Post an awesome video game soundtrack
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Not per se, but if you want to go down that line, a video game soundtrack is now different to that for a movie or a musical album. What Chris Hülsbeck did with the Amiga version of Turrican II I do not think can be contested as being anything other than the greatest piece of music ever to be played by a computer. If you want to go down the road of trying to compare it to other works where the music was pre-recorded, ok, but a lot of his work had also been performed by full blown symphony orchestras as well, you can even buy the CDs if you want. I prefer the Amiga to play them!
And what? What do you want Square Enix contracting Leona Lewis to do something on FFXIII or someone like Hülsbeck?And?
Don't be fecking stupid! Half of your problem is that you were probably not even in your daddy's ball sack when I was playing that game.
If you want to use pre-recorded audio, then surely that then has to be compared to any other pre-recorded audio. It's no longer video-game music is it?
I don't like this thread anymore
Well, the point was to post (mention/discuss) awesome soundtracks. I don't think that anyone here cares in what device they were played. Even in Tennis for Two there was the 'soundtrack' when the ball touched the paddle but who cares.
It's Weaste again.
Too many to list! Vigil's theme from Mass Effect, Watchman's Ease from Oblivion.
One of the best tracks from the the best game 
Randall already covered Secret of Mana but I can't not post one from it because it's so good
It's western cousin, Secret of Evermore has some great music too
One of the best atmospheric soundtracks/games ever
All Castlevania's have great music, but the 8/16-bit ones are awesome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2oZtvjg5oA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUEC1Rcb1TA
Timesplitters 2 has some great music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eIRz14pnjE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cykxQLTDf4s
Some others
Batman - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekXridId_lM
Solstice - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_gObHt1uZA
Shadowgate - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Tsezcm8yA
Columns - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=admQ2Ideh0M
Driver - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4gGgMW7Jsg
Duck Tales - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0evYaCV5QA, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXxVBDhtOyI
Super Mario Land - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewPQI5N2fYU
Wario Land 4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2Ce8nDKtLs
Sonic the Hedgehog - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXukwNQG0uA, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDd_GlynA6A
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl6kjAkVw_s, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVEyGntyOZQ
Randall already covered Secret of Mana but I can't not post one from it because it's so good
It's western cousin, Secret of Evermore has some great music too
One of the best atmospheric soundtracks/games ever
All Castlevania's have great music, but the 8/16-bit ones are awesome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2oZtvjg5oA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUEC1Rcb1TA
Timesplitters 2 has some great music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eIRz14pnjE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cykxQLTDf4s
Some others
Batman - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekXridId_lM
Solstice - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_gObHt1uZA
Shadowgate - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Tsezcm8yA
Columns - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=admQ2Ideh0M
Driver - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4gGgMW7Jsg
Duck Tales - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0evYaCV5QA, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXxVBDhtOyI
Super Mario Land - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewPQI5N2fYU
Wario Land 4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2Ce8nDKtLs
Sonic the Hedgehog - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXukwNQG0uA, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDd_GlynA6A
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl6kjAkVw_s, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVEyGntyOZQ
fecking hell Olly going in there
I love the Casino Night Zone music from Sonic though, always been a favourite of mine.
I've always loved this too...
I love the Casino Night Zone music from Sonic though, always been a favourite of mine.
I've always loved this too...
I just can't hold back when it comes to video game musicfecking hell Olly going in there
Always my first thought when the topic of video game music arises.
I saw an instrumental metal band a few years ago, called TURRICAN obviously enough, who just played the majority of the Turrican 2 soundtrack, replicating the melodies with electric guitars. The idea in theory sounds garbage, but it was pretty special. Seeing the composition actually being played by guitars and by a band as a unit made me appreciate even more just how impressive the T2 soundtrack really is as a piece of music.
Holy shit thats awesome.fecking hell Olly going in there
I've always loved this too...
Frigate was my favorite level on Goldeneye, Im in no doubt that the music was part of it.
