The Headhunter games
Anything Jesper Kyd has ever stood next to, let alone actually worked on
The Wild ARMs games
Unreal/Deus Ex (Brandon and Van Den Bos FTW)
XIII
Command & Conquer (The entire series, even Generals)
Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
Shadowgrounds
Interesting.
Shadowgrounds has a good soundtrack. Deus Ex (and the Deus Ex remix soundtrack) are both excellent.
You reminded me. Dear fucking lord, how can no one have mentioned Ultima? Ultima III through Ultima VI had some of the best music ever, and VII and, to a lesser extent, VIII were great too.
Overworld, Stones, Gargoyles, Gates of Creation...awesome shit.
Also, Star Control 2.
Also, I really love the soundtrack for Chromehounds, especially that weird choral song that plays in the menu/mission select screen. Sometimes I fire up the game just to listen to it. :P
I see someone else beat me to it, but Ko Otani's stuff (Shadow of the Colossus) is really quite spectacular. Roar of the Earth is the first game soundtrack I've been compelled to buy.
Shadow of the Colossus. Having seen one other mention of this, I feel it is necessary to mention it again. This is a splendid soundtrack.
Phoenix Wright, first the regular version, then the Orchestral version, to hear how splendid that music is, when given some more depth.
Various Final Fantasy pieces. X especially, for me.
Some of the pieces in the Burning Crusade expansion for WoW have been quite good, but I know I will eventually grow tired of them and turn the music off. They need some way to just... not play the music as often. Perhaps only every 5th time you enter an area, or perhaps only music for a certain percentage of the time you are playing.
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Arcanum had my favorite game soundtrack ever, hands down. There were some really hauntingly beautiful string quartet pieces that set a unique mood for the game.
It used to all be available for download on the Sierra site, but that appears to be gone.
The composer's site has a few samples though, and full scores and sheet music.
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X-Play's going to be doing a special on this on the 5th. They're doing it in the form of a Broadway musical, and on another board (not G4's), we've got two staffers hyping it up more than any episode in show history.
As for my top 5, in no particular order:
*Beyond Good and Evil (of course)
*Cruis'n World
*Super Soccer- I am likely the only one on Earth claiming Super Soccer in his top 5 and for good reason
*Soul Calibur 2
*Super Dodge Ball
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I have a new soccer blog The Minnow Tank. Reading it psychically kicks Sepp Blatter in the bean bag.
I really recommend just about everything by Lennie Moore. This guy has done some good stuff such as Dragonshard, Outcast, War of the Ring and more. His website has a shitload of mp3's for download as well http://www.lenniemoore.com/
The Half-Life series has always had very good music.They're usually pretty short, but they score the scene well, whether it's a pulse-pounding action scene or a creepy ambient one.
Seconding the hell out of the Shadow of the Colossus OST (I know at least one person mentioned it). I managed to get a hold of it over the weekend and damn, that's great stuff.
Chrono Cross is probably my all-time favourite, though. It manages to evoke emotion perfectly for the scenes it's involved in, as well as sound beautiful all by itself. Yasunori Mitsuda? Oh yeah.
The Mega Man (X), Street Fighter, and Sonic Adventure games had some pretty catchy tunes in them as well. Sega and Capcom sure know how to write music that'll stay in your head all day.
Arcanum had my favorite game soundtrack ever, hands down. There were some really hauntingly beautiful string quartet pieces that set a unique mood for the game.
It used to all be available for download on the Sierra site, but that appears to be gone.
The composer's site has a few samples though, and full scores and sheet music.
Oh god, yes. The Demise of the Zephyr is fantastic, as is the rest of the soundtrack. It was in that Fallout style, where it didn't really make a strong foreground presence, but yet it fit really well with the tone of the game. Great, great stuff :^:
C&C: Red Alert is one of the best.
Chrono Trigger is also amazing.
Also love Baldur's Gate.
That's about it, really. I'm not a huge fan of game soundtracks.
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Grim Fandango has an amazing soundtrack. I mean it.
This man speaks the truth.
As does everyone else who's mentioned C&C, or more specifically Frank Klepacki. I'm not usually a fan of that style of music, but that man just does it right, and it fits perfectly with the game.
