The single greatest piece of video game music

[silasbufu]

I always liked the one from Hitman 2's starting menu.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3SDN5jA7ik

Also, to people who post stuff like "you're all wrong, the best one is : " , you're all simpletons.

 

[caz105]

This song ruled my childhood, it is amazing for the equipment they had to create it with.

 

[Kaim89]

http://youtu.be/XwEvOb5K4W0 From Castlevania Dawn of sorrow.
http://youtu.be/l8RBYi2ok10 Spellforce: Order of Dawn

And mostly every Blizzard game.

 

[Adam Galli]

I would have to go with the score from the original Legend of Zelda or the soundtrack to Medal of Honor Frontline. Also, I should give a tip of the hat to the music from the Assassin's Creed series.


Legend of Zelda



Medal of Honor

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

kidding of course, anyway i think the best video game music is actually the menu music from L.A. Noire

It makes me want to narrate over it with a Sam Spade voice and say things like 'broad' xD awesome

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

Such a moving and epic song that progressively builds from the theme of a desolate battlefield inhabited by an old soldier withering away at the seems to an intense, monumental battle that carries the fate of the free world on it's shoulders. It's awesome and I love it:

 

[Bostur]

No game music collection is complete without Rob Hubbards theme from "Delta". Here on a real synth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tLY_E1-8RM

And on the original hardware for comparison:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlwgAzgK7ws


I have to give a thumbs up to "Baba Yetu", thats one of the most outstanding pieces of game music made.

 

[Evaheist666]

Metal Gear Solid 2 main theme.

 

[RabbidKuriboh]

oh god this is the most perfect piece of music ever,crafted,beautiful,ambient,soothing,mysterious i could go on and on about this song

 

[LiquidGrape]

It would have to be the instrumental version of Still Alive from the Mirror's Edge score.


A perfect match for the game, and a tune which resonates with me on several levels.

 

[Mr. 47]

Ave maria, the Hitman theme, Metal Gear Solid 4 OST - Love Theme, Ezio's family, and MGS4 old snake (Embedded in post a few above.) I tend to enjoy the more poetic songs in games like these.

 

[Sandernista]

It is the Stone Tower Theme, with Song of Storms (and it's zeldastep remix) being a close second.

 

[hammelbamf]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZArBXYO1Nk
The Shadowbroker Theme Thingy

 

[LiraelG]

To Zanarkand from Final Fantasy X. As soon as I heard that piece, I just stopped... It's beautiful.

 

[philip1228]

I'd say most of the stuff in the Super Smash Bros games, can't put my finger on any single one, though.

 

[Tonythion]

-Halo snip-

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.

This music is just, gah.

You win this thread.
None of the Halo titles are within spitting distance of my favorite games, but I've yet to come across a theme as iconic, memorable and, quite frankly, amazing as this one.

thank ya thank ya and what you said is 150% true. The other music for Halo is good, very good but no where close to this.

 

[LeonLethality]

I cannot think of one song to hold above all else since there are many different styles of music. But I can think of a recent amazing song that I am calling the greatest song of the past year or two: To their respective futures from Pokemon Black/White. This song blew me away.

 

[IncredibleTurnip]

I noticed several people give the right answer (Time's Scar from either Chrono Trigger or Chrono Cross).

Spoiler: Other fine options

 

[Soviet Heavy]

...I'll give it a try. Admittedly, I know little of Morrowind...

Well, the main theme is famous, but a contender for best Morrowind Theme comes from Road Most Traveled.

Soule has some other very good soundtracks, that are often overlooked. Knights of the Old Republic and the original Dawn of War had some very understated music.

Chant

And the Sith Academy theme.

 

[Gwright9001]

Kotake & Koume's Theme from Ocarina of time/Majora's Mask
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5py-V-H4n_o&feature=channel_video_title
maybe not the best piece but certainly up there.
So much goes on in this song, and that tempo is enough alone to make me
dance in my seat.