video game soundtracks
 

Whats everyones favorite? Do you own any? I really like final fantasy 6's and xenogears. Castlevania:SOTN was pretty good also.

You've got to listen to the MYST and RiVeN soundtracks, amazing stuff. Mafia had an excellent score too, very moody and most impressive for an action adventure game.

Jet Set Raido for the Dreamcast had a pretty cool soundtrack, same with Castlevania SOTN. The Ys games for the old Turbografx-CD system had amazing music, and the best part was, you didn't have to send away to Japan to get the soundtrack, the CDs would play on a regular audio player, along with all the voice tracks. I heard the Myst soundtrack that way too. I've still got a cassette with a whole bunch of terrible voice acting from a game called Last Alert too, pure comedy genius.


Edit, woo hoo! got rid of the 'Rookie' label, I r0x0r.

I love MediEvil's soundtrack, so ill.

And You can't go wrong with Final Fantasy VIII's either. The whole orchestral masterpiece at every step isn't awful.

Quake 1 with the Nine Inch Nails soundtrack. The music made the game like 50x times better.

Tempest 2000 or the Wipeout series

Can't forget Super Mario Bros. Everyone who's anyone knows that tune. Tetris is another good one.

I will certainly second Mafia. I always enjoyed orchestrational scores. The score for Mafia was done by the Bohemia Symphonic, the period music was largely Django Reinhardt and The Hot Club de France. Still, my favorite soundtrack for a game was Jesper Kyd and the Budapest Symphony Orchestra in Hitman 2. I have that soundtrack, and I still like to listen to the "Japanese Mansion" theme from time to time with the speakers up.

I've been wanting to pick up the Halo soundtrack for a while now that you mention it. I really liked the music, and the game too except for that "Now play it again.... BACKWARDS!" deal.

I too liked the Myst and Riven sndtrks... One of my all-time favs was Quake 1 with Reznor doing the music... very dark and moody... fit the game perfectly...

I third the mention of Reznor's brilliant Quake soundtrack, very mood setting.

I have 'killer cuts' the cd that came free with'Killer Instinct' on the snes. At the time I thought it was uber-cool, because it was also the first CD I owned.

I am a bit fan of the Final Fantasy 7 and 10 sound Track Nobuo Uematsu is the man. He composes some of the best game music in my opionion in the world get the game to suck you in.

Im totally in love with the JEtset Radio and Jet Set Radio Future soundtracks. Also the Guilty Gear and Guilty Gear XX soundtracks..
Recently I've been really listening to the Phantasy star Online episodes 1 and 2 SDTK's as well..
There are lots of great soundtracks out there, but most of them are for RPG games which i cant get into. I stillhave my Killer Cuts CD around though.. I really like it..even like 10 years later...

My wife had me play ecco the dolphin for dreamcast whenever she couldnt sleep. That newage stuff put her out like a light.

Aside from the ones mentioned, I think Guilty Gear X has a great soundtrack, especially since most fighting games have crappy music.

I'm partial to all the Tenchu soundtracks, especially the latest edition. Some tasty instrumentals there, my friends, especially the acoustic guitars.

Also, I absolutely love the 80's compilation of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. That shit took me way back. It's a shame the box set doesn't include the VCPR and KCHAT channels. Does anyone know if these are available for sale?

I also liked White Zombie's tunes for Nightmare Creatures 2, especially Demonid Phenomenon, used in the intro.

Definatly mafia, also its a fuckin great game. Hitman 2 also has a very good soundtrack (as mentioned above).
Though a very tight ambient soundtrack is super metroid, for the snes. You can get this winamp plugin and play varous old snes soundtracks if you want. All is here http://www.alpha-ii.com/snesmusic/red.html

My first thought was No One Lives Forever...the first one at least, I still haven't played the second. The version I bought actually came with a music CD that I played quite a bit.

Mafia/Hitmans both were cool too. The first game with good music was this old LucasArts title I can't recall, something about skeletons and jazz.

I enjoy games that let me play my own MP3 files as well.

The lucas Arts game was Grim Fandango. Great Game. Play it fooooeeevverr. I think hegemonia has great music. very epic...

I loved NiN in Quack... er Quake ;) FF6 also had some good music.

Deus Ex, MechWarrior 2 and Bungie's original Marathon take my music awards =).

Diablo 2 and Lord of Darkness soundtrack are my best.

The orchestral final fantasy 7 soundtrack makes me cry. It's really good, I like orchestras.

FFVII was the first game I actually took note of the background music. Spent months searching out the MIDI's, before realizing there was a cd import available.

Tenchu is another franchise with absolutely marvelous tunes. Except for the original title screen music.... that screeching voice I could have done without.

And more recently, Blizzards titles [ Diablo I/II , Warcraft III ] have some nice elements. but quite repetitive.

I was given the Final Fantasy soundtrack as a gift once, and GTA: Vice City is kickin'

Ikaruga and Jet Set Radio Future are among the few i can stand outside of the game.

I like the music from all the recent EA sports games. Well...on NCAA all they do is play fight songs...but Madden and NBA live have some pretty good music.

i got 'love will grow', and another multi titled FF soundtrack and orginal FFivj soundtrack and lunar..... :)

-sucker-

vice city all the way. they got so much original shit on there, it's beyond amazing.

Zelda - Ocarina of Time is great. I must've heard that horse riding music 24 hours a day for months after playing that. Just stuck in my head. Now the soundtrack does it, too.

F-Zero is great to have around. Mute City roxors.


Goldeneye is great, too. Starfox. Wipeout XL.

And of course, the mother of all, GTA:VC.

Definitely most of the stuff Nobuo Uematsu does. The majority of the FF soundtracks kicked serious ass, but his best stuff is Chrono Cross. I have the entire soundtrack on mp3 and listen to it quite regularly, especially the main theme.

The old Lunar soundtracks are fun for some retro musical enjoyment, and it's hard to beat the minimalist fun of the original Metroid.

One of the cooler things about soundtracks is remixes of old favorites--one of the best sites to get remixes from is Overclocked Remix, at http://remix.overclocked.org/index.php. Good stuff, if a bit too heavy on the techno/house remixes, and they have a very, VERY wide variety on what the in house mixmonkeys will jam with.

I only own 2 game soundtracks. Lunar 2 and Final Fantasy 6. I love Lunar games.. get all kind of toys with them :)

I'd say any of the final fantasy and the Chrono Trigger sound tracks are prety good...

Practically every Star Wars game soundtrack is awesome, of course. Also, Phantasy Star Online has some catchy tunes too. The final tune after you beat the game is worth playing the game all over again... My favorite probably is Shenmue, which has instrumental tracks which just blow you away.

The original tunes on GTA 2 we're fuckin' hilarious.

Who could forget excitebike.... dun, da dun da dun. dun, da dun da dun, dun da dun da da da da da da dun, da da da.....

Still drives me mental after all these years.

EA Sports titles tell you what the menu music is now, it's called EA Trax. A little box pops up, MTV style, to tell you title, artist, album, label, so on, so you can go buy it.

It makes it much easier to get the music off the net, though :)

I've burned a CD-RW full of my favorite music from most of their games as far back as NHL99. I listen to it when I run. They're gonna get stuck in your head anyway, might as well use it for good.

-Mikey

I'd have to say just about anything by Nobuo Uematsu.

Orchestral Game Concerts are always awesome. I also have the Super Metroid soundtrack and a ton of nintendo-esque remixes. It's always fun to blast mario techno and drive around looking at all the people giving me strange looks :)

I think the Halo soundtrack kicks ass, really gets you in the mood of the game