Best Gaming Music

Motorhead (10/10 game and music)
Homeworld
Pro Pinball: Big Race USA (anyone feels that?)
Crime Cities
Total Annihilation

Right, I'm a retro-maniac...
 
Outcast (Good, orchestrated soundtracks are KING in my book.)
Planescape: Torment (Mark Morgan at his best IMHO)
Final Fantasy 6 (I will never forget the opening score.)
Turrican 2 (Duh)
Last Ninja series (Composers with that limited resources have to be VERY creative.)
 
Believe it or not, but i've actually made CD's out of the following games and listen to them still:
Fallout and Fallout 2
Rainbow 6
Heros of Might and Magic 3
Midnight Club 1 and 2
Final Fantasy VIII (possibly the best gaming score ever written)
 
I really liked the music in Arcanum. Some of the tunes in Fallout 2 are pretty awesome too (Modoc rocks!).
 
I really agree with CC on M:TW (especially the battles in the desert! Arabian medieval music r0xx0rz!). Also Baldur's gate 2. I know you hate Interplay, and so so I, but you can dload BG2 and Fallout music from their site, so... http://www.interplay.com/interact/downloadlist.asp?Dltype=1

But anyway, haven't bought HoD yet, but I've read the music is good.

Dunno about FF8. There's another FF game, don't remember which one (it had a medieval setting of some kind and had more or less 3D graphics) with great music. Not to mention the music in Chrono cross.
 
Heroes of Might and Magic 2 and 3 had to have one of the best music in a PC game...
It is amazing how they managed to match the mood of each type of town with a classical song. Simply amazing.

Of course there is also GTA: VC's V-ROCK station, mwahahaha :twisted:
 
I'm with Dove, the music in the Silent Hill games are great.

Also most of the stuff played in GTA: VC - except for a couple of the stations. Didn't like the Latin-flavored station much.

I thought the piano opening to FF X-2 was good. The rest ranged from tolerable to "mute button."
 
Ever noticed how the musik in New Reno sounds just like the one used over and over again in the movie......crap whats it called?
The one with Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone where you get to see her nude.
 
I forgot about Unreal. Damn good. BTW does anyone know how to get that music in some format that allows to listen it some other way than when playing the game?
 
You'd most likely have to get a converter, like with the Fallout music. Other times, games will have the music files in straight mp3 formats, like in Heros of Might and Magic. Other times, you'll have to get an extractor cause all the music files are compiled together into one big file.
 
I liked the music from the Gabriel Knight series a lot, too. For GK2, they actually wrote a whole opera. And it was a damn good one, too!
 
Vice City, hands down. I love the soundtrack set to death, and I love the commercials, especially the Petstuffers ad and the movie ads.

Some of the music in Sega's racing games (Daytona USA 1 and 2, Super GT, NASCAR Arcade) is catchy in a J-Pop kind of way. And the J-Pop in Initial D: Arcade Stage is great as well: actual music from the anime soundtracks is a smart move.
 
monkey island 2 - great melodies, just awesome
dune 2 - however i do hate the movie soundtrack that Toto did :D
doom 1,2 - well suited for the aggressive and spooky gameplay
warlords 2 - the music just sticks to your mind
zelda 2
castlevania 1, 2, 3
bionic commando - this game has very nice music

when it comes to the NES games i can recommend the winamp plug-in (NotSo Fatso) that play the NES music formats NSF & NSFE
 
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