I'll start it off - Legend of Dragoon has my heart with this one
tuckerm 3 points 3 years ago
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.
NakariLexfortaine 19 points 3 years ago
Kingdom Hearts main menu theme. It's absolutely a nostalgia hit for me. That game was one of my "get-away" games while in a rough situation. Hearing that music always makes me feel a little safer, like I'm just one step away from a completely different life.
Satelllliiiiiiiteeee 5 points 3 years ago
Dearly Beloved and the variations on it are the best. I'm partial to the version for Kingdom Hearts 2 but they're all great
HipsterTenZero 10 points 3 years ago
HAH. HUAH. HAHH.
HAH. HUAH. HAHH.
OOOhhhh OHHHHH OUHHHHHH!!!! AUHHHHHHH!!!
TheMinions 13 points 3 years ago
I’ll go with Mass Effect, the music in the first 3 games is incredible. Especially in the first game I think. This particular piece is called Vigil.
v4ld1z 7 points 3 years ago
Dude, I only just played the games for the very first time earlier this year and I absolutely feel what you mean. It's the very first piece of music you hear when you start the game, is used throughout the trilogy in pivotal moments, and is the very last theme that plays in the third game. So awesome
TheMinions 6 points 3 years ago
Oh yeah. Leitmotifs are very effective at tying a story together and really help add some punch to those emotional moments.
I absolutely adore Mass Effect. It’s probably my favorite game ever. Top 3 at least.
v4ld1z 4 points 3 years ago
I do see that the narrative and the gameplay have some flaws, but overall, I thoroughly enjoyed my time with the games and the ~100h it took me to finish the trilogy. The Citadel DLC was probably my favourite part of the entire series. I'd also probably put the games in my top x favourite games.
c0mbatbag3l 2 points 3 years ago
Someone: Doesn't like Mass Effect
Me: "WEAKENING THEIR INTEGRITY!!!"
stoy 9 points 3 years ago
Unreal Tournament 2004:
Kraivo 1 point 3 years ago
My favourite forever will be Gerudo valley remix from one of the custom games
But i know more song from original soundtrack
UndercoverUlrikHD 9 points 3 years ago
Skyrim for sure, nothing gets you more prepared to start a new adventure than that.
Honorable mention to the Last of Us after you've completed the game and are just sitting there, staring at the screen and wondering what to do next.
Phelpssan 8 points 3 years ago
Probably Metroid Prime. Both the Title Theme and the Menu Theme are fantastic.
Xenoblade games also have brilliant title themes. Here's the one for the first game.
Now, for some spice, let's branch into a type of game I think most people here won't have played - Visual Novels often have great title themes.
- Muv-Luv Alternative's "Crash" is pure hype
- Both Steins;Gate's "Gate of Steiner" and Steins;Gate 0's "Messenger" are great themes too.
- I also love VA-11 HALL-A's "Hopes and Dreams".
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Yeah, there are newer versions, but I deliberately found the original.
UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT 1 point 3 years ago
Liquid cooled nighttime shades vibe juice for your ears.
Trainguyrom 6 points 3 years ago
Skyrim and RuneScape 2 (pre-audio update) are both pretty damn iconic
At my wedding we had the DJ play Skyrim and Witcher 3 music during dinner and it worked way better than it had any business working
UndercoverUlrikHD 2 points 3 years ago
Some the Witcher 3 combat music is actually wedding music I believe, so that checks out.
Jelly 6 points 3 years ago
Metroid Prime. I only played it for the first time this year when the remaster came out and the music blew me away.
Kolanaki 6 points 3 years ago
Elden Ring's main theme is literally the only video game song I have in my normal music rotation.
