Best Video Game Music

Just for funsies, I'm not going to list any Nintendo titles in this.

Castlevania II: Simon's Quest Classic, catchy, Castlevania. What more can I say?
Touhou Shinreibyou (Ten Desires) Honestly, I could spend an entire fucking post talking about how amazing Touhou's music is (it's tempting, really) but I'll just leave it by saying Ten Desires easily has one of my favorite soundtracks of any game.
Rocket Knight Adventures Outlaw already posted the boss theme (which is my favorite track from the game) but I need to stress how great the music for this game is. This is the shit childhoods are made of.
Monster Hunter: Portable 3rd Amazing theme for an amazing fight. Much more satisfying experience than Lagiacrus for sure.
Mad World The game was kinda meh, but the soundtrack was top notch all around. And speaking of Platinum Games soundtracks...
Anarchy Reigns I challenge you to find me a single bad song in this game. Go ahead, I'll wait.
No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle Some songs are so memorable, they can take an otherwise forgettable boss and make them stick with you forever.
Persona 3 Some songs are so memorable, they can take generic enemy encounters and make th-BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY
Muramasa: The Demon Blade This entire soundtrack is so chill. Great if you're into traditional Japanese tunes.
Super Meat Boy Danny Baranowski is a god and should be treated as such.
The Binding of Isaac No, seriously. He's awesome.
Mighty Switch Force I didn't expect the music from a downloadable 3DS title to be so good, but I'm sure glad I was wrong.

I've got more, but I'll leave it at this for now.
 
Some of my best memories were from Halo 1 and the music in particular really stands out. The themes are simple yet atmospheric and I really enjoy listening to them even on their own.

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A Walk in the Woods

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Under Cover of Night

A lot of tunes were rehashed for Halo 2 but the two best ones in my opinion were actually original pieces. Again they are simple but really atmospheric and are just nice melodies.

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In Amber Clad

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Peril

Never Forget from Halo 3 is a decent way to sign off I guess, I love this piece! Delicate but powerful.

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Never Forget
 
No Donkey Kong Country 2 in this thread? Widely considered to be maybe the greatest soundtrack of all time? I am ashamed of you people.
 
bumping this shit because the world will never know beauty like yosyonke

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Oh my lord both of these are too amazing to be from a game.

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Megamans you say?

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I could post tons of classic Megaman tracks, but this is just a fantastic song. Most electric Megaman bosses have great music.

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Creepy atmosphere, Scyther boss rip-off, who cares this track it awesome.

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One of the few RPG's where you can enjoy going into every battle without having it feel like a huge drain.
 
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The openings to both Tales of Symphonia games are by far some of my favorite video game music of all time, I could literally listen to (and have) listened to them for hours.

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best boss music of all time? y/y
 
Agreeing 100% with being able to post Megaman music till the cows come home :]

Anyway coincidentally some of my favourite video game music happily comes from some of my favourite games.

Ace Attorney, the music in these games is exhilarating, smooth and always fits the mood perfectly. As well as the vibrant characters themselves usually having brilliant themes but I won't list them all.

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Professor Layton

Everytime I play one of these games I'm waiting for him to conjure up something spectacular to this theme.

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Little bit random, but this theme has stuck in my head for years and i'm sure its the reason I didn't go insane trying to beat that level in DK64.

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skimmed this thread and only saw one touhou song, so i'll dump some more here, because seriously, touhou music is some awesome shit.

Flight of the Bamboo Cutter ~ Lunatic Princess
Satori Maiden ~ 3rd Eye
Futatsuiwa from Sado
Lunar Clock ~ Luna Dial
Necrofantasia
Vanishing Dream ~ Lost Dream

it's a bit hard to express the whole spectrum of ZUN's songs in just 6 themes, but that should give you guys a general idea of the variety of moods there are.

also have some SMG2:
The Starship Sails
Hurry!
 
Oh hey this thread again.

Linking a lot so I might repeat some other people's posts...

Battle with a Spirit / Fighting Spirit / Fighting of the Spirit / who the fuck cares it's a good song

Tales of Phantasia Super Famicom version

Tales of Phantasia PlayStation version

Tales of Phantasia PSP version

Tales of Symphonia version

S.S.H. version

okay enough of that

Tales of Phantasia ~ The Second Act

Final Fantasy Adventure ~ Fight 2 (possibly the best theme on the Game Boy - yeah I went there)

SaGa 3 ~ Gods of Another Dimension

SaGa 3 ~ Steslos

Final Fantasy II ~ Magician's Tower

StarCraft ~ Terran 1

Super Smash Bros. Melee ~ Multi-Man Melee 1

Final Fantasy III ~ The Dark Crystals (this alone makes this game's final dungeon one of the best in the series)

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Justice For All ~ Search Core 2002 (I should have mentioned this guy in that other thread... oh well)

Romancing SaGa 3 ~ Battle Theme (quite possibly my favourite JRPG mook battle theme)

Romancing SaGa 3 ~ Occult Castle Battle Theme

Romancing SaGa 3 ~ The Wicked Will Never Prosper (Robin's theme)

Mother 3 ~ Isn't this such a Utopia?!

