Best and Worst Main menu Theme??
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I'm strange and a fan of the melancholy so I actually leave this game on the main menu often without realizing it
Also I'll never get tired of this one
Honourable mention goes to this one (because I love Jeremy Soule's music)
OKAY LAST ONE BUT I JUST LOVE IT SO MUCH
Now for worst... Which I won't post because I don't want to subject others to such tortures xD
I hate the theme from Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts because A) it's a cool theme but it's terribly wasted on that game and B) It's like they're rubbing it in our faces. I mean. the original had ALL these different instruments (it was part of the joke) but in the new one it's like "GUITAR GUITAR DID WE MENTION ELECTRIC GUITAR"
Also this is gonna seem a bit random but the theme for Catz for the DS is also... terrible. and bland. Terribland.
Also I'll never get tired of this one
Honourable mention goes to this one (because I love Jeremy Soule's music)
OKAY LAST ONE BUT I JUST LOVE IT SO MUCH
Now for worst... Which I won't post because I don't want to subject others to such tortures xD
I hate the theme from Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts because A) it's a cool theme but it's terribly wasted on that game and B) It's like they're rubbing it in our faces. I mean. the original had ALL these different instruments (it was part of the joke) but in the new one it's like "GUITAR GUITAR DID WE MENTION ELECTRIC GUITAR"
Also this is gonna seem a bit random but the theme for Catz for the DS is also... terrible. and bland. Terribland.
Best of the bunch (aka the soundtrack to my heaaaaaaaaart!)
Pikmin
Ahh soothes me soul, this one.
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
The gradual unease as the tune goes on and the moon is revealed is amazing! You could tell this was gonna be a different game right off the bat!
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
This one is purely for nostalgia factor. This track just makes me feel happy everytime I hear it!
Animal Crossing for Nintendo Gamecube
This one definitely makes me think back to the beginning of high school. I didn't enjoy high school much, so this was the first thing I put on on Saturday mornings. Felt a lot better after playing.
Worst in my opinion:
Sonic and the Secret Rings
I dreaded going back to the main menu. This song is so awful! Gah, it hurts! Can't remember why I traded the game in but I'm willing to bet this might have been the reason...
Pikmin
Ahh soothes me soul, this one.
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
The gradual unease as the tune goes on and the moon is revealed is amazing! You could tell this was gonna be a different game right off the bat!
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
This one is purely for nostalgia factor. This track just makes me feel happy everytime I hear it!
Animal Crossing for Nintendo Gamecube
This one definitely makes me think back to the beginning of high school. I didn't enjoy high school much, so this was the first thing I put on on Saturday mornings. Felt a lot better after playing.
Worst in my opinion:
Sonic and the Secret Rings
I dreaded going back to the main menu. This song is so awful! Gah, it hurts! Can't remember why I traded the game in but I'm willing to bet this might have been the reason...
Funny you say that one's bad, because a lot of people consider it the best ironically. I mean how can one not be monumentally surprised (hyped even) by the first impression to a game being THE WIND IS PUSHING MEEEEE suddenly riffing in your face like a saturday morning anime opening.josemlopes said:
But you have a point, maybe they should have used the theme for the final dragon fight to keep it's necessity actually necessary, otherwise Dark Arisen's theme is vastly superior.
OT:
Metroid Prime's... cmon you know this was coming. The composer for the whole series is a musical genius, and it really showed in his very first piece of music.
Persona 4's. [TRIGGER WARNING for OP]
Gives you the main theme song in such a serene fashion that it would go on to continually ride out and get better with each remix from beginning to end. Beautiful is the best way I can put it.
Pictionary for the NES's theme.
Spoiler: game is terrible. Theme song: So good, I consider it better than the rest. DAMN WHAT A SHAME.
Spoiler: game is terrible. Theme song: So good, I consider it better than the rest. DAMN WHAT A SHAME.
Best?
As for worst...I can't really think of any.
I suppose that the Dark Souls one is a bit...dissonant with what the game offers(seriously, it sounds like it belongs in Fable), but that's about it for me.
As for worst...I can't really think of any.
I suppose that the Dark Souls one is a bit...dissonant with what the game offers(seriously, it sounds like it belongs in Fable), but that's about it for me.
It does have more personality then the one in Dark Arisen for sure but its just so misplaced. If the game had a more anime visual style it would fit better but the visuals and tone are very similar to a typical WRPG.s69-5 said:
Don't know why, but no matter how frustrated I might have been at the game every time I paused it this theme made me keep playing.
The themes/soundtracks in general for Red Orchestra 2 and Rising Storm are just goddamn beautiful. Not only are they wonderfully evocative of the settings, when they start playing in the background of the fighting they make you feel like part of something grand and sweeping, despite all the grim/realistic violence happening around you.
And I know it's another FPS (and just a Source mod at that) but the theme for Fistful of Frags is also nice and evocative:
Are you crazy?Sigmund Av Volsung said:
This piece of music is one of my favourite things about Dark Souls. I can sit and listen to it for a good hour. (I made a looping version)
And Fable? Really?
I'd call this my "best" main menu theme if it were technically a main menu theme... I suppose it is really.
Worst?
Well, I guess there are people who would disagree with this as much as I disagreed about Dark Soul's, but I simply cannot stand Skyrim's menu theme.
As much as the original Street Fighter IV menu theme grew on me, as much as the orginal Dragon's Dogma theme grew on me, this soured.
It's awful. The rare occasion I start Skyrim up these days I can't load a save fast enough to stop hearing it. I find it grating to listen to and obnoxious in it's attempt to feel epic.
I don't know, I guess I am crazy. I just don't think it fits any real theme in the game; even the startling end boss theme fits into the world being f**ked, but the intro music really does sound like it belongs in Fable to me.garjian said:
And I actually do really like Dragonborn by Jeremy Soule ;D
I admit that I like the older theme better, I fell that the Dark Arisen one is boring and get very annoying after a while... The original may not fit the game at all, but it's more catchy.josemlopes said:
I'll throw down another vote for Dragon's Dogma being terrible (I don't just think it's unfitting, I also don't like the song in general).
Persona 2 and 4 have already been mentioned, great music there.
A few that I love.
Honourable mention to a game I haven't even played. The music is just so cool.
Persona 2 and 4 have already been mentioned, great music there.
A few that I love.
Honourable mention to a game I haven't even played. The music is just so cool.