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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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