Game music that's too good

[[Cameron]]

Oh, I also listen to the Vampire Bloodlines soundtrack, apart from the menu track, because it's just a knockoff of Massive Attacks Angel. So i listen to that instead. Other than that though it's a great soundtrack.

[DoorKnobHandle]

StarCraft.

And anything by Jesper Kyd - but he's been posted before.

[Oliwerko]

Now this is to my taste!

I rip music from games for ages, I have a whole bunch of mp3s from games. Some downloaded, some ripped. Here is my list:

1. My best it THE one TES3: Morrowind, all of the tracks
2. Red Faction - some perfect electronic/rock music
2 and a half. Mafia - pure jazz
3. Homeword 1 and 2 - Music in these games is one of their best aspects.
3 and half. Operation Flashpoint - some great soundtrack there.
4. 18 Wheels of steel: Pedal to the Metal theme
5. Micro Mashines 2
6. Betrayal at Krondor - who doesn't love it?
7. Stronghold 2
8. Lands of Lore
9. Blood - now this is really scary
10. Golden Axe - remember ?
11. Cannon Fodder main theme
12. Transport Tycoon Deluxe

and also worth to mention is probably music from Steel Panthers: World at War, Thief 2 - perfect ambience, and, as InCreator said, TES4. But at this one, I must admit that whenever I listen to TES4 music, I say to myself: "now this is beautiful, yeah, but it reminds me of that music of the Morrowind masterpiece...". It is indeed great, but Morrowind is the original. It seems to me that they just kind of "edited" the Morrowind "type" of music and put it there.

Anyway, most of the time, I rip the music myself...

[MoodyBlues]

Mega Man music (from the NES era) and the Kameo: Elements of Power soundtrack kick a ridiculous amount of butt.

[ThreeOhFour]

Outlaws and Powerslide soundtracks.

[lemmy101]

Civ4 Title Music!

Also C64 remixes are fun: http://remix.kwed.org

[Haddas]

The greatest game music in the world has to be the main song in Richard Longhurst and the box that ate time.

You better agree.

[InCreator]

Remembered another two:

* Delta Force: Black Hawk Down. Especially "level completed" music! Better than in the movie
* Currently jamming @ Rise of Nations music. Also extremely good.

And of course,
* Red Alert 2 (best soundtrack in RTS genre ever)
* Dune 2
* Dune 2000 ("Under Construction" gives me still shivers, "Robotix" is perfect example how to make good RTS track, who couldn't love "Rise of Harkonnen"?)
* Command & Conquer (No words needed...)
* Remix of classical Command & Conquer theme in C&C3: Kane's  Wrath

But Westwood has always stood out with best music and best gameplay in its RTS games.

[DoorKnobHandle]

But Westwood has always stood out with best music and best gameplay in its RTS games.

Don't want to start a brawl here - C&C music was great, I wouldn't say best either, but very good, no doubt - but BEST GAMEPLAY in RTS games? C&C? Urgh. No upgrade-system? No technologies? One resource? Super-weapons? Very small e-sport scene? Units that were, by themselves, good against everything so you just had to mass them?

Try Blizzard.

Kinda offtopic, maybe we'd need a dedicated RTS thread somewhere!

[Minimi]

The theme song from DreamFall, and music from Jack Orlando!

[InCreator]

Don't want to start a brawl here - C&C music was great, I wouldn't say best either, but very good, no doubt - but BEST GAMEPLAY in RTS games? C&C? Urgh. No upgrade-system? No technologies? One resource? Super-weapons? Very small e-sport scene? Units that were, by themselves, good against everything so you just had to mass them?

Blizzard games were always about rush and speed. What's the first true RTS game in the world? The one that created and laid foundation to whole RTS genre?

Dune 2: Building of a Dynasty. By Westwood. Maybe, the only in game the world that truely needed only STRATEGY and nothing else. You could destroy whole enemy base with one missile launcher. This required exploiting some game bugs though. I'm talking about approaching towers at 25-degree angle, this somewhat made launcher's range a tile greater. Mass attacks didn't work really, due extremely strong (unbalanced) defenses and control issues. Also, things just cost too much to mass them.
Command & Conquer (first)? Same thing again. Mass units cost too much to actually make a swarm, and towers were too strong to even try. It was all about good planning and strategy again.

If you're blaming Westwood for mass tactics, that's probably Red alert (and further games) you're talking about. Mammoth tank, anyone?

But then again, isn't that what's Starcraft is all about?

I never liked Blizzard's RTSes much. Not after Warcraft 2, which took dark forests and sharp arrow from screaming bloody peasant and replaced everything with funny responses and lime-colored orc palette suitable for Disney characters, not brutal beasts orcs were in Warcraft 1. They basically turned deep, dark idea into a f-king wonderland.

Anyway, best gameplay throne has been taken by World in Conflict already, but before that, I consider Westwood being the king.

Yes, it could be whole new thread.

Coming back to music again, Westwood music is what really feels good along with explosions and sounds of tank tracks rolling. They have surely some geniuses working in sound department. I can't imagine much other game genres where metal-ish trance ("buttrock goa trance" by Ishkur's guide) would sound so right.

[Cino]

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 anyone? Mine bombers?
I also loved that adlib sound - Dune 1 & 2, KGB, etc.

[Babar]

* Babar is currently listening to Alexander Brandon - Hell (Jazz Jackrabbit 2)

Jazz Jackrabbit was awesomeness. Aside from that, my Game Music folder has songs from Betrayal at Krondor (thanks to this thread), Lotus 3, Monkey Island 2, Conquest of Longbow, Quest for Glory, Grim Fandango, Loom and Alien Time Zone (by m0ds ). Oh yeah, and nixnax.ogg, although technically that is not Game music.

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

You will love the music in Hillbilly Burger Bastards, or I will send the dwarves with miniguns to your homes.