Your Top 5 Gaming End-Credits Songs?

[Mozgus]

What is it about that piece of music which plays during the final credits of a game? If carefully chosen, it can severely help solidify the ending, and seal the story permanently in your mind. It can even make a mediocre game seem fantastic and fulfilling once you beat it (Dragoon). This is something that became more important, as technology improved and we were given streamed audio in our games.

Here are my Top 5:

5. Legend of Dragoon - If You Still Believe
4. Max Payne 2 - Late Goodbye
3. Prince of Persia - Time Only Knows
2. Tenchu - Ending Theme (Faraway)
1. Metal Gear Solid - The Best Is Yet To Come

Download all 5 here, in a convenient zip file. The Prince of Persia song is in MPC format. Here's the Winamp plugin for it. Unfortunately, it is also the shorted version from the official OST

Runner ups:

Xenogears - Small Two of Pieces ~Broken Shards~
Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines - {Lacuna Coil - Swamped}
Beyond Good & Evil - Home Theme

So you can probably see that my top 5 are all tracks with a balanced, high degree of composition & production value, with lyrical aspects. I don't think it matters if they opted to use licensed music. All that matters is that the song fits with the mood that you are experiencing, after the ending.

What are your top 5?

[All Hail The New Flesh]

I never really cared for ending music, but the ones you mechend are good examples. I do like the ending music in Prey, I don't like that kind of music but it fits.

[Torrean]

1. Halo 2- Whatever songs those are
2. Call of Duty 2- The song just sounds good
3. Legend of Dragoon - If You Still Believe

[Incognito D]

I was going to start this thread but I searched the history and found this. Hopefully a mega-bump is the right thing to do rather than a new thread on the same topic.

Anyway, favourite end credits?

Shenmue
http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=V0JjhkWgQcg

Metal Gear Solid
http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=GXH_q78KKD0

Super Mario 64
http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=-80d4bqVrxE

Mario Kart 64
http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=-2oCprkt8Hc


They all bring a tear to my eye!

[Ivo]

Good bump.

I think someone should mention "You have to burn the rope", so I'll do it instead of giving a top 5 of my own

Ivo.

[Pulsar_t]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_oUfB6-JF4


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrQrkZtg-mo


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hCBpmLURqM


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gISlB1IdUjI


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkA4MoYUKUg

[J T]

Needs more Portal.

[Luke]

Tough to list just five.

Well, I'll throw this out there; Sonic the Hedgehog.

I love how they took you through all the game's music, stage by stage.

[dlmvii]

I would think that Portal would have to be on everybody's list by default

[TheyCallMeTheSwede]

This is just weird seeing my old account here