But only because Lunar Silver Star Story's Wings isn't on Spotify.
dgbbad 1 point 3 years ago
I love the Lunar SSS intro, but I'm still partial to the OG Sega CD intro. It gets me pumped up to this day.
drislands 5 points 3 years ago
Cadence of Hyrule, for sure. So damn good.
chaorace 5 points 3 years ago
Rocket Jump Waltz -- TF2
SidewaysHighways 3 points 3 years ago
No joke about that shit bro
UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT 2 points 3 years ago
Can't believe I had to scroll down so far for this
Cocodapuf 5 points 3 years ago
The correct answer is Civilization V Gods and Kings.
Battery 5 points 3 years ago
One of the best fighting games
A little bit of nostalgia always helps too
d3Xt3r 2 points 3 years ago
Woah, wasn't expecting to see this answer here! OMF is my favorite one hands down.
A close second would be the music for Jazz Jackrabbit.
Reaphenex 4 points 3 years ago
Definitely the original main menu music for Dragon's Dogma.
I remember booting it up on the PS3 back in the day and was like "Wha-?" but after playing the game so many times it's definitely become a favorite. Both for how out of place it is but also how perfect it fits after all the context of the game.
Sad they replaced it for the Dark Arisen version but luckily there is a mod for PC that restores it in all its glory. :P
Quetzalcutlass 4 points 3 years ago
Arcanum's main theme gets my vote.
It's weird. It's terrible as music - just random strings with almost no recognizable tune outside of the first few seconds - but it sets a mood better than any other. It's distilled melancholy in music form.
UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT 2 points 3 years ago
💯 percent this piece of music makes me feel things
hark 4 points 3 years ago
Duke Nukem 3D Gets me pumped to this day.
UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT 2 points 3 years ago
The tune's but also the crisp crackly sound effects of the main menu navigation are inexorably tied up with it (in a good way)
Omegamanthethird 4 points 3 years ago
Morrowind
Final Fantasy XII
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Katana314 3 points 3 years ago
Ori and the Blind Forest has a great track throughout, but the menu is definitely a highlight.
Tarcion 3 points 3 years ago
Gotta be Into Free which was the original main title music from Dragon's Dogma.
It was removed for Dark Arisen for reasons I am unsure of, so it isn't even something you can experience without mods.
It is wildly different from the rest of the game's music but still connected in a way, and sets a very different vibe. Great game, great music.
bigredgiraffe 3 points 3 years ago
The whole collection of music from Stellaris and Cyberpunk are both excellent.
c0mbatbag3l 3 points 3 years ago
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Syndicate was a really niche entry into the Cyberpunk genre that flopped commercially but had some interesting ideas about corp-ocracy and the way businesses of the future would wage warfare against each other like nations used to.
That main menu music has echoed in my brain for years. Deus Ex: Human Revolution would have been first but Syndicate is less well known and I figured someone already mentioned DE:HR at some point here.
overkill0485 3 points 3 years ago
Dragon's Dogma.
THE WIND IS PUSHING MEEE
tenchiken 3 points 3 years ago
Crusader: No Remorse / No Regret
https://youtu.be/wwG5BJtZBCU?si=aMMbMveu0s6KltoQ
So many great remixes of it too.
vivadanang 2 points 3 years ago
I use the F-Zero start screen tune as my alarm clock.
andy_wijaya_med 2 points 3 years ago
Xenoblade Chronicles!
Jackthelad 2 points 3 years ago
The theme to the original Tomb Raider: https://youtu.be/fIWLT0QVPzw?feature=shared
I hope they keep this for the remaster, for the full nostalgia effect.
busydoinnothin 2 points 3 years ago
Final fantasy 4
dgbbad 3 points 3 years ago
While 4 is my all time favorite FF, I gotta give the best main menu theme to 9.
MysticKetchup 2 points 3 years ago
Sayonara Wild Hearts, not surprising since the entire game is full of beautiful music
ivanafterall 2 points 3 years ago
I don't remember if it was in the main menu/what the main menu was, but if you walked onto your balcony in the PC game version of Blade Runner, Vangelis' Blade Runner Blues would play, mixed in with the rain and the sounds of the city. I spent a lot of time just standing on that balcony and letting the music play.
