Best Video Game Music/Theme Song

[Uriel]

DOOM (the Original)
Thief
Deus Ex
Warcraft 2

What am I missing?

[WhiteZero]

Zelda?
o.O

[clarky003]

Farcry and both half lifes for me, the music is really catchy.

[Max35]

Jade Empire

[Hazar]

grim fandango

[Naudian]

Same as clarky003's :E

Though there's lots that I can't think of atm I'm sure...

[Iced_Eagle]

Mario
Halo

[Uriel]

Sam & Max

[Kitfox]

Little Big Adventure 1 (AKA Relentless)
Little Big Adventure 2 (AKA Twinsens Oddessy)

[Murray]

The Worms 1 theme song.
All Megaman games (personally I think Megaman 2 is the best)
All Final Fantasy games
All F-Zero games
Many Castlevania games (Symphony of the Night has the best)
All Command & Conquer games by Westwood. (That is, not Generals, because that is a game by EA that only wears the C&C tag, and since Frank Klepacki didn't make the music for that game, it sucks.)
ESP.Galuda
Golden Eye 007
Ikaruga
Metal Gear Solid
StarCraft

That's about all I can think of at this point.

[_Z_Ryuken]

A lot of the ones listed.
Descent 2.
All Street Fighters.
Samurai Showdown.
TMNTTF.
NFSU.

[Steven]

Duke Nukem 3D
Final Fantasy Six
Mafia

[AiM]

50 Cent Bulletproof

Just kidding...

Or am I

:laugh:

*Edit: Almost forgot... MGS3!!!

"some day, you feed...on a tree frog!"

:laugh:

[Uriel]

Mortal Combat :D

[bam23]

Hitman Contracts

[Emn1ty]

Well, i have 3

The Halo:CE one

"One Winged Angel"

and the opening theme song for C&C Red Alert 2

[Boogymanx]

Kingdom Hearts

[Lucid]

How the hell can you not mention the Final Fantasy series in a video game music thread?!

[venturon]

Chrono Cross had pretty good music.

[jimbo118]

Metal Gear Solid Series
Medal of Honour Series
Hitman series
Thief 3
Grand Theft Auto series
Mafia
Silent Hill Series

[el Chi]

grim fandango
I love you.
So yeah, the best are:
Grim Fandango (http://www.grimfandango.net/?page=soundtrack) (it's called BigBands, Bebop &Bones - fan-f*cking-tastic!)
Deus Ex (http://jadiepoo.com/dx/OST/)
Those are, to thebest of my knowledge, perfectly legal.
Vice City & San Andreas have got some gems on, but they're not original songs, so maybe that doesn't count.

[Jintor]

Psychonauts. Final Fantasy games. Deus Ex.

[Jangle]

Mafia's was awesome.

[el Chi]

Psychonauts. Final Fantasy games. Deus Ex.
I want Psychonauts. SO badly. BUt it's not out over here until next weeek. I mean what the HELL? Stupid Europe.
On second thoughts, stupid publishers.

[Gray Fox]

I want Psychonauts. SO badly. BUt it's not out over here until next weeek. I mean what the HELL? Stupid Europe.
On second thoughts, stupid publishers.
If you havea cerdit card you can buy it for only 40,- signed by shafer himself.

In any case, for me it would be by a long shot the Silent hill series, especially all the Melissa Williamson(AKA Mary Elizabeth McGlynn).
Behind that the mgs series, I especially liked mgs3 SoT)

[Loke]

Freedom Fighters
Metal Gear Solid 2 (the definition of goosebumps)
Duke Nukem 3D
Unreal 1

[ricera10]

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

Especially the Clock Town theme.

[Bob_Marley]

C&C Red Alert. Hell March. Its still the best pice of music and any game ever in my opinion.

[Combine Hybrid]

How the hell can you not mention the Final Fantasy series in a video game music thread?!
Because of FF musics suck...

Metal Gear Solid theme all the way...

Harry Greg William > all video game musics

[Mutley]

Little Big Adventure 1 (AKA Relentless)
Little Big Adventure 2 (AKA Twinsens Oddessy)

Those games rocked!

I can't belive no one mentioned:
Tetris
Super Mario

:cheers:

[Uriel]

I love you.
So yeah, the best are:
Grim Fandango (http://www.grimfandango.net/?page=soundtrack) (it's called BigBands, Bebop &Bones - fan-f*cking-tastic!)
Deus Ex (http://jadiepoo.com/dx/OST/)
Those are, to thebest of my knowledge, perfectly legal.
Vice City & San Andreas have got some gems on, but they're not original songs, so maybe that doesn't count.

OH MY GOSH CHI I <3 U! I've been looking for deus ex music for a long time.

