Absolute Favorite Game Soundtrack

[FlyAwayAutumn]

Castlevania.

Any of them. All of them. Just, Castlevania.

Spoiler: Sample

 

[CombiBlood]

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

 

[-Seraph-]

Lambda isn't cheap, is she? I main her (and Ragna). I haven't fought a human Lamda, but she definitely is cheap when score attack CPU is using her. I swear it's controller reading/abusing CPU reflexes sometimes. Tager always backdashes-Tager Driver at the exact right moment, Hakumen always counters at the exact right moment, Lamda always shoots you out of the sky at the exact right moment, etc etc.

Do you remember how borderline broken she was in the first game? She's pretty close to just "press D to win", and what you see of score attack lambda is what a lot of experienced lambda players are like. It's horrifying and her spammage just makes her terribly cheap as it's a major chore to even get close enough. And even if you do, if she gets even a single 5C on you she can just zone away.

Blah, out of all the characters, she's just cheap. Let's just say she's not well balanced....it's just good they nerfed her a bit in CS. But that's enough of a tangent for now XD

 

[hittite]

Zelda

Yes, if I looked at it subjectively, other games would have better soundtracks. Unfortunately for that I recently realized I'm really freaking nostalgic for the games of my childhood.

 

[freehugsforsale]

I know it isn't an original soundtrack, but I love GTA: San Andreas' playlists. I bought the game a second time for PC just for the music. I even like all the songs on the country station, and that's damned impressive.

 

[Fizzpopper]

Silent Hill 2, no question. I have Theme of Laura edited as my ringtone. I'm obsessed.

Although Megaman and Legend of Zelda bring back some very happy memories...

 

[Arisato-kun]

My personal favorite is Ar Tonelico. I only own the second one but I have songs from all of the other games. It's just such powerful music.

 

[Sacman]

Total Distortion...

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or maybe Nier...

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or maybe Gitaroo Man...

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or perhaps Deus Ex...

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[ToxinArrow]

Total Annihilation.

 

[Wolf Devastator]

According to my iTunes, it's a tossup between Final Fantasy X and Lost Odyssey.

 

[Mister Benoit]

Just about the entire Donkey Kong Country 2 OST. Hell DKC and DKC3 have very respectable OST's also.

 

[Hemlet]

My favorite single song from a video game is easily the Morrowind theme, but for an entire soundtrack there's nothing quite like Jet Force Gemini in my opinion. The entire soundtrack to that game was just epic and badass

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(man I hope this video works...)

 

[some1stolemyusername]

quake, followed closely by half life.

 

[Darwins_Folly]

Mass Effect. I love all the music in that series. And the end credit song in Mass Effect 1, M4 Part 2 by Faunts is absolutely amazing. Great band from Edmonton.

 

[MoNKeyYy]

Fallout 3 or the GTA games (3 onwards). I can't remember which one of the GTA games had the best radio though.

I looooove the GTA Radio Soundtracks. My opinion is that Vice City had the best Rock station because V-Rock's playlist was orgasmic and 4 had the best soundtrack overall. However I think I might be a little biased because it's the only one with a hardcore station...

Also Fallout 3 wins because of this one, glorious song:

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[MrGalactus]

TonyHawksUnderGround 1
PUNK FTW!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYLqvfckh-U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G3dzddZ6WE

 

[Et3rnalLegend64]

Lambda isn't cheap, is she? I main her (and Ragna). I haven't fought a human Lamda, but she definitely is cheap when score attack CPU is using her. I swear it's controller reading/abusing CPU reflexes sometimes. Tager always backdashes-Tager Driver at the exact right moment, Hakumen always counters at the exact right moment, Lamda always shoots you out of the sky at the exact right moment, etc etc.

Do you remember how borderline broken she was in the first game? She's pretty close to just "press D to win", and what you see of score attack lambda is what a lot of experienced lambda players are like. It's horrifying and her spammage just makes her terribly cheap as it's a major chore to even get close enough. And even if you do, if she gets even a single 5C on you she can just zone away.

Blah, out of all the characters, she's just cheap. Let's just say she's not well balanced....it's just good they nerfed her a bit in CS. But that's enough of a tangent for now XD

To be completely honest, I have no point of reference. I never played CT, and never planned to once I heard CS was coming out so I never saw/used/fought Nu-13. I really want XBL so I can see a human Lamda and compare theirs to mine.

My Ragna can't match up against Score Attack Lamda or Jin because he doesn't have a way to beat projectiles (sad for my main), but Tager can easily abuse his projectile invincible attacks so I have no problem and Hakumen can probably beat a sword summon with a well timed Tsubaki.

 

[CleverNickname]

Ugh, kids these days. ONE person mentioned Zelda and ONE mentioned DKC. I'm not even that old!

And while those two are excellent examples of highly recognizable and/or just plain kickass video game soundtracks, my absolute favourite one of all time, that will probably never be surpassed is

Secret of Mana

Pure beauty, full of feeling, excitement, ominousness, sadness and hope.

 

[repeating integers]

Firstly: Seriously people, Mass Effect? Mass Effect 2 I could sympathise with, but Mass Effect 1 had like 5 above-average tracks (and admittedly 2 awesome ones - Sovereign's Theme and the end-credits song). Also, I saw some people nominate Half Life - and my irrational scepticism towards that game series prompts me to ask "link plz".

Anyway, onto my offerings.

Offering 1: the Halo series
I've never seen anyone criticise the music in the Halo series before (other than one troll on youtube, but hey, if he seriously believed what he said...)

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This is one of the coolest soundtracks I've heard in a while. Same goes for this:

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The choral section at the end is very beautiful.

Finally, there's a piece in Reach which contains a whole collection of excellent classics from the series remixed.

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Offering 2: Mass Effect 2
The music in ME2 is mostly just "above average", but a couple of my favourite pieces belong in here:

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Offering 3 (you really should have seen this coming): Homeworld
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Listen to this piece. Just listen to it. Tune out all other noises and immerse yourself in it. You get a prize if you tell me, utterly truthfully, that this isn't a beautiful piece of atmospheric background music that really gets across the vast, unnerving emptiness between the stars.

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This is very good battle music. It's catchy, but far from generic - it's actually very different to most battle tracks. Hell, those vocals (I think they're vocals...) sound almost haunting after a while.

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This is also very good battle music. It sounds subtly deadly and ominous at first, but then becomes a disturbing tribal motif. It's one of my favourite pieces of music ever - if not my absolute favourite.

So, there we have my favourite soundtracks ever. Don't ignore them, many though they are. Your day will be better for listening to them.

 

[PunkRex]

Im currently playing Kingdom Hearts:Birth By Sleep and....... yeah....... CANNOT STOP SINGING "WHEN YOU WALK AWAY, YOU CANT HEAR ME SAY, OH PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE, OH BaaaaaAaaaaaABY, DONT GO!"