Help me compile a collection of RPG battle music

[Chairman Yang]

What tracks do you think would be indispensable to a collection of RPG battle music (or at least RPG music that would work well for playing during battles)? For sheer nerd value, I'm trying to make a compilation of, say, 20 tracks or so, with no more than 2 or 3 tracks from any one game.

So far, off the top of my head:

1. Final Fantasy XII: Boss Battle Music
2. Final Fantasy X: Attack
3. Final Fantasy Tactics (I can't narrow it down to 2 or 3 tracks, but I will eventually)
4. Baldur's Gate 1: Attacked By Assassins

What else?

 

[Y2Kev]

FFVII: Jenova, Those Who Fight Further
FFVIII: Don't Be Afraid, Man With the Machine Gun
FFVI: Decisive Battle

 

[Armitage]

There's a track from Tales of Symphonia called "Beat the Angel" which I really liked, it plays when you're fighting

Spoiler

Kratos

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[davepoobond]

FFVII: Ancient Temple is good too

 

[Somnid]

Chrono Cross - Gale

 

[Error]

Baten Kaitos: True Mirror, Chaotic Dance
Baten Kaitos 2: Valedictory Elegy, Choatic Dance 2, Poacher.
Digital Devil Saga 2: Battle for Survival, Divine Identity, Madness
Shin Megami Tensei 3: Labyrinth of Amala Battle theme, Last boss before transformation, Last boss after transformation, Kotowari Boss Battle Theme, Boss Battle Theme.
Romancing Saga:Minstrel Song: Prelude of Fight, Four King's Battle, Believing my Justice, Passionate Rhythm, A Piece of Courage, Decesive Battle! Final Battle with Saruin, Wicked Melody (yes this game has a lot of battle theme )
Valkyrie Profile 2: How Wicked Ruler, A Motion of A finishin Blow.

Romancing Saga battle themes>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>you and everyone else

 

[davepoobond]

everything from Chrono Cross

 

[threeball]

Earthbound - Otherworldly Foe
Earthbound - Battle against a Weak Opponent
Earthbound - Battle against a Weird Opponent
Earthbound - Battle against a Mobile Opponent
Earthbound - Franky
Earthbound - Sanctuary Guardian
Earthbound - Battle against a Machine
Earthbound - Battle against an Unsettling Opponent
Earthbound - Kraken of the Sea
Earthbound - Pokey Means Business!
Earthbound - Giygas Intimidation

Super Mario RPG - Battle Against Monsters!
Super Mario RPG - Fight against an Armed Boss
Super Mario RPG - Fight against a somewhat stronger boss
Super Mario RPG - Battle against Smithy, who likes to transform
Super Mario RPG - Culex Battle

Bolded are my favorites of the lot.

 

[Chairman Yang]

Chrono Cross - Gale

Ugh, I hated that track--possibly the most annoying battle music of all time. Dragon God was good, though.

 

[Speevy]

I like Oblivion's.

 

[Zensetsu]

Shin Megami Tensei III: Normal Battle ~ Town
Sieken Densetsu III: Weird Counterpoint (I think its the boss battle music)

 

[Avalon]

Digital Devil Saga
~ Divine Identity
~ Madness
~ Hunting - Betrayal

Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne
~ Beelzebub
~ Battle - World Map
~ Forced Battle

Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria
~ A Motion of Finishing Blow
~ Never Surrender
~ Unrestrained Struggle

Xenosaga Episode III
~ Fallout

Final Fantasy VI
~ Dancing Mad

Just recent stuff I've heard that I thought was really good.

 

[Red Blaster]

Xenogears: Stage Of Death
Unlimited Saga: Battle Theme I


Say whatever you want about the games, but both their soundtracks are impeccable.

 

[ethelred]

What tracks do you think would be indispensable to a collection of RPG battle music (or at least RPG music that would work well for playing during battles)? For sheer nerd value, I'm trying to make a compilation of, say, 20 tracks or so, with no more than 2 or 3 tracks from any one game.

So far, off the top of my head:

1. Final Fantasy XII: Boss Battle Music
2. Final Fantasy X: Attack
3. Final Fantasy Tactics (I can't narrow it down to 2 or 3 tracks, but I will eventually)
4. Baldur's Gate 1: Attacked By Assassins

What else?

