Game music that's too good

[InCreator]

I bought this baby today, and instantly loaded some some songs from Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion onto it. Music in this game is simply too good to stay in game, and I like to carry it into "outside world" for casual listening.

Apart from TES4:Oblivion, I find main theme of Stronghold very good, also some. good. tracks from Age of Empires 3 and many-many songs from Hitman games. Jesper Kyd is simply a magician. There was some other music I liked too much, but unfortunately I can't remember those game titles right now.

Is there music you like in game so much that you take it outside?

[i k a r i]

InCreator: Don drink and post!

No seriously, those are all great songs, but shouldnt you be finishing Henri? haha

I prefer a game song that surprises me, like the ending of Gears of War. "Woo!! bring it on sucka!"

[Nostradamus]

The best game music ever imo is Betrayal at Krondor. Truly harmonic magical music. Not that I listen to such music usually but while playing that game I was really taken by the music. It was above everything ever made for games at that time. And the way the music related to what was happening... so relevant. The music was so strong for me that while reading the book Krondor: The Betrayal years after playing the game it was based on I still played the music from some scenes in my head when reading certain passages. It's as good a music as you expect in a good fantasy movie in its quality and the way it relates to what's happening in the game.

[Nikolas]

OMG!

Someone else who loves Betrayal at Krondor music! Every single track is amazing, stunning, beautiful! I couldn't put the game down and one of the reasons was the music!

[nihilyst]

I like the Monkey Island II soundtrack, and I usually listen to it when I'm working on backgrounds.

[Ghost]

Hell yes, there are so many good tunes in games!

- The Halloween Harry theme (ooooo yeah)
- The Doom soundtrack, especially the menacing, slow-paced pieces of D2
- Portal's "Still Alive"
- The Cavelem Theme from Lemmings 2- The Tribes
- Several "remixes" from Sims 2- Pets
- Divine Divinity has some rather upbeat stuff, nice and smooth
- Some stuff from Planescape Tornment

[Peder 🚀]

Ive never played Betrayal at Krondor but I just listened to some of the songs and I like it ALOT .
There is so many games with good music that I often listen to while surfing the net, working or just on the train/bus or in a car on my way somewhere.

I love the soundtrack of Beneath A Steel Sky which I listen to VERY often, infact I like most music from older games aswell as the chiptunes from old 8bit games like Alex Kidd, Sonic etc etc.

Also I remember the music of Warcraft 2 which I love!
And also the soundtrack of Legend of Kyrandia book I has alot of good songs.

And the list will just continue and continue!!


Peder Johnsen.

[Emerald]

- The Doom soundtrack, especially the menacing, slow-paced pieces of D2

I agree, Doom had a brilliant soundtrack.

Also, the soundtrack to Escape From Butcher Bay is amazing. I think it even won a few awards.

[ildu]

CMI, Grim Fandango, Full Throttle and Disworld Noir. Hitman series and Mafia (non-original) from the non-adventures. It's actually pretty weird that all of these 6 games (except perhaps the Hitman series) that I identify as having great music, I also regard as my all-time favorite games . Unsurprisingly much of the atmosphere and mood of all of the said games comes from having a great soundscape, which just goes to show how important audio and music are.

[OneDollar]

Some of the stuff from Beyond Good and Evil, especially the main theme (released for free on the internet and floating around somewhere) is very good. I also really like some of the Shenmue tracks especially Everlasting World and Waves of Morning Haze (at the bottom of the page. I've also got the Evil Genius soundtrack - I love the main theme to that game. I have to admit I've got some of the songs from Sonic Adventure DX and Sonic Heroes too If you blank out the awful lyrics the music is actually quite good. Sort of.

Edit: Oh, and Still Alive obviously.

Edit 2: Oh, and the themes from Monkey Island 1, 2 and 3, and the theme from Worms occasionally.

[Akatosh]

The music of Tropico is pretty goddamn great.

(All links taken from the official german page of the game, tropico.de)

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

Double Dragon, Castlevania 1,3, IV, Gradius, Punch-Out!!, Battle of Olympus, and Blaster Master as far as NES games go are the very top for me.  Blaster Master in particular is cool.  The Oblvion soundtrack largely bored me, though I found some cool replacement tunes that really amped it up.  Fable had decent music as I remember. 

[Stupot]

I can't believe nobody has mentioned Final Fantasy VII yet.
Amazing soundtrack... (and FFVIII isn't far behind either)

[[Cameron]]

I listen to the Quake soundtrack a fair bit, it was done by Trent Reznor and it's really cool. I also have the Hitman: Blood Money soundtrack, as someone before said, Jesper Kyd is a magician.

[InCreator]

(Thanks CJ)

Ah! I totally forgot about "Mechanism Eight", never-dying theme of Unreal Tournament. Probably one of coolest game music ever made.
A kind of track that gets me fired up in the morning.

[deadsuperhero]

Homeworld has an absolutely stunning soundtrack.

[Hammerite]

Silent Hill 2 for t3h w1n.

[vict0r]

Most things that has been said, but haven't any of you barbarians played Freedom Fighters?! The music there is so amazingly beautiful!

[Eigen]

Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault has a great orchestral atmospheric music that I like to listen to from time to time.

[LimpingFish]

Super Castlevania IV is still the definitive Castlevania soundtrack.

Flashback, Cybernator, Super Ghouls and Ghosts, Splatterhouse 2, Tenchu: Stealth Assassins, Silent Hill 2, Metal Gear Solid, etc.

A large chunk of Konami's SNES-era soundtracks are very memorable.