When video games had awesome soundtracks...

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exdeath

exdeath

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drbrock said:
secret of mana for sure.
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Undine's cave.

The temple music on the ground in that purple brown final gathering zone after the mana fortress takes off.

Yeah...

I'm sure I pissed my parents off a few times cranking that game up on my stereo.
 
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darkewaffle

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Xenogears, Valkyrie Profile and FFXI are my favorites. But that's hardly to say there's not good music in games anymore; Farcry 3 had at least one amazing musically driven segment (make it bun dem), Beyond Good + Evil was excellent, FFXIV has some tremendous tracks and almost every Tony Hawk game is half classic.
 
CZroe

CZroe

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darkewaffle said:
Xenogears, Valkyrie Profile and FFXI are my favorites. But that's hardly to say there's not good music in games anymore; Farcry 3 had at least one amazing musically driven segment (make it bun dem), Beyond Good + Evil was excellent, FFXIV has some tremendous tracks and almost every Tony Hawk game is half classic.
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Beyond Good and Evil is older than Final Fantasy XI so it is not a good example of a modern game that is equal to the classics.
 
Zor Prime

Zor Prime

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Gates of Thunder and Lords of Thunder for the Duo had some heavy tracks with gnarly riffs and beats. Probably my favorite still.
 
Anubis

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darkewaffle

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CZroe said:
Beyond Good and Evil is older than Final Fantasy XI so it is not a good example of a modern game that is equal to the classics.
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FFXI was released at least a full year prior to BGE. Not super recent, but considering so many of the games mentioned thus far are SNES/PSX era or earlier I'd call them modern.
 
angminas

angminas

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Dark Wizard. Krystal's theme. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPWVPNyi9MU

and Amons theme. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnLXQkkscy8

Aerobiz. North America theme. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwJqGWeHfp4

Drakkhen Intro. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2EmOOUXHYI

More later, maybe.



TechAZ said:
For me, Star Wars Galaxies had the best soundtrack of any game in history. Recorded by the London Symphany and John Williams.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCEX2hU8NeA
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Unfair comparison imo.


Legios said:
Mechwarrior 2 was awesome. You could put the game disc in a CD player and skip track one and the whole soundtrack would then play.
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I'll try that. Knew you could do it with Sega CD, but never thought of trying it on a PC game.
 
HamburgerBoy

HamburgerBoy

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Pretty much anything by Straylight Productions (Unreal, Jazz Jackrabbit 2, Deus Ex, Crusader: No Remorse, Tyrian) was pure awesome.
 
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natto fire

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NES era

SNES/Genesis era

SNES/Genesis era 2

I am leaving out tons of great music, but these 3 tunes I make a point to listen to at least every couple months. I gave up on consoles around the PS/PS2 transition era, and only had an XBox because it was so easy to mod to behave more like a PC.

BTW, Ernest Gonzales more or less ripped the bass line from that Jackal track for his song while on saturn's rings. It turned out great, but credit where it is due.
 
Mixolydian

Mixolydian

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Mixolydian said:
Brings back memories...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIx5k6xP1n0
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Ugh this one is killing me.

Definitely hearing A minor as the most prevalent scale. Seems to switch back and forth between that and D Dorian. Lots of different chords. First "verse" is D->F->G->Dm/A. Also hearing D->C->Am throughout. Towards the end is Am->F/A->C/G->G. The ending is D->D/F#->D/A->D then Am->G in rapid succession.

Brain = fried.
 
brianmanahan

brianmanahan

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Mixolydian said:
Ugh this one is killing me.

Definitely hearing A minor as the most prevalent scale. Seems to switch back and forth between that and D Dorian. Lots of different chords. First "verse" is D->F->G->Dm/A. Also hearing D->C->Am throughout. Towards the end is Am->F/A->C/G->G. The ending is D->D/F#->D/A->D then Am->G in rapid succession.

Brain = fried.
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whats wrong w/ that? everything in transport tycoon is jazzed up and it is grand!
 
CZroe

CZroe

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darkewaffle said:
FFXI was released at least a full year prior to BGE. Not super recent, but considering so many of the games mentioned thus far are SNES/PSX era or earlier I'd call them modern.
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For some reason I thought we were talking about FF XII. In my mind it's "the one that came after X/X-2" since XI, as an MMO, was such a diversion from the rest of the series.
 
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