Neat idea. I'd like to see some of the following included:

For FFT, the ones I'd include would be: Ultima the Perfect Body, Battle on the Bridge, Antipyretic

Other games:
Venus & Braves - The Battle
Atelier Iris 2 - Red Lucifer Rising
Baten Kaitos - The True Mirror, The True Mirror Guitar Version, Vitriolic a Stroke
Tales of Symphonia - Fighting of the Spirit, The End of a Thought
Baten Kaitos Origins - Valedictory Elegy, The True Mirror Orchestral Version
Breath of Fire V: There is No Regret, A Moment of Joy, Lost Hope for Tomorrow
Chrono Cross - Prisoners of Fate
Fire Emblem PoR - Crimea Attacks, Congregation of Ambition
Legend of Mana - Darkness Nova
Grandia II - Last Battle, Purification of Darkness
Ogre Battle 64 - Revolt, Accretion Disk
SaGa Frontier - Last Battle (Asellus), Last Battle (Blue), Battle #5
Romancing SaGa - Written Invitation to Death
SaGa Frontier II - Field Battle 1 and 4
Shadow Hearts - Near Death Experience
Shadow Hearts II - Deep in Coma, 3 Karma, Vicious 1915
Star Ocean 2 - Stab the Sword of Justice (prefer arranged version, actually)
Tactics Ogre - Avilla Henya, Blasphemous Experiment, Theme of the Dark Knights
Tales of the Abyss - Awkward Justice, The Edge of a Decision, Everlasting Fight
Unlimited SaGa - Battle Theme 1 and 2
Vagrant Story - Minotaur, Wyvern, Ifrit
Valkyrie Profile - Fighting the Shadowy Gods, Incarnation of Devil
Xenogears - One Who Bears Fangs at God
Valkyrie Profile 2 - A Motion of Finishing Blow
Yggdra Union - Battle on the Requiem, Russell Sortie, Milanor Thieves Advance
Star Ocean Blue Sphere - Hand to Hand
Ys: The Oath in Felghana - Be Careful, Chop, Dark Beasts as Black as the Night
Ys: Ark of Napishtim - Mighty Obstacle, Defend and Escape
Stella Deus - Decisive Battle
Xenosaga II - Minor Boss Battle, ES Battle
Wild Arms 2 - Battle vs. Lord Blazer
Wild Arms 3 - Crossfire Sequence
Suikoden II - Gothic Neclord, The Chase, Silver Wolf
Suikoden V - Determination (Tragic Battle)


That's a good starting point, yeah?

 

[BrodiemanTTR]

Tales of Symphonia - Full Force

 

[threeball]

Neat idea. I'd like to see some of the following included:

For FFT, the ones I'd include would be: Ultima the Perfect Body, Battle on the Bridge, Antipyretic

Other games:
Venus & Braves - The Battle
Atelier Iris 2 - Red Lucifer Rising
Baten Kaitos - The True Mirror, The True Mirror Guitar Version, Vitriolic a Stroke
Tales of Symphonia - Fighting of the Spirit, The End of a Thought
Baten Kaitos Origins - Valedictory Elegy, The True Mirror Orchestral Version
Breath of Fire V: There is No Regret, A Moment of Joy, Lost Hope for Tomorrow
Chrono Cross - Prisoners of Fate
Fire Emblem PoR - Crimea Attacks, Congregation of Ambition
Legend of Mana - Darkness Nova
Grandia II - Last Battle, Purification of Darkness
Ogre Battle 64 - Revolt, Accretion Disk
SaGa Frontier - Last Battle (Asellus), Last Battle (Blue), Battle #5
Romancing SaGa - Written Invitation to Death
SaGa Frontier II - Field Battle 1 and 4
Shadow Hearts - Near Death Experience
Shadow Hearts II - Deep in Coma, 3 Karma, Vicious 1915
Star Ocean 2 - Stab the Sword of Justice (prefer arranged version, actually)
Tactics Ogre - Avilla Henya, Blasphemous Experiment, Theme of the Dark Knights
Tales of the Abyss - Awkward Justice, The Edge of a Decision, Everlasting Fight
Unlimited SaGa - Battle Theme 1 and 2
Vagrant Story - Minotaur, Wyvern, Ifrit
Valkyrie Profile - Fighting the Shadowy Gods, Incarnation of Devil
Xenogears - One Who Bears Fangs at God



That's a good starting point, yeah?

Not enough non-traditional RPGs. By non-traditional I mean amongst the likes of Earthbound, Pokemon, and the Mario RPGs

 

[Ganondorfo]

Tales of symphonia - beating the angel, fighting of the spirit

Baten kaitos - true mirror

Star ocean 2 - stab the sword of justice

Suikoden 2 - gothic neclord

Lufia 2 - rise of the sinistrals

Xenosaga 3 - promised plan

Chrono cross - that battle theme against dario and miguel


In conclusion: motoi sakuraba, mitsuda, uematsu for the win.

 

[Sean*O]

Xenogears OST - "Steel Giant"

Skies of Arcadia / Eternal Arcadia OST - "Battle 2"

Final Fantasy X OST - "Hurry!!!"

Final Fantasy VII OST or Arranged version - "One Winged Angel"

Grandia II OST - "FIGHT!! version 1"

 

[FateBreaker]

There's a track from Tales of Symphonia called "Beat the Angel" which I really liked, it plays when you're fighting

Spoiler

Kratos

.

no - that's "the end of a promise" best track of the game.

 

[0 HP]

chrono trigger - battle 1
secret of mana -

Spoiler

thanatos

battle
final fantasy ix - the dark messenger

 

[Carlisle]

Radiata Stories - STRUGGLE II

 

[jeremy1456]

Ethelred made an awesome list, go by that.

