Computer games music

[Kyriakos]

Age of Wonders title theme:


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[carmen510]

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[DaemonDD]

This starts out pretty bad, but it gets way better after half a minute. Just give it a listen:


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[Kyriakos]

My favourite composition from Warcraft 2:


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[Takhisis]

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Actually I prefer that one.
(I was playing that game when I was seven, I think. Or maybe even earlier. It'd just come out anyway. Twisted, I am.)

 

[Kyriakos]

Some peaceful music from the excellent old adventure game Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars.


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[He-Who-Hunts]

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That is all.

 

[LightSpectra]

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[bob bobato]

The first time I heard this I immediately was reminded of video game music. A lot of middle movement from Baroque concertos sound like this sort of music. Another good example is the "Largo" from the 'Winter' concerto of Vivaldi's "Four Seasons".

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[Thorvald of Lym]

Railroad Tycoon 2 and 3 have great tracks. hur hur


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[Kyriakos]

A nice bit of electronica from the early 90s and Utopia: The creation of a nation


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[Perfection]

http://www.rathergood.com/pairs

BEST GAME MUSIC EVER

 

[Rub'Rum]

I would have posted things here but Kyriakos seems to have exactly the same taste in game music as me. Do you come from a progrock fan background? I'm an ex progrock addict myself. Here was my starting list:

Age of Wonders - Love and Death (already posted by Kyr)

Castlevania; Symphony of the Night (One posted by Kyr, but I love a LOT of songs, this game has one of the most epic soundtracks of all times) Here is one he hasn't posted yet. Love how they actually say "screw this here is some weird gothic-jazz and you better like it you nerds". There's actually epic Mellotron in that song.


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Castlevania 4: Simon's Theme (already posted by Kyriakos, here starts epic adventure).

Zelda A Link to the Past - Dark Overworld (one of my very favourite songs... Already posted by Kyr).

(also, I love the 8-bit Zappa rendition )


I also quite like the Europa Universalis 3 soundtrack. It's just too short so playing the game you end up hearing these songs way too much...


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Age of Wonders 2 : Life Song


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NES Solstice's opening track. This is pure prog-rock. It starts stupid for 8 seconds then blasts you with a mixture of Yes and Rush


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Finally, maligned Final Fantasy Mystic Quest's boss battle music. Pure power metal.


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I could have added the whole of Mega Man 2 but that's overplayed.

 

[Kyriakos]

Excellent pieces SimonL

Thanks for posting.

As for prog-rock, i used to listen to a lot of Pink Floyd in the past, had almost all of their albums.

 

[RasmCiv]

I like Life Song from Aow 2

Age of Mythology, HOMM III and Stronghold also have some amazing music IMO
As does the Pokémon series (at least the first two generations)
To be honest, I really like Touhou music as well

 

[Rub'Rum]

Age of Mythology, HOMM III and Stronghold also have some amazing music IMO

Here are two awesome tracks from Heroes of Might and Magic III!

Combat 04:


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Rampart:

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[Rub'Rum]

http://www.rathergood.com/pairs

BEST GAME MUSIC EVER

Sorry for posting again but I just clicked this. Mega LOL.

 

[Kyriakos]

More Silent Hill


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[Rub'Rum]

Very nice! Too bad I don't play any horror games because I'm too much of a little girl (seriously, I'm halfway through Penumbra and I don't wanna play it anymore! Even the PC game Call of Cthulhu is too much).

 

[Kyriakos]

I am like that too, to a degree However i also write horror fiction, so am a bit in control of my fears. But in the past i was totally unable to play horror games since i stepped into the role of the protagonist, and it was horrible