Your favorite game music / themes / composers?

txa1265

txa1265

SasqWatch
Joined
October 18, 2006
Messages
14,951
So Corwin and I started talking Gothic 3 and Oblivion music in another thread and he suggested we needed a game music thread - I agree.

So chime in - what music from games do you love, favorite composers of game music, themes, etc ... ?
 
Joined
Oct 18, 2006
Messages
14,951
There are so many beautiful game soundtracks it's a bit difficult to decide on a favorite, but I'll try.

Composers: Chris Hülsbeck, Jeremy Soule, Michael Lands and Bobby Prince are classics, everything they did is great IMO.
Soundtracks: My favorite game soundtracks (at least those I cn think of now) are MDK (by Tommy Tallarico) : it's as varied as the game's levels; Super Turrican (by Chris Hülsbeck)... I was blown away when I heard the factory score for the first time; and The Dig (by Michael Lands)... just beautiful.

The first tune from a game that came to my mind when I read the thread title was the score for the chapel level in Heretic 1 (reused in Hexen), composed by Kevin Schilder, so I should name this one, too.
 
Joined
Aug 31, 2006
Messages
3,754
Favorite music would have to be Ultima Underworld 1, followed by the Wing Commander series and then 7th Guest. Most of the music was composed by George "The Fat Man" Sanger.

To this day I still love the "Descent" tune from UUW1, in General Midi of course! :)
 
Joined
Oct 18, 2006
Messages
46
Location
NorthEast USA
Stuff I love:
- KotOR
- BG1 & 2
- Icewind Dale
- NWN
- Divine Divinity
- Arcanum
- Gothic 1 & 2
- Vampire: Bloodlines

I love the themes from Blade of Darkness and Dungeon Lords as well.

I always liked the music of Star Wars games - Dark Forces had great stuff, and the usage of Williams' themes in Jedi Knight II was brilliant.
 
Joined
Oct 18, 2006
Messages
14,951
I'm a bit of an Old-Schooler in computer games :). My favorite one is definitely Rob Hubbard. He made so many good, and immortal, tunes for Commodore 64 in the past. Nothing beats a tune like Master of Magic :)

Oh yeah, of course there are a lot of good music in modern games too, but Rob just brings my good memories :)
 
Joined
Oct 29, 2006
Messages
7
Location
Finland
Gothic 3 has great music, I love it. Sort of a "best of" from Gothic 1 and 2, with some LotR inspired combat music. I also love Baldur's Gate 2s' entire sound track, ambient sounds, music etc.
 
Joined
Oct 18, 2006
Messages
7,586
Location
Bergen
Well, for classics, can you go past the immortal Stones of Ultima fame. Checkout the version Laz uses and the one in U9 was the best part of the entire game. I loved the sweeping music of Morrowind, FAR more than the actual game. I find the one main outdoor theme in G3 too repetative after hearing it over and over again.
 
Joined
Aug 31, 2006
Messages
12,823
Location
Australia
I almost forgot - the Larry theme song, hehe. It's not exactly an epic song, but it reminds me so much of the "good old days" I still love it.
 
Joined
Oct 18, 2006
Messages
7,586
Location
Bergen
In that vein, who can forget the Monkey Island Theme!! OK, I know it's not an RPG, but I still love that series!!
 
Joined
Aug 31, 2006
Messages
12,823
Location
Australia
Oh yes! Monkey Island, thank you for reminding me Corwin, I loved the games. The fighting in those games had style - who needs action when you have funny comments? :)
 
Joined
Oct 18, 2006
Messages
7,586
Location
Bergen
And you knew you'd lost when the only response you had left, was Oh Yeah!! :)
 
Joined
Aug 31, 2006
Messages
12,823
Location
Australia
Joined
Aug 30, 2006
Messages
3,486
WOW, thanks Arhu, that MI LIVE was fantastic!! Ah the memories!!
 
Joined
Aug 31, 2006
Messages
12,823
Location
Australia
Turrican=Chris Hülsbeck :lol: ! Yay for the link, Arhu!
 
Joined
Aug 31, 2006
Messages
3,754
While we're linking up soundtracks, you can get Arcanum's from Terra-Arcanum

You can also download the sheet music there, and a link to a fre viewer.
 
Joined
Oct 18, 2006
Messages
14,951
anacronox - not only is it one of the greatest most original games it also has awesome music. i will always bring up this game time and again until everyone has played it. for those who have, the 'brain train' theme and the music at the club where you first meet stilleto have always been my favourite. my 'troika' of games is comprised of this game, system shock 2 and gothic.
 
Joined
Oct 26, 2006
Messages
1,386
Location
California
My ringtone is the end title music from the original DOOM. Does that count?
 
Joined
Oct 19, 2006
Messages
8,540
Bobby Prince always counts :).
 
Joined
Aug 31, 2006
Messages
3,754
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom