Video Game Music - general discussion

I'm in love with these songs.

edited 22nd Jan '10 4:05:58 PM by Komodin

Experience has taught me to investigate anything that glows.

The overlooked platformer Pac-Man World has some pretty nice "remixes" of the classic arcade music, as well as some awesome original music.

Electivirus: Big bombastic orchestras you say?

I give you ys008 ~The Final Duel~ from Rosenkreuzstilette.

"Only now, after being besieged by a flock of talking ponies, did he really understand what he'd lost. "

Actually, more like this.

HOLY FUCK I CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS OST TO COME OUT.

Electivirus, would you kill me if I said I only had 2 Final Fantasy songs in my playlist?

Normally, yes. But since it's those two, I guess I can let it slide.

Speaking of, Floating Continent needs moar love. It's always "Aria Di Mezzo Carattere" this and "Dancing Mad" that. Great songs, don't get me wrong, but I'd take Floating Continent over both of them any day.

edited 22nd Jan '10 10:28:00 PM by Electivirus

-phew- Okay. BTW, are there any other FF songs you'd reccomend? My Square-Enix playlist seems a little small...

(EDIT: to the post below: either one is fine.)

edited 22nd Jan '10 10:35:45 PM by Blueeyedrat

Wall-o-Text version or simple list?

The sealed cave theme from FF 6 is also awesome.

You might like this one, then. And from the same series, this and this and this and this and this and this and this. Remixes count, right?

Oh, and there's something I'm supposed to say, um... ah. TOUHOU HIJACK, LOL!

About the only CDs and soundtracks I own are from video games  ^*

. I just don't like modern music, mainly because it tends to have lyrics, which I feel is cheating (foreign languages, especially Latin, are usually exempt from this rule). As a result, I've got 13.3 gigs of game soundtracks and fan remixes on me hardrive, accumulated over the years from friends, the internet, and even actual imported CDs.

I tend to go through phases when it comes to interests, and music is no exception. TV Tropes has enriched my life by introducing me to the work of ZUN, but before that I was a big fan of Jeremy Soule and Doyle Donehoo, and before that Yasunori Mitsuda, not to mention my old favorites.

Current earworm: "Time of Death"

@ Blueeyedrat: I'll try and keep this brief; otherwise, this post'll never end.

Final Fantasy X 2

• Eternity ~ Memory of Lightwaves. A beautiful violin/piano piece.
  • Besaid is also magnificent, especially when that Spanish Guitar kicks in partway through. Also, not that these versions are not from the OST, but from the official arranged album done with real instruments. I only chose these versions because, well, I love them more than the originals. ^^

From Final Fantasy I:

• Battle Scene.
• Underwater Temple.
• Boss Battle A.
• Boss Battle B.
• Last Battle.

From Final Fantasy II

• Rebel Army's Theme.
• Main Theme.
• Holy shit, Battle Scene A.
• Castle Pandemonium.

From Final Fantasy III

• Memory of the Wind ~Legend of the Eternal Wind~. Gorgeous. Just...fucking gorgeous.
• Eternal Wind. Still fucking gorgeous.
• Jinn's Curse.
• Ancient's Village. Gorgeous.
• Requiem. Best game over music ever. Which is good, considering how many times you had to hear it...
• The Boundless Ocean. ...You know what goes here.
• Elia, The Maiden of Water. ...

From Final Fantasy IV

• Prelude.
• Theme of Love.
• Battle 2.
• Fabul.
• HOLY SHIT, Golbez Clad in the Dark.
• The Dreadful Battle.
• The Lunarians.

Final Fantasy V

• Ahead on Our Way.
• Sealed Away.
• The Fierce Battle.
• Musica Machina.
• The Day Will Come.
• The Book of Sealings.
• The Decisive Battle.
• The Last Battle.
• Dear Friends.

Final Fantasy VI

• Awakening.
• Troops March On.
• Phantom Train.
• Celes.
• Terra.
• Devil's Lab.
• Battle to the Death.
• Dark World.
• Searching for Friends.
• Kefka's Tower.

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That's all for now. I'll post song recommendations from VII-XII tomorrow; I'm tired.

edited 22nd Jan '10 11:38:25 PM by Electivirus

Some of the original music from Need for Speeds II and III is excellent and sadly overlooked.

• NFS II
  • Siwash Rock
  • Corroboree
  • Cerebral Plumbing

• NFS III
  • Monster
  • Knossos
  • Cetus 808

edited 23rd Jan '10 5:32:22 AM by MattyDienhoff

@ Blueeyedrat; also, there's some "metal" versions of Final Fantasy songs by The Black Mages, if you're interested in that/haven't heard it yet. See: these three playlists.

@ Electivirus: listened to some of them; downloaded "Memory of the Wind"; will go back and listen to the rest eventually. Oh, and best game over music ever? Are you sure?

