Tell GR: What's Your Favorite Game Soundtrack?

Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal's soundtrack was amazing & memorable to me. I loved A Crack In Time's music too. Music that went well with the story was great, esepcially getting to listen to tons of music from radio stations while flying a spaceship. Resistance 3 & the Uncharted games have fantastic music as well.

Donkey Kong Country, and Atlantis.

I'm so looking forward to Dustforce, just for the soundtrack.

My favorite would have to be Final Fantasy 6. Seems like a cop out to use FF, but I've listened way more than any other game soundtrack.

"Guess this tune: duh, duh, duh, du-du-duh, duh, duh.... guess!"

Opening theme to Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Also the Whistle from the original The Legend of Zelda, and the Warp Whistle's tune from Super Mario Bros. 3.

Without a doubt Bastion.

Actually there's one other game that came out around when Bastion did that had a fantastic soundtrack. But given that I can't remember it, I'm saying Bastion.

Bastion has a few songs that almost being a tear to my eye they are so beautiful

I always remember liking the original Tomb Raider sounds. The sounds made you feel like you were actually discovering something new for the first time.

Bioshock/Bioshock 2 - 40's on 4 XM anyone?

But really, the game is Jet Set Radio - Controls were difficult but art style and music dominate any to date.

not that i'm really into that style of music, i agree. also the radio on Fallout New Vegas. real good combination: 40's music along side of roaming the post apocalyptic wasteland.

Quake, because of Trent Reznor. and i know its not really a sound track, but i'm gonna say GTA: San Andreas for Radio X. Grunge ftw mother****ers.

as for ' duh, duh, duh, du-du-duh, duh, duh....' i wanna say the theme for Terminator.

And I agree with GTA radio selections. Many times I got into wrecks changing the station to the one I preferred. I think it was GTA 3: Vice City (?) that introduced me to Young Turks by Rod Stewart.

haha that game is responsible for my short-lived journey into 80's electro pop. Flight of Seagulls, Gary Numan.... then i found grunge n metal. aka good music.

nah but i still like all those songs.

'Flock' of Seagulls. not 'Flight'. facepalm

Grunge forever my brother

last of its kind, bro. and by that i mean guitar music.

So many to choose from. It kind of feels like a cop-out to pick Bioshock or Fallout, but the music selection really made those games special. If we're talking original score, I'd go with Super Mario Bros. The way the music changed whenever you entered a different level/area or how it sped up when you started running out of time really added a lot to the experience back in the day, plus the music itself is just so iconic. Anyone familiar with videogames would recognize the tune.

So many great Soundtracks, both original and stuff like EA Trax, to name a few (more like a lot): Silent Hill 1, 2 and 3 OST's, The World Ends With You OST, Deathsmiles and Mushihimesama OST's, the FIFA 98, FIFA 2002, FIFA 06 and FIFA World Cup 2006 EA Trax. More recently, my favorites are Catherine's OST, all of the music in Lumines: Electronic Symphony, and Blue Blur, then Sonic Generations OST. If I have to choose an all-time favorite Soundtrack, i'll go with Mega Man 2 soundtrack, the ultimate achievement in 8-bit music, and to me, a major part of unforgettable memories of playing that masterpiece.

Oh God, time to go old school on you guys. Ecco the Dolphin on Sega CD, composed by Spencer Nilson. Seriously, check it out. Can we post links?

San Andreas and Vice City...such good radio stations.
Love the western themes of RDR, and the select songs they use in the game.

like for RDR and western themed songs.

Street Sk8er for PSOne. The game kind of sucked, and it had a limited number of tracks, but man did I love skating virtually to Less Than Jake, All, H20 and I Against I. THPS 2 was solid, too. I played for literally hundreds of hours making parks and skating them, and never got sick of the tracks.

Everything in Fallout 3 was fantastic, too.

Ace Combat. Any of them. Seriously, if you haven't heard them, you're missing out. Biiiiig time.

Hands down Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Best game soundtrack ever. I can still hear every track in my head.

The Final Fantasy series in general. I own several CDs of FF music and have been to the Distant Worlds concert twice.

The Silent Hill series. By far. I can't believe nobody said this yet. Akira Yamaoka is a musical genius and never lost a bit of it throughout the entire franchise. Until Downpour, when they changed the composer. Who agreed that was a good idea?

