazy to look stuff up right now, But most recently I fell in love with teh Nier Soundtrack. And Castlevania SOTN is awesome too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bouchart Posted December 19, 2010 Report Share Posted December 19, 2010 Everyone hates Beyond the Beyond but it had good music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iLjaG Posted December 19, 2010 Report Share Posted December 19, 2010 ActRaiser /end thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mintycrys Posted December 19, 2010 Report Share Posted December 19, 2010 Most of the games on my 3x3 are there for soundtrack reasons, but aside from that, I have a soft spot in my heart for: A: Yuzo Koshiro soundtracks (ActRaiser, Soul Blazer, Streets of Rage, WANGAN MOTHERFUCKING MIDNIGHT, Y's 1-4) B: Noriyuki Iwadare soundtracks (Lunar, Grandia, Gyakuten Saiban III) C: Sonic Team/Wavemaster soundtracks (Ristar, Sonic CD, Chu Chu Rocket, Jet Set Radio) D: Akira Tsuchiya's soundtracks (GUST games, mostly, with the unparalleled Ar Tonelico II soundtrack being the high point) I more or less regard Iwadare's Grandia II soundtrack to be the pinnacle of RPG soundtracks, with Lunar: Eternal Blue close behind, and Akira Tsuchiya's psuedo-ethnic Ar Tonelico II in third place. Ar Tonelico is NUTS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.Linus Posted December 19, 2010 Report Share Posted December 19, 2010 Oh GOD, there are so many good ones! The SSX Series was always given EA's out-of-the-box selections, just because the entire air of the game was meant as wild, prototypical, and edgy. The scratching of Mix Master Mike, the groove from guys like Rasmus, John Morgan and the Space Raiders in SSX Tricky, and the wide range of deep house to punk alternative in SSX 3 were enough to send me on a journey to becoming a DJ. Influential is an adjective that is barely worthy of describing this soundtrack. So I think the SSX series claims the title of being my favorite. Honorable mentions? Medal of Honor: Frontline - Michael Giacchino out-does himself for the first and certainly not last time. Did anyone else just love the Main Title theme so much, they would just start up a game and give it a listen? I know I would. Hitman Series - Jesper Kyd is a fantastic producer. His soundtracks added at least another dimension to every aspect of these games. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: I am convinced someone wrote a musical score, and Miyamoto proceeded to create a game based around it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadiantViper Posted December 19, 2010 Report Share Posted December 19, 2010 Pretty much the entire soundtrack from every Metroid game is awesome. More Metroid: Some stuff from other games off the top of my head. Children of the Elder God (Alan Wake) The End Run (Mass Effect 2) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mintycrys Posted December 19, 2010 Report Share Posted December 19, 2010 I almost linked Children of the Elder God in my post (because it's an original song!), but stuck with the AT2 song instead. Also, my avatar will be wearing this for a very long time: I would also like to add that there are other Square musicians who have made better music than Uematsu, and so I point to the trifecta of Yasunori Mitsuda, Hiroki Kikuta, and (non-Square) Yoshitaka Hirota, who often work together or collaborate on projects, Mitsuda having worked on Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, and Xenogears, Kikuta having done the Seiken Densetsu series, of which the third game's soundtrack is likely the otaku favorite, and Yoshitaka Hirota, who was Mitsuda's protegé and made the fucking awesome Shadow Hearts soundtracks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyber Rat Posted December 19, 2010 Report Share Posted December 19, 2010 Nier has one of the best OSTs I've ever heard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNQww1Sme0o Guilty Gear is my favorite though: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmuhpage Posted December 19, 2010 Report Share Posted December 19, 2010 Love Mitsuda's work on and My favorite Uematsu is from Lost Odyssey though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFOsFLjBP94 Kondo usually does soundtracks with a magical feel, but dark themes make it my favorite. And this song is a large part of why I prefer Mass Effect 1 over 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartless Posted December 19, 2010 Report Share Posted December 19, 2010 So of course I come up with this long-ass post and my browser crashes and can't recover it. FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUU- My favorites have to be Soul Calibur II and Chrono Cross, by a mile. From Soul Calibur II... (The volume on this video is kinda high, so be careful with that) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7632BWfoxQ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartless Posted December 19, 2010 Report Share Posted December 19, 2010 And a separate post for Chrono Cross, since I can't post more than two YouTube links in a single post because they automatically are linked as videos and you can only post two videos... I have more I want to share but I don't want to get banned for hatchposting so maybe later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mintycrys Posted December 19, 2010 Report Share Posted December 19, 2010 Nier has one of the best OSTs I've ever heard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNQww1Sme0o Kainé but no Shadowlord's Castle? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxnevmorexx Posted December 19, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 19, 2010 I've always loved the tracks Bungies Marty O'Donnell makes, i loved his track in ODST best, they were so much different with the jazzy sound but had the same roots as the rest of the series. The middle purcussiony section of this song reminds me of the blue man group. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyber Rat Posted December 19, 2010 Report Share Posted December 19, 2010 Nier has one of the best OSTs I've ever heard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNQww1Sme0o Kainé but no Shadowlord's Castle? Was limited to 2 youtube clips :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted December 19, 2010 Report Share Posted December 19, 2010 Sonic 2 and 3 have some great tracks. Lots of good memories. The menu/invincibility music from 1 and 2 is also the greatest ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bouchart Posted December 19, 2010 Report Share Posted December 19, 2010 Final Fantasy Tactics had awesome music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVrQv36YFgg The same is true of the game's brother, Tactics Ogre: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted December 19, 2010 Report Share Posted December 19, 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkAvVqjbUG8 Red Dead Redemption had some of the best music in years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iLjaG Posted December 19, 2010 Report Share Posted December 19, 2010 Quality posts ITT. I'm proud of you guys. Except for the person who said Halo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted December 20, 2010 Report Share Posted December 20, 2010 To be honest, I quite like a lot of the music in the Halo series. It's big, silly, grand war music and such. However, I'm not particularly fond of that ODST track. Then again, it's more suited to that game/atmosphere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Jimmeh Posted December 20, 2010 Report Share Posted December 20, 2010 I'm a big fan of the soundtracks for both Sonic Adventure games. I even own Crush 40's (who did a lot of the music) album: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diedan Posted December 20, 2010 Report Share Posted December 20, 2010 Pretty much the entire soundtrack from every Metroid game is awesome. This. So much this. I love the music from all of the Metroid games so much. Also, this is one of the most memorable NES soundtracks imo: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartless Posted December 20, 2010 Report Share Posted December 20, 2010 I can't go by without mentioning my favorite of all old-school soundtracks...Streets of Rage 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNfOHRSp4KQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65f1fg4MG4A Sent from my bedroom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mintycrys Posted December 20, 2010 Report Share Posted December 20, 2010 fuck yeah itt yuzo koshiro http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSHsmnZFwfM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dQVl_XJy7c Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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