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Time for a silly thread. Let's share some game music faves. I'm going to say "Maiden in Black" from Demon's Souls takes the cake for me.
Ten bucks says you can't help yourself from playing DS after that.
Even though I don't play them, I enjoy a lot of music from the Final Fantasies and Zeldas too.
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I'm pretty bad about remembering the more atmospheric background music and such, unless I actually have the soundtrack (as is the case with the Halo trilogy, which all have great scores). One of my favorite pieces from video games - ironically one I haven't even played - is Christopher Tin's "Baba Yetu" from Civilization IV:
That may slightly be jumping on the bandwagon a bit, given that this piece is the first (and I think still the only) Grammy-award winning piece of video game music.
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DON'T DO THIS TO ME XTAL. I could be trapped in this thread forever, posting track after track after track! (Great idea for a thread, basically)
Funny you post up the Maiden in Black's theme Max because I started watching a Demon's Souls sub one hour speed run only last week and had a moment appreciating just how... comforting and gorgeously serene that piece of music is. I forgot about it because towards the end of Demon's Souls that music is replaced by some oppressive organ tune if I remember rightly?
Anyway, from one comforting piece of music to another:
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@Botch: Sounds a little Metroid and Shadow of the Beast. Very nice! (Oh god, I can see myself posting too much in here...)
@Dix: Wow. Never heard that before but I can see why it won a Grammy, amazing and perfectly suited to that intro.
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Oh man that RE4 music made even the safe areas feel creepy to me. What a great game.
I don't usually remember game music very well at all Dix. For some reason that one from Halo always stuck with me though.
Here's my favorite Metroid Prime track, from the sometimes serene, sometimes deadly Phendrana Drifts. So many fond memories of that game.
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That's not the Phendrana music I remember! It was always the gentle Drifts for me:
Lovely. That being said Phendrana's Edge has a great vibe and rhythm to it.
I loved the Metroid Prime games, Dark Echoes is my favourite I think.
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Details! 
I love both Phendrana tunes. What a game that was. The first Prime will always be my favorite.
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Details as in why I preferred Dark Echoes? Sorry-- I mean Echoes. Don't know where 'Dark' came from! I blame Dark Souls. I really liked the duality of the environments with the light and dark worlds. I also loved Torvus Bog, Sanctuary Fortress and the generally darker tone of the game. It had some particularly memorable boss fights too if I recall. It's been such a long time since I played them though!
And now for something completely different from Hired Guns on the Commodore Amiga. This is the title screen music mixed into the character selection screen music. To be fair, I think this was meant to happen in the game as it is indeed seamless but there were probably limitations:
That piece of music is 20 years old and came on a 1.44mb floppy disc. Listen to the quality of it! Crazy. It's also bloody good to boot. Expect plenty more from the Amiga from me. That machine was unparalleled in the sound/music department, more or less until fully recorded stuff could be stuffed on to media.
Trivia: DMA Design, the developers of Hired Guns (and Lemmings), in later years became Rockstar North.
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Man, Metroid Prime. I really enjoyed that whole trilogy, and I was one of those people who thought that a Metroid FPS would be a disaster. I hope they learn their lesson after Other M and backpedal a bit. Not that I have a WiiU to play a new Metroid on.
Here's a piece I like from the operatic soundtrack of the ill-fated sci-fi epic Advent Rising.
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Such a great title, though. The Other M. Too bad there wasn't a game to go with it.
When I was little I recorded NES closing credits music on a tape recorder as a sort of record to track what I'd won. Amazing how evocative some of those eight-bit soundtracks could be.
Here's a favorite of mine from back then...
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Ha! Mega Man 2. I never played it, but I have a special relationship with it because I had the Worlds of Power novelization. Of Mega Man 2. Think about that for a minute.
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Yes, as in the prog-rock band? Seems like an odd match. I never finished Homeworld, tragically. I gave away the expansion (Cataclysm?) without ever having played it. Got it for 5 bucks at Radio Shack. Shame really.
It's tough to take any music out of the context of the game in this case, but I particularly love this piece from Total Annihilation: probably, as a whole, my favourite soundtrack.
"Desolation"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....E94FC21B88
Though this one is probably the most iconic (for any with a good memory):
"Blood of the Machines"
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I too am amazed at how evocative such 'primitive' sounding music can be. That Duck Tales Moon track that Amanda posted up on the front page is just... beautiful and yeah, evocative, and I haven't even played that game before so it's not like it's nostalgia that's doing all the heavy lifting here. "Good music is good music, I guess." To quote Mat C in a recent email. I always thought this was a powerful bit of awesomeness:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....miqihtLsok
That's a crazy medley there Botch. I really like the intro section. And the bit that gets faster and faster around 6:00... hahah, dizzying. Some of it reminds me of some of Disasterpiece's stuff, particularly Rise of the Obsidian Interstellar. It's crazy how good some of the music is for some of these simple ball games. I mean, check out Pinball Fantasies' intro music; it's monstrous!
Yeah yeah, I know, more Amiga music...
xtal I didn't know TA's music was so melancholic and barren. I never really played the game unfortunately. I remember dabbling with it at LAN parties but I didn't know the tech trees well enough to have any idea what I was doing and the music certainly didn't have the chance to shine under those circumstances!
I did however, play C&C back in the day. Remember these?
And here's my favourite from the time. All together now "I'm a mechanical-- I'm a mechanical-- I'm a mechanical man!"
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I never played Homeworld, so didn't know about the Yes connection. How cool! Jon Anderson has still got it. I could never get into Total Annihilation. Just couldn't get my head around all the units. And they kept adding more after the game's release.
I'm with you Gregg. That early, seemingly primitive game music could be so evocative.
The Dig! What a great one that was.
Here are some tunes from my C64 days.
Demon Stalkers was pretty much like Gauntlet
Koronis Rift was and remains like no other.
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That Koronis Rift track really could have kept building.
Maybe an odd choice since it's "relegated" to being menu music, but the track that plays when you boot up Guns of Icarus Online is perfectly suited to a cup of sky-coffee, bushel of sky-tomatoes and soaring through the um..skies.
Another one everyone 'round here has probably heard since the game's been talked about at length, but "Mushrooms" is my favourite of all the wonderful music from Sword & Sworcery.
Edit: The Dig music.. so good
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Ugh, somehow I didn't even think of Sword & Sworcery EP at all! That whole game has great music...
I really need to replay The Dig one of these days. I got it on Steam over the summer because I noticed they had it, but I still haven't so much as started it despite doing things like a My Idea of Fun on it. I know it's almost blasphemous to say, but The Dig might be my favorite LucasArts adventure, or second perhaps only to Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.
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Michael Land did a terrific job with The Dig's score and you know what? I think it might be my favourite LucasArts adventure too Dix. I played it with my mum, dad and brother and found it hypnotising. There was such a powerful sense of place and wonder running throughout it, what with all the alien technology and atmospheric cut-scenes punctuating the exploration, and I think Land's music was instrumental in providing that. I never did hear T1000's voice in the same way after Boston Low. "Ack! Guano, right in my eye."
I'll second the love for S:S&S EP's soundtrack, it's fantastic.
When we spoke about the Guns of Icarus Online music Max I thought you were talking about this one:
Love the piano section in that, it's so gentle.
This is a piece I adore from the strange god game Reus. It's short but super sweet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....O0U-Yh0CDY
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