Best game soundtracks ever

[Pulsar_t]

Too bad they didn't make song-length versions of the credits music!

[aaron]

never contributed to this thread initially, but i have grown very fond of the soundtracks for Azure Dreams, Metroid II, and Mega Man 2. i also have a nice piano arrangement of the Okami soundtrack that rules. and i like the theme from Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles.

the Gitaroo Man soundtrack is by far my favorite video game soundtrack of all time.

[spiritplx]

Are you talking about the whole series or just the first game on PS1?

The whole series is awesome, but a lot of music from the first game was reused throughout the series. The second game added some more, and some of its unique music was reused later as well.

But yeah, I recommend listening to any music in the series, and especially the live versions by A.S.H.

[BurningDoom]

Should I resurrect this, shouldn't I? I don't know anymore. I took the time to search to make sure I wasn't making a dupe thread, so I'm bringing it back to life.

Some memorable ones for me:

-Batman (NES) - Some of the best music on the NES

-Bionic Commando (NES) - Gives Mega Man 2 a run for it's money in the NES music department, even.

-Brutal Legends - I'm a big metal-head, so this game was pretty freaking awesome for me. And the soundtrack is like a tour through metal history. \m/

-Donkey Kong Country - So impressive back then. And still great to this day. The water-level song is especially mesmorizing. And the jungle-level song is so freaking catchy!

-Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock - This entry had the most metal stuff on it, not counting the Metallica entry, so I enjoyed it the most out of the main series (I still haven't played GH5, though).

-Guitar Hero: Metallica - It's Metallica...nuff said.

-Halo 2 - So epic. They way it mixes orchestral music and an electric guitar, and they way it's all timed perfectly to the action going on the game. It just gets you pumped while you're playing the game!

-Lords of Thunder - Possibly the greatest video game soundtrack of all-time! So freaking awesome. It's like an instrumental metal album, in a awesome shoot-em up game!

-Mega Man 2 - The NES sound-chip, perfected.

-Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos - I know many people are wondering why I didn't put the first Ninja Gaiden on here instead. Well it's simple, I played a whole lot more of Ninja Gaiden II when I was a kid, because that's the one I owned. And it had spectacular music. I love Year 200X's metal cover of the intro theme.

-Sonic the Hedgehog 1-3 & Knuckles - All of them had great music that just fit the feel of the gameplay perfectly. And they show what the Genesis was really capable of, audially.

-Super Mario Bros. - Timeless. Who under the age of 40 doesn't automatically know the the theme to level 1-1?

-Super Metroid - Very atmospheric music, almost cinematic. Very well done, especially considering it was a SNES game.

-Tony Hawk's Underground - Lots of different real bands on this game. This was the first time I remember this happening in a game, to this degree at least. I know games like Apocalypse, Twisted Metal 3, and Road Rash 3D (and of course the earlier THPS games) had some real bands doing tracks for them, beforehand. But Tony Hawk's Underground I remember had an impressive number of tracks on it from a LOT of different stuff.

[dsheinem]

Should I resurrect this, shouldn't I? I don't know anymore. I took the time to search to make sure I wasn't making a dupe thread, so I'm bringing it back to life.,.

We were doing this more systematically here: http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=393678

and here: http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... 44&t=29286

add the ones we don't have to those lists!

[MulishaSoldier929]

Most of my favorites have already been said but I will add the 'Herzog Zwei'(Genesis) soundtrack to this list. Haven't played much of the later versions, but the first Wipeout soundtrack is pretty sick. When i play that game the bass goes up.