Gotta mention Bastion of course. Always have a soft spot for Zelda and Halo music. the ME trilogy also has really epic music. And anything that lets me play my own music.

Final Fantasy X with XIII being the runner-up. But aside from obvious picks, i'd have to say Metal Gear Solid 2

Almost anything Earthbound, Symphony of the Night, Intro Theme Final Fantasy and the one that immediately popped into my head, considering it was my first RPG, youtube.com/watch?v=gYdSH34z5hg or the battle music

Like so many others Bastion is at the top of my list. Although Journey comes pretty close but I'm a sucker for anything with cellos.

Oh also Fallout 3 and New Vegas, nothing compares to wandering the wastes blowing the heads off super mutants whilst listening to Billie Holiday.

When you turn off the radio, New Vegas uses tracks from the original games which is a nice touch.

God of War, hands down. The music is just as important to those games as the gameplay itself.

Zelda: Ocarina of Time... it was just too much perfection and balance between beautiful melodies and integrating the music with the gameplay. It was so well implemented and it sounded so damn good, that I've had "Saria's Song" as my ringtone for 10 years. I know, I don't get laid that much... the hookers keep running away from me.

Oblivion and Skyrim. Some of the most beautiful orchestral scores ever made. I listen to them on a regular basis. In fact I wrote a blog about them on my site.

Parasite eve series and the tenchu series

Final Fantasy X

Anything Nobuo Uematsu really.

Chrono Cross. Not everyone likes the game, but the soundtrack is pretty good in my opinion.

Oh and Mega Man 2. 8-bit music at it's finest right there.

Man I was beginning to think no one would mention CC. Best soundtrack ever. If you've never played it then this should be all you need to know:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=923fVDDwaHo

Total Annihilation has the best sound track I've ever heard. Homeworld, Chrono Trigger, and Cross are all up there too. All those sound tracks just blend so well with the game, and they all felt right, but Total Annihilation was exceptional.

PC version Maui Mallard in Cold Shadows had a great orchestral soundtrack with Hawaii, Jazz and Tribal music influences. Really great stuff.

Chrono Trigger, by far, the best soundtrack in a video game.

Legend of Mana. I love everything in that game.

Betrayal at Krondor, Bastion, Skyrim, and pretty much anything else by Jeremy Soule

N.A.R.C. arcade. Duke Nukem Total Meltdown All Halo soundtracks

Streets of Rage 3... every stage... ftw

Donkey Kong Country was good. Final Fantasy 6 heard that one alot. Ivory_Soul I agree Oblivion and Skyrim. Tetris on the original GameBoy. The Witcher because of the Celtic vibe.

So many good ones. Ocarina of Time and the Castlevanias are popular choices for obvious reasons. I would add Ninja Gaiden II for NES and Lunar for Playstation. Lunar is such an underrated game btw. It's easily up there with FFIII, Chrono Trigger and Tales of Phantasia as one of the greatest RPGs of all time.
U.N. Squadron for SNES deserves to be mentioned too.

Chrono Trigger is definitely one of my favorites.

"Guess this tune: duh, duh, duh, du-du-duh, duh, duh.... guess!" I not only just defeated the monster but I leveled up, while reading this.

Modnation Racers, for sure. That soundtrack they had perfectly fit the game, and it was awesome to boot. But, I have to ask, does anyone really know what this dude is saying in this particular track?

youtube.com/watch?v=DnalI1EDbbI

I keep hearing "Doubt you get diarrhea", and I know that can't be right.

For me i would have to say Killzone 2 and 3 along with Fallout (3 and NV) Timesplitters 2 and SSX 3

Forgot to add flow and flower to that list!

Sonic 2 Hilltop Zone. Adventures of Dino Riki. Donkey Kong Country. The first Tenchu: Stealth Assassins. Mega Man 2. There's lots more, and I love chiptune music thanks to my 8 bit formative years, but these are what come to mind atm.

Well, I'm late to this party, but here goes;
Resident Evil 1-3, Fallout 3, Mass Effect 2...if I'm buying the sound track on iTunes, its a fave!

Oh and RE: Code Veronica X

Oh and Sim City for the Super Nintendo (last one, I swear)

Jet Set Radio Future.

done.

Resident Evil 1 2 and 3, Final fantasy 7......... every GTA game ever made.......

Is the tune daniels doing the pause music from the epic battletoads game.....