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Mooияakeя™

09-11-2010, 04:14 PM

I was playing Virtual Tennis 3. And no, the music is pretty shit, so I'm not choosing that one. But I was hearing the generic music and it got me thinking...

What is the best game to feature generic music? - I don't know if like Harry Gregson Williams doing the MGS sound track or Steve Vai on Formula 1 on the PSX counts, but in general what do you think?

Post a link if you can also so others can listen.

Off the top of my head I can't think, but I remember having fun making lyrics up to Spiderman vs Kingpin on the mega CD

Here is a playlist on youtube for the whole sound track: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HlJrSeTxXQ&p=A53C3AC8817AA647&index=1

Also, Streets or Rage (1, 2 & 3). OMFG :heart:: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7kW6sSoe_c&p=AFBDB8F23371CCFC&index=4

Fignuts

09-11-2010, 04:52 PM

Shadow of the Colossus by far. Easily the best soundtrack I've ever heard, generic or not.

RoXer

09-11-2010, 04:57 PM

What do you mean by "generic"?

Funky Fly

09-11-2010, 05:01 PM

Like every ninja turtles game ever. Biggest winners of that bunch are Turtles in Time and TMNT Tournament fro the SNES.

Battletoads in Battlemaniacs for SNES.

Every Double Dragon game ever (Except that shitty fighting game based on the tv show).

Battletoads & Double Dragon

Street Fighter series, especially SF2, SF3 and SSF4.

SoulCalibur series

Tekken 3 and 5.

Bioshock.

Final Fight.

Saturday Night Slam Masters.

UN Squadron

could go on forever

Funky Fly

09-11-2010, 05:02 PM

What do you mean by "generic"?

Not retail songs licensed for the game.

Fignuts

09-11-2010, 05:02 PM

I think he means anything not done by a rock band or stuff like that.

Funky Fly

09-11-2010, 05:02 PM

So not Crazy Taxi, for example.

09-11-2010, 05:05 PM

ME2, GoW, GoW, DV, MW2, Contra

Fignuts

09-11-2010, 05:07 PM

Runner ups for me:

Megaman 2
Final Fantasy 4,5,6,7
Chrono Trigger
Sonic the Hedgehog 2

RoXer

09-11-2010, 05:09 PM

The entire Metal Gear Series
Mass Effect has great music for its genre
Call of Duty has consistently good music
Halo also
Street Fighter also
Uncharted
Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball
Zeldas
Marios
etc

RoXer

09-11-2010, 05:09 PM

The BEST out of all of them?

Metal Gear

OssMan

09-11-2010, 05:15 PM

FINAL FANTASY MYSTIC QUEST
Zelda 64, Wind Waker, Twilight Princess
Final Fantasy 5-9
Mother 3
Super Mario Galaxy
Bunch of Mega Man games

Also Madworld has a top soundtrack

09-11-2010, 05:15 PM

Russenmafia

09-11-2010, 05:22 PM

Treasure Island Dizzy

OssMan

09-11-2010, 05:42 PM

Oh Mega Man Soccer has the best soundtrack of any Mega Man game, I am serious about that.

OssMan

09-11-2010, 05:47 PM

What Would Kevin Do?

09-11-2010, 06:13 PM

Suikoden II has an amazing soundtrack. As do some of the Persona games.

Dorkchop

09-11-2010, 06:46 PM

LoDownM

09-11-2010, 06:47 PM

Suikoden II has an amazing soundtrack.

The first three all have amazing soundtracks.

Emperor Smeat

09-11-2010, 07:05 PM

Final Fight
Double Dragon II
Most beat-em ups had good soundtracks

Ninja Gaiden series (NES)

Mooияakeя™

09-11-2010, 07:20 PM

Not retail songs licensed for the game.

I think he means anything not done by a rock band or stuff like that.

Yeah pretty much, See, the MGS and COD (later) games I sort of count and don't. There both done by the very accomplished musicite Harry Gregson-Williams.

dronepool

09-11-2010, 08:07 PM

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, not sure if that counts.

SlickyTrickyDamon

09-12-2010, 10:39 AM

Ducktales Moon Base!!!

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The Pope

09-12-2010, 10:53 AM

The Pope

09-12-2010, 10:56 AM

The Pope

09-12-2010, 10:58 AM

Y2Ant

09-12-2010, 11:01 AM

Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest is one of my all time favorites. Another vastly underrated (and unknown) one is Battle Arena Toshinden on the PSX, also I always used to love the soundtrack from Fighter's Destiny on the N64.

Then all the obvious ones like FF7, Zelda, F-Zero, etc etc.

The Pope

09-12-2010, 11:04 AM

LuigiD

09-12-2010, 11:14 AM

-Frank Klepacki's work on the earlier games of the Command and Conquer series.
-Metal Gear Solid
Also a fan of the Tempest 2000 soundtrack for Jaguar back in the day :shifty:
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OssMan

09-12-2010, 12:42 PM

The Twilight Princess theme that was posted is part of the ending, not the "theme" of the whole game.

OssMan

09-12-2010, 12:43 PM

The Jayman

09-12-2010, 05:04 PM

OssMan

09-12-2010, 05:17 PM

guile theme fits everything

The Jayman

09-12-2010, 05:35 PM

guile theme fits everything

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OssMan

09-13-2010, 11:12 AM

OssMan

09-27-2010, 01:31 AM

Here we have a wonderful game Ico which doesn't have much of a soundtrack, but does have this very nice piece.

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dronepool

09-27-2010, 01:43 AM

Akira Yamaoka/Silent Hill

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Fignuts

09-27-2010, 01:47 AM

Cool King

09-27-2010, 02:14 AM

Cool King

09-27-2010, 02:17 AM

Drakul

09-27-2010, 02:42 AM

The "next gen" Bionic Commando game has a great soundtrack and is a very fun game. The music is a big part of that because it makes the battle sections seem much "bigger" than they actually are, even if it's just against a bunch of grunts. You can get it for under £10 now and if you have BC:Rearmed you can use the original Spencer skin instead of the new look. Only downside to the game, for me, is that everyone is beyond angsty. Everyone is pissy with everyone else they come into contact with. That and some people didn't like the story.
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The Fugitive

09-27-2010, 05:17 AM

Not to say it was the greatest, but damn, the N64 WCW games had awesome music.

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Cool King

09-27-2010, 09:29 AM

NoJabbaNoBogRoll

09-29-2010, 05:36 PM

OssMan

09-29-2010, 05:43 PM