Great Game Soundtracks

Super Mario (64 or not), Zelda 64 OOT, and Spyro the Dragon come to mind. I thought the music to HL2 fit very well, but I'm hesitant to call it 'great'. Smash Brothers, just because their remixing of the various themes is nothing short of brilliant. Oh, and Halo of course.

Curse of Monkey Island and Grim Fandango had great soundtracks.

Soundtracks I liked:

Ultima 7 & 7.5
Betrayal at Krondor
Chrono Trigger
Double Dragon
Zany Golf
Multiple Sierra and Lucas Arts adventure games (KQ4-6, QfG1-4, SQ3-4. SoMI, DotT, etc)

Any Castlevania game. Especially Symphony of the Night.

Secret of Mana
Terranigma

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Original post by Nytegard Multiple Sierra and Lucas Arts adventure games (KQ4-6, QfG1-4, SQ3-4. SoMI, DotT, etc)

A resounding yes!

Also, Arcanum had a wonderful soundtrack.

-Chrono Cross
-FF Tactics
-FFVI
-Katamari Damacy, for something a little bit different

I think the best game sound track was Half-life... nothing was more bad-ass then when you first pick up your HEV suit and your sound system fades in a sweet beat mix.

The other game that kinda sticks out in mind was the original Homeworld. The background music was like the icing on the cake to the symphony of awesomeness in that game. I liked the coordination of the narrators voice with game events and music, especially when you return and the home world is destroyed. "what happened? ...everything is destroyed, everyone is dead. We have nothing left for us here." yeesh, that still gives me goose bumps :)

Ninja Gaiden NES and Castlevania series have always been my fav.

Quake.

- The Dig
- Grim Fandango
- Curse of Monkey Island (Michael Land in his best)
- Dungeon Siege and Morrowind (I love Jeremy Soule)
- Katamari Damacy, We love Katamari and Vib Ribbon

The Gabriel Knight series, KGB/Conspiracy, Lost Eden, Planescape: Torment.

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Original post by namingway -Final Fantasy 7, 9, some of 10

Although not strictly a soundtrack, OCremix just out up their newest group collaboration project thingy, 'Final Fantasy 7: Voices of the lifestream'.

I haven’t had a chance to listen to it yet, but if it's on par with the likes of the Donkey Kong project 'Kong in concert' or the Super Metroid project 'Dark side of Phobos', it's going to be good quality.

Essentially every single game on the Amiga.

I'm particularly fond of Lemmings 2 and Lotus 2, but I'm sure I could list a whole lot if I put my mind to it.

Tracker music is pretty great in general. The original Unreal and Deus Ex both had very fitting sound tracks with bonus tracker nostalgia.

Shadow Of The Beast

-Baldur's Gate 2
-Morrowind
-Oblivion
-World of Warcraft


Mainly any music from Jeremy Soule (creator of oblivion music)

• Monkey Island 1 & 2


• The Dig


• Dreamweb


• The X series (naturally)


• SimCity 2000


• Pretty much anything ever touched by Nobuo Uematsu

The music from the Commandos* series of games I think its great.

*Haven't played the Strike Force, so I can't say about that one.

Starcraft!! So amazing.

However, I'm not sold on what I've heard of SC2's soundtrack yet...