Music in Games

[Glover09]

What does the population believe the best, and worst, musical scores and/or playlist in a game.

Better:
NASCAR Thunder 2004
Gran Turismo 3
Rock Band

Worse:
NASCAR 2006 on
Star Wars Battlefront series(repitition)
Juiced (all bad, all the time)

 

[Not Good]

Best: Things that don't involve list threads

Worst: Things that DO involve list threads.

 

[Glover09]

List isn't required. I just listed off a few. tell of only good ones or only bad ones, I don't care. I just wanted to know what needed to be on mute while playing.

 

[Iron Mal]

Best:

Mass Effect
Crackdown
DOOM/Quake 2
Castle Crashers
Red Faction
Duke Nukem 64 theme
Red Alert 2
Twisted Metal series
Shadow the Hedgehog

Worst:

Left 4 Dead
Doom 3 (simply because there was none)
Duke Nukem 3D
Blue Dragon
Aliens vs Predator series
Sonic Racers

 

[tsb247]

I would have to say the music from C&C Red Alert 2 was my favorite. I have had Hell March 2 stuck in my head for years!

Sonic CD (U.S. version!!!) is my second choice for the best video game music. I loved the Metallic Madness 'Bad Future' theme as well as the Collision Chaos themes (minus the past). They are catchy, and I love the guitar in all of them!

If you remember these... You are my awesome!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhrAiXz7tKM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yoKUZBBC5Y

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

 

[elilupe]

Best:
Mass Effect
Kingdom Hearts series
Halo
Fallout 3

Yes, Kingdom Hearts has the best music EVER.

 

[BirdBornAsBee]

Best:
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Fallout 3
Road Rash

Worst:
Final Fantasy X-2

 

[maddawg IAJI]

Best
Saints Row 2.(Yay songs that are actually good.)
Halo. (Proably one of the best parts of the game.)
Team Fortress 2(...Does this really need explaining.)
Fallout 3 (Butcher pete...Nuff said.)
Worst.

Dance Dance Revolution. (How can you have a danceing game without decent dance music.)

Mass effect. (I am only putting this here becuase of one major flaw....The Elevator music sucked and you spent 20% of the game going up and down random relevators.)

Chronicles of Riddick:Assualt on Dark Athena. (The music plays only on two occasions. Either A)You have reached an important point in the story or B) You fucked up whiling sneaking around and now 2 mechs are trying to kill you. Not really a complaint but I already beat both stories and I'm currently playing it on hard so....The music is the last thing I want to hear.)

 

[PauL o_O]

KH always had great theme songs. OMFG and the mosh fight during the Necromancer fight in Castle Crashers blew my mind

 

[Ham Blitz]

I am not too sure on what I would consider my favorites, though I think I would have to give Left 4 Dead a good one, partially because it is necessary to the game to know when zombies are near or coming.

 

[fenrizz]

GTA3: Vice City
GTA3: San Andreas

Two of the best soundtracks ever!
Sometimes I just had to pull over to listen to a song. Good times.

 

[SquirrelPants]

I liked Oblivion's music score. It was pretty repetitive and all, but most of the time it was so quiet and unobtrusive that it only enhances the game.

 

[TaborMallory]

Again, welcome to the Escapist. This has been done a bit too many times, but I'll excuse you. The search button is your friend.

Anyway, time to contribute. I particularly enjoyed the soundtracks from the Metroid and Halo series. They're probably the only ones I've actually added to my music library.

 

[Cuniculus]

Best: Always loved final fantasy's music. All of them have pretty good scores.

Worst: Blue Dragon. They hired some horrible sounding rock band to make the music, and they played the same annoying ass song for every boss battle.

 

[Calobi]

Best: AudioSurf
Worst: AudioSurf

Really just depends who's tracks are being played.

 

[About To Crash]

Why am I seeing no Shadow of The Colossus? Why? It has the best music, hands down, out of any game I have ever played.

Worst... any THPS games. That's only because I don't like most of the music on there, and any songs I do keep on the playlist aren't so good that they don't get extremely annoying.

 

[Hazy]

Best:
The Mother Games
Red Faction
Chrono Trigger

 

[The Madman]

I love these topics, but wish more people would provide links to the good music so that I can sample these supposedly godlike soundtracks for myself. Great time wasters!
(Hint Hint)

Anyway, some excellent music...

Beyond Good and Evil - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUUGVVQjUNk

Icewind Dale 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW5r1QWMF9Q

Freedom Fighters - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DKyVmhuDg0

Freespace 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izrBfrrov1M

Medieval 2: Total War - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY81yYFzgiU

And as for bad, can't think of any at the moment nor do I really want to.

 

[Flour]

Fortunately this thread exists Now I can save my first created thread for my 1000th post.

RPGs usually have great music, but the best song in any RPG is:

 

[TaborMallory]

Done to death, but I'll play along.

Here are a few of my favorites:
-Halo franchise
-The first Spyro The Dragon
-Starcraft