Best Game Music

[Asmodean]

Man...for a civ site, you guys play some weird games.

CtP 1 had the best game music that I've ever heard. Especially the arabic theme. That was great.

Asmodean

[Adagio]

Until mp3's became standard I always had an CD-player next to the computer, now I just have Winamp running in the background

Never listened to the music in games... if you can't turn it off, the game is not worth playing

[Chemical Ollie]

An ultra-nerdy guy hosted several seasons of a weekly 30-minute show on Swedish Radio called Syntax Error, playing old gaming music from Amiga, Atari, C64 and early consoles. Especially the C64 games had some magic in their simpliness, with only 3 tones polyphony.

I think Blizzard made the best music for later games. The rock theme for the humans in Starcraft is great.

And the music in "Rome Total War" make me turn up my speakers whenever I'm alone in the room. The epic macho-music when you march towards the enemy in the manual battles gives you a feeling of being invulnerable.

[Kuciwalker]

Unfortunately, Halo 2 didn't entirely reproduce the Halo musical excellence. I remember, for instance, coming to the bridge on AOTCR and the dramatic music would come on and it was just SO COOL. It's not as purely awesome in Halo 2, IMO, though the music when you get on the gondola is really good.

[Tattila the Hun]

Hitoshi Sakimoto (YmoH.S for really old geezers), done things like Ogre Battle and Vagrant Story, will do FFXII, Masaharu Iwata (REZON), mostly same games as Sakimoto, Junya Nakano, much of FFX...

Yoko Shimomura, (Parasite Eve, Kingdom Hearts, Front Mission), Bunbun (Megaman III), Koji Kondo (Super Mario games), whoever did the musics for Nintendo World Cup on NES...

Jun Ishikawa (Kirby3), Michael Giacchino (Medal of Honors), Miyoko Kobayashi, Masanori Hikichi (Terranigma), Yasunori Mitsuda (Radical Dreamers), Follin brothers (Tom&Jerry on NES, Bionic Commando on C64)

Allied General on the PSX had good music. As does Panzer General 2 on PC. And the Syndicate theme rocks. And Command&Conquer had good music.

And Jeremy Soule for Secret of Evermore.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Sirotnikov
diablo
duke nukem 3d (i love the cover that megadeth did)
red alert (original) - the red march is great

which Megadeth cover is on that? I never played the game.

[Dis]

for a new game after 2000, try the Sims2. I just loved the Metal station. Some of that stuff is better than the real music you hear on the radio like. Better than limp bizkit that's for sure.

[Pekka]

Yeah but that's not real game music man.. it's like saying Vice City is best because it has nice tunes. That's not game music. Not even if they're made by some unknown dude. No way.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Originally posted by Buck Birdseed
The theme to the C64 version of Commando (by Hubbard) kicks ass on the dancefloor.

It might well incite violence, but I swear no ****er would dance to it.

[Pekka]

That's right, Commando is good.. Hubbard is a legend anyway.