Mother 3 ~ DCMC Theme

Mother 3 ~ Theme of DCMC (wait what)

Chrono Cross ~ Prisoners of Fate (Battle against Miguel) (I prefer Chrono Trigger overall but Chrono Cross has the superior soundtrack)

Chrono Cross ~ Forest of Illusions

Chrono Cross ~ The Girl Who Stole the Stars

Final Fantasy V ~ The Decisive Battle (Exdeath battle theme)

Final Fantasy VI ~ The Decisive Battle

Final Fantasy VI ~ The Mystic Forest (really I could go on and on with FF6 because I like every single track)

SaGa 2 ~ Burning Blood

SaGa 2 ~ Never Give Up

SaGa 2 ~ Theme of the New God

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations ~ Godot - The Fragrance of Dark Coffee

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations ~ Trial 2004

Xenogears ~ Blackmoon Forest

Xenogears ~ Thames, the Men of the Sea (I AM

A MAN

OF THE SEA)

Final Fantasy IX ~ Stirring the Forest

Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth ~ Tyrell Badd - The Truth Isn't Sweet

SaGa 1 ~ Main Theme
 
okay gonna geek out a bit

World of Goo is a beautifully crafted little indie game that's been graced with one of the most unexpectedly fabulous soundtracks I've ever encountered... I could list nearly half of the game's tracks, but the following are my personal favorites:

Best of Times
Red Carpet Extend-o-Matic
Ode to the Bridge Builder
Rain Rain Windy Windy

If you only listen to one, go with the first...I highly recommend them all, though!

Xenoblade Chronicles also has a seriously impressive song collection full of heaps of epic, larger-than-life compositions mixed with softer emotive pieces throughout the entirety of the game's massive storyline. Refraining from dumping 10+ links here as well was difficult.

Main Theme
Colony 9
Refugee Camp
Central Factory
Engage the Enemy

Some obligatory Super Mario Galaxy orchestrated goodness here:

Super Mario Galaxy - Gusty Garden Galaxy
Super Mario Galaxy - Rosalina's Comet Observatory 1

Pokemon favorites include the following:

Pokemon Red/Blue - Vermillion City
Pokemon Gold/Silver - Azalea Town
Pokemon Gold/Silver - Goldenrod City
Pokemon Diamond/Pearl - Route 209
Pokemon White - Opelucid City

...and then these assorted retro-ish tracks hold special places in my heart:

Super Mario World - Athletic
Mario Kart 64 - Rainbow Road
Paper Mario - Princess Peach's Theme
Kirby's Dreamland 2 - Coo the Owl
Kirby's Dreamland 2 - King Dedede
Kirby 64 - Down the Mountain Stream
Kirby 64 - 02
 
The World Ends With You has some pretty cool soundtracks, while my favorite theme of all time must be the one for Pallet Town (LGFR) afjklasjfsdk NOSTALGIA!!!
 
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I have a ton of favorite video games songs. I'm just going to post this one for now because of how nostalgic it makes me feel. Paper Mario is such a good game, UGH. Maybe I'll post more later.
 
IMHO, 90s and early 00s was probably the best period when it comes to video game music.

Unreal was a masterpiece in every way possible, in my personal opinion, and it's music was no exception:
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Nightvision/Terraniux
Shock Troops
Steam Pressure
Red Alert

Unreal Tournament '99 was definitely a great follow up to the original unreal, and once again, the music was phenomenal
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Skyward Fire
Razorback
Mission Landing

The original Starcraft had some of the best music in an RTS to date, IMHO
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Terran 2
Zerg 1
Zerg 3

Serious Sam as a series has IMO a very underrated soundtrack. The music just makes you feel like a complete badass when fighting the hordes of enemies
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Great Pyramid
Grand Cathedral
Fight 5 AKA WAAAAAAAR!

Both Dungeon Keeper games were pretty amazing when it comes to music, with the first providing amazing ambient soundtrack and the second having intense battle music.
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Ghostly Waterways
Mystic Tunnels
Battle Music
Battle Music 2

Might post more later, but those are some of my favourites :heart:
 
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