Game Soundtracks

[Maximus]

Does anyone else buy these?

I just got the Final Fantasy VIII soundtrack, and I am completely blown away by it since the last time I played it I was about 12 years old and didn't appreciate it.

Makes me want to play it all over again, I'll see if I can dig up those discs!

[saprano]

I never bought any game soundtracks before,but there are some really amazing one's. final fantasy 7 is one of my favorites. along with....

metal gear solid 1 to 4

final fantasy8

resident evil

theres alot more that i cant think of right now.

[DavePS3]

Freakishly enough, Shoutcast (internet radio provider) actually has a channel devoted to game soundtracks.

[blu-dave]

GTA-Vice City


Now that was a good soundtrack

[JJ]

Best game soundtracks ever:

-StarFox 64
-Goldeneye
-Top Gear SNES

[El Negro]

Originally Posted by JJxiv1215

Best game soundtracks ever:

-StarFox 64
-Goldeneye
-Top Gear SNES

Agree with those but i'd add Street Fighter Alpha 3, Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time to that list.

[Cordre69]

I have...nearly everything by Yasunori Mitsuda and Hitoshi Sakimoto. I also have all the Final Fantasy games, including X-2 and Crisis Core. I don't get the remix, best-or, or piano mixes though.
Hmmm...what else. Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne, Digital Devil Saga, Persona 3, Silent Hill 1-4 (need Origin if it's out there somewhere), Ar-Tonelico, .hack//GU, .hack//GAME, Battle Arena Toshinden 2, Folklore, Shadow Hearts 1-3, Shadow of the Colossus, Xenosaga 1-3...etc.
Kow Otani, Yuki Kajiura, & Kenji Kawai...I got into from Anime soundtracks so it made sense to get their game OSTs as well. All amazing!

[Shin-Ra]

Banjo-Kazooie, Final Fantasy VII, VIII, IX, Grabbed by the Ghoulies, Metal Gear Solid 2, 3, Oddworld Abe's Oddysee, Stranger's Wrath, Perfect Dark, Perfect Dark Zero, Shadow of the Colossus, Silent Hill, 2, 3.

[king_patrick_7]

I have the FFVIII soundtrack and sometimes when my itunes is on shuffle, one of the songs will randomly play and it makes me want to start up a new file.

TOP Gear2 for snes has an awesome soundtrack too, also the Zelda 64 one is sweet too

[Maximus]

Originally Posted by Shin-Ra

Banjo-Kazooie, Final Fantasy VII, VIII, IX, Grabbed by the Ghoulies, Metal Gear Solid 2, 3, Oddworld Abe's Oddysee, Stranger's Wrath, Perfect Dark, Perfect Dark Zero, Shadow of the Colossus, Silent Hill, 2, 3.

FFIX Is also amazing, shame about the game though . Thing is, I like the gameplay much more than VIII, but the story doesn't have the same sense of greatness that VII and VIII had.

FFIX is the only one I have had trouble completing, it took me a good six months, whereas VI, VII, VIII and X were incredibly addictive and I had them done in three or four weeks.

Don't even get me started on the follies of FFXII, it was terrible and the score was all over the shop. It just goes to show how important Nobuo Uematsu is to the series. Hopefully XIII will have a better score, but with Uematsu only doing the main theme, I'm not so sure.

[jason_grumpy]

Of course Max, there are others that buy these sound tracks and more so care about the original intent of said OST music. It's also why in-game music wasn't a big deal to me. I only found that feature worth wanting in online games such as Burnout when the soundtrack becomes a bit to repetitive, but I doubt I'd ever use it during normal game play. Aerith dying with something like Pantera blasting in the background would have killed the entire scene.

But as a younger adult, not knowing that such things existed like video game music export cd's -- I did it the ghetto way. Putting save points during or right before my favorite tunes in various games, or recording it on tape. With the advent of BBS and Internet, it was that and a combination of MIDI and MOD. In fact, my Tales of Phantasia MIDI of Moria Gallery that I authored is still floating out there on various sites.

I have to agree that FF8's soundtrack is pretty decent. I think FF7's was a little bit better. FF9 well.. it seems me and you diverged from the series (or had disagreements with it) at or about the same time. I loved FF1-8, didn't really enjoy 9 at all, 10's OST was really spectacular even though Uematsu only composed maybe a 1/4th of it and I felt the game was great, and I felt that 12 was a tragedy. 12's music was subpar at best, and that game really should not have been titled a Final Fantasy game, it could have stood on it's own as a separate title/series. The dynamics were so different, so unlike FF, that after 12, I do not have any hope of desire for FF13 if they continue down that path. I didn't even bother playing past the 10 hour mark, and I don't feel like forcing myself to play it.

But on the case of OST, I won't stop there, as the 16-bit Era had some really fantastic and overlooked music as well. The SNES really had a decent sound engine for the time. As a result, some great OST's came from it.

FF4's overworld music is still today one the 'best' in my opinion that Uematsu made for the overworld. Baron castle, under world, sylph cave, giant, lunar surface, boss 2 music, and even the Zeromus music just rocked. I remember being in awe the first time I heard it on the SNES. FF5 was Ok, it had some good points and low points. The end dungeon, Gilgamesh battles, final merged world, etc were great. FF6 seemed like a great rebound, as the entire game had fantastic music. I think the only one I didn't like was the place where Gau was, the destroyed overworld music.

Other goodies include the Secret of Mana OST. Was there a bad song on this one? Dragon Quest 5 and especially 6 had some winners as well. Another overlooked OST is Soul Blazer and Actraiser (Enix). Although the vast majority of the US hasn't played Terranigma (EU/JPN), or Tales of Phantasia (SFC), i'd say that ToP even outscored some of Uematsu's best and Terranigma was a very close second. I left out Chrono Trigger as this one is obviously included.

Digging back a bit to far perhaps, the 8-bit era. Those are reserved for Final Fantasy 1, and DQ 1-3. Although DQ1-3 were remade for the SFC, it never made it to American shores. Alfgards theme still is haunting, and Dark Alfgard theme really pulls the heart strings even on 8-bit. The SNES versions of DQ1-3 were even better. I would say that many people who played DQ8, do not realize the flying music is an updated version of DQ3's flying music.

The N64 had some really good tunes as well. Ocarina of Time is one of my all time favorites, and Dire Dire Docks from Mario 64 can be considered one of the best OST songs of all time for that series.

If you're interested too Max, there's many symphonic compositions of the 8-bit and 16-bit era available for import, along with the 32-bit era. DQ music from a symphony sounds pretty darn good. Also, there's people on the net with absolute love for VG OST's, and they do their own remixes of old tunes at OverClocked Remix. Beware though, as some of the styles completely suck, while others are amazing. I generally find 1 good song in 10 on that site. Another that I'm not sure if it's available anymore is Project Majestic Mix: A Tribute to Nobuo Uematsu. They did some really good remixes of Uematsu's tracks.

[Chocolatejas]

Originally Posted by saprano

I never bought any game soundtracks before,but there are some really amazing one's. final fantasy 7 is one of my favorites. along with....

metal gear solid 1 to 4

final fantasy8

resident evil

theres alot more that i cant think of right now.

I have Moonlight Sonata on my Ipod.

[mikenike]

My favorite game soundtracks are:
Assassin's Creed
Bioshock
Dirge of Cerberus
Heavenly Sword
Metal Gear Solid 4
Uncharted