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Games with the best Soundtracks

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Originally posted by: mmntech
Okami hands down. Perfect score for that game.
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I loved this score so much I bought the 5-disc import soundtrack.

My runners-up include Skies of Arcadia and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
 
Persona 4. I really liked Persona 3, too, but they just did an insane job on Persona 4's sound track.

For MIDI-style soundtracks, FF6 would be my pick.
 
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, pretty much any Final Fantasy game, and Diablo 2/LoD (Mars and alot of other good works) stood out for me. I'm sure there's alot of others I can't think of off the top of my head.

And oddly, I thought that the original Unreal Tournament had good adrenaline pumping muzak too.
 
Originally posted by: A Casual Fitz
Streets of Rage rules.
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Couldn't Agree more.

To anyone looking for these in MP3 form and not poorly arranged MIDIs (although some of them are very well put together) should browse around here.

Oh yeah, let me add:

Max Payne
 
I don't remember the music from the majority of the games listed. Hell, I'm playing Oblivion now and I can't associate any music with it.

Some that have stuck with me for whatever reason:

Tetris
Punch Out
Final Fantasy titles (particularly the battle music)
Super Mario Bros

Fallout 3 and Bioshock had some really good use of music, too, but neither were particularly memorable.
 
FF VII
The Zelda games
Tales of Symphonia
StarFox Adventures - there's this one song I really like.
 
Quake - PC
Most of the Final Fantasy games
Silpheed - Sega CD
Space Megaforce - SNES
Thunderforce IV - Genesis
Super Contra - SNES
Super R-Type - SNES
Axelay - SNES
Gaiares - Genesis
Super Turrican - SNES
Super Castlevania - SNES
Chrono Trigger - SNES
Street Fighter 2 - Arcade
Zelda Series
Doom - Playstation 1
GoldenEye - N64
Starfox - SNES
Streets for Rage 1 & 2 - Genesis
Ninja Gaiden 1 - NES
Blaster Master - NES
Golgo 13 Theme Song - NES
 
SSX/anything that came from EA Big or whatever it was for a while, they had a few years of solid tracks

Super Mario anything
 
it depends....

RPGs generally have great soundtracks. Chrono Trigger, FF6, FF7, FF8 imo (even though the story wasn't as hot). FF9 wasn't as memorable to me. Zelda had a great soundtrack. Grandia for the PSX also had a great soundtrack. wild Arms was also good, albiet not GREAT.

More current games? Hmmmm I don't play games all that much anymore lol
 
Hands down the best game soundtrack I can remember is in Legend of Mana. Sometimes I left the game on while I was doing other things jsut for the music...lol, prolly should've just bought the soundtrack.

Honorable mention would be Symphony of the Night, that game had some amazing music as well.

EDIT: Forgot to throw in the Guilty Gear series, some of the songs from that are awesome.
 
Recently Shadow of the Colossus for me. A must listen! Evokes a lot of emotion and is always appropriate for the colossus fights, exploration, cinematic, etc sections of the game. The mood would not be the same without it.
 
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