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I recently started to re-appreciate the sountrack from the original Need For Speed game, so much better than everything that came after it with licenced music from wannabe artists.

Almost any game with music by Inon Zur. :P Naah, of course there's worse stuff in games with unprofessional composers but among all those famous high-profile composers working with live orchestras he's gotta be the worst. IMHO very unoriginal and somehow he always manages to make a live orchestra sound really cheap. It especially hurt in Dawn of War because Inon Zur's music from the addons totally contrasted with Jeremy Soule's great music from the base game. It had a far more generic style, just sounded pretty darn cheap in comparison and was even mastered worse (with the new tracks being actually extremely quiet, so in one match you'd sometimes get your ears blown away by Soule's stuff and then be almost unable to make out Zur's stuff).

Very true. Just listen do the Dragon Age 2 soundtrack. It's really bad, ironically it still works since he wrote a rather good one for the first DA and he then just reused most of it for the second. But one of his better works is actually Icewind Dale 2, even tho he just had to "copy" lots of Soule brilliant work from ID 1. But I really hope Bioware will find a new, aka better, composer for DA 3.

Straight from my FavsList:

1. Shadow of the Colossus
2. Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2
3. Guild Wars
4. The Last Express
5. Chrono Trigger (DS/iOS)
6. Final Fantasy VI
7. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
8. System Shock
9. Homeworld
10. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
11. The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
12. Braid
13. Jade Empire
14. Dungeon Siege II
15. Aquaria
16. Jamestown: Legend Of The Lost Colony
17. The World Ends With You
18. Sacrifice
19. Beyond Good & Evil
20. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Bastion sounds awesome too, but it is still in my backlog. ;)

This topic is a bit funny to me.

Back in the old days (I'm only 34 y/o but I've been gaming since I was 6) when sound cards were not integrated (unlike today) and you had to listen to PC speakers, music and sound effects were primitive but also added to the gameplay.

Now, since you are talking about sound tracks, pretty much every game now has one, but back then not all games had music since sound cards weren't so popular.

You should listen to the PC Speaker, Soundblaster and MT-32 Roland version of the following:

Monkey Island (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-YEjybPBRY)
Populous
Wing Commander
Ultima VI: The False Prophet
Darklands

Unfortunately I was only able to find a video for Monkey Island (I do know that the others are around but I'm too lazy to look for them).

Anyway, Soundblaster was around $120 and MT Roland was like $500 in those days. MT Roland didn't offer Sound Effects but the music was incredible.

Yeah!

Couldn't agree more. His music is the epitome of bland, copy-paste orchestral music. Although I think there was one track in Fallout: NV by him that I actually liked.

I think I have listed my favourite video game music scores on these forum at least twice, but here I go again:

American McGee's Alice and The Neverhood soundtracks are the ones that immediately come to my mind when I have to list memorable video game music.
And then there is the rest: I also really enjoy the soundtrack for Chaos Overlords, which reminds me of instrumental tracks of NIN. Fallout has a very good ambient soundtrack, and there are a few tracks in VTM:B that I really like, and then there's the obligatory Arcanum, although I do not venerate that soundtrack as much as others, since it can get very repetitive for me quite quickly, but those string arrangements are nice. Chrono Trigger has a pretty good soundtrack too, it's the only "retro" soundtrack that I still listen to occasionally. Oh, and I also liked a lot of tracks from the Deus Ex: HR OST. I have to include the Machinarium OST here as well, since I really enjoy most work of its composer.

Definitely Chrono Trigger has wonderful music.

I don't know about you blokes, but the soundtrack to Bioshock Infinite was incredible.

For nostalgia, I love everything from Final Fantasy 8.

Otherwise? Gotta be Bastion and Machinarium, which are probably the only ones I've listened to outside of the games.

Haven't played New Vegas yet because I disliked Fallout 3 so much. I disliked the whole game for being Oblivion with a Fallout mod applied to it but I must say that it's Zur's title music that instantly turned me hostile. Epic orchestral music, of course, that's exactly what I wanted to hear in a Fallout game. It's like the guy doesn't even bother analyzing the material he's working on - at all. I was hoping they had replaced him in New Vegas with someone less famous but more original. Oh well... <.<

Well, I disliked FO3 as well but I really enjoyed NV, the only drawback to it is that Obsidian had to use Bethesda's engine, but otherwise it is an almost entirely different game to FO3. Most of the music in the game was taken straight from the original Fallout soundtrack, with only a few new tracks composed by Zur, out of which I liked this one.

Lots of good taste in game music here. A quick list for me:

Secret of Mana
Baldur's Gate series
Bastion
Earthbound
Zelda series
Final Fantasy series
MAG
Lords of Magic
Age of Wonders

Morrowind and Guild Wars 2 had great epic fantasy soundtracks.

World of Goo's music was wonderfully, perfectly appropriate and entertaining.

Halo ODST... the music in that game was quite different from the others and the haunting melodies and jazz elements really helped immerse me in the destroyed city of New Mombasa.

Also Puzzle Bobble 2 (Bust a Move 2) the music is utterly and insanely addictive.

I'm a huge fan of game music though as I think it is a really important factor in immersing people into videogames. However it's extremely rare I listen to it outside of games (though I do have a few cd's of various orchestral arrangements of Nobou's works.)