I’ll start it off - Legend of Dragoon has my heart with this one
Also atelier iris 3 the grand phantasm has a great intro
Many good ones here already. Another memorable one for me is Metal Gear Solid 3.
Baldur’s Gate II
(honorable mention - Civ IV)
I liked the music from Morrowind so much, I found the audio files in the game’s install folder, burned them to a CD, and printed out my own cover art to make a soundtrack album. I was 11 years old; I probably still have it in a box somewhere, haha.
The entire discography is on YouTube I remember ripping off there years ago.
Body Harvest on N64 was great, and doesn’t get the usual praise. Used to just leave this playing on loop back in the day
I couldn’t get the piped link to work. 🤷♂️
Unreal Tournament 2004:
It wasn’t great. It was just good in sense of it’s time. Some of those music still instantly wakes me up and turns into hunting machine
I have the entire soundtrack in my music library, Hyperblast 2 Redeux is awesome.
I also regularly play UT2004 online, DM-Deck17 is my favourite original map, amazing flow, it just goes hard.
My favourite forever will be Gerudo valley remix from one of the custom games
But i know more song from original soundtrack
Sayonara Wild Hearts, not surprising since the entire game is full of beautiful music
Xenoblade Chronicles!
Dark Souls 3
Even years later, having completed the game many times, that opening song still gives me the chills! So haunting, so beautiful!
Skyrim has to be on the list for the pure joy of it
Probably the sting in the original Street Fighter II
Though there’s a sort-of full version in MvC as Ryu’s theme
A lot of games don’t even have menu music anymore, or it’s ambient and not really noticeable…
“I had a dream that I could fly”
For me it’s Civ 5’s theme, always gives me chills
Such a fantastic song. Not at all surprising that it was the first piece of music from a video game to not only be nominated for but to win a Grammy.
I like this video with it.
Not main menu but the golden eye pause menu music on the n64 was a banger 🔥
No joke about that shit bro
Can’t believe I had to scroll down so far for this
Final fantasy 4
While 4 is my all time favorite FF, I gotta give the best main menu theme to 9.
