Favourite Video Game Music

[lawton27]

I think this always has to be my favourite

[Chrill]

Really just about anything from Road Rash II.

[praguzz]

My All time favourite

(Actually I learned guitar just to play this)

[Drury]

@Nemesis: like it! I miss games like Dune II and C&C (up to Red Alert II, the rest that followed doesn't live up to its predecessors). There aren't many old school RTSs around these days. As for their music, well, Hell March is always on my playlist, along with all rock and metal legends. Doesn't fall behind Black Sabbath, Metallica or Iron Maiden (which all I admire) at all.

Hell Marches are like the games themselves.

The first one is like 3 foot titanium hammer.

Second one is an upgraded version with diesel chamber fitted in the head for extra smashing power. Already feels like an overkill and it a bit hurts to use, but still awesome.

Third one is a plastic prop with colored LEDs all over it.

[Emperor Darth Sidious]

Well like Drury said Nemesis was very beautifull for the time, but I also liked the music from Sonic the Hedgehog 2, 3 and Sonic and Knuckles. The music from the Sega Megadrive game "Streets of Rage" was great, but two of my favorite songs are:

http://youtu.be/qkYSuWSPkHI
The Legend of Zelda

and this one:

http://youtu.be/E7Iz_rI_ECY
Moonlit Wilderness from Tekken 5

[lawton27]

The music from the Sega Megadrive game "Streets of Rage" was great

I love that game!

[Pyoro]

Some more classics ...



I'll probably always recognize these no matter how many years I manage to live. Especially that Grand Prix theme, haven't played that one in like 20 years and it's as recognizable as ever ...

[Drury]

HOLY COW COMMANDER YURI'S BEEN WATCHING TOO MUCH TV

[Drury]

Luftrausers has interesting background music system.

You make planes out of 3 modular parts - weapon, fuselage and propulsion. There are 5 types of each part, each of them assigned to a music track. Weapons are drums, fuselage head and propulsion bass. Overlapping 3 of these tracks makes a song that plays during the round.

This is really interesting as there are 125 combinations of parts, meaning it's possible to hear 125 variations (+1 for the final [CLASSIFIED] machine that's unlocked as a whole).

Here's a combination of shotgun (the marching+drum kicks, later cymbals), melee body (vuvuzela would be the best description) and gungine (bipbipbipbipbipbip)



And for comparison, here's a completely different combination: missiles (snare drums), nuke body (guitar) and screw propeller (some sort of deep beepish bass)



It doesn't sound like it, but the chorus also alternates a bit.

[Jacko]

HOLY COW COMMANDER YURI'S BEEN WATCHING TOO MUCH TV

Did you notice the Easter Egg/ Spoiler in the Allied Mission #2 in hollywood for the soviet ending? (i.e. dinosaurs)

Note also that this thread cannot possibly be valid until stuff like this is posted on here

[SquireJames]

Epic soundtrack music?

[Gord]

Used to get so excited hearing this as it loaded. Was an absoutely brilliant racing game. The first 'real' Formula 1 sim of it's kind.

Just far enough away from The Chain to not cause copyright issues!

[SkeedR]

Homeworld Mission 3 will always get to me it seems.
Spoiler:

[JamieLei]

Homeworld Mission 3 will always get to me it seems.
Spoiler

That's not video game music! That's Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, the sung arrangement! I have played this in an orchestra - It's a wonderful piece.

[SquireJames]

Also known as "that piece from Platoon"

[JamieLei]

Also known as "that piece from Platoon"

Sadly.

Just as Prokofiev's Montagues and Capulets has become known as the theme tune to the Apprentice... (skip to 1:35 if you're impatient...)

[SquireJames]

I thought that piece specifically was "Dance of the Knights" ?

[JamieLei]

I thought that piece specifically was "Dance of the Knights" ?

Indeed - although Montagues and Capulets is equally, if not more, well known for the piece from Romeo and Juliet (1935)

[Bob_Mackenzie]

[Drury]

The game is about jumping out of windows, geddit?