Best game soundtrack?

[London Geezer]

Self explanatory really, what do you think is the best ever soundtrack for a videogame? For soundtrack i mean the actual CD you can buy in shops, not just what you remember the game sounding like.

 

[Karma Police]

Icewind Dale. This is where Jeremy Soule really took off. The sound track was so good they sold the music CD a few months after the game was released. This was years ago when game soundtracks were just a twinkle is developers eyes!

 

[London Geezer]

Icewind Dale. This is where Jeremy Soule really took off. The sound track was so good they sold the music CD a few months after the game was released. This was years ago when game soundtracks were just a twinkle is developers eyes!

The first? How's the second one?

 

[Rodéric]

Lots...
FFs have good/great soundtracks.
Zelda : Wind waker is great too.
Dragon Quest soundtracks are nice too.

...
There are just too many good games OST to choose a 'best' among them.

 

[Jawed]

Music volume : 0

Jawed

 

[Sean*O]

Not to sound like a broken record, but... XENOGEARS.

 

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

Mechwarrior 1&2, Terminus, Hardwar. I don't think you can buy them in the shops though.

 

[DigitalSoul]

For now, I'll name only one and that will be Chrono Cross.
3 disc of musical goodness

 

[typoEDR]

For scale: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
For quality and non-commercial: Freedom Fighters (Jesper Kyd)

 

[101998]

Halo 2 had a pretty sweet soundtrack, that incubus set kicked all kinds of ass.

 

[EndR]

Well.. GTA_Vice city had some pretty nice songs, but if you want asked for "original composed" stuff, then Shenmue must be one of my choices.. and Halo

 

[London Geezer]

I'm thinking more something moving like the Final Fantasy 10 (or was it 10-2? can't remember) soundtrack. Very nice, some amazing melodies.

Noriko Matsueda is a great musician.

 

[DigitalSoul]

It had to be FF10. 10-2 was more J-pop oriented and I think it was a different composer too.

 

[London Geezer]

It had to be FF10. 10-2 was more J-pop oriented and I think it was a different composer too.

Nope just checked i meant FFX-2... Very pop, but some songs are very slow and moving. Same for FFX though, they're a bit similar, only difference is that X doesn't have the pop oriented music X-2 has. They're both huge soundtracks though.

FF8 is on 4 CDs, something like 4 hours of soundtrack...

 

[Bobbler]

The most memorable game soundtrack recently, for me, has been the Katamari Damacy soundtrack. The music fit real well with the game and the "theme" is very... addicting.

 

[DigitalSoul]

Nope just checked i meant FFX-2... Very pop, but some songs are very slow and moving. Same for FFX though, they're a bit similar, only difference is that X doesn't have the pop oriented music X-2 has. They're both huge soundtracks though.

FF8 is on 4 CDs, something like 4 hours of soundtrack...

I have FFVII and FFX OST and they are also 4 CD's long

 

[London Geezer]

I have FFVII and FFX OST and they are also 4 CD's long

Are they? I only have the Piano version of FF7, kinda cool but only 1 CD.

It's quite amazing the amount of work behind these games. I mean that is a lot of music just for a videogame.

 

[junkheap]

Well i dunno if they have ost's or not, But FF3 and Crono Trigger

 

[Shark Sandwich]

Xenogears is definitely my #1. The music was composed by Yasunori Mitsuda, who also did Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross (both of which also have awesome soundtracks). Final Fantasy 6 is another good one.

 

[Karma Police]

The first? How's the second one?

Yeah, the first one. I never played the second one.