Hi Dreamers,
I have got well hooked on the Game Music scene of late and was wondering if you guys knew of any Game Music Cd's etc worth getting as my collection is kinda small.
I have the The Best of Grandia & the 2 Grandia II CD's which are well ace as well as the brillinat Phantasy Star Online Soundtrack and the PSO arranged soundtrack.
What else would you guys recommend?
I have been listening to some stuff from OverClocked remix, alot of which is brilliant. I am trying to hunt the muscial compositions and/or fan remakes of the music used in Jak II & 3 but don't know where to find it. Any help on where I could buy it along with any CD's you guys could recommend would be greatly appreciated.

Many Thanks,

Switch!

Well usually I prefer various tracks from different OST's. Usually not many that I woulld get the whole OST. I guess game music is one of those things that really comes down to personal prefderence, and often you have to have played the game as well to really fully appreciate the music.
But one I would recommend is the Xenosaga Episode 1 OST.
It's Yasunori Mitsuda. There's not much more you need to say about it. The man is a genius. (Also composed the Chrono Cross music, among others.)

I'll have to have a look into that.
Thanks Athrun.
Much Appreciated,

Switch!

I really enjoy the Chrono Trigger OST, but as Athurn said it might just be because of how much I like the game. Another great soundtrack is the BOF5 soundtrack. These should be floating around the net if you want to just sample them.

There are also 2 remixes that I really enjoy form OCRemix. One is from the Lords of the Realm 2(I forget the remixer) and the other is Tickly my Wily(Mega Man 2 remix) form Starz Salsman(I like most of his remixes). Let me know if you find any cool remixes.

Shadow Hearts: Convant! There are two songs which I really like... and one song which I LOVE! (I think it's called "Astaroth - The Fallen Angel").

Also I love Streets of Rage 2's soundtrack even if it WAS for the genesis...

Yeah I like both those OST's. Chrono Trigger had great music, but again it may be because I played the game first. I don't have the whole BOF V OST though, but only a few tracks. When I listen to some of them it reminds me of the atmosphere in BOF V. And the game had some great battle themes.

OST's I like are Chrono Trigger/Cross, Final Fantasy IX, Tales of Symphonia, and Star Ocean 3. I've never played Chrono Trigger or Chrono Cross, but I think the music is still really good. I also like Legend of Dragoon, but that one may just be because I'm obsessed with the game.

Suikoden III, that stuff is dope!! the theme song rocks hard

Xenogears has good music too. FFX and FFVII: Advent Children soundtracks aren't bad either, considering I'm not a total fan of the series, yet still listen to the music.

Thanks for all the advice guys.
Much appreciated.

Switch!

This might serve more of a purpose in the General Gaming section...

Chrono Cross definitely had the most beautiful soundtrack I've heard in any game.
But JSR and Guilty Gear come tied in a close second!

There's that super creepy Song of Nephilim. XD But I have the entire soundtrack, it's really not bad. I also recommend some of the Suikoden game music, as well as some of Kingdom Hearts (or KH2).

I agree with Tony on the Guilty Gear soundtrack. If you like dark, hymn-ish music, you can probably try Devil May Cry and/or Chaos Legion. I don't have the OST of DMC but I do for Chaos Legion.

(Okay, Legend of Legaia is kind of a stretch, but it is a good soundtrack, and it adds some spice to the list, yeah? ^^)

best song is the seperoith song from VII

Hm... I like the Shingo forest's theme from SO 2, VPL has also couple great songs like Hard Chain Reaction and Chamber of the heart. I also listen a lot to Silent Hill's music. The main theme from the first and the second one are great, and one of my favourites from SH's (from the songs I have) is You're not here from SH 3.
FF series also contain good music. From FF 7 I would reccomend Aerith's and Tifa's theme, and the world map music. From FF 8: Eyes on me, the last boss fight's theme, and Liberi Fatali. And finally, out of FF 9, I adore Vamo alla Flamenco, and I like the music wich plays in Treno. Sorry, dunno how is it called.

FF IX- Kuja's Theme <3 And same with Freya's and Beatrix's Themes.

FF8- Liberti Fatali, and all it's versions. And Eyes on me <3!

