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Final Fantasy--pretty much all of them had good music.

But for a PC game, the best is the opening of Sid Meier'S Civ IV: "Baby Yetu." (Don't know if they use this on Civ Rev--I haven't played that yet.)

what this one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVMCX25pFks

the entire score from morrowind... mmm nostalgia

megascorcher:
Anything by Nobuo Uematsu. Seriously.

Also liking the Shadow of the Colossus soundtrack, and other soundtracks like that.

Other than that mostly games with an oldschool appeal to the music. I love C64/Amiga-music, and 8-bit music almost as much. Some games on the DS, like Phoenix Wright and the Castlevania titles are good on that aspect, with the Castlevanias actually using some of the melodies of older games in the series, a wonderful homage to those great games. I'm sure the new Megaman will have great music too.

What he said.

I don't think you'll get many honest answers because people will have what I call the G4 complex. They'll vote for the game they like the best despite that game may have a flaw in that area. (Like GTA4 being original..)

My vote? World of Warcraft. There is one quest you turn in that makes the Forsaken Faction Leader belt out this REALLY beautiful song. The songs are just so high quality the ambiance of Warcraft is one of the top three things about it.

All the games in The Orange Box have some pretty bad ass music. Anyone know where I can download it?

A special mention I forgot to give:

The Spaghetti-Western stylings of "Hidden Village" from Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. It was catchy as hell, and fit both the village and the sniping mini-game so very well.

Any of the music from the silent hill series, Akira Yamaoka is a musical genius.

Also anything by Nobuo Uematsu as already stated.

tales of the abyss and tales of symphonia 2, valkyrie profile, final fantasy 7, kirby

Gitaroo Man. The game is filled with Japanese cliches, but the songs!

solidd:
OH how could i forget. THE PORTAL SONG. SO awesome.

it is my ring tone. the majority of the people i work with, if not all of them, have no idea what it is. i love it.

I have the entire MGS4 soundtrack on my iPod and listen to it pretty much constantly. The sickest part is being able to close my eyes and actually see the section I would be playing to whatever song is on... but personally I think that's fucking awesome when used under the right circumstances.

Hmm I really like the Zelda music and the music from The World Ends With You

I'm pretty certain we've had this thread about 5 times in the last 3 months but here are mine again...

Vagrant Story
Myst III: Exile
Shadow of the Colossus
Panzer Dragoon Saga/Azel
Final Fantasy Tactics

I listen to videogame soundtracks all the time. If you own enough of them, there's every genre and mood catered for.

3 times in the last month. Search Forums is your friend, and please, ask your friend to help you not start redundant threads.

Castlevania SOTN was pretty good. Portal of course.

Primal for the PS2, band called 16volt did the entire soundtrack. Slightly electronic punky metally angry guitar music. I like!

Also Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. I like also.

homeworld series, painkiller, half life series and baldurs gate series

Back then, I thought Revenge of Shinobi had the best musics on the Sega Genesis.
I would say, I really liked the soundtrack from Silent Hill 2. Awesome.
Stella Deus and Culdcept Saga has a coule good tracks.

There's one particular song in Half-Life 2 Episode 2, right near the beginning. It's the fight with the Antlions defending Alyx. The song is called Vortal Combat, and it's probably one of the best songs to be played mid-game that I've ever heard. There's other good ones in Half-Life 2 as well, but that one is the best in my opinion.

I also liked Blow Me Away in the Mausoleum fight of Halo 2. It's there without lyrics, and the song fits the pace of that battler perfectly; calm opening and observation for a few seconds, then bullets and rock start flying. Song winds down as fight finishes.

Streets Of Rage 2. Not Streets of Rage 3. Yuzo Koshiro's character select music from that game makes me mute the TV immediately. But SOR2 is amazing.

Ristar, Dynamite Headdy, Sonic 2, 3 and S&K. Wonderful. I have to say I also like Vandal Hearts 1's battle music. Very compelling, I'd love to hear a remix of that.

There's a track from Columns that I rather like, especially the remix from Sega Classics Collection. And I have to say it: FFVII. The OCRemixes are amazing but the originals often send shivers down my spine... amazing.

Metal gear games, Zelda games, Mario and Morrowind

Final Fantasy VII definitely. Listened to the full soundtrack at work yesterday, think its about 6 hours long, brought back tons of memories and made me want to play it yet again :)

The RPGs came and went, but Thunder Force 4 is forever.

Ace Combat or Metal Gear Solid

Halo, Sonic 3, Comix Zone, Zoop, and Morrwind hands down.

its gotta be the MGS seris

Korobeiniki from Tetris. I heard a cover of the song by a band called Ozma the other day and its pure fucking awesome. If you havent heard it, go and listen, right now.
Honorable mentions
Saria's Song (almost as catchy)
Still Alive
Sonic 3 Main Theme
All music from Morrowind.

The music from Shadow Hearts, and Mass Effect.

Despite the fact that I didn't like Guitar Hero 3 as much as Guitar Hero 2 (screw you Neversoft!) I did like the tracks from number 3 the best. Knights of Cydonia and Number of the Beast are my favorites.

Metroid Prime 1. Enough said. Nobuo Uematsu comes close, if only he would do a metroid game...

I would definitely have to go with the music of Nobuo Uematsu. Really great pieces of work, perfectly set to the games that they are made for. Also, the soundtrack from The Legend of Zelda games is usually pretty good. More so of course in the dungeons of the games from Ocarina of Time and on.

shadow_pirate22:
Metroid Prime 1. Enough said. Nobuo Uematsu comes close, if only he would do a metroid game...

He did some tracks for Brawl, so there's definitely the possibility of him doing more for Nintendo :D

Although I'd rather they axe the Metroid series after one more game. I don't want it going down the same path as Mario is.

I agree with pretty much everyone's lists, I just wanted to add that I loooooove SaGa Frontier II's music. Note to JRPG Developers: multiple non-boss and boss battle themes in a game = a good thing.

Devil May Cry 3 >rest

Zelda: Ocarina of Time/Majora's Mask (Koji Kondo)
Elder Scrolls III/IV: Morrowind/Oblivion (Jeremy Soule)
Megaman 1-5 (Manami Ietel / Yukichaan's Papa / Ogeretsu Kun)