Shadowcat on 6/8/2010 at 12:02
In all honesty I barely remember it now, and so couldn't rate it against the music of other games, however "Archimedean Dynasty" did something that very few games managed to do, which was to make me feel rewarded for completing it. The closing cinematic itself wasn't unusually lengthy or spectacular, but when the subsequent credits had been rolling for a little while, I suddenly realised that the music that accompanied them was genuinely striking. I closed my eyes and listened through to the end. Then I loaded up the final, tough-as-nails mission, and played it through again purely to listen to that music again. Then a third time.
I don't know what I'd think of it now, or whether it would stand up on its own, but it definitely had something, and I've bemoaned the lack of a similarly rewarding credits track in most games I've completed since that time.
YogSo on 6/8/2010 at 20:59
Shadowcat, you can find the ending sequence you were talking about <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_c-YcYl15A">right here</a>, and there are lots more Archimedean Dynasty videos in Youtube, in case you want to refresh those memories.
Since Aria di Mezzo Carattere has already been talked about, I will mention two other of my favourite pieces of videogame music:
Fallout 2 - (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhcJbmJyprg&feature=related) Car Theme (here's (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQTr30tih54) a remix, but it's not very good IMO). I think the original is one of the coolest themes from Fallout; it perfectly captures the atmosphere of fast-travelling through the inhospitable NC post-apocalyptic deserts, the ever present sense of danger, of not knowing what lies ahead of you, the exhilaration of pure adventure...
Crusader: No Remorse - (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwG5BJtZBCU) Main Theme. I quite like all the music of the Crusader games ((
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpf6zfQVAQ8&feature=related) here's a little compilation of some of it) but I enjoyed the main theme so much that sometimes I spent several minutes in the main menu just listening to it over and over again instead of playing the game.
Mr.Duck on 7/8/2010 at 00:14
We should sticky this thread, no?, for all (or most...) game music finds :D
Also, I have some more treasures to share from the 16-Bit era:
(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDRUhhBVrng) Super Ghouls'n Ggosts (SNES) - Haunted Forest. .... G'n G games always had epic and very strong pieces of mucis....loved this soundtrack to bits. Specially how each boss (both in this game and the Genesis one) had its own track.
(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyCS0E6jV2k) Super Metroid (SNES) - Main Theme. ....a slow, yet chilling piece....
(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIP0TxIb8zg) Star Fox (SNES) - Corneria ..... C'mon, how could we forget Fox McCloud and the gang? :D, specially in their 16-bit era when their gibberish speech sounded far more cool than the lame ass dubbing they got for the 64 version...an upbeat tune this one!
Lotsa geat music from everyone that's posted, thanks y'all!
:)
Renzatic on 7/8/2010 at 01:02
Quote Posted by MrDuck
(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDRUhhBVrng) Super Ghouls'n Ggosts (SNES) - Haunted Forest. .... G'n G games always had epic and very strong pieces of mucis....loved this soundtrack to bits. Specially how each boss (both in this game and the Genesis one) had its own track.
Or for the equally as nice modern arrangement (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iId58JDf7nE) Ultimate Ghosts 'n Goblins Level 1. Music so nice, it won't piss you off so much when you have to hear it twice.
Mr.Duck on 8/8/2010 at 15:00
(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBYee7u1iSY) Super R-Type (SNES) - Boss Music ---- Hardest of all R-Types if memory serves, didn't even have midpoint save on the levels...goddam.
(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSzUg_rdqZw) Gradius III (SNES) - Level 3 Music --- I know the great one is the arcade version, but my memories come from the SNES one, great game, big ass bosses.
(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSkaT_iGprE&feature=related) Einhänder (PSOne) - Street Stage 1-2 -------- Ein-fucking-händer, Squaresoft showing the world that it could step outside of it's Final Fantasy brick house and make a great game in another genre, wish we had more of this babe....awesome bosses.
(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhZiJWPXMfU) Gaiares (Genesis) - Preface III ----- The shooter game that wowed me for the first time with HUGE fuckoff screen-filling bosses....hard and aswesome. Also, had a lady villian, UNF!
Fun times!
:D
june gloom on 10/8/2010 at 05:48
Well, if we're going to do that...
(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYlYHJ4P4A8) Megaman X5 intro. Like the rest of the game, it's pretty much a love letter to the franchise itself. Makes sense, as this was supposed to be the one to end the X series.