FF7- One winged angel, Aerith's theme.

FFT- The beginning theme. Tactics had great music in general though.

Some of the Music in Suikoden 3, but none stand out.

ZELDA- Princess Zelda's Lulaby, Gerudo (sp) Valley theme... before I list anymore.. lemme just say ALL music from OoT pwn'd any other game's music. (I think).

Final Fantasy X soundtrack is one of my favorites. Very mellow stuff. Crono Trigger, has a good soundtrack too, and if your looking for an interesting soundtrack go with Dynasty Warriors, kinda metal-ish which is fun to play with, and to listen to.

Of course Final Fantasy 6's soundtrack was amazing as well.

Xenogears' soundtrack, hands down, be it OST or Creid, Mitsuda totally owned everything with the scores. Featuring great happy themes like Dajil and Lacan (or "This is My town" it varies) to evil tunes like Grahf's theme or the great Melkaba. I dont usually get too carried into game music for too much time but ever since i first played the game i have been nuts about the music, i have a bunch of the songs in my mp3 player.

And also, Yasunori Mitsuda kicks Nubou Uematsu's ass.

Jesus Hector Christ, that last sentence is so geeky i am scared.

Gelmar had already mentioned it before me, but I'm going to say Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth's soundtrack. It has a good micture of some of those rockier themes like Hard Chain Reaction, Ray of Darkness, Ray of Light, and Turn Over a New Leaf. Then it gets down to the more beautiful sad themes like Behave Irrationally, All is Twilight, and Epic Tale of Holy Death. All which were done by Motoi Sakuraba (Who also worked on the Star Ocean series and some of the Tales)

I definitely believed his best work was in Valkyrie Profile Lenneth and, especially, Silmeria (Prequel to Lenneth).

I don't want to repeat what has already been mentioned before me like with Yasunori Mitsuda (Xenosaga, Chrono Cross, and Shadow Hearts) and (again, Gelmar mentioned and I love you for it! *glomps*) Yamaoka Akira (Silent Hill series).

Uematsu Nobuo (Final Fantasy) isn't my favorite, but he produced quite a few songs that were very nice and he produced some that manage to put me in a pretty good mood! XDD (Theme of Tantalus, gosh dang! I love that song)

Another good one is Steve Henifin. He produced the music for Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. They have that somewhat of a creepy feel as well as some pleasant hymn-like vocals which add to the mood of the songs. A lot of the music scared me a bit to properly listen to, but he has a few very pretty ones that are especially enjoyable to listen to.

Yoko Shimomura is yet another good one to pay attention to. She (I'm guessing it's a girl since I believe Yoko is a girl's name. XDD) produced the music for the Kingdom Hearts series and Legend of Mana (bad game, but amazing music).

Koji Kondo (Legend of Zelda) is another who to check out, but I shouldn't have to mention that one! XDDD But he deserves the mention.

I'm throwing Dennis Martin in with the crowd, too. He worked on Legend of Dragoon's music, which had some nice songs in its soundtrack. Not much I found amazing or anything, but there are definitely a few in it that I appreciate.

But I'm really partial towards the serene songs and a few of the rockier ones, but so those are only good if you're really looking for those kinds of songs. Hope it helps! xP

EDIT: Waahhh~! Sorry, I almost forgot Shigeki Hayashi. XDD
He worked on Riviera ~The Promised Land~'s music. Though, you'd need to get the arrange album to properly appreciate his work since Riviera was a Gameboy game and I don't know what the heck those noises were that came out of my mini-speaker. Haha, but his music is worth checking out.

If we're talking retro games then I must say Streets Of Rage 2 Had just a plain AWESOME soundtrack (for it's time)... all of the SoR games had good music actually...

The second game I'd like to say had awesome music for it's time was Shinobi on the Game Gear (Not the master system version)... Not only a brilliant game but had a very good soundtrack.

And how can you have a topic about Game music and NOT talk about Ape Escape. Not every level was a winner but the majority of the music was great in-game music (especially the kick-ass Castle level).

There are plently of older games with great music... and which arn't RPGs...

You know, I'm not a game saavy person. But I sure as hell know that I like me some of that FFviii piano music.