HeavyRaptor 2 points 3 years ago
Not main menu but the MGS V deployment music while you're picking out your gear really gets you amped for your next mission. (from 1:10)
cradac 2 points 3 years ago
The Elden Ring Main Menu theme has always impressed. It sets the stage very well.
If I think of main menu music only one other game cones to my mind and that's Doom Eternal. I'm not sure if it's necessarily a "good" main menu theme, but the whistling definitely stuck with me.
late_night 2 points 3 years ago
Definitely the kind of game where you stay too long in each menu because you don't want to cut off the music
Coelacanth 2 points 3 years ago
I always loved the Legally Distinct Massive Attack - Angel from Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. Rik Schaffer was on fire for that whole soundtrack.
Baowaowaowaowaowaowaowao
squirrelwithnut 2 points 3 years ago
Metroid Prime or Mass Effect
kratoz29 2 points 3 years ago
Uncharted 2 main theme for me... So short but so damn good.
Transporter_Room_3 2 points 3 years ago
Depends on what mood I'm in.
Currently I'd like to chill, I'm pretty tired, maybe eat an edible if I had one.
So right now I'd have to say the Mass Effect 1 menu music: https://youtu.be/3GXVXYl3_8c?feature=shared
There used to be a mix I would fall asleep to several years ago. It was the engine humming mixed with the occasional beeping and status tones like a computer on the bridge, and the main menu music would play very softly every few minutes. Can't find it anymore, although there are several of those each individually in hour long mixes.
If I want to get pumped though, doom 3 is a good one:https://youtu.be/rs0cSUIKKew?feature=shared although for actual main menu looping music, I'm going to have to agree with GONADS125, battlefield 1942 never fails to get me up and moving. It's a very driving song.
tuckerm 2 points 3 years ago
The Ghost Recon theme has been stuck in my head off and on ever since it came out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwLIHqkqHcw
I didn't even play the game that much -- I think I beat it once, played the multiplayer a little, and moved on. But the music is catchy.
AnonTwo 1 point 3 years ago
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....
Eric_Pollock 1 point 3 years ago
IXION is definitely mine. If you skip through that video a bit, you can hear some more music when the Prologue begins to play. Such an amazing game!
Cryszon 1 point 3 years ago
Maybe not my all-time favorite (there are too many to choose from), but I will never forget the first time I launched Rocket League during a Steam free weekend. Back then they had Breathing Underwater as the main theme and the way the logo appeared in sync with the music was such a beautiful sight.
I linked the high quality song above, but if you want to experience exactly what I did, here's a link to a video with the intro captured from the game. Still gives me goosebumps when I see it.
Needless to say, I bought the game.
Ashtear 1 point 3 years ago
Off the top of my head, either Ecce Valde Generous Ale (Behold the Precious Wings) from Panzer Dragoon Saga or the one in Trails from Zero.
UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT 1 point 3 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. 🤷♂️
Darkncoldbard 1 point 3 years ago
Also atelier iris 3 the grand phantasm has a great intro
Nihility 1 point 3 years ago
Haven - The Beginning of Something.
Whole OST is pretty good.
fosstulate 1 point 3 years ago
PHOENIX MAINS REPORT IN https://invidious.slipfox.xyz/watch?v=aGC7PB3BVFI
Darkncoldbard 1 point 3 years ago
"I had a dream that I could fly"
execb5 1 point 3 years ago
Need for speed 2 from 1997 has an amazing soundtrack https://youtu.be/69-J2m_GyhI?si=WkJGAFCphXHxusPe
soggy_kitty 1 point 3 years ago
Need for speed underground 2
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EvilBlackCat 1 point 3 years ago
Let me introduce people here to "life is strange : Before the Storm" main menu music !
osprior 1 point 3 years ago
Lagoon (SNES), Premonition, such a banger.
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