Best from Deus Ex imo:
Have a look for Gold N Fly on youtube, they have a rap remix of every level and a lot of them are pretty good.
Gotta have some Pokemon in a thread like this;
Or any of the Terran themes, really.
That FFVII music in the post you quoted is the same though, it was played through the PlayStation sound chip in a proprietary format similar to midi. Nothing pre-recorded about it.
Played Kirby's Fun Pak (Super Star) last night, always loved the music in that game.
You are missing the point I was making. MIDI by its very nature is pre-recorded, because everything off that is synthesised, and in that case not very well, but then by doing it that way you have quite a lot of your 650MB of CD-ROM to fanny about making a lot of beeping sounds with don't you? Listen too it, it's a lot of beeping. Sounds like it's coming out of an Atari ST at times, it's quite horrendous and would never be done in such a way today. The thing sounds like crap!
That Turrican soundtrack however is playing in real-time using PCM samples over 7 voices off a 1MB disc!
I think that it's quite nice no? Alock has feck all to do, and I have a bit of peace.
Alock is fine as long as he doesn't do a fanboy (like you but on the other side). He's at-least gives some credit to PS and PC games and he's a true gamer which is the most important thing. I like him. Also his meltdown was fantastic.
This forum is suffering from the lack of Lambo and KingEric7 on the last few weeks.
You are naive as hell. Alock did those things to protect his agenda - he was a paid shill. I don't have an agenda! KindEric wanks off about Nintendo games, and Lambs has his own distorted view on things.
All this past tense...has he gone somewhere?
For my money one of the most memorable video game soundtracks I've ever heard was N64 Mystical Ninja Staring Goeman. Just pure simple brilliance:
I haven't played the N64 one but Legend of the Mystical Ninja on the SNES had great music, too
You never fail to amaze me Weaste
Alock was paid, Lambs has distorted view and you don't have an agenda. Fantastic!KE7 wanks off about all good games, regardless of platform. Same as most gamers.
Can't get on YouTube to find any of it, but any song from Final Fantasy VII is amazing. Special mention to the boss battle theme and the cosmo canyon music.
Nostalgia overload.
Well here is where you and I cross you see. I own basically all of the platforms back to the Atari 2600 and ZX81, so no, I don't have an agenda. I simply comment on what is and what is not technically either brilliant, proficient, or shit. I don't take bits of shit and hold them up. Software is software at the end of the day, it doesn't matter what machine it runs on at the end of the day, it can only do what the machine allows it to do, and this is something that Alock for example always missed. Graphics don't matter, audio doesn't matter, am I right? As for Redlambs, all you see is that we bicker on a public Internet forum, where we actually get along and agree on things 95% of the time. He's interesting in regards to the way he expresses his views on here - he plays the gameplay card with the Wii yet will call the new consoles shit because they can't output the graphics of an nVidia Titan. Ask yourself a question!You never fail to amaze me Weaste
KE7 wanks off about all good games, regardless of platform. Same as most gamers.
It then comes down to the age bracket. I don't see many 8-bit era game sounds posted here, which is a shame really, so I'll post one when I can be arsed, but before I do, I'll point out that the first designs for the Amiga were laid down in 1982. She is of the NES generation and still blew away everything on PC until around 1993, that's how good that hardware was, and especially her sound sub-system. A 1985 Amiga can play your MP3 collection. The demise of that computer is the biggest travesty in the history of consumer electronics. That's one of the reasons why that Turrican II soundtrack is so good (coming out of 1983 technology running off a 1MB disk), you could get a C64 to beep the FFVII pre-recorded soundtrack out almost (memory issues we have here), but it sounds like something coming out of a tin. Paula was the first modern sound chip and that's why the Amiga in terms of sound with a little help from an archaic CPU in the 68000 can out perform Ken Kutaragi's SNES DSP blower!
And don't get clever with me, as I know how Paula works inside and out.
Those are pretty good and its certainly worth tracking down Mystical Ninja N64 on emulator if you have the time, its piss easy to complete but quite long and batshit crazy with tons of excellent music.