And um, that's about it. 8D FFviii piano music, and maybe I like some of their songs too in English, like Eyes on Me and whatnot, but other than that I'm quite oblivious to game music. 8\

Thanks again. All of you.
I think this is the best place to post this topic as it is related to my original question.
I have recently fallen in love with the Soul Calibur 3 music. Especially that song that plays when you view the concept and character art. Do any of you know where I can get it...or the whole soundtrack? To buy the soundtrack if possible. I like owning the originals when it comes to CD's and not just downloads.

Most comical post in this thread.


Some OSTs I liked are the following:

Suikoden II

It had a mix of gothic and celtic songs, which fitted very well to the story.
The Suikoden games are known for their Celtic music, but this soundtrack was by far the best one. It had good emotional songs and dark songs aswell.
Songs I would recommend from this soundtrack are: Gothic Neclord, Reminiscence, War, Moonlit Night Theme, The Fugue Praise Be To My Master and Due Fiumi ~2 River.

Star Ocean The Second Story

I liked the Star Ocean soundtrack aswell, it had great songs, for example the boss battle called Dynamite.
Also the song called Integral Body & Imperfect Soul adds a lot of gothic feeling to the game, I say you should check out that soundtrack aswell, but I believe this one was already mentioned by Gelmar.

Have you played a game and really loved the music? I found myself going back to the music to Sonic Adventure 2: Battle. City Escape (Hero Level 1) is so stuck in my head. I love that song! So.. any good songs for you?

there has already been a topic like this this but whatever, my favorite music is the FFVII music the seperoth song.

Oh, man! So sorry! I never found it!

So... where is it?

Lol, aren't you the one who spelled it as "Sepeiroit" before?
It's Sephiroth though.

Anyway, I like a lot of game music. I have a lot of mp3's with VG music. Right now I'm listening to a song I first thought came from King of Fighters 99, but it seems its from some other game.

I'm gonna merge this with the other favorite/best game music thread in gen gaming... Don't know why you'd throw this in the chat forum anyway. O_o

I have to say the mana serie is a good choice. I got Som Lom and remixs. Check them out.

Bomb, you have excellent taste in gaming music if you own the Romancing SaGa OST. That game had a ton of music tracks that were excellent.

I have a couple of OST I like. Tales of Symphonia, Tales of the Abyss, Romancing SaGa and probably a couple of more that currently don't come to mind. I'm still want that Shining the Holy Ark track I lost.

Oh man, where to start... ^^;

Of course I have to recommend just about any of the Final Fantasy OST's, though I personally loved the entirety of Final Fantasy VIII's OST. Tons of great stuff on there: "Eyes On Me," "Ride On," "Ukulele de Chocobo," "The Extreme," "Maybe I'm A Lion," "The Legendary Beast," "The Oath," "Breezy,"... The list goes on for quite a while. Oh, and of course, I have to recommend the Advent Children OST. It's got some great orchestrated pieces, as well as some awesome rock tracks, with the help of The Black Mages.

Speaking of The Black Mages, they do some nifty remixes of Uematsu's work in the Final Fantasy series. They've got two albums out so far, and are working on a third, from what I hear.

Yoko Shimomura seems to be getting most credit for the Kingdom Hearts games, though I first heard of her from Parasite Eve, most notably, the orchestral version of the main theme (entitled "Main Theme [Orchestral Version]"). Actually, to be honest, I'm not a huge fan of the KH soundtracks, but there are a handful of nice tracks. I have to strongly recommend checking out at least that one track from Parasite Eve, though. I like a handful of other tracks from the OST, but no titles really stick out right now, other than that one.

Akira Yamaoka, as mentioned previously, does the Silent Hill soundtracks' tunes. The first Silent Hill OST has mostly creepy ambient stuff, along with what can only be called "noise," haha. "Fear Of The Dark" is one of my favorite creepy tracks from it. Silent Hill 2's OST started to use some more ambient music, and even included some rock-oriented tracks, like "Angel's Thanatos." Silent Hill 3 had an overall great soundtrack, really focusing on getting more "actual" music in the game, though still incorporating that horrifying atmosphere in some tracks. It was also the first of the soundtracks to have vocal tracks, notably, "Letter (From The Lost Days)" (sung by Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, credited as "Melissa Williamson") and "Rain Of Brass Petals [Three Voices Edit]" (done by Interlace). Joe Romersa also did vocals for the ending theme, "Hometown," a remix of the original Silent Hill theme. Silent Hill 4 continued to use the usual themes, mixing the scary atmosphere of the game, some emotional instrumentation, some ambient tracks, and some rock-oriented tracks as well, featuring more vocals by Mary Elizabeth McGlynn ("Room Of Angel" and "Tender Sugar" are the two I have to point out here) and Joe Romersa.