[Darkside55]

Kingdom Hearts
Kingdom Hearts 2 may have the best soundtrack I've ever heard. Every single track is great, and perfectly fits every moment. It's actually the only game soundtrack I really listen to (as in, just regular listening...most other game songs I only listen to if nostalgia strikes me or something).

Other great game soundtracks:

Metal Gear Solid
Final Fantasy
Soul Blade/Edge, Calibur
Sonic 2, Sonic CD

A lot of people mentioned Grim Fandango, sadly I can't remember any of the music from it. Thanks for the link, El Chi; I'm gonna have to listen to some of it.

[TollBooth Willie]

MGS
King Kong- Freakin' bootiful :)
The Thing- Creepy as Hell, and music by Saliva kinda kicked ass. ;(

Half - Life 2 could rival any orchestra imho... Hehe, hearing gunshots , Strider screams and combine chatter qualifies as music when it's all going on at once. :D

[JNightshade]

Oh damns! I totally forgot! Killer7 had a mindblowing soundtrack! Every song was catchy, cool, completely fitting, and totally memorable.

[houndeye]

QFG5: Dragonfire.

Emmy-award winning neo-classical composers FTW.

[JNightshade]

What the hell is QFG5?

[Vigilante]

Read my responses in the pervious 10 threads with the same topic.

[houndeye]

What the hell is QFG5?

Best I can find. (http://www.vintage-sierra.com/qfg.html) It's the fifth installment of the series, with a soundtrack composed by Chance Thomas.

[riomhaire]

GTA 1/3
Halo 1

[Spoonoop]

Battlefield 1942!

[dream431ca]

Without a doubt it has to be Chrono Cross. The best soundtrack for any RPG EVER!!...Maybe Dragon quest 8 is also pretty good, but Chrono Cross is the best.

[VictimOfScience]

You have got to be kidding me! A thread about the best game music and absolutely NO mention of the Monkey Island series??? You should all be ashamed of yourselves!

***Disclaimer: Just kidding, but it has easily my favorite game music ever.***

[Mr. Redundant]

You have got to be kidding me! A thread about the best game music and absolutely NO mention of the Monkey Island series??? You should all be ashamed of yourselves!

***Disclaimer: Just kidding, but it has easily my favorite game music ever.***
yep, ya beat me to it. (seeing as Monkey island's main theme was the first song I taught myself to play on guitar)

also, C&C (all)
Crusader (both, no remorse, no regret)
Enigma force (c64)
Quake 1 (NIN), quake 2
Duke Nukem 3d
Mechwarrior: Mercenaries

[Jintor]

I want Psychonauts. SO badly. BUt it's not out over here until next weeek. I mean what the HELL? Stupid Europe.
On second thoughts, stupid publishers.

You think you've got problems. It's been out in Australia since November 25th, supposedly, but i've never actually seen it anywhere in stores and neither has anyone else I know or have talked to. Plus I'm 14, so no credit card.

[venturon]

You think you've got problems. It's been out in Australia since November 25th, supposedly, but i've never actually seen it anywhere in stores and neither has anyone else I know or have talked to. Plus I'm 14, so no credit card.

Arg I can't find it either!

[jmjneary]

Mario, Halo, Hitman 2

[Samon]

Half-life 2
Deus Ex
Metal gear solid series

[Beerdude26]

Mafia (Download here : Link (http://www.mafia-game.com/music/main_theme.mp3))
Max Payne 2
(Only theme songs here)

[Garfield_]

Silent Hill series
Mafia
Final Fantasy

[Septih]

lemmings!

[Mutley]

C&C: Hell March (rocks, I love those songs that bring back such good memories)

GTA1! (that women hairy song when you get in the pickup)

[Loke]

Oh, F.E.A.R. :p

[riomhaire]

also, C&C (all)
Hell March FTW!

[Bakurei]

Diablo series
Deus Ex
Fallout series
Baldur's Gate

And plenty more :p

[Parlez]

Doom 3, That song at the main menu rocks!

[Warbie]

Tetris, Mario, and the Final Fantasy prelude - gaming music doesn't get more memorable than these.

[Viperidae]

No one's mentioned the Monkey Island series? ARGH!

[CR0M]

Outcast - Moscow Symphony Orchestra, ffs.
or maybe that echoey Diablo guitar. "Shtay a while and lishen..."

[Ennui]

Starcraft and Baldur's Gate.

[houndeye]

lemmings!

You win this thread.

[jimbo118]

Mafia (Download here : Link (http://www.mafia-game.com/music/main_theme.mp3))

cool dude cheers :)

[VictimOfScience]

No one's mentioned the Monkey Island series? ARGH!
If you look closely, I think this guy mentions it somewhere here in this post on page 3 of this thread:
You have got to be kidding me! A thread about the best game music and absolutely NO mention of the Monkey Island series??? You should all be ashamed of yourselves!

***Disclaimer: Just kidding, but it has easily my favorite game music ever.***

[TwwIX]

Main Theme's of...

Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction
Hitman 2

[Viperidae]

If you look closely, I think this guy mentions it somewhere here in this post on page 3 of this thread:
Dohnuts.

[don_johnson]

please tell me someone knows of "zone j" music for the nes game chip and dale rescue rangers? if not, listen here, it is worth your time

http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/nintendo/nes/cdzonej.mid

[Que-Ever]

super mario brothers! wtf!

[h00dlum]

Final Fantasy 7+9
Metal Gear series..

[Ravioli]

Westwood studios music is teh best. Red Alert series, Tiberian Sun etc had awesome music!

Also, Quake 2 had pwnage music.

Dont forget Diablo1/2, also great music!

[Icarusintel]

Full Throttle


Also, Chrono Trigger

[Laivasse]

SonicCD

OMG, I thought I was the only person who remembered this, possibly the greatest Sonic game, and its ace soundtrack. I used to pump up the volume on my Mega CD and spin the game as a music CD quite often as a kid. Ridiculous Japanese rapping and drugged up techno ftw. CHOO CHOO SONIC WATER!

I second the people who mentioned:
FF7
Baldur's Gate
Hitman 2
Grim Fandango

Some of my own:
ROAD RASH!!
Rings of Power (megadrive...now, I KNOW I'm the only person who remembers this one)
Panzer Dragoon series
Planescape (was nice although it ripped off the theme tune from Speed)
Wipeout also always had something cool about it's music

[Garfield_]

Doom 3, That song at the main menu rocks!

I agree, it's so damn scary too ;D

[Max_Payne]

probably the best music from a game, would have to be

Shadow of the colossus. Wholy **** is it amazing... no other game can compair with its style.. or even finess of building up tension within fights. (with exception of the final fantasy series)

PEACE

Mikey:eek:

[joule]

Max Payne 2. Oh yes. And Mafia of course.

[tvharti]

Mafia
Fahrenheit

[mortiz]

I think Zelda's soundtrack is overrated. Some good catchy tunes but nothing you'd want to listen to outside of the game.

System Shock II's soundtrack is pretty good. I usually despise Techno type of music but SS2's works.

[Venmoch]

Cannon Fodder

-EDIT- Some of the Zelda music I hold in high regard.

Most notably the Temple Of Time music. That was awesome. And I can't be the only person thats heard the orchestral versions of the Zelda music can I?

Because that was awesome too.

[Zephos]

Legend of Zelda
Medal of Honour (Like it or not, this music absolutely kicks ass, anyone heard the theme from the level "Arnhem" in Frontline with the child choir singing? The best (and saddest) song ever made in a video game)
Call of Duty (still can't hold a candle to MOH though)

[bored]

The medal of games do have great music, European assault was a rubbish game but the menu music was brilliant, you can listen to it here:

http://www.nettwerk.com/cd.jsp?cd=4110

Dogs of war is the menu music

[DESSTROYER]

Doom1/2 (cant go wrong with the old doom music, have you heard any of the remixes? they are so freaking AWESOME! http://www.ocremix.org/remix/OCR00580/ )
Unreal2k4
Half life 1/2
Mercenaries(has some really good music in it, which is interactive in the game)
Diablo 1/2 (has some really good background music)
F.E.A.R. had some really creepy background music, and the awesome theme song.

[Talyn]

Quest for Glory 1 had really catchy music, considering the inherent limitations of the old MIDI sound cards. I can still hum the Dryad Music, the Title Music, and the Goblin Training Grounds music now, despite not having played the game in probably eight or nine years.

Oh, Tetris, especially some of the remixes you can find on the internet. For more modern games, the "Arrival at Stormwind" music from World of Warcraft is just amazing. Of course, Diablo's haunting woodwinds and guitars really capture your imagination, and I find myself humming the Terran Starcraft songs. So, hmm, let's recap: Quest For Glory I, Tetris, and anything from Blizzard.

[xombine]

Super Mario Bros. ftw!

[Fliko]

Super Mario Bros.
And Zelda OOC
Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do dodo do do dodod dun dun dun. Yeah, its awesome.
EDIT:
http://www.ocremix.org/list.php?type=remixes&offset=1125&sort=gameasc
Go to Super Mario Bros - "UnderworldRock"
Awesome... just Awesome.

[Whezzy]

Shenmue 1 and 2

[Kouler]

Unreal Tournament series is pretty awesome.
Anything by Blizzard is awesome (ie StarCraft, WarCraft, etc)

Seriously, I get shivers down my spine whenever i hear the main menu music from Unreal Tournament 2004, seems to epic. Can't wait till UT2007 :D

But yeah, Blizzard music kicks ass too. My favourites from them would have to be the music from the intro cinematic of WarCraft 3, and some of the Terran music from StarCraft.

[Codcommando]

Metal Gear solid 3 !!!!!!!!