If games were just rated by their soundtrack...

[Seacliff]

WARNING:This is NOT a 'post your favorite game music' thread, but examples are welcomed.

I know of some terrible games with great soundtracks, along with some great games with 'meh' soundtracks.

Now obviously, if we were to just rate games by their soundtracks, we would get a completely different outcome then if we rated them by what we think is 'best' overall.

So what are your favorite game soundtracks?

5. Etrian Odyssey 3

4. Touhou 12.3

3. Sonic 2006

2. Sonic Colors

1. Rewrite

 

[Galenmereth]

1. Final Fantasy 9

Super Mario 3D World
Final Fantasy 10
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Final Fantasy 11

 

[Archeia]

Almost every rhythm game in existence.

1.) BMS/IIDX

2.) Cytus

3.) O2Jam

4.) DDR

Things like that <_<;

But if we're gonna ignore these pieces of gold mine then...uh....hm....

1.) Ar Tonelico II

2.) Ar Tonelico 1/3 I dunno

3.) Cladun

4.) Knights in the Nightmare

Are the ones on top of my head.

 

[Arin]

Star Ocean: The Last Hope had a way superb soundtrack compared to Till the End of Time, in my opinion, but everything else about it was lackluster.

That's about the only thing I have at the moment.

 

[djDarkX]

1. Baten Kaitos: Unfinished Wings and The Lost Sea

2. Valkyrie Profile 1 & 2: Silmeria

3. Golden Sun

4. Final Fantasy IV

5. Final Fantasy IX

Basically, anything Motoi Sakuraba instantly goes at the top of the list with the Final Fantasies and various others trailing behind.  Why?  Cuz Motoi uses violins and rock organs in his music like a boss.

 

[reika999]

Hmm.. for now I'd say:

1) Final fantasy XII

2) Dragon's crown

3) Nier

4) Strange journey

5) Castlevania: Lament of Innocence

 

[wallacethepig]

The World Ends With You should still be up there.

Other than that, here's what I've got:

Rhythm Heaven

Dragon Quest IX

Super Mario Galaxy

Pokemon. Any and all Pokemon.

Sonic and the Secret Rings (Or else Sonic and the Black Night, I can't remember which one has the better soundtrack.)

Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story. Just for the boss theme.

Cave Story

I know most of these are considered good games anyway, but still.

-Wallace

Aaaand I totally forgot Super Smash Bros Brawl. Add that one to the list.

 

[Sharm]

I'll have to do a better list later when my brain is cooperating but I think the top of my list is going to have to be Chrono Cross.

 

[Seacliff]

I'll have to do a better list later when my brain is cooperating but I think the top of my list is going to have to be Chrono Cross.

Crap, how could I POSSIBLY forget Chrono Cross? Especially since I was just playing it yesterday >.>

 

[Dalph]

I don't care if it's an awesome game, but nothing can beat Xenogears (especially Small two of pieces which still owns everything).

And Legend of Dragoon is the classic example of a not so good game but with a great soundtrack.

 

[Sharm]

I wasn't a fan of Legend of Dragoon's soundtrack but I love Xenogears'.  June Mermaid is my favorite song from it.

 

[Touchfuzzy]

1, Nier

2. Eternal Poison/Poison Pink

3. Persona 4

4. Shogun II: Total War

5. Chrono Cross

Honorable Mention: The Command and Conquer series.

(I will say that out of those 5, I also consider 3 of them actually really good games... though I can't stand to play the other 2)

Response to others: I would have put Xenogears in somewhere, but I didn't want to put two OSTs by the same guy, so I just picked the one I consider his best. Also the best thing about Xenogears's OST is actually the Creid Remix album rather than what was in the actual game.

 

[Tsukitsune]

1. Nier

2. Okami

3. Chrono Trigger

4. Final Fantasy 10

Those are my favorite OSTs, aswell as some of my favorite games.

 

[RyanA]

How intrigueing topic :3 I shall join! I'd like to do a bigger list but I think here are my top 5 of games I highly rate because of soundtracks! :3

1 - World  of  Warcraft (5:18 last link)

2 - LoZ - Majora's Mask

3 - Tales of Phantasia

4 - The Walking Dead TTG S1

5 - Okami

 

[Milkdud]

Interesting topic idea.

1. The Command & Conquer Series

2. Hotline Miami

3. Mirror's Edge

4. Black Mesa

5. Frozen Synapse

Granted, I like/love all of the games on this list, but without their soundtracks, they wouldn't have nearly had the same impact on me when I played them.

 

[Aiyelzan]

1. Final Fantasy IX

2. Final Fantasy VIII

3. Ragnarok Online

4. Tales of Pirates 2

5. Zodiac Online

6. Wakfu

7. Sol Divide

8. Final Fantasy II

 

[Scythuz]

These are all games that I enjoy far more for their music than for the gameplay.  (Except silver surfer, that's a terrible game so I just like the music on it's own)

1. Nier

2. Silver Surfer (NES)

3. Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Storm 3

4. Soldier Blade

5. Anna (Extended Edition)

6. To The Moon

7. Sonic 1 (Game Gear / Master System Version)

8. La Mulana

9. Cave Story

10. Zero Wing

 

[Poetry]

This is a tough one. Technically Theatrhythm would trump all but I don't think it's necessarily a fair contest if we include that.

1. Cytus

2. Okami

3. Final Fantasy VI

4. The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

5. Final Fantasy VIII

6. Final Fantasy XIII-2

7. Super Mario Galaxy 2

 

[Chaneque]

Let me just throw some stuff out... The World Ends With You, Sigma Harmonics, To The Moon and any Touhou game whatsoever. I especially enjoyed the Sigma Harmonics soundtrack.

 

[Purple-Inukshuk]

Not in any particular order but;

(#1 seriously, others not in order) LoZ: WW

pokemon mystery dungeon, explorers of sky

any touhou game as well^

TES V

super Mario sunshine