05-08-2002 01:57									#1
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Hah. This is a tough one for me. There's StarCraft, there's Panzer Dragoon, Fallout, Baldur's Gate... I'll just name my favourite composers, who are Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy series) and Yasunori Mitsuda (Chrono series, Xenogears and Xenosaga).

The Xenosaga Original Soundtrack, the one I'm listening to right now, is just incredible! Last Battle has a violin, a synth, a piano, organs and a Gregorian church chorus... wow is all I can say. And Battling KOS-MOS just kicks ass. Proto Merkabah is somehow familiar... The OST is like from a big epic film, not a PS2 game. The FF XI OST is just no match.

	05-08-2002 02:25									#2
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Civ2 had a good soundtrack.

Fallout's provided good atmosphere. I don't understand how you mentioned Baldur's Gate without Icewind Dale.

Iron Maid's sountract was great. One of the only reasons I keep that game on my harddrive.

	05-08-2002 02:30									#3
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I honestly liked Theme Hospitals songs. Especially Dr Frog or whatever that song was called

	05-08-2002 03:04									#4
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Total Annihlation, and Europa Universalis 2.

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quote: Originally posted by Apocalypse Fallout's provided good atmosphere. I don't understand how you mentioned Baldur's Gate without Icewind Dale.

Prolly because I've never played Icewind Dale.

	05-08-2002 03:44									#6
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Chrono Trigger, Star Fox 64, GTA3, Secret of Mana, GoldenEye.

	05-08-2002 06:48									#7
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Deus Ex had really good music.

Nothing has ever beaten Command & Conquer though.

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Deus Ex and Final Fantasy VI.

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Europa Universalis II (except for that evil fallalala song )
Myth I and II

	05-08-2002 10:45									#10
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Age of Wonders musics are pretty good.

Talking about old games, I think that all Sierra's based
songs really have an impact here.

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Alpha Centauri, SimCity 3000, and all the Donkey Kong games are ones that spring immediately to mind. Mario 64 has some cool tunes too. Classic Mario games deserve a mention for "retro" flair.

	05-08-2002 11:39									#12
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Halo

I liked it so much I actually bought the soundtrack for it the other month. b:

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Streets of Rage 2
Europa Universalis 2

And Falalalan is the best EU2 song

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My favourite is Red Alert's excellent soundtrack, I also like the one from Red Alert 2 though it can compare to the other.
Both are fast though and make you act faster (or so I like to think).

(Westwood why can't I listen to the original RA2 soundtrack when I play the expansion? )

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Colonization had a very catchy tune.............I was humming that one way after finishing with the game. Others that spring to mind are the funky Monkey Island reggae tunes and Deus Ex.

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I'm usually not even aware of the music in games.

The only one which made me sit up and take notice, and both sounded cool AND immersed me more fully into the game was The Curse Of Monkey Island.

it was like starring in your own comedy film.

	05-08-2002 19:55									#17
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Myst, very moody and atmospheric. For me the main reason the other myst games didn't measure up to the original, was because they screwed up the original's music.

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Master of Orion (the first one) - the only game where I didn't turn off the music after a few hours of play.

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Lots of good soundtracks around these days. If there's one I never want to hear again its the Leisure Suit Larry theme

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It's the Donkey Kong Country series, and you all know it.

	06-08-2002 01:57									#21
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Red Alert

best ever IMHO,

	06-08-2002 03:29									#22
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Sim City 3000

quote: Civ2 had a good soundtrack.

I think you need a psychiatrist (sp)...

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quote: Originally posted by Osweld Total Annihlation, and Europa Universalis 2.

And how could I forget Arcanum?

	06-08-2002 05:02									#24
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In general: MOHAA, Civ II ("classic" and UCC).
Specific track: World of Jules Verne (Civ II UCC).

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quote: Originally posted by Space05us Sim City 3000 quote: Civ2 had a good soundtrack. I think you need a psychiatrist (sp)...

It has the best song ever on it. I could listen to the others quite a bit too.

	06-08-2002 07:04									#26
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I liked the theme tune to Deus Ex, but there was a slightly computerized feeling to it that detracted from the whole. Had the opening theme not degenerated into a synth-metal fest after the third saraband, I would have liked it more.

Lucasarts' flight sim games are excellent and the music is unsurprisingly great as well, but that's kind of cheating since they were taken straight from the films.

If anybody has played Jet Force Gemini for the N64, you'll know the definition of catchy tunes! Some of those are so good they sound just like they're straight out of a movie or something.

I'll also vote for the Mario series, especially Marios 2, 3, and 64. I didn't like Mario World's songs all that much as they were just repetitions of a theme similar to the 60s song "Grandma We Love You".

The background music of Clive Barker's Undying is fantastic, and I liked the boss music of Lisbeth the most. Mad flourishes and manic cadences as you fight for your life against the vicious nymphet!

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Well, unsurprisingly, Uematsu & Mitsuda are on the top of my list. Though I think I slightly prefer Uematsu, Mitsuda's Xenogears might well be the best soundtrack I've heard overall. Uematsu's Final Fantasy IV & Final Fantasy VIII are probably his best, although they're all good. Motoi Sakaruba (Star Ocean 2, Valkyrie Profile, Golden Sun) & Noriyuki Idaware (Lunar Series, Grandia Series) both have their own unique and very distinctive styles, which I like a lot and are also excellent.

As for the Xenosaga soundtrack, the Last battle piece... eh, it's still good, but it feels oddly restrained. It keeps on building up... and then it doesn't take the last step and let loose and rule. If he had just pushed it a little farther, it would have been great, but it leaves me slightly unfilled. Although I do agree that "Battling KOS-MOS" rules, probably the best piece on the soundtrack as far as I'm concerned.

On the American side of things, Heroes of Might & Magic, both II & III, have ridiculously good music. I think that the snow music from HOMM2 might just be the most evocative atmospheric piece I've heard. And as people have mentioned, Colonization's music is quite catchy- probably the best Civ game music I've heard.

Myth I and II

Ramo, are you feeling okay? Okay, they had some nice drum beating after the battle was over, but the actual game was all atmospherics and sound effects. Effective sound effects, mind, but not exactly "music."

	06-08-2002 12:06									#28
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Either Homeworld or Deus Ex.

btw... the civ2 tracks were ok except for Ghuhatama (sp?) Ponders. That track was so horrid i wanted to commit suicide.

	06-08-2002 14:08									#29
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Ghuhatama (sp?) Ponders
Im pretty sure it plays that one every other time too, just to annoy me

	06-08-2002 23:12									#30
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Final fantasy VI. end of story.