The Suikoden games, as mentioned a few times, also have some great music. Most of anything notable about them has already been said. ^^; A variety of composers do the tunes for the Suikoden series, including Miki Higashino, Norikazu Miura, Naoyuki Sato, and others.

The Guilty Gear games have some awesome rock tracks, composed by Hiroshi Seiyama and Daisuke Ishiwatari. The one that sticks out in my mind the most is Dizzy's theme, "Awe Of She."

The F-Zero games also have some awesome music; some techno/synth-oriented, some rock, and similar sounds. "Mute City" and "Big Blue" are generally the two more well known tracks. (I have to fully agree that "Big Blue" is amazing.)

I have to join the others in backing up Yasunori Mitsuda, for the wonderful soundtrack for Chrono Trigger. Good stuff.
Also, there were several attempts by fans to remake Chrono Trigger, but this one project in particular, Chrono Resurrection, left behind a few of their redone tracks from the game. (Found at the bottom of this page: Clicky.)
(On another note related to CT, OCRemix had a project based on the music of CT, known as "Chrono Symphonic," featuring remixes of several tracks from the game, aiming for a movie-like sound.)

Mario 64 had some great tunes, though I don't know the name of the composer(s) behind the soundtrack. "Jolly Roger Bay" is a personal favorite.

While I'm bringing up Nintendo games here, the good ol' Donkey Kong Country games actually had some amazing soundtracks. All sorts of sounds mixed in there, based on the different areas of the games that they're played during. (If you're into OCRemix, check out their "Kong In Conert" project.)

Harry Gregson Williams did some amazing scores for the Metal Gear series, and I believe he even won an award or two for it. Definitely check out his stuff.

I'm not sure who composes the music for them, but the Castlevania games have some good music as well. The only one I can personally point out, though, is Symphony Of The Night. "The Tragic Prince" has always been a favorite of mine.

Koji Kondo does some great work for the Legend Of Zelda games, particularly Ocarina Of Time and Majora's Mask. (I haven't played others, so I can't say much about them.)

From what I recall, Lunar: Silver Star Story also had a great soundtrack. I'd imagine Lunar 2: Eternal Blue had one of similar quality.

The Wild Arms series has some interesting music. It's generally a nice blend of orchestral instrumentation and a "Wild West" sort of sound.

Aside from the usual soundtracks, I also have to agree that a lot of stuff on OverClocked Remix is wonderfully done. Ailsean's "Terra In Black" is one of the notorious tracks on there. Another one I really love is Sefiros' "Everything = Nothing," a remix of "Compression Of Time," from Final Fantasy VIII. Tons of great stuff on there. VGMix also has some good stuff.

I'm sure I'm missing plenty, but I guess that's a long enough list for now anyway. ^^; Hope I was some help.

tales of the abyss theme song ... YUMMY

Being the only resident hardcore ToL fan among these forums I'm going to throw a bone here and say that if your into Video Game Music (especially RPG music) then I'd say give ToL a chance.

Go Shiina just MOTHER ****ING rocks and I really love the music in ToL, I love many, if not all, of the songs in ToL unlike the few ones I liked with what Sakuraba and that other guy has done so far in either ToTA or VP2:S.

yay for video game music. I'm glad to see there are other collectors I have a fair-sized collection:
wild arms 3
chrono trigger
chrono cross
final fantasy VIII
final fantasy IX
zelda: ocarina of time
suikoden II
shadow hearts
shadow hearts covenant
shenmue
xenogears

and many others. if yer looking for some suggestions, I'd highly reccomend ocarina of time, chrono cross, xenogears, suikoden II.