I was just wondering about what everyone's favorite video game songs are. I actually just finished making a playlist of 20 songs:

Take a Flight (Valkyrie Profile)
Liberi Fatali (Final Fantasy VIII)
Metal Gear Solid Main Theme (Metal Gear Solid)
The Pain (Metal Gear Solid 3)
Otherworld (Final Fantasy X/Black Mages Remix)
Longing (Dirge of Cerberus)
The Tyrant (Resident Evil: Code Veronica)
Simple and Clean (Abridged Version) (Kingdom Hearts)
ADVENT: One Winged Angel (Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children)
Redemption (Dirge of Cerberus)
True (Silent Hill 2)
Eyes on Me (Final Fantasy VIII)
The 13th Struggle (Kingdom Hearts II)
Snake Eater (Metal Gear Solid 3)
The Skies Above (Final Fantasy X/Black Mages Remix)
Clash with Evil Personified (Metal Gear Solid 3)
Vamo Alla Flamenco (Final Fantasy IX/Black Mages Remix)
The Main with the Machine Gun (Final Fantasy VIII/Black Mages Remix)
Alexia Type 1 (Resident Evil: Code Veronica)
Way to Fall (Metal Gear Solid 3)

So, how 'bout you guys?

One winged angel, definetly.

That's all I can think of thus far.

You must give me that playlist.

UT2004 music is amazing.

So is the halo music, but that's a given.

You might also wanna check out http://ocremix.org [ocremix.org].

God, I kept looking for that Halo theme when I was making that playlist. But I couldn't find it.* (All of those songs were downloaded for free off random sites that I googled). Hell, it was hard enough finding a few of those tracks. (I originally found a midi version of True on VGmusic.com and it took me around two hours to find an MP3 version).

*=I kept reminding myself to look for it, but never got around to it, which explains why I couldn't find it. =D

The Unsung War - Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War
Brave New World (Long Version) - Namco X Capcom
ADVENT: One Winged Angel - Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
Passion - Kingdom Hearts 2
Someday the Dreams Will End - Final Fantasy X
Zero - Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War
Main Theme From Metal Slug - Metal Slug
The Execution - Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere
Megalith -agnus dei- - Ace Combat 4: Shattered Skies
Dead Batteries - Flying Battery, Sonic 3 & Knuckles (A remix by SnappleMan, Project Chaos)
Untamed Heart - Klonoa: Door to Phantomile

Both the two Shenmue soundtracks have some of the best music seen in a video game (favorite tracks Come to Bob's Pizza and The Spot), as does Jesper Kyd soundtrack for Hitman: Blood Money (favorite tracks "Club Heaven" and "Funeral").

Jet Set Radio has a pretty funky soundtrack, like "I Love Love You" and "Sweet Soul Brother" but the best of all is Katamari Damacy's (I love the song Angel Flavor's Present). Sonic Adventure has some good tracks too, like the main theme for E-102.

One Winged Angel

This is a very popular song.

And I am probably one of the few people on Earth who doesn't really care for Passion/Sanctuary. It's a good song, but... meh.

Tetris.

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Tetris.

*Smacks head* Dang! I knew I forgot something!

The original Katamari theme song.

Na, na na na na na na na na KATAMARI DAMACY!

I have to say, Katamari Damacy has the best music I've ever heard in a game. The Moon and the Prince might be my favorite. :) I Love Katamari has some good songs too, but many of them are just remixes of the original, from what I remember...

I really, really want the Loco Roco music on mp3 too. I have the main theme song and the yellow theme song, but it isn't enough.

Lumines has a few good songs too, but many of them get repetetive. Wipeout Pure has music I enjoy (though I don't have any mp3s of them, I only hear when my bf is playing it). Shadow of the Colossus is almost operatic, much lovelier than Ico's music, which was only meant to provide bits of atmosphere.

Really though, Katamari.

I loved the music in the "Oil Ocean" stage of Sonic the Hedgehog 2. The music in the "high hills"(?) stage (can't remember the name) was great too.

The fight music in Shining Force 2 and 3 was pretty good...

Um, I liked most of the music from the first Tomb Raider game. That was all pretty cool, plus it plays right of the CD ^_^

And of course there's GTA Vice City! Nothing better than racing along the dark rain washed streets in your Lamborghini knock off, listening to "Steppin' Out" by Joe Jackson on Flash FM! :)

ozoneocean
And of course there's GTA Vice City! Nothing better than racing along the dark rain washed streets in your Lamborghini knock off, listening to "Steppin' Out" by Joe Jackson on Flash FM! :)

True. It's a shame they couldn't do the same for San Andreas.

I loved the music that plays during firefights in FarCry: Instincts. Makes you really want to run into a camp full of armed mercenaries, and die.

The first theme that plays when you first walk into the castle in Castlevania 1.

Ah, MGS... when I first reached the end and realized that the ending song was Gaelic, I was a MG fan forever (not that I wouldn't have been anyways).

I have to admit, the Metal Gear Solid theme totally kicks ass.
Also, I pretty much like anything Nobuo Uematsu cranks out, except for a few.
Guitar Hero has an awesome soundtrack, but I'm not sure if that counts(seeing as how it really isn't video game music.)
Also, I love Koichi Sugiyama's work on the Dragon Quest games.
Super Mario Bros. theme FTW.
Lumines has a great soundtrack(depending on how you play).
And We "Heart" Katamari has better music than the original. Though they are both toe-tappingly fun.

