Favorite PC Game Soundtracks of All Time

[hellfish6]

What?  No Grand Theft Auto Vice City?

All the GTA 3/VC/4/5 soundtracks are great. They do a great job of including favorite songs of the era with lesser known ones, and the vast quantity in each title means there's a lot to love.

[Michael Dorosh]

LOTRO - I actually have a ton of these converted to MP3s for my car's hard drive.

[Gusington]

Forgot about the Endless games - their music is awesome.

[al_infierno]

Been playing a lot of Crusader Kings 2 in anticipation for the new release, and this track always gets my blood pumping - especially at 2:17 and on.

[Bardolph]

Stuck forever in my head because I heard them so often:

Others worth a nod:
Mojo Nixon!

[Dammit Carl!]

Whaaaaa???  This hasn't been mentioned yet?

[Ian C]

Great thread.

Hell yes.

[Gusington]

^ooh now there's a Jeremy Soule link I haven't tried out yet! Nice.

[FarAway Sooner]

Hearing that Diablo soundtrack gave me goosebumps!

It was hardly a soundtrack, but I remember the Atomic Games V for Victory:  Utah Beach title opened up with a very authentic sounding bagpipe track that struck me as crazily modern and evocative for 1992!

[Sir Slash]

The Stainless Steel Mod for Medieval TW 2 has some excellent period-like music included.  :clap:

[Gusington]

^Yes! The music from SS is fantastic.

[Sir Slash]

Except it gets stuck in your head.  #:-)

[Gusington]

One of the benefits of getting older is forgetting everything eventually.

[JasonPratt]

Necrothread arise? Sort of?

I vowed not to swamp this thread, AND I HAVE KEPT THAT VOW!

I just converted my collection of Castlevania soundtracks from my computer at work to my car's music stick (unfortunately this requires some conversion to play correctly even though both formats are .mp3, because the car understands meta-data too well and there's no option to just play them according to title order from their folder.) And I'm starting through them again, in my car for the first time.

Most tracks are deservedly obscure, others undeservedly obscure (like Cross a Fear, fourth track on the first video). Some are very famous among gamers, especially the "trinity" of main game themes: Vampire Killer (seventh track on the first video), Bloody Tears (second track on the first video), and In the Beginning (first track on the first video). Most adaptations, for good reason (based on their initial 8-bit form), are metal of some kind, which brings us to my contributions for today:

(In Japan, the series is known as Akumajo, which slightly transliterates and translates "Dracula Battle", thus the title.) (More specifically "aku" is a word for evil, as in Samurai Jack's ultimate bad guy, but it also sounds like a pun transliterating Dracula into Japanese. Often the titles will be a variation of "Akumajo Dracula", but sometimes it's just "Akumajo something-else". ;) )

These albums were commissioned by Konami directly in 1994 and 1995, and are often regarded by fans as either the best adaptations of the various themes or in the top 5 at least. There is much butt-kicking.

You're welcome. 

[Gusington]

Ooh nice