All the orchestral stuff I've been hearing in games has been quite nice, but nothing every really sticks out any more. It's almost all orchestra music, and it almost always sounds the same.
Give me more games like Mafia and it's Django Reinhardt music. Give me more games like the first Prince of Persia (bonus points++ for those who know who wrote a lot of the songs for that).
Don't get me wrong though, I'm quite a big fan of modern orchestral game music. Jeremy Soule's composition's in particular I've been quite happy with.
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Interesting.
Shadowgrounds has a good soundtrack. Deus Ex (and the Deus Ex remix soundtrack) are both excellent.
You reminded me. Dear fucking lord, how can no one have mentioned Ultima? Ultima III through Ultima VI had some of the best music ever, and VII and, to a lesser extent, VIII were great too.
Overworld, Stones, Gargoyles, Gates of Creation...awesome shit.
Also, Star Control 2.
Also, I really love the soundtrack for Chromehounds, especially that weird choral song that plays in the menu/mission select screen. Sometimes I fire up the game just to listen to it. :P
Has anyone ripped that?
ZOE
Homeworld
FF series & Chrono Trigger
edit: apparently he didn't do ICO's. Huh.
Phoenix Wright, first the regular version, then the Orchestral version, to hear how splendid that music is, when given some more depth.
Various Final Fantasy pieces. X especially, for me.
Some of the pieces in the Burning Crusade expansion for WoW have been quite good, but I know I will eventually grow tired of them and turn the music off. They need some way to just... not play the music as often. Perhaps only every 5th time you enter an area, or perhaps only music for a certain percentage of the time you are playing.
It used to all be available for download on the Sierra site, but that appears to be gone.
The composer's site has a few samples though, and full scores and sheet music.
Sample song: "Arcanum"
As for my top 5, in no particular order:
*Beyond Good and Evil (of course)
*Cruis'n World
*Super Soccer- I am likely the only one on Earth claiming Super Soccer in his top 5 and for good reason
*Soul Calibur 2
*Super Dodge Ball
His non video game stuff is also great.
Shame on all of you
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Chrono Cross is probably my all-time favourite, though. It manages to evoke emotion perfectly for the scenes it's involved in, as well as sound beautiful all by itself. Yasunori Mitsuda? Oh yeah.
The Mega Man (X), Street Fighter, and Sonic Adventure games had some pretty catchy tunes in them as well. Sega and Capcom sure know how to write music that'll stay in your head all day.
Oh god, yes. The Demise of the Zephyr is fantastic, as is the rest of the soundtrack. It was in that Fallout style, where it didn't really make a strong foreground presence, but yet it fit really well with the tone of the game. Great, great stuff :^:
The SNES SHADOWRUN game also has some neat themes. Evokes the mood very well.
Megaman 2
Sonic 3 & Knuckles
F-Zero series
Beyond Good and Evil
And then there's this
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Chrono Trigger is also amazing.
Also love Baldur's Gate.
That's about it, really. I'm not a huge fan of game soundtracks.
http://gh.ffshrine.org/song/726/10 (Just click the "click here".)
Also, pretty much the entire reason I advocated Virt earlier. Another CV3 track.
Medal of Honor, MOH:U, MOH:AA, MOH:F
Harry Gregson-Williams' work on MGS2 and 3 were also quite good, along with whoever did the music for Portable Ops
The orchestral pieces in Kingdom Hearts I and II.
Monkey Island series
I also agree with the person about Marty O'Donnell's orchestral scores to Halo as opposed to synthesizers
HEY.
I obliged.
This man speaks the truth.
As does everyone else who's mentioned C&C, or more specifically Frank Klepacki. I'm not usually a fan of that style of music, but that man just does it right, and it fits perfectly with the game.
All the orchestral stuff I've been hearing in games has been quite nice, but nothing every really sticks out any more. It's almost all orchestra music, and it almost always sounds the same.
Give me more games like Mafia and it's Django Reinhardt music. Give me more games like the first Prince of Persia (bonus points++ for those who know who wrote a lot of the songs for that).
Don't get me wrong though, I'm quite a big fan of modern orchestral game music. Jeremy Soule's composition's in particular I've been quite happy with.