Alot of old games have great music. Batman, Castlevania, Sonic...beeps and boops are just cool. Halo has extremely good music, I always credit the game for atleast that, since I don't like it. But..I would have to say Donkey Kong Country 2 has the best. *romantic sigh*

Mega Josh
I have to admit, the Metal Gear Solid theme totally kicks ass.

Dude, my mom HATES video game music and even she enjoyed that song.

Now that's saying something.

All Mario and Zelda songs are the best

Anyone know why none of the midis in this site

http://www.vgmusic.com/

seem to work? I tried both IE browser and my Firefox browser. The Quicktime player pops up on both and the meter is moving, but there is only silence.

Personally I think that Chrono Cross had the greatest VG music I have ever heard.

Here's my top 20 at the moment. I'll probably change my mind with in a day though! I loves me some video game musics!

The girl who stole the stars - Chrono Cross
Beyond the Bounds - Z.O.E. 2
Requiem for the Gods - Castlevania SOTN
Waiting for you ~Live at Heaven's Night~ - Silent Hill 4
Laura's Theme - Silent Hill 2
Love Suicide - Rule of Rose
The moon leads her to... - Dead or Alive 3
Snake Eater - MGS 3
Lovergirl in Summer - Beatmania Super Mix
The Final Judgment ~Greece Stage~ - Street Fighter 3: First Strike
Courage, Love, and Amunition - Onimusha 3
Psycho Soldier Stage - King of Fighters '95
Danger - Shin Megami Tensei
Pray - Shim Megami Tensei
The Noble Blade - Soul Calibur II
Ground Zero Funk - Tekken 5
This Machine - Sonic Heroes
CaptivAte～裁き～ - Guitar Freaks
Ganymede - Beatmania IIDX 13: DistorteD
Tizona d'el Cid - Beatmania IIDX 12: Happy Sky

I'm burning a series of discs with Video Game Music. The first one has all the songs in the first post. Here's the songs i've burned to the second disc:

Resident Evil Main Title (Ok, this one's from the RE movie)
Ahead on Our Way (Final Fantasy)
Matoya's Cave (Final Fantasy/Black Mages Remix)
Arms of Shinra (Dirge of Cerberus)
Mjolnir Mix (Halo 2)
Maybe I'm a Lion (Final Fantasy 8)
Sanctuary (Kingdom Hearts 2)
JENOVA (Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children)
Loss of Me (Final Fantasy 9)
Tetris (Tetris, duh)
Skirmish of the Silver Dragons (Final Fantasy 9)
Mt. Gulug (Final Fantasy 9)
You're Not Alone (Final Fantasy 9)
Mods de Chocobo (Final Fantasy 8)
Yell Dead Cell (Metal Gear Solid 2)
Melodies of Life (Final Fantasy 9)
Kiss Me Goodbye (Final Fantasy 12)
Sector 7 Hath Wrought the Angel (OC ReMix of One Winged Angel from FF7)

Well my favorites are...unmmm
Liberi Fatali (FFVIII)
One Winged Angel (FFVII)
Le gran Luxe (Shadow Hearts 3)
The 3 Karma Cogito ergo Sum (Shadow Hearts Near death experience)
Those who bares hands at god (Xenosaga)
Decicive Battle (Xenosaga)
Reminicence (Persona 2)
Nekotama Pharmacy (Persona 2)
A brink of death (Chrono Cross)
Filgaia (Wild Arms....alter code F)
For the sake of one flower (Wild Arms 4)
Port Town Alliton (Wild Arms 4)
Pray (Shin Megami Tensei Digital Devil Saga)
Harihara (Shin Megami Tensei DDS)
Harihara the second Movement (SMT DDS)
Rare Hunt (SMT DDS)
Castaway to Darkness (Soul Edge)
The Pain (Metal gear 3)
Ksgrüv (Metal Gear 3)
Vamo alla Flamenco ( FF9)
and many others XD

Calling to the Night from Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops.
Possibly one of the best songs ever to put in a video game.

mlai
Anyone know why none of the midis in this site

http://www.vgmusic.com/

seem to work? I tried both IE browser and my Firefox browser. The Quicktime player pops up on both and the meter is moving, but there is only silence.

I used Firefox, and then it opened using Windows Media Player.

The Need For Speed Underground series had some pretty good stuff like

The Only - Static X
Black Top Rolling - Rob Zombie
Ride - Lost Prophets
Thrashed and Scattered - Avenged Sevenfold

Of course there was a lot of crap too, sepecially on underground2

I think that, rather than list aaall the songs, I'll just list the games with some notes.

At the top of the list is Xenogears, particularly the semi-Celtic arranged version that Yasunori Mitsuda did in an album called Creid....not to be confused with with the terrible band. I also really like the stuff he did for Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, and Xenosaga. Actually, I liked most of the music for the Xenosaga series, even when they switched composers. But then, the composers they got later did the soundtrack for .hack which, while it is a terrible anime, had some great music.

On par with that would be Nobuo Uematsu, of course. I particularly like some of the tracts from ff6, ff7, ff10, and Tactics. Terra's theme for the win! Actually, I once found a 20 minute long segmet of fully orchestrated and sung exherpts from the opera in 6. It was beautiful.

The music behind Ico is really good- it's just a pity that it was underutilized. But then, it was a very subtle, soft game.

Yeah, Katamari Damacy has a wonderful flare. So very off-beat, but uplifting!

Kingdom Hearts also had some good stuff, particularly Passion.

I suppose I'll throw some of the music from Disgaea and Phantom Brave on the top of all that, just because. Specifically the vocal renditions.

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