Games with the most Phenomenal soundtrack/music you ever heard?

[Belial]

Danarchy said:

Deus Ex (??)

Michiel van den Bos and Alexander Brandon, also responsible for Unreal and most of UT.

[Coopersville]

Legendary has a great soundtrack. 'Only bringing it up, assuming it will never get mentioned.

[herooftime1000]

Oh, gosh. I have so many favorites. The better ones being the Main theme from Zelda and Iron blue Intention from Castlevania.

[GreyGhost]

A few favourites that spring to mind-

Elite and Sanxion on the Commodore 64. Populous and Powermonger on the Amiga.

[Quasar]

To second AgentSpork, I must post some of my favorites from the Prime series. Best music ever:

[Kirby]

I really like all of the music from Xargon, but some of my favorites are highlighted starting at 4:58 and 6:58

5:35 for this one. Sadly, I can't find any proper music from this game by itself, just what is played on YouTube :P

3:47

0:09 & 5:58

And finally -

The first level played in this one.

The Bomberman Hero soundtrack also fits in here for me as well -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nNCXdrHzqk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irp6-QJz8V4&feature=related

[EarthQuake]

My pick goes to Sub-Terrania for the Sega Genesis. The soundtrack is a unique gothic/techno/industrial sort of dealeo. Jesper Kyd is a fucking brilliant musician.

Here's a preview of the game with samples of all the tracks:

[whiteboy567]

There's way to many awesome VG soundtracks out there(seriously i got about 10 GB's worth of game music)since most people already named off some of the more well known ones, i'll go ahead and list some more underrated soundtracks:
Elemental Master-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srgwgbbNW2Q

Journey to Silius-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjG2ZjPqzzE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KovP1Y-kBtg

Gauntlet 4-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUPWzjnn1RM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6DFlVOL7U8 (3:00 in the video)

Last Ninja 2-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s2uA1jcZn4

The Legend of Xanadu 2-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w-aNDMl090

Gate of Thunder-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y922x1gU4c4

Sapphire-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0eXCeGGmDc

Lords of Thunder-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-BlpB5WX8E

[NiGHTMARE]

Belial said:

Michiel van den Bos and Alexander Brandon, also responsible for Unreal and most of UT.

Don't forget Tyrian!

[Lich]

While we're posting videos, I might as well post one of Ikaruga since I mentioned it:

The music switch near the end of the video really goes with the frantic gameplay.

[Tango]

Megaman X-X3
Metroid Prime 1-3 (Downed Frigate Orpheon <3)
Kingdom Hearts 1, CoM and 2
Final Fantasy 7, 8, 10, Crisis Core
Zelda (all of them)
Sonic the Hedgehog 1-3
Street Fighter 2, Alpha 3 + Third Strike
NiGHTS (into Dreams and JoD)
Sonic CD (both US and Japanese soundtracks)
Guardian Heroes
Marvel vs Capcom 2 (I think I'm the only one)
Castlevania (esp. SotN)
Spiderman vs the Kingpin
Smash Bros Brawl
Mario Kart
Donkey Kong Country 1-3 (brambles is awesome)
Descent

[Nightmare Doom]

I found another batch of music....

[Lich]

Oh man, I love Blood's CD soundtrack. My favorite is easily this one:

[leileilol]

The Neverhood
Earthworm Jim 2 (CD version soundtrack) (TWO TENNAPELS IN A ROW?!)
Descent 2 (CD soundtrack)
Outlaws
Final Fantasy IV
Streets of Simcity
Megarace

[TimeOfDeath]

One of my silent hill flaves:

[Use]

There's alot, and a few have been mentioned here already, but here's a few off the top of my head:

Shadowman
Panzer Dragoon Zwei/Saga
Doom 1/2
Saturn/PSX Doom
Sonic 1/2
Skies of Arcadia
NiGHTS
Rise of the Triad
Gabriel Knight 2
Sonic Adventure
Dark Savior
Gun Valkyrie
Quake
Max Headroom
Streets of Rage 1/2
Metroid Primes
Sonic CD
Ecco 1/2 CD
Night Warriors
Mortal Kombat 1/2/3

There's more...

GreyGhost said:

Sanxion

Heh, I own this game, but only recall title screen music. I have the disk version, apparently the tape version has more music.

[brinks]

I forgot Super Mario 64, Super Ghouls N' Ghosts, Kirby's Adventure, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time, and Sonic Adventure 2 for being the most awesomely cheesy soundtrack ever.

[Coraline]

exp(x) said:

Deus Ex

[khartael]

Danarchy said:

Deus Ex (??)

Alex Brandon. Very talented musician.

Anyway, I'd go with

The Neverhood (Terry S. Taylor)
Quake II (Sonic Mayhem)
Doom I/II (Bobby Prince)
Deus Ex (Alex Brandon)
Fallout 1/2 (Mark Morgan)

[Enjay]

For mood, it has to be the Thief games.

Other than that, I like the Quake sound track. I know, I know, but I like it. :P

Blood had some superb music.

I like both the original Syndicate game music and even more so the music from the follow up, Syndicate Wars.
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Battle Squadron on the Amiga had an excellent MOD track.
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I thought the music in MoHAA complimented the game perfectly.

Some of the music in Dredd versus Death was very good but some tracks were definitely meh!


And Doom. Some of the original Doom tracks are very, very good.

[negke]

American McGee's Alice!

[kristus]

right, I got that on cd. Awesome awesome.
Also, all the Myst games. Exceptional.

[Maes]

Dizzy games, especially Prince of the Yolkfolk.
Also (dammit how could I forget?) most TAITO games have memorable soundtracks (not surprising, TAITO has a music division called Zuntata and their soundtracks have been released on cassettes, records and CDs way before the internet and heavy console pimping even existed).

[Prince of Darkness]

Sure, all of it is orchestral, but I would take Myst over metal every day.

[printz]

Starcraft Terran Soundtrack.

[Siggi]

The Guilty Gear series.

[Bucket]

Acid Tetris had the best music I'd heard in a game up to then. If you don't remember this game, you just aren't awesome.

[zap610]

Definitely the Klonoa series.

And those are just from the first game, there is also Klonoa 2...

[doomedout]

Quake
Grim Fandango (nostalgia)

[Patrick]

Metal Slug