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Melee Master

#41 August 24, 2008, 12:21:09 am

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It's awful, I obsess over video game soundtracks. I used to have every Final Fantasy soundtrack EVER as well as all the other stuff that goes along with them, remixes and arrangements and piano collections and I loved every bit of it. I download sheet music to songs from games Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Kingdom Hearts, Maplestory (lolz), Zelda games (Twilight Princess and Ocarina of Time esp.), Shadow of the Colossus, and the Final Fantasy series (specifically like IV, VI, VII, and VIII). But pretty much all of them I listen to all the time. They're on my iPod (I'm a loser I know) and recently I've REALLY been into the Shadow of the Colossus soundtrack. There are pieces that I just absolutely love. I dunno, I'm a huge fan of video game music and I pretty much just always have been. I'm listening to Chrono Cross right now actually... huh.

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#42 August 24, 2008, 11:52:28 pm

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My favorite video game soundtracks are definitely Vagrant Story and Okami. I think they're both awesome, and they're great games too.

Vagrant Story example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQWozOkzFXo
Okami example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY-jMfZ1uDk

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hero_bash

#43 August 24, 2008, 11:56:36 pm

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Wild Arms Series soundtrack FTW

the music is not just an extra feature pleasure, it's a vital part of enjoying the game!

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#44 August 25, 2008, 01:09:34 am

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The track is called Hell March in the RA opening theme. They are recording a new one for RA3

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Kitsune Inferno

#45 August 25, 2008, 01:56:58 am

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Pretty much anything by Yasunori Matsuda (Chrono series, first two Shadow Hearts) and Motoi Sakuraba (Star Ocean, Valkyrie Profile, Tales of)

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#46 August 25, 2008, 02:06:01 am

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I think Silent Hill had my favorite music. It ranged from kind of upbeat and melodic to really heavy and dangerous sounding. It always fit the mood and made up for some of the game's shortcomings.

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#47 August 25, 2008, 02:20:51 am

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Secret of Mana and Ultima Online. Excellent stuff.

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#48 August 25, 2008, 03:09:31 am

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There are plenty of games I enjoyed for music. However there is only one game that will always stand tall among the crowd:
Shadow of the Colossus.

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Ragnar

#49 August 25, 2008, 03:28:26 am

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Quote from: Ralph on August 23, 2008, 07:45:10 pm

I have always been taken away by the immense beauty of the Terranigma Underworld song. The sorrow mixed with a determine feel really puts me to tears.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3mqIDAVObA&feature=related

No song has ever been able to take me as this song. Not even the MGS theme.

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Eltee

#50 August 25, 2008, 09:58:31 pm

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i agree with ragnar

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#51 August 26, 2008, 05:28:00 pm

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Quote from: Ragnar on August 25, 2008, 03:28:26 am

hahahahaha

Dude what's your problem? Maybe it's not like your favorite music in the world or whatever but if he wants to be profoundly stirred by video game music it's kind of assinine to pick on him.

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Ragnar

#52 August 26, 2008, 05:37:12 pm

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I dunno I just read the whole paragraph before and I was imagining something a lot better than that

but yeah I loved the tunes from the Dragon Warrior games when I was like 6 or something - I wouldn't bother posting but apparently there is a large group of people who cover songs from the game on guitar (and do an awesome job of it)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OC4Cdm852I
Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjfKP5c31xE&feature=related

so here's the one from DWII that I thought was like the best song ever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Cuedjtiiw&feature=related

and the one from DWIV was kind of the same idea

and that Other World theme from Chrono Cross is pretty nice although it gets mentioned way too much. It always feels kind of unfinished to me though

Last Edit: August 26, 2008, 05:40:09 pm by Ragnar

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#53 August 26, 2008, 06:12:49 pm

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Quote from: Ragnar on August 26, 2008, 05:37:12 pm

but yeah I loved the tunes from the Dragon Warrior games when I was like 6 or something - I wouldn't bother posting but apparently there is a large group of people who cover songs from the game on guitar (and do an awesome job of it)

Actually the composer's arrangements for full orchestra are some of my favorite music in the world. You should check them out if you liked the in-game music back when you were a kid - he is a really phenomenal composer and orchestrator. It helps that he was like in his 50s and had decades of experience writing for film before he even started writing music for video games!

