What is the greatest videogame music piece?

Just like many topics in the world there are no right answers and no wrong answers (well there are wrong answers like the Halo theme song) when it comes to videogame music. The majority of videogames have had music, with Pong having the first noise and Space Invaders being first in background music, but I was wondering what is the greatest or best (your choice) song to be heard from a videogame.

I'm going to think about if this is my favorite videogame piece of music, but as a starting piece I am sure no one will say this is the worst song of videogame history:

I always enjoyed the moodiness of the background music in Privateer. Various cracked C64 games used to have pretty cool entry music during the 'cracked by' marquees too.

Picking one game is pretty hard though. GTA3 + have always been well done I think.

Should be a cool thread here Al Fire. I can't see your embed from work so I can't comment on it yet.

[Carl Weathers]

Jagged Alliance 2, man I played this game for like 12 hours straight once and am pretty sure I had a seizure or some kind of motion sickness:

Last edited by Carl Weathers on Fri Aug 14, 2009 12:14 am, edited 3 times in total.

lmao, I still remember: "Ken Sent Me"

Guilty Gear X for DC

every single track was awesome

you guys are all wrong.....

The best music for a video game is still.........

Uh guys .... pretty obvious answer here

And another game which Underscore and I spent much of our youth on with linked Quadra700's



Honorable mentions also include:

Warcraft II (PC)

Rock and Roll Racing (SNES)

Wow HOW could I have forgotten about that!?!?! I remember when that game first game out and I would bring over all of my friends to show them the pregame video with this music. Epic.

Another one where I will say it is not the best, but man is it a beautiful piece FOR A GAME NONE OF YOU HAVE PLAYED (and my 3rd favorite game ever)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.robotmartini.com/community/viewpost/1013

BUY THIS GAME!!! BUY IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey, BG&E is one of my favorites! It did have awesome music though.

PROPAGANDA!

I am torn between Aerith's theme


and

One winged Angel

After all these years, I still love the Resident Evil 2 soundtrack. These are my favorite cuts from it:

Last edited by Blood_Red87 on Sat Dec 03, 2011 3:39 am, edited 2 times in total.

Also, this. Many people prefer the original, but I like this version better.

Last edited by Blood_Red87 on Sat Dec 03, 2011 3:40 am, edited 1 time in total.

Here is a good one! I don't know how many of you go back to the commodore 64...

here is a link to a downloadable Atari version you can play! Actually the music is a little better on this web site.

This song isn't old but people that played the game know it

It is the most relaxing song ever in gaming

Also best old school game song

After creating this thread I thought for sure someone would post a song I have in mind, but no one has so far. In a week or so I'll post the song in mind and ask everyone why this song is not even considered, by the RH community, to be the greatest song in video game history. Until that day comes I have another one of my favorites below:

Chronno I agree with you bro but there is one that comes in before those 2 bro, and its ironic as well lol. Chrono Trigger for the SNES which is also the 2nd best RPG ever done followed by FFVII TU LO SABES!!! TU LO SABES!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIO1sajyx_o

Also I HAVE to say the theme songs from the Metal Gear series, they are all pieces or art and classics that in my opinion did justice to a generation of gamers (if you were able to play the original ones in Nes).

Metal Gear I and II - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqqq8uqSDnk

Also any soundtrack from Xenogears imho the best RPG ever made.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVeQhEW_L3Y&feature=related

And last but not least the intro music of Final Fantasy Tactics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Im6eT9dQB8

There's more of them but these are the ones that come right off the top of my head.

In my previous post I was wondering why no one had posted a particular song I had in mind (well it was actually any song from a series). So I ask all of you now, why are all the Mario songs not even considered by the Renegade Heroes community to be one of the greatest videogame music pieces of all time??

The most famous out of all the Mario songs:


or the Super Mario Bros. 3 theme song:


And the theme song from Mario's latest outting:

I was playing Donkey Kong Country 2 the other day and reminded me how amazing the music was in that game. I don't know what makes it so good but here are some songs from the game:

I absolutely love final fantasy music, more specifically, the stuff composed by Nobuo Uematsu.

I have a hard time picking a favorite, though it's probably between the opening from Final Fantasy VIII - 'Liberi Fatali' (my favorite game in the series), and Aerith's Theme (the fully orchestrated one).

Liberi Fatali


Aerith's Theme (Orchestrated)



My Wife can't listen to that without crying


My other favorites are probably the themes from Metroid and Zelda


Zelda Theme




Metroid Theme

first quake whole sound track nine inch nails



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv5Jvr2Fp48

In my opinion Donkey Kong Country 2 has one of the greatest soundtracks of all time and ocremix.org has released an amazing album remixing the music in the game into many, many different styles. You can download the entire album for free here: http://dkc2.ocremix.org/

An fyi about this album it has taken the ocremix community 2 and a half years! to complete this album so hopefully that will indicate how amazing this is.

I found out not enough people are playing cave story right now and need more of a reason to download (for free on the pc/mac!) the game. So hear is one of my personal favorites "On to Grasstown" by StudioPixel (who did everything else in the game too):