The Best Music in Video Games

pinkfloyd789 · Post by **pinkfloyd789** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 12:12 am

Wow! I never knew Outlaws was by Lucasarts! Lucasarts hit's yet another homerun. The music there is just amazing. Sadly, it's not my favorite

. My new favorite is COMI. "A Pirate I was Meant To BE."

Dal · Post by **Dal** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 1:49 am

pinkfloyd789 wrote:Wow! I never knew Outlaws was by Lucasarts! Lucasarts hit's yet another homerun. The music there is just amazing. Sadly, it's not my favorite . My new favorite is COMI. "A Pirate I was Meant To BE."

Yes indeed - especially if you're sad as I am and aim to get all the timing correct when you start the verses...

pinkfloyd789 · Post by **pinkfloyd789** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 3:47 am

I almost died when Cutthroat Bill yelled out "If You disrespect our singing we will feed you to a kraken!" For My signture I was going to put the whole song, put I can only put one verse.

SithlordDK · Post by **SithlordDK** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 1:00 pm

Shadow of the Colossus by Kow Otani (crappy Youtube 64kbit/s mono sound http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnKFZy00G78 )

God Of War Soundtracks (where Clint Bajakian was involved!)

Cyphox · Post by **Cyphox** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:34 pm

Monkey Island (especially the enhanced cd-version or the floppy-versoin with MT-32 emulation)....
wing commander 2
all star wars games....

i guess the first two are chosen because this games where the first games i ever played on pc.... okay, i played mi2 before mi1, but hey, the theme of mi1 is much better than the theme of mi2....imho.....

tadhock · Post by **tadhock** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 2:28 am

I quite liked the Dreamfall music

raina · Post by **raina** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 6:55 pm

tadhock wrote:I quite liked the Dreamfall music

I look forward to hearing it as I recently scored a beautiful 6 CD release of Dreamfall for pennies. Just have to play The Longest Journey first.

JamesWoodcock · Post by **JamesWoodcock** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:07 pm

This is really a tough one! I will need to think for a long time to make a top 10, but generally SEGA games from the past have had some great tracks in there.

If we were limiting to point and click adventures though, Broken Sword 1 had lovely atmospheric music, real emotional stuff

GrubbySeismic · Post by **GrubbySeismic** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:59 am

Slight tangent, but FragDolls's Kitt & Sarin's vid-blogs from Jan have f'in solid intro...

SithlordDK · Post by **SithlordDK** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 12:50 pm

glidem wrote:This is really a tough one! I will need to think for a long time to make a top 10, but generally SEGA games from the past have had some great tracks in there.

If we were limiting to point and click adventures though, Broken Sword 1 had lovely atmospheric music, real emotional stuff

Yeah... a shame that they didn't bring out a Soundtrack CD from Broken Sword!

Higgins · Post by **Higgins** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 3:52 am

There's that german dude called Jochen Hippel. He made some nice tunes for Atari ST & Amiga (Turrican II, Lethal XCess, Chambers of Shaolin...). I found his unoffical MySpace page, if you enjoy the ol' chiptune sound.

Apart from that, nothing very unusual : Doom, Monkey Island, Gabriel Knight, etc. Maybe a special point for S&M Hit the Road!

Retrogamer · Post by **Retrogamer** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 6:50 am

I really like all the old Space Quest music. I really liked the bar scene in the SQ1 VGA remake with the Blues Brothers on stage. The music on Kerona is really eerie.
I also really liked the music in Full Throttle and Sam and Max.

Now, non-adventure wise, the game with the best soundtrack EVER was Road Rash for the 3do/Saturn/Playstation/PC. Soundgarden, Monster Magnet, and Therapy? were all on that soundtrack. Awesome stuff for early 90s alternative rock fans.

crazyjudge · Post by **crazyjudge** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 9:20 pm

I actually love the music on Donkey Kong games mainly the first really (Donkey Kong Country) SNES.

Arantor · Post by **Arantor** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 2:39 pm

Now that Back To The Roots has resurfaced, a whole bunch of chip tunes would have been resurrected with it, some from games and some not.

The entire archive can be found at http://www.back2roots.org/ (and everything on there should be 100% legal to download, having obtained the creator's permission)

Pope · Post by **Pope** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 1:01 am

The Elder Scrolls III (Morrowind)
I also like the battlethemes for games like Battlefield 1942 and Operation Flashpoint.