@ Allan Aokage: That reminds me, I need to make a "Remixes" playlist eventually.

edited 23rd Jan '10 9:13:45 AM by Blueeyedrat

@ Electivirus and Blueeyedrat: Best game over music ever? Are you both forgetting...

Don't take life too seriously. It's only a temporary situation.

Sonic CD JP and Tetrisphere are still God tier and second to none.

• XeoN - "Thor" - DJMAX Technika
• Shinji Hosoe - "Son of Sun" - DJMAX Technika and Black Square
• Earbreaker - "Super Lovely" - DJMAX Online, Trilogy, and Black Square

edited 23rd Jan '10 2:31:28 PM by TsundeRay

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I have recently fallen in love with the soundtrack for the NES Bram Stoker's Dracula. God...that noise is just wonderful.

If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah

Best Soul Series theme ever?

ALL CREATURE WILL DIE AND ALL THE THINGS WILL BE BROKEN. THAT'S THE LAW OF SAMURAI.

Lin-G - "I want you" (Normal) (Redesign) - DJMAX Technika, Clazziquai Edition, and Black Square

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So, what's your guys' playlists look like? Here's mine (in alphabetical order, 'cause that's how iTunes arranges them):

• Kirby (50 songs' worth of Super Star, Air Ride, Adventure and 64.)
• Mario (45 songs; mainly Galaxy and NSMBWii. And a couple from 64 and Sunshine.)
• Mario (Misc.) (37 songs; from spinoffs such as Mario Kart and Paper Mario.
• Miscellaneous (28 songs; mostly Mega Man and Cave Story, but also a few from Ristar, Shadow Of The Colossus, and the Frogger games for the PS 1.)
• Nintendo (29 songs; Zelda, Yoshi, Donkey Kong, and one each from Punch Out!! Wii and StarFox.)
• Sonic (4th Gen) (64 songs; the classic 2D Genesis games, as well as 3D Blast, CD, and one from Knuckles' Chaotix.)
• Sonic (5/6th Gen) (32 songs, everything in between; the Adventure games, Heroes, Shadow, Riders, and some from the Saturn version of 3D Blast.)
• Sonic (7th Gen) (64 songs, the longest and my favorite playlist; Unleashed, 2006, and some from Riders: ZG and Black Knight.)
• Square-Enix (29 songs; Kingdom Hearts (I & II), Chrono Trigger, and the Final Fantasy games.)
• Super Smash Bros (38 songs from all 3 games, but mainly Brawl.)

edited 27th Jan '10 11:00:33 PM by Blueeyedrat

Mine would be: (not in alphabetical order)

• Persona 3, Persona 3: FES - one of the few pop music that I liked.
• Persona 4
• Okami - the 5 disc one
• Assassin's Creed 2
• Guild Wars
• Obscure 2
• Crisis Core FFVII
• Echoes of War - from the Blizzard games
• World of Warcraft
• A bunch from the Final Fantasy series
• God of War II
• Half Life 2, both episodes
• Silent Hill 4
• Several music from other various videogames

I also have some VGL music and Play! A Videogame Symphony. I like some of their versions more than the original, actually. Oh and I also love The Adventures of Duane and Brando LP of Devastation. I think it's the only rap music that ever appealed to me.

Those Touhou music from several posts above are epic btw.

edited 27th Jan '10 10:40:25 PM by Einram

Let's see, all the video game music I have on my hard drive at the moment is some Final Fantasy piano stuff, the soundtrack for FFXIII, and some of ZUN's stuff.

Er, at the moment, I've got about 6,500 tracks in 276 albums. Definitely need to do some pruning, though. ^^;

I don't usually use playlists, though. I tend to just listen to whole albums at a time.

But somehow,◊

Well...

• Anime & J-Pop
• Bleach (so much that it has to have it's own playlist. )
• Chrono Series (Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross)
• Final Fantasy I - IV
• Final Fantasy VII - XIII (Hell, XIII has so many that I may have to give it it's own playlist as well!)
• Final Fantasy Sequels/Spin-offs (Stuff from X-2, the Tactics series, Advent Children, Crisis Core, Dissidia, Dirge of Cerberus, etc.)
• Final Fantasy Other (Arranged albums, live performances, piano collections, etc.)
• Kingdom Hearts Series
• Kirby Series
• Lost Odyssey
• Metroid Series
• Neon Genesis Evangelion (Same deal as Bleach)
• Other Video Games (Games that didn't have enough songs to get a playlist)
• Pokemon Anime (Songs from the anime and movies)
• Pokemon Games (From RBY all the way to HG/SS)
• Shadow Of The Colossus
• Sonic The Hedgehog Series
• Super Mario Bros Series
• Super Mario RPG Series
• The Legend Of Zelda Series
• Various Remixes

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And now I'm in the process of making a Megaman playlist.

edited 28th Jan '10 4:13:23 AM by Electivirus