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Heh, the Minibosses are pretty cool. Also the Black Mages, who do FF music. They're very good musicians.
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If you want a site with lots of redone video game songs...www.vgmix.com. It's got literally hundreds of remixed songs from videogame soundtracks, some of them very good. Also all free. It's actually where I get most of the music that I listen to.
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quote: Cyan's theme from FF 3 (us numbering) is probably my favorite of video game music, not because the composing is any better, but it just reaches me. A lot of FF music is like that.
FF 3(6) totally has some of the greatest video game music of all time. Rachel's Theme is so bittersweet. And yeah, Cyan's theme is awesome. Before I ever had the internet and the ability to download midis, I would piss my friends off by flying to Doma Castle and listening to Cyan's theme for 10 minutes.
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I still sometimes hear the theme for Megaman 2. Especially Flashman and uhh...The stickybomb guy (I forgot his name ). Cyan's theme was good. But I really liked Celes's theme. It's not as good now as it was, what, 6 years ago? But hey. Uhh...what else. Dark Reign, if anyone's ever played that game, had a great soundtrack for the time (It was to first RTS I ever played with a symphonic soundtrack to it. I often just listened to the soundtrack, even while playing other games). Tropico 2 had a fun soundtrack, very fitting for the game. Of course, I'm a fan of all the Command & Conquer soundtracks (Except Tiberian Sun, which went WAY off track, pardon the pun). Yeah, that's all I can think of right now (That hasn't been mentioned).
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quote:And yes, Mega Man 2 had the best music from any Mega Man game. Actually, it was the best Mega Man game, period.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks this. And I don't understand WHY it was the best Mega Man game. They were all just kinda re-hashes of the same game, yet, Mega Man 2 was the best...Odd.
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quote:I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks this. And I don't understand WHY it was the best Mega Man game. They were all just kinda re-hashes of the same game, yet, Mega Man 2 was the best...Odd.
I don't know either, but I do know that everyone I have talked to about the series agrees with us. The best guess I can come up with is that it expanded upon and was more versatile than the first, so it had more to offer and made for a better experience. And though later games also added certain things, by then we weren't as impressed because we had basically seen it all before. For me, at least, the first game was good, the second excellent, and each subsequent game progressively duller.
But surely there are other game series my analysis could refer to in which the second was not the best. So even if there is truth in what I've just said, there must be more to it than that.
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My favorite game music was in both NOLF games. While I might not rush out and buy a soundtrack, the music added to the flavor of the games perfectly. It's all about atmosphere with me, and the music to these added the perfect touch to already incredible immersive games.
I know I'm a broken record, but all the Thief games had the same quality, as well. The music was perfect for the atmosphere.
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quote: Actually, I think the North American release was in 1994.
Yeah, but I didn't play it til 98 or sometime around there.
quote: But surely there are other game series my analysis could refer to in which the second was not the best.
I'm going to say Castlevania was another series where the second game was the best. Simon's Quest rocked (Soundtrack wasn't too bad either), but I just can't get into any of the other ones (The third one was pretty close, but still not as good IMO)
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I would say the Sims 2 and Morrowind, but since these are the only two games I ever spent time on, it's not an objective judgment.
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I don't play many video games, but I used to love the music on King's Quest VI. I know, corny. Old. Out of date. But I stand by it.
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That reminds me a bit of Zeliard, which I was so obsessed with as a kid I still have the first few levels memorized ^^
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The old LucasArts videogame "The Dig" had nice background music, with just the right feel. It was in the style of Howard Shore's beautiful scores for "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy. I like my music to be beautiful. It has the widest range of moods and feelings.
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Callahan's Crosstime Saloon. No question. It's got songs by Spider Robinson with guitar work by Amos Garrett.
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While I still love the music to M.U.L.E., primitive though it is, I'm going to agree with Feyd that the music to Homeworld is pretty incredible.
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Final fantasy 7 (the best with Tactics) and I remember a game in 3D with a special Bowie Music : The Nomad Soul.
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Mario.....all of it.....I love all the Mario music...........I play it in my head all the time................and can sing most of it.............if anyone knows were I can get the complete Mario soundtrack on CD I would bless you five times and...............bless you five times??? Posts: 22 | Registered: Jan 2005
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Morrowind had a gorgeous, epic soundtrack that really made the world tangible to whoever played it.
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The only game soundtrack I have purchased is Space Channel 5. I would sort of like to get the soundtrack to Katamari Damacy since it plays through my head a lot.
And San Andreas? What Evah! The music in Vice City was soo much better.
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Jet Set Radio Future has some awesome music. Very Jpop and unusual.
Homeworld 2 has some good music, too. It's much more directed than the Homeworld 1 soundtrack. It's very muslim-sounding. If I could, I'd have them both on CD. Posts: 903 | Registered: May 2003
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I loved the soutracks from Myst III and IV (both done by Jack Wall), and the World of Warcraft music is also exelent (each area I've been to has it's own music that fits perfectly)
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I've been thinking about picking up Myst IV or a Myst bundle of some kind for precisely that reason. He's really astonishingly good.
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The PC Game that came out in 1999 (i think) had music that was adapted well to match that of the movie.
Amazingly sparse use of music, but was there blew me away. i think it's the only video game music i have ever bothered taking notice of.
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So I was going to start a new thread, but then I figured that there had to be one like it (and so there was). I guess this thread isn't that old... so don't kill me for bumping.
I'm going to cast my vote for Homeworld as the best music I have heard in a game (hey, mack: you can get all the music here, as well as all the animatics/cutscenes here.) The opening song gives that great "vast empty space" feel. The credits song was cool too
The Ace Combat series, partucularly the latter two games have good music as well; AC4*(soundtrack here) and 5 both use latin vocals in the same way as Homeworld. Even the monologues are well done. AC5's The Unsung War is one of the best songs I have ever heard in a game, possibly even better than HW's main theme.
--j_k
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One bit of VG music that has stuck with me for years is the Cosmo Canyon music from FFVII. It's still one of those places I'll go visit in the game just to hear it again.
Also, the first time I bought Heroes of Might and Magic II, the music that you heard when you entered your own castles was this phenomenal operatic soundtrack that doesn't appear on my current version (the old CD broke so I bought it again). The rest of the music for that game is unremarkable, but I loved visiting my castles -- especially the Sorceress castle with the Phoenix and the unicorns.
Vote for Homeworld.
FFIII(6) yet again. That was one of my first games in which I was aware of how much the music influenced my video game experience. So many memorable melodies.
And Chrono Trigger. The music that plays on the overland map (I don't remember which time) may be among the top three music themes in the entire (relatively short) history of video games.
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I always liked the Sonic 1 and 3 soundtracks. As far as computer games go, I second the HOMM 2 vote. The music for the credits of the original Descent was also good.
Megaman 2 may have had better bosses, but Megaman 3 had better overall gameplay. And Shadow Man was several orders of magnitude more awesome than Metal Man.
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