Favourite Game Music - TTLG Forums

Volitions Advocate on 31/7/2011 at 03:38

I remember thinking this was amazing back when I was 14. Listening to it now not so much. Although it was a fantastic game. While my friends were playing Killer instinct and MK on their SNES I was playing this on my pc with a gravis pad.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOShl4Tcw_E)

But this one sounds like it was ripped right out of the MK movie.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjj9umuLn0w)

icemann on 31/7/2011 at 04:43

That second one sounds very 2-Unlimited.

nicked on 31/7/2011 at 07:52

Oh yeeeeah! The cheesy awesomeness of OMF:2097 brings back so many memories! Hey that was a great game. Didn't they make a 3D sequel many years later? Anyone know if it was any good?

Sulphur on 31/7/2011 at 17:44

Quote Posted by Jason Moyer

I dunno if it's been mentioned in the thread before, but I've caught myself humming parts of the bit.trip.runner soundtrack at work lately.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ignzm9nyFDs)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l1emNAgDho)

It's absolutely bleeding wonderful. The game's brilliant, but the way it mixes the sound effects with the soundtrack and layers more instrumentation to the track with each successful power-up is almost... orgasmic.

I'm no fan of chiptunage, but the Bit.Trip series' music has me spellbound. I want the rest of the games on Steam now.

Jason Moyer on 31/7/2011 at 17:53

Yeah. I kinda hope that they end up porting the full collection that's out on the Wii now with all the bonus levels and stuff. Would really like more.

Harvester on 31/7/2011 at 23:19

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTLhWXv2I4A) Pinball Fantasies intro

SubJeff on 1/8/2011 at 00:08

Quote Posted by Nameless Voice

While we're at old Atari / Amiga games like the awesome Gods intro:

YES!

The Bitmap Brothers games had some great tracks. Here is a Spotify link to the original Megablast from Xenon 2: spotify:track:5kQcsnZa34yjdw7Cc0Al3g

And since you mention it - Gods: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN0VIgO3U0k)

The Amiga had a lot of good music. I'm sure I've mentioned them before (probably in this tread!) but two of my favourite tracks from the Amiga days were:

Shadow of the Beast. So frikking mellow - (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUdXYiiHZQY)
Turrican intro. The build up is great. - (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R3dcGUB5rk)

And let's not forget the great game over music from Shadow of the Beast 2: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGf5xpaRIx8)

I want a 10 minute long version of that.

Koki on 1/8/2011 at 06:17

Quote Posted by Harvester

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTLhWXv2I4A) Pinball Fantasies intro

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1FWQsTdGpY) Illusions > Fantasies

Which actually for some reason reminded me of (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4no17ep3xqA) this. Granted, it shouldn't be in this thread as it's not a piece composed specifically for a videogame, but show me an Amiga owner who knew that.

lost_soul on 1/8/2011 at 19:37

It wasn't from a game, but it is from a guy who made game music.

(http://www.last.fm/music/Geir+Tjelta/_/A+New+Beginning)

Really awesome melody/pitch shifting.

Ahris on 3/8/2011 at 13:39

There are too many fantastic SID and Amiga tunes to mention here so i'll focus on PC soundtracks.
For me, the best soundtracks were from Quake (Trent Reznor/NIN), Quake 2 (Sonic mayhem) and Homeworld (Paul Ruskay, Yes).
I still listen to all songs of the two quake soundtracks from time to time and in the case of Homeworld i love 'Homeworld' by Yes and 'Turanic Battle music' from the in-game soundtrack. :)
The Morrowind theme also sort of sticks to my head, but i think it's because of all the hours i've listened to it while playing rather than being brilliant in any way. :)

The Painkiller soundtrack was great as well, but perhaps a bit anonymous, it did lift the game to a completely new level though so it did its job very well.
In general i feel that it's very rare that any game soundtrack stands out at all nowdays, all the real magic was done in the 80's.