Thread: Video Game music.

Metal Gear Solid has got best Music

Ico

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVFfYDd3nFg

Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YiyvnWf2OQ

Grand Theft Auto

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYy69qOJWoM

Originally Posted by dmg

Anything Jeremy Soule - Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Guild Wars, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Neverwinter Nights, and more. He's also composing the score for an upcoming PC WWII strategy game from Square Enix called Order of War.

He basically decided to revolutionize the music in games, and did. He composed his first game score right out of high school (Secret of Evermore by Squaresoft):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Soule

There are a lot of excellent video game scores out there, which are often overlooked and under-appreciated because of the medium they're found in. Many Asian game composers become well-known in their respective countries, where video games garner more respect as an artform. Some other favorite scores of mine:

Final Fantasy VIII - Nobuo Uematsu
Shenmue - Takenobu Mitsuyoshi
Skies of Arcadia - Yutaka Minobe and Tatsuyuki Maeda (the end credits theme is amazing - nearly had me in tears when I finished the game)
Halo - Martin O'Donnell (didn't care for the game, but the score was awesome)

I like Jeremy Soule. I used to listen to his soundtracks for Supreme Commander (not FA) and Total Annihilation (TA has the greatest game soundtrack that I've heard), before I rediscovered to the real masters of music. I still listen to his music, alhough not nearly as oftenly as any Beethoven symphony.

Originally Posted by World Violist

Actually, I like Uematsu more than most other video-game composers I've heard (not to say that means much...). His mood pieces are really atmospheric and just beautiful.

I totally agree. The orchestral of these are amazing:

Aerith's Theme
Cloud's Theme
The opening of FF8
Eyes on Me

& especially, To Zanarkand

There was another from Crisis Core but can't remember the name.

Braid has some nice music. It sounds folksong inspired, and it's the only game I can think of that has an acoustic soundtrack without being for full orchestra.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7BMM...eature=related

Although this thread has to do with video game music, may I share a bit of computer game music...

Jeremy Soule is the composer of music to Total Annihilation, a sci-fi strategy computer game.

Here's a clip. I think the music is very legitimate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WulGs5aDCb4

I adore the music of Super Mario games (especialy Super Mario bros & Super Mario 64), Zelda, Sonic 3, Tetris... you know all those classics It might have helped that I grew up with them.
Oh and some of the Final Fantasy music was just beautiful aswell, my personal favourite is Final Fantasy 9.

Back to the OP - Mario gets my vote as well!

Why were my posts deleted? Can't a guy post his opinions? Why are you trying to opress freedom of speech?

One day, you'll get what you deserve, admins, and forget about hitting F1 for help, 'cause it won't help you out.

Why are you trying to opress freedom of speech?

Because it sucks.

and so do you.

-.-' what do you have against freedom of speech?

some video games music is OK but i wouldnt wanna be caught listening dead to it if im not playing the video game..... can you say NERD

Originally Posted by Elgarian

I'm not widely experienced in this genre, but the best music I ever heard in a computer game was in Uru - most of it being terrifically atmospheric in a way consistent with the feeling of 'here is a mysterious lost civilisation' in the game. But it also contains one particular piece of wordless soprano singing that lasts only a couple of minutes, but which (representing as it does the tragic death of a civilisation) has haunted me for years.

That little piece can only be described by these 2 words : hauntingly beautiful.

And the Myst franchise has some great OSTs too. I played all of them (Myst thru Myst 5), and enjoyed them all.

Oh, btw, how come nobody mentioned the music of MechWarrior 2? One of the earliest games to make use of orchestral music and release it as an OST, I think...