Game Music

[Brasel]

Over the past two years I've been a huge fan of OC Remix. If you haven't heard of it, and you are a fan of video game music, it would do you well to check it out. www.ocremix.org

What are some of your favorite OC Remixes? If not OC Remix, than original game music?

FF6 Seized with Fury: (Remix of FF6 Boss music) Full of heavy metal guitar, its my favorite.

FF3 Winds of Eternity: (Remix of FF3 Overworld Music)

FF6 Let Us Dance in the Dark Phantom Forest :(Trance remix of the FF6 Phantom Forest Music)

Super Castlevania 4 Prologue Painmix (Remix of Super Castlevania 4's Prologue music)

Mega Man 2 With The Quickness (Remix of Quickman's stage music) This one got me hooked on OC Remix.

As for original game soundtracks, I've been listening to the Metal Gear Solid 3 soundtrack I picked up a couple weeks ago quite often. Its really fucking good. Also I've been pretty partial to the Chrono Trigger Soundtrack since I played it years and years ago.

[Kairyu]

Guilty Gear.
OK Thread over.
Wait, Yoko Shimamura.
Okay, now it's over.

[Mak-X]

I haven't been to OC remix in quite sometime, but one of the first remixes I downloaded was Virt's Contra mix when it was still up
http://virt.vgmix.com/music/arrange/v-contra.mp3
Now he's a professional video game musician and is working on Contra 4.

For the past 5 years there's been a video game convention in Virgina called Magfest (http://www.magfest.org) where they've have 2 nights of concerts of bands playing video game music, and I've been to the last 3.

I generally like the cover bands like the Minibosses (http://www.minibosses.com) than the more remixed and techno stuff.

I haven't bought any game music CDs (http://www.vgmworld.com) in a while but I'm about due. I need to get a few of the Mega Man soundtracks and recent Castlevania soundtracks.

[Glenn the Great]

Seized with Fury is really good. I was listening to that a week ago even.

[Darth Marsden]

I listen to WAY too much VG music. The soundtrack to Romancing Saga is a good one. You can grab the OSTs for Quake I & II, Half-Life and Opposing Force (all good stuff) legally from this site (http://p-l-m.blogspot.com/), which also has a ton of other great non-game music.

[Aegix Drakan]

I am almost ALWAYS listening to Game music.

I'm listening to game music right now. I believe the one playing now is *anxious heart* ~ FF7

I grab game and anime music from wherever I can grab it, and I've made a dozen or so different playlists of them.

heck, when I went on vacation, I stuffed as many music files as I could onto my DS flash card. I had a bout 29 of them with me, I believe, 90% of them being from games.

my favourite song is *What I'm Made of* ~ Sonic Heroes final boss theme.

:P It's just about the only thing I found good about heroes.

[bigjoe]

I listen to a lot of game music , myself.

Dance of Illusions from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. I like the Dawn of Sorrow version even better.

Anxious Heart from FF7.(not just to agree with Aegix, I like that one a lot too)

Courage and Pride from the Heart in Sword of Mana.

I could go on and on.

[Dechipher]

Donkey Kong Country 2, anything from there is good.

[Cloral]

Seized with Fury is definitely a good one. I think perhaps my favorite one right now is Burning Up. As I write this post, I am listening to Twoson Hits The Road.

Others I like (this is not a complete list by any means):
Bionic Commando: Advance with Caution
Mario Paint: Intense Color
Contra: Snowfield
FF6: Shadows Among the Ruins
FF7: 12th Commandment
CT: Black Wind Rising
LttP: Clash at the Mountains
SF2: Ken Song
OoT: Falling Back
SoR: Drop & Roll
FF4: The Sky Was Never a Limit


I think my favorite mixer right now is Zircon. housethegrate (the mixer of Seized with Fury) is also good.

[DarkDragoonX]

Twoson Hits the Road is really good...

Some of my personal favorites include:

FF6: The Sveldt
Mechwarrior 2: Mecharok
Phantasy Star: Alis Overture
Terranigma: Crysta Dreams
Silent Hill 2: Nay Tomorrow
Lufia: The Final Reunion
Earthbound: Bus!
Bubble Bobble: Hillbilly Rodeo (Oh come on, it's hilarious!)
Lunar: BlueLament
Lunar: Meribia Nights
Lunar 2: Orange October
Phantasy Star 3: Nial and Nowhere
Phantasy Star 3: Legacy
Phantasy Star 2: BurntMota
Phantasy Star2: MamaBrain

[Gerudo]

i find myself listing to game music far more than regular music as well as remix...

Sonic the Hedgehog series
Pokemon series
Mega Man series
Final Fantasy series
SSBM
F-Zero series
Thunder Force IV
Zelda series

there's really too much to list... almost all the stuff i listen to has it's own platform sound format.

[{DSG}DarkRaven]

Okay, so, I keep researching stuff, and my browser keeps crashing courtesy of my Netzero third party internet connection software, which is dumb. So no words beyond this rant, no descriptions, nothing. Google what I don't provide links for.


The Black Mages.

The Minibosses (http://www.minibosses.com)

Virt (http://virt.vgmix.com/index.php?page=arrange)

Xoc (http://www.xocmusic.com)

So there.

[DarkDragoonX]

Thunder Force IV


Indeed! Thunder Force IV had an excellent soundtrack!

