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Top 5 VideoGame Scores
Spinning this off from the Earthbound discussion over in the video game thread.
No surprise, but mine are mainly from the 16bit era. Maybe because limited cartridge memory at the time meant loops, but likely because that's when I did most my video gaming.
5) Aliens - Dropship
Not sure what they were going for here, but I played this title _a_lot_ on the C64 and this bizarre cut always stuck out.
4) Super Mario World - theme
My son and I have played through this game about three times in recent years. Probably the best plat-former ever made, even if I personally like Castlevania III better. Still, I dig the jug band vibe of the tune and this will probably forever be the soundtrack when I think of my son's early childhood.
3) FZero - Big Blue
For the longest time I incorrectly thought this was the music to the first stage, and the main music of the game. Nerd alert! I hum/beat box the first 10-20 seconds of this if I need to pass someone on the road or make an offensive driving maneuver. Damn I want GX or _something_ on my Wii U.
2) Street Fighter II - Guile's Stage
Now we know this music goes with everything, but for a decade and half before that it was my fighting jam. As a huge SFII SNES/arcade player and Guile being my main man, this was it. I belt out the first few bars of this when I'm about to enter the room, attack/tickle the kids or whatever. They run for cover when I do it because they know I'm on. Here's some dude killing it acapella style.
1) Shadowrun - Morgue
The classic. This is still a track I listen to on a regular basis at work. The inclusion of the traditional flute is an inspired nod to the Native American influence on the electronic cyberpunk setting. Very atmospheric. Maybe the best thing that's ever come from the Shadowrun line?
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Legend of Zelda - Every piece of music is great here. We got our NES second hand from uncle, along with all the games he had for it. Zelda wasn't amongst the titles he said he was giving us, but when we got it home and lifted the door on the NES, there it was, this gold cartridge. That music when you fire the game up was so mysterious, appropriate since we had no idea what the hell that game was. The overworked song was so infectious to me as a kid, the dungeon theme so menacing. Love, love, love that game and the score.
Castlevania 1 - Another game with great music top to bottom. "Vampire Killer," the first level song is the clear star, but I love it all. I don't really go for the whole power metal video game music thing nor the chiptune scene, but there's a band called Minibosses that manages to avoid both of those descriptions, totally adore them. They have a killer rendition of the Castlevania score. Their first album is free on their website, check it out.
Mega Man 2 - Especially Dr. Wily's theme, but really, everything in this game is awesome. Another game that Minibosses covered, making this 10 minute epic, perfectly sequenced (despite not playing the themes in the order you'd play the game in).
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Duck Tales - also by Capcom - also had great music on the NES. My favorite was the Moon stage theme and Transylvania and the Mines were also very good.
Minibosses are great and I love their Contra medley. The first Contra's music was made for a heavy metal interpretation and the electric guitars really bring it to life. Their version of the Stage 3 - Waterfalls theme is a revelatioin.
On PC I've always liked the System Shock 1 soundtrack, particularly the cyberspace and Reactor Level themes. Other standouts are Research Level and Executive Level. All of the SS1 music perfectly embodies that 90's cyberpunk vibe.
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Sounds dated now, but only because every jRPG made after blatantly copied it.
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1. Hotline Miami 2
2. Hotline Miami
3. Shatter
4. Duke Nukem 3D
5. Doom
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3. That Shadowrun track makes my top 5 for sure
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5. LOTRO - the shire - I played this for hours and hours with my headphones on- The game felt like Middle Earth -
Honorable mention :
The LOTRO had a system wear you could become proficient in a musical instrument - if you took the time to to notate out a midi file (or copypasta one that someone had taken the time to do) you could play some fun tunes - there were groups on every server that spent a lot of time syncing up 2,3,4 + harmonies and parts - They were in every hub jamming in the taverns or on the village square. I played the final fantasy flair every time we one a raid battle with my bard.
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5. FFVII - Still More Fighting (PC)
This is the way I heard it when I played it, which was on the PC. Remember that stupid box? Ah, memories.
4. TMNT for NES
Just listen to those drums! The synth line is pretty good too.
3. Bionic Commando Rearmed - Heatwave
The best compliment I can give to a remix of classic music is that it sounds like I thought it sounded like back then.
2. One Must Fall 2097 - Menu
I played a lot of shareware games in my youth, and this has stuck with me over the years. Really got me ready for robot fighting.
1. Journey to Silius - Everything
Sunsoft had NES music DOWN. I hated playing this game, but I loved the music and it kept me going.
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Mega Man 2: Crash Man
I think my favorite Zelda theme might be form Link's Awakening
Mass Effect has a great soudtrack
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OMG that Aliens thing...what a throwback. I loved that game, and that stupid song has stuck with me for decades. WTF is the point of that, it's like some kind of surf/rockabilly thing. But hey, it was still back during the "anything goes" era.
You know what's weird, I can't really remember the music from ANY non-Nintendo game made in the past....10 or 15 years. Apart from licensed songs, like Hotline Miami, of course. Video game music just isn't as memorable anymore. Probably because now it's mostly just real music, usually, not weird-ass synth rock with erratic funk bass and squelching "guitars".
Why has Metroid not been mentioned? The music in those games is incredible. I would say that Metroid and Castlevania have the best music out of all games ever. Man, when "Vampire Killer" kicks in...it's just like "hell yeah". I think I could probably hum the entire Symphony of Night soundtrack if I wanted to right now.
Sega arcade games had awesome music too, they were the pinnacle of the weird-ass synth rock with erratic funk bass and squelching "guitars" thing.
JRPG music is usually neither here nor there for me, but Chrono Trigger had some great tracks.
My kids have ruined the Super Mario Bros. theme by watching that damn show. Now I just associate it with "do the Mario!" But still, lots of great, colorful music in those game.
Zelda, also great across the board.
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As already mentioned, Final Fantasy VII score is amazing. It's a tossup between this and VI, for me.
Chrono Cross soundtrack is wonderful. When the overworld theme first came on, I was transfixed for a few cycles, just listening to it (that one comes on at 18:00 in the video, but the intro track is amazing too).
Rez, back when I played it on Dreamcast blew my mind. It's unfortunate that the OST doesn't actually use the in-game mix, or even composition in parts. Favorite track on it is, of course, the final stage "Fear":
Moving into more current gen territory, the Mass Effect entry made me remember how much I enjoyed the Deus Ex: Human Revolution soundtrack. Highlight for me is the main menu track:
And finally the Bastion soundtrack. This one reminded me of elements of the early Suikoden soundtracks with some Firefly thrown in.
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I played a lot of Chrono Trigger and always loved the soundtrack.
This always sticks with me though:
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Never in a game as I am aware, but this is one of my favorite chiptunes: Failotron's "Tristan" I walked 11.5 miles on a cancer walk-o-thon to this.
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1. Ultima IV
2. M.U.L.E.
3. Archon
4. Ultima V
5. Alien
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