Best Game Music

[racketboy]

What games do you think have the best soundtrack/background music?

Here's my favorites:
Jet Grind Radio
Jet Set Radio Future
Space Channel 5
Katamari Damacy

[Pullmyfinger]

The JSR soundtracks are great, there is also an SF3 arrange album that sound quite well, and I liked most of the Sonic Adventure 2 OST too

[Conn]

Man, it's pretty hard for me to choose..

Jet Set Radio/Future
Mega Man 1-8
Katamari 1-3
Castlevania series
Zelda series
Metal Gear series

And while Shadow of the Colossus doesn't really have a soundtrack, the background sounds really set the mood of the game.

[Mozgus]

I couldnt possibly answer this. It would have 200 results.

[NeoRage]

1.Chrono Trigger
2.Secret of Mana
3.Final Fantasy 7
4.Jelly Boy(SNES)
5.Hook(SNES)
6.Soul Blazer(SNES)
7.Katamari Damacy(1+2)
8.Wild Arms
9.Zelda: A Link to the Past
10.Super Metroid(SNES)

There are so many great ones!

[racketboy]

I couldnt possibly answer this. It would have 200 results.

you can't give a top 5 or top 3?

[Mega-Dan]

Super Mario (invincible music)
Zelda
Tetris
Fanfare from Final fantasy when you win a battle
and for actual good music
Katamari Datmacy

That stuff gets stuck in my head all the time

[Mozgus]

I couldnt possibly answer this. It would have 200 results.

you can't give a top 5 or top 3?

How about a top 10 for under-appreciated albums?

Die Hard Trilogy
Freedom Fighters
Grim Fandango
HeadHunter
Jumping Flash
Megaman Network Transmission
Ristar
Sacrifice (Same composer as the Invader Zim cartoon.)
Shogo: Mobile Armor Division
X-Men 2: Clone Wars (Sega put out an arranged CD that is fantastic.)

[grittykitty]

as far as game music goes, i'm pretty NES-biased. i like the simplicity and it's easy to hear the 4 "instruments" (sometimes 5?) playing in each song. mega man 2 is my nomination for best video game music. super mario bros. 3 is also really good, and the remake of the underground theme from the original super mario bros. adds a lot of flavor to it. balloon fight and mother (earthbound zero) also have lots of great tunes

look into video game music files (i think .nsf for NES games and .spc for SNES games, etc) to rip your own video game music CDs. if you wanna hear a real band playing the songs instead (strictly NES though), check out the band 'minibosses'!

[bawitback]

1. Castlevania: SOTN
2. Guilty Gear X2
3. Guilty Gear Isuka
4. Katamari Damacy