[mrz84]

My fav game music comes from Romancing Saga of late. I like Passionate Rythem and A Challenge to God -Four Guardian Kings Battle- along with Decisive Battle! Saruin -Final Battle with Saruin-, they all sound sweet. I got my mp3s of them on bluelaguna. As for OCremix, I haven't been there for awhile. My fav remix from there ever was a remix of the FF Mystic Quest battle theme which, sadly, has been dropped from the site for some time now. :cry: I also enjoyed Fire Cross, a remix of the Gilgamesh battle musid fro m FF5. :kitty:

[Darth Marsden]

Right. My playlist now has:

Command & Conquer Series (excluding C&C3)
Doom - The Dark Side of Phobos (http://doom.ocremix.org/)
Half-Life (http://p-l-m.blogspot.com/2006/09/kelly-bailey-half-life-1998.html)
Half-Life 2
Half-Life Opposing Force (http://p-l-m.blogspot.com/2007/04/chris-jensen-half-life-opposing-force.html)
Max Payne 2
The Secret of Monkey Island
Prince of Persia Trilogy
Quake 2 (http://p-l-m.blogspot.com/2007/04/redo-2-sonic-mayhem-quake-ii-1997.html)
Romancing Saga
Sonic 1 - Emerald Mix
Sonic 2 - Hedgehog Heaven (http://sonic2.paletteswap.com/)
Sonic 3 & Knuckles - Chaos Control
Streets of Rage II

(The Sonic I & III mixes are ones I've put together myself, with various tracks from OC Remix and similar sites. If you want to know what the individual tracks are, ask - I'll happily share them. Also, if any of the above list is a link, then you can legally download the albums for free by following said link. Because I care)

[TheNewLink]

Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones. I just love everything about the game. Truth, Despair, and Hope; Determination; Grim Journey; From the Darkness; Lights in the Dark. If for some reason you haven't, play it. (A lot of FE fans think it's one of the worst installments, for some reason. It's the only FE I've ever played. Maybe I should change that.)

Final Fantasy, Castlevania, Mega Man, and Zelda games generally have good soundtracks too.

[{DSG}DarkRaven]

(A lot of FE fans think it's one of the worst installments, for some reason. It's the only FE I've ever played. Maybe I should change that.)


Having only ever played the two gameboy games, I can honestly say that I prefer the first to the second. The music in Sacred Stones was good, I agree. But compared to the one that came before, it's just not as good at all. I found myself not caring at all about any of the characters. Any of them. Being able to go through levels again, sort of, and build up my entire team was a nifty feature, but the story, especially the way it was told, just didn't work for me.

If you can find a copy of the other game, I heartily recommend it.


Also, the Cave Story (http://www.miraigamer.net/cavestory/) soundtrack is groovy, if you don't mind the fact that the mp3's aren't set up to loop more than once.

[Saffith]

I can't possibly pick just a few, but I'll at least limit it to remixes and arrangements...

From OC Remix:
Chrono Trigger - Jethro and Vash at the Fair
FF6 - Cantata for Dancing: I. Mors Ego Sum Mortis
FF7 - Acoustic Fireworks
FF8 - Rain in Chicago
Kid Icarus - Funky Dungeon
Mega Man X - Airbased
Mega Man X3 - House Hornet
Metroid - MindoftheMotherBrain
Perfect Cherry Blossom - Icy Peaks
Plok - Title Jam
Rygar - Tripping on Snails
Sonic - Love Hurts
Sonic 2 - Reich Lake
Submarine Attack - Into the Deep
SMB 3 - Battle Rocks
Super Mario RPG - Booster Tarantino
Super Mario World - Ghosts of the Marble Hall
Super Metroid - FourLittleMetroids
Xenogears - Pillar of Salt

From virt:
Balloon Fight - SkaPoppin
Dr. Mario - Funky Pills

From Piano Collections - Final Fantasy IV:
FF4 - The Battle

From Piano Collections - Final Fantasy VI:
FF6 - Kefka
FF6 - Mystery Train
FF6 - Strago

From Piano Collections - Final Fantasy VIII:
FF8 - Blue Fields
FF8 - The Castle

From Final Fantasy IV - Celtic Moon:
FF4 - Main Theme of Final Fantasy IV
FF4 - Mystic Mysidia
FF4 - Palom & Porom

From Final Fantasy V - Dear Friends:
FF5 - Intension of the Earth
FF5 - My Home, Sweet Home
FF5 - Tenderness in the Air

From Final Fantasy VI - Grand Finale:
FF6 - Aria de Mezzo Carattere
FF6 - Kefka

From White - Melodies of Final Fantasy Tactics Advance:
FFTA - Mewt (Acorstic [sic] guitar version)
FFTA - Marche (Love for humanity version)
FFTA - A Place We Should Return to (Invincible version)

From 20020220 - Music from Final Fantasy at Tokyo International Forum:
FF5 - Dear Friends
FF7 - One-Winged Angel
FF9 - Vamo' alla Flamenco

From Final Fantasy - Pray:
FF1 - Au Palais de Verre

From Final Fantasy - Love Will Grow:
FF4 - Long Distance
FF5 - My Home, Sweet Home
FF series - Prelude

From The Black Mages:
FF5 - Clash on the Big Bridge
FF6 - Dancing Mad

From The Black Mages II - The Skies Above:
FF1 - Matoya's Cave
FF4 - Zeromus
FF8 - Maybe I'm a Lion

From Symphonic Suite - Final Fantasy:
FF1 - Scene VI
FF2 - Scene II

From feel/Go dream:
FF10 - feel
FF10 - Go dream

From Creid:
Xenogears - Bart
Xenogears - Lahan

From The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Re-Arranged Album:
Zelda OoT - Epona's Song
Zelda OoT - Kotake & Koume's theme

From Super Smash Bros. Melee Orchestra Concert:
Dr. Mario - Doctor Mario
Kirby Super Star - Fountain of Dreams
Metroid - Brinstar Depths ~ Brinstar
Zelda 1&2 - Great Bay Shrine



There might be a few more I'm forgetting; I seem to have misplaced a few CDs.
Edit: Shoot, I forgot all the CD projects on OCR... Well, whatever.