Your favorite video game music!

[C Frost]

I listen to SO damn much game music, but if I had to pick a few standout favorites...

Final Fantasy music is usually good, no argument from me. IV, VI, VII, and VIII have the best OSTs overall, I'd say.

It's odd, but most of the rearranged FF stuff I don't care for that much. The exceptions are the concert renditions - the "Dear Friends" and "Distant Worlds" tours. The 2010 concert in Stockholm, Sweden, produced the absolute best renditions of some personal favorites, such as:

That one really struck me, because I've been wanting a full orchestra version of the Prelude for years and never got one until this!

And speaking of amazing things I hadn't heard before: Dancing Mad, with full orchestra... and choir! Until this iteration, most arrangements of this music omitted the voices entirely, but not this time! The first two minutes and the last two minutes of this are just astonishing. Especially the last two!

muramasa, I agree the Morrowind opening is great, but I have to go with "Dragonborn", the Skyrim variation. Blew me away the first time I heard the whole thing. Skyrim in general is the best Elder Scrolls OST yet, I think.

A lesser known great is Einhander. This game was made in 1998, and now fifteen years later, I still have not heard anything else quite like it. Techno, but moody and intense! Awesome stuff. The track linked below is one of the best boss themes I've ever heard:

And finally, lately I've been stuck on the absolutely masterful soundtrack to the PSP re-release of Tactics Ogre:

 

[deaddrift]

Anyone ever play the PS3 game PixelJunk Eden?

i get hypnotized by both the gameplay and soundtrack, fantastic game for relaxing after a long day

 

[Solo]

Saito S: That rendition of Dancing Mad... is absolutely stunning. It would be sheer gaming bliss to play a full 3D remake of FF6, with the final battle set to that arrangement in particular.

 

[Scythuz]

Some recommendations of my own:

From System Shock 2:

From Dark Souls:

From Crusader Kings 2:

Enjoy!

 

[Dark Messiah]

Some of my favorites:

From Majora's Mask

Spoiler

Song of Healing:




Sharp's Curse

From Castlevania

Spoiler

Poison Mind

 

[Grubilman]

Wow, this is a topic that I could talk about for hours.  It's so difficult to just narrow it down to a few choices (since I'm sure nobody would read a wall of text from me.)  So many different styles of music, and feelings for them.  A soundtrack can make a moving scene into a truly memorable one.  

Let's see, the first that comes to mind would be the Ys games.

Ys Chronicles - Ice Ridge of Noltia

Another personal favorite, would be from the Ace Combat series.  So many tracks from the series stand up on their own.  But for me, this one is fantastic, and I just can't get enough.  Everything about it.  <3

Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War - ReprisalI'll leave the videos at that...  There is so much that can be posted.  @_@ 


@ Dark Messiah:  I love the remake of that Castlevania tune.  In fact, you just can't go wrong with Castlevania music, in general.

 

[Xiraiya]

This is a tough one, there are so many good game soundtracks out there, examples from some of my favorite ones are...

Spoiler

Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magic Obscura




The Elder Scrolls Series




Final Fantasy VIII




Mass Effect Series




Metal Gear Solid Series

 

[Grubilman]

This is a tough one, there are so many good game soundtracks out there, examples from some of my favorite ones are...

Spoiler

Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magic Obscura



The Elder Scrolls Series



Final Fantasy VIII



Mass Effect Series



Metal Gear Solid Series

YES!  Debriefing is one moving song...  The man-tears...  D':

 

[Kaelan]

 

[Milkdud]

Some more.

 

[Insidious Mental Pollution]

Original title theme from "The Legend of Zelda".  So timeless, and even the NES made it sound epic.  The various remixes and orchestrations over the years have only added to the legend (ooh punny).

 

[TetrahArks]

This?

 

[The Shadow]

Some of my favorites:

Final Fantasy VI - Celes Theme

Spoiler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQxZJXs0dYQ

Mega Man 2 - Dr. Wily's Castle

Elders Scrolls V - Skyrim Theme

Legend Of Mana - Opening Song

 

[AwesomeCool]

@Scythuz YES! YES!  Dark souls music is da bomb!

 

[ThatMaestroGuy]

I could literally LIVE on this thread...so many blasted memories...and perhaps the reason why I even got into music in the first place. Oh, video-game music...

Here's one I'm surprised wasn't posted yet. It's a hottie from the NES! =DDD

http://youtu.be/ciF9obVev2o

 

[Solar]

Even if I name only one song per franchise it's still a big list but here's just a very few from the top of my head.









Heroes of Might and Magic 3 - Necropolis theme

 

[SacredShape]

Dot.Hack//infection's

Root town Delta (water capital Mac Anu)

It's just so beautiful and pretty it kinda made the game hard to

continue because i had to stop and listen to it all the time. 

Or maybe 

Ape Escape's

Crumbling Castle

That Bass line rocks.      

 

[Lars Ulrika]

Tristram theme in Diablo all the way. I could also include Ocean Palace theme in Chrono Trigger or Solstice's title screen theme.

 

[Quigon]

this one is my fave though.




The instrumentation and flow of this song is damn near perfection.

 

[Dark_Metamorphosis]

This is probably the most diffiicult question I have ever seen.

Yeah, I will have to leave it at that.