favorite video game music

Yeah, the Dark Cloud games will always be personal favorites. So glad for emulation.

Never been much of a megaman fan to be honest. I played one of the games I think, Megaman X Command mission. Let's just say I spent a little too much time building up Spider by the end of the game...

As for Ol' Giygas, I've heard it before, so meh. I've heard worse even.

Can't believe I haven't put these up yet, time for some Banjo Kazooie music!


A collection of every iteration of the Gruntilda's lair theme. I always liked the way it would shift every time you changed areas, but still stay the same tune-wise.


The final boss theme is still great to this day. Heck, the fight itself is still an absolutely perfect example of hat a final boss fight is supposed to be. The final boss is supposed to be the final exam that puts all your skills to the test. I feel like a lot of games have forgotten that.

And a couple from Banjo Tooie...


This boss man...When I was a kid, I didn't realize you could shoot in midair. It took me hours and hours and hours, but I finally beat the bastard using only the beak bomb. This song is forever ingrained into my memory as a result. Not complaining though, and it certainly has some interesting orchestrated variants...


Then, of course, the final boss theme of the second game. They did everything right with this song in my opinion. They made it sound just the right way with just the right balance of "This time it's personal" and "declaration of war". The actual boss fight itself though? I thought it had way too much emphasis on using the first-person egg shooting mechanic. It's kind of a step backward from the original game's boss fight, where you used half the skills in the game to win. Still a great fight, but definitely flawed in my opinion.

 

Mumbo Jumbo!

In all honesty? I felt Command Mission really didn't live up to the name of the Megaman franchise, mainly because it's technically a spin off, as it pretty much forgoes all the key game mechanics of the X series and the core Megaman games, save collecting/building/unlocking better weapons and upgrades. Shame that Capcom actually had the idiocy to alienate the man behind the story of it's FLAGSHIP game series and character, and in effect kill it. Right after he was promoted to one of their executive positions, too.....

 

On the one hand, yeah, it's pretty stupid to just let it die like they have been lately. On the other hand, I can see how a company could get kind of sick of using the same characters over and over again to make similar games. Rumour has it that's why Sonic has been shite for so long now, team just doesn't care about it anymore.

And actually, there's one game I forgot to mention that I played, Megaman Legends. Now, if they'd just go back and maybe revisit THAT series, maybe they could get out of whatever anti-megaman funk they're in. I have a sneaking suspicion that a 3D megaman game like the Legends series would draw in old fans and new fans simultaneously.

 

They were actually working on Megaman Legends 3. Promptly canceled it after around a year from when development was first announced. Did similar crap with two other planned Megaman games, two of which were to be online, all in the course of about a year.

As for Sonic, I feel taking the old school Archie Comics (pre-reset or whatever they want to call it) and put that together into a proper game would be a breath of fresh air. Sadly, I also am pretty sure that ain't happening, because the guy who created nearly half of all the characters, including many that were central to several plotlines in the old Archie Comics, had some kind of dramatic issue with the rest of them and left, legally taking his characters with him. He only let them use a handful of them, and only under the condition that they were in the main timeline and not an alternate reality. More than a few of his characters WERE from an alternate reality to begin with (Scourge being a key example), so they never existed as far as the current comics are concerned. Said legal stunt he pulled was the whole damn reason they did a reality-wipe/retcon of the series like that, to appease him by removing most of his characters from the story/canon without plot inconsistencies. This is why we can't have nice things.

EDIT: These are all the characters that he made, and only a few of them have been agreed to be kept in the comics. http://archiesonic.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Characters_introduced_by_Ken_Penders

 

You get a like just for the Giygas battle :3

 

Ruin exploration ambiance! It doesn't have the in game ambiance SFX, but I love how this tune changes between maximum, high, medium, low, and no light. Mood setting. (wish it was all in one video, but eh.) Particularly medium and lower.







If you guys haven't figured it out, I love darkest dungeon

 

For me, it's Fable: TLC hands down. Best music ever. Gets me every time.

 

Neir has such an interesting soundtrack, I already posted two or three others from the game.

 

Crypt of the Necrodancer:
http://dbsoundworks.bandcamp.com/album/crypt-of-the-necrodancer-ost
http://rivalrivalrival.bandcamp.com/album/crypt-of-the-necrodancer-the-melody-mixes

Sonic ATS and BTS:
https://sites.google.com/site/sonicbtsbooth/
https://sites.google.com/site/sonicbts/

Screw YT links, if you can have download links!

 

All my yes <3. Was waiting for necrodancer!

 

Just LoZ OoT music for me. Nothing obscure

 

To think this game was spawned from the most bizarre and difficult ending of Drakengard....

NieR always perplexed me. The gameplay isn't anything stellar, but when Emi Evans was approached for this for lyrical/singing purposes, she was all "this will be my motherfuckin' Magnum Opus."

"She was approached a few months after the initial meeting in Autumn 2008 to be the vocalist for the soundtrack. In addition to singing, Evans was asked to write her own lyrics in futuristic languages. The composers gave her preliminary version of songs and the style they wished the language to be in, such as Scottish Gaelic or French, and she invented the words. Evans wrote songs in versions of Scottish Gaelic, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French, English and Japanese, and wrote "Song of the Ancients" in an entirely fictional language."

She is singing beautiful, linguistically functional GIBBERISH.



Moreover, everything here is in such sharp contrast to the dissonance of Drakengard...as if Cavia suddenly realized "okay, lets stop sucking and start winning at everything ever." Atmospherically, NieR is only second to Final Fantasy XI in my books (on a non-horror level anyway, obviously Silent Hill takes that throne). But if I were to be unbiased, NieR is incredibly hard to beat for an overall soundtrack.

 

I prefer the game version of clir de lune since they added the violin

 

got a new favorite

 

So I kinda wanna buy this game soundtrack on this beautiful vinyl. But it's $50.....
http://store.iam8bit.com/collections/journey/products/journey-vinyl-soundtrack-2xlp

 

OOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

 

I've been listening to the Witcher 3 sountrack which came with my stepdad's copy of the game. He's a slow and reluctant gamer who hasn't even started it yet, so he passed me the soundtrack. It's not bad, though nothing really stands out to me yet. They're all basically the same.

 

So far my favourite song connected with Witcher 3 is this :

 

Three songs I enjoyed from games by Aubrey Ashburn. One is a cover.

 

I know, right!?