Best in-game music

[Heretic_Cata]

Here we shall post what games have the best music.

My favorites (in random order)

Silent Hill 2,3,4 (even tho i never played any of them)
Diablo both
Age of Wonders 1
Fallout
Stronghold
Heroes3 and a little bit of 4&5
Undying
Sanitarium
Drakan
Prince of Persia series
(that's all i remember for now)

If you want i can detail each choice. (exactly what songs are the best)


EDIT: darn, there was already a thread about this ... but it was 6-7 months old
(hey i posted in that one too )
Oh well we'll see if the choices changed, i sure found better soundtracks since then

 

[Tycoon101]

Paper Mario had some great boss music.
So did Banjo Tooie.
Wacraft III has "Storm, Earth, and Fire", which is great.

 

[Oruc]

Nope!

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Btw, am i the only one that made (at least) a CD with compilations of game music from lots of games ?

 

[Oruc]

Nope!

 

[FireBall]

I've always been a fan of the Final Fantasy music, especially FFVII and FFX. Aside from that, Myst had some very nice music.

 

[Quinzy]

yeah, ff6 and 7, and Uru-ages beyond myst hase some nice ambient steeing music.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

I forgot to mention in the OP, the music from Sanitarium is very good too.

 

[Till]

Gothic:
A track from In Extremo is part of its soundtrack.

Vampire Bloodlines:
Lots of cool music. Some of it by Ministry, if i recall.

Monkey island
Just groovy. I'd say it has one of the best soundtracks overall.

Pirates! Gold
See Monkey Island.

Edit: I love the opening song from Fallout, but the rest of the soundtrack doesn't stand out for me.

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

Super Mario Bros. Has tunes I can hum to this very day. Best and iconic stuff.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Edit: I love the opening song from Fallout, but the rest of the soundtrack doesn't stand out for me.

"A kiss to build a dream on" ?

Anyway, what's not to like about the whole soundtrack ? It's depressing.

Btw, i am listening to the soundtrack from Divine Divinity now and it's great. (i played the game but didn't finish it ... got far tho ... )

 

[JtheJackal]

Tropico
No One Lives Forever 1 and 2
Civilization IV

 

[Till]

"A kiss to build a dream on" ?

Anyway, what's not to like about the whole soundtrack ? It's depressing.

Btw, i am listening to the soundtrack from Divine Divinity now and it's great. (i played the game but didn't finish it ... got far tho ... )

I meant "Maybe".
It captures the atmosphere of the game very well, in my opinion. I'll have to download the rest of the soundtrack to find out what i didn't like about it...

How is Divine Divinity? I had high hopes for that game, but it wasn't well recieved by the press.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

I meant "Maybe".

Aah, the one from Fallout 1.

It captures the atmosphere of the game very well, in my opinion. I'll have to download the rest of the soundtrack to find out what i didn't like about it...

I'll tell you which ones are the best. First of all go to fallout 2 music on that site; look at the locations and take the songs from:

The Den, Golgotha, Navarro, Enclave, Car Drive, San Francisco, Redding

Spoiler :

i even added some of them to my mod

How is Divine Divinity? I had high hopes for that game, but it wasn't well recieved by the press.

I have to say i enjoyed it quite a bit.
The graphics are very good (it's about the high end of what my comp can almost handle).
The music is extraordinary. (courtesy of Kirill Pokrovsky)
The gameplay is quite good, i remember playing the game a LOT. It sorta a diablo clone, but not exactly, the lots of dialogues, cool quests (they remind me of the only good part of arcanum: the dialogues and city-quests) and other stuff make the game distant from diablo. There are some moments where you hack and slash in the same "amount" as you do in diablo ... but those moments do not come very often.
Whenever i think of the game i remember nice places, nice looking monsters , cool quests and music ... the fighting is quite blurry in my memory ... maybe it was not very important for me ... It was a long time ago tho ; 2 years at least.
The story is quite good (tho i never got to the end), it may seem sucky at the beggining.

The reason i stopped playing it is basicaly my bad comp.
You know, when you reach the last 1/3 of a game, you run travel long distances and explore big jungles and other large areas. Eventually i got sick of the loading times that took over 5 minutes on my computer, plus at that stage of the game i could not explore large places anymore kuz all the data made the game crash, and i could not engage in any fights with more than 1 oponent ... so i had to give up eventually.
Well, what could i expect, the game shouldn't even run on my comp acording to the sys. recomandations.

 

[Till]

Alright, i have downloaded some more F1 tracks and one of the F2 tracks you suggested. I have to say, i don't know what i didn't like about the F1 sountrack before. It rocks!
The F2 didn't click with me, but maybe i got unlucky there. With the annoying "wait in queue" thing 3ddownloads has going, it is a real pain to grab the other songs, though.

Thanks for the review of DD! I feared it would be more or less a Diablo clone... Btw, Arcanum rocked!

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Alright, i have downloaded some more F1 tracks and one of the F2 tracks you suggested. I have to say, i don't know what i didn't like about the F1 sountrack before. It rocks!
The F2 didn't click with me, but maybe i got unlucky there. With the annoying "wait in queue" thing 3ddownloads has going, it is a real pain to grab the other songs, though.

Thanks for the review of DD! I feared it would be more or less a Diablo clone... Btw, Arcanum rocked!

Actually the soundtrack from F1 is included in the soundtrack from F2.
But F2 has a few extra ones. (check the file names on the site and compare F1 with F2)
I always reffer to the F2 soundtrack because i can relate them to the game more easly. (when i first played F1 it was a version, so i didn't have music; but now that i have the game with music i find the asociations between the cities and the songs quite strange and sometimes not fit
for examples some songs that were near the end of the 2nd game are close to the beggining in the first ... i find that unsettling)

 

[MajorGeneral2]

Nobuo Uematsu (of Final Fantasy) and Koji Kondo (various Nintendo franchises) always get brought up in these threads, but they do deserve such honor.

For something a little less predictable, I always thought Donkey Kong Country 2 had some stellar background music. Doom deserves mention, also, and Half-Life - oh, waitaminute...

Of course, one also tends to come across the question of whether the best game music is that which stands well on its own, or just fulfills its in-game purpose.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Of course, one also tends to come across the question of whether the best game music is that which stands well on its own, or just fulfills its in-game purpose.

Heh ... i was aiming more on best in-game music that you could listen anywhere ... but that's fine too.

 

[Rheinmetall]

There's too many good soundtracks. But if I must choose one it would be Deus Ex. The music works very well. Every level has it's own atmosphere and feel, and the music has been composed with that in mind.

 

[Nerdking]

I personally have a soft spot for Super Smash Bros. Melee soundtrack, just because Nintendo sent me a CD of every song performed by some symphony.

Can you imagine the traditional Mario theme played by a full orchestra

And I really get into the Civ IV music when Brandenburg concerto gets goin' in the background. That's about as rockin' as classical music gets.