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Ragnar

#54 August 26, 2008, 06:23:51 pm

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Yeah but ironically I think as the games get newer and they actually have the ability to do better sounding instruments/mp3s of the orchestra version I think the music itself has gotten duller

it's actually pretty cool how the NES ones don't sound so completely abstract compared to the orchestrated versions of the songs, not only that they were just working with square/triangle waves but they effectively only have 3 tracks to work with at any given time

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#55 August 27, 2008, 04:10:16 am

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Lets see...

ShadowRunSNEandGenesis: What can I say, urban apocalypse and cyber-punk techno at it's best. The Renraku Archology is still one of my personal favorites, same with Jackal's Lantern.

Silent Hill series always seems to deliver in the abstract/eerie/depressing song department.

Earthworm Jim1&2 'nuff said.

Yakuza's fighting songs actually were good. They even made an extremely common "action" tune people sing to themselves in 'do's badass.

Banjo Kazooie/Tooie "very few" songs are actually addicting. I say very few sarcastically because ten songs is one song played differently for different areas.

Kirby 64 it's addicitng too I just can't get enough of Mircale Matter and the ending credit's tune. Some are crap but thats expected.

Y's I liked it.

Castlevania songs from various games in the series.

The Resident Evil piano tune I hear from almost every game.

Hybrid Heaven boss music.

Dark Cloud cause well for starters their main theme is so good that it's even in a certain boss fight in Dark Cloud 2.

Dark Cloud 2 I find it musically less superior but thats me.

Last and hopefully the least... Dr.Mario Fever and Tetris

I'd list more but the other ones are listed by others.

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#56 August 27, 2008, 01:32:33 pm

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Ogre Battle's soundtrack will always stand out to me. I just love those heavy war-like symphonies. Chrono Cross, Baten Kaitos, and Breath of Fire 3 also have some really fantastic soundtracks.

However, Morrowind is my absolute favourite. It is simply.... epic sounding.

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Ohlichris

#57 August 28, 2008, 11:49:53 am

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Kirby has some really great and catchy tunes, particularly the remixes featured in Kirby Canvas Curse:
Butter Building (this is the best I could find, at least it has two remixes) - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4-MIGE7LzZE&feature=related#

Blue Dragon has some great tracks, though it doesn't live up to Nobuo Uematsu's other efforts:
Main Theme - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo-uNoCxV8I

The Dark Cloud series features cool music, but I can't remember much of the tracks. This track is one that I've always enjoyed listening too:
Gundorada Workshop - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=GxPjnzsBIrc

The Silent Hill has some very creepy and atmospheric tracks. I love how they included some of the series' tracks in the film:
Block Mind (couldn't find the track I was looking for) - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=SXsbCg2y76c&feature=related

Valkyrie Profile 2 had great music considering the fact that the composer was Motoi Sakuraba. He should stop composing generic music found in the Tales series and compose better music found in the Valkyrie Profile series. Unfortunately there are a few generic tracks, like the annoying track which plays in the Venerated Dragon Palace. Anyway, here's a track I really like:
Divine View (world map theme) - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gCr_1xxKt68

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Jester

#58 August 28, 2008, 03:34:48 pm

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Aquaria had really good music. Like, eerily good. I still listen to it all the time :O.

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#59 August 28, 2008, 08:44:44 pm

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Super Mario Galaxy had an awesome soundtrack. Gusty Garden and Melty Molten are the best.

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Eltee

#60 August 30, 2008, 04:29:11 am

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Quote from: Jester on August 28, 2008, 03:34:48 pm

Aquaria had really good music. Like, eerily good. I still listen to it all the time :O.

I agree to this. Infact I wonder if the files are still up

I also agree about the Mario Galaxy soundtrack

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