(edit: one per game? I started this list before you posted that, so I didn't notice... I'm not removing any links after putting this all together, that's for sure. I'll try to bold something for the games I put up more than one link for, though. I'm counting original games and expansions separately. And I'm choosing two from Torment.
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Woah, I really don't know if I can choose... I love game music, it would be very hard to come up with a list...
There's way too much great game music out there. Any one person can only list a few songs... I certainly can't list every game music song I like. So, I'm going to focus on stuff that has been criminally ignored so far in this thread: PC game music.
The ones with no links don't have videos on Youtube, as far as I can find.
PC
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Main Theme - Baldur's Gate
Main Theme - Baldur's Gate II
Overture - Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire (the first track on the soundtrack CD)
Main Theme - Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness (the first song in the video)
Quest for Glory Main Theme - Quest for Glory I: So You Want To Be A Hero (the song that plays during the intro/credits)
Brood War Intro - Starcraft: Brood War
Disco - Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal/Battle.Net Edition
Curst Battle - Planescape: Torment
Fortress Battle - Planescape: Torment
Deionarra's Theme - Planescape: Torment
Main Theme - Planescape: Torment
Fortress of Regrets - Planescape: Torment
Bad Ending - Planescape: Torment
Good Ending - Planescape: Torment
Credits - Planescape: Torment
Escaton track theme - Extreme-G 2 (PC version)
Lumania track theme - Extreme-G 2 (PC version)
Intro - Turrican II (Amiga 500 ver.)
Serenity - NetStorm: Islands at War (the main menu/lobby theme -- yes, from the same composer as Torment)
Intro - Netstorm
Sun - NetStorm: Islands at War (bad quality video of some ingame music, I think the first track after the game starts is Sun...)
Thunder - NetStorm: Islands at War (I know what I just said, but Thunder is just so great...)
Tenochtitlan Revealed, Harvest of the Nile, Aristotle's Pupil, Augustus Rises,
Gautama Ponders, and Hammurabi's Code -- Civilization II/Civ II: Conflicts in Civilization/Civ II: Fantastic Worlds (i's incredibly, incredibly hard to separate the seven tracks of the original Civ II... I just can't think of any of them out of the context of the others, and they work perfectly together to create the perfect Civilization theme.)
Mongol Horde - Civilization II: Conflicts in Civilization/Civ II: Fantastic Worlds
The World of Jules Verne - Civilization II: Fantastic Worlds/Civ II: Gold Multiplayer Edition -- Maybe Civ II's best overall track... simply awesome.
Planescape: Torment Trailer Music -- The music from this trailer is only used in this trailer and the PS:T trailer found on the Baldur's Gate CD. I like that trailer even more than this one (both have the same exact soundtrack and the design theme of the PLANESCAPE letters appearing on the screen one by one, but this one has ingame footage while the other one is 100% CG), but both are fantastic. The piece of music these two trailers use, oddly, is not present in either the final game or the official soundtrack.
NES
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Ring Man - Mega Man IV
Skull Man - Mega Man IV
Main Menu Theme - Journey to Silius
Main Menu Theme - Super Turrican (only a bit of it is here, at the beginning)
Level 1 theme - Super Turrican (the first level's music, obviously)
Sega Genesis
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Intro - Mega Turrican
Bio-Hazard Battle - track 1 (main menu music)
Sega CD
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Intro - SoulStar (the first song in the video... another one where I want to nominate half of the soundtrack...)
SoulStar Theme - SoulStar (the second song in the video, starting at about 1:50. The other songs are Warpship Kutra (4:11), The Heart of Darkness (6:00)
Intro/demo loop music - Ecco the Dolphin (Sega CD)
Intro - Ecco the Dolphin II: Tides of Time (Sega CD) (a bit at the start and then 3:00-5:00)
Gamecube
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Main Theme (whatever its title is) - Metroid Prime
RurouniZel said:
These four, for sure. Agreed for the Fire Emblem and Grandia themes as well. But I'm not going to try to list all the good console game music, I've spent enough time looking at PC game music to want to spend as much on console game music too.
... This list is by no means done (and in that I include PC, as well obviously as console stuff -- haven't even gotten to anything Nintendo yet...), but it's late and I need to stop, so that's all for now. Maybe more later...
