Best Video Game Soundtracks

[Tornix]

Don't know if anybody has played the Evolution games on Dreamcast or Evolution Worlds on Gamecube, but I had forgotten just how good the music was until recently. It was composed by Masaharu Iwata who's known for his work in Final Fantasy Tactics/XII and Soul Caliber IV. I remember the music helped me through some of those long dungeons. Here's a few samples:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hehSV...e=channel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T99QP...eature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-wPF...e=channel_page

[Jill Valentine]

Lara croft classic sound tracks were best, and resident evil all of them

[Solafighter]

Metal Gear Solid? ... I guess..

Its been 5 years, i played it but well.

[Yu Ominae]

Right now:

Persona 4
Gundam Musou
Street Fighter 4
Metal Gear series

[saRay]

I guess it's Persona 3.Persona 4 is pretty good too but it's too bright,I can't really accept it for a SMT game.

[Firefly00]

Thanks to some... other acquaintances of mine, I can nominate Assasult Suits Valken (better known as Cybernator in some areas) to the 'honorable mention' list. Note: this soundtrack comes in two forms:

• SNES/Super Famicom)
• PS2 retread

VGMDB.net has entries for ASV2, but I have yet to run across this tuneage.

[Mark Hans Avon]

Give Final Fantasy 9 a chance and you'll love it. Since this is an Anime Community maybe more people will appreciate the fact that it has a more Anime-like soundtrack.

Magic Knight Rayearth for Sega Saturn was epic. To me, it was much better than the anime. It only sold something like 50,000 copies though. x_x You can find an ISO somewhere around. Something like Emulation Island or something? The SSF Emulator is finally at a version that will play just about any Sega Saturn CDs you burn.

Good times.

[Seitsuki]

i would say
-the Final Fantasy series (VII was especially memoriable for me, specifically the opening theme)
-not sure if they count as video games but: most visual novels (F/SN, Clannad etc)
-Golden Sun (both) had some pretty nice music

[SonOfHeaven]

Grandia 1 had an great soundtrack. Wish I could that game again.

[Dilla]

When I was nine in 1998, I found the Bomberman Hero soundtrack awesome. Then, I was going through youtube the other day, and found some of them posted. I still find it pretty funky.

Spoiler for Some Bomberman Hero tracks:

Donkey Kong Country was great as well.

Spoiler for Jungle Hijinks and Minecart madness:

^God, I hated that level, yet I loved it at the same time.

[Cio]

I love Atelier Iris 1,2 and 3 Song and OST... Ar Tonelico too...

I'm really attached to GUST's OST here...

[Sovereign Rune]

Personal favorites would be:

Mother
Atelier Viorate
Wild ARMs 3
Megaman X, X3
FFV
Dark Chronicle
Baten Kaitos
Chrono Cross

[Master Assassin]

Personal favorites:

Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X OST composed by Tom Salta
Assassin's Creed OST composed by Jesper Kyd
Metal Gear Solid games OST composed by Harry Gregson-Williams
Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare OST composed by Harry Gregson-Williams

[Larthak]

Command & Conquer series (watch out for volume in the beginning - I always jump off my chair when I get to Main Menu )

Spoiler:

Hitman series (or any other OST from Jesper Kyd)

Spoiler:

Mass Effect had one of the most beautiful OSTs I've ever heard.

Spoiler:

Mirror's Edge had a very ambient feel to its soundtrack, but it's theme song was one of my favorites from the very beginning.

Spoiler:

And of course, anything related to Capcom has great soundtracks as well.

There are more, but I can't remember them all.

[Kaioshin Sama]

Originally Posted by Larthak

Command & Conquer series (watch out for volume in the beginning - I always jump off my chair when I get to Main Menu )

Spoiler:

Hitman series (or any other OST from Jesper Kyd)

Spoiler:

Mass Effect had one of the most beautiful OSTs I've ever heard.

Spoiler:

Mirror's Edge had a very ambient feel to its soundtrack, but it's theme song was one of my favorites from the very beginning.

Spoiler:

And of course, anything related to Capcom has great soundtracks as well.

There are more, but I can't remember them all.

Agree that Jesper Kyd=God when it comes to video game soundtracks. His tracks for The Adventures of Batman and Robin on the Sega Genesis remain his best though in my opinion. The fact that it's a Sega Genesis game and yet the music sounds amazing doesn't escape me either.

[izmosmolnar]

I personally found the music of Deus Ex (the first) one of the best (not just in the music though). Shame on you guys, no one mentioned it so far (or I'm short-sighted).
Edit:

Spoiler for several OST-s. The combat musics start from about halfway in a few of them.:

Spoiler for title:

Spoiler for area51 bunker:

Spoiler for unatco escape:

Spoiler for Tong ending music:

"JC! JC! The net is going, the net is going black! No more infolinks, transmissions of any kind. We start again, live in villages! If you receive this, if you survive, find us! FIND US!" Bloody hell! I can almost quote everything after so many years! The best ending ever made in a video game.

Spoiler for Hong Kong Wan Chai market:

Spoiler for Club remix:

Spoiler for Infravision:

Spoiler for credits:

Spoiler for Lucky Money club:

Man! I almost feel like dusting it off from the shelves and play it again for the n-th time . Seriously though, for whoever who doesn't tried it out yet, you don't know what you are missing out!

[Jazzrat]

Shadow of the Colussus
stood out for me in the recent releases. the BGM during fights is just bloody epic

[EoT]

My favourite game soundtracks are:

Legend of Legaia
Final Fantasy IX
Dark Cloud
Zelda: Ocarina of Time

[GreatTeacherKen]

Recently, I've grown fond of Mad World and the Persona remake's soundtracks. Lots of catchy songs in both of them. With respect to the latter, I think the vocal songs are better than previous Persona games.

[Kid Ying]

Everything from Guilty Gear and Dragon Quarter(okay, not everything, but the majority of the songs).