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Chuck_Owl

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Here's one of my favorite works by Trevor Morris.

 

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The whole soundtrack feels like one big journey, something very few game scores have ever been able to achieve. I'm also a big fan of Jeremy Soule's work for The Elder Scrolls Skyrim.

 


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johncage

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too many to list. but those two above sound awful. i never got skyrim's soundtrack appeal. high production values are not necessarily better. the musical quality is just idiotic. and the chorus chant...pathetic.

Chuck_Owl

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too many to list. but those two above sound awful. i never got skyrim's soundtrack appeal. high production values are not necessarily better. the musical quality is just idiotic. and the chorus chant...pathetic.

 

Well... that's one way to start a thread.  :biggrin: I understand everyone is entitled to his opinion, but calling the musical quality idiotic and the chorus chant pathetic... I find that a tad extreme to say the least.

 

 Care to "enlighten" us mere mortals with your superior taste in music?  :P

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J2_Trupobaw

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Morrowind soundtrack is among my all the time favourites. Skyrim less so, although chorused version of main theme is great background music for Stuka dive mombing.

My favourite game soundtrack of all time is Tie Fighter soundtrack; if you can stand MIDI format (or better, replace MIDI instruments with orchestra in your head), it's the best you can ask for. Not only music was good, but it was interactively controlled by the sim; by enabling / disabling / changing volume of select instruments, the game could play a melody in completely different moods. Once you got conditioned to it, you could hear the flow of battle from music, not only knowing if there are enemies present and who is winning, but who has superiority in proximity of player and how intense battle is. Great help for battlefield awareness.

Notice, in first two minutes, how the same melody becomes more tense as player gets closer to enemies, changes when friendly fighters engage them and changes again when player engages himself.

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MiG21bisFishbedL

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Did you know there are three kinds of aces?

 

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=LD=Hethwill

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Hard... and given all the outstanding recent productions even worse, but still have to keep this one as my fav

 

indiaciki

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IRRE_Belmont

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Also

 

 

CROM

I HAVE NEVER PRAYED YOU BEFORE

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9./JG27golani79

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Well... that's one way to start a thread.  :biggrin: I understand everyone is entitled to his opinion, but calling the musical quality idiotic and the chorus chant pathetic... I find that a tad extreme to say the least.

 

 Care to "enlighten" us mere mortals with your superior taste in music?  :P

 

Given that this is the same johncage as on the war of the roses forums I think that´s just how he is ...

 

@topic

 

Saurer

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It has to be the Morrowind Soundtrack for me

 

coconut

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This thread should have a testosterone overload warning...

 

To balance things out a bit and bring a touch of finesse and delicacy, I suggest Mirror's Edge:

 

coconut

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The song from the first Portal is also really cute:

 

 

 

Reading the lyrics from the Portal song makes me warm and scared at the same time. Kind of like dealing with a terminator disguised as a fluffy, loving, cuddly puppy. Interesting piece of information: The song for Mirror's Edge by Lisa Miskovsky is also titled "Still alive". Same title, different messages.

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Feathered_IV

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I forgot about the Portal song.  That one is truly brilliant.

unreasonable

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Interesting but I suppose natural that nearly everyone has gone for a game sound track, I would have put Morrowind and Icewind Dale  at the top of the list too.

 

Best movie soundtrack - Lawrence of Arabia. Could not make that movie now, no strong female characters. Except possibly Lawrence. ;)

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Mikey

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Interesting but I suppose natural that nearly everyone has gone for a game sound track, I would have put Morrowind and Icewind Dale  at the top of the list too.

 

Best movie soundtrack - Lawrence of Arabia. Could not make that movie now, no strong female characters. Except possibly Lawrence. ;)

For game music id agree, Icewind Dale's music is pretty good.

most game music i turn off it gets distracting if it dont quite fit in good, more into the instrumental's

kestrel79

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Game: Metroid, Zelda, Megaman X series.

 

Movie: Starwars, Last of the Mohicans, Braveheart, Gladiator

Finkeren

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Well, if we are talking film scores there's just no way around mentioning John Williams. He's the Mozart of epic film music. He might not be the best in his field, but he's definately the most recognisable.

I/JG27_Rollo

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Regarding games:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpO16qXT2KI

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv0y0On8ZGQ

 

 

Regarding movies:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajfvO5cvk-g

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYe4dSunbs8

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS3FXKCxDL4

 

and of course the Gladiator soundtrack. :biggrin:

Yeah, basically anything from Hans Zimmer or John Williams would have to have a place on this list. :salute:

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6S.Manu

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"To the Moon" is on of the most beautiful and moving game of these last year.

The soundtracks are amazing.

 

Full album:

 

My favourite songs are the Main Theme, "For River" (both version) and Everything's Alright (feat. Laura Shigihara).

 

 

Another great composer is Andreas Waldetoft (Paradox): HoI3, CK2 or EU4...

sturmkraehe

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Best game soundtrack ever? Myst II Riven (BTW the best game ever)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUjSAgJaeb4

 

 

 

 

How I loved the intro:

 

 

Second best:

 

Mass Effect 1 and even better Mass Effect 3

 

My favorite from Mass Effect 3:

 

 

and another nice tune:

 

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Chuck_Owl

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I absolutely LOVE the Mass Effect soundtrack! 

76SQN-FatherTed

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Okay, so does anyone love the music from a film/game they hate?  Just wondering whether it's the perceived quality of the music that appeals, or the fact that it is associated with something that is loved.  I say that because, off the top of my head, I can only think of three games whose soundtrack I paid any attention to.  Darkest Hour is probably my all time fave game and has a pretty standard WW2 film theme, but I never get bored of hearing it.  Secondly I go with Sim City 2000 - beepy computer musak, but perfect for an outstanding game.  Thirdly the orchestral stuff for Elite 2 - but in that case the music was pre-existing and way better than the game.

 

For film - Elmer Bernstein

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