Video Game Music!

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Chambered Posted: 11-18-2009 4:52 PM

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A lot of games have truly awesome music. Especially the old games with their 8-bit music. I mean, everyone knows the Mario theme, and everyone else knows the Tetris theme, too!

But even if the old video game music has the catchiest little loops (I'm looking at you, Legend of Zelda...), newer games have really taken orchestral music to a new level. Perhaps, it's the "classical" style music for our era. These songs aren't usually quite as catchy or as simple to learn as their 8-bit counterparts, but many of them are truly beautiful works!

My own personal favorites are the Eternal Sonata sound track. The composer used Chopin's music and built off of it, really well, I feel.
Another favorite is the sound track for Zelda: Wind Waker. Most Zelda games are pretty fantastic, musically, but I felt that Wind Waker was just a step above.

Another thing that I think is fun is listening to fan interpretations. For example, at http://ocremix.org/ fans take those old 8-bit tracks and mix them into their own music to modernize it. There's a lot of cool stuff there.

Also, there's this:

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criminolelawyer replied on 11-18-2009 4:58 PM

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JoeCam i believe is responsible for compiling a lot of remixes of VG music.

My favorite video game music is by far final fantasy mystic quest. I challenge someone to listen to fireburg's music and not tap their feet.

http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/nintendo/snes/ffmqfireburg.mid

and in case you are in the mood to relax there is the music of Foresta

http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/nintendo/snes/MQ_Town_Xg.mid

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larpi replied on 11-18-2009 5:36 PM

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Alot of the early Mega Man games have great soundtracks.The  first 2 Katamari Damacy games also have an A+ soundtrack but for me the most epic soundtrack is easily this....

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WPNofCHOICE replied on 11-18-2009 5:46 PM

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GTA IV Soundtrack. Amazing songs with a little bit of every genre.

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Chambered replied on 11-18-2009 5:50 PM

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I wasn't really a huge fan of the GTA IV sound track. They had some okay tracks, but for me, Vice City had one of the best.

That Morrowmind track is good, really reminiscent of the LOTR sound track, which I loved.

Haven't checked out the VGMusic links yet.

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Mechazawa005 replied on 11-18-2009 5:54 PM

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A couple of my favorite OC Remixes - plus Castlevania music just kicks ass :

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jamotto replied on 11-18-2009 6:10 PM

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Mechazawa005:

A couple of my favorite OC Remixes - plus Castlevania music just kicks ass

You might like the albums Dracula Battle Perfect Selection 1 and 2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofU9LSetdh0