However, if I may, I'd like add the following to it:

Lufia II - Battle Theme 2
Cosmic Fantasy 2 - Boss Theme
Ys Book I & II - Final Battle
Tales of Destiny - Rebel Against Destiny
Skies of Arcadia - Armada Battle

 

[Dice]

Final Fantasy VII normal boss battle! (I think it's titled "Still More Fighting")

Unrivaled.

Also "J-E-N-O-V-A" is good too.

 

[Sagitario]

There's a track from Tales of Symphonia called "Beat the Angel" which I really liked, it plays when you're fighting

Spoiler

Kratos

.

Beat the Angel plays when fighting

Spoiler

Remiel

...

For the people replaying with ToS music, I still can't believe no one has mentioned FATALIZE...


From Tales of Phantasia: Decisive
From Tales of Legendia: Sea of Rage and The Man in Red Armor (it's so good and is not included in the soundtrack >__< ) ...
From Baten Kaitos 1: Kings of the Nine Heavens

 

[jeremy1456]

Not enough non-traditional RPGs. By non-traditional I mean amongst the likes of Earthbound, Pokemon, and the Mario RPGs

I don't get it, a list of the best RPG battle music is incomplete if it doesn't include songs from Pokemon, Earthbound, or Mario RPG?

 

[Polari]

Earthbound - ANY of them except that fight against hippy one.
Final Fantasy 4 - Battle With the Four Fiends, Zeromus
Mother 3 (a.k.a Earthbound 2) - More Troublesome Guys, Boss 2
Chrono Trigger - the hidden battle theme music (its awesome, no idea why it wasn't used)

I wrote this list. It's mine, all mine.

 

[Zep]

Just put the whole FF: Mystic Quest Soundtrack on there. BEst FF soundtrack ever.

 

[Hitokage]

I'm personally a fan of "oh shit, I'm ****ED" battle songs, and in that respect "Only A Plank Between One And Perdition" from FF8 is one of my favorites. It's just too bad they didn't use it for Omega as well as Ultima Weapon.

Also "Multiplexed Contradiction" from Valkyrie Profile 2 as various other VP1 and VP2 tracks have already been named.

Other songs worth mentioning:

Secret of Mana - "The Prayer Of The Arctic Circle"

Seiken Densetsu 3 - "Sacrifice Part Three", "Rolling Cradle"

Chrono Trigger - "Boss Battle 1"

Final Fantasy 4 - "Fight 2"

 

[Mandoric]

Suikoden II - Gothic Neclord

Maybe the Suikogaiden version (IIRC, it's on OST2)?

Apart from that, I'll chip in the FFL1 fiend or final boss music, (since SRPGs are apparently acceptible) Dark Prison or Valcion from the main-series SRW games, and the FF3 final boss music.

 

[Red Scarlet]

Well, the actual battle songs that I have in my playlist (that play in at least one fight in the game) consist of..

Chrono Trigger-Magus Battle, Tyranno Castle, Undersea Palace
Dragon Quest 3 Remake-Battle, Final Battle
Dragon Quest 3 Symphonic Suite-Fighting Spirits
Dragon Quest 4 Remake-Battle, Minea and Maanya's Battle Theme
Dragon Quest 5 Remake-Battle
Dragon Quest 6-Battle
Dragon Quest 7-Fighting Spirit
Dragon Quest 8-Give a Roar, Battle in the Heavens
Eternal Arcadia-Bombardment, Bombardment 2
FF01 PS-Battle, Lich and Kraken, Malirith and Tiamat, Final Battle
FF02 PS-Battle, Boss Battle 2, Final Battle
FF03 DS-Battle
FF03-Boss Battle
FF04-Battle, Boss Fight, The Dreadful Fight, Zeromus
FF05-The Battle, The Fierce Battle, Battle with Gilgamesh
FF06-Battle
FF07-Aerith's Theme
FF08-Don't Be Afraid, The Landing, The Man with the Machine Gun, Only a Plank Between One and Perdition, Premonition, The Extreme
FF09-Battle 1, Battle 2, Fairy Battle, You're Not Alone
FF10-Those Who Come Closer, Summoned Beast Battle, Enemy Attack, People of the North Pole
FFX2-YuRiPa Battle 1, Bevelle's Secret, Under Bevelle, Demise
FF12-Ozmone Plains, The Feywood
FFT-Trisection, Unavoidable Battle, Decisive Battle, Remnants, Tension, Run Past Through the Plain, Antipyretic, Espionage, Under the Stars, Battle on the Bridge, In Pursuit, Cry of Pain, Antidote, Altima-The Nice Body
Suikoden-Confrontation with Monsters
Suikoden 2-The Will, Confrontation with Monsters Again, The Chase, Gothic Neclord, Tactical Battle
Ultima 3-Battle
Ultima 5-Warriors of Destiny
Xenogears-Stage of Death

Dunno if that's what you are looking for..I think those are the real names of the songs (except for the ones that I recorded)..if you want to know what certain ones are